is m - .:":::::., ... '.iiiii.: .\iii iii: ,:i~i: w::. :::.: ::::l :r.,. .. .....:,. ....u.". .\\+.. k ". ":. .......................................................................................,,.'... OPINION Exxon shirks duties 4 ARTS N The devil inside 5 SPORTS 9 Hockey team elects next season's captains ?4Xti '' Si a x§8Ri c2.*2 ' . .ti". "' . ;? :: .a r~ .,,, G;<: . ':x:;t+>,"w.},f;.+ %Yr.? .'w: ' +, :, , s k a >. 1 e 41v 41W Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 128 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, April 11, 1990 ThM h Students USSR down backs in pass MSA 'referenda Code, deputization Lithuania strongly by Daniel Poux Daily MSA Reporter opposed All five ballot referenda passed by significant mar- gins in the Michigan Student Assembly spring elec- tions as students voted strongly against deputizing Uni- versity security guards or implementing a non-academic code of conduct without obtaining student approval. The final tallies were revealed Monday. Ninety per- cent of voters called for mass student approval of a code before the assembly accepts any administration-proposed code (Proposal A), and 70 percent opposed University deputization of campus security (Proposal B). "We can now say in real terms that this is what the students want, and not just what some members of the assembly think," said newly-elected MSA President Jennifer Van Valey. She said MSA will use the stu- dents' large vote on Proposal B to pressure the adminis- tration against deputizing campus security officers. Currently the Washtenaw County Sheriff deputizes campus security guards, but a state law before the legis- lature would allow universities' governing bodies to create their own armed security forces, and make the guards accountable to the regents instead of the Sheriff. MSA General Counsel Mike Donovan said he hopes the high student turnout in the elections will translate into future student action against administrative control. "The fact that both questions (proposal A&B) were passed strongly reflects the students' willingness to fight the Code," he said, "because MSA can't do it all by ourselves.". The passage of Proposal C changed the words "sexual preference" to "sexual orientation" in a chapter of MSA's constitution dealing with discrimination. While only a minor change, Proposal C has significant symbolic importance, said the LSA sophomore and proposal's sponsor Ori Lev who is also an LSA repre- sentative. Lev's proposal stated, "sexual orientation" was preferable to "sexual preference" because while the latter implies a personal choice, "orientation" implies a per- manent lifestyle. "The referendum was an effort to be sensitive to stu- dents' concerns and how we refer to people," Van Valey said. With the passing of Proposal D, MSA's constitu- tion will now allow the Minority Affairs Commission and the International Student Affairs Commission to se- lect their own chairs. However, the assembly has veto power over the choices. MAC and ISAC leaders agreed to the compromise proposal before it went on the ballot, but MAC Chair See MSA, Page 2 MOSCOW (AP) - One day after issuing a harsh new warning to Lithuanian separatists, Soviet Presi- dent Mikhail Gorbachev backed off the tough line yesterday by declaring he does not yet see a need to impose presidential rule. Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, responding to the se- vere tone of Monday's declaration by the Kremlin, sent a telegram to Gor- bachev saying he feared that "ultra- rightist imperial forces are com- pelling you to take a wrong step to continue the wrongs of the 1940s in the Baltics," "In the name of peace, justice and concord on earth, do not do this," he wrote. He was referring to the Soviet occupation and forced annexation of the three Baltic republics - Lithua- nia, Estonia, and Latvia - in 1940. Since March 11, when Lithuania declared its independence restored, the Kremlin has repeatedly alternated be- tween threatening and conciliatory tones. On several occasions, threat- ening military movements were fol- lowed by kinder words. Speaking at a Young Communist League congress in Moscow, Gor- bachev said yesterday that presiden- tial rule would be used only as an extreme measure during a civil con- flict, according to the official Tass news agency. He said Soviet leaders are still trying to persuade Lithuani- ans to rescind their declaration of in- dependence. Presidential rule could include martial law and dissolving Lithua- nia's parliament. It was elected in March and is Lithuania's first freely elected parliament in 50 years. In the latest Soviet show of strength, several tanks rolled through Gediminas Square in the center of Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, overnight Monday, according to Ed- uardas Potasinskas of Lithuanian television. At his own news conference yes- terday, Gorbachev spokesperson Arkady Maslennikov said the Soviet Union plans no economic blockade among the unspecified "economic and political measures" threatened Monday by Gorbachev's presidential council. See Lithuania, Page 2 Spring The day began with dismal showers and fifty degree temperatures, but by late evening, snowflakes were drifting to the ground. 