1R N N R 2 !i..........................................................M............................................................................... OPINION 4 ARTS 7 SPORTS * Basketball signing period begings: Michigan nets two recruits 9 A letter to President Duderstadt Little Vera: the fruit of glasnost .?' v ' ? :+ rfi+ .. \\' \ \1\ \\\' ti ' 1''. ti ' R . *,k t' '+S'Yti .1 ' '. v4 c \ \'hn\ \\U' ' Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom 91h a' Vol. C, No. 46 Ann Arbor, Michigan -Wednesday, November 8, 1989 cop" Ime low The Mi@Mphn Oaity Harris quits as .MAC chair by Josh Mitnick Daily MSA Reporter Delro Harris, chair of the Michi- gan Student Assembly's Minority Affairs Commission, announced at last night's MSA meeting that he .will step down from the position this month. Harris - who has served for two years as chair of MAC - said it was time for the commission to have new leadership. Although he will no longer be serving as chair, Harris said he would continue to work as a MAC member. Harris also said he was concerned the commission may have become verly dependent on his leadership. We have to make an extra effort to ensure the transition to the next can- didate is as smooth as possible," he said. Next week, MAC will be recruit- ing candidates to succeed Harris as chair. Harris said the commission will choose the candidate and make recommendations to the assembly >Tov. 27. The assembly will have fi- al say on whom will succeed Har- ris. MSA Music School Rep. Laura Sankey said Harris made MAC a le- gitimate and respected organization which benefited other minority orga- nizations. "He worked really hard to bring unity between minority groups on campus, and succeeded," she said. Under Harris's leadership the commission was able to: 'forge an agreement with Michiguama eliminating all refer- ences to Native Americans in the all- male honor society's rituals, thus ending a dispute dating back to 1973; 'revitalize Minority Student Ser- victs as a support group for minor- ity students and organizations, and; 'expand required minority student *representation on the commission. East German ministers ,resign BERLIN (AP) - East Ger- many's government resigned yester- day amid growing nationwide unrest, a continuing exodus of thousands of its people, and pleas from within the Communist Party for a sweeping top-level shakeup. The 44-member Council of Min- isters resigned jointly, government s~pokes man Wolfgang Meyer said. he cabinet, led by Premier Willi Stoph, has little power and imple- ments policy made by the Commu- nist Party's ruling Politburo. Sev- eral of the cabinet ministers are also Politburo members. "We appeal to the citizens who intend to leave our republic to recon- sider their step once more. Our so- cialist fatherland needs everyone," F*said a statement issued by the outgo- ing cabinet. Since early Saturday, more than 28,000 East Germans have fled to the . West through neighboring Czechoslovakia. They arrived in West Germany yesterday at the rate of 120 an hour. The government will remain in office until Parliament elects a new Council of Ministers, Meyer said. He did not say when such an election .nn.,l nrriir ThI. flflrfvfe r p 'ntral Election Results Detroit Mayor: Coleman Young predicted winner over Tom Barrow Proposal A: Failed Proposal B: Failed Virginia Governor: L. Douglas Wilder, pro- jected winner. Will be the first Black elected governor in the U.S. New York Mayor: David Dinkins, projected over Rudolph Giuliani 1~ Election I Young wins re-election in landslide over Barrow, )ay, 1989 Proposals A and B are both defeated easily DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Coleman Young appeared assured of an unprecedented fifth term yesterday with early returns showing him comfortably ahead of accountant Tom Barrow. . With 46 of 921 precincts report- ing, Young lead Barrow 56 percent, or 11,129 to 44 percent or 8,762. The precincts reporting were made up of absentee voters. The nonpartisan race was some- what more competitive rematch of the two candidates' 1985 contest, and once again the overriding issue was Young's controversial record as mayor of the nations' sixth-largest city. Rain for much of the day kept voter turnout below the projected 50 percent of the city's 522,523 regis tered voters. Young, who beat Barrow by a 61-to-39 percent margin in 1985, faced a barrage of challenges this year over his personal and profes- sional conduct. A paternity suit filed by a former city worker as settled out of court, and Young blunted criticism of his handling of a deal in which the city paid 20 times more than the assessed value for land on which Chrysler Corp. will build a $1-billion assem- bly plant. Polls released after last week's annual Devil's Night soiree showed see MAYOR, page 2 LANSING, Mich (AP) - Michigan voters headed to the polls yesterday to see that two ballot pro- losals intended to generate more :noney for schools by raising the state sales tax were defeated. Voters rejected both proposals A and B by a three to one margin. Despite