OPINION 4 ARTS 5 SP .h..,...... .~ 'ORTS 8 Readers take over Only love can break your heart 0 'M' hosts EMU doubleheader itiu u tixil Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 122 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, April 3, 1990 The MichigaDa ________________________Michigan___Daily Dems. *Council by Josh Mitnick Daily City Reporter gain seat Democratic challenger Thais Peterson scored an upset victory in yesterday's city council elections over leading council Repbulican Thomas Richardson (R-Fifth Ward). Peterson - who won by a 3,108 to 2,763 vote - was the only challenger able to unseat an incumbent. Her victory changes the council makeup to six Republicans and five Democrats, tipping the scales back toward Democrats. Before the election only four council seats were held by Democrats. Peterson said her victory confirmed that Fifth Ward voters were unhappy with Richardson's record on council in the past two years. "I was convinced all along that Tom was out of touch with the constituents," she said. Peterson also said she thought Proposal A brought out voters who helped give her an upset victory. Richardson was unavailable for comment. City clerk Winnifield Northcross said that despite yesterday's rainy weather,33 percent of the city's registered voters turned out to cast ballots. Normally, Ann Arbor city election turnout is only 20 percent, she said. Northcross attributed the unusually high turnout to the three controversial ballot proposals. "We're a very issues oriented community," she said. In the First Ward, four-term incumbent Larry Hunter (D-First Ward) soundly defeated Republican challenger Isaac Jacobein Campbell. Ingrid Sheldon (R-Second Ward) successfully staved off a challenge by Democratic/Green candidate Valerie Ackerman. Sheldon said the loss of one council seat to the Democrats will force both parties on council to be more cooperative. In the Third Ward, incumbent Liz Brater (D-Third Ward) convincingly won her re-election bid by a 2 to 1 margin over Republican challenger David Copi and Libertarian candidate Mark Hiselman. "The Democrats will again have a voice on the budget process," Brater said. Council needs a 7 vote majority to pass a budget. Mark Ouimet (R-Fourth Ward) won his first re-election campaign by beating third-year law student Jamie Marsh in the Fourth Ward. City elections '90 results Larry Hunter (D) 2417 74 Isaac-Jacobein Campbell (R) 858 26 Ingrid Sheldon (R) 2471 61 Valerie Ackerman (D/G) 1575 39 Liz Brater (D) 2935 65 David Copi (R) 1471 32 Mark Heiselman (L) 149 3 Mark Ouimet(R) 3416 60 James Marsh (D/G) 2298 40 Thomas Richardson (R) 2763 47 Thais Anne Peterson (D) 3108 53 Yes 18866 77 No 5601 33 Yes 12901 53 No 11419 47 Freedom) 15698 65 Yes 8578 35 No City out 5 by Josh Mitnick Daily City Reporter The era of Ann Arbor's $5 pot law is over. With the passage of Proposal B - by a vote of 12,901 to 11,419 - in yesterday's city election, students will now face a minimum $25 fine if caught in possession of marijuana. Although results from student precincts in Ann Arbor showed overwhelming support for the cur- rent pot law, voting in residential districts of the city was just enough to pass the ballot proposal. In addition to raising pot fines, Proposal B - which alters the city charter - will also change the crime from a civil infraction to a misde- meanor. "In the real world, $25 doesn't matter much, but it's the principle that's involved," said Councilmem- ber Larry Hunter (D-First Ward), who had opposed the ballot initia- tive. "With the vote that close it says we better be reasonable on mar- ijuana." Despite expectations that city res- idents would reject Proposal A, Ann Arbor accepted raising individual taxes by an average of $100 and voted to allow the city to sell $28 million in bonds to solve the solid waste crisis. votes fine The funds will go to a clean up efforts Ann Arbor's existing land- fills, a new city landfill, implemen- tation of a comprehensive recycling program and construction of a Mate- rials Recovery Facility. "It's clearly a mandate that envi- ronmental issues are the number one issue in the city," said Mike Garfield a spokesperson for Environment '90, a group which lobbied for the pro- posal's passage. "People just realized that this is the most important issue in the city government and the time is now for recycling." Ann Arbor voters overwhelm- ingly passed Proposal C - 15,698 to 8,578 - which will make the city a Zone of Reproductive Free- dom. The ballot proposal would make abortion punishable with a maximum local fine of $5 if Michi- gan ever passes anti-abortion legisla- tion. "Ann Arbor has said 'yes' to choice," said Karen Piethutaoski, who helped circulate petitions to put the proposal on the ballot. "Every adult should make their own deci- sions about their body." The largely symbolic proposal was designed to send a message to the state that Ann Arbor was staunchly pro-choice. __j 'Students to vote on ballot referenda in election by Daniel Poux Daily MSA Reporter In this week's Michigan Student Assembly elections, partisan politics may take a backseat in significance to five ballot referenda. The referenda propose changes to MSA's constitution, and prompt student input on two issues currently facing the University: the deputiza- tion of University security and the formation of a Code of Non-Aca- demic Conduct. Referendum E proposes a "Student Group Bill of Rights." Some assembly representatives say the referendum would allow student groups to discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or race and still receive MSA recognition. MSA recognition entitles a group to MSA funding and University of- fice space. Section 11 of the Bill states the "Freedom of Self-definition" as: "The right of religious and political organizations to maintain autonomy in ordering their internal affairs so that they may be free to select their own leaders, define their own doc- trines, resolve