Page 4-The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 12, 1991 3b 3trbtijan &UIQg 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Edited and Managed by Students at the University of Michigan ANDREW K. GOTTESMAN Editor in Chief STEPHEN HENDERSON Opinion Editor Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. r: :.YV.YV: rr."."rr."rrv ."."xvx. .".v 1"r.L ."vr."."r."."r.".".v " Yv..": r.L "."r.".".v " "."r.f ":J.". "."J."rr.. rv." "rr."r."."r." :"r ..r. rJ..: }}}}.L"}}:{"i'"{ 1:vr. {"r {:{'i'i.\v.L{....... }i:"}?:4?:"::": {^:{ }}:3: {"t"}i:4}}:'}}:":^Y.^::"}X{^}}}k }}?}}}:.."......... }.'."}! r Y.Y?: JrJJ: J: ' ":.1 J.1A' ..1':... . ..t": r:J::: r.it :: r. v.'1 .. 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Yrrf..: ":'1::::.:}} i} Y'''rr}}}tJ}:'i }: :{"}rifi} 1:":v}:S":": }i}}:":":v}:": ~}....~~~" 4"... }:"". f"" ~~.4:4""1"!4v ".4"~... may- " .. ::f V. }:..vt,:-~- Enough is enough M-Lfig AND 66'r vp ! 1 ...........--...... G-u 4/4 A e©rpod o ohs a 0C Go I Jam, 1... 1 G7 n Administrators must no longer, S n Tuesday, the University administration ut- tered its first statements in defense of the new policy restricting non-students and students with- out identification from entering the Michigan Union on weekend nights. Unfortunately, nothing the administration offered as rationale for the policy addressed the concerns of those most directly involved -F students. . The University en- actedthepolicy forthe first time last Friday, supposedly to diffuse potential security problems at weekend events in the Union. Although Interim Vice President for Student Swain Services Mary Ann Swain admitted the new policy still has some "glitches" to be worked out, she said the administration was generally satisfied with its effectiveness. Swain also said the administration would con- tinue to enforce the policy on Friday and Saturday discount student input nights, and would "look for the opportunity to get student input." That is simply unacceptable. The administration should not dismiss student input into University policies as an aside or an afterthought. Students should play a prominent role in the creation of regulations that directly affect their lives, and should be guaranteed the mechanisms to do so. The administration should not be "looking" for the opportunity to get student input now; it should have created the opportunity for student input before the policy was implemented. The Michigan Student Assembly (MSA), the Black Greek Association (BGA) and other student organizations that frequently use Union facilities have every right to help formulate any policy regulating the building's attendance. Swain should suspend the new Union policy until they are granted that right, and students should demand at least as much. In far too many instances, the administration has made policy decisions first, and sought student input second. It's high time that order was reversed, and student concerns were placed at the forefront ofthe decision-making process, where they belong. -A-(}tA R . --" Mti KIJu1E. 6ORSftC4i~r, Vo%)l'veT ruS Rt,51 wct) S 'FNS LEADER "o DrvITS Seir kOa , ~ r Como fo N C6$ .ftdp ---- IM60~ ' D Pt C"tAj6* . * . { t a. k 19¢ x A 1+1rr u r " _ .y-F GEO University is stiffing TAs and harming students ":?;;;{;:?h,1.;; .1', r{;1:i''Sf:;;?t:,J}'~?::t";;1-rrv:v,'i';} ~ 0:";: .${°*r,."$}$. : y paY : {": ::J.n h.::{' '{:1Rh.V. v" . 1 .y:..". ': .A "Y "'w ??.A,"'.n { : 1.C". ,::.?f1y"f ,tL}}L1,:Y.."1 . 4' y r r:}s}}: Awr :. .J1 .t" .... . hr1:":, w. ' "0". :i" L lhIN?" . ::""";:{ 'r+f*r"ys {f?: .rd yi;; h "1" .1. .V. . ,,,ryy . *1A A1;.,,, ." A l. n 1,i"{?t ?{-: :.' Y. .":?"1 ' :"::. i ..Y1 ' h ' "A J..1".{: :: September - that wonderful month with no midterms and few papers - ought to be a time when both students and their teachers can truly enjoy the educational experience together. This Fall, the University administration's failure to take that learning process seriously jeopardizes both the September ambience and the entire academic term. The administration's ongoing failure to bargain in good faith with the Graduate Employees Organi- zation (GEO) - which represents the TAs who teach 40 percent of all University classes - could provoke a TA strike come October. GEO has worked without a contract since last April. In negotiations held since then, they have made major concessions to the University on a number of issues, including salary, cost-of-living, and childcare. But GEO has refused - correctly - to compromise on three issues of extreme importance to undergraduates: class size, prepara- tion time, and a two-tier wage system. The benefits to undergraduates ofsmallerclasses and better-prepared TAs -many