idt rni rn CopyrghtC1990 Vol. Cl, No. 67 Ann Arbor, Michigan -Monday, December 10, 1990 .N Michigan a Police *break up party at s. Quad y Tm!Pollak wily Staff Reporter Ann Arbor police used chemical mace to disperse combatants in sev- eral fights that broke out at an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority party early Sunday morning at South Quad. Walter Harrison, executive direc- tor of University relations, said that at 1 a.m. Sunday morning Housing Security received calls from residents f South Quad complaining about fights breaking out and excessive noise. Although Housing Security was present at the party, reinforcements were requested when officers deter- mined the situation was beyond their control. One security officer was as- saulted, Harrison said. Housing Security then called the Ann Arbor Police Department for *ssistance. According to police reports, about three to four hundred people were still in Dining Room Two where four to five fights between large groups of males were in progress. Ann Arbor police officers tried to break up the fights by shouting in- structions to the crowd. When these efforts failed, officers directed chemi- *cal mace at combatants to disperse the fights. Tiffany Hunt, a first year engi- neering student, was at the party when police arrived. "They were just macing people at random. I don't think that would have happened if it had been a differ- ent event... I don't think that would have happened if it wasn't a Black *Greek Association event," Hunt said. Sgt. Richard Kinsey of the Ann Arbor Police said, "It sounds like it turned into something like a bar room brawl... The group was of an overwhelming number." See FIGHT, Page 2 -. 0 ..:, V.".Rally held g'~'4 4..*4..4 .' to protest Gulf war First campus rally draws more than 200 by Jon Casden Daily Staff Reporter JENNIFER UUNt u aiy Jamal Young (center), a second-year Rackham student, speaks for civil rights here and abroad in a anti-war rally on the Diag Friday. George Davis (left), a second-year Rackham student, and Devmlin Ponte, an LSA junior, joined in the protest as well. City protests intervention by Lynne Cohn Daily Staff Reporter More than 400 Ann Arbor residents gathered to peacefully demonstrate against American intervention in the Persian Gulf Saturday. "I am here to prevent a war that will be bloodier than Vietnam," said Susanna Short, a University Pilot Program instruc- tor. "There is already a strong racism against Arabs, and I know it will be peo- ple of color and poor people doing most of the fighting. My students are scared." The protestors marched from the Farmer's Market to downtown Ann Arbor and back to the market area. Ann Arbor residents Anne and John Quist brought their young daughters. "They (children) are old enough to under- stand," they agreed. "We don't like guns, and we want to teach our children to stay away from negative attitudes." An area high school teacher said, "The U.S. is there for oil; it is a rich people's decision." He declined to state his name in fear of losing his job for joining the protest. The rally stopped at City Hall where Dr. Elizabeth Allen from the University Nursing School, first-year law student Karima Bennoune, Ypsilanti's First Con- gregational Church Pastor John Rohde, and Secretary for American Friends Service Committee Richard Cleaver spoke out against U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf. "The troops in Iraq will be blown to the stone age," Allen said. "If we have a commitment to the children of the world, please do not let bombs hit Iraqi children. I can believe that somebody gives a damn." "We are the mainstream," Cleaver said. "We represent the position of the Ameri- can people. It is abundantly clear that there is no possible gain from war in the Gulf. We are the people; we make the decision. No war in the Gulf!" "There are two positions: war now and war later," Bennoune said. "Seven out of ten Americans oppose war in Iraq. How can we fail to recognize that we are dealing with human beings? It may be time for an Intifada of our own; demand justice at home!" Many protestors wore "keffiyas," Ara- bic scarves, to symbolize Palestinian re- sistance to the Israeli occupation. Rindala Bydon, a Lebanese LSA senior, said, "I am here to support peace." "I don't believe the stated reasons are the real reasons why we are in the Gulf," said Ann Arbor resident Rose Hochman. "I believe it is a move intended to preserve the Pentagon budget." Danny O'Donnell, an eleven-year-old protestor, carried a "Thou Shalt Not Kill" sign because "I am against war," he said. See CITY, Page 2 The first major campus protest against American intervention in the Persian Gulf drew more than 200 people in a Diag rally last Friday. Speakers represent- ing a wide range of student and local groups addressed the protestors before they marched to the Union, where the rally ended. Paula Church, head of the Michigan Student Assembly Peace and Justice Committee began the rally by yelling to the large gathering: "We're a coalition of students who don't want a war!" Many speakers proceeded to talk about various is- sues concerning U.S. involvement, such as its effects on the environment, homelessness, minority rights, and the relationship of the University to the U.S. After Dalyn Park spoke on behalf of the Ann Ar- bor Green party, University economics prof. Tom Weisskopf roused the demonstrators with his speech on a possible Gulf war. "The (Bush) administration is sending people to a war no one understands anything about," Weisskopf told the crowd, which