their own disputes, and determine their own institution." The bill also states that MSA would have no right to challenge student groups on these points. Engineering Rep. Bryan Mistele, who proposed the referendum, said the bill is needed to protect the rights and autonomy of campus or- ganizations. But MSA Rep. and LSA sopho- more Jennifer Van Valey said the bill would allow student groups to discriminate. "It's a bill of abusive rights - it would allow racist and homophobic groups to demand MSA recognition and funding, and the assembly would be forced to give it to them," Van Valey said. MSA President Aaron Williams said he supports the bill, "Recognition should be given to as many student groups as possible, within reason." Proposals A and B will serve as a survey of students' attitudes toward two issues the University currently faces. Proposal A asks whether MSA should work with the adminis- tration on the implementation of a Code of Non-Academic Conduct - without first putting the proposed code to a student vote. Proposal B asks whether the assembly should support the administration's efforts to deputize campus security. "These are divided issues in the campaigning parties and in the assembly as a whole," said MSA President Aaron Williams. "We thought it would be best if we put the issues to a vote, to let the stu- dents on this campus tell us what they think." Proposal D would allow two of the assembly's commissions - the Minority Affairs Commission (MAC), and International Students Affairs Commission (ISAC) - to nominate their own chairs. The assembly would approve the nomi- nations. Under MSA's current compiled code, the assembly appoints the commissions' chairs while the commissions select their own vice- chairs. MAC and ISAC leaders wanted final say over the chair selec- tion process, but have accepted the referendum's compromise allowing MSA to veto their nominations. Of the constitutional changes on the ballot, Proposal C would change the wording of the Constitution, in areas dealing with sexual discrimina- tion, from "sexual orientation" to "sexual preference." Elections Director Rebecca Gebes stressed the importance of the refer- enda. "It's important for students to realize that there's more to vote for than just the MSA candidates. The referenda propose significant changes to the MSA Constitution, and give the campus a chance to let their stu- dent government know how they feel." Commoner kicks LSA Faculty postpone off Earth by Michael Sullivan Daily Staff Writer Ecologist Barry Commoner opened his speech last night to about 500 students and area residents by asking "So, why do we have to do it all over again?" Before the final en- thusiastic standing ovation, he had outlined a strategy to follow so "the next meeting - in 20 years - will be a celebration." Commoner said the U.S. must do three things to clean up the en vi- ronment: clean up its own pollution, reduce global warming and solve "the special problem of developing countries." "We have to solve all three to- gether," he said, "and there's a good possibility you'll make a mess if you don't solve them together." The first step, he said, is solar power. "We must take a measure that conserves power, but also doesn't produce CO2; that, of course, is so- Week EL AR T411" .''1"yiay, ,riiti'$C i"'v"+L i"'.t:( .l ;t ay :1.1 ".' '" '' :"'Y'"i\i::"~";::' 0 by Donna Woodwell Daily Faculty Reporter First-year students still won't have to CRISP into a required course on racism, at least not next fall. LSA faculty voted 99-58 yester- day to postpone discussion until next October on a distribution re- quirement which would require in- coming students to take a class which focused on racism and ethnic- ity. In April 1989 the faculty struck down, 140-120, the forerunner of the racism course current proposals - the Railton Proposal - and called on the LSA Curriculum Committee to spend an- other year studying the issue. However, English Prof. Alan Wald said the Curriculum Commit- tee "just sort of sprung it (the recent vote) on us. There hasn't been much debate among faculty." Until recent Record and Daily articles, the issue hasn't been at the forefront of dis- cussion, he said. Chemistry Prof. Thomas Dunn, who moved to have the vote tabled, rote said faculty had "not received a sin- gle piece of paper" on the issue. The three new proposals focus on introducing requirements for stu- dents, requiring classes which focus on either ethnicity and racism, or non-Western societies. Classes from any field could fulfill the require- ment. Proposal A, which was tabled yesterday, calls for a requirement on racism and ethnic intolerance, while Proposal C calls for a course on See VOTE, Page 3 Commoner environment," Commoner said. Cleaning up the waste produced by the industry each year would cost ten times its profits, he estimated. The industrialized countries also owe a huge debt to the Third World, he said, since colonialism impover- ished developing countries. The conversion from a polluting society to an environmentally sound society would cost $100 billion for the next twenty years, he said. Repa- The solution is "eco-democracy," Commoner said. "It means social in- tervention through the federal gov- ernment in the means of produc- tion." He said public control should ensure that quality of life, and not profit, is the first goal of industry. Before outlining his plan for en- vironmental and social movements in the next twenty years, Commoner reviewed the failures and successes of environmentalism in the vers he- State legislature to vote on campus police bill by Mike Sobel Daily Crime Reporter A state bill that would give Michigan's universities the nower to curity officers through the Washte- naw County Sheriff's office, to which the officers are ultimately ac- countnenhI Tf the bill is n 'sel how- officers for which they are not ac- countable," he said, "the County Sh- eriff deputizes officers and then never sees them azin."