I Itb weather onight: Chance of showers, w around 33*. omorrow: Cloudy, dry, high round 55°. One hundred sic years of editon lfreedorn Wednesday October 9, 1996 ZMEWE VISA votes o condemn nti-gay, ate slurs y ill Weissert aily StatReporter After Sunday night's chalking and hanging of another group's chalked nessages, College Republicans were eady to bury the hatchet - but mem- 'ers of the Queer Unity Project did not vant the issue to go away so quietly. The Michigan Student Assembly, vhile not addressing Sunday's chalking 1-+ite specifically, took steps to make ure events like it do not happen again n campus. The assembly passed a resolution ondemning groups that spread anti-gay nessages on campus. The resolution oes on to say that MSA will represent ictims, charging student groups who epeatedly participate in such actions >efore the Central Student Judiciary. CSJ, a judiciary body independent of SA, is authorized to take a variety of Oisiplinary actions against student roups including levying fines or even e-recognizing a campus student group. Ryan LaLonde, Queer Unity Project nember and chair of MSA's -esbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered ask force, said the resoluion did not ake a strong enough stance against iate messages. "I am not satisfied - but this is as nuch as I could do from an MSA per- pective," said LaLonde, who drafted he resolution. LaLonde said that while QUP was )ut chalking in support of National ~oming-Out Week on Sunday, mem- yers of the College Republicans hanged numerous messages to anti- ray statements. Before the vote, College Republican resident Nicholas Kirk condemned the ctions of a few members of his group. "'[he 57 members who went out and halked Dole/Kemp messages do not gree with the three members who lefaced (QUP) chalkings," he said. "I -ealize what these people did was not nature - it was not representative of he University of Michigan." Kirk said the College Republicans vere "ready to bury the hatchet" on the ssue. LaLonde said Kirk's description of day's event was only partially cor- ft. "There were six of them chalking our nessage and condemning it - when we isked them to stop altering our chalked nessages, Kirk said, 'It's our right to ree speech,' and walked away'" aLonde said. "He then referred to nembers of our group as 'those people.' "I've never felt invisible on this cam- >us until that night - their comments e me feel invisible," LaLonde said. ' oth LaLonde and Kirk said that when the two groups saw each other dur- See MSA, Page 2 President may be icked by Nov. 0 List of finalists planned to be released next week By Jodi S. Cohen Daily Staff Reporter The name of the next University president will most likely be announced as early as Thanksgiving, the search committee said yester- day. The Board of Regents, meeting as the Presidential Search Committee, will begin inter- viewing finalists next Thursday. According to provisions for the final stage of the presidential search, the five candidates the Presidential Search Advisory Committee recom- mends will be released Monday. The board will then meet in secret and in public during the next two days before releasing its list of finalists on Wednesday. The 12-member advisory committee - consist- ing of seven faculty members, two students, two staff members and one alum - has been working since March to interview candidates and narrow a list of 300 nominees down to five. The list of 300, which includes people who were nominated and who applied, will also be made public on Monday. Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman, chair of PSAC, also plans to present select materials that have been collected about the top five recommen- dations on Monday. Regents will get the names on Sunday, a day before the list is made public. "They have a little time to see who these people are before it's pre- sented to them," said Vice President for University Relations Walter Harrison. Regent Nellie Varner (D-Detroit), co-chair of the Presidential Search Committee, said the final stage of the search will move quickly. Beginning Monday, the committee will meet daily for at least a week. "We would like to conclude it before Thanksgiving," said Varner, whose term ends in January. "We will not rush to a decision more quickly than necessary, but we would like to make it as quick as possible." Varner said that even with a swift process, the 12th president will probably not take office until after Winter term. "I would be surprised if a new president starts by January," Varner said. "They may be available come summer - June, July" After the board gets the advisory committee's list, they will spend Monday afternoon and Tuesday in closed meetings to review the appli- cants' materials, including confidential informa- tion such as recommendations. "This is an opportunity for the regents to do their homework," Harrison said. Lehman, along with search consultant Malcolm MacKay of Russell Reynolds Associates Inc., will attend the sessions to answer regents' questions. Joan Lowenstein, an Ann Arbor media law attor- ney, said the closed meetings on Monday and See SEARCH, Page 2 Search ScheduleiThe Monday morning, Oct. 14: The Presidential Search Committee will meet openly at 9 a.m. when the Presidential Search Advisory Committee presents five recommended presidential f a candidates, along with a list of about 300 people it considered.I IV eU I Monday afternoon: Regents will individually review the contents of all applicants' and nom- nees' materials, as well as confidential materi- als collected by the PSAC. Tuesday, Oct. 15: The PSC will meet in a closed meeting to review applications. Wednesday, Oct. 16: The PSC will meet to cort sider and adopt a list of finalists in an open meeting. 