Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom
Vol. C, No. 9 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, September 19, 1989 TeMwhgnDa
Hurricane
QB Taylor
Hugo
blasts
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"All
Puerto Rico
PUERTO RICO (AP) - Hurricane Hugo's 125
mph winds pounded Puerto Rico yesterday after rip-
ping across other islands in the eastern Caribbean and
leaving at least 14 people dead and thousands home-
less.
The National Weather Service said Hugo, the most
powerful storm to hit the region this decade, slammed
into the eastern tip of Puerto Rico and skirted the
northern coast before roaring to the northwest toward
the Bahamas.
Its winds overturned cars and stripped roofs off
houses and office buildings and sent chunks of con-
crete plunging into streets in San Juan, where one-
third of the U.S. commonwealth's 3.3 million people
live. Fifty airplanes were reported destroyed at the air-
port in Isla Verde.
There was widespread damage in San Juan's
Condado Beach area, the site of may of the island's
large tourist hotels.
Looting by youths was reported. Some defied
winds of 100 mph at the peak of the storm and carried
out armloads of women's clothing.
Hugo cut power and disrupted international com-
munications to the island.
The storm blew out the windows in the Associated
Press office on a peninsula between the Caribbean and
San Juan harbor, destroying its computers and office
equipment. One staffer said he saw his furniture
blown out the windows of his apartment on the 20th
story of his building.
"We're getting ravaged," said ham radio operator
Renando Garcia in San Juan. "Part of my aluminum
siding is gone, my next door neighbor's siding is
gone."
shook
up
Bo hopes UCLA won't
step on Elvis' "Maize
and Blue turf shoes"
by Richard Eisen
Daily Football Writer
Last Saturday, Michigan quarterback Michael
Taylor was shaken and rattled and, because of that,
Elvis Grbac will roll into Los Angeles as the
Wolverines No. 1 quarterback.
Taylor, a fifth-year senior, suffers from not only his
previous arm injury but also from a badly bruised back
that knocked him out of last Saturday's 24-19 loss to
Notre Dame. A new member of the Wolverine
Walking Wounded is fullback Jarrod Bunch, who hurt
his knee on Saturday. Bunch, like Taylor, will not
play against UCLA.
Based on his strong performance against the
Fighting Irish, Grbac has received the nod from
Michigan coach Bo Schembechler.
"(Grbac) -showed some moxie for a young kid,"
Schembechler said at yesterday's press luncheon. "He
does have a good arm and showed some presence out
there. But after the touchdown, he runs down and
celebrates and doesn't even check to see if we're going
for one or two (points).
"Had to catch him and tell him what we're going to
do next," Schembechler chortled.
See TAYLOR, page 10
Asoclatd Pr"s,
Steve Perry stands by a large tree that smashed his a car in the Ocean Park section of San Juan, Puerto Rico
yesterday after Hurricane Hugo damaged a large portion of the city. In the inset , a satellite photo shows Hugo's
location.
MSA rep plans to present
Yn:i xi e s
says:
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by Josh Mitnick
Daily MSA Reporter
A Michigan Student Assembly
representative announced plans yes-
terday to present an alternative list of
budget proposals aimed at equalizing
cuts for all assembly committees.
At tonight's assembly meeting,
Rackham Rep. Corey Dolgan said he
will present a list of amendments to
the budget drafted by representatives
on the summer assembly.
That budget - supported by
President Aaron Williams, an engi-
neering senior - calls for a general
cut of almost 30 percent because of
deficits from the last two years.
According to the summer assembly's
plan, some committees will receive
an 89 percent loss in funds while
others are only slated for a 20 per-
cent cut.
Dolgan said his three-point plan
calls for:
"base cuts of 40 percent for all
but two of MSA's committees and
commissions;
-additional sums of $1,000 and
udget proposals
5500 to be transferred to Wie comn- Dolgan said all comm
munications committee and minority commissions should char
affairs commission, respectively, den of budect cuts-equally
from the advertising budget; MSA Vice Presid
-an incentive plan which would Karadshch said some com
encourage committees to spend their scheduled for bigger cutsI
funds or have submitted plans to because members who wo
spend funds by a certain date or risk budget gave more mor
losing all their appropriations. committees they believed
Williams, a member of the active.
assembly's Conservative Coalition She said she hadn'
party, and Dolgan, one of MSA's Dolgan's proposal yet, b
most liberal members, have faced off to suggestions. "The bot
several times during their tenure on that the money is going t
the assembly. Both have charged that purpose, the student body,
the other's budget proposal is politi- LSA Rep. Matt Webc
cally motivated, the External Relations C
Williams said he plans to oppose said he has read Dolgan
Dolgan's amendments. "He has no and plans to support th
justification for making such pro- tonight. He insisted that
posals," he said. "I don't think he's bers who are pushing fo
qualified to make such proposals." budget are only concer
Williams rejected charges that the budget inequities and st
original budget was unfair to some the move is not politic
committees, saying all representa- vated.
tives had the opportunity in the Weber said the firs
summer to have an input on the would cause his committ
ittees and
re the bur-
ent Rose
mittees are
than others
rked on the
ney to the
were more
t seen the
but is open
tom line is
o the same
' she said.
er, chair of
Committee,
's proposal
he changes
t the mem-
r a revised
rned about
ressed that
cally moti-
t proposal
ee to rede-
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Minority
enrollmein
by Taraneh Shafii
Daily Faculty Reporter;
Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs Charles Vest
restated the University's pledge to
improve racial and ethnic diversity in
an address to the faculty's Senate,
Assembly yesterday afternoon.
However, Vest also revealed that
total minority enrollment including
first-year and transfer students is
down this year by 6 percent. Eight
hundred and eighty minority students
are part of the entering class this
fall. According to the November 1,
1988 Michigan Mandate last year's
class had 899 students of color.
Compared to last year's minority
enrollment figures, Vest said, this
year's numbers are low. But he said
the figures have been consistently
increasing during the past 10 years.
There has been progress in the re-
cruitment of faculty of color this
year, however. Forty-five new fac-
Williams
.. his budget faces opposition
activities. "It would have a fairly
harsh and adverse impact from the
point of view of the student body
because we lobby on behalf of them
on the local, state and national
level," he said.
The initial proposal calls for the
External Relations Committee's
budget to be cut from $7,000 to
S2,000.
budget.
fine its goals, seriously limiting its
student
itdowin
ulty representing three minority
groups - 21 Afro-Americans, "15
Asian-Americans, and 9 Hispanics
- have been hired. This figure is
up from 32 last year.
Vest reaffirmed a "commitment
to community, civility, and respect
to others" and "our potential as a
leading multi-cultural University."
But in an interview after Vest's
speech, United Coalition Against
Racism Steering Committee mem-
ber Kim Smith, a second-year medi-
cal student, called the figures "a ma-
nipulation of statistics."
"There is no policy," she said.
"There is no program of retention for
any students on campus."
Smith said while the University
claims that students need not drop
out due to financial reasons, many
students cannot afford the high inter-
est rates on loans.
Students who do take out loans
See DIVERSITY, Page 2
Cheney to
Chiefs:
Outline
drug war
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney told the Joint
Chiefs of Staff yesterday to draw up
plans for using their planes, ships,
radar, and troops to help stem the
flow of drugs into the United States.
. Cheney said he could not say
how many people will be involved
in the effort or what it will cost un-
til the chiefs report back to him on
Oct. 15 on what they can do to cut
the flow of illegal drugs from
Mexico and the Caribbean nations.
"I believe that our military forces
have the capacity to make a substan-
tial contribution toward drug inter-
City moves closer to
mandatory recycling
by Tara Gruzen
Daily City Reporter
Mandatory recycling has come
one step closer to becoming a reality
in Ann Arbor.
At their regular session last
night, Ann Arbor City Council
members passed the first reading of
the Mandatory Recycling Ordinance.
The meeting was attended by about
100 citizens concerned with recy-
cling.
The ordinance requires residents
to separate newspapers, glass, tin,
and cardboard from their other
garbage and bans these materials
from the Ann Arbor landfill. The
separated items, as the ordinance
now reads, would be collected on a
weekly basis.
In support of the ordinance,
However, councilmember Terry
Martin (R-Second Ward), who voted
against the ordinance, said recycling
should be a voluntary pilot program
and suggested that rewards be given
to citizens who do choose to recycle,
thus improving the chances citizens
would make the effort.
Although he voted for the ordi-
nance on first reading because he
wanted to hear more discussion on
the debate, councilmember Tom
Richardson (R-Fifth Ward) said
mandatory recycling would increase
taxes next year by SI million or
more and would require two-thirds of
Ann Arbor residents to start recy-
cling.
Councilmember Ann Marie
Coleman (D-First Ward) stressed the
importance of saving resources and
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