Weather Tonight: Clear, scattered snow, low 330, Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, high around 570. CAir IEIUUR Unt I One /undredfive years of editorialfreedom Tuesday April 16, 1996 6op questions source of De. funds By Stephanie Jo Klein Daily Staff Reporter As campaign donations roll in, the battles for Michigan's nine Democratic and seven Republican seats in the U.S. House of: Representatives are intensifying. Oandidates from both sides are try- ing to raise enough money to alter the balance of party power and are butting heads over the sources of their oppo- nents' funding. Reports filed yesterday with the Federal Elections Commission gave etailed information on campaign funds donated between Jan. 1 and March 31, and they showed wide dif- ferences in funding levels from indi- viduals and Political Action mittees. One of the largest fund-raising rganizations this year is EMILY's List, a group devoted to helping the lection efforts of pro-choice Democratic women, including U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor), U.S. Rep. Barbara-Rose Collins (D- Detroit), and Debbie Stabenow, the Democratic challenger for the Eighth, gressional District seat now held U.S. Rep. Dick Chrysler (R- Brighton). "In 1985, when EMILY's List start- d, there were no Democratic women in the U.S. Senate and only 12 in the House," said EMILY's List communi- ations director Frank Wilkinson, adding that there are now five emocratic female senators and 32 - Democratic female representatives. Wilkinson said the group does not My issues but aids women's cam- Rot aigns for U.S. Senate. House and fixe gubernatorial seats. Group administra- ors write biographies on the candi- ates and distribute them to the 36,000 embers nationwide, who then decide ndividually whether or not they want o donate to the campaigns.V "We certainly have done our part. It's a hard job to get women elected." lkinson said. Lau hn Baker, Chrysler's campaign Daily Stai nanager, took issue with the dona- As t ions that Stabenpw and others have tonight. eceived. He equated the funds with membe 'special interest money - not unlike and Vi ACs." scored Stabenow's quarterly campaign outside 'und report showed $199,119 of indi- chambe vidual contributions, compared to "Sam 78,323 from PACs. Members of siders," IMILY's List are identified as such, versed their donations are itemized indi- the peor ally on the FEC reports. was a se "For her campaign to try to call better s hose 'individual contributions,' I Wain on't think that's a pitoper representa- with vo ion of the source" Baker said. "She's sentatia rying to fool the public" dents w care an See FINANCE, Page 2 "1 th deal lectur( c won y Maggie Weyhing itaf Reporter n Apple award recipient Carol Boyd elivered an address - billed as her last ideal ecture - to a crowd of about 200 on the por- rayal of women in cigarette advertisements and ts effects on women's health. Boyd, a School of Nursing professor. opened ier lecture last night with a response to com- laints she said she received concerning the title f her lecture, "Smoke and the F' word: Women nd Health." any didn't like the title of my lecture - Fey said that it was unladylike and unscholarly," oyd said. "But I knew that if I used the actual word femi- lism, that many of you would not have come ecause there is such a negative view of feminism." While presenting slides of cigarette ads dating rom-the turn of the century to the present, Boyd ITsraei attackon BIr.Ilt interlsifies I Los Angeles Times BEIRUT - As diplomatic efforts intensified to end the conflict in Lebanon, Israeli fighter jets yesterday carried out a fiery attack on the second power station in the capital in two days, plunging this city into darkness and reminding the demoralized populace of its suffering during the coun- try's 15-year civil war. In the fifth day of the operation, code-named "Grapes of Wrath" by Israel, seven people were killed and 20 were wounded in Lebanongmainly from the relentless barrage of thousands of artillery shells and rockets in the south of the country. Thirty-three Lebanese -all civilians - have died in the Israeli campaign. The offensive, which has caused more than 400,000 Lebanese to flee their homes, is aimed at pressuring Lebanon to eliminate once and for all the threat of rocket attacks on civilian targets in northern Israel by the militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. Hezbollah showed its defiance by renewing its threats of suicide bombings and increasing its barrage of Katyusha rockets into Israel. Eight Israelis were reported wounded by rocket attacks yesterday. Since last week, one Israeli soldier has been killed and more than 40 Israelis have been injured in cross-border firing. Lebanon, however, clearly has been getting the worst of it. Israeli artillery, aircraft and helicopter gunships have been especially active around the southern town 01' Nabatiyeh - where a lezbollah-run hospital was reported shelled - and on the outskirts of Tyre, the southern port city that Israel ordered evacuated Sunday. In Beirut. the mood was unmistakably grim. With anti-aircraft guns pointing skyward throughout the city, warships on the horizon, ambulances racing through terror-filled streets and the dull thud of more strikes by attack helicopters on the southern suburbs, a sense of dread that the city of 1.2 million people is moving back- ward in time, toward its not-so-distant war-torn past. increased. Shortly after 5 p.m., a loud boom shook the city and-res- idents looked up to see a column of smoke and fire rising from the power station on the heights of Bsalim, five miles northeast of Beirut. Like the power station at Joumri the day before, it had received a direct hit from an Israeli jet. As firefighters raced to the scene, power went off across the city - a huge economic and psychological blow to res- idents who had begun to have hope that Beirut was finally rising from the ashes of the civil war. Chrinstopher asks leaders to end fightigm The Washigton Post WASHINGTON - Five days after Israel began an intensive cam- paign of airstrikes against suspected terrorist