Our Freedom of Assembly went up in smoke when Associate Vice President for Student Services Mary Ann Swain restricted NORML from using the Diag for this year's Hash Bash. Dance majors really know how to live. Read about a day in the life of these hard-working students in Alexandra Beller's State of the Art. The Michigan men's basketball team needs to rebound from Sunday's loss. The Wolverines could not have picked a better time for last-place Northwestern to come to town. Today Cloudy to partly sunny; High: 30, Low: 19 Tomorrow Snow at times; High 34, Low 23 V iWi ti One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Copyright ©1 992 Vol. CII, No. 71 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, February 5, 1992 Tc Mchigan Daily Venezuelan troops thwart coup; at least 14 dead CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Minister Fernando Ochoa said Sporadic gunfire broke out yes- A border dispute with neigh- told him: "No negotiations. Give Brazil, Cuba, the Organization of - Loyal soldiers repulsed an at- loyal troops had "completely suf- terday afternoon near the palace, boring Colombia has created ten- them bullets. I want to be back in American States and the European tack by rebel troops and tanks on focated" the rebels, who had ear- apparently from soldiers looking sion between Perez and the mili- (the palace) soon," according to an Community condemned the coup the presidential palace yesterday, tier abducted one state governor for snipers, said a photographer at tary. Soldiers have seen their wages account in the respected El attempt in Venezuela, the second crushing an attempt 'to overthrow and staged attacks in the western the scene. shrink dramatically because of in- Nacional newspaper. longest-standing democracy in one of Latin America's most stable cities of Maracay, Valencia and The motives for the coup at- flation. Six hours later, Perez declared South America, following democracies. Maracaibo. tempt were unclear, but it fol- Senator David Morales Bello from the palace rhat the putsch had Colombia. A newspaper reported that 14 Ochoa told reporters at the gov- lowed violent protests and labor said in Congress that three of fecn defeated.Crc reinsnsvrar people were killed in the early ernment palace that four leaders of unrest arising from a growing dis- Perez' bodyguards were killed inb' Caracas residents i several ar- morning attack in Caracas. a rebel paratroop regiment were parity between rich and poor in the palace attack. Perez escaped The government banned public eas of the city were caught in the Government forces arrested 300 among those arrested, including Lt. Venezuela. hidden under a overcoat and man- demonstrations, broadened police crossfire between the rival forces. rebel soldiers as the rebellion Col. Hugo Chavez, who in a TV ad- The government of this oil-rich aged to get to a private television arrest powers and suspended some Rifles, automatic weapons, mor- againlst President Carlos Andres dress urged fellow fighters to sur- nation has admitted that just 57 station, according to news ac- constitutional civil rights guaran- tars were used, and one rebel tank Perez quickly collapsed. render "before more blood is percent of Venezuelans are able to counts. tees for at least 10 days. repeatedly battered a palace door in By yesterday afternoon, Defense shed." afford more than one meal a day. Perez telephoned Ochoa and The United States, Mexico, attempts to break in. I Union may ax smoking are as by Karen Talaski Smokers who frequent the Michigan Union's cafeteria may soon find their butts put out - literally. The Michigan Union Board of Representatives (MUBR) is consider- ing a new policy that would make the entire ground floor of the Union a non-smoking area. The MUBR will hear the results of a student survey at a meeting this morning and then review the current policy to see if "what is in place is appropriate," said Union Building Director Frank Cianciola. The meeting will be held at 7:30 a.m. in the Welker Room of the Union and is open to the public. The survey was completed by Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed service fraternity. "We were hired by the MUBR to get a feel for how. people feel about smoke in general," said Engineering senior Melinda Rodriguez, a member of Alpha Phi See SMOKE, Page 2 Engler gets nal WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. John Engler's no-new-taxes, cut- spending budget policy may not be popular with everyone back home, but it's boosting his stock in the na- tional conservative movement, ob- servers said yesterday. "A year ago he was pretty much an unknown, but he's emerged as a hero," said Steve Moore, director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato In- stitute, a think tank that supports limited government. "We're very encouraged by the sorts of reforms Gov. Engler is in- stituting," said Kate O'Beirne, vice president of the Heritage Founda- tion, another conservative research organization. "Maybe more so be- cause conservatives are dismayed at what's going on here in Washington ... and disenchanted by Bush." Engler and another rookie Re- publican governor, William Weld of Massachusetts, were featured speakers at a Cato policy forum. Both were attending the annual Washington meeting for the Na- tional Governors' Association. Engler was flying back to Michigan after the forum in prepa- ration for a speech outlining high- budget