WE *ri One hundred three years of editorial freedom 'U' agenda for women to include goals for recruitment By JAMES R. CHO DAILY STAFF REPORTER * University President James J. Duderstadt will announce an ambi- tious plan tomorrow, designed to im- proved the climate and opportunities for female faculty, staff and students - to be implemented immediately. The plan, called the "Michigan Agenda for Women," will include specific goals for increasing the num- ber of women in high administrative positions and is expected to trans- form many facets of the University, ranging from gender equity in varsity sports to the appointment of women to top positions. Duderstadt will reveal the agenda at 1:30 p.m. in the Michigan Union Tappan Room and has withheld giv- ing specific details of the plan until then. "It is designed to recognize the important concerns about women that are not being addressed at the Univer- sity," Duderstadt said in an interview Tuesday. "We hope to change the climate and create more opportuni- ties for women at the University by addressing the pressures they face including sexual harassment, the glass ceiling, ... and under-representation in certain fields." Jayne Thorson, a member of the University's Advisory Commission on Women Issues, will work as a coordinator and liaison for the agenda. Thorson praised the Duderstadt's at- tempts to make the University more friendly toward women. "It's an ambitious effort to change some fundamental aspects of culture at the University. It is an attempt to increase the representation of women in faculty and staff positions and in positions of leadership." LSA Dean Edie Goldenberg agreed. "I am very pleased President Duderstadt is making this a top prior- ity," Goldenberg said in a telephone interview yesterday. "The climate at any large organization could always be better. I am glad our University is going to stop out and set the model for improving the climate for women at the University." Thorson noted the so-called "glass ceiling" that prevents women at the University from being promoted and said the women's agenda will address this problem. "Women staff and faculty mem- bers aren't offered the same opportu- nities for promotion," she said. "Women are terribly under-repre- sented. They tend to be concentrated in lower-paying jobs here." Mary Mattingly, an LSA senior, agreed. "For the most part, my pro- fessors have been female," she said. "I have noticed that when I go to an administrative office and I encounter a woman, she is usually the one work- ing at the desk." Thorson also said the policy is necessary to provide a level playing field in terms of promotion and op- portunities. Engler begins bid for 2d term LIVONIA (AP) - Gov. John Engler began his quest for a second term yesterday touting a tough guy image and claiming his policies ignited a hot streak in the state's economy. "For the first time in years, Michigan is on the right track. Our state is a national leader in reforming govern- ment, reforming welfare and reforming education," Engler said at an early evening rally with about 350 supporters. "We faced the challenge of tough times. We made the tough decisions. And today, we're confident about the future." Engler promised in the next four years he would create 400,000 new jobs, eliminate parole, make sure criminals serve their minimum sentences and fight for giving par- ents the right to pick the schools their children attend. In his first term, Engler said, he trimmed the size of state government, cut taxes seven times and slashed prop- erty taxes with the passage of Proposal A. "Together we fought the special interests - the tax and spend crowd. We said no to the status quo - no to business as usual. We told the world: Michigan's back and we're second to no one," he said. The campaign rally kicks off a "promises made, prom- ises kept, grass roots tour" that will take Engler to 41 cities. Engler was state Senate majority leader in 1990 when he eked out a whisker-thin victory over two-term Demo- cratic incumbent James Blanchard. His confrontational style from the start won him few friends. His popularity now hovers around 50 percent. Engler slashed the number of state employees by 8 percent with layoffs and program cuts. He also ended welfare programs and cut into arts subsidies to wipe out a $1.8 billion budget deficit. He ruffled the feathers of environmental groups with his reorganization of the Department of Natural Re- sources. Educators were angered by his attacks on teacher unions and his push to let parents pick the schools their children will attend. Mental health advocates were out- raged when he closed Detroit's Lafayette Clinic where some of the state's most severely mentally ill were treated. Engler's version is that he did what he had to do to get state government costs under control. His central campaign promise - to roll back property taxes -was kept this year. The March 15 vote to increase the sales tax will offset a cut in school operating taxes. The Engler camp claims his restraints on state govern- ment and the property tax cut have helped trim the state's unemployment rate, bringing it lower than the national rate for the first time since March 1978. And he boosts that his welfare changes have put more recipients to work. 23 percent of Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients work at least