of whom are not paid for watching the films or reading the books necessary to grade fairly and competently-should be obvious. Even as the University continues its beautification program and expands an already bloated administrative apparatus - which has grown 48 percent faster than the student body since 1980 - it refuses to discuss paying TAs for the time they actually spend working. Meanwhile, the administration is trying to re- classify whole groups of TAs as "graders," thereby reducing their pay and their benefits. This violates past GEO contracts, which specify that only TAs performing non-subjective grading - as with multiple choice exams - can be classified as graders. Now, however, the University is insisting that many TAs who grade written exams and hold office hours to consult with students are actually only "graders." The administration's primary responsibility is not to play mickey-mouse games with job classi- fications, but to ensure the quality of student education. Stiffing the TAs - who have had only a one percent pay increase since 1983-is not only wrong, but ultimately stiffs undergraduates as well. Therefore, undergraduates should rally behind their TAs in the potentially difficult months to come. More importantly, the next time you receive a paper or an exam with no comments - or don't get the attention from yourTAs that you deserve - remember how overworked and underpaid they are. Done in by by Glynn Washington I have a dog. He's a good dog, but a couple of months ago I a got a "dog without a leash" ticket. A court letter threatened a bench warrant for my arrest, so I eventually decided it was in my best interest to pay the $50 dollar fine. So I. paid it. Meanwhile, one of the University's finest deputies, Officer Robert Neumann, kept stopping by my house. It seemed he urgently wanted to contact me, so I decided to do my civic duty and stop by the campus cop shop on my way back from class. I chatted cordially with the officer for sometime before an Ann Arbor police officer entered the room and asked me to empty my pockets. "Huuhhh?" I queried. "Yer under arrest," said the stern-looking police officer, slapping me in handcuffs. I laughed. "Surely there must be some sort of mistake, you can't arrest me!" In response, the officer led me past a bevy of attractive females, and shoved my shackled body into the nice new police car. I sat in a state of shock. I've Washington is an LSA senior and is a member of the Daily's Opinion Staff. a doin i always been a good kid; my only altercation with the law had been a speeding ticket in high school. Yet, I was being paraded through Ann Arbor in the back of a squad car. I won't even mention the fact that I am Black and the arresting I had to post a $50 dollar bon and return in four days for my court date. What's more, I had to walk back home from the station, - growing more incensed with._a every step. So I went before the judge and inn Arbor I've always been a good kid; my only alterca.- tion with the law had been a speeding ticket in high school. Yet, I was being paraded through Ann Arbor in the back of a squad car. Floundering U.S. Congress fails to provide strong leadership officer was white. I decided to reason with the squareheaded officer. "Surely," I implored, "Surely, you realize how silly this all is. It's only a damned dog ticket - and I paid the stupid thing! Really!" "Yer under arrest," was.the only reply. I was taken down to the Ann Arbor station, asked to remove my shoes, and then battered with a flock of banal questions. The officer took mug shots, and finally threw me into a holding cell while he filled out some paperwork - and maybe had a donut or two. I was locked in a cold, lonely, space that promised no means of escape. I started to write my last will and testament, but couldn't find a pen. pleaded for mercy. "Your honor, I paid this stupi& dog ticket ... I don't know why;f was arrested!" "Ummm, well, yes, that does appear to be the case. Your bond, money will be refunded to you. You're free to go," he said. In other words, a bunch of deputized dorks caged me needlessly for several hours. I feel better knowing Duderstadt's squad ensures law abiding citizens will be locked in jail where we can be safe from criminals walking the street. Later that same day, someone, stole my wallet. I called the "police" twice, but they were too. busy and asked me to call back. l, figure they're probably deputizing some donuts and coffee, waiting for the next dangerous felon with> a dog. Darely has the U.S. Congress returned from its I summer recess with so much to do and so little sense of how to do it. Bereft of leadership and confronting a president who has