It I I ml t tY One hundred four years of editorial freedom yane eyes new 'U' journalism unit in report By RONNIE GLASSBERG Daily Staff Reporter *A communication department faculty group has pro- posed an independent journalism unit in an 89-page proposal to a committee looking at revamping the depart- ment. Under the proposal, a major in journalism would require a dual concentration in another academic depart- ment. To what extent the proposal will impact the committee's decisions - due in six weeks - is unclear as committee members refused to comment. q The proposal was submitted Monday to the commu- ation advisory committee by communication faculty members Marion Marzolf, John Stevens, Joan Lowenstein and Brownson Murray. "Looking at the dean's charge to the review commit- tee, a number of us felt the committee would be over- whelmed and would not be able to give specfics to all of the items," Murray said. "It's assistance that they did not ask for." In June, LSA Dean Edie N. Goldenberg formed the six-member committee to determine the fate the depart- *t, which ranked fourth in the nation in the 1993 ourman Report. LSA Associate Dean John Chamberlin, interim chair of the department and chair of the advisory committee, declined to comment on the proposal. "Even if I had a reaction, I wouldn't discuss it," Chamberlin said. He also declined to discuss any of the details on the committee's progress, which has a Dec. 1 deadline to report to Goldenberg. ,The proposal recommends the formation of a sepa- r' e journalism unit, a journalism major that requires dual concentration in another academic field, an alterna- tive tenure procedure and a graduate master's program emphasizing advanced journalism skills and education in other academic fields. "We took a look at journalism curriculum and tried to See PROPOSAL, Page 2 STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Serbs kill aid worker; allies urge air strike Los Angeles Times SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze- govina -Bosnian Serb gunmen killed a humanitarian aid worker in an at- tack on a U.N. convoy yesterday, pro- voking a plea for NATO air strikes that was denied by the rebel-encircled U.N. command here. The fatal attack on the convoy near the U.N.-declared "safe area" of Gorazde was the second blatant af- front to the troubled Bosnian peace- keeping mission in as many days and appeared to be an attempt by Serb forces to test the limits of the world's seeming indifference to the 30-month- old Bosnian war. Serb gunmen had hijacked five truckloads of medical supplieseand equipment in the presence of French peacekeepers a day earlier and re- fused demands lodged atthe highest levels for return of the stolen relief goods. After Serb forces fired on the food convoy leaving Gorazde, killing the Bosnian driver of one truck, the Brit- ish commander of U.N. forces in the eastern Bosnian town appealed to the U.N. hierarchy based in Zagreb, Croatia, for a display of air power to punish the attackers, said mission spokesman Paul Risley. But Maj. Koos Sol, a U.N. mili- tary spokesman at the forward com- See BOSNIA, Page 2 U.S. pushes for arms to Bosnia The Washington Post WASHINGTON -The United States is scheduled today to begin yet another attempt to persuade its allies, Russia and the United Na- tions to let Bosnia's beleaguered Muslim-led government obtain arms to fight separatist Serb forces. But the Clinton administration acknowledges the effort may fail, and the campaign comes at a time of unease over the wisdom of try- ing to arm the Muslims. The administration wants to set an exact date for granting the Bosnian government an exemp- tion from a U.N. arms embargo. Arms would flow to the Muslims if the separatist Serb forces refuse to accept a partition of the country the Muslims have endorsed. U.S. officials express uncer- tainty that Britain and France, who fear a wider war, or Russia, his- torically a Serb ally, will go along. "What we want and what we will get are not the same things," a senior U.S. official said. KRISTEN SCHAEFER/Daily Burmese actress Yusana Khin performs "A Struggle for Freedom" at Rackham last night. Reversin From Staff and Wire Reports BEIJING - Just a few months ago, the Clinton administration con- sidered limited import sanctions aimed at toys, pharmaceuticals, clothes and other goods made by Chi- nese military enterprises. Friday, De- fense Secretary William J. Perry *ped an accord that provides U.S. assistance to help the Chinese mili'- tary make even more civilian prod- ucts. The turnaround is part of a U.S.- Chinese rapprochement that Perry is leading in a four-day visit to China. stand, U.S. opens doors to trade with China Perry, who has visited China nine times although never before as de- fense secretary, was warmly received and called "an old friend of China." He met yesterday with Foreign Min- ister Qian Qichen, Defense Minister Chi Haotian, the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Liu Huaqing, and the minister of the Com- mission of Science, Technology and Industry, Ding Henggao. University political science Prof. Kenneth Lieberthal believes that im- proved relations between the U.S. and China will benefit both countries. "The U.S. has decided that China is a country with which we must deal seriously. We can best encourage the changes that are occuring there now by an involvement with China," Lieberthal said. Perry called the meetings "a good start" and Chi said, "Both sides have shown a positive attitude for the res- toration and development of relations between the two armies." "It's not like we're developing an exceptional or special policy toward China," Lieberthal