rrrrnxlrn ph zs Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, September 21, 1990 COPYrI V01.C , No.12 The Mich chipanpaiiy M R 1 9kV Students tJ Lf ~y l v rS>Xn r; v, E protest m L x 'U ' r -0 r I I 1 ' r e' ' 5 Fr II ,iYr"i § '3 9 M°a x 14 ee e d§y ury , ! s R5 3 ,' Y rr ) PC p f a., >xiir Cu ) ' 3r. 30' y d r e, $3kt a; e x z pax oe rR.. 5 titifl3, de uti*zation eg s x v Regent Phil Power (left) is taunted by unidentified students as the regents made their way to the Michigan Union for a public comments session regarding armed security on campus. Students speak out to Regents by Josephine Ballenger Daily Crime Reporter Speakers, chants, and a mock machine gun-bearing "terrorist" were part of the protest against dep- utization that took place at Re- gents' Plaza at 3 p.m. yesterday. More than 200 students protested the University's Board of Regents' approval of establishing a deputized University police force. The regents approved a police force at their June 21 meeting. "This is not an economic issue; it's a freedom of expression issue," said Corey Dolgon, chair of Michi- gan Student Assembly's Student Rights Commission (SRC). Dolgon and SRC oppose campus deputization because, they say, offi- cers could use their authority to stop protests and other forms of student expression. With a campus police fleet, new patrol cars and headquarters estimated to cost the University more than a million dollars a year, Dolgon called the Regents' action "one of the more insidious moves" the administration has made in recent years. The administrative decision to employ a University police force, in addition to continuing to contract services from the Ann Arbor Police Department, came in response to a study conducted by the student-fac- ulty Task Force on Campus Safety and Security. "Just their (police officers') phys- ical presence on campus will deter rapists," Regent Deane Baker (R- Ann Arbor) said. "I think they'll make a significant difference." Some students, however, are not convinced that the force will deter crime. "I'm angry with the way the regents have used the fears and con- cerns of women," said Debbie Lot- stein of the Feminist Women's Union. Lotstein said the University should adopt proposals in the task force report other than deputization. Proposals to increase Night Owl bus service, improve lighting and student education on sexual assault, and extend Safewalk, she said, have been "ignored" by the regents. "Women don't feel safe with armed forces," she added. In MSA's April elections - which attracted the largest voter turnout in the student government's history - 70 percent of those who voted opposed a University police force. "Democracy seems to be some- thing the regents are afraid of," MSA President Jennifer Van Valey said. "They're trying to make us believe deputization is for our own safety." Instead, she said, it serves their "own repressive agenda... of trying to si- lence (protestors)." But Regent Baker said the Board's position was justified. "The regents See PROTEST, Page 2 by Daniel Poux Daily Administration Reporter Students protesting the deputiza- tion of campus police and the state- ments of Regent Deane Baker (R- Ann Arbor) filled the University's Board of Regents public comments time yesterday with jeers, cheers, and passionate speeches. Approximately 200 protestors met administration members as they proceeded from the Fleming Administration Building to the An- derson Room in the Michigan Union for the public comments session of the University's Board of Regents' monthly meeting. The students packed the room and delayed the meeting for five minutes with their chants and. cheers. After University President James Duderstadt quieted the crowd, the real fireworks began. The first several speakers at- tacked Regent Baker for his contro- versial statements about homosexu- ality. At the July Regents' meeting, Baker suggested that the University reform the Lesbian and Gay Men's Programs Office (LGMPO), to in- clude a separate "neutral" counsel- ing office. Linda Kurtz, a representative of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Orga- nizing Committee said Baker's re- marks are unacceptable and called for the other regents to publicly censure Baker. In addition, she called for Duderstadt and his admin- istration to include sexual orienta- tion in the University's Anti-Dis- crimination Policy. "Every other Big Ten School and every other Michigan college includes gays in their anti-discrimi- nation policy," Kurtz said. "It is your challenge to bring this Uni- versity into the 21st century." Several students spoke out in de- fense of Baker, straining to have their comments heard over the boos and hisses of the unruly crowd. LSA sophomore Rob Reilly called the gay 'rights groups "hypocrites" and said "while you don't have to agree with Baker, you have no right to silence him." See COMMENTS, Page 8 I Regents approve 1990-91 budget by Daniel Poux Daily Administration Reporter The University's Board of Re- gents approved a $1.66 billion bud- get for 1990-91 at it monthly meet- ing yesterday with no controversy. The figure is significantly higher than last year's $929 million budget. After hearing a financial evalua- tion from the Ernst & Young Ac- * counting firm, the eight regents voted to approve the budget. Overall, the University's budget expenditures have almost doubled in the last decade, from $428 million in 1980- 81. The University's budget has changed mauch since 1980, in addi- tion to doubling in size. Staff salaries, which still make up almost half of budget expenditures, have slipped, and expenditures for "equipment and plant" have increased 130 percent since 1980. After several regents expressed concern with the rise in the equip- ment and plant budget, Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) explained that the