Page 2 -The Michigan Daily- Monday, November 18,1991 Legislative Record How your national legislators voted on key issues this week UNEMPLOYMENT: Congress passed a $5.2 billion bill to provide extended benefits to jobless workers whose first round of compensation has expired. The House passed the bill, 396-30, while the Senate concurred, 91-2. Sen. Carl Levin (D): yes. Sen. Donald Riegle (D): yes. Rep. Carl Pursell (R): yes. FAMILY LEAVE: The House voted, 253-177, to require larger businesses to give employees unpaid leave to care for newborn children or attend to other urgent family matters. Pursell: no. Source: AP IE CHIGAN LILY ANALYSIS Continued from page 1 turnout. Everywhere in New Orleans this weekend and, no doubt, every- where in Louisiana, people were talking about politics. At Mother's restaurant near the border of New Orleans' French Quarter, conversations were buzzing right up until the polls closed at 8 p.m. The report that Ed- wards won was announced on the television at that hour, and half of the patrons cheered, and half were silent. In front of a supermarket in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, an 18-year old Duke supporter crossed paths with a Louisianan in his riid-20s. The 18-year-old said, "Ah, a fel- low Dukester?" The other replied, "Uh, no." "That's all right. Good luck," the 18-year old said. "Good luck," he said. That is fitting. Louisiana is in bad shape economically. Edwards has to im- prove the economy while keeping out of trouble, and avoiding the re- call movement that has already started. And the Duke presence hasn't done much to improve race relations in the state. But Louisiana has one thing go- ing for it: a new political aware- ness born in a gubernatorial con- troversy. Yes, like the young man said, good luck, Louisiana. Your fu- ture is waiting. NEW Continued from page 1 complaining about some of the petty arguments in MSA and there seemed to be a lot of issues that weren't being addressed," said Cur- tis Laitinen, an architecture graduate student running as an independent. "Instead of sitting back and com- plaining or ridiculing, I decided to try and spend a semester and get in- volved myself." Prior to the election, first-time candidates said they had heard many things about MSA, not all of them positive. "I've heard a whole gamut of things ranging from condemnation of MSA's ineffective process to re- ally positive statements about MSA's potential," said Jennifer Collins, an independent candidate and graduate student from the School of Social Work. "From peo- ple on MSA, I've heard it's tough but rewarding." Other candidates felt MSA's reputation was fairly negative, due in part to personal experiences stu- dents have had with the assembly in the past. "When Irfirst came to this cam- pus last year, I was appalled at some of the things that MSA was doing with my money and resolutions that supposedly represented the student body," said Brent House, a Conser- vative Coalition candidate. House added, "However, I think a lot of good changes have been made and I want to be a part of helping to make these changes more complete." PC Continued from page 1 her time to look away from the semantics of the term PC and fo- cus on the arguments of anti-PC people and discussed free speech, verbal harassment and affirmative action. Free speech, verbal harassment, and speech codes were also the fo- cus of the conference's most widely-attended event, Saturday night's seminar on "Free Speech, Hate Speech, and 'P.C."' A standing-room only crowd packed Angell Hall Auditorium B, many to hear Law Prof. Catharine Mackinnon speak on the ramifications of the Holocaust revisionism advertisement which ran in the Daily three weeks ago and its relation to speech restric- tions on campus. Joined by Michigan Daily opinion page editor Stephen Hen- derson, editor at large of the Michigan Review John Miller, and two other University profes- sors, Mackinnon drew applause for criticizing the adhas hate speech, arguing "the First Amendment does not protect this kind of speech." A series of questions from the audience challenged Assistant Prof. of Jewish studies Anita Norich and Law Prof. Alex Aleinikoff on their views of the ad - Norich's which was pas- sionately against the publishing and Aleinikoff's which was an at- tempt to explain the limits of the First Amendment. In the end the forum turned into a debate between Mackinnon and