It's time for Jeff Muir and Academic Affairs Commission to get on the ball. 24-hour libraries would be nice, but what about undergraduate education? Oedipus would have been proud of this murder. Director Pedro Almodovar never wobbles in these High Heels. See the review of his latest movie. SP!R moda The Wolverine hockey team put it to Lake Superior State University this weekend with a 4-3; 1-0 sweep. Now who's number one; Lakers? Today Mix of clouds and sun;- High: 45, Low: 31f luresig.4..w2 Tomorrow Chance of flurries; High 40, Low 25 4 41£i:iuW~~ One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Copyright.NA M-,y Vol. CII, No. 69 Ann Arbor, Michigan- Monday, Februar 3,1992 m M hgn al U.S. sends Haitian refugees home PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The Red Cross prepared yesterday for the return of the first of thousands of Haitian boat people being sent back by the United States. Human rights advocates warned that the returning refugees will likely face repression. The refugee rights advocates said they expected no immediate prob- lems at the Port-au-Prince docks, where the first of the refugees were to disembark today. But the rights advocates said they feared the re- turnees will be "silently crushed" later by security agents in their home towns and villages. The U.S. Embassy said the first boatload of 150 returnees, expected to arrive in Haitian waters late yes- terday aboard a Coast Guard cutter, would not disembark until this morning because they would have See HAITIANS, Page 2 Students discuss Israel at seminars by Robin Litwin and Hope Calati Daily Staff Reporters Over 300 people attended the seventh Israel Conference Day yes- terday at Rackharn, participating in debates and learning about Israel as a multi-dimensional society. Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs Ammon Neubach opened the day by discussing the effects of the absorption of 5 million Soviet Jews in five years upon the Israeli econ- omy. Economic growth rests on in- creasing the size of the private sec- tor, reducing the military budget and increasing the number of foreign in- vestors in the Israeli economy. A lasting peace will bring the possibil- ity of these economic rewards. Neubach said, "The problem is not providing homes but jobs." The economy must expand to support an influx of immigrants which will in- crease the Israeli population by over 20%, he said. Bilha Mannheim, a visiting pro- fessor in the Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University also addressed this issue in her discussion of Israel's labor force. According to Mannheim, the Soviet influx is just one of the many adaptations Israel's labor force is coping with as it attempts to become a post-industrialized nation. "There will be unemployment, bitterness, and unhappiness for.quite a while," Mannheim said. "We will welcome them on a personal level, but other things are problems of the overall system." Eytan Gilboa, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, also expressed a need to change the overall political system along with 'Usually we have changed under crisis. Crisis makes it clear that something is wrong and that something has to change. The whole trick is to change before the crisis to avoid crisis.' -- Eytan Gilboa, Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies MULLY SIVENS/Uaily Kelsey clap together at the She said the diffterence in the way the two countries train their workers will also be a source of conflict and will force the Soviet Jews to adjust their self-image tremendously. other reforms during his speech on domestic and foreign changes Israel may undertake in the future. See ISRAEL, Page 2 Hanky Van DeWege and her granddaughterI Women's tennis meet on Saturday. SRC members voice 'frustration' with administration by Jennifer Silverberg Daily MSA Reporter Michigan Student Assembly Student Rights Commission (SRC) members said they were "frustrated" by the University ad- ministration's response to their re- quests after the two sides met last Friday to discuss public hearings on University police force deputization. "It was a very frustrating meet- ing for students," said SRC Chair Michael Warren, "because some of the things we're asking for that we think are reasonable, they won't give us. "I'm. very frustrated. I think there's so much historical baggage and emotion tied up in this issue that it's very hard to have any type of constructive relationship." However, one administrator dis- agreed with Warren's opinion of the meeting. "I continue to think they are use- ful discussions," Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Mary Ann Swain said. "I was very happy with the meeting." Students repeated their concerns Friday that the deputization hear- ings, scheduled for Feb. 18 and 19, will not provide enough time for all students to voice their opinions. "If you ask me I'll say they only gave us three hours, but if you ask them they'll say they doubled the time," said SRC Vice Chair Robert Van Houweling. 'Reasonable suggestions by the students to increase trust in the administration and increase the sharing of information between students and the administration have been rejected without good reasoning.' -- Michael Warren, Rights Commission chair Studentj "Nothing was conceded of sub- stance by the administration except the open time slots," Warren said. The adnii nistration agreed that eight of the 36 five-minute speaking times at the hearings will be open to any student who has not previously signed up to speak. Two or three of these spots, however, may be as- signed to certain groups which the SRC wants to insure have a repre- sentative speak, Warren said. The administration assured the SRC that they will put an adver- tisement in the Daily this week. The SRC requested that another ad be placed at a later date and asked Swain to write an editorial column for the Daily. The administration did not commit to either idea, Warren said. According to Van Houweling, the SRC is planning to inform stu- dents about the deputization issue by: Sending letters to