Ai 41W Weather Tonight: Showers likely, low around 560. Tomorrow: Showers likely, high around 64°, then cooling 1. One hundred sip years of editortlfreedom Thursday October 17, 1996 .-0 ,V1 No 1 Top pres. choices to be released Search moves ahead after legal injunctions Conflicting Schedules Yesterday, the Board of Regents announced a new plan for carrying out the remainder of the search for the 12th University president. Following a court ruling Tuesday, the plan is vastly different from the plan announced on Oct. 8, which was found to be in violation of a permanent injunction and the state's Open Meetings Act. By Jeff Eldridge Daily Staff Reporter At 9 a.m. this morning, the University com- munity will likely know the names of the five candidates recommended by the Presidential Search Advisory Committee to be Michigan's 12th president. Barring any additions or deletions by the University Board of Regents, one of these five Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News claim- ing the search plans violated a permanent injunction and the state's Open Meetings Act. Vice President for University Relations Walter Harrison said the regents' ability to make the best choice could be impeded by the judge's p 6 people will become the next University president. "I am delighted that we are finally going to have the chance to make our final report to the regents and to the public," said PSAC Chair Jeffrev Lehman, who will unveil the list. "We are pleased to be Morris declared two parts of the regents' planned search process illegal: a closed. informal session where regents could individually review back- ground material on all people con- sidered for the presidency, and private, one-on- "I am delighted that we are finally going to have the chance to make our final report to the regents and to the public." ruling - but that the process had to continue regard- less. "I think that the court ruling will severely restrict the information that is available to the regents.- Harrison said. "I think that may very well affect the search, but the regents fet. - Jeffrey Lehman PSAC chair New Plan Announced last night Today: The Board of Regents will convene an open meeting at 9 a.m. with Presidential Search Advisory Committee Chair Jeffrey Lehman. Lehman will release the names of the top five candidates along with 300 recommended names to the regents and the public. Lehman will also review the process used by the PSAC thus far. The regents will then review back- ground materials in an open study session. Tomorrow: The regents will meet in a closed-session "to review the specific con- tents of certain applications." Following this meeting, the regents will meet in an open meeting to consider and adopt a list of finalists for the presidency. Monday, Oct.21 and following:Finalists will visit campus for open interviews, town meetings open to the public and social functions open to the media. In the future: The regents will meet to determine the next steps. Old Plan Halted by court order Friday, Oct40 Sunday, Oct. 13: PSAC was to release the names of its top five recommended candi dates to the regents. Monday, Oct. 14: PSAC was to release these names to the public in an open meeting. Following this meeting. regents were to spend the afternoon reviewing candidate materials in private. Tuesday, Oct. 15: The board was to meet in secret with Lehman to review applica- tions of prospective candidates. Wednesday, Oct. 16: The regents were to meet openly to adopt a list of finalists for the presidency. Today and beyond:"Candidates could request one-on-one meetings with individ- ual members of the Board of Regents. able to present the long list of prospects that our mmittee was able to develop with the help of' The entire community," Lehman continued. "And we are especially pleased to be able to present our collective endorsement of outstanding indi- viduals who are willing to participate in a public process, should the regents choose to select them as finalists." Today's meeting comes on the heels of a rul- ing handed down Tuesday night by Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Melinda Morris. The search had been previously frozen after a wsuit filed by The Ann Arbor News, the one sessions between candidates and individual regents. One closed meeting, between the regents and Lehman, may proceed - with strict limitations that participants discuss only material that can- didates request to remain confidential. Now, the regents will review application materials publicly tomorrow afternoon, and the one-on-one meetings have been scrapped from the announced process. All other meetings between the regents and candidates will be open to the public. On Friday afternoon, the regents will present the final list of candidates they will consider for president. The regents may add or delete names from the list recommended by PSAC. despite their reservations about that. that the most important thing to the University now is to find the best possible leader.- Along with the final five candidates recom- mended by PSAC. the names of all other candi- dates nominated for the presidency will be revealed --- a list numbering some 300 strong. Harrison said the regents will not receive the names and records of the final fire nominees before the meeting tomorrow. "We're not giving anybody anything in advance." he said. In the nullified plan. the regents were to have received this information the night before the See SEARCH, Page 7A Suspect arrested n strng of assaults * Man suspected of attacking student in Bursley parking lot Anupama Reddy y Staff Reporter A man was arrested by the Ann Arbor Police Department on Tuesday morning on suspicion of two sexual assaults and two armed robberies, which occurred over the past two weeks. The 33-year-old Ann Arbor man was taken into custody by a team of uni- formed and undercover surveillance offi- cers, according to an AAPD statement. When police picked the man up, he *d his companion were apparently checking out several businesses on the south side of Ann Arbor, according to an AAPD statement. The suspect's name is being withheld 'I r . iil rsor3 University Connection *The 33-year-old man is being charged with his involve- ment in a string of robberies and assaults, including the Oct. 5 sexual assault of a female Unjiversity student.. The 18-year-old s assaulted and robbed at gunpoint Wn a North