responded with approval. Weisskopf scoffed at Bush's claim that the war is -for American protection. "The only job being pro- tected is the job of our president," he said. MSA President Jennifer Van Valey introduced a different perspective to the rally, as she pointed to the University involvement in the U.S. military. "The University of Michigan does chemical weapons re- search... This wouldn't be happening without the University of Michigan," she explained. Other speakers also used the rally to address issues indirectly related to the Gulf crisis. "America is about using people of color to protect the American way of life that we can not participate in," said Emory Smith, coordinator of the Baker- Mandela Center. Earning the loudest cheers of the day, second-year Rackham student Jamal Young continued along the same vain as Smith. "Sixty-five percent of the peo- ple on the frontline are of African ancestry," Young said. "The bottom line is that we live in a country of invaders." Zeid Zalatimo, a member of the General Union of See RALLY, Page 2 *Speaker examines Lawyers Guild endorses anti-deputization demands sex by Purvi Sha Daily Staff Rep Advertising e Dr. Jean Kilbour roles in the med crowd of more 1 *ham Auditorium than 200 were tu speech. Women ares and demented ho said in a speec University Activ "Ring around the us and still no hasn't washed hi Kilbourne di *her film "Killi held a question; on advertising's roles in media 3h men, children, and other social orter issues such as racism. xploits women, said Advertising distorts reality by me, an expert on sex only presenting the traditional Amer- dia, to an overflow ican nuclear family where the father than 1,000 at Rack- works and the mother stays home. Friday night. More This view applies only to nine irned away from the percent of modern households, Kil- bourne said. seen as sex objects The image of women the media usewives, Kilbourne presents has not improved, Kil- h sponsored by the bourne stated. "No one looks like ities Center (UAC). that, not even her," said Kilbourne e collar is still with referring to a model in a cosmetics one asks why he advertisement. s neck." One million dollars an hour is splayed slides from spent on cosmetics, many of which ng Us Softly" and are hazardous to women's health, and answer session added Kilbourne. impact on women, The image of men in ads is also by Shalini Patel Daily Staff Reporter The University chapter of the Na- tional Lawyers Guild has endorsed the demands of the student move- ment opposed to the deputization of campus police officers and a code of non-academic conduct In a letter to Michigan Student Assembly President Jennifer Van Valey dated Dec. 1, the group de- scribed the current University cam- Kilbourne distorted, Kilbourne argued. "The women are sex objects, and the men become success objects. Men should always strive to be invulnerable. It's a model that ultimately makes most men feel like a failure," she said. Advertising trivializes social is- sues, including child care, Kilbourne said. "There's all kinds of solution to this, but all we get offered is En- joli and Hamburger Helper," she said. See SPEECH-, Page 2 pus safety policy as "ill-considered" and supported demands issued to the administration by Students for a Safer Campus and MSA's Students Rights Commission. "One of the tenets of the guild is that law should not be used to op- press people," guild member Steven Pick said. "A code will work as law." Pick, a third-year law student, First of freed hostages begin return trip home from Iraq proposed the endorsement as a re- sponse to the wave of protest that swept the campus the week of Nov. 12. Van Valey spoke to the guild about deputization at the group's re- quest two weeks ago. The guild did not invite a member of the adminis- tration to speak. The endorsement stated, "The pre- See GUILD, Page 2 ,reports assault in alley by Josephine Ballenger Daily Crime Reporter A 20-year-old woman was sexu- ally assaulted at 11:45 Saturday night, presumably in the alley that runs behind the 500 block of E. Lib- erty. Ann Arbor police arrived on the scene shortly after the incident was reported by one of the woman's companions at 12:13 a.m. yesterday, said Lieut. Richard Cygan. The officers found her "hysterical and crying," according to police re- W BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The first Americans to be freed under an Iraqi decree releasing all foreign hostages left Baghdad yesterday on a U.S.-chartered flight for Frankfurt, Germany, ending a four-month ordeal. "I am stunned and still cannot be- lieve it, it seems like a miracle," said Lyonell Hoffman, who had worked as a contractor in Kuwait be- fore Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion. The first foreigners to leave Baghdad under the decree issued by Saddam Hussein were a group of 240 hostages, mostly Italians, who left aboard an Italian-chartered jumbo jet for Rome earlier yesterday. However, Western diplomats complained that Iraqi authorities had thrown up some last-minute bureau- cratic roadblocks to the exodus. Foreigners in cities other than Baghdad were told they must obtain ficials were working quickly yester- day, processing an estimated 80 exit visas an hour. One diplomat said that it normally takes up to half an hour to process a single visa. In addition to the Americans aboard the Frankfurt-bound jet, air- port sources said passengers in- cluded 93 Britons, 31 Canadians, 12 Irish, five Greeks, three Austrians and one each from Argentina, I ~ 1 44.44.4 ____________________