r r - ..cif 0.:,'.L 4. f _ .. . .. , >. :: k+ Ann Arbor still smokin' after 18 years 4 ARTS Get into the Gear 8 SPORTS 'M' baseball takes the field 11 Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 120 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, March 30, 1990 CrpyrightZ 1990 The Michigan Daily 11credit efforts under fire RHA says CC's Campaign promises ideas seriously flawed misleading, RHA says Members of the Residence Halls Association and University housing administration maintain the meal credit reforms proposed by the Conservative Coalition (CC) could have disastrous effects on food service and say students would be hurt, not helped, by the proposed changes. "They haven't come up with any brilliant ideas - their proposals have been kicked around by the RHA for a long time, and we've dismissed them, because they wouldn't work," Rich Kysia, RHA treasurer, said. LSA first-year students Joe Sciarotta and Rob Rielly are the CC members who have lead the CC effort on meal reforms. In an effort to show the University that students feel the current meal plans are unfair to them, Sciarotta and Rielly collected several thousand student signatures this semester to present to the administra- tion. Rielly and Sciarotta said they chose not to work with RHA on their meal reform efforts because RHA had been working on it for years, with no results,and little visibility. "They can't be very effective if we don't even know they're out there," Rielly said. Sciarotta and Rielly said they are working for the implementation of a plan similar to the current "Entree See MEALS, Page 2 by Daniel Poux Daily MSA Reporter Members of the University's Residence Hall Associ- ation (RHA) are upset about the Conservative Coali- tion's (CC) meal reform campaign, saying members of the CC lied to the RHA and to the Michigan Student Assembly about both their efforts and their results. RHA leaders say MSA members Joe Sciarotta and Rob Rielly, working on behalf of the CC, lied to the RHA's new Meal Credit Reform Committee, denying they had ties to the MSA or to the CC. The RHA lead- ers say the misrepresentations are an effort to influence the Committee's decisions and take credit for RHA's ef- forts to reform the University's meal credit policies. "The CC members have not dealt with the proper channels in the Housing Office, and they have not made any serious impact on what is already being done. They have no new ideas, and they're misleading people about their role in the meal credit reform effort," said LSA Sophomore Rich Kysia, RHA treasurer and member of the newly-formed Meal Credit Reform Committee. Sciarotta and Rielly have denied any wrongdoing, and say they are being attacked by the leadership of the Action party, who will be running against them in next week's election, in an attempt to sway the election. "We've consulted with the MSA past and present General Counsels, who told us there would be no prob- lem doing this whatsoever," Rielly said. See ETHICS, Page 2 Hmm... How many discs?AVID LUBUNER/Daily Jacqueline Walker, an Ann Arbor resident, enters a contest on the Diag in which participants guess the number of compact discs that will fit in a Pontiac automobile. The event is sponsored by Pontiac and Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD). See ETHICS, Page 2 PsU puts independent status in jeopardy * For Better or... ...For Worse . . F . , .t? f I Last in afive-part series by Andrew Gottesman and Adam Schrager Daily Staff Reporters © 1990 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Penn State is awaiting an official proposition from the Big Ten like a teenager anticipates a Senior Prom invitation. But exactly how this and other questions of national conference af- filiation will transpire is extremely unclear. The Big Ten presidents are likely to vote on the admittance of Penn State at the bi-annual Council of Ten meeting in June when the three committees formed to study the deal report their findings. "All the committees will have face-to-face meetings with our coun- terparts at Penn State," said Michi- gan Law Prof. Doug Kahn, a Uni- versity faculty representative for the athletic department. "We will sit down and try to hash out some of these problems. Right now we don't really know what their concerns are." For its part, the Big Ten is wor- ried about scheduling, finances, and academic integration. "I think we're all going to go at it with a positive attitude," Michi- gan Interim Athletic Director Jack Weidenbach said. "But that doesn't mean we're going to come out of it with a positive recommendation." Positive or negative, committee members are not sure how much weight their reports will carry. Some speculate the presidents will be in- fluenced by their various governing boards or will act on their own incli- nations. Ohio State Athletic Director James Jones, who has resigned him- self to the deal's finality despite