said. "Instead, we're removing it from a special catgory of simply not dealing with it." U.S. officials said the talks dealt with six issues: North Korea, the halt of long-range missile exports by China, nuclear non-proliferation, hu- man rights, defense conversion and the need to make China's military less secretive. Both sides affirmed commitments to a nuclear-free Ko- rean peninsula, the end of missile exports and nuclear nonproliferation. "Right now we're developing a mutual understanding to reduce ten- sions," Lieberthal said. "This will provide the cushion for when inevi- tably other things come up in the future." In contrast to Chinese meetings with State Department officials ear- lier this year, Perry's talks did not include discussion of U.S. relations with Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province, U.S. officials said. They described discussions of human rights as amicable, taking up 15 to 20 minutes of Perry's two-hour meeting with the defense minister and three service commanders. Perry reportedly stressed that mili- tary relations could not develop fully without improvements in overall U.S.- Chinese relations and that human rights was an important component of that. A senior U.S. official said the talks were "non-polemical" and at least "an additional channel" to address such issues. State Department human rights officials have been largely sty- mied in their efforts to engage the Chinese government on issues includ- ing prison conditions, detention of dissidents and jamming of broadcasts of the Voice of America. AAT1 'ateri after By CATHY B( Daily Staff Pattrice Maurer, n Arbor Tenants said she hopes stu little patient" with h Fund-raising, sh the office's availab ing as they search f funding. After a year of ar of budgetary deba Student Assembly other vote to fund ht. "I'm disappoint in an interview last like to reassure stud continue to keep ou U seai iative rches for funding MSA lobbyist makes MSA votefails DGUSLASKI Maurer said that since AATU staff Reporter and volunteers will now need to help coordinator of the raise funds for the tenants' union, ' Union (AATU), students may have some trouble con- dents will be "a tacting them. her office.' After MSA reopened its surplus e said, may limit and reserve budget for review, LSA ility for counsel- Rep. Brooke Holley proposed mov- or new sources of ing $4,500 from the capital goods reserve fund to the AATU. guing and months Holley said she supported giving te, the Michigan AATU funding until students could failed on yet an- vote on the ballot question in Novem- the AATU last ber. The ballot question asks, "Shall the MSA fee be increased by $0.25 at ed," Maurer said the beginning of the Winter term of t night. "I would 1995, for the exclusive purpose of dents that we will funding the Ann Arbor Tenants' ir services open." See AATU, Page 2 assault bill, By CATHY BOGUSLASKI Daily Staff Reporter The Campus Sexual Assault Vic- tims' Bill of Rights will be the first priority of student-hired lobbyists in Lansing, LSA Rep. Andrew Wright said yesterday. The Michigan Student Assembly has hired the lobbying firm of Cawthorne, McCollough, and Cavanagh to lobby the state Legisla- ture for students. Dennis Cawthorne, a partner in the firm, spoke to the assembly last night. He said the "lame duck" ses- sion of the legislature to be held after the Nov. 8 election will be a good time to push for the bill, which re- quires universities to protect the rights of sexual assault victims. "If we can get it out of committee, I think we will be successful," Cawthorne said. top priority Cawthorne recommended another legislative priority for students would be a House joint resolution that would tie tuition increases to the cost of living increase. Because it has not yet been passed by either house of the state Legisla- ture, Cawthorne said he believed the bill is not going anywhere this ses- sion. Yet he said it has potential in the next legislative session, which begins in January. He also stressed the need for orga- nizing at the grassroots level. "Good lobbying needs grassroots. We view this as a team effort involving us, and you (students) ... grassroots and pro- fessionals," Cawthorne said. MSA has appropriated $27,000 to fund the lobbyists. Rackham Rep. Roger De Roo asked Cawthorne how MSA mem- See LOBBYIST, Page 2 KIRSTEN SCHAEFER/Daily Dennis Cawthome, an MSA lobbyist, spoke to the assembly last night about ways his firm can help students gain power in Lansing. t U 'M' athlel By CHAD A. SAFRAN Daily Football Writer A Michigan outside linebacker was arrested early yesterday morning on charges of shoplifting a compact disc from Tower Records, store offi- nalc cau vrnctnrAorl te nabbed shoplifting Two Tower workers and a mall security officer pursued Laws and caught him near North University where the officer handcuffed Laws. The athlete was then escorted back to the store where he was arrested by Ann Arhnr nnlirp phone said Laws was unavailable. That party said Laws would return today. A police report had not been com- pleted at press time but was in the holdout bin at headquarters waiting tn he nrocesed nnlice nfficials said INSIDE ARTS 4 The Theater Department puts on an updated version of "The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams' play about a dysfunctional family in Depression-era St. Louis. Women carry whistles in defense against rape By LARA TAYLOR Daily Staff Reporter Women all over Ann Arbor can be seen carrying plastic whistles cour- tesv of the mayor. undisclosed location. Police yester- day refused to disclose any new infor- mation about Thursday's rape of a 42-year-old woman or any other as- nects of the investigation. i