Campus parking lot across from Bursley resi- dence hall, University student on pending his sc hedul ed arraignment today. "we just need to get more evi- dence before he is c h a r g ed," said AAPD Sgt. Phillip Scheel. The man is allegedly responsible for two sexu- al assaults, including the attack and armed rob- bery of a f e m a l e North Campus Carrying their message Phil Booth, Lee Booth and Fred Chase picket on the corner of Liberty and Fifth streets outside the Detroit Free Press' Ann Arbor office yester- day. They are part of a group called Jobs With Justice, whose primary goal is supporting labor groups. Before they started picketing, they had wanted to go inside the Free Press office, but were barred by Ann Arbor police officers. Candidates mute on socia security Locals pose questions in final debate U At every turn, Dole takes on Clinton in 2nd face-off SAN DILGO (AP) - I .ooking to revive his White House hopes, Bob Dole forcefully challenged President Clinton's ethics and honesty in their final debate yesterday and said lie was different because "my word is my bond." Clinton ignored most salvos. saying "no attack ever created a job.' Determined to revive his White I-louse hopes in the cam- paign's final 20 days. Dole turned in an aggressive debate performance. airing differences with the Democratic incum- bent on welfare. taxes. alfirmative action. health care. Pentagon spending and ethics. But for all the point-by-point differences. Dole said the decision voters face on Nox. 5 boils down to this: "When I am president of the United States. I will keep my word. My word is my bond." After a traditional first debate with a single moderator, the second and final Clinton-Dole encounter used a town hall format, with the questions coming from a group of uncon- mitted 113 voters chosen by the Gallup polling organization. Ross Perot was again excluded by the debate sponsors, on grounds he had no chance to will the election. University communication studies Prof. Michael Traugott said the town hall format played to Clinton's strengths and helped him deliver a generally more powerful performance last night. "The president has a clear adxantage -not only because the president is more articulate, but he seems to connect more with people." Traugott said. Traugott said the audience was more responsiv e to Clinton's comments, and generally remained "emotionless" during Dole's commentary. See DEBATE, Page 8A Watchers: Style, not issues make imat PORTSMOUTH. N.H. (AP) -- Bob Dole's jokes drew some chuckles. One voter said she's "never disappointed in Bill Clinton" because "he can speak well,' Dole's~"stammer- ing and incomplete sentences" drew another's pity. After the second presidential debate yesterday, style, not specifics, seemed to make the major initial impression with one group of voters. And even style's impact proved marginal. "Nothing I saw tonight is going to change my opinion,' said Brad Cown, 38, a lawyer from Portsmouth who plans to vote for Dole. He and nine other people -- Dole backers, Clinton sup- porters and undecideds -gathered yesterday night on sofas and chairs, in a college professor's Victorian house. Their task was to decide if anything in the debate would make them rethink their opinions. Experts say Dole's tax cut will require the spending of social security dollars By Laurie Mayk Daily Staff Reporter Republicans and Democrats have responded to the issue of Social Security reform this cam- paign season with a collective silence. While both presidential camps vow the expenditure will be "off the table" in dis- cussing budget cuts, neither has presented a plan to revise the system - which many say cannot exist much longer in its current form. "There is no difference whatsoever (between the stance of Bob Dole or President Clinton) because neither has said zip," said School of Public Policy Dean Edward Gramlich, who chairs Clinton's Advisory Council on Social Security. The issue that has mobilized some of the country's biggest and most powerful voting blocks, such as the American Association of Retired Persons, is receiving minimal attention. "Both candidates think that this is a pretty complicated issue" Gramlich said. "As long as road, said Trent Wisecup, spokesperson for GOP Senate candidate Ronna Romney. Wisecup warned that an influx of 77 million baby boomers into the system is "somethiig that has to be dealt with on the political fray." Democrats and experts contend that Dole's proposal to balance the federal budget and cut taxes 15 percent across the board would require' - dipping into funding for a entitlements such as Social Security. "I don't think realisti- cally it is possible for him to cut enough non- entitlement spending to1 make it possible for him to make a 15-percent tax cut and balance the bud- get." Gramlich said. Olivia Maynard, former director of the state office on aging under Gov. James Blanchard. said keeping Social Security off the table and balancing the budget would be difficult "given the enormity of the 15-percent tax proposal." Maynard is a Democratic candidate for the University Board of Regents. Clinton has also promised that his plan to balance the budget will not result in cuts in Social Security. Republican proposals to slow the rates of increase for entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security have been perceived as "cuts" by Democrats, Wisecup said. "The federal gov- ernment can be down- sized," he said. Romney's opponent, incumbent Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), has criticized Romney's attitude toward Social Security. "Ronna Romney .vants to privatize the . 7 in a 12-part series system," claimed Steve Serkain, press secretary for the Levin cam- paign. Wisecup said that although Romney sup- ports studying all options of reform, she has not put forth proposals or suggested that gov- ernment should privatize Social Security. "She's never laid out any program (except to say that) if you don't change the program then early on the morning of Oct. 5 and the rape and armed robbery of a manager of a west-side Subway restaurant early Sunday morning. * In the first sexual assault incident, a female University student was in the parking lot across from Bursley resi- dence hall at 8:30 a.m. She was approached by a man wearing a blue cloth around his face. He forced her at gunpoint into the passenger side of her Nc I I