TODAY More clouds and cold; High: 31, Low: 17. TOMORROW A little warmer; High: 40, Low: 21. One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Women's soccer wins Big Ten title. See SPORTSMonday. ,Vol. CI, No. 26 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, November 4, 1991 copy{rgnt V1991 Th Michigan ladly 'U' picks Anderson for student services position WSU administrator to begin V.P. job in January by Henry Goldblatt Daily Administration Reporter Maureen Anderson, vice provost for Student Affairs at Washington State Uni- versity, has been nominated to become the new vice president for Student Services, the University announced Friday. Anderson, who will take over the posi- tion in January if her nomination is ap- proved by the University Board of Re- gents, said one of her first priorities is to meet with a broad range of University stu- dents and to make the student services of- fice accessible to students. "I'd like to change most students' feel- ing that Student Services is an inaccessible place to come," she said. "It is unrealistic to assume that you can sit in an office and students will come to you." Anderson, whose term would last five years, said she intends to acquaint herself with the University by attending classes and holding open meetings for University students, as well as eating meals in resi- dence halls, fraternities and sororities. Moreover, she added that she might live in a residence hall for a few weeks - something she did when she first came to WSU, which she said worked well. "Part of what everyone needs to under- stand is services provided to students are not just a luxury, they are a necessity to what keeps students in school," Anderson said. Anderson said she left WSU because many of the colleagues she worked with had begun to leave also. Moreover, she said her timing was influenced by the opening of student services positions at the Uni- versity and at Stanford University. "The provost who I came here to work under left. The team he pulled together is starting to break apart and go," she said. "I tend to affiliate myself with people more than positions." Members of the University administra- tion and students involved in the inter- viewing part of the process said they were pleased with the selection. "I liked her. She was the top choice of the candidates that I saw. Of the candidates before us I though that she was the most forthcoming," said Julie Helling, a second- year law student. Anderson was selected from a pool of more than 75 applicants. Earlier this month, a group of 13 student leaders inter- viewed the three finalists selected for the position. "She's seen student services on a variety of types of campuses. She has lots of ideas about innovative programs and new ap- proaches," said Connie Cook, executive as- sistant to the president. Cook added that Anderson was the unanimous choice of the nine-member search committee formed in June to rec- ommend a replacement for Mary Ann Swain, interim vice president for Student Services, who has held the position since January 1990. Cook said that although the search committees was not looking specifically Number one Wide receiver Desmond Howard scores Michigan's first touchdown in the Wolverines' 42-0 victory over Purdue in Michigan Stadium Saturday afternoon. Andersonra NIVly for a woman, members were pleased a woman was chosen. Anderson will become the only female vice president at the Uni- See NOMINATION, Page 2 Iowa student kills five, then self over academic nomination by Gwen Shaffer Daily Higher Education Reporter A former University of Iowa student, apparently seeking revenge for being overlooked for an aca- demic award nomination, shot and killed five people and critically wounded another Friday night be- fore fatally shooting himself. The victims were five faculty members and the student nominated for the honor. The police have discovered evi- dence suggesting that the murders were planned in advance, said Joaneen Fritz, director of University Relations at the Uni- versity of Iowa. "The shootings were against very specific people," she said. "They were not random." The assailant was identified as Gang Lu, who graduated with a doc- torate in physics last May. , Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, Lu went to the physics building and shot two professors and another graduate student as they were meet- ing in a conference room. After these shootings, Lu went- downstairs and shot another profes- sor in his office, Fritz said. The three professors have been identified as Dwight Nicholson, chair of the physics and astronomy department, Christoph Goertz, an astronomy and physics professor, and Robert Smith, associate director of the physics and astronomy department. All were members of Lu's dis- sertation committee. The student victim, Linhua Shan, was the author of a dissertation that was nominated for an award for which Lu apparently felt he should have received. All three of the professors and Shan died on the scene. From there, Lu proceeded to the Office of Academic Affairs where he asked to speak with Anne Cleary, the associate vice president for aca- demic affairs. As she stepped out of her office, Lu shot her and her secretary, Miya Rodolfo-Sioson, Fritz said. Cleary died Saturday afternoon. Rodolfo-Sioson was listed in criti- cal condition last night. Lu had filed grievances earlier with the Office of Academic Affairs concerning his dissertation, Fritz said. Police have found five copies of a letter Lu had written to his victims and given to acquaintances to mail, Fritz said. The letter laid out Lu's grievances with the physics and aca- demic affairs departments. "The letters were sealed, ad- dressed, and stamped. His actions were very consistent with what was in the letters," Fritz said. Iowa City police found Lu alive immediately following the shoot- ings, but with fatal head wounds. See SHOOTING, Page 2 These delegates are among those participating in the first Mideast peace conference in two decades. From left: Jordanian Foreign Minister Kamel Abu Jaber, Palestinian Dr. Haidar Abdul-Shafi, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. Israel -=Palest in ian direct negotiations seen as positive step MADRID, Spain (AP) - about when and where to hold Israelis and Palestinians yester- substantive talks, "which it is day held "good, businesslike" di- . hoped will take place soon." rect talks - their first ever - Secretary of State James Baker and pledged to try to move on to said the question of the site and more substantive issues, such as time of the next round of talks is Palestinian autonomy, within a still unanswered. But he told re- few days. porters the peace conference In another milestone, hard-line marked a "good beginning" to Syria overcame hesitations and ending regional conflict. opened its one-on-one meeting "There have been and, as I have with Israel late last night - the said, there will be obstacles," first talks between the archfoes in Baker said. "They have not de- 43 years. A Lebanese delegation terred us until now and they will also held separate talks with not." Israel. After the Israeli-Palestinian Following their nearly five- talks, the participants shook hour session, the Israelis and a hands for photographers, and the joint Palestinian-Jordanian dele- chief Israeli delegate, Eliakim gation displayed an amiable spirit, Rubinstein, referred to his Arab in contrast to a week of con- counterparts as "my friends frontational speeches and snubs here." At one point he answered a during last week's ceremonial question both in Arabic, with the opening phase of the historic word "Inshallah," and in Madrid talks. Hebrew, with the words Still to be settled is where the "Mirtzeh Hashem" - both substantive negotiations will be meaning "God willing." held. In a joint statement, the two The participants mingled in sides said they would consult See MADRID, Page 2 A campus security officers checks the hallway outside the sealed Office of Academic Affairs on the University of Iowa campus Saturday, where two women were shot Friday afternoon. Students announce candidacy for MSA fall '91 elections by Purvi Shah Daily MSA Reporter Porty candidates are slated to The two official parties running this term are Conservative Coali- tion (CC) and Progressive Party. their own opinions." The Progressive Party is com- prised of new students in addition "I'd like to run things a lot dif- ferently," Smith said. "CC isn't paying attention to the voice of the has a tentative platform based on five issues: Student rights and empower- current Environment Issues Com- mission - a committee which the assembly approved last week to