rise was due to the increase in the number of computers on cam- ,,pus and the expense of sophisticated equipment for the science and engi- neering programs. Allocations to the University's 17 schools and colleges were slightly higher than those made in the 1989-90 budget. The regents al- located more than $108 million to LSA, $53 million to the School of Engineering, $34 million to the Medical School and $22 million to the School of Business Administra- Saddam to Bush by the Associated Press Iraq yesterday demanded equal time, asking U.S. networks to broadcast a message by Saddam Hus- sein in response to President Bush's address to Iraq. Saddam told a news- paper Iraq can fight for years and "could hurt" America. The White House said it would not try to block the broadcast of Saddam's videotaped message. The networks did not immediately com- mit themselves to showing it. More than 100 American women and children from Iraq boarded a Pan Am jetliner yesterday and flew to North Carolina. The State Depart- ment said a similar flight Saturday was the last U.S. charter planned from Baghdad, and it advised all Americans wanting to leave to sign up. International efforts mounted yes- terday against Iraq's occupation of Kuwait: Organizers of the Asian Games banned Iraq from the compe- tition in Beijing. Discussions continued at the United Nations on a proposal to ban all flights into and out of Iraq and occupied Kuwait, except for mercy missions. French soldiers, including members of the French Foreign Le- gion, headed to Saudi Arabia to join the U.S.-led multinational force up- holding the U.N. trade embargo. They were the first of 4,000 troops expected to ship out of southern France in the sea lift, France's largest in three decades. NATO's secretary-general, Man- fred Woerner, urged other Western European nations to follow suit. "Let me clearly state my personal opinion that some allies could and should do more," Woerner said at a conference in Brussels. More than 100,000 U.S. soldiers . 1 .. A E . ...J may respond via television desert, U.S. military officials said. would allow Saddam to partly by- Their identities were withheld pend- pass the international embargo ing notification of relatives. The against his country. death brought to 17 the number of fatalities among American personnel Iran has not yet responded to the since Operation Desert Shield began Iraqi request, which would let Iraq in early August, after the Iraqi inva- export 500,000 barrels of oil a day, sion of Kuwait. All were accidental. the officials said, speaking on condi- Iraq's information minister said tion of anonymity. Intelligence ex- yesterday that Iraq will knock out perts estimate a link between the gulf oil fields if attacked by the two pipeline systems could be com- multinational force. The official, pleted within a month across the Latif Nassayef Jassim, also said "Iraq countries' common border. will use all weapons at its disposal Saddam said yesterday Iraq could to respond to any aggression" in- hold out for "five or six" years tended to force its troops out of against the trade embargo. The Turk- Kuwait. The Jordan Times, an En- ish newspaper Milliyet also quoted glish language newspaper, reported him as saying Iraq "knows that his comments. America is the number one super- U.S. officials said Iraq has asked Iran if the two countries can join power in the world. But we also are their oil pipelines, a move that confident that we can hurt America." Iraq wants to combine oil pipeline wlth Iran V 1 e Former Wolverine linebacker Bobby Abrams, now with the. New York Giants, takes down Bruin running back Brian Brown in last year's 24-23 Michigan victory. 'M' looks for win No 1vs. Bruins WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq has asked Iran if the two countries can join their oil pipelines, a move that would allow Saddam Hussein to partly bypass the international embargo against his country, U.S. officials said yesterday. Iran has not yet responded to the Iraqi request, the officials said. Intelligence experts estimate a link between the two pipeline systems could be completed within a month across the countries' common border if they decide to go ahead, One of Iraq's major pipelines, which runs along the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, is just five miles at one point from a major Iranian pipeline that goes into Iran's refinery at Abadan. Such a link would let Iraq export 500,000 barrels of oil a day in return ..1 , , - . , In return for promises of food and medicine, Iran has gotten back thousands of war prisoners and an agreement of shared sovereignty over a bitterly contested border waterway. In addition, Iraq has withdrawn troops from Iranian territory occupied during the 1980-88 war. A senior Iranian official is in Baghdad negotiating terms of the rapprochement. And Iran's ambassador to Pakistan said yesterday that Saddam may soon visit Tehran. Administration officials have played down the importance of the thaw, saying Iran has everything to gain and little to lose. They also note that Iran has promised to abide by the embargo, and say they see no signs that it has not. However, U.S. intelligence is 1rp.nnn a -Pupn. trpp nlr.rc n by Ryan Schreiber Daily Football Writer Motivating the team for this week's home opener against UCLA shouldn't be too difficult for Michi- gan head coach Gary Moeller. Last season, the Bruins had Michigan's second loss of the year in their sights before the Wolverines managed to ride a no- hiAAi P tmn-awn drive h back from a defeat," he said. "And yet, it's never easy." But unlike last September in Pasadena, Michigan would rather not depend on a bit of luck in this post-Irish contest. Instead, they are focusing on the question marks of a struggling UCLA offense. The biggest question for the Bruins has been the lack of a solid I