sites inside Lebanon, Secretary of State Warren Christopher telephoned regional leaders yesterday in a bid to stop the fighting. But the United States con- tinued to give Israel a rhetorical. green light. U.S. officials said yesterday, responsibility lies entirely with Hezbollah guerrillas who violated a 1993 agreement by firing rockets into Israel. Senior administration officials, who did not want to be identified, said they believe Hezbollah takes its cues from Iran and is trying to use terror attacks against Israeli civilians to disrupt Middle East peace negoti- ations. But they said it would be pre- mature to declare that Hezbollah and its militant Palestinian ally, Hamas, have succeeded in doing what President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres have pledged they would not allow: halting the peace process. "What is happening now is a bad thing, but the task of diplomacy is to work through it," a senior administra- tion official said. Though Israel-Syria talks have broken off and Israel has postponed negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S. officials said they hope thk talks MARGARET MYERS/Daiw I had a hammer bert Dennis, head of props for "Grand Hotel," which will go up Thursday through Sunday, es chairs backstage yesterday. More than 30 chairs break during each performance. (5! Udlly VaineSs, Goodstein bid farewel to MSA rie Mayk ff Reporter heir term comes to an end , Michigan Student Assembly rs say President Flint Wainess ce President Sam Goodstein more points - and votes - the assembly than in MSA rs. and 1 came to MSA as out- Wainess said. "We were not in the rules and we didn't know ple very well. What we did have ense of purpose - an agenda to tudents' lives." ess and Goodstein took office ows to increase student repre- n on campus and provide stu- rith access to affordable health id an online MSA. ink they accomplished what they set out to do, whether I agree with it or not," said LSA Rep. Srinu Vourganti, a Wolverine Party member. The duo's term ends at tonight's "in- out" MSA meeting. and assembly mem- {- - bers have mixed reactions to the expiring regime's effectiveness.' "The assembly decided they didn't want to work with Flint and Sam. and Flint and Sam decid- ed they wanted to Wainess serve students- and therefore decided to work outside the assembly," said LSA Rep. Dan Serota, a Michigan Party member. Independent Engineering Rep. Bryan Theis said Wainess' partisan attitude alienated assembly members. "His stature was not poor anywhere. but it was much stronger outside of 3909 Michigan Union," Theis said. Their work outside the assembly helped to secure a student representative to the University Board of Regents and student representation on University committees, including the Presidential Search Advisory Committee. "Before Flint picked up the reigns from (former MSA President) Julie Neenan, students had zero voice with the regents;' said Fiona Rose, who will be sworn in as MSA president tonight. "We now not only have a permanent seat, but a biannual address to the regents." Wainess' proposal for affordable student health care is just now coming to fruition. MSA has contracted M- Care to conduct a free cost-analysis study for the program. Rose said the slow and gradual progress is common when working with large corporations. Although MSA's relations with the administration and ,.. service organiza- tions like the Ann Arbor Tenants Union are viewed as Wainess' successes, Wainess alsor received his most{ daunting criticism for these relations. Goodstein Assembly members accused Wainess of taking a soft stance on the Code of Student Conduct, which the assembly opposes, in talks with the administration last semester. tackles etackles ien s issues Boyd went on to deconstruct certain cigarette ads, demonstrating the ways in which they con- tain implied gender messages. These gender mes- sages. Boyd said, contribute to many female health problems, such as eating disorders. "Cigarette ads objectify the female body and contribute to the idea of the slim ideal that is dif- ficult to live up to." Boyd said. "Cigarette ads are then linked to body size, weight control and eating disorders," she said. Boyd used the example of early 20th century Lucky Strike advertisements that told women to "Reach for a Lucky Instead," condoning the use of cigarettes to suppress eating in order to remain slim. She also said the current ad campaigns of Virginia Slims present an ideal weight for women. Boyd added that cigarette ads perpetuate mysongynistic views and depict women as being ' envious of men and anti-intellectual. "I'm going to work differently on the Code," Rose said. "It doesn't have any place in the political arguments of the assembly." The executive office held its ground in opposing the Code, Wainess said. "We waged the most productive fight that has ever been waged against the Code," Wainess said. Discrediting the Code by cooperat- ing with the administration and work- ing from the inside was the most effec- tive approach, Serota said. "We now have people who don't like the Code voting on the Code. "If we can make it so there are peo- ple who say 'to hell with you, we're going to do what we think is right regardless of what the 'Code says,' that's better than fighting it," Serota said. Chemical fire erupts By Will Weissert Daily Staff Reporter Ann Arbor firefighters reported to the University's Dow Building on North Campus on Sunday when a small amount of the toxic chemical phosphine was released into the air, causing a small fire in a laboratory gas box system. Ann Arbor Fire Department and Department of Public Safety officials report that no one was hurt by the early-morning fire. The chemical was released when a pipe in the laboratory's hood contain- ment system became disconnected from the source of the gas. The gas then ignited when it came into contact with the oxygen in the air, said DPS spokesperson Elizabeth Hall. EIUZABETH LIPPMAN/Daily School of Nursing Prof. Carol Boyd, who won this year's Golden Apple award for teaching excellence, delivers her ideal final lecture last night in Rackham Auditorium. ,: