..................... ' ......:ii yy .. \ OPINION 4 ARTS Alice's restaurant 5 SPORTS Baseball team clobbers Titans 9 A big mess Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 129 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, April 12, 1990 D w w _ .- Michigan_ Higgins leaves for NBA, skips Group human attacks rights senior season violations by Mike Gill Daily Basketball Writer Michigan basketball coach Steve Fisher has lost the final important link to the Wolverines' ride to the 1989 NCAA Championship. Yesterday, at a news conference at the Detroit Omni Hotel, Higgins announced that he would forego his senior year at Michigan and would enter the NBA draft. The decision leaves Fisher without all five players who began the 1989-90 campaign in the starting lineup. "After three years at the University of Michigan, I believe my personal and athletic skills have reached the point where I'm ready to compete in the NBA," Higgins said in a prepared statement. "It's a career decision. It's mine alone and it was not influenced by anyone else. Coach Fisher is supportive, as he has been throughout my career." Fisher released a statement yester- day through the Michigan Athletic Department which wished Higgins luck, but disagreed with the decision. "The decision is regrettable because I feel it would be in Sean's best interest to stay his senior year and continue to grow and develop as a basketball player and finalize getting his degree," Fisher said. "However, we wish him nothing but the best; we feel he has the potential to play in the NBA. He has brought many an exciting and victorious moment to our Michigan basketball program - we wish him the very best." The six-foot-nine junior forward will withdraw from school and return to his mother on the West Coast by Frank Krajenke As part of a mock Peruvian in- carceration, student members of Amnesty International constructed a "jail" to hold "prisoners" - students comandeered from class by men with dark sun glasses and dark suits - on the Diag yesterday. Coordinator of the University's Amnesty International chapter Anna Stubblefield, an LSA sophomore, said her imprisonment served as a paradigm for "human rights abuses in Peru largely ignored by the United States government and public. We wanted to do something to make the campus more aware." Another detainee, Jim Hoppe, an Amnesty International member and LSA first-year student, said his par- ticipation served to "increase aware- ness of human rights violations all over the world and especially in Peru." Along with informing the Uni- versity population about human rights violations in Peru, Amnesty International members asked those who passed by the "jail" to sign pe- titions. The petitions ask that Peru- vian officials release information concerning specific prisoners of con- 0. science in Peru, or free the prisoners themselves. Amnesty International considers prisoners of conscience as people who do not advocate violence nor participate in it but nevertheless, are incarcerated. While the organization's goal was to acquire 1000 signatures yes- terday, by the end of the evening 1700 signatures were counted, Stub- blefield said. Along with the guerilla theater, Amnesty International invited Father Ernesto Cavassa, a Jesuit priest and member of the human rights organi- zation, "Peru: Life and Peace", to discuss human rights violations in Peru in the Union's Kuenzel room last night. Cavassa presented a slide-show focusing on socio-cultural facets of Peru, including the affects of increas- ing inflation, decreasing incomes, over-population and civil war on. Peru's peasant population. The slides demonstrated that both the Peruvian military and Maoist rebels (Sendero Luminoso) kill in- nocent civilians for political pur- poses. See AMNESTY, Page2 Jim Hoppe, LSA first-year student, is placed in a mock jail cell erected by Amnesty International members yesterday on the Diag. Higgins See HIGGINS, Page 2 i - -1 ACLU c by Noelle Vance & Daily Administration Reporter The University of Wisconsin's policy against discriminatory speech is being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU claims the policy is too broad, threatens to infringe on free speech rights and obstructs due process. Similar reasons were given by the ACLU in its case against the * University of Michigan's anti-dis- criminatory harassment policy, Court clears Middaugh of charges by Matt Rennie Daily Sports Writer Judge George Alexander of the 15th District Court dismissed yesterday the embezzlement charges brought against former Michigan baseball coach Bud Middaugh February 27. The accusations against Mid- daugh stated that he diverted athletic department funds during his nine- year tenure as baseball coach. This money was generated from the sell- ing of football "game programs, an activity which Middaugh oversaw. Middaugh was cleared after Alexander determined that prosecut- ing attorney Lynwood Noah failed to establish that the money Middaugh used to pay the program sellers belonged to the University. Noah established, through the testimony of Fred Crissey, that Middaugh made payments from his own bank account as compensation for program sales. Crissey is the baseball coach at Plymouth Canton High School, and members of his team regularly sold Michigan football programs to raise money for their own program. hallenge. which resulted in the Federal District Court of Detroit striking down the policy as unconstitutional on Au- gust 25, 1989. Implemented by Wisconsin's Board or Regents last June, the pol- icy bans "any racist or discrimina- tory comments or other expressive behaviors directed at an individual that intentionally demean... on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry or age." "The terms of the policy are so vague that it has a chilling effect on the University climate," said Gretchen Miller, Wisconsin's ACLU legal director. The ACLU is asking for an in- junction which will prevent Wiscon- sin from enforcing the policy. Under the policy students are punished for their comments, not their actions, Miller said. She added the procedures outlining what hap- pens to a student accused of discrim- inatory speech were vague and ob- structed due process. Wisconsin intends to defend the policy but has not given its formal answer to the suit, said Patricia Ho- dulik, Wisconsin's senior counsel. Unlike the former Michigan pol- icy, the Wisconsin policy explicitly states that a person can only be pun- ished if the speech was intended to be discriminatory. Because of the intent clause, Wisconsin officials said their policy is more likely to be upheld in court than Michigan's. "It's not only because of the in- tent requirement but it's narrower than the Michigan policy (in every area)," Hodulik said. The ACLU filed the suit on be- half of the UW-Milwaukee student newspaper; a UW-Green Bay profes- sor, and nine students from the UW- Madison and Milwaukee campuses. "We feel as a newspaper that this rule has affected a lot of the dialogue within our community," said Ron Novy, editor-in-chief of the Post, the U-Wis. on discriminatio a policy UW-Milwaukee student newspaper. Novy said the paper is not in contention with the objective of the policy. But since its implementa- tion, reporters at the paper have no- ticed their sources "won't say what they want to" on controversial issues such as racism, sexism or homo- phobia. Though Novy agreed that stop- ping such speech is the objective of the policy, he said that in some in- stances it stifles debate. Gorbachev opposes border recarving MOSCOW (AP) - President Mikhail Gorbachev warned in re- marks broadcast yesterday that re- carving internal Soviet borders would lead to civil war and "such bloody carnage that we won't be able to crawl out of it." He told members of the Commu- nist Youth League he had spent more time thinking about whether he should allow changes in the coun- try's political map than any other is- sue, and decided against it. More than 100 ethnic groups in- habit the Soviet Union. Under Gor- bachev's democratizing reforms, many have begun to clamor for lands that were historically theirs and for more freedom from Moscow. Lithuania based its March 11 declara- tion of independence on claims it was illegally annexed 50 years ago. Gorbachev said redrawing Soviet boundaries "would pit all peoples and all nations against each other and bring about a situation in this soci- ety the likes of which has never been witnessed by our country or by the world." And if other republics follow Lithuania's example and try to se- cede, he said, "We'll end up in such a bloody civil war, in such a bloody carnage that we won't be able to crawl out of it." Gorbachev issued dire predictions about ethnic conflict before, but his statements Tuesday at a question- and-answer session with a congress of young Communists, broadcast by Soviet TV yesterday, appeared pointed at Lithuania. The Kremlin has been locked in a confrontation wih Lithuanian lead- ers since they declared the Baltic re- public's independence. Gorbachev is- sued the latest in a series of harsh warnings to the Lithuanians Mon- day, but Tuesday he backed off, say- ing he did not see a need to impose presidential rule there yet. In the broadcast remarks, Gor- bachev said he was sure residents of Lithuania would vote against the re- public's independence once they un- derstood the frightening array of problems it created. See BORDER, Page 2 Steady Glen Martin, second-year law student, takes a break between classes by playing video games in the Union Arcade yesterday. WMU students end sit-in over teacher assault case KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - About 200 students left a sit-in yes- terday under promises of amnesty Rachel Inselberg. The university said it will follow disciplinary procedures outlined in a contract with the fac- The Inselbergs allegedly wrestled first year student Toyoda Newsome to the ground April 3 in front of The Inselbergs allegedlv wrestled education instructor who was help- ing her husband supervise the test, allegedly bit Newsome on the hand.