part-time. Democratic gubernatorial candidates said they won't let Engler shake his past. BombAft In ljtny Israel IN Eve ' m1 s 6, wounds 28 Islamic opponent of peace agreement kills himself in effort to end ongoing talks HADERA, Israel (AP) - An ap- parent suicide bomb claimed by Is- lamic opponents of Israel-Palestinian peace talks ripped through a bus jammed with soldiers and civilians yesterday, killing six people and wounding 28. Senior officials warned that two such attacks in a week could mean the start of a gruesome pattern that would be difficult to combat. Militant Is- lamic groups vowed they would carry out at least three more suicide bomb- ings as revenge for the Feb. 25 Hebron mosque massacre. Officials reacted quickly to try to reassure the Israeli public, whose sup- port for the peace talks is largely based on the belief they will bring security inside Israel's pre-1967 bor- ders. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sent more troops to seal off the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where authorities believe the bomb was con- structed, but said he would continue with peace talks even in the face of future attacks. The morning explosion at the cen- tral bus station in this coastal city midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa reverberated across the country at the start of an extended holiday weekend, when Israel first mourns its 17,955 war dead on Remembrance Day and then celebrates its 1948 creation on Independence Day. Police said they suspect a West Bank Palestinian either rigged the explosives to his body or carried thema in a bag and ignited them after climb- ing in the back door of the public bus, which stops repeatedly on its route from Tiberius across the country to Tel Aviv. A second bomb left on a bench outside the bus was timed to go off at 11 a.m., when sirens sounded nation- wide for two minutes in memory of the war dead and virtually everyone stands at attention. It was exploded harmlessly by police. Bus passengers said someone out- side had noticed an abandoned black bag, suspected it contained a bomb, and was yelling at the driver to move the bus when the bomb inside the vehicle went off. Blood, flesh, glass and burning metal flew in all directions. "Suddenly there was a roar, I felt things hitting me from all sides," said Rachel Muallam from her hospital bed. "The man sitting next to me was either wounded or killed. He was completely mangled, covered in blood, his head lolling." See ISRAEL, Page 2 MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Chemistry Lecturer Brian Coppola delivers his "ideal last lecture" as he receives the Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching last night at Rackham auditorium. Coppola proUmotes lea n1g By ZACHARY M. RAIMI DAILY STAFF REPORTER Before this year's Golden Apple Award re- cipient, Brian P. Coppola, delivered his "ideal last lecture" at Rackham auditorium last night, he followed his custom of sipping a Diet Coke, which he does before every chemistry lecture. Speaking before about 300 people, Coppola, in a speech titled "How a Chemist Used Psy- chology to Repair an Engine, and Other Illus- trated Stories," spoke about the bad reputation chemistry has received, the role of organic chem- istry in a liberal arts curriculum and the impor- tance of learning in education. The Golden Apple Award, coordinated and presented by Students Honoring Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (SHOUT), was voted on by University students who fill out ballots that indicate their favorite teacher. Coppola was the first natural science teacher to win the award in its four-year existence. The winner receives a $1,000 gift, and must deliver an ideal "last lecture." "I believe that however you choose to ex- press yourself, whatever it is you're trying to communicate, you're involved in a teaching activity," Coppola began. Organic chemistry, Coppola said, suffers from three problems: bad press, bad word of mouth and bad advertising. He said natural See COPPOLA, Page 2 Population growth remains womsm U.N. troops may leave . Rwanda KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Gov- ernment troops and rebel soldiers traded artillery fire and fought street by street in downtown Kigali yester- day as Tutsi rebels pushed to capture Rwanda's capital. More Ie a preacher, Kevorkian presses on By HOPE CALATI DAILY STAFF REPORTER I By APRIL WOOD DAILY STAFF REPORTER One of the most critical factors affecting the environment is popula- tion. By the year 2050, the United Na- tions estimates that the world popula- tion will exceed 10 billion people, according to an article in the Amicus Journal. That's a lot of hungry mouths to feed. A direct link exists between population and ation of population growth is the fact that the United States is one of the largest consumers of global resources. "It's not necessarily a Third World problem," Plater added. "While the U.S. makes up only five percent of the world's population, it consumes 25. percent of all resources." Overpopulation will be addressed during Earth Week activities, includ- ing today's noon Water Condom Toss on the Diag. Activities like this one hope to encourage voluntary birth control so coercive measures will not have to be implemented, said Michelle Ferrerase, the Michigan Student Assembly's environmental issues ,df: