Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, March 12,1992 HARASSMENT Continued from Page 1 Mike Tyson trials as indicators of why women fear speaking out,. especially in a public forum like a court. "Even with the more positive note of the Tyson thing, look at what people said about her. Look at what she had to go through," she said. "I think that women are still very much afraid to report sexual harassment-or date rape, as in the case of Tyson." Kata Issari, interim director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), emphasized that these cases have vocalized murmurs of victim- bashing. "I think one of the effects of all of the recent attention of sexual harassment in the public eye is that it has brought up so much victim- blaming," she said. SAPAC Peer Educator Marc Israel argued that women will not increase litigation unless the atmosphere surrounding sexual harassment is ameliorated. He said, "I think generally they're suing to make it stop - to make people aware, and if the court isn't any friendlier to them it won't have any effect. Even if women can now sue for money it doesn't mean that the court will treat them any better. "Often what happens when a woman goes to court for sexual harassment or sexual assault is that they get put on trial," Israel added. "The woman is making the accusa- tion, but she's the one that gets prosecuted essentially." While there is disagreement whether litigation concerning sexual harassment will increase, 'It's often one person's word against the other and that's hard to prove.' - Elsa Cole 'U' general counsel people agree that the ruling offers another avenue for victims. The surprising ruling is seen as a positive message from the right- leaning Supreme Court with impli- cations extending to other fields of discrimination. "I read that as an endorsement of the definition of sexual harassment and the court's interest and support in efforts to eradicate it," Dawson said. "What the court says is when the legislature is silent, then all the remedies are available, so this has implications for other areas of discrimination as well." Additionally, University officials speculate that individuals other than lawyers will modify behavior. "It will encourage schools and universities to treat complaints of sexual harassment more seriously and promptly," Dawson said. "In the long run, that's going to help the student environment, not if one student gets money in her pocket." Orlowski said people who use sexual harassment to control people might be swayed by the new ruling to halt their behavior. "That kind of sexual harassment isn't going to stop on its own. That's the kind of sexual harassment that is really difficult to get at," she said. "Perhaps for those kind of people, that's what you have to have punitive damages for. It's a sanction that means something and for a lot of times the only sanction that means something is the bottom-line - the money." Yet whether complaints of sexual harassment or discrimination will ever be litigated or if social attitudes will be transformed is un- certain. "I think the whole controversy with Anita Hill has made everyone more aware of what they say and do," Israel said. "At least they're acting somewhat better even if their attitudes haven't changed." ORDINANCE Continued from Page 1 benefits because they are a registered couple. "We have asked the court to im- mediately consider reviewing the motion and grant us a restraining or- der on the ordinance as well as on the registered partnership between the two city employees," Jentzen said. Jentzen said it is hard to tell how long it will take before the Grahams receive an answer regarding their appeal. "If the restraining order is 'not granted, then we will just go on with the appeal. It could take a long time," Jentzen said. Law School Professor David Chambers, who represents Miller and McCown, helped draft the do- mestic partnership ordinance for the city. Chambers said he expects that the Court of Appeals will view the suit in the same manner Judge Morris did. "It seems to me, it is quite proba- ble the Court of Appeals will uphold Judge Morris' well thought out rul- ing," Chambers said. DEARBORN Continued from page 1 your income, no matter what your job is, or you can do two years of service to your country here at home with sort of a domestic GI bill." At the Tsongas rally, more than 500 people showed up to hear his message of economic and social reconstruction. "Think of all who lived and died before us to give us this great country," Tsongas said. "And what did Reagan and Bush do with it? They squandered it. Tsongas also stressed the right of all Americans to participate in society, including women, minori- ties, and gays and lesbians. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown - who made campaign stops in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula yesterday - told about 200 supporters at the Marquette County Airport that Michigan is the area to start deciding whether American jobs stay in America. "I'm the only candidate that said, 'No, we need a policy of economic strategy to assure a living wage for every American,"' Brown said. - Associated Press contributed to this report Present at both opening and closing roll calls Business Tony Vernon Engineering Brian Kig ht Andrew M utch Christopher Teely Information and Library Studies Christopher Thiry Law Michael Warren LSA KenBartlett Tom Cunningham Corey Hill, HeatherJohnston Amy Kurlansky Bil Lowry John McClosky Sejal Mistry Todd Ochoa Steve Stark Jeff Traurig Felicia Tripp Rob Van Houweling Medicine Michael Lee Natural Resources Nena Shaw Pharmacy Susan Wernig Rackham Karen Degannes Roger De Roo Jeff Hinte Leilani Nishime Amy Polk Maria Yen; Absent at either opening or closing roll calls Architecture Jason Richardson Business Michael Oduro (excused) Andrew Kanfer Education Rob Resio Engineering Brent House (excused) John Vandenberg Kinesiology Charles Smith SSA David Englander Scott Gast Jeff Muir(excused) Melissa Saari (excused) Rackham Alan Wu Social Work Jennifer Collins (excused) Italics denote representatives who missed both roll calls. e0 Jennifer Silverberg/DAILY GRAPHIC Calvin and Hobbes I DORT W'~ART TMGO To 5C4A0oL!.' I AMB SCHAOOL.' YD 'ATUER. DO ANYTHING THAN Go TO SNOOL. OK, NOWN AOT s(ZuozLA ND YOu 0/ C YtO'UU LKE WORKING TL RESPONSSLE FOR THE SURS\STENCEI OF '{QNR FNM\kd, WIC" A '&M KID\\tS GRIPNG OR WA.1 by Bill Watterson SO IN \N E TO LOOK FORARDT0. IASA Continued from Page 1 "I hope students on this campus don't feel this way now because we've made it a point to work on those issues," he added. Guhasakar and Mamdani's sto- ries are similar. "It is a problem. A lot of people have attitudes," Mamdani said. But the last board and this board have been working on projects to break some of the cliques, he said. He explained that in the fall, IASA's first dance will be a mixer, where people will have to meet new people. "It's going to be tough," he admits, "but they will have to in- teract," he said. He stressed in- volvement in the Divali Show as a step toward feeling comfortable with the organization. "Right now, we're going through an IASA 'hype,"' Mamdani said about the current trend of ris- ing membership in his organization. "People want to meet people. That is what makes us," he said. LSA first-year student Ami Patel agreed. "It's nice to meet Indian people because it's nice to have a few things in common," she said. Shalini Chandra, also a first-year student, said, "It's nice to reflect on a common background so we don't forget our culture." Mamdani said that while IASA is primarily a social group for Indian interests, it also is a group which is interested in other con- cerns. "I don't want us to be too iso- lated from other people. I want us to interact with the University it- self," Mamdani said. He said IASA plans to become more involved in service projects, and work more closely with other ethnic campus groups. TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY GET THE FACTS GET T HE DAILY Call GET THE FACTS 7" GET THE DAILY for GET TIHE FACTS mo GETTI-IE DAILY GET TI HE FACTS GETTIHE DAILY NEWS .SPORTSeARTS OPINION & PHIOTO G, U 1 320 S. State St. Richarsonz t1C sA WHAT'S HAPPENING (Located in the lower level of Richardson's Drugs) DOWNSTAIRS HOURS: M, Tu, Th, F 9AM-6PM Wed & Sat 9AM-1 PM MARIJUANA Continued from page 1 In February, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Mary Ann Swain sent a computer mail memo to the Student Organization Development Center in which she stated the center was not permitted to allocate the use of the Diag to NORML for the April date. "We took a similar case to court in 1990, and the University was forced to give us the Diag. Our at- torney feels that this is on the same grounds," Brook said. Although Swain refused to com- ment on the case, University General Counsel Elsa Cole said the adminis- tration is confident the University is not acting in violation of the law by refusing the permit. "The University has authority to regulate speech if it is in a time, place or manner that we deem inap- propriate," she said. Michael Warren, chair of the Michigan Student Assembly's Student Rights Commission (SRC), said the SRC will speak on the Diag during the time slot that NORML was refused to protest the University's policy in support free- dom of speech. "The problem with the time, place or manner restriction is that the administration is using it as a shield to prevent NORML from spreading its message," he said. Warren said an appropriate use of the restriction clause would be to ban loudspeakers from use on the Diag in the middle of the night. Cole said the University is not re- stricting NORML's freedom of speech because administrators have organized a forum on April 1 to dis- cuss the legalization of drugs. Brook said, "The forum will fea- ture four speakers, two against legal- ization and two for it. It is supposed to be as an alternative to our rally on April 4, but they are charging admis- sion to get into it." Warren said the forum is com- pletely different from a Diag rally, and the admission fee will deter in- terested students from attending. "It is not theadministration's place to tell NORML what is the most effective place to get their mes- sage across, and it is not appropriate for them to require that the anti-drug side of the issue be represented," he said. "The administration has done this before and NORML sued them be- fore and they lost before. They would rather have the students sue them and lose in court than follow the law," he added. 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