MSA dis gmad stud dis By Laurie Mayk Daily Staff Reporter One of the Michigan Student Assembly's four student nominees was ointed yesterday to serve on the versity's Presidential Search Advi- sory Committee. MSA President Flint Wainess pre- sented the names of two undergraduate and two graduate students to Provost J. Bernard Machen last month. Machen named one of those nominees, LSA junior Jennifer Norris, as his choice for the undergraduate representative. "I'm slightly disappointed that the ofer nominees are not on, but I think t is a victory for MSA," said LSA Rep. Probir Mehta. Mehta is the chair of MSA's Campus Governance Com- mittee, which collaborated with Wainess in selecting the nominees. MSA Vice President Sam Goodstein, ACUA mc By Jodi Cohen Daily Staff Reporter Faculty represent more than half of the presidential search advisory committee's membership. But Senate Assembly Chair George Brewer said he is concerned that none of the members hold seats in the f lty's governing body, or in its ex- eive branch, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. "No one from Universitywide fac- ulty governance is on the committee," Brewer said. "Only one person from our list of 14 recommended faculty made it on the committee." SACUA nominated psychiatry Prof. Huda Akil in the list it presented to Provost J. Bernard Machen, who sub- *eed his recommendations to the Uni- versity Board of Regents yesterday. SEARCH Continued from Page 1A a distinguished list ... I see no one on this list who has been involved in a presidential search." Other regents disagreed about the to have more alums, especially since the board unanimously approved the structure of the advisory committee last month. Members of the board also pointed out that alums are represented on the committee - some of the faculty, in- cluding Lehman, are alums. Six of the regents, not including Baker, also gradu- ated from the University. Sefore voting on the committee's bers, the board defined the role of the committee. Regent Shirley McFee (R-Battle Creek), co-chair of the search, stressedthat individual regents can provide input in the beginning stages of the search and after the advi- sory committee discloses all the candi- dates. "There is nothing to preclude any of us to ask the committee at any time in the process to add an individual y e to the list," McFee said. "It is only possible, it is our responsi- bility." Regent Laurence Deitch (D- Bloomfield Hills) added that the re- gents have the final word on who should serve as the next president. "Any name at all can be considered, and will be considered, by the board," Deitch said. The board also emphasized a need fihe advisory committee to maintain candidate confidentiality. "If some member of this committee violates the rules ofconfidentiality, they will blow the whole search," McFee said. Machen said it may be appropriate for the regents to discuss the concern on Friday, when they meet publicly with the advisory committee. At that meeting, the regents are sched- to present their charge to the com- ee, along with a finalized presiden- tial job description. When the regents debated the criteria MSA Continued from Page 1A type ofa Michigan Party web site being developed by the party. *t's just a work in progress - it shouldn't have been accessible," she said. Mehta said the party plans to an- nounce a Michigan Party web site when it releases its complete slate of candi- dates tomorrow for next month's elec- LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 29, 1996 - 5A appointed in TheCh ent mince c an MSA nominee for the graduate posi- tion, was not chosen. "I'm really disappointed that they didn't choose the person MSA selected," Goodstein said. "This shows a lack of initiative on their part on what MSA has to say." Goodstein said he was disappointed he was not interviewed or contacted by Machen about the position. Machen said he considered the MSA nominees, but made his choices ac- cording to other criteria. "(The MSA nominees) were care- fully considered," Machen said. LSA Rep. Michael Nagrant, a CGC member, said the rejection of Goodstein's nomination for the gradu- ate position doesn't reflect on the administration's attitude toward MSA. "The administration used their own criteria for that position. I don't think it meant any : less re- spect for M S A ,f" Nagrant said. "I triede to pick representative students of the Univer- sity," Machen said. "They weren't picked because they represent any particular or- ganization or entity." The MSA endorsement was a definite factor in the announcement, Norris said. "I think that the provost took the MSA reccommendation into account the most," she said. The first meeting of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee is sched- uled for tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. - Daily Staff Reporter Jodi Cohen contributed to this report. oncerned with lack of ambers on committee Students protest DPS actions By Allan izikson For the Daily Neither the arctic cold weather nor the strong winter winds stopped 15 National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition members from chanting "Hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist cops have got to go!" in front of the Department of Pub- lic Safety office at 525 Church St. yes- terday. The