OPINION 4 ARTS * , e 8 SPORTS 10 Join in HAC rally Jazz piano maestro does his thing Baseball team tops EMU eirigaulail Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom !. Vol. C, No. 124 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, April 5, 1990 CopyrightO 1990 The Mic hioan flail. MSA voting7run . a hitc 5 f / 5. by Daniel Poux Daily MSA Reporter Students have only one day left to vote in the Spring elections for the Michigan Student Assembly. The first day's voting went smoothly, said MSA elections director Rebecca Gebes, with no significant balloting or poll site problems. "There were a few problems, but nothing that took more than ten minutes to work out," Gebes said. Polling site workers were also enthusiastic about the first day's voting activity, and said voting had been constant all day. "Voting's been really steady, and it's been very busy here and at the MLB when I worked this morning," said LSA Senior Kristi Johnson, who was working at the Michigan Union poll site. Party candidates were also encouraged by 5 yesterday's voting activity and by student reception to the last-minute poll site campaigning. LSA Junior Aberdeen Marsh, campaigning lily for the Action Party on the front steps of the Union, said most of the students she talked to indicated they were going to vote or already had voted. Many students were going out to vote because they were fed up with MSA inactivity, Marsh said,. "I think that maybe a lot of people have been voting because they feel the assembly has not done enough to actively oppose the Code," Marsh added. MSA elections '90 LSA Junior Mark Tullki, also campaigning at the Union, agreed with Marsh, even though he was running on the opposing Conservative Coalition ticket. "I think there will be a better voter turnout in these elections, because the issues are a little better defined," he said. "Also, in the last couple of elections, we've really caught the opposition off guard. I think that this time, they've organized better, and we're both getting the vote out." See ELECTIONS, page 2 .y. STEVE SZUCH/Da LSA junior Mark Ferguson casts his ballot in the MSA elections in the Fishbowl, yesterday, as election workers LSA sophomore Kerry Radzom and LSA senior Kelley Walsh assist other voters. 0 Environmental fair educates, enlists 'U' by Michael Sullivan At one table, Bradley Bucklin and water system discharge untreated environmental and political reform. "The first step is to put Daily Staff Writer Marcus Koenen displayed sewage directly into the Huron The Greens were at the fair "to the hands of the Latvians, Students crossed the Diag a little information about the Huron River River. reach the students who know and To this end, he urged stu more slowly yesterday, and it wasn't Pollution Abatement Program. Bucklin said 15 percent of don't know about us," Chamber write letters to legislator because of the warm weather. The nrogram run by the buildings tested to date have some said. them to recognize Li Latvia in he said. udents to rs urging thuanian tudents As part of the Earth Week activities, a dozen groups set up information tables and talked to passers-by in the Diag at an Environmental Activities Fair. The purpose of the event was to show students how to become involved in the environmental protection movement. Washtenaw County Drains Commissioner and the Environmental Services Bureau, is "the first of its kind in the country," said Bucklin. Program employees test drains in county buildings to ensure they connect to the sewage system and not the rain-water system. Drains connected to the rain- improper connections. The Huron Valley Greens set up a table to preach the Green gospel of peace, ecology, democracy and justice. Rackham graduate student and Green member Brian Chambers distributed pamphlets and bumper stickers which stress the Greens' global commitment to both In one corner of the Diag, Rackham graduate student Erik Petrovskis sat on a table with a sign reading "VAK - the Environmental Club of Latvia." Petrovskis explained that forty years of Soviet rule have poisoned the Baltic Sea with untreated waste-water from independence. If the U.S. recognizes Lithuania, he argued, freedom will come more quickly for all the Baltic states. The local Greenpeace organization recruited canvassers at their table. Eastern Michigan student and member Anne Muncer explained 0 Voters say $5 is fine for abortion *but not for pot A2 scraps pot law, adopts Zone by Josh Mitnick Daily City Reporter Ann Arbor lived up to its liberal reputation by making the city a "Zone of Reproductive Freedom" in 4 Monday's elections. But while the zone referendum passed by a 2-1 margin, city resi- dents indicated Ann Arbor's infa- mous pot law was no longer accept- able - voting by a narrow 53 per- cent majority to hike fines to a min- imum of $25. National Organization for the Legalization of Marijuana Laws (NORML) spokesperson Rich Birkett said he could not explain why the Zone (Proposal C) was overwhelmingly passed while the pot law (Proposal