LO WEATHER Daily Staff Reporter David Shepardson investigates the University's Washington office, which lobbies Congress on behalf of students. Jessica Fletcher would be proud. Jessye Norman's performance at Hill Auditorium Wednesday night once again proved she is a class of her very own. Read Keren Schweitzer's review. Michigan's football team begins Big Ten play tomorrow against Iowa. As the Wolverines eye their sixth straight Big Ten title, questions abound as to whether they can return to the Rose Bowl. Today Partly cloudy, warmer; High 64, Low 51 Tomorrow Mostly cloudy; High 59, Low 46 t UnY One hundred three years of editorial freedom I Vol. CIV, No. 3 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, October 1, 1993 01993 The Michigan Daily ACLU calls law school journal No.1I art censor I By WILL WADE FOR THE DAILY A University Law School publi- cation has been named "Arts Censor of the Year" by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The stu- dent editorial board of The Michi- gan Journal of Gender and Law re- ceived the award in connection with acensorship controversy which dates back to last October. The ACLU began giving out the dubious honor last year, attempting to call attention to perceived assaults on the First Amendment right to free Michgan Hc nresidents infavor of health plan LANSING (AP) - A majority of Michigan residents want Congress to approve President Clinton's health care plan, a poll released yesterday by the Michigan Hospital Association says. By a 57 percent to 27 percent mar- gin, Michigan residents wanttheircon- gressional representatives to vote for the plan, the poll found. "In terms of public receptivity for health care reform, they want it, they want it now," said Spencer Johnson, associationpresident. "They want health security. They want affordable health care." Sandra Bennett Bruce, chair of the association's board, said Clinton will find a friendly audience for such ideas as universal coverage, splitting the cost of insurance between employers and employees and raising "sin taxes." But they were leery of too much government involvement in the plan, said Bruce, chief executive officer of the Mercy Community Health Care System in Muskegon. The poll of 600 Michigan residents was done Friday through Sunday by the Lansing-based Public Sector Consult- ants. Ithadamarginof errorof5 percent. The survey found: 77 percent support having the federal government guarantee health care insurance to all Americans; *83 percent support increasing the cigarette tax and 86 percent favored * hi gher alcohol taxes to pay for the health care plan; * 58 percent support requiring all employers to pay 80 percent of the cost of health insurance and 75 percent sup- ported requiring every individual to pay 20 percent of the costs of coverage. Johnson said the willingness to pay was surprising; "Generally, when you look at these polls, folks want a lot of coverage, but See HEALTH PLAN, Page 2 speech and artistic expression. The Journal shares the distinction this year with nine other groups around the country. The ACLU pinpointed the Jour- nal for requesting that Ann Arbor artist Carol Jacobsen remove a vid- eotape from her display at a law school conference on prostitution last October. Student organizers - responding to a complaint by an- other speaker - claimed images in the video were taken from commer- cial pornographic films. ButJacobsen said her multi-media exhibit, entitled "Porn' im' age'ry: Pic- turing Prostitutes," was intended to give a voice to prostitutes, and included a documentary of prostitute interviews. When asked to remove a portion of the display, Jacobsen declared her work would stay intact or she would dis- mantle the entire exhibit. When the organizers refused to display the video, Jacobsen yanked her show. "This was one of the major censor- ship events of the year," said ACLU Arts Censorship Project Director Marjorie Heins. She said this episode was particularly chilling because it was censorship of a woman artist's work about women in the name of feminism and women's rights. However, one of the students in- volved in the Jacobsen controversy dis- counted the censorship prize. "This is an award for a non-event," said third- year Law School student Bryan Wells. "This has little to do with the First Amendment." Wells is on the Journal's student editorial board and was involved in the decision toremove the tape. He claimed he and the other student editors were entitled to set the agenda for the event. "This was not suppression of art or speech," he said. "We don't have to show this at an event we arranged." Butthe award was goodnews to the artist."I was glad to hear it," Jacobsen said. "They deserve it." The local conflict sparked national debate on pornography, feminism and free-speech. It was eventually covered in the New York Times, Detroit Free Press, San Francisco Chronicle and other national newspapers and televi- sion news broadcasts. Heins said she hopes the award will call attention to free speech restrictions on college campuses. Other recipients of the "award" included the Federal Communications Commission for try- ing to silence radio personality Howard Stern, and a Wisconsin school district for banning Judy Blume's novel "For- ever." Jacobsen and the ACLU threatened legal action against the law school. They later reached a settlement, receiv- ing funds to reinstall the exhibit and permission to organize a forumon sex workers, feminism and censorship. 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