policy ional exposure lights of his proposed budget for fiscal year 1993, which will be broadcast statewide on public tele- vision tonight. The speech will be short on de- tail, focusing on "what we've had to do in the past year and what lies budgets primarily through spending cuts. Engler acknowledged the cuts drew criticism - particularly the elimination of General Assistance benefits for 83,000 adults. But he insisted it was "the right thing to 'We're very encouraged by the sorts of reforms Gov. Engler is instituting ... Maybe more so because conservatives are dismayed at what's going on here in Washington ... and disenchanted by Bush.' - Kate O'Beirne Foundation vice president Heritage ahead of us ... the philosophy behind it," spokesperson John Truscott said. He said Engler's complete spending plan will be made public Friday. The Cato Institute program was entitled "Balancing the Budget When Times Are Tough." Engler and Weld are among the few gover- nors who have refused to raise taxes, choosing instead to balance their do. It's what we must do to break up the cycle of dependency and poverty." He also pledged to campaign for his "Cut and Cap" initiative featur- ing a 30 percent across-the-board cut in school operating property taxes over five years - about 60 percent of the average property tax bill in Michigan - and a three percent cap on annual assessment increases. Afro-American history Monique Washington looks at goods displayed in the Union as part of Afro-American history month. University cancels social change class Students question political motivation; psychology dept. blames budget by Chastity Wilson dents, suspecting political reasons, LSA senior Mary Bejian, one of ference to at least make the 'Race, Daily Staff Reporter are protesting the decision. the students protesting the cancel- Gender and Society' go." -r r The psychology department has decided to cancel a course that al- lows students to get credit and hands-on experience for working in organizations such as the Baker- Mandela Center and the Lesbian and Gay Males Programs Office. Project Outreach, the psychology department's experiential learning division, recently canceled "Social Change," its only comprehensive course dealing exclusively with the issues of racism, violence against women, sexism, homelessness, ho- mophobia and the environment. Project Outreach staff members attribute the cancellation to bud- getary constraints, while some stu- w3 i "Social Change" - which has been in the department for the last 25 years along with two other sec- tions - was chosen to be canceled starting fall 1992 because of an ex- pected shortage of teaching assis- tants, said Project Outreach head Jerry Miller. The "Social Change" section will be incorporated into the "Working With Women" section, forming a new class called "Race, Gender and Society," he said. The other two sections, "Education and Enrichment" and "Juvenile Justice," will be com- bined into one section called "Special Needs," Miller said. lation, said that students have made numerous calls and fliers, and sent MTS messeges to try to save the section. One of the problems the students expressed, Bejian said, was that the department made a huge decision without a plan or a concrete group of people to work on organizing the new section. Rackham student Pattrice Mau- rer, who has been the teaching assis- tant for the "Social Change" sec- tion since the winter term of 1990, said, "It was in fact the pressure from the students to the decision makers that made the definitive dif- Some students say they believe Maurer's role as a political activist may have had something to do with the fact that, out of 10 classes, hers was chosen for cancellation. LSA senior Nicole McPherson, a group leader for the "Social Change" section, said, "Pattrice is so vocal and is a well-known ac- tivist, and the University, which is conservative, doesn't want to pro- mote liberal thoughts. "The class makes the University nervous because it encourages stu- dents to think about social issues and lots of students that have come out of the class become active." Tsongas all wet Democratic presidential hopeful Paul Tsongas dives off the block yesterday while taking a swim at Dartmouth College. Tsongas is campaigning for the New Hampshire primary. Polk resigns from AAC; cites clashes with Muir as reason by Jennifer Silverberg Daily MSA Reporter Michigan Student Assembly Rep. Amy Polk resigned as vice chair of the Academic Affairs Commission (AAC) at last night's assembly meeting, citing personal differences with Commission Chair Jeff Muir. Polk said these conflicts became evident in a column Muir wrote in last week's Michigan Review, titled 24-hour study facility on last night's agenda, but the vote occurred after the Daily's deadline. The resolution calls for the ad- ministration to work with the AAC and other University student governnments toward the goal of making a 24-hour library available by the fall of 1992. MSA further resolved that the administration should work with the AAC and other student gov- Engineering Rep. Aaron Williams also submitted his letter of resignation to MSA last night. "I no longer can afford the lux- ury of sitting around for hours and getting nothing done," his letter said. Assembly members will be no- tified at next week's meeting about a resolution asking for student ap- proval of the maximum limit of the MSA fee. If the assembly passes the