B) was changed. "That's something I can't under- stand - how someone could be pro- choice on abortion and not pro- choice on marijuana," he said. "It's not consistent." Low turnout by potentially pro- $5 fine students was one factor that figured in Proposal B's passage, Birkett said. He said NORML should have stressed the negative aspects of the Proposal - such as the fact that offenders will face added court costs -not just the increased minimum fine. In 1983, voters defeated a ballot proposal that would have repealed the section of the city's charter that sets a maximum $5 pot fine and re- quired police officers to prosecute of- &a ...ePT indt-r heal1 inztarl of CtnAte Unlike Birkett, Brater viewed the pot law as an issue of substance abuse, not as an issue of the freedom to use marijuana. She contended that sub- stance abuse isn't a conservative-lib- eral issue. "I don't think Ann Arbor is any less liberal than it used to be because (the pot law) was rejected," she said. "There is a very deep concern about substance abuse in this country and Ann Arbor is no exception." However, Councilmember Jerry Schleicher (R-Fourth Ward) said he thinks the vote on Proposal B re- flected a less liberal sentiment in Ann Arbor. Young adults who sup- ported the pot law now are voting against it as parents, he said. Proposal B's victory was surpris- ing, said defeated Fourth-ward coun- cil candidate James Marsh, a third- year law student. He added that the widely publicized war on drugs has created a hysteria about drugs similar to the McCarthyism of the 1950's. - "A lot of people think its the 11th hour and this is their way of taking action on the drug issue," he said, "If you're pro-legalization, you're some kind of monster." "The 'in' thing is to be pro- choice," said Marsh. "Pro-drugs is not very stylish." By amending the city's charter to provide for the $5 abortion fine, Ann Arbor becomes the first city in the nation to adopt such legislation. However, the legal status of the zone .a.nct o }1m .ntPA Nader returns to speak at 'U' by Catherine Fugate Daily Staff Writer The Environmental Protection Agency. The Safe Drinking Water Act. Seat belt legislation and air bags. The Consumer Product Safety Commission. These are only a sampling of the agencies, legislation, and causes that have been headed by consumer advo- cate Ralph Nader. Nader first exploded on to the scene in 1966, when he challenged the practices of General Motors, at that time the largest corporation in the world. His book, Unsafe at any Speed, combined with his persis- tence, pulled the Chevrolet Corvair off the road and made the name Ralph Nader a household word. Nader will speak tonight at Rackham Auditorium on the subject of "Who will stand up for Corporate Responsibility?" Profits from his speech, which begins at 7:00, will go to a number of the organizations with which he is involved. In 1970, Nader spoke at the Uni- versity's first Earth Week, in what one student described as "one of the most motivational speeches of the week." During his talk, Nader at- tacked America's giant corporations for their ignorance of the effects of industry upon the- environment. He charged each of them with perpetrat- ing "a corporate crime wave that ut- terly dwarfs street crime by compari- sn." Members of the United Coalition Against Racism erected a "Freedom School" in Regents' Plaza yesterday to demonstrate their demands for minority access to the University. UCAR holds press conference constructs by Frank Krajenke Daily Staff Writer 'Freedom School' In an effort to demand increased minority enrollment and other pro- grams for students of color at the University, the United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR) held a press conference outside the Flem- ming Administration building yes- terday and erected a "Freedom School" in Regents' Plaza. In the conference UCAR mem- bers charged the University with in- substantially enforcing policies to assist minorities in the areas of re- cruitment, retention, and increased ranrccnt atifnn said Rajal Patel, a UCAR member and public health graduate student, adding that "education is a right, not a privilege." UCAR steering committee mem- ber Lisa Parker, an LSA senior, said the administration's pledge to in- crease minority enrollment is hol- low. "If you look at the 'Michigan Mandate' there is no concrete institu- tional change within it." To increase minority enrollment Parker said the University must dropI standardized tests like the ACT and S AT gine "the tests are race. ender. "We reserved the room last week. Our organization was never officially notified of the lock out," Maurrasse said. He added that the University informed him of the can- cellation during a telephone conver- sation Monday. Executive Director for University Relations Walter Harrison said the administration moved the meeting to the Union's Kuenzel room because only the Regents and the University president could use the room for in- terchanges with the media.. Harrison said the Office of Mi-