group gathered last night to pro- test what they call a "racist attack" by DPS on John Matlock, the director of the University's Office of Academic and Multicultural Initiatives. DPS locked its doors during the pro- test and dispatched an officer across the streettomonitorthe demonstration from the lobby of East Hall. DPS spokesperson Beth Hall said DPS believes people have a right to express their opinions. "As long as the protests remain peaceful, that's fine," she said. NWROC, a militant civil rights or- ganization that gained prominence last year after protesting the firings of the Dental School Three, claims DPS is guilty of exten- sive racial harass- ment and dis- crimination In rn against minority isout individuals on campus. "In reality, An N DPSisout ofcon- trol," said Jodi Masley, an LSA senior and one of the protest organizers. "They are harassing students and people in the community at large." Masley said she is convinced the Matlock incident is adirect consequence of the University's racist policies. "What happened to John Matlock just proves that the University is guilty of institutional systematic racism," Masley said. "The racism perpetrated by the administration is so pervasive that even a high ranking black official 1 1 National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition members Dwayne Chandler and Alex Krasnov protest yesterday at Department of Public Safety offices. SACUA Chair-elect Thomas Dunn, a chemistry professor, said the committee is heavily weighted toward administra- tors, including one dean and two depart- ment chairs. Both staff members on the committee are also administrators, he said. "It is a little heavy on administra- tively oriented people," Dunn said. "But, they are all faculty members." Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman will serve as the committee's chair. Economics department Chair Paul Cou- rant and English language and litera- ture department Chair Martha Vicinus will also sit among the group. Brewer said he has confidence in the committee. "I have hopes and expectations thattheywill doagoodjob,"hesaid."Ithink the selection of the chair is excellent." Brewer said he has "no idea" why Machen did not choose someone from faculty governance, but said, "Who bet- ter than someone from Universitywide governance to do that?" Machen said he focused more on finding faculty who had a broad per- spective on the University. "It was important that the committee be truly representative of the Univer- sity and not just any particular constitu- ency they represented," Machen said. One of the faculty members comes from the Flint campus, but Dearborn has no representation on the commit- tee. Machen said Nora Faires, a history professor at Flint, will represent the interests of both satellite campuses. "When you look at the total number of faculty, one-seventh come from Flint and Dearborn campuses combined," he said. "Eighty-five percent are here in the Ann Arbor campus." NV can fall victim to it by the DPS." Wayne State University student Jimmy Huang, who was protesting yes- terday, said he believes racism here and on other college campuses is an outcome of stu- YDPs dent silence and control . inaction. "It's the absence of large - Jodi Masley student move- NROC protest ments that, in a organizer sense, has allowed this level of rac- ism to foster and these incidents to occur. "At Wayne State, the campus police is conducting a witchhunt of black stu- dents in connection with the recent crime wave. They're claiming that every black man fits the description of the rapist," Huang said. As NWROC members chanted and marched with signs that read, "Hey, DPS, fight dogs, take your fangs off Matlock," the passersby looked on with curiosity. One student said he was pleased with the demonstration. Rob, an LSA junior who did not want to release his last name, said he thinks NWROC is doing the right thing. "I think DPS is extremely racist. I wish more people had the balls to do what (the protesters) do," Rob said. Amy Lebowitz, an LSA senior, said she personally has never seen any dis- crimination by DPS. "I think discrimi- nation is certainly a bad thing. (DPS') presence is important in terms of safety," she said. Most onlookers refused to comment on the event. One student said, "I'm not commenting. I am going to keep my mouth shut." NWROC member Anya Wislocki, a Detroit resident, acknowledged the group is militant and unorthodox in its methods. "We stand by it proudly,"he said. "(This demonstration) shows that we are the only group, extremist or not, to stand up for John Matlock. I'd like to disarm the DPS and get them off the campus." .tip for the job of University president in yesterday's meeting, Baker introduced a motion that the new president should "encourage dialogue" about political correctness. "When discussion of important and contentious matters is pre- cluded on a university campus be- cause such discussion is not politi- cally correct, communication stops," Baker said. "Like the Devil, political correctness has a thousand masks and a thousand homes, including the University of Michigan." None ofthe regents seconded Baker's motion. "While I might or might not disagree with (Baker's) position on political cor- rectness ... 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