no qualms about using the veto, Congress now must act on a host of challenging and controversial issues ranging from education reform at home to aid for a starving Soviet population. Whether they will demonstrate the imaginaton and verve required to do so remains to be seen. One ofthe most pressing issues facing Congress concerns unemployment insurance. Before Con- gress adjourned, it passed legislation giving President Bush the authority to bypass the budget agreement and allow the 1.6 million unemployed workers who have lost their benefits since January to receive additional weeks of unemployment benefits. But even though Bush refuses to use his authority, Congress shows no signs ofmounting an effective campaign against his position. Meanwhile, civil rights legislation remains bottlenecked in the Senate Judiciary Committee, both because Bush refuses to compromise with the Democrats and because the Democrats themselves can't muster enough support from their own cau- cus to override Bush's threatened veto. The Democrats have, in fact, never overridden a Bush veto in his almost three years in office. Instead of engaging these issues, Congress has satisfied itself with passing inane laws, such as renaming post offices and authorizing a study of highly significant places in labor history. Appar- ently it is easier for them to deal with labor's past than the severe problems confronting working people in the present. Itis bad enough that Congress won't take action on the important proposals before it. What is worse is their inability to even come up with realistic proposals on domestic problems like education, homelessness,AIDs, national health insurance and environmental cleanup that are crying out to be addressed. As Bush completes his first term, it is clearer than ever that he completely controls this country's legislative agenda. The Democratic Party's lead- ership needs a wake-up call. Congress as a whole needs to remember that it is a separate branch of government, not Bush's rubber stamping service masking as a legislative body. Most importantly, the American people need to reshape the composition of both the legislative and executive branches unless both of them reshape their priorities. America has rarely needed stronger leaders more. And it has rarely had fewer of them. =kj Fuzz wrecks students' I On the same day the newly ar- rived first-year students hit the streets of Ann Arbor, the Ann Ar- bor Police also hit the streets intent upon teaching the neophyte colle- gians a les-_ son and making Brad their ticket quota all at Bernatek once. T h e sound of a I o u d - blaring "It_ is against the law for . minors to consume alcohol" first caught my attention Saturday night. My first reaction was that the noise was merely the action of some overly humorous frat boy. Wrong. students, the most obvious police presence are their "beer patrols." As to the above question, it is obvi- ous that the police do have some- thing better to do: fight crime. It is sheer idiocy for a city with muggings, murders, thefts and the like to sidestep these issues and concentrate a good deal of its pre- cious resources to snatching a Budweiseroutofa college student's hand. Granted, the Ann Arbor Police are sworn to uphold all the laws, even thereally stupid ones, buteven they must set priorities and allocate resources wisely. I would say agood place to begin is with real crimes, i.e., those involving the two neces- sary elements - the criminal and the victim. I do hope these law enforcement classes at least teach that much. While alcohol is not what I consider to be a healthy substance, party buzz themselves that they cannot stop with the consumption of alcohoL And taken to its logical conclusion, the idiocy of such attempts is rep vealed. As to the, consideration of drinking's after-effects and the possibility of property destruction; disturbing the peace (although the police loud speaker was louder than' any drunk I've heard) and, more importantly, rape and other violer crimes, even these cannot justify. the prior restraint of otherwise legal adults. The argument is convoluted: You can take the sociological if then cause and effect methodolog only too far and here it is not de. fendable. Some drunks are prone to violence but most are not. Laves cannot be based upon the exception, to the rule. Most students who drinl beer even to excess are, in general; no great threat to others. Further Nuts and Bolts noNA T ?11 FAIR~s~a7 o w"A?& 51~NCG JULY .NO 5KAT t iD57S f'U.ERS,<,+MC TL , ~oR CL~.2e, LRt B.APE.ON CAM-RS. LAST :a[cJ4stki*, PRETTY -AK "- WATgON HO t HF' by Judd Winick BE rER, aiT NE SrILA.'THINKS HE'S A CNETNT ON : PR~ES YOUR L.cK . " I