Another election means another chance to elect regents who will be concerned with students rights. Candidates Laurence Deitch and Rebecca McGowan are two such people. Lorrie Moore was not a very good cook, so she tried her hand at writing. Good choice. Hear this talented author read from her work at 4 p.m. this evening at Rackham Amphitheater. Whew! Purdue almost ended Michigan's national championship dreams in West Lafayette, but the Wolverines regrouped in time to escape with a 24-17 victory. Today Coa, rany; High 50, Low 42 Tomorrow Cloudy, more rain; High 50, Low 38 WE t t ttz One hundred two years of editorial freedom Vl III No. 2 AnnArbor Miciga MndyNvebe 2192©192Th*Mc iaDily Clinton retains lead in last lap ofrace Associated Press Bill Clinton and George Bush battled across the nation's recession- scarred heartland yesterday, the front-running Democrat summoning supporters to "fight on" for two more days and the president attack- ing his rival as "Slick Willie," unfit to lead. Ross Perot was campaigning in California and unveiled a new 30- minute television commercial that attacked both his rivals as failures in economic leadership.. The daily CNN-USA Today na- tionwide poll showed Clinton with a seven-point edge over Bush - up from three points on Saturday - and Perot a distant third. There was more encouragement for the Democrats in a spate of sin- gle-state surveys that gave Clinton a comfortable edge in Missouri, a.key battleground, and showed Bush with unexpectedly slender leads in tradi- tional base Republican states such as Indiana, South Carolina and Virginia. Bush's rhetoric grew sharper as the poll tidings grew dimmer. "Slick Willie," he said of his rival in Auburn Hills, Mich. "He is bob- bing and weaving and you can't do that as president." Clinton, struggling to regain his voice after a string of long days, said the election was a choice between See ELECTION, Page 2 Former wife alleges regent assaulted her Carol Jacobsen, an Ann Arbor artist, takes down her exhibit on prostitution after members of the Michigan Journal of Law and Gender called the videotape portion of the multimedia piece pornographic. aw Journal censors video, cting by Erin Einhorn Daily Staff Reporter A videotape designe voice to prostitutes bi focus of tensiona Amendment controve weekend's MichiganJ Gender and Law sympos Local artist Carol Ja sented a multi-media art tion at the symposium "Prostitution: From A Activism" - whichi video that symposium pornographic said incorporated clips from com- lecti mercial pornography. the t d to give a One of the organizers, second- fort ecame the year law student Ann Kraemer, said anxi and First some of the speakers and members rest ersy at this of the audience complained to was Journal of Journal members that "their safety J sium. was being threatened by the content una cobsen pre- of the tapes." porn istic exhibi- "These people are well-known in - entitled in their field - ex-prostitutes," com cademia to Kraemer said. "They were our arti included a speakers, they were our guests." pros organizers The members of the Journal col- content ively determined that, because tape made many people uncom- able and created feelings of iety, it should be removed. The of Jacobsen's exhibit, they said, welcome to remain. acobsen, however, said she was ware of any commercial nography in the tape. The tape question, she said, was a npilation of the work of five sts - including two former stitutes. See CENSOR, Page 2 Alleged assaults took place in 1981-82. Nielsen moved to expunge public records relating to ex-wife's complaints. by Geoff Earle Daily Staff Reporter Dona Mueller, first wife of U-M RegentNeal Nielsen (R-Brighton), has come forward with allegations that the regent assaulted her on more than one occasion in their Fowlerville home during the early 1980s. However, the Livingston County Sheriff'sDepartment withheld records of police visits to the Nielsen home as the result of a written request made by Nielsen Friday. "In 1981 and 1982, during our 7 divorce, I filed as few complaints for Nie en assault against Mr. Nielsen with the Sheriff's department," Mueller said. In addition to the statement Mueller made to the Daily last week, in 1982 she issued a statement to the Livingston County Sheriff's Department alleging that Nielsen assaulted her in 1981. Nielsen was never charged for any crime relating to the alleged assault. Nielsen could not be reached to comment on the allegations despite repeated attempts by the Daily to con- tact him by phone and in person during the last four days. Nielsen, a Brighton attorney, is seeking a second term on the U-M Board of Regents in tomorrow's elec- tion. He has served on the board since 1984. Nielsen's request to expunge the records follows two separate requests under Michigan's Freedom of Infor- mation Act filed by the Daily with the Livingston County Sheriffs Depart- ment Oct. 7 and Oct. 26. "Under MCL 28.243 (4)I request all complaints (listed below) that I have been involved with and no charges have been filed. Please honor this re- quest by expunging those records, or any other records with my name or derivativeof my name," Nielsen wrote. Nielsen requested to have the records of three police visits - two that took place in 1982 and one that occurred in 1981 -expunged. According to the Michigan statute Nielsen cited, a person arrested, but not charged with a crime, has the "ab- solute right" to receive the return of his fingerprints, arrest card, and de- scription. There is no evidence that Nielsen was arrested. While Livingston County Sheriff's Department documents obtained by the Daily reveal that police were called to the Nielsen home on two separate occasions in 1982, the content of po- lice files regarding