Jr ieathor. Tonight: Rain showers, Low in the 40s. Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy, high in the upper 40s. r One hundred four years of editorial freedom *rni Monday March 20, 1995 .in Detroit, Gore touts Dems as working family party By Jonathan Berndt and Zachary M. Raimi Daily Staff Reporters DETROIT - Looking to the 1996 elec- tion, Vice President Al Gore defined the Demo- crats as the party of working families and children, outlining their fundamental differ- ences with Republicans in a speech Saturday ight at Cobo Hall. "We're going tostandup forworking people and in '96, they (the Republicans) will find their party out of power again," Gore told more than 1,000 Democrats at their annual Jefferson-Jack- son Day fund-raising dinner. The event, which cost $125 per person, attracted Michigan's most powerful Democrats, including Sen. Carl Levin and House Minority Whip Rep. David Bonior of Mount Clemens. "The fact that he's here a year and a half before the election shows how important Michigan is to Clinton's re-election," said Gary Brewer, state party chair. "The top of the ticket is in great shape." In his first visit since Detroit was awarded an empowerment zone grant in January, Gore said he was glad to be back in Michigan. "The last time I was here, it was so cold I froze stiff and nobody noticed," he quipped. Gore said the Republicans in Congress are trying to pass policies that hurt children, such as cuts in the school lunch program. "This administration and the entire Demo- cratic party will fight against this all-out war on children that the Republican leadership (has proposed)," Gore said. Despite what the vice president called the "incessant drumbeat of negativism" from the Republicans, he said the Clinton economic pack- age of 1993 reduced the budget deficit, lowered unemployment and improved the economy. Also, Gore said the administration's crime bill added 100,000 police to the street, and he criticized Republicans for attempting to repeal that- measure. "We are not going to let them take that crime bill from the American people." Gore highlighted fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans. Gore said-that his party wants to repair government, not dismantle it. "During these last two years, we have be- gun the task of reinventing government," Gore said. "We don't want to kill government and get rid of government. We want to fix it to make it work for the American people." Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) said Gore's visit to Detroit strengthens party unity. "I think his visit represents his desire for unity - nationally and locally," she said. "I think it energizes people." Levin said students play an important role in the Democratic Party. "I think the party is a natural place for students now," he said. "The kind of priorities that the Republican party is spouting these days is opposite to the kinds of programs students care about." Fraya Lynn Hirschberg, an LSA sophomore and member of the College Democrats, said she agreed with Gore's message of helping working families. "We don't need to support the rich who already can help themselves," she said. Students to vote on SLS fee hike By Amy Klein Daily Staff Reporter Whenstudents enter the polls to vote in the Michgan Student Assembly elections this week they will confront only one ballot question - whether Student Legal Ser- vices funding should be raised by $2.07 per student. Currently, each student pays $3.93 to help fund SLS, which provides free legal representation to University 0 udents to settle disputes, including landlord disputes, oise violations and criminal violations. The fee increase would put funding at an even $6.00 per student. SLS Director Doug Lewis, who is also a lawyer with the organization, addressed MSA at the beginning of March to request additional support. "Things downstairs are getting very, very tight," Lewis said. "The independence of SLS has a price." Two weeks ago, LSA- Rep. Paul Scublinsky formed the student group Students for Student Legal Services to iducate the community about the work that SLS peforms. "The more students know about SLS and what SLS does, the more they will realize how important the ballot question is to them," he said. In campainging for the passage of the hike, Students for Student Legal Services circulated a petition endorsing the fee to the MSA presidential candidates. While some think the petition will not greatly impact student reaction to the ballot question, the candidates remain unanimously in favor of increased funding to SLS. "If there is no increase then SLS will have to cut back vices, including the number of lawyers and the caseload ey take," said Mike Christie, the Wolverine Party presi- dential candidate. "This increase would keep SLS finan- cially sound for the next five years." While Jodi Masley was the only presidential candidate not to add her signature to the petition, several other candidates question the petition's influence. "I think that students know more than we sometimes give them credit for and as a result they would probably favor a fee increase for essential student services," said lint Wainess, the Michigan Party presidential candi- ate. 'Uto ivest in emerging nations By Cathy Boguslaski Daily Staff Reporter The University will invest $50 million of its endowment fund in emerging countries, such as Mexico, Latin America and the former East- er bloc countries. The Board of Regents approved the invest- ment with a 7-1 vote at its meeting Friday. The invested funds are only a fraction of the University's $2.1 billion endowment fund. The $50 million will be invested in emerg- ing market debt, which carries a higher risk, but can have a higher return, than other University investments. Emerging market debt is highly volatile, carrying political, currency and credit risks, said Maggie Blakelock, a representative from Cambridge Associates Inc., the University's investment firm. The investments hold a possible 20-25 per- cent return when the bonds mature. Blakelock said the recent devaluation of the peso makes this a good time to invest. "It may be a bump in the road, what's happened in Mexico," Blakelock said. "We think the panic atmosphere creates opportu- nity. All we need is for the Mexican economy to stabilize, and we make 20-25 percent." Blakelock said that the University is look- ing into alternatives to the domestic stock mar- ket, such as real estate, oil and gas, as well as emerging market debt. She said last year was a poor year for stock market returns. Executive Vice President and Chief Finan- cial Officer Farris W. Womack said, "In this instance, we're not talking about investment in businesses. What we're talking about here is We are still in a period of deploying our assets in the global market." - Farris Womack chief financial officer sovereign debt, and it is volatile. There is politi- cal risk." The University will be investing in the emerg- ing countries through Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., an investment management firm. Womack said the University has been mov- ing toward a "global investment strategy" since 1989. "We believe in asset allocation over a long period of time," he said. "We are still in a period of deploying our assets in the global market." Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) voted against the investment. "I feel it should be a smaller amount than $50 million," he said. University Treasurer Norman Herbert said $50 million was the recommended amount be- cause, due to the size of the University's portfo- lio, the investment must be large in order to gain a significant profit. Regent Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor) sup- ported the initiative. "We're talking about in- vesting in a class of investments, not just invest- ing directly in Mexico." A green thumb Dianna Borel, an Ann Arbor resident, volunteers at the Kempf House to do spring cleaning yard work Saturday. The Kempf House holds brown-bag; lunches and seminars during the week. Hillel marks 50th Holocaust memory By Rachel Lawson For the Daily Fifty years ago, Allied troops lib- erated the survivors of Nazi *3ermany's death camps. In com- memoration of the people who per- ished in these camps, Hillel began its 16th Annual Conference on the Ho- locaust last night. Throughout the week, Hillel will sponsor lectures, photographs, films, music and panel discussions. "People have to educate them- selves about the Holocaust; keeping 0uiet is essentially the same as con- oning it," said LSA junior Darren Spilman, a member of the conference planning committee. "Holocaust awareness is not a Jewish thing, not a German thing-it's a human thing." A 24-hour candlelight vigil begins at noon today on the Diag. Throughout the vigil, students, faculty and other community members including Ann ArborMayorIngridSheldon, StateRep. Liz Brater (D-Ann Arbor) and U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) will read the names of those who perished during the Holocaust. Although 24 hours is not enough time to read the names of all 12 mil- lion who died, one name will be read every 10 seconds for a total of more than 9,000 names. Also at noon today Rabbi Robert Levy and Reverend Virginia Peacock will speak at Rackham Auditorium on "God and the Holocaust." University lecturer Ari Roth en- couraged the students in his Jewish American drama class to attend the conference. "I think this year's con- ference is especially comprehensive in bringing some really important writers, both scholars and creative artists, to campus who have explored a variety of ways in which we com- municate the horror of the Holocaust to a new generation," he said. Roth went on to preview upcom- ing lectures by Art Spiegelman, the cartoonist who wrote a comic book memoir of his father's Holocaust ex- perience, and Alvin Rosenfeld, a his- torian and author, who will discuss the American response to the Holocaust. Many students said they plan to attend various conference events. Jessica Kirzner, an LSA first-year student who plans to attend the con- ference, said, "The Holocaust may seem very far fromus here in America; this, however, is the very reason we must attend the conference." Event Higlights " March 20 at noon "God and the Holocaust" East conference room, Rackham N March 21 at noon "Gays and Lesbians during the Holocaust" East conference room, Rackham March 21 at 11:30 a.m. Memorial Service The Diag T March 25 at 8:30 p.m. An Evening with Survivors Hillel * March 26 at 12:30 p.m. "America and the Holocaust" Hillel March 27 at 7:30 p.m. "The Making of Maus" Power Center Regent asks for veterans' inclusion in symposium Faculty committee to hold, elections By Jodi Cohen Daily Staff Reporter Faculty governance will change hands today as four new faculty mem- bers fill the open seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. The seven candidates will vie for the positions in today's election at the Senate Assembly meeting. Senate Assembly is the faculty's governing body, and SACUA is the executive committee of Senate As- sembly. SACUA serves as the advi- sory body to the president, provost and executive officers of the Univer- sity and implements the actions taken by Senate Assembly. Three of the open positions are for three-year terms, and the othex seat is for a one-year term. Although the candidates differ on most of their specific plans and con- cerns, there are some underlying themes in their platforms. They sup- port an increase in faculty governance and improved cooperation between faculty and administrators. The following are the candidates' views expressed in their statements: Louis George D'Alecy, physi- ology professor: Schools and col- Ronnie Glassberg aily Staff Reporter Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) urged the University on Friday to include veteran's groups in a upcoming forum on the debate sur- rounding the Enola Gay exhibit. The symposium, which is scheduled for April 19 in the Rackham Auditorium, will focus on the debate around the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's exhibit on the B-29 bomber Enola Gay and the use of atomic weapons on Japan in 1945. 1 Baker said at the Friday meeting of the Board of Regents that University symposia are a useful way to discuss historical disagreements. But he said more important considerations exist in this debate. "That war held at bay and finally defeated the " My request a nis that veteran's ,groups and their supporters be provided full aces.3" - Regent Deane Baker R-Ann Arbor that need to be discussed as well," Neal said. "I have been a staunch supporter that we must get the veterans involved." Neal said the symposium would also focus on how a museum should portray a historical event when there is debate around the event - . . . ..