2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 14, 1995 DEAN Continued from page 1 Some SACUA members said they were positive about the direction of the committee. "I suspect that through the approach you've taken, you will be able to de- velop very good insight into the overall function of the operations by looking at one segmentof it," pharmacology Prof. Charles Smith told Karnopp. "I think your approach is quite right." However, some SACUA members said the original goal must also remain intact. "I do not believe that we should give up on an evaluation of the entire office.Ihope we can findsome mecha- nism for doing that," said human ge- netics Prof. George Brewer. Hartford said she is confident in the committee's future evaluation. "I have a great amount of faith in terms of what the committee will do," she said. "I look forward to their input." Karnopp said the evaluation will also look at the functions of the office and see if they are all essential. Loup said some functions might overlap with activities in other divi- sions of the University. "This is to ensure that there is no duplication of effort being done. If there is an overlap, we might look at how there can be a cooperative effort." Hartford said the Office of the Dean of Students offers unique services. Forexample, she said, "Idon't think there are any other counseling services at the University or services for stu- dents with disabilities," she said. "In some areas there may be some duplica- tion. It is fair to examine if these offices are complementary in their services." DPS confiscates Stoney Burke's drver's license - STUDENT TRVLI By Frank C. Lee Daily Staff Reporter Local streetperformerStoney Burke may dress like a clown, but officers from the University's Department of Public Safety were not laughing when they approached him over his use of profanity and confiscated his driver's license around noon yesterday on the Diag. Burke, a 43-year-old Ann- Arbor activist known for his outrageous cos- tumes, and sometimes controversial topics, was involved in an altercation with twoDPS officers over the issue of free speech. "DPS wanted to kick me off cam- pus," Burke said. "I started into my speech, and I said, 'Fuck Newt Gingrich!' An officer said, 'Youcan't say that around here."' Burke is one ofAnn Arbor's better- known personalities. For 20 years, he has offered his views to passers-by on the Diag and passed out leaflets in his bid to be the nation's next President. Dressed in rainbow-colored pants and a bright green blazer, Burke with his red and green hair, occasionally attracts attention from the law. "I was arrested 10 years ago for dis- turbing the peace on the Diag," Burke said. "Sometimes Iuseprofanityjusttoget started on the soapbox. We're on arigor- ous campus-not a day-care center. "This is the properplace and time to 800-1110STAAVEL great scre.. 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Burke claims the officers confis- cated his license and threatened not to return it to him unless he accompanied them back to DPS headquarters. "I drive a taxi for Yellow Cab, so they're taking away my right to earn a living in Ann Arbor," Burke said. "On my off-days, I go up to the Diag to speak." Skowron said the officers attempted to return Burke's ID, butBurke refused to take it. Burke disputes that account and said, "He could havejust set my license down and said, 'Have a nice day."' Burke requested that the officers return his ID several times. "We will return the ID to him," Skowron said. "We might cite him for misdemeanor trespassing which is a civil infraction. He could face 30 days in jail and up to $100 in fines." Burke graduated from San Fran- cisco State University in 1991, major- ing in speech and communication. "I love Ann Arbor," Burke said. "I love the Diag. I love free speech." WAIVER Continued from page 1. the next few weeks. "At the very least, I'd like to send some letters off and get in touch with NASA and other minority offices and put together a big coalition," he said. The University favors the continu- ation of the current program, said Walt Harrison, vice president forUniversity relations. Harrison said Glenn Stevens, the executive director of the Presidents Council, is lobbying for the program on behalfon the state's public universities. "All 15 public universities in the state support the continuation of the program," Harrison said. "All of the presidents decided that the Presidents Council would be the clearing house of the joint support of this program." The University's Office of Finan- cial Aid is also concerned by the pro- posal. AssistantDirectorElaine Nowak said the University's goal is "to maxi- mize every source so this is critically important to us. It represents almost one-halfmillion dollars in financial aid resources to Native American stu- dents." If it passes, Nowak said the Uni- versity would have to "redistribute our institutional dollars to replace it. Our pot of grant assistance is limited." Harrison said some students would not receive need-based financial aid. "Of the 72 (students), 33 would prob- ably not be covered by need-based financial aid programs," Harrison said. "So, that tells us that it would have a significant impact on our students." Diversity at the University could suffer should the proposal pass, said Nancy Roy, a financial aid officer and liaison with Native American students. "I have seen ourNative Americanpopu- lation certainly increase," said Roy, an 11-year veteran of the office. State Rep. Liz Brater (D-Ann Ar- bor) said she is opposed to the pro- posal. "There are many, many people dependent on this program to get equal opportunity in this community," Brater said. State Sen. John Schwarz (R-Battle Creek), chair of the Senate subcom- mittee on higher education, said mem- bers of his committee favor the cur- rent program. "Intuitively, I believe it's good public policy to continue the program," he said. Schwarz said he favors increasing the program's funding by 3 percent, an increase equal to what other higher- education grant programs will receive. Masserant said the governor hopes opposition to the proposal will be over- come "just by educating them. Just as we are making our point, (it is) contin- gent upon them to prove otherwise." Supporters of Engler's proposal say funds from Indian reservations with le- .va ra :- -rrnh -n rman . .raA t o A Postal plan would help bulk mailers WASHINGTON - Big magazine publishers and bulk mail advertisers - among the Postal Service's biggest customers - would get large price cuts on their postage under a plan announced yesterday by postal officials. The plan, which would touch virtually every category of business mail, would not affect the new 32-cent stamp price for a first-class letter. But the 20- cent postal card would increase to 21 cents. Business mailers who agree to place address bar codes on their mail and presort their letters and publications by zip code would qualify for deep discounts that could shrink their stamp costs by millions of dollars. Mailers who do not comply will find their postage more costly. Those are the two principal themes behind what postal officials described as the most extensive reclassification of the major mail categories that the agency has proposed since the U.S. mail service was created in the colonial era. Postal officials hailed the proposed changes as part of Postmaster General Marvin T. Runyon's effort to make postal rates more "market based." The proposals, to be filed later this week with the independent Postal Rate. nnC!in irarAhrnvttoo kommisston, tnggered snarp protests. Federal judge strikes down religion law WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Texas, ruling that Con- gress has no power to second-guess the U.S. Supreme Court's constitu- tional rulings, struck down yester- day a 1993 law designed to protect religion from government interfer- ence. U.S. District Judge Lucius D. Bunton III of Midland said that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was intended to overrule a 1990 Su- preme Court decision, but he said Congress cannot undo a constitutional ruling by passing a law. This was the first time a federal court had ruled against a law that is highly popular with many religious sects and denominations. The deci- sion created an important precedent against the law, but it conflicts with another judge's ruling last month up- holding the law. It thus increased the likelihood that the constitutional ques- tion will have to go to the Supreme Court for a final answer. The law at issue disagreed with a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling five years ago, casting aside years of precedents on constitutional protection for reli- gious practices. 0 Fuhrman keeps his cool in facing Bailey LOS ANGELES - Police Detec- tive Mark Fuhrman squared off with one of the nation's best-known de- fense lawyers yesterday, with the de- tective denying he ever met a woman who says he made racist comments and dismissing the suggestion that h tampered with evidence in the murder investigation of O.J. Simpson. Fuhrman, a 19-year department veteran, never raised his voice de- spite a sometimes testy cross-exami- nation by F. Lee Bailey, a nationally renowned trial lawyer who has pub- licly proclaimed his eagerness to ques- tion the detective, once going so far as to compare Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler* 14 W" , "' ~R-. NOT OI. t ^, .. I Students' WOMEN OF COLOR SYMPOSIUM Mitterand meets Castro, who declares apartheid' at end PARIS - Fidel Castro was treated to a trumpet-and-drum fanfare yes- terday at the French presidential pal- ace, where he happily told President Francois Mitterrand over lunch that his first visit to France signaled the end of the "apartheid" imposed by the West on his island nation. The Cuban president, one of the world's last surviving Communist leaders, was embraced by many in France, where the Socialist president himself recently called the U.S.-led blockade of Cuba "stupid" and where Mitterrand's wife is one of Castro's biggest defenders. But the visit, Castro's first to a major Western power, was vintage Mitterrand, who at age 78, ailing with cancer and facing the final two months of his 14 years in power, has been doing pretty much as he pleases. Le Monde, the influential, left- -leaning daily newspaper in Paris, viewed Mitterrand's warm welcome of Castro as "a last act of defiance against the Americans." Castro arrived yesterday morning from a U.N. summit on global pov- erty in Copenhagen in his traditional olive-green fatigues and headed straight for breakfast with the French first lady, Danielle Mitterrand. Christopher renews 6 shuttle diplomacy DAMASCUS, Syria - U.S. Sec- retary of State Warren Christopher, searching for a formula to restart di- rect negotiations between Israel and Syria, conferred for five hours yester- day with Syrian President Hafez Assad, exploring details of what peace might look like if it is ever made. Christopher said the meeting was part of intensive shuttle diplomacy between Assad and Israeli Prime Min- ister Yitzhak Rabin over the nitty- gritty details of security on the Golan Heights, matters such as demilita- rized zones and early warning sta- tions, even though the longtime en- emies are still far from an overall peace treaty. Christopher returned to Jerusalem$ last night and will report to Rabin this morning on his talks with Assad. The secretary of state will stop in Dam- ascus later in the day to carry Rabin's words back to the Syrian leader be- fore heading home to Washington. - From Daily wire services VOICES AND VISIONS The 2nd annual Women of Color Symposium will be held on Saturday, March 17-18 Assembly Hall of the Business School. It is open to all men and women in the UM in campus community and the general public. Learn about the various issues affecting women of color and how to work to create an environment conducive for people of all ethnicities. 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