Today is the final day of Ann Arbor voter registration for the March 17 Michigan Primary. "Hello, I'm Wilfred Brimley for Tampax." Is this an advertising campaign from Hell or a little gender-bending humor from Carol Leifer? When the Michigan ice hockey team enters Ohio State's Ice Rink tonight, the Wolverines will be playing for a tie for first place in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. Today Coudy, rain later; High: 40, Low: 34 Tomorrow More clouds, rain; High 36, Low 28 i I i ,,icr a .Y1 One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Vol. CI, No. 79 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, February 18, 1992TCopyrht @1992 Muslims Candidates { threaten * Israel with retalation BEIRUT (AP) - Angry Shiite Muslims took to the streets of Beirut yesterday, vowing to avenge Israel's assassination of the leader of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah. Israel warned that any retaliatory raids would carry "a very high price." The Lebanese government sent army reinforcements to the area. It also lodged a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over the Israeli attack on Sunday. Lebanon said it still planned to attend the Middle East peace talks scheduled to begin next Monday in Washington. The Palestinians also indicated they would attend, despite two other Israeli attacks Sunday that targeted refugee camps and PLO bases in south Lebanon. See MUSLIMS, Page 2 prepare for N. H. primary PAUL TAYLOR/Daily Don't look down University grounds employee Warren Douglas works from the bucket of a Hi-Ranger in the top of a tree high above the Law Quad courtyard yesterday. Douglas strengthened the tree by securing cables between the branches. 'U' sets policy to hire women faculty by Andrew Levy Daily Campaign Issues Reporter DOVER, N.H. - Candidates traversed the state scrambling for votes in New Hampshire today, the day before the nation's first presiden- tial primary. The Democratic candidates: for- mer Calif. Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown; Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton; Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin; Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey; and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas, and Republican candidate Pat Buchanan made their final sweeps today to stir support, and to make sure voters get to the polls. First lady Barbara Bush also campaigned to rally support for President Bush. Tsongas, appearing in Portsmouth yesterday morning, ad- dressed a relatively large and enthusi- astic crowd of onlookers- to re- spond to some of the criticisms that have been levied against him in re- cent days. "I am an environmentalist," Tsongas said in response to charges raised by the other candidates at Sunday night's Democratic presiden- tial debate that his pro-nuclear en- ergy stance made him soft on the environment. "The environmentalists in this state gave me their endorsement - and it wasn't by accident," he said. "There is one avid environmentalist in this race, and you're looking at him." Tsongas also attempted to ex- plain his burgeoning popularity, a phenomenon that has perplexed many analysts who did not give the former senator much of a chance. "Ideas. Ideas have power," Tsongas said. "People want the truth. I'm not running for Santa Claus - I'm running for president. There's a difference." Kerrey, lagging in the polls, was also in southeastern New Hampshire yesterday, speaking to a crowd of University of New Hampshire stu- 'There is one avid environmentalist in this race, and you're looking at him.' - Paul Tsongas Presidential candidate dents. Kerrey took the offensive, criticizing President Bush for his economic plan. "I don't believe that George Bush knows what a job is to most peo- ple," Kerrey said. "I really believe that the president thinks that unem- ployment is a thing that you use to get rid of inflation." On the Republican side, former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan took a whirlwind bus tour of the state, try- ing to bring his anti-Bush message home to the voters. "Mr. Bush is running a sting op- eration on the people of New Hampshire, and he's not going to get away with it a second time," See PRIMARY, Page 2 i by Purvi Shah Daily Administration Reporter In an effort to decrease disparity between numbers of men and women senior faculty members, the University Office of Academic Affairs is currently implementing a special interim policy for the hiring and recruitment of senior women faculty. Under the new policy, depart- ments that are in the midst of a ju- nior-level faculty search can request the Office of Academic Affairs for additional funds to select senior women faculty members - associ- ate professors or full professors. Departments that can apply for extra funds include those with only one senior woman faculty member and units where the percentage of senior women faculty is less than the calculated availability percentage in the current workforce analysis. Sixty-seven units can currently par- ticipate in the program. After departments complete a search, the nominee must be ap- proved by the specific school or col- lege and the Office of Academic Affairs. The Office of Academic Affairs evaluates the faculty candi- date for both a tenure position and the allowance of the added incre- mental funding. The interim policy will continue until 1995, when it will be reviewed to determine its effectiveness. Many officials cite a need for providing an impetus in increasing senior women faculty members. The number of full female professors has risen only 2 percent in the last 13 years - from 6 percent in 1978 to 8 percent in 1991, said Affirmative Action Planning Officer Susan Rasmussen. "Because the number of women students has grown a lot - both graduate and undergraduate - but the number of senior women faculty hasn't grown proportionally, we're concerned that we don't have enough senior women to mentor students and junior faculty," said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Gilbert Whitaker. According to a 1989 study of the number of full-time women faculty members at 11 universities, six of the institutions had a larger propor- tion than the University's 21 percent full-time women faculty, said Director of the Center for the Education of Women Carol Hollenshead. "It's clear that we've made rela- See WOMEN, Page 2 Professor, decried " for racist remarks, to speak tonight by Mona Qureshi Daily Staff Reporter A New York professor who has stirred controversy for allegedly making racist remarks against Jews and whites will speak at the University tonight. Leonard Jeffries, chair of the Black studies department at the City University of New York (CUNY), is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. The Black Student Union is sponsoring Jeffries' visit. Members said they did not want to comment before the speech. Notorious for comments such as calling Jews "dogs" in a class he taught three years ago and saying, "You can't trust the white boy" last summer at a cultural festival in Albany, N.Y., Jeffries has been put on a one-year probation at CUNY after teaching there for 20 years. Jeffries' remarks sparked protests in New York and a ban by the Seton Hall University administration from speaking. The chancellor of Seton Hall, Rev. Thomas Peterson, released a statement Feb. 6 which said Jeffries did not uphold traditional Catholic values. See JEFFRIES, Page 2 Yeltsin requests U.S. loan guarantees to " ensure grain purchase MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin asked Secretary of State James Baker yes- terday for an additional $600 million in credit guarantees so his country can buy American grain to feed its people. Yeltsin also said he hoped to be * able to announce at a July summit in Washington an agreement on further Baker by surprise, American offi- cials said, but he promised to take it to Washington for consideration. "I have no doubt in the positive response of the United States," Yeltsin said with Baker at his side after a three-hour meeting in the Kremlin. The United States has already provided $3.75 billion in grain cred- Books and periodicals damaged by flooding in the Chemistry library dry in front of fans in the Chemistry Building yesterday. Pipe bursts n Chemistry Buildingcausiflood by Nicole Malenfant Daily Staff Reporter The Chemistry Building Campus- Computing Site and Library shut down yesterday be- cause of a massive flood around 6 a m afte'r a twn-inch water nine lieve the flood shows structural problems within the building. "Old pipes and Ann Arbor water tend not to get along after 70 or 80 years of service," he said. Workers said the damage is hard to assess at this point. "We won't said that when she came in at 8 a.m. the library looked "as if it were raining. It was a torrential down- pour." Primich said she and other workers spent six hours moving damaged books out of the library containing ceiling tiles, Blackburn said. Although he said the asbestos should not be a problem, many of the tiles have fallen to the ground and others are damaged. "We want to make sure the damaged tiles are removed and the I