50 students to join natinalLatino/a rally March on Washington, DC. planned for Saturday By Alice Robinson Daily Staff Reporter Almost 50 University students will be up earli- er than usual Saturday morning. And if everything goes as planned, more than 99,000 others vill join them. The students plan to meet at 8 a.m. Saturday in Washington, D.C.'s Malcolm X Park to criss-cross the nation's capital in support of Latino/a civil rights. The Latino/a and Immigrants' Rights March, which has been in the planning for three years, will take place for the first time on Dia de La Raza, a national day designated to promote Latino her- itage while the rest of the nation celebrates Columbus Day. "I think that the march is important to the Latino community nationwide," said Nora Salas, co-chair of public opinion for Alianza, the Latino/a student alliance. "It gives us a good start to the year." RC senior Dana McAllister, a member of the Michigan Student Assembly's Latino Task Force, who helped organize the fund-raising drive, said many events have occurred in the past few months that demonstrate an anti-Latino sentiment. "There's a lot of police brutality right now," she said. McAllister cited the undocumented Mexicans who were attacked by police last year in Riverside, Calif., as an example. California's Proposition 187 and other anti- immigrant legislation was part of the impetus for the march, the organizers said in a statement. Students said that events in the news have upset them. "A lot of stuff has been going on lately (that) is starting to greatly anger me," said LSA sopho- more Aracely Somoza, who last week worked on a bucket drive fund raiser for the Washington trip. Volunteers spent a great deal of time and energy raising much-needed funds for transportation, food, and lodging. "I would say my heart is defi- nitely into this for me to stand out and freeze for two hours," Somoza said. Volunteer Jorge Lozano, an LSA junior, devised his own method to slow down busy students on the Diag. "I'm wearing a couple of flashy colors to get the people in the mood of donating," he said. Lozano wore a 'aright red Mexican poncho and waved around maracas to get students' attention. The organization Marcha '96 is sponsoring University students. Leaders from different Latino/a groups on campus, including the Cuban American Students Association, La Voz Mexicana and Alianza united to coordinate fund-raising efforts and plan the bus trip to the East coast. Coordinadora '96 - an umbrella organization consisting of labor unions, student organizations and community-based groups around the country - is organizing the march on the national level. Coordinadora is loosely translated as 'Coordinating Committee,' said Juan Jose Gutierrez, one of the event's national coordinators. Main demands that constitute Coordinadora's platform include constitutional rights for all, equal opportunities and affirmitive action, free public education up to the University level, a $7-per-hour minimum wage, and an extension of the date of eligibility for amnesty for those who have entered the United States prior to Jan. 1, 1992. Gutierrez said college students are integral to the success of the march. "We think that students have always been on the front lines of social and political struggles in this country," he said. Five to 10 percent of Saturday's participants are expected to be college students. We are "coming to Washington, D.C. as human beings ready to assume our role ... so that we may be in a much better position as we enter the third millenium." Although the march is being touted as a way to promote Latino/a civil rights, organizers hope that people of all ethnicities will want to attend. "It's for anyone that wants to participate," McAllister said. WARREN ZINN/Dady Burning for Burma Lauren Angel attends a candlelight vigil sponsored by Amnesty International and the Free Burma Coalition on the Diag. Those gathered read poetry and discussed human rights in Burma. New coordinator es over AATU ~ ' By Bram Elias For The Daily The chief tenant of the Ann Arbor Tenants Union has just moved out. Saying she feels "at once free and bereft," Pattrice Maurer, coordinator of AATU, stepped down from her post last week after four years serving as the orgjnization's chief officer. apped to succeed Maurer is Larry Fox, the director of the Housing Law Reform program at the University's Department of Student Legal Services. Fox said he is enthusiastic about the role AATU plays in Ann Arbor. "Because of the AATU, tenants are treated better by their landlords," Fox said. "Tenants still may not feel like they treated well - and we still have r" to do - but things would be worse off without the tenant's union." AATU, a student organization that assists local tenants in struggles with landlords, is available to students at no charge. students," Fox said. "The numbers keep growing every year. The changing of the guard at AATU hasn't changed the organization's rela- tionship with the Michigan Student Assembly. "We're pretty comfortable with the new director (of AATU)," said MSA President Fiona Rose. "It's pretty much a no-brainer. We've stuck with the AATU, and we're going to stick with the AATU." Fox said he has "had no problems with the MSA and does not expect to have any." But MSA support was not always a given. Maurer's departure from the program ends an era during which AATU sur- vived reduced support. In 1993, responding to charges of fis- cal irresponsibilty, MSA members began searching for areas from which to trim its budget. AATU received about $2,000 annually from MSA - but served nearly as many Ann Arbor resi- , . .. I'. 1T , Student sexually assaulted in S,, Quad By Anupama Reddy Daily Staff Reporter A female University student was sex- ually assaulted in her South Quad dorm room Sunday evening, the second sexual assault reported to the Department of Public Safety over the past weekend. The assailants also stole personal property. Two men matching the perpetrators' descriptions were found Monday after- noon by DPS officers on South Quad's fourth floor and were questioned about the incident. One man, 24, was arrested for "pos- session of an illegal knife," and the other man, 21, was released pending further investigation, according to DPS reports. Neither suspect is affiliated with the University. "Police are investigating a criminal sexual conduct incident that occurred Sunday at South Quad at approximate- lv 8:20 n.m.." said DPS spokesperson WARREN ZINN/Daily Larry Fox, director of the Housing Law Reform program at the University's Department of Student Legal Services, is taking over Pattrice Maurer's job as coordinator of AATU. Some students don't remeber the sit- uation as being so simple. -Tl A AT r nse -, ant f -n.4ctif multiracial campus groups," Maurer asserted. ,,Wa,-'i- ln onAst aoinct tenant two reasons for leaving. "The accumulated stress of the situ- ation hal hcome incomnatible with my I