skepticism, just wants to get it over with. "Personally, I would hope if there were another vote, it would be now," he said. "I don't want to spend six months investigating something, and then have it all thrown out." A simple majority is needed to include Penn State in the conference - unless an amendment is made which mandates more than a majori- ty vote, said Michigan President James Duderstadt. Even if the presidents vote to al- low Penn State to join, Penn State may not accept the invitation unless the vote is close to unanimous, Du- derstadt added. "If I were in Penn State's posi- tion, I don't think I'd want to join a conference with only 60 percent of the membership supporting it," Du- derstadt said. "In an instance like this, my sense is that the school involved, Penn State, would want to see very strong support and obvious- ly they would hope for unanimous 'We're looking at that possibility, but we haven't even added an eleventh school yet. There's really no point in searching for a twelfth school when you are not set on 11' - Purdue Faculty Representative Phil Nelson associate athletic director for com- munications and external relations, declined to comment on the possibil- ity of Penn State not joining the Big Ten. While the committees study the problems for the entire conference, individual athletic departments will look into the ramifications for their school's budgets. "The committees have also been asked to address the issue of whether there should be a twelfth member of the Big Ten because that makes sense," Duderstadt said. "I think it's clear to us the Big Ten probably should consist of an even number of teams for scheduling, but it is not at all obvious whether there's a candi- date for a twelfth university. "None stands out in the same way Penn State stands out. If Penn State does join and there is an inter- est in adding a twelfth school, (we'll look for) other major research universities," he said. Duderstadt cited the standard ru- mored schools of Rutgers, Pitts- burgh, and Syracuse as possibilities. Notre Dame would be a logical choice due to its proximity to other conference schools, but Duderstadt said it lacks the research capabilities the Council of Ten seeks. Athletic officials at Rutgers, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse refused comment on joining the Big Ten. But others in the conference said it is not appropriate to start rumors about admitting another school. "We're looking at that possibili- See PENN STATE, page 13 Penn State's engagement to the Big Ten could lead to nationwide promiscuity. support." Minnesota President Nils Hassel- mo said he assumes the presidents will give collective support to Penn State. "I have not sensed any such split (between the presidents) so far," Has- selmo said. "I did not feel that any of the presidents were on a different wavelength than the others." L. Budd Thalman, Penn State's "We have definite concerns about cost and school days missed that travel to Penn State would force, and we'll have to wait and see other things the committees find out," Iowa Director of Public Relations Ann Rhodes said. If Penn State does in fact join the Big Ten, it is likely the conference will begin exploring the possibility of admitting a twelfth school. .BAM Conference examines past and, present activism Campbell trying to unseat Hunter AZ Democrat challenged in Ward 1 by Mark Katz Daily Minority Issues Reporter - sThe demands made on the University twenty years ago during the first Black Action Movement (BAM) are similar as those made by a number of student organizations as recent as this year. The 1970 demands include: increase minority enrollment to 10 percent increase financial aid for * financially disadvantaged minority students panelists will reflect back to BAM's conception. BAM's roots will be traced back to March 1970, when a united front of Black students from all schools, combined with a "significant level of support from majority students," initiated a campus-wide strike to protest University policies towards minorities, said Judge Cynthia Stevens, a 1970 BAM negotiator. "The strike was called out of exasperation. We believed that the University would not (make an effort by Josh Mitnick Daily City Reporter Larry Hunter, .Ann Arbor First Ward's Democratic four-term incum- bent, might have run unopposed for the second consecutive city council election if it were not for Republican challenger Issaac-Jacobein Campbell. Campbell unsuccessfully chal- lenged for a Third Ward council seat in 1987 and 1988, and after losing the second race to Councilmember Liz Brater (D-Third Ward) in 1988, Campbell thought he was.done with Ann Arbor politics. from the First Ward." Campbell said the citizens of the First Ward haven't been talked to in eight years. "Larry Hunter has never explained himself. He considers his council seat to be a gift," Campbell said. I .0 :, '. V ' ~..