-1 ite f*6F 1 1 ml ti One hundred three years of editorial freedom N PER GĀ£Ombudsman dismissed after 13 years at 'U' In 1971, Perigo became By RONNIE GLASSBERG Daily Staff Reporter For 13 years, Donald Perigo has worked to solve students' problems within the University bureaucracy as ombudsman. Now, he has a problem of his own. In August, Perigo was told that his contract, which ends Dec. 31, would not be renewed. "I was stunned," said Elaine Nowak, who worked with Perigo as assistant director of the Office of Fi- nancial Aid. "I think he's one of the strongest student advocate voices I've encoun- tered on this campus. I've worked here 16 years," Nowak said. Josh Englehardt, an LSA senior, contacted Perigo this summer with. financial aid problems. "He helped me out with that and he got me some new scholarships," Englehardt said. "I have a very high opinion of him. I am very grateful for what he did. "As a person, he is obviously com- mitted to the students, yet also to the University. I think he's a fair man and a good person in general.... If he can get me to respect him, there's nothing he can't do. I've got a really low opinion of the administration at this University." The ombudsman's role is to assist students with problems within the University and serves as a mediator between the two. "I think it's a tremendous oppor- tunity for all segments of the Univer- sity to know there is a confidential place where individuals can raise questions, where they have the time to think about and be educated on alternative ways to solve problems," Perigo said. "It cycles information about what things are working and what might not be working. "It normally saves everybody a lot of cost from litigation and probably most important, it usually leaves rela- tionships in a friendly way." In 1981, Henry Johnson, then-vice president for student services, ap- pointed Perigo to be the University's third ombudsman. The position was created in 1972. , In a May 29, 1981 letter to deans, directors and department heads, Johnson said, "The ombudsman pro- vides an important service to the Uni- versity community, and Dr. Perigo is, I believe, an outstanding choice for this position." As ombudsman, Perigo reports to Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen A. Hartford. She would not comment on her reasons for not re- newing Perigo's contract. Perigo also declined to comment on the specifics of his dismissal, only discussing more general issues. "Basically, there's been"a change of philosophy within the division. I See OMBUDSMAN, Page 2 State may demand details on 'U' budget By JONATHAN BERNDT Daily Staff Reporter A proposal in the state Senate may require the University to disclose more of its budget if it wants to maintain its state-appropriated funds. Last week, State Sen. Jack Welborn (R-Kalamazoo) introduced a resolution to force state-supported leges and universities to provide e Legislature with detailed budgets. Currently, schools need to report only income and expenditures. Jerry VanderRoest, Sen. Wel- born's chief of staff, said it was a matter of accountability. "As long as the state is giving money to them, we should have some say as to how it is spent," he said. "There isn't another government ncy not required to submit such a budget." Lisa Baker, a University spokes- woman, said, "That's totally unreal- istic for an operation this size. The University needs thediscretion to make decisions about its own budgets." Walter Harrison, vice president for University Relations, noted the Univer- sity is not a government agency. "The Michigan constitution sets University up as a separate branch from the Legislature," he said. "At the moment, the Legislature appro- priates a sum of money, and the Uni- versity is in charge of spending it." In theory, line-item disclosures would allow the Legislature more control over a university's budget. By -eviewing spending by category, the See BUDGET, Page 2 SEEN BETTER DAYS Parliament in Haiti secured by U.S. f orces MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily An umbrella lies in a garbage can across from the Michigan Union yesterday after heavy winds and rain cleared up. Assembly members deate intrimfuningfor AT The Washington Post PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.S. forces took over the Haitian Par- liament building and the capital's City Hall yesterday, surrounding them with razor wire, armed troops and machine- gun-mounted vehicles in preparation for reestablishing a functioning civil- ian government under the leadership of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A special session of Parliament has been convoked by Aristide today to try to pass a bill that would grant amnesty to the military leaders who overthrew Aristide three years ago in a bloody coup. Parliament also is scheduled to discuss a bill that would separate the police from the army and place the law enforcement officers under civil- ian control. Many diplomats and hu- man rights workers view the separa- tion as crucial to establishing true civilian control here, Tomorrow, Mayor Evans Paul, one of the most popular men in the coun- try after Aristide, is scheduled to move back into City Hall. Large crowds gathered outside the barricaded government buildings. U.S. troops and Haitian policemen stood on the other side of the barriers, and the crowds taunted the Haitians. The securing of Haitian govern- ment buildings by U.S. troops was another sign that the United States is assuming virtually all responsibility for maintaining public order, despite pledges to leave those operations to the Haitians. Waving pictures of Aristide, the crowds chanted, "You can't shoot us now," while they pointed at the Hai- tian policemen. Dancing and clap- ping, the crowds also chanted that "Aristide is coming, he is in the sky, he will be here soon." The impoverished, emboldened crowds have begun to hold impromptu marches through the city and occa- sionally to storm food warehouses, looting the contents. Yesterday, about 1,000 people, pushing, screaming and fighting, broke into the warehouse of a Euro- pean relief agency, taking all of the bags of rice inside. Spokesman laian Guest of U.N. humanitarian operations said 300 tons of food were stolen in Cap-Haitien on Sunday and that U.S. forces were being asked to intervene. On Monday, crowds looted the CARE warehouse in the coastal town of Gonaives, 100 miles north of the capital, and two warehouses here. To lessen the possibilities of vio- lence, the U.S. Army began a mas- sively publicized, month-long pro- gram to buy back weapons from the civilian population. The first-day yield, an officer said, was 19 pistols, 7 rifles, 2 submachine guns, 8 tear- gas grenades and 3 fragmentation gre- nades. Crowds of Haitians gathered in the blazing sun around the Boren mili- tary airfield on the edge of the city to See HAITI, Page 7 By CATHY BOGUSLASKI Daily Staff Reporter The Michigan Student Assembly debated for more than four hours last night on the issue of funding for the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union (AATU). By press time, the assembly had not yet voted on whether to provide in- terim funding for AATU. Debate centered around an agree- ment between MSA President Julie Neenan and AATU Coordinator Pattrice Maurer. The agreement, said both Neenan and Maurer, provided that MSA would put the question of a student fee raise of 25 cents on its November ballot. If it passed, the funds from this fee raise would go exclusively to fund AATU. The two parties, however, dis- agreed on the issue of interim fund- ing. Maurer said she understood that MSA would provide funding between $6,500 and $8,000 to AATU to cover their expenses -until January, when the fee raise could fund them. At the meeting, Neenan said they had not agreed on a specific dollar amount, and that the funding need not come from MSA itself. "It's difficult for me looking at the budget to see where the money (for the interim funding) would come from," Neenantold the assembly. "We agreed that the AATU should get money to float on, not on whether that funding should come from MSA or other sources." Neenan said the possibility of in- terim funding from other sources was not part of her agreement with Maurer See MSA, Page 2 Yeltsin unveils sweeping reforms in foreign policy Health care reform moves forward in state legislatures The Washington Post MOSCOW - Russian President s Yeltsin went to the United States proposals for sweeping nuclear isarmament aimed at bolstering his sition at home and securing his lace in history, aides and experts ere said yesterday. Yeltsin chose the U.N. General Assembly in New York to deliver what he considered a seminal address, :onscious that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had used the same ue for a key 1988 speech signal- ing the end of the Cold War. The Russian president intended Monday's U.N. speech and his sum- mit meeting with President Clinton yesterday and today to inaugurate a new era of foreign policy-making, according to advisers who helped for- nulate Yeltsin's speech and other sources here. The Russian president proposed' that Russia, the United States, China, France and Britain agree on deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals and ban nuclear-arms testing and the manu- facture or reuse of nuclear materials. He also sought to carve out a Rus- sian sphere of influence within the former Soviet Union and called for regulation of conventional arms sales and greater efforts at global conver- sion of arms industries. But a cautious and even skeptical reaction to Yeltsin's proposals, both here and in the West, reflected the difficulty of coming up with crisp new world views in the muddy era of post-Cold War uncertainty. In par- ticular, many here questioned Yeltsin's call for deeper nuclear cuts at a time when earlier arms-control pacts - the Strategic Arms Limita- tion Treaties, or STARTs - remain A'' -HO Russian President Boris Yeltsin holds up a photo of U.S. and Russian soldiers in Elbe in the White House Rose Garden yesterday at a meeting honoring U.S. and Russian veterans of World War II. Role of Washington diminishes as health care bill dies in Congress The Washington Post WASHINGTON - For 91,000 uninsured Oregonians, this has been a year of great progress in health care: They now have health coverage un- der an experimental state plan for those not eligible for traditional medi- cal programs for the poor. While health reform is dead in Washington, it is gaining momentum in many states, signaling that funda- mental change is underway in the nation's health care system regard- less of inaction by Congress. President Clinton vowed Monday that the fight for a comprehensive federal health bill was "far, far from over." But the president's ability to follow through is uncertain given the veiled his proposals last year. "States are much closer to the needs of the constituents, and states see the growth of Medicaid as being (in conflict with) other budgetary pri- orities, such as education, roads and welfare," said Carl Volpe, health care associate at the National Governors Association. For state governments, the col- lapse of this year's effort to pass a national health bill is certain to add See HEALTH CARE, Page 2 INSIDE to be carried out (START I) or have not even been ratified (START II). "He needs to prove he can carry out a purposeful policy to its conclu- sion without getting distracted," said Alexei Arbatov, an expert on arms policy here. 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