-NNW I I I III Mill III OPINION The war in Vietnam continues 4 ARTS 7 SPORTS 10 Bobcat Goldthwait screams at us First-year fullback steps in for injured Bunch N I ill -0111010ow - - --- -- ---------- - --------- " - -, -- - MWwx#A*%W,4%- Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 21 Ann Arbor, Michigan -Thursday, October 5, 1989 ThMwIgno&*y Reshuffling the administration Duderstadt to shake up top 'U' positions by Noah Finkel Daily Administration Reporter Although President James Duder- stadt announced plans to reshuffle his administration at Monday night's State of the University address, the substance of the changes is still un- clear. Duderstadt announced that the Of- fice of Student Services and the Of- fice of Research will soon report to the Provost's office, rather than di- rectly to the President. Yet the actual change in the chain of command is still up in the air. "No decisions about the structure or lines of reporting have been made," said Shirley Clarkson, speaking for the President. "No decisions about individual responsibility have been made." Both vice presidents who would be reporting to Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Charles Vest have not yet received word on what their new roles will be. Vice President for Student Ser- vices Henry Johnson said he has not been notified of any restructuring, but understood the President's an- nouncement as a desire to "evaluate the relationship" between student services and academic affairs. Interim Vice President for Re- search William Kelley said he was out of town during the President's speech and could not comment. The vic& presidents for research, student services, and academic affairs are three of six vice presidents in the administration that currently report to President Duderstadt. The capacity in which Johnson and Kelley would serve is unclear because they may soon be reporting to a fellow vice president. Clarkson said Johnson "may be moving on or up to other things, but she stressed that Johnson will remain a vice president. Clarkson would not elaborate on Johnson's fu- ture. See CHANGES, Page 3 Duderstadt ...shakes up administration Despite objections, MSA " !'1 ! V T1 by Josh Mitnick Daily MSA Reporter The Michigan Student Assembly voted to recognize the Cornerstone Christian Fellowship by almost a 3-1 margin late Tuesday night, fol- lowing the assembly's most heated debate of the new year. After more than two hours of discussion, representatives voted 21-8, with one abstention, in favor of recognizing CCF. They determined that CCF's membership policies - which were ruled discriminatory last year - did not violate a provision in the MSA constitution forbidding groups to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation. Last February, the Central Student Judiciary derecognized CCF after the group admitted it would bar membership to homosexuals who would not change their sexual orientation. In making their decision Tuesday night, assembly members had to untangle the ambiguous definitions of discrimina ion and determine if MSA recognition was a privilege or a right. Organizations must receive official MSA recognition in order to get MSA funding and use Union office space. MSA president Aaron Williams, who didn't vote on the proposal, said unless the decision is thrown out by CSJ, it sets a serious precedent on how MSA will view future student groups that seek recognition. He explained that organizations which apply for MSA recognition in the future will be viewed as having clean slates until they violate MSA policy. cognizes (U However, LSA Rep. Matt Weber thought the vote set a bad precedent. "It seems that MSA has disarmed itself in making any determination on whether a policy is discriminatory or not," he said. He said with the precedent set Tuesday night, MSA could recognize groups as extreme as the Ku Klux Klan. Weber said he voted against recognition because CCF had not changed its constitution which states "unscriptual conduct" can be grounds for disqualification of membership. CCF representatives were relieved after the assembly decided to renew their recognition. "We don't have a vendetta against homosexuals," CCF pastor Mike Caulk said after the vote. "We want to offer a loving alternative... I don't think that's discrimination." See MSA, Page 3 JOSH MOORE/Daiy A hard day's work Construction workers build a rail for the new ramps at Hill Auditorium Panama's Noriega accuses U.S. of instigating failed coup PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Troops patrolled the city's lightly traveled streets yesterday and U.S. helicopters watched from overhead on the day after rebel soldiers tried in vain to overthrow General Manuel Antonio Noriega. "The gringo piranhas want to do away with me," the general, who commands the military and controls the government, said during a brief tour of the street outside Panamanian Defense Forces headquarters. He blames the revolt on the United States, which has tried to oust him for nearly two years. The Bush administration denied involvement. Newspapers reported six people killed in the coup attempt Tuesday morning. Major Edgardo Lopez, an aide to Noriega, would not confirm casualty figures or reports that Major Moises Giroldi Vega, the Urraca commander and coup leader, was among the dead. He said at least 60 soldiers and four or five officers were arrested. Every few minutes, helicopters of the U.S. Southern