Moty cloudy; Hig: 3,Low: 42. TOMORROW Cloudy, rain likely; High: 52, Low: 35. 1t ,trruu t rni Ricky Powers lets his running do the talking. See SPORTSMonday. One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Vol. CII, No.36 Ann Arbor, Michigan- Monday, November 18, 1991 Duke falls short in La. by Andrew Levy Daily Staff Reporter NEW ORLEANS - Democrat Edwin Edwards soundly defeated Republican David Duke Saturday in an election that saw the second highest turnout ever in a Louisiana gubernatorial contest. Edwards, a three-term former Governor of Louisiana, captured 61 percent of the vote, to former State Representative Duke's 39 percent, with 99 percent of the precincts re- porting. With a voter turnout esti- mated at 78 percent, Edwards be- came the first Louisiana gubernato- rial candidate to capture more than 1 million votes in a single election. "No longer will Louisiana be last," Edwards said in his victory speech at the Monteleone Hotel, as a crowd of hundreds of supporters looked on. "Tonight, Louisiana be- came first, first to turn back the merchant of hate, the master of de- ceit. "Tonight is the first night of our journey to decency, to honesty, to fairness, to justice, to respect, to honor, and to hard work. I will make people proud of our state, proud of our government," he said. Duke, speaking from Baton Rouge, was optimistic for the fu- ture in his concession speech. "We lost, but the message goes out loud and clear across Louisiana and this whole country," Duke vote said. "We have to begin to heal the liberal welfare system that is caus- ing crime and drugs. "Right doesn't win every bat- tie, but right always triumphs in the end," he noted. In an election marked by contro- versy over both of the candidates' See ELECTION, Page 2 Students relieved by Duke's defeat, disturbed at number of supporters by Robert Patton Daily Staff Reporter "Thank God he lost." Natural Resources sophomore Dan Riseman's reaction to David Duke's defeat in the Louisiana gov- ernorship reflected most students' relief over Saturday's election re- sults. However, mixed with this relief was an uneasiness about the implications of the success that the ex-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader did have. While Duke lost the election to Democrat Edwin Edwards, he was able to capture 39 percent of the vote. "It is a triumph for humanity that this Nazi asshole has been de- feated. However, he has also tri- umphed in proving that his views still attract voters," said LSA sophomore Bill Fleischer, echoing the sentiments of many students. In fact, Duke claims to be a born-again Christian and to have re- See REACTION, Page 7 Newly elected Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards speaks at a press conference yesterday. Edwards defeated Republican challenger David Duke in Saturday's election. Louisianians conquer voter by Andrew Levy Daily Staff Reporter NEW ORLEANS - Nine year- old Gilbert Lawson had a half-day of school on Friday. He was on the DAILY NEWS ANALYSIS Tulane campus, and he approached a reporter to sell him a pecan praline for a school fundraiser. After the reporter bought the candy, he felt the need to ask the boy a question. Residents * warned of E.Quad assault by Tami Pollak Daily Staff Reporter East Quad residents said their res- ident fellows have told them a fe- male resident was sexually assaulted outside the Church entrance to their dorm early last Saturday morning. Residents said they also have heard stories about a rape in front of Stockwell sometime last week, and a rape in front of Hill Auditorium a few weeks before. While the University Department See ASSAULT, Page 7 "Have you ever heard of David Duke?" he asked. "Uh-huh," Gilbert whispered. "What do you think about him?" the reporter continued. "They say he's a bad man. My mommy and daddy say they're gonna vote for the guy who starts with an 'E,"' Gilbert said. Even this nine-year-old-had an opinion on the most important election in recent Louisiana his- tory. And that's a good thing. For all of the national media at- tention that's been paid to the Louisiana gubernatorial election, the majority of it has been focused on the negative side of the election. And that attention may have been justified. The election pitted two candidates with questionable pasts and credentials against one another. The media have looked at Duke's pathy in ci affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi groups and at Edwards' financial dealings. They have focused on Louisianians and how they could be duped by Duke. But, as is common with the na- tional media, they have ignored the benefits of an election that had only one clear winner - Louisiana. The phrase "the lesser of two evils" has been thrown around quite a bit in the past week. It ontroversial election doesn't matter who won the elec- tion, a large portion of Louisiani- ans are upset with the result. But the true victory in the elec- tion is that everyone -- whether a Duke supporter, an Edwards sup- porter, Black, white, or otherwise - played an active role in and had an opinion on the election. "If there's one thing that's good in this election, it's that the apathy in Louisiana is gone," said Carol Williamson, a librarian at Tulane University. Williamson's observation, made on Friday, is poignant in light of the actual election turnout. Sev- enty-eight percent of Louisiana's 2.2 million registered voters came out. Beyond that, just under 80 per- cent of the state's 600,000 Black voters came to the polls. But it runs deeper than just the See ANALYSIS, Page 2 I I PC conference attacks issues, not just terms Michigan's Desmond Howard celebrates his first score against Illinois Saturday. The Wolverines defeated the Illini, 20-0, taking their fourth straight Big Ten crown. For more details, see SPORTSMonday. by Ben Deci, Tami Pollak, and Karen Sabgir Daily Staff Reporters Racism, sexism, multicultur- alism - political correctism. While journalists and profes- sors from as far as Berkeley, Calif., and as near as the Univer- sity's own communications de- partment gathered this weekend as part of a conference called "The 'P.C.' Frame-up - What's Behind the Attack?," many students and faculty attending the conference were more interested in attacking specific problems than discussing the "attack" on PC. LSA sophomore George Al- varez, who, like many other stu- dents, attended the conference as a class assignment, said yesterday he left the seminars feeling that, "Getting down to the issues is definitely still more important than defining PC, although we can't cast aside the issue either." Although many of the week- end sessions did dedicate them- selves to tackling specific issues that have arisen in the midst of PC/anti-PC debates - curricu- lum reforms, affirmative action, speech codes - many of those that attempted to strip away the implications around the term po- litical correctness turned into fo- rums for debates about specific is- sues. The conference's kick-off Fri- day afternoon, "Why the 'P.C.' Controversy Now?," set the tone for the weekend, pitting "liberal" speakers - Houston Baker from University of Penn- sylvania and Barbara Ransby, a University Ph.D. candidate and founding member of the United Coalition Against Racism and the Baker/Mandela Center - against more conservatively minded Stephen Balch from the National Association of Scholars. While both Baker and Ransby countered Balch's opinion that PC involved a "suffocation of intel- lectual exchange," Ransby used See PC, Page 2 Students ponder: Poor student-administration discourse inspires new candidates to run for MSA :0 run or not to run Veteran MSA candidates say party split led to liberal loss last year by Lauren Dermer by Jennifer Silverberg Daily Staff Reporter Concern over students' limited power in the administration's deci- sion-making process was the main force compelling students to run in the Michigan Student Assembly's election, said many first-time candi- dates. "I wanted to have some sort of control over the education I was getting and I thought this would be a good way to do it," said Rackham student Leilani Nishime, a Progres- sive Party candidate. The University's increasing con- trol over the student population, disappointment with the lack of change brought about by the current assembly, and the fact that there were open seats on the assembly for gon BALLOT BOX this fall term were other reasons many students decided to participate in the current MSA election. "I started listening to myself See NEW, Page 2 Daily Staff Reporter Political party affiliation and the splintered left, not a lack of ability, is what veteran Michigan Student Assembly candidates say led to their failure to get elected last year. There are five Progressive Party MSA candidates running in the Nov. 19 and 20 elections who also ran for the assembly last year. LSA junior Todd Ochoa said the reason he lost in the election last year was due to a conservative na- tional mood and a voter split among students who are politically left- again due to other fulfilling his goal to improve stu- dent relations with the administra- tion, adding that he thought the as- sembly had gained legitimacy this year by taking a level-headed ap- of-center between two parties - Emphasizing Student Power and Common Sense. "I think my chances are better this year because there is a unified Progressive Party," Ochoa said. LSA sophomore Dave Sisson agreed, saying his loss was part of the overall party's loss. "I don't know if my chances are great because I am a liberal running on a conservative campus," Sisson said. "But as a party, our chances are good because there is more of a mix of political views than last year." See OLD, Page 2 MSA representatives decide not to run by Purvi Shah Daily MSA Reporter Three of the four Michigan Stu- dent Assembly candidates who are 0 up for re-election - LSA Reps. commitment. "Sometimes you have to work very hard to get things done and sometimes people won't help you along the way so it's twice as hard," said Campus Governance time commitments involved." Watson said it does not appear that there is as much publicity or campaigning for this year's elec- tions in comparison to previous