the $3 million advertising campaign to support proposal A, it went crashing down, losing 439,134 to 149,257. Proposal B fared just as badly with a 425,886 to 175,404 vote. State wide, about 85 percent of the 6.8 million people eligible to vote in Michigan were registered, said Brad Wittman, state director of voter registration. However, the school finance proposals were not expected to draw much voter interest. Voter turnout also suffered due to gloomy skies and widespread rain throughout the state. Voters could have chosen one, both or neither of the proposals. The one winning the most support would have prevailed if both had earned a majority. Yesterday's election closed an- other chapter in the longtime effort to refinance the way Michigan funds its kindergarten-12th grade public schools. This is the sixth school fi- nance issue that voters have rejected since 1972. Proposal A would have raised the see PROPOSALS, page 2 s MSA votes no on ballot referendum Students won 't decide fate of Peace and Justice Committee LOOKS LIKE RAIN! b - - l. Rainy weather plagued the Ann Arbor area yesterday, forcing LSA senior Larry Polatsch (above) to hop over a< puddle on the Diag while heading for class. Engineering Soph- more Jeff Soya "\ (right) looks up at the rain clouds o while waiting at the Bursley Bus Stop. by Josh Mitnick Daily MSA Reporter A proposal to let students vote on the continued existence of the Michigan Student Assembly's Peace and Justice Commission was rejected by the assembly last night by al- most a 2-1 margin. If the referendum - sponsored by Rackham Rep. Gene Kavnatsky - had been approved, a proposal would have been placed on the spring ballot to delete the Peace and Justice Commission from MSA's constitu- tion, which would effectively elimi- nate it as an official assembly body. Despite the vote, Peace and Jus- tice Chair Ingrid Fey remained un- convinced that the battle over the commission's existence had finally ended. She said she expected a peti- tion to be circulated next term to put the question on the ballot. "It's a never ending battle," she said. Fey said the commission. would continue its activities to try and prove its worth to students. "Actions speak louder than words," she said. The vote represents the second at- tempt this fall by assembly conser- vatives to force a campus vote on Peace and Justice. Two weeks ago, MSA president Aaron Williams made a last-minute attempt to circulate a petition to place a similar referendum on the fall ballot. However, the petition drive failed, falling short of the required 1,000 signatures to place the ques- tion on the ballot. Both Williams and Kavnatsky are members of the Conservative Coali- tion party, which pledged in last spring's elections and will again stress in the approaching November elections a focus on campus-related issues. Last night, supporters of the ref- erendum argued the proposal was not aimed at killing the commission, in- sisting that it would let students de- cide the future of Peace and Justice. Kavnatsky said he had received numerous complaints from students about the way in which the commis- sion was using student funds 'that convinced him it should be put to a vote. "Why can't we let the students decide?" he said. "We cannot shove something on them that they don't want." Bryan Mistele said he thought representatives who opposed the measure were afraid that the vote would not go their way. In opposing the proposal, LSA rep. Nick Mavrick expressed concern that a referendum would divert MSA from its regular business and "freeze this assembly in its tracks." He added that in the future, the existence see MSA, page 2 Soiled students suffer scorching showers by Diane Cook Daily Research Reporter Before you even set foot into the locker room at the Central Campus Recreation Building, an ominous sign on the door warns you of "the hot water in this lockerroom (showers, sinks, toilets)." Bathers dance in and out of the stream of water, anticipating the surge of scorching water following the toilet flush. "When you're taking a shower, the water tends to fluctuate rapidly to the point that you want to jump out," said Gary Mora, a researcher at the Dental School who exercises at the CCRB. But a second sign explains that it's not a problem exclusively at the CCRB; the nearby apartment build- water system and the city's cold wa- ter pressure. "We have to balance the pressure - the city's cold water and our own in-house hot water," said John Klein, general supervisor of Univer- sity plumbing and heating. "When we get everything bal- anced, we won't have the problem," said Klein. "It's like finding a needle in the haystack." The city has sent out pressure recorders in various areas near the CCRB, according to Duane Otto, field superintendent of Ann Arbor's utilities department. The outside pressures seem to be quite level. But inside the building there is a fluctua- tion of the cold water system levels. "I think it's in an investigative area, seeing where and what this r*r 'nm o _ ."A nf'tt " ~T .J.....A