Page 4-The Michigan Daily- Tuesday, November 17, 1992 0 l e iitl igttn+ ttil CARE FoR A ORE "NA 1L CoL.M C H E? ® E SuRE rn"NG, ?RO'THE F '* HE Y, L ODK AT 7"N fS o . 'E Nt br . 4- B>C'(To ~F'S' P 'IVIAN L CCALtM TNHt,/ L/o'OGRAPHY 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 764-0552 Editor in Chief MATIIEW D. RENNIE Opinion Editors YAEI CITR'O GEOFFREY EARLE AMITAVA MAZUMI)AR Edited and Managed by Students at the University of Michigan BREAKFAST C&REAL ': -, - I -- 2 ,. _. b7 __ 'Q2 c>F L'' C fr1G. 6 ®0 Unsigned editorials represent a maujority of the Daily's E:ditorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. 'U' perpetuates salary gap s the newly-released Faculty and Staff Salary counteract the subtle disadvantages which women Record reveals, virtually all of the top Uni- face in the hiring process. "A lot centers around versity wage-earners are men. Of University em- what people value," she said. ployees who earn more than $200,000, all five are When the choice between job candidates is not men. Among the top administrators, only one is a clear because one candidate has a higher degree or woman. Last year, 18.5 percent of tenured and more experience, judgments which are not so con- tenure-track professors were women - only 8.5 crete may be the deciding factors. Perceptions of percent of the total number of full professors. competence or leadership ability geared toward a These shocking statistics make clear that the traditionally male-dominated workplace put women University is as guilty as other American employ- at a disadvantage. "We're not talking about com- ers of perpetuating a wage gap between men and promising quality," Blum said. women. But the University needs to be at the Additionally, men may secure high-level jobs forefront of salary equality, and should not be through the informal networking done in various dragging its feet to protect the status quo. The associations on the golf course or through University should actively recruit women tohigher- mentorships - exclusive activities from which paid positions to increase pay equity. women are often uninvited. Thoughtherehavebeenlaws protecting women Though the University is attempting to increase from overt discrimination for a generation, women the number of women in the faculty through the are not yet holding the same high-level positions SHARE Program, which allocates money to supple- as men, nor are they earning equal pay for equal ment the salaries of senior women professors, this work. Women still earn only 71 cents onthe dollar, small measure is clearly not expansive enough. compared to men, according to the National Com- With only tiny increases in the number of women in mittee on Pay Equity. This perpetuates a feeling the faculty and staff from year to year, the Univer- that women's work is not as valuable as men's and sity is only contributing to the male-dominated ensures that men continue to be the primary bread- hierarchy under which women struggle today. winners. But even innovative programs like this are not Eliminating legal barriers to women in the enough. All of the University's equality and diver- workplace is not enough. University Professor of sity programs ring hollow when University women Sociology Linda Blum, author of Between Femi- are earning only a fraction of what their male nism and Labor, supports an activist approach to counterparts earn. Dens convene for ew ovenant 1 IfNERE'S NA coOK OuT NaW '? 1 &UESs Sao MrAINTALK< ABouT ';U1UPI" tN& oi-THE~ ''X" B3Alt UwA~o N You SAI++ p .. -- /' -'' s o y I a . - ... L <; .. ... .. ... .. .. ... _. . .. . .. . : .: ..... . : :,. . : . . . ... .,: .. . .: .. :: ..... . : ... .... - .. . . .. :. ::.. . . :. . . .: . . _ ... ..........: - tiJ7 -/ ,fir:. t ,y.' ' l." :,,?: C!__t.t .2;3j CEo 1R -. _ >:::::... . . Clinton win not a landslide To the Daily: Your headline "Clinton Wins Big," (11/4/92) was both inappro- priate and irresponsible. The only landslide of any sort was in the Electoral College. I feel you are a bit hypocritical when you slam the electoral system in an editorial and then play it up when it gives the candidate you endorse an imaginary landslide. In most exit polls, Clinton's margin of win in the popular vote was only a few percentage points. In no poll did Gov. Clinton get, even 50 percent of the popular vote and in many polls, he was less than five points ahead of President Bush. Furthermore, Ross Perot had no electoral votes but tallied an impressive amount of popular votes hovering somewhere around 18 percent. This isn't at all to say that Gov. Clinton wouldn't have won the presidential race without the Electoral College but there are still many residents of this country (over half to be exact) who Bill Clinton needs to prove himself to, more than in the "sweeping victory" your story indicates. Joshua Keough LSA first-year student - ' resident-elect Bill Clinton and Congressional leaders Monday night produced the first thaw inthe "cold war" betweenCongress and the White House. The smiling faces that emerged from the governor's mansion were a welcome departure from the grimaces and lukewarm statements that members of Congress traditionally -offered after a summit in the Republican White House. Despite Clinton's attempts to suppress high expectations of the first 100 days, the Little Rock meeting has : raised hopes that Uncles Sam may no longer be shackled by the chains of government gridlock. Speaker of the . House Thomas. Foley (D-Wash.), Senate Majority \.. Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) - and House Majority Leader Richardx Gephardt (D-Mo.) t met with Clinton to discuss the in-com- . ing administration's honeymoon agenda. ° They produced a li sto , of priorities, topped - by economic growth, job creation Q r and affordable health care. Understanding that these three priorities represent several fist-fulls of work, Clinton refrained from revealing a time table. It is doubtful that Clinton can successfully resolve these complex problems even in the first 100 days, especially with the increasing complex- ity of foreign policy issues - such as the Balkan crisis and a looming trade war - with the battle over gays in the military on the horizon. Success- ful government, however, has less to do with meeting deadlines than it does with bridging the chasm dividing the two ends ofPennsylvaniaAve. What vision Ronald Reagan brought to the White House, President George Bush threw out with the Reagan family portraits. Reagan may have had the wrong vision, but his leadership - along with six years of a Republican Senate - aided the conservative icon in transforming much of his rhetoric into reality. Clinton and his Congressional allies demon- strated Monday night that they share a common vision. Their priorities literally put people first. Provided Congress and Clinton coordinate their efforts effectively, the 1990s could become the decade that reversed the disastrous policies of the 1980s. Media pundits and observers feared during the campaign that Clintonhad aban- doned hope of co- operation in favor of winning the election. At the New York con- vention, Clinton ''hid members of - Congress under the bleachers. Early in the cam- paign, voters were ' hard pressed to - find Clinton pos- ing for photos with members. Now, the Clinton campaign is interviewing in- fluential members of Congress for the powerful positions of secretaries of defense and state and national security advisor. Whatever Clinton be- lieved before, he has more than demonstrated his willingness to cooperate with the U.S. Congress to make the New Covenant a reality. After his meeting with Foley, Gephardt and Mitchell, Clinton tried to ground high expecta- tions. However, the evening dinner in Little Rock spurred visions of the return of good government. Right now, Clinton seems to have Congress and theAmerican people on his side. Bush had the same opportunity after the Gulf War victory. Hopefully, Clinton learned some hard lessons from Bush's failure. Muslims suffer To the Daily: :Endless reports of unspeakable. Serbian atrocities committed against the Muslim popultion of Bosnia pour into this country every second. Men are killed, women are raped, children are starved only because they are Muslims. Bosnians can not even defend themselves thanks to the arms embargo on Bosnia. Yet, Serbs enjoy great support from neigh- boring Serbia. Non-action on the part of the United States and its Western European allies is incomprehensible to a logical thinker. At a town meeting in Michi- gan on Oct. 30, President Bush, in response to a question, justified the U.S. position by saying that he did not want to create another Vietnam. Am I missing some- thing? The United States has never been asked to intervene militarily. in Bosnia In fact, Mr. Izzetbegovich, the Bosnian President, has openly stated that they "did not want American boys to die for" them. They only want arms to defend themselves. This is not something new to the United States. It has been done in Afghanistan and it has worked. I can not help concluding that the non-action of the United States and the Western European countries is due to the fact that Bosnians are Muslim and that the Serbs are Christian. Amazingly, even the Serbs are confused. They express openly that they do not understand the Christian world. They are doing the dirty job of "ethnically cleansing" Europe of Muslims. In return, Serbia gets sanctioned. I forgot to mention that Serbians are naive too. Tayfun Ozdemir Rackham graduate student What about us? To the Daily: In the front page of the Oct. 26 edition of the Daily there is a picture of the 1992 Mudbowl (not Mud Bowl) between Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a caption telling of the event. The caption incorrectly identifies the Mudbowl as Sigma Alpha Epsilon's when it is a Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Delta Theta tradition. If you are going to print something (especially on your front page), you have an obliga- tion to research as accurately as possible what you are reporting. Marc Latman Phi Delta Theta Fraternity Our rights, our bodies To the Daily: Day after day we open your pages to see yet another letter or two dealing with abortion. These letters reduce the arguments to simplistic regurgitation of previous opinions. Something