LSA-SG elections: Everyone's a winner The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 1, 1989 - Page 5 Malta summit may hasten arms accords by Josh Mitnick Daily MSA Reporter Because candidates for the LSA Student Government (LSA-SG) ran unopposed, not all LSA constituents had the opportunity to as heir ballots in elections yesterday and -esday. Only 16 candidates ran for 17 positions in the student government, and current LSA-SG Vice President Jennifer Clough, an LSA junior, ran unopposed for the pres- idency. Ballots sheets were only distributed Wednesday at the fishbowl polling site from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. LSA junior Jeff Ehrlich, who also ran unopposed, will be vice president. LSA-SG allocates funds to campus or- ganizations and appoints students to Uni- versity committees. Election director and current LSA-SG president David Boris said he originally didn't want to hold the elections at all be- cause no seats were being contested. Boris admitted the elections were merely a rubber stamp and confirmed that all students who ran for seats were successful. Boris said voters were uninterested in casting ballots when they realized there was no choice for the positions in the Student Government. "People weren't showing any interest in voting because they viewed it as a formal- ity," Boris said. Although he lamented the fact there weren't enough candidates to even contest the seats, Boris expressed confidence that LSA-SG would continue to be strong. BOARD ontinued from Page 1 Wednesday, the problem was not corrected, and yesterday's ballots re- mained the same. ISA offices were closed all day yesterday and assembly officials re- fused to comment on the election crises. Coleman issued a brief state- ment last night saying that all cor- rected ballots would be counted, re- ardless of the confusion. Nancy McGlothlin, general man- ager and secretary to the Board for Student Publications, said, "In the eight years that I've worked in Stu- dent Publications, there has never been a problem with how the elec- tions were run." University Pediatrics Prof. Am- non Rosenthal, chair of the board, said he hoped MSA would be able to *ork out its problems and see that student representation is maintained on the board. Daily Editor in Chief Adam Schrager said, "Because there hasn't been a full body of student represen- tation for over a year, it's obvious that the three student publications are suffering." WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - President Bush's Mediterranean summit with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev could speed up a timetable for new superpower accords slashing arsenals of nuclear, conventional and chemical weapons. "It would seem like all the signs are point- ing to quick resolution," said James Rubin, as- sistant director of the Arms Control Associa- tion of Washington, D.C. "But a summit reso- lution to move to completion to all three is the best we should hope for." Bush has stressed that the summit will not focus on arms control and that he was "not go- ing to surprise" the Soviets with any flashy proposals. Gorbachev, however, is known for doing the unexpected, and he may try to pressure Bush into talks on naval power. The U.S. Navy is rated mightier, and the Reagan and Bush administrations have resisted having put this question on any arms-control negotiating tables in the past. The general subject of arms control, never- theless, always is center-stage when the super- power leaders meet. Gorbachev, in a joint statement yesterday with Italian leaders, ex- pressed hope for agreements by the end of 1990 to cut conventional and chemical weapons and to sharply reduce strategic-arms stockpiles. Bush and Gorbachev have said that the next summit, to be held in the United States next spring or summer, might be used to sign a proposed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). This would slash superpower nu- clear arsenals by 30 to 50 percent, to 6,000 warheads each. For the first time since Gorbachev sat down with then-President Reagan in Geneva in 1985, the arms control agenda is not dominated by the U.S. space-based missile shield proposal, otherwise known as Star Wars. The Soviets said in September they were removing a major START obstacle by drop- ping their precondition that the United States agree not to violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which restricts strategic de- fenses. Now, with the collapse of hard-line com- munist regimes in Eastern Europe, and mas- sive budget deficits in the United States, the Bush administration is considering major cut- backs in troops and weapons. Gorbachev in facing similar pressures at home. "Now if we want to talk in a general way with the Soviet leaders about our aspirations for how a defense system will look 10 years from now, of course, we'll do that, we want toI do that." Bush said. In particular, Bush said he would like to+ talk with the Soviets about curtailing their de- fense spending.+ "But that's not what I'm referring to when I1 talk about euphoric expectations of some deal."I Bush said. "There isn't going to be such a1 deal. It takes two to make a deal." Separately, the State Department said the United States has little interest in a possible Soviet proposal to restrict naval power. "The Soviet Union, a land power, would be less constrained by such proposals," said State department spokesperson Margaret Tutwiler. "We are not aware of naval arms control mea- sures that enhance stability." Despite criticism at home that he has re- acted too cautiously to changes sweeping East- em Europe, Bush said his approach was solidly supported by NATO leaders. Saying he had consulted with each NATO chief, Bush said, "I don't want to sound self--,, centered here but almost every one of those leaders told me, "We think the United States is handling this properly. We appreciate the way you're handling these changes, the prudent ap-, proach you are taking." Gorbachev calls for summit on 14 LSA first-year student Jon Margolin votes in Michigan Student Assembly Fishbowl yesterday. elections in the hush vetoes extension of Chinese student visas European unity ROME (AP) - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev proposed yesterday that a summit of '$ European nations, the United States and Canada be held next year to speed up the integration of-; Europe and eliminate East-West divisions. Gorbachev said the meeting he callede. "Helsinki 2" should be moved up from 1992 as' originally called for under the 1975 Helsinkiz) Accords on human rights and security in Eu,: rope. He made the proposal in a speech from the-, Michelangelo-designed Campidoglio, Rome'9" city hall, where the treaty was signed in 1957 establishing the European Common Market. " Gorbachev said the sweeping changes in A Eastern Europe are irrevocable. He insisted ; they do not signal "the collapse of socialism," but rather the future development of a concept with noble goals and enormous humanistic and democratic potential." On the eve of his historic meeting with Pope John Paul II, Gorbachev said that Soviets have changed their attitude toward religion and now believe religious values can help in the restructuring of Soviet society. Expanding on his desire to build "a common European home," Gorbachev said recent events, presumably the dramatic rush toward reform in Eastern Europe, "underscore the desirability of an all-European summit, a Helsinki 2 meeting. We could consider advancing its date from 1992 - to, say, as early as 1990." "In the final analysis," Gorbachev said, "we envision Europe as a commonwealth of sovereign democratic states with a high level of equitable interdependence and easily accessible borders open to the exchange of products, technologies and ideas and wide-ranging con- tacts among people." WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Presi- dent Bush yesterday announced he was veto- ing a bill to allow Chinese students to re- main in the United States after their visas expire, calling it unnecessary and an in- fringement on his presidential authority. Bush said in a statement that the mea- sure was unneeded in light of administrative steps he had taken to accomplish the same nds - including new measures taken yes- terday. The president said he was directing the attorney general "to take the steps necessary to extend administratively to all Chinese students in the United States the same ben- efits" that were in the rejected bill. However, a congressional sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Bruce Morrison, (P- Conn.), accused Bush of yielding to pres- sure from the Beijing government, which had strongly opposed the measure. "I'm shocked that the president would kowtow in this way to the demands of the Chinese government, especially when that government was threatening Chinese stu- dents here in the United States and telling them that the United States was not going to protect them," said Morrison, chair of a House Judiciary subcommittee on immigra- tion. NOBODY LIKES YOU? We're here to help. It's a new Write: Help Mel advice c/o Michigan Daily column in 420 Maynard the Daily.t Ann Arbor, :Mr 48109 Bush earlier criticized the measure, claiming it was unneeded because he already agreed to extend student visas in the after- math of government's bloody crackdown on protestors in Tianenmen Square in June. In most cases, visas for visiting foreign students are issued for two years. 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