Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Monday, December 9, 1991 SOCIOLOGY Continued from page 1 also. I'm not just teaching a theory, I also change and learn through the courses - it affects my personal life." In addition, Sfeir-Younis said he was not in line for a tenure-track faculty position. This is the result of an unwritten University policy not to hire its doctoral graduates into tenure-track positions. "If they had offered an associate professorship I never would have left, " Sfeir-Younis said. Mark Wilson, a graduate student in sociology, was a teaching assis- tant under Sfeir-Younis in Inter- group Relations and Conflict and the Sociology of Love, a course that was cut last year. Wilson described Sfeir-Younis as a "rare and pheno- menal teacher." "He is one of few people who is a real human being - not defined by research. I don't think the Univer- sity knows how to reward people like him. We reward professors for research and data gathering," he said. Sfeir-Younis said he typically spends 10 to 12 hours a day teaching and meeting with students. LSA first-year student Courtney Zamora is taking intergroup rela- tions with Sfeir-Younis. "He's got a whole lot of good ideas for society in general - no stereotyping, sexism, racism, or homophobism," Zamora said. "He wants people to go away with a new attitude toward everything. He has the right goals in mind but he doesn't know what he needs to ac- complish them and he can't do it by himself." Sfeir-Younis said he is unsure about the future and added that he may never return to the University. "I'm going tohmiss it a lot, teaci is one of the most wonder- ful privileges." Ski Swap UU rxiI I John Norvell, a first-year Engineering student and member of the University Ski Team, helps Irfan Bhabhrawala, an Engineering senior, decide on a pair of boots at the Ski Swap in the Sports Coliseum. LEVIN Continued from page 1 ber's spouse has accompanied them here, and fulfilled the requirements of state residency, the spouse's 'intent' to remain in Michigan has not been contested and such spouses have been granted in-state status," Levin said. In a telephone call to his house last night, Assistant University Registrar Paul Wright, who deals with residency issues in the Regis- trar's Office, refused to comment on the matter. The women applied a second time, were denied again, and have grown frustrated, Levin said. RC Director Eagle said the root of Levin's problems do not come from the academic wings of the university, or from the residency office, but rather from the high- level administration. "If the University administra- tion would include as family, non- traditional families, and would ac- cord them the same rights that has been given to married couples, then I think the major problems that caused Jenifer to leave would have been avoided," Eagle said. Last month, the city of Ann Ar- bor began recognizing gay male, les- bian and unmarried heterosexual couples as domestic partners. But Levin said she does not want to wait for her situation to improve. "You have to decide at a certain point what you're going to devote your life to," Levin said, "Whether it's going to be getting residency at the University of Michigan, or whether it's going to go and live your adult life somewhere else where there are gay rights. "But it's not really just about residency," she said, "it's about civil rights." "There's a real lack of institu- tionalized civil rights protection for us," she continued. "You have a lack of things that most adults in recognized, mature, ongoing, long- term unions have, like medical bene- fits and the rights to visit a spouse if they're dying in a hospital." Her complaints about the Uni- versity also include Regental Bylaw 14.06, which grants civil rights pro- tection "to everyone under the sun ... and glaringly omits sexual orien- tation," Levin said. She has also expressed disap- pointment with the September re- gental decision to prohibit changing the definition of family used by the family housing complex on North Campus. No homosexual couples are eligible to sign a lease for a unit in family housing. Affirmative Ac- tion Representative Deborah Or- lowski handles grievances from members of the homosexual community. "I don't think it's an untypical complaint," said Orlowski. "These are real serious issues that a lot of people have to deal with all the time. "I'm not saying that the Univer- sity is being purposefully discrimi- nating," Orlowski continued, "but its something that people haven't thought about ... The whole issue of who is a partner and what is the def- inition of family, for a lot of people is a really new issue." hard-line coup in August against Gorbachev, the Soviet president. "We have taken this step on the basis of the historical unity of the people and their long-time links, with the aim to create democratic law-based states and to develop our relations on the basis of mutual recognition and respect for each other's sovereignty," the document said, according to Tass. The agreement said Minsk would become the capital of the common- wealth, replacing Moscow as the Soviet capital. REVISIONISM Continued from page 1 tor of educational outreach for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a New York-based organization that docu- ments the Holocaust crimes, said college-age students are removed from the events of the Holocaust, and that Smith is seizing this as an opportunity to make them doubt that these atrocities did indeed occur. "The generation of survivors and eye-witnesses are not as young and active as they once were," he said. Smith said CODOH receives funding solely by soliciting dona- tions for a newsletter that he pub- lishes, called "Smith's Report," and that his organization has "just enough money to get by." He did not explain how CODOH can afford