the visits remains withheld. Livingston County Sheriff's De- partment Deputy Juanita Blackwell, an officer who responded to an April 1982 call, said a later complaint filed by Mueller "would've been consid- ered civil, or assault and battery." In addition, Blackwell said the police took photographs of Mueller at the scene of the alleged assault. On Thursday, Lt. Henry Gallup, law enforcement operations officer in the Livingston County Sheriff's De- partment, said he could not turn over the records to the Daily because the department's microfilm operator was in a car accident. "My operator is gone indefinitely," he told the Daily Friday. "If my gal would have been here last Monday, you would have had the records and I would have had to deal with Neal." While theLivingston County docu- ments remain sealed, Mueller made a statement in 1982 describing an al- leged assault. "On Dec. 26, 1981, my husband, Neal D. Nielsen, came to my home to pick up our children for visitation pur- poses. I advised him that they were ill and did not wish to go with him," she said in the statement. "He proceeded to try to dress my son, Christopher, (at which point Chris- topher) began to cry. When I inter- See NIELSEN, Page 2 C>-:,----- - Bush batfies fran-Contra WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush refused to say * Sunday whether he'd fire Iran- Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh after Election Day, but accused him of engaging in "a big witch hunt." Bush went on the attack against Walsh as Democrat Edmund S. Muskie, a member of the bipartisan panel that investigated the Iran- Contra affair, raised new questions about the president's role in the arms-for-hostage dealings. Muskie said Bush's "claims of ignorance" about arms sales to Iran by the Reagan White House "conflict directly" with the latest revelation in the affair - a note by former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger saying that Bush knew of the arms-for-hostages scheme on Jan. 7, 1986. Bush has said he didn't realize the Reagan White House was trading arms for hostages until mid- December 1986. After the arms deal became public, Bush requested an interview with Muskie and the other two members of the presidentially appointed board, John Tower and Bush's current national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft. The Tower Board's account of that interview is at the F library in California and become public until 1994. "In short, Vice Presiden presented himself then as Pr Bush likes to characterize h now - as being 'out of the 1 said Muskie's statement, Saturday. "But President Bush's r claims of ignorance about th for-hostages deal now c directly with the personal not Weinberger of the Jan. 7 meeting, Muskie's statement "I think it's been a big hunt out there when you see a allegations Reagan man like Cap Weinberger going won't through all kinds of hell," Bush said about Walsh's $32 million probe of t Bush the affair. esident Mary Belcher, a spokeswoman is role for Walsh's office, said she could oop,"' not respond to the accusation issued because the Weinberger case is pending. Weinberger faces trial Jan. epeated 5. e arms- Federal law says Walsh may be onflict removed "only by the personal tes" by action of the attorney general and 1986 only for good cause." Good cause is added. defined as an act that "substantially witch impairs" the performance of his decent duties. Anonymity defines regent campaign by Jennifer Silverberg Daily Administration Reporter With only one day remaining before the election, the four candidates running for the. two open U-M regent seats remain doubtful that facts about their election are common knowledge. "The presidential race is extraordinarily compelling and there are a range of propositions on the ballot for Michigan voters that have profound importance, so it's hard to capture popular interest when faced with those kinds of issues," said Larry Deitch, a regent candidate from Bloomfield Hills. Nancy Laro, a regent candidate from Ann Arbor agreed. "You try to educate people that it exists on the ballot because it's overshadowed by the top of the ticket," Laro said. "It's amazing to find out how many people who have been voting for years don't know you vote for regents on this ballot." Many candidates said such obstacles make running in a regent race more difficult than typical campaigning. "To some extent, it's an education campaign in terms of educating people about what a regent does," Deitch said. "Part and parcel of it is just getting attention focused on it." Nevertheless, candidates running for U- M regent say they have invested a lot of time and effort in their campaigns. "I've been trying to do as many appearances as I can do," said Rebecca McGowan, a regent candidate from Ann Arbor. "I go everywhere I can find anybody who's interested." McGowan has been campaigning since her nomination Aug. 30 and said the focus of her campaign has been threefold - advertising, personal appearances and meeting with newspaper editorial boards. "They're pretty much traditional campaign tactics," McGowan said. "Certainly my budget is very small so I've had to figure out how to most effectively get my ideas to the most people." Deitch said he has also focused on See ADS, Page 2 Avalon readies renovated house for residents by Jonathan Berndt Daily City Reporter Avalon Housing, Inc. held the ribbon- cutting ceremony for its first low-income The house, now located on the corner of Ashley and William streets - across from the parking lot - at 210 W. William, was built in 1925 and has six one-person manage permanent low-income housing in the Ann Arbor area. The non-profit development corporation arose out of a city council compromise to I . :.