4U9 director orders posters removed by Christine Kloostra Daily Government Reporter A memo ordering custodians to remove all posters and announcements not posted on official University bulletin boards circulated through offices in the Museum of Zoology last month. William Dawson, director of the museum, issued the memo after University President James Duderstadt brought attention to the problem of extraneous materials on the walls, the memo stated. According to the memo, Duderstadt "complained to Russell Reister, Director of Plant Operations, con- cerning materials posted on walls and doors in the hallways of University buildings." University spokespeople denied knowledge of the memo or of any conversation between Duderstadt and Reister. According to the memo, zoology museum custodians were instructed to remove items such as "cartoons, grade lists, professional society and biological station announcements, photographs, announcement of op- portunities to become a ballroom dancer, (and) seminar notices" from walls and doors. Shirley Clarkson, special assistant to the president, and Walter Harrison, director of University Relations, said Duderstadt never made any requests to the plant department. "The president certainly never issued an order that someone remove posters about ballroom dancing," Harrison said. Reister said cleaning walls is not a new policy. Plant operations has always cleaned the walls and doors of the University and has a $400,000 budget to do so, he said. But the department has not cleaned the walls consistently because other priorities often need to be addressed, he said. The orders direct the plant to put their efforts towards cleaning the walls, Reister explained. Dawson said he never received any written communication regarding the order. The purpose of his memo was to inform museum staff that custodians had been directed to remove posters by their supervisors. John Gleason, custodial area supervisor for the museum, informed Dawson of Reister's directive. Glea- son said the clean-up project has been put on hold because a committee is being formed to develop a policy addressing the use of campus space. At last month's Board of Regents' meeting, Duderstadt announced the formation of a committee to establish the policy. The six-member committee will be comprised of faculty and students, and is still in the planning stages, Harrison said. Posters and fliers could possibly fall under any policy that is developed, he said, but he emphasized that the policy be fair and reasonable. He said there is a difference between "a shanty about apartheid and a poster about ballroom dancing." The announcement of the policy followed concerns raised by University regents that the shanties on the Diag were "unsightly" and should be removed. Male population grows in '80s duel WASHINGTON (AP) - Men are catching up, at least in numbers. The Census Bureau said yesterday that the number of men grew faster than the number of women in the '80s, something that hasn't happened since the first decade of this century. Death rates for men declined more rapidly than for women, extending male lifespans and allowing their population to increase more rapidly than women, the new study disclosed. Cancer deaths increased among women while dropping for men, pointing to increased smoking by women beginning in the 1960s as a likely factor in the change, a Census expert said. "The male population outgrew the female population in every age group under age 35," Frederick o longer Hollmann of the Census Bureau reported. Even so, women continue to outnumber men in America, 127 million tol21 million, the report showed. The last decade in which the number of men increased faster than women was 1900-1910, the Census bureau noted. The balance of population is determined not only by the number of people born but by the number of years they remain alive, explained Hollmann in a telephone interview. More male babies are born than females, he pointed out, but "generally a sort of equilibrium is reached since males don't live as long as females." The higher death rate for men means that although they outnumber women at birth, women surpass men lifespans in total numbers later on. One consequence of males increasing faster than females in the 1980s was that in 1989 there were more men than women at each age group below 34. In 1980 men had been more numerous only through age 25, Hollmann reported. Hollmann said a major contributor to the males outpacing females in the 1980s was the change in death rates. "Male life expectancy had continued to improve gradually during the decade. Life expectancy for men increases from 70.9 in 1982 to 71.5 years in 1987, an improvement of six-tenths of a year, he noted. During the same time period life expectancy for women went up only one tenth of a year, from 78.2 to 78.3. Faster than a speeding bullet By the time this "call" was answered, the authors were gone. The graffiti was found on a wall near Liberty St/ Incumbents hold seats in Rackham government elections by Geri Alumit presidential position has been a con- playing an important role in the and to move the University's admin- Div. I/Health and Biological Arts. Mark Buchan tied Nancy Gold- Daily Staff Writer test in the last four years. The 400 MSA elections... Since there was istration in directions benefiting Sciences. Patrick Francis won with farb with 35 votes. Rackham Student Government voter turn out was amazingly higher only a 200 vote margin for the'MSA graduate students. 23 votes. Ali-Ahmad, a doctoral student in 1 (RSG) incumbents. President Tracv than last year's 160. We did little nresidenev. I believe that the Div. II/Phvsical Sciences and electrical enizineering said he wanted