else we've noticed is many of these letters are being written by men. Unfortunately, men are also. the people writing the laws governing women's bodies. Nonetheless, abortion is a women's issue. In his letter (11/5/92) Frank Foti wrote about men's rights. Until he spends 20 years menstru- ating, nine months pregnant, and a lifetime taking care of an un- wanted baby with no support from the consenting partner - he has no rights to our bodies! Wendy Stein LSA senior Caryn Hebets LSA senior 0 Ameman1 EgenHde- memor:reams............... Armenian genocide: memory remainls by Brian Kulhanjian Magic resigns, AIDS remains Last week I attended a' function in the basement of Lane Hall. I came for one reason; to hear about the Armenian geno- cide. Two professors spoke about the historical aspects regarding this event, an event that has haunted me since I was first told of it as a child. Naturally, the professors took the scholastic approach. They cited numerous neutral witnesses, told of the ongoing attempts to discredit the genocide's existence, and spoke of the Turkish government's denial that they murdered half (an historically conservative figure) of the Armenian population at the time. Confronting my family's past means admitting that humans are capable. of such acts, which, in turn, means that I am capable of rape and murder. But the most poignant and compelling part of this meeting was not the lectures. Instead, it was a man sitting on the other side of the room. He was quite old and confined to a wheelchair. Wisps of white hair partially Of course, I like to think I could never perform such acts. Im sure the same goes for Turkish people, and I believe this is one reason why Turks deny history, and why Armenians like me loathe remembering it. 1a arvin (Magic) Johnson ended his legendary ;L i basketball careerlast week, claiming the con- troversy surrounding his comeback was hurting the game. This may come as a letdown to people who viewed Johnson as the preeminent spokes- person on AIDS. But Johnson has done his part to bring much-needed national attention to the AIDS issue. Unfortunately, muchignorance still remains about this deadly disease. In a society where one out of every 50 college students is HIV positive, it is essential that AIDS education be easily accessible. Sadly, many ex- tremist organizations have denied this reality. Fear. of the disease continues to suppress AIDS infor- " mation in schools and in the workplace. Much ignorance still exists about how AIDS is "We as a society must learn how to coexist with people who have HIV," said Johnson. Learning to coexist may require greater tolerance and under- standing from people who know or work with AIDS victims. Many of Johnson's colleagues in the NBA failed to live up to the courageous example he set, instead complaining that they feared playing basketball with Johnson because they might con- tract AIDS. Magic's electrifying performance at the Olym- pics may have offered many Americans their first glimpse of an actual HIV victim. By running circles around his opponents, Johnson helped break down the stereotypes about AIDS/HIV victims. Yet, Magic's second retirement makes clear that this was only a small first step. during World War I. He didn't say many words, but his watering eyes and shivering hands said more than his mouth could ever hope to. In a short moment of emotional intensity he summa- Armenian, this sad history forces its way into my head. Confronting, my family's past means admitting that humans are capable of such acts, which, in turn, means that I am capable of rape and murder. rized years of a true living hell. My family, too, had been J murdered during the genocide. My grandfather saw his first wife raped by Turkish soldiers as others held him down. She was later killed, along with most of his family. My grandmother, his second wife, was luckier. She belonged to the aristocracy and artfully managed to escape, but never heard from her original family again. They came to America, worked hard and did well for themselves. Whenever the "old country" came up, my grandfa- ther would become obstinate, feeling sickened and humiliated by his family's tragedy. His family and friends thought he felt guilty about his past, like he - could have somehow stopped the atrocities from happening. He was different than most survivors - at least he wauld resnond Of course, I like to think I could never perform such acts. I'm sure the same goes for Turkish people, and I believe this is one reason why Turks. deny history, and why Arnenians like me loathe remem- Bering it. The meeting finished and I had become so engrossed in my thoughts that half of the crowd had left before I'd even noticed. The old man remained in the same spot, not moving and staring straight ahead at nothing. People milled around him and bright colors of clothing flashed by, blocking my view of the old man. When he came back into view, the old man still had not moved. I sat in my corner chair and debated speaking to him, or at least putting my hand on his shoulder. Visions of my grandfa- ther watching Turkish soldiers rape and kill his wife again occpied my mind No I decided.