Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 5, 1990 Michigan Student Assembly Rules & Elections Committee Chair: Bruce Frank, law Vice Chair: Mike Donovan, epgineering senior The Rules and Elections Com- mittee is reviewing several proposed changes in the MSA Constitution and Compiled Code. Areas of change being looked at are the Assembly's elections procedures and its discrimi- nation policy. Communications Committee Chair: Melissa Burke, LSA junior Vice Chair: Liz Moldenhauer, School of Art junior The Communications Committee is responsible for all MSA public re- lations, and conducts regular outreach programs, to solicit student suggestions and support. The Committee's monthly Cam- pus Report, which includes reports on MSA committees, articles by MSA reps, and other student editori- als is due to be published February 27, and should be available in vari- ous locations around campus. Budget Priorities Committee Chair: Bryan Mistele, engineering senior imately $5,500 to 21 student groups Vice Chair: Laura Peterson, at its January 30 meeting. The BPC business administration senior will interview representatives from Under Bryan Mistele the BPC has groups interested in receiving alloca- reformed its allocation procedures. tions during the next few weeks. Instead of asking for money before At the January 30 meeting, the an event, groups who wish to re- BPC officially recognized four ceive funds from MSA must now groups, including: East Quad Recy- present receipts for reimbursement. cling, and Helping Hands for the The committee allocated approx- Homeless. International Student Affairs Commission Chair: Kari Johnstone, LSA senior band and musi The ISAC is responsible for world. More th working with international students. tended. In cooperation with the International The ISAC i c from around the han 250 people at- s currently working Center, the group helps organize in- ternational student activities. DU P an Recently, the commission held an International Student Banquet in the Michigan Union, featuring a jazz on activities for Cultural Awareness Week, coming up in March. The ISAC meets weekly on Wednesday at 5:15 in the Interna- tional Center. I Faculty - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - L Administration Budget Priorities Committee Chair: Prof. William Stebbins The University begins its internal budget process this month. BPC members will be meeting with Vice Provost Charles Vest and individual department heads to discuss budget allocations. Conferences will begin in late February and continue throughout the term, Vest said. The BPC, an advisory committee to Vest, is responsible for making recommendations regarding the Uni- versity's needs. Department deans presented their budget requests, listing their most important needs to the provost last month. The University's budget is finalized in the summer after the state appropiates its funds. Research Policies Committee Co-chairs: Prof. Sarah Newman Prof. Barry Checkoway The RPC recommended a com- William Kelly will invite minority mittee be established to devise spe- researchers to talk with University cific activities which would help faculty about minority issues and re- implement University President search. James Duderstadt's Michigan Man- The RPC is also inviting Uni- date, which calls for a more diverse versity researchers to apply for University. money from the Office of the Vice The new committee, approved by President for Research to study so- Interim Vice President for Research cial diversity issues. Compiled by Daily Reporters Daniel Poux, Noelle Vance, and Donna Woodwell Tenure Committee Chair: Biology Prof. Thomas Moore Under the University bylaws, it is the responsibility of the commit- tee to review cases of tenure termination, as well as develop and advise on general tenure policies. Current debate is focusing on the extension of the tenure clock for faculty members with significant dependent care responsibilities. The Financial Affairs Committee Chair: Health Behavior and Health Education Prof. Tom Hickey Recently, this committee has dealt with the call for greater flexi- bility in the faculty benefit program. One of the reforms being consid- ered would provide faculty with health care accounts through which they could direct benefit funds to ar- eas not covered by the current sys- tem. A second change would givo. faculty the option to cash in their pension fund at the time of retire- ment, rather than receive stipend checks on a monthly basis. committee proposed a guarantee of tenure review postponement for reasons of child or aging parent care upon petition of the college or school Dean. These recommendations have been presented to Provost Charles Vest for review. Vest agreed to guarantee a one year maternity extension, but other issues have not been settled. Committee for a Multicultural University Co-chairs: Pharmacy Assoc. Prof. Eddie Boyd and Social Work and Women's Studies Assoc. Prof. Beth Glover Reed Created last October, this com- mittee was established to look more in-depth at issues of multicultural- ism raised by the Michigan Mandate. The Senate Advisory Committee of University Affairs (SACUA) established the committee because it could not allocate the amount of time necessary to fully address these issues during its weekly meetings. IN BIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Obstacles continue to block Mandela release, wife says PAARL, South Africa - Serious obstacles still block the release of Nelson Mandela and more pressure must be put on the white-led gov- ernment before he can be freed from nearly three decades in prison, his wife said yesterday. The government, meanwhile, warned Mandela's newly legalized African National Congress that the world