Miller over a memo circu- lated by University Executive Di- rector of Public Relations Walter Harrison. The memo in question, in which Harrison suggested adop- tion of therterm "sexual orienta- tion" rather than "sexual prefer- ence" angered Miller, who saw the suggestion as a demand and thus considered it as an attempt by administration to curtail free speech. Mackinnon's reading of the memo, with vocal emphasis on words such as "suggestion" drew. applause from the crowd, and from Harrison who stood up and commented, "Professor Mackin- non is exactly right." Most of Saturday and yester- day's seminars tackled the issues of current and future curriculum reforms at the University - how to achieve multiculturalism in the classroom and then how to create an environment that is comfortable for all cultures. Discussed at length were pro- grams such as the English Depart- ment's "New Traditions" re- quirement which requires stu- dents to take at least one course focusing in on "non-canonical" literature, such as African Ameri- can or women's writings. At the conference's conclu- sion last night, Jon Wiener, a re- porter for The Nation, said that political correctness opponents often cloud the issue, and dis- course with "PC foilers" can de- rail the true intent of the move- ment. 0 Join our staff! Call 764-0552 for more information NO] 250 Prime Non First Come-Fir R.T. Air . 3 or 4 E-Zone Game Se from $995 . All Grounda T%T Q1rn~D IN -, BOWL* -Stop Northwest Flights rst Serve Act Now!! The Office of International Programs Study Abroad Information Meetings Academic Year in Seville, Spain or Santiago, Chile Students in each program will take classes in Spanish at the respective universities Monday, November 18, 1991 5:00 pm 443 Mason Hall Summer in Salamanca, Spain Tuesday, November 19, 1991, 4:00 pm 8124 MLB Academic Year or Semester in Great Britain Students may earn in residence credit at Essex, London School of 4 ROUNDTRIP NEW YORK ___ $198 LA/SAN FRAN $280 LONDON $440 PRAGUE $610 GUATEMALA CITY-$542 TOKYO $741 HONG KONG_ _ $855 BANGKOK $949 SYDNEY $1337 " FLIGHTS WORLDWIDE : LOW COST ONE-WAY FARES AVAILABLE " REFUNDABLE FLEXIBLE CHANGEABLE * EURAIL/HOSTEL PASSES, ID CARDS * SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY " CALL FOR FREE BROCHURE "'DEPARTS CHICAGO " FARES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE > VALID MONDAY-THURSDAY " WEEKEND SURCHARGES MAY APPLY 20 "FFCEWORLDWIDE 1-800-777-0112 1-212-986-9470 OLD Continued from page 1 Running as an independent in the MSA elections is difficult, accord- ing to RC junior Conan Smith, who saw it as his downfall in last year's election. "I didn't really get a lot of sup- port running as an independent," Smith said. "Running with a party gives a lot of back-up from the peo- ple you work with." Smith added that he is confident not only because he is associated with a party this year, but also be- cause the Progressive Party is com- posed of the whole spectrum of the left. flowever, members of the Con- servative Coalition disagree. James Green, president of MSA, said the explanation of a split left is largely, "a case of sour grapes." "It is a rationalization for the smashing victory that the Conserva- tive Coalition had last year," Green said. Green said he doesn't think the individuals have any better chance of winning because there is only one party representing the left this year. The returning candidates have various views on the difference be- tween this year and last year's elec- tions. "There is a lot more at stake this year," Ochoa said. "Students are be- ing taught a bad lesson in their years here - that student government doesn't matter and they don't have to vote. This is devastating for democracy." Sisson said this year's election is a lot more relaxed than last semester because the student body is not voting on executive positions such as president or vice president. "It has gone more towards issues that involve students than world events," Sisson said. "The focus is on what's happening with Univer- sity policies involving police, the Union, and on MSA allocation of money." On the other hand, Smith said a problem is that the election is not issue-centered. "It is a lot more secure as far as the parties go," Smith said. "But the concern is not with the issues, it seems to be petty politicking." Economics, St. Andrews or York. 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