University student groups tomorrow to inform them of the hearing dates and how they can make their opinions known to the regents; Inviting students to send written comments to MSA by February 9. These letters will be included in a package given to the regents at the hearings along with a synopsis of the ideas written by MSA. Ideas that appear in letters received after the ninth will be presented to the regents by members See SRC, Page 2 Two hours on Wednesday, one hour on Thursday and public com- ments time after the University Board of Regents meeting on Friday have been allotted for student speaking time. But the public com- ments time will not be solely de- voted to the issue of deputization. Students at the meeting also asked that a "neutral" person moderate the public hearings. The administration has chosen University Secretary Richard Kennedy to be the moderator instead of University President James Duderstadt, Van Houweling said. Students give Golden Fights break out at Union Union policyfor guests altered in response to incident Apple to by Steve Small Students Honoring Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (SHOUT) have chosen English Prof. Ralph Williams as the recipient of this year's Golden Apple Award in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate education. The decision was reached after the SHOUT Steering Committee as- sessed both the number and content of nearly 1,000 undergrad comments. "Many of the comments empha- sized the passion and energy that Prof. Williams has for what he is doing," said Geoffrey Jones of the English SHOUT Steering Committee. One student described Williams' lectures as "a joy to attend - his obvious enthusiasm for the subject is infectious." Williams said he was "delighted to receive the award," and praised his students for being "intellectually alive." He added, "I care very deeply about engaging the minds of stu- dents to the very edge of my exper- tise. Hopefully this award shows that my attempts have, to some degree, been successful." The scope of Williams' activities is wide, and he often works in col- rof. W laboration with other depart- ments to offer courses on such diverse subjectsW illiams as the Bible, world religion, renaissance epics, 18th century English literature and Italian author Primo Levi. Ironically, the award comes at a time when many members of the University community are ques- tioning the quality of undergrad- uate teaching, but Jones said he saw the number of responses as an in- dication that many undergraduate See APPLE, Page 2 by Lauren Dermer and Purvi Shah Daily Staff Reporters A small fight which escalated into a series of individual fights in- terrupted a party sponsored by Omega Psi Phi fraternity in the Michigan Union Ballroom early Friday morning. The fighting, which involved about 30 people, occurred outside the party around midnight on Thursday. Officials said most peo- ple involved were Eastern Michigan University students and that the majority of the 550 people at the party remained calm during the incident. In a press release, Department of Public Safety Director Leo Heatley said the 10 security officers assigned to the event and the three DPS offi- cers called as backup broke up the fight, restoring order in 25 minutes. However, individuals present at the party said University Housing Security failed to perform their jobs correctly. "There were three security guys at each door, but when the fight started, they stood around and didn't do shit." said one man, speak- ing on condition of anonymity. He said it took security 10 to 15 minutes to react. "The security officers can't do anything - if all you have is your sweaty palm, you don't stand a chance in a fight," he added. Three Housing Security officers were injured by EMU students dur- ing the fight, and warrants will be sought against them, .-Heatley said. No arrests were made.- Building Director Frank Cianci- ola said security measures were taken at the Friday BGA-sponsored Alpha Kappa Alpha formal in re- ponse to Thursday's incident. Students at the party were asked to monitor the formal and students See FIGHT, Page 2 Police officer charged in Toledo *,student slaying Speaker presents problems with upholding Constitution by Nytasha Walters The charging of a University of Toledo police officer with the brutal murder of University sophomore Melissa Herstrum sent shockwaves through the Toledo campus. Officer Jeffrey Hodge was sus- pended from duty last week and ar- rested for aggravated murder on Sat- urday. Hodge's preliminary hearing strum stopped in the early morning of Jan. 26 at a car accident to render assistance and call an ambulance. Hodge and another officer re- sponded to the call. It has not been confirmed that Herstrum talked to Hodge at the scene of the accident. Herstrum's roommate Debra Dorotty reported that Herstrum ar- rived back at her dormitory room that e mn mnri klc ilht hflfl Oan t n by Mona Oureshi Daily Staff Reporter The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Consti- tution guarantees basic rights to all American citizens. But what happens when the govern- ment denies its people these rights? Gordon Hirabayashi, sociology professor at the University of Alberta, discussed the is- sue in a speech titled, "A Personal Matter: the Constitution at the Crossroads" Saturday at Rackham. Hirabayashi was a University of Washing- ton senior in 1942 when the U.S. government implemented a series of orders which denied internal war hysteria that swept the United States during World War II," Hirabayashi said. "I had to drop out of school and was or- dered to move from my home to a concentra- tion camp. I wasn't charged for danger, espi- onage, or sabotage - only ancestry," he said. But Hirabayashi did not leave. Hirabayashi said he and four other students challenged the curfew set by the U.S. military. Even after being questioned by an FBI agent about disobeying curfew laws, he refused to register for interment. "I asked him, 'Were you out after 8 o'clock last night?' He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Oh, so was