would turn against the group if it continued to wage a guerrilla war. Mandela met with his wife, Winnie, yesterday, two days after the gov- ernment lifted numerous restrictions on the anti-apartheid movement. After the meeting she appealed for renewed pressure on the government to force the lifting of remaining emergency restrictions. "Unfortunately, the obstacles that were in the way, which prevented his release on Friday, still exist," Mrs. Mandela said after the four-hour visit at the Victor Verster prison farm. "It...doesn't depend on him when he will be released," she said. Census seeks tally assistants WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau is hanging out the "Help' Wanted" sign. People are needed across the nation to track down hard- to-count Americans and the job can pay up to $8 an hour. The census-takers will scout remote hollows in West Virginia and is- land fishing villages in Alaska, seek out beach dwellers in California and folks living in mountain cabins in Appalachia. Only a few weeks before the official 1990 national head count, the Census Bureau says it will need 315,000 temporary workers in addition to its usual staff. Many of the temporary workers have yet to be hired, says Richard Bitzer of the bureau's field division. As in 1980, most Americans will receive a census form by mail in late March, fill it out and send it back. But officials know that for one reason or another they won't hear from several million households. Others will send in incomplete forms. St. Louis welcomes prison ST. LOUIS - Most communities favor new prisons as long as they're built somewhere else, but residents here see the new jail as a lift out of a 17-year economic rut. "We are really looking forward to the opening - it is like a new era," said Leonard Johnson, St. Louis, Michigan city clerk and treasurer. The first prisoners will arrive at the Mid-Michigan Correctional Facil- ity later this month, officials said. The prison is expected to provide 281 jobs and generate $200,000 in annual revenue for the city of 4,100 south of Mount Pleasant. That spells economic recovery to the community in the geographical center of the state. St. Louis' economy was devastated in 1973 when its biggest employer, the Michigan Chemical Plant, was forced to close and 300 jobs were wiped out. The new state prison is set up to house 900 nonviolent prisoners. Pension system grew in 8's WASHINGTON - The nation's burgeoning pension system owns a huge chunk of corporate America, but the benefits go to almost everyone but the retirees the funds are set up to serve. Typically described as a nest egg for millions of working Americans, pension funds also are being used to make a fast buck for stock brokers, to pay off corporate debt and even to pressure some corporations into hav- ing social consciences. The pension system, buoyed by the bull market of the 1980s, has grown into an economic force, rising from just $7 billion in assets in 1950 to $2 trillion today. About half of that money is invested in stocks, with pension funds holding 25 percent of total equity in the U.S. econ- omy. The multibillion-dollar investments make pension funds - and those who manage them - major players on Wall Street. EXTRAS Happy Anniversary Post-it MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - It was in 1974 that 3M scientist Art Fry, sitting through a boring church sermon, concocted the idea of self- sticking, yellow notes that could be removed without a trace, for use in his choir hymn books. It took him four years to convince his superiors at 3M the idea would sell. Two years later, in April 1980, Post-it notes premiered, and America has been stuck on them since. "Initial enthusiasm for a piece of note paper with adhesive on the back wasn't overwhelming," Fry said of his battle to persuade his superiors. "It was hard to sell the concept that people needed a note pad that would sell at a premium price compared to ordinary scratch paper." Company officials won't release sales figures, but say Post-it notes are one of the nation's top-selling office products, along with tape, copy paper and file folders. 0 OVIET PARTY Continued from page 1 Trucks blocked Moscow's Garden Ring Road for the marchers who linked arms next to Gorky Park and 'completely filled eight lanes of traf- fic, stretching back more than half a mile. Cordons of uniformed police blocked cars elsewhere, turning the center of Moscow into a virtual pedestrian mall. In all, the march and rally lasted for about five hours before partici- pants began to disperse. Police ob- served the peaceful proceedings in the historic heart of the capital, but there were no reports of any distur- bances. According to published reports, party leader Gorbachev will propose to the Central Committee that the party give up the guarantee of power that was written into the Soviet MAIL Inu UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY -=-. Constitution in 1977. The Radio Moscow news service Interfax also said Gorbachev was planning structural reforms that would reduce the size of the Central Committee and possibly eliminate the ruling Politburo. He also was expected to give tacit approval to the concept of private property. The proposals are in the form of a draft platform to be placed before congress, theoretically the Commu- nist Party's highest body, that is now scheduled for this fall. Many Moscow observers ex- pected a concentrated effort from conservatives in the Central Com- mittee to stop reforms they believe have brought the Soviet Union to economic ruin and ethnic strife. I.S Peer Information Counseling Don't get lost in the library! I MJLFIEIZIR (CD(1) IIA IF'IRIIUI 1 I I Iii G 309 S. 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