Command circled over the perimeters of Quarry Heights and Fort Amador. The two U.S. bases at the western edge of Panama City are a few hundred yards from the Panamanian headquarters, where the coup was attempted. Many Panamanians chose to stay home yesterday and U.S. bases were shut under condition Delta, which restricts movement of personnel. About 12,000 American sol- diers are stationed in Panama. U.S. sanctions have damaged the econ- omy, but Noriega remains. He annulled the opposition's election victory May 7 and has put down two coup attempts. Raymond Takiff, an attorney in Miami representing Noriega on federal charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, quoted Noriega as saying through Lopez: "The coup attempt was motivated by money and power. The money came from the CIA and not the opposition." In Washington, Secretary of State James Baker found himself explaining why U.S. forces had not intervened. He said the United States had not ruled out military action but would follow "its own timetable." Reporters saw U.S. soldiers and armored vehicles temporarily blocking roads north and west of the Panamanian barracks Tues- day, as well as the Pan-American Highway bridge across the Panama Canal. Southern Command officials said the movements were security measures taken for the safety of the U.S. personnel and the canal and that there was no intent to inter- vene in the fighting. Campus ACLU may oppose speech rules EPA lawsuit blames Detroit's water pollution on negligence by Noah Finkel Daily Administration Reporter Though the American Civil Lib- erties Union has no legal quarrel with the University's much-narrowed interim anti-discrimination policy, its campus branch may nevertheless oppose the rules on philosophical grounds. - The campus ACLU committee on the anti-discrimination policy met for the first time last night to discuss what its stance on the in- terim rules policy should be. The 15-member committee overwhelm- ingly voted to oppose what it called the "code," but termed its stance "preliminary" because not all mem- bers had had a chance to read the in- terim policy. The policy - enacted last month by University President James Dud- erstadt- is less vague and broad than the original policy. In August, a federal judge ruled in a case brought by the ACLU that the orig- inal policy violated the First Amendment. 'I would rather have a S..-1 / ..-O.-- ~1,....1.. *t w% conduct that is not constitutionally protected." The committee opposes the in- terim policy on 3 grounds: -the University is taking the place of the court system in judging students' non-academic behavior; -the policy has a "chilling effect" on campus speech, and; -similar to the original policy, the new policy is vague in its defini- tion of what constitutes a discrimi- natory act. "I would rather have a full jury decide than a group of four students," said LSA sophomore and committee member Scott Goldberg in reference to the board which judges cases un- der the interim policy. LSA senior Mike Schechter, chair of the committee, termed "vague" the section of the anti-dis- crimination rules that exempts dis- criminatory speech made during an "exchange of ideas." "When is it an idea? When is it an intended insult?" he said. There was also concern that the policy vas unnecessary due to the presence of the court system. "It c'0mc annethina Tninvrai't DETROIT (AP) - The City of Detroit has allowed industrial pol- luters to dump toxic chemicals into the Detroit and Rouge rivers, a law- suit filed yesterday by the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency claims. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, said the city failed to enforce the use of pretreatment centers before the chemical waste reached the Detroit Wastewater Treatment Plant. The plant lacks equipment to treat water carrying such toxic chem- icals as mercury, PCBs, silver, lead, chromium and zinc. The city instead is required to force industrial cus- tomers to pretreat their waste, ac- cording to a 1985 agreement between the city and the EPA. Since 1977, federal officials have been criticizing the city's treatment plant, with the EPA describing it as the greatest single polluter of the Great Lakes. The EPA and the state Depart- ment of Natural Resources have said in audits the city didn't try hard enough to keep toxins from going through the plant into the rivers, and eventually into Lake Erie. The city-owned and -operated plant treats waste from 400 indus- trial customers and"3 million people in the Detroit area. The EPA said the plant daily discharges 688 million gallons of wastewater. The lawsuit says Detroit has failed to identify industrial users that are discharging toxins, failed to screen and take samples of industrial wastewater to ensure it meets stan- dards and failed to enforce treatment guidelines. If convicted of the civil charges, the city faces fines of up to $25,000 for each day violations occurred. Reilly ...files suit against Detroit i Language houses provide by Steven Kaye The University's Max Kade House is similar to any other residence hall. Students lay flopped-down on their beds with the doors wide open, and a nearby stereo plays "Midnight Special." But unlike most dormitory dwellers, Max Kade's residents all study German culture. The Max Kade German House and the Julia Esther Emanuel French House provide homes for about 60 students studying French or German.