to take out the full-page advertise- ments, which have ranged from $600 to $1,600. Although Smith denies that CODOH has any political affilia- tions, Ross said the ADL has tied Smith and his colleagues to such well-known racist groups as the Ku Klux Klan, the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of White People, and the Populist Party - the party Duke represented as a pres- idential candidate in 1988. Ross said he is outraged that the newspapers that chose to print the advertisement failed to investigate thoroughly its origins. "It is quite sad that a number of papers printed it without knowing where it came from. Their thinking was print first, ask questions later," Ross said. Weitzman said editors who claim they allowed the advertise- ment to run based on the constitu- tional principle of freedom of speech are mistaken, as the real issue is truth in advertising. "I wonder if a tobacco company claiming cigarette smoking is bene- ficial to one's health would be ac- ceptable," Weitzman said. "Even cigarette ads have a surgeon gen- eral's disclaimer so that anyone buy- ing them has an opportunity to see what they are getting into." The editors of several student newspapers said they sense middle- class Americans are using minori- ties as a scapegoat for the economic recession. James Kaplan, editor in chief of the Brown Daily Herald, which re- ceived the advertisement but refused to print it, said he blames recent Re- publican presidents for the increase in racism. "Over the past 12 years,.we have had two succeeding administrations that have exploited the vast types of racial minorities," Kaplan said. "Reagan and Bush planted the seed and now hard economic times have provided the fertilizer." The Cornell Daily Sun published the advertisement because students deserve to know that these ideas are out there so they can "shoot them down," said Editor in Chief Neeraj Khemlani. Khemlani said promises of bene- fits for the working class have led to the increase in racial propaganda. "If you look at the David Duke campaign, you will see that people voted for him because they are tired of throwing away money on welfare and watching the rich get tax- breaks," Khemlani said. "When the middle class hear someone say it's time to give money to the middle class, it sounds like a good idea." Weitzman said he agreed that fi- nancial pressures have contributed to a rise in bigotry among the work- ing class. "What you have is a situation where people are faced with the ex- pectation of living up to their par- ents' standard of living. At the same time, parents are wondering if they can live up to their own responsibil- ities," he said. "It is a feeling of powerlessness." Weitzman also said CODOH's motives behind wanting to disclaim Jewish genocide during World War II are clearly anti-Zionist. "Israel has gained support for existence partially because of the events of the Holocaust. If they cast doubt on the Holocaust, they cast doubt on support of Israel," Weitz- man said. Greenspan said German reunifica- tion and Americantsupport of na- tionalism in countries that were Communist could also be playing a role in the resurgence of racism. "These countries have strong anti-Semitic traditions, and embrac- ing these regimes may unintention- ally be supporting anti-Semitism," he said. Smith said the advertisement evokes an intense political reaction from people, despite his assertion that "it contains no politics." "The Holocaust is a cornerstone element used by the Zionist com- munity to help morally legitimate the Jewish invasion of Palestine," Smith said. Weitzman said CODOH cannot accomplish its goal of making anti- Semitism more widespread unless memories of the Holocaust are erased. "The Holocaust made anti- Semitism unacceptable," he said. "Jews can be seen as the scapegoat for the world's ills, but first the Holocaust has to be removed." 0 PI NION SOVIET Continued from page 1 W TE RITE Yeltsin, Byelorussian leader Stanislav Shushkevich and newly elected Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk signed three documents making the changes, Soviet media V al9 Display Advertising Early Deadlines Early January Publication Date: Deadline: Wednesday, January 8 Wednesday, December 11 Thursday, January 9 Wednesday, December 11 Friday, January 10 Wednesday, December 11 There is NO Weekend Magazine on January 10. Deadline for January 17 Weekend is January 10. reported. Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine comprise nearly three-fourths of the Soviet Union's 290 million people and possess most of its economic strength, in addition to sharing an ethnic heritage as the country's tra- ditional Slavic heart.7 The documents were signed dur- ing two days of meetings in the vil- lage of Viskuli outside Brest. The meeting was an attempt by the Slavic leaders to seize the initiative in reshaping the union, which virtu- ally has collapsed since the failed MIDEAST Continued from page 1 said. The Palestinians and Jordanians agree to have one representative on each other's 14-member panel. Is- raeli officials say they want more than one. Secretary of State James Baker, interviewed yesterday on CBS' "Face the Nation," said he wasn't surprised at the wrangling and ex- pected to see more of it as Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese and Palestini- ans set out to resolve their 43-year conflict. Although Israeli officials say they have brought dozens of substan- tive proposals for Palestinian self- rule in the occupied territories, they also say a demand to move negotia- tions swiftly to the Middle East is at the top of their agenda for tomorrow. HAPPY HOUR-S1.00 OFF Mon.-Fri., 3 to 7 p.m. pints of beer, mixed drinks, Extended Happy Hour till 9 p.m. & wine every Friday in the Underground 1 lb. 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