afher Tonight: Mostly clear, low around 20. Tomorrow: Partly sunny, high around 40°. If lUll ti One hundred six years of editorialfreedom Thursday November 14, 1996 .. *3 dER +i{ ':. 5 t .2 .2 K . } ; . : - ... rt: ;. '. ,..:'..' .,+%°.v ;y3, >° s; f 7 ..ar,:. .,..a.,, <', .,:.:, , ... v. , " >l rs ,.. r K:< r' l y:!;.r ' ,f, ~ ,: . ? a [ w c.:"c D .k^ca y 5 >t. fa pr ax kw" w M1 .. << .,,:( " "~ , +,<. i .. r tk" ..*,2., k'.4:s . 2..ro , .,r.., 6 : . f 5. RC: %, ... R dyle .r ..,c Sri. : , w .u. yr. ".A, a. ,. r. , 592' ~'' £:. ..mac . , 2t2"££. + e ,, .. ., a. ..£ : ._ vdv >.. More than 20 ads stolen kom Diag 0y Ait K. Thavarajah Daily StaffReporter Twenty-two canvas advertisements, estimnated to be worth between $500 to $600 total, were reported stolen from the Diag on Tuesday. The canvas "Diag boards" belonged to nine student Whps. e Department of Public Safety is currently investigating the crime, which is believed to have taken place between 10 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday. Michigan Advertising Works, which rents the boards to students, will compensate the students for their loss, said manager Betsy Sundholm. "We plan to give each of the student groups whose signs were vandalized a ' spot next semester and free used c vases to make their signs," Sundholm said yesterday. "We also plan to pursue legally the people who stole the signs if they are caught:' DPS officials said they have no sus- pects yet. LSA senior Haaris Ahmad, a mem- ber of the Muslim Students Association, said he was not surprised *he theft of the signs. "this is the third year in a row that Muslim Association has had its sign ripped down. We're extremely disap- pointed with the regularity this occurs," Ahmad said. "It's not the money we're worried about. We put a lot of hard work and time preparing the sign. Some peo- ple just seem to think they can ignore the law and do what they feel ttQur sign. We are fed up with the whole mat- ter," Ahmad said. Michigan Student Assembly LSA Rep. Dan Serota agreed with Ahmad. "I'm running for re-election and someone decides to take my signs down. This will end up costing me about $100," Serota said. "We could redo the signs, but we put a great deal of effort making them the first time are not sure we can put that same ort we put into the signs to begin with." Even with MSA elections approach- ing next week, Serota said the theft won't have any repercussions beyond the financial value. "I don't think the theft will hurt my re-election chances greatly' he said. "Hopefully it won't have any effect at all on the outcome of this election, added Serota, who is running with the Whigan Party. Students purchase space to place an advertisement in the Diag for approxi- mately $30 a week. Sundholm said she hopes this prob- lem can be avoided in the future. "We don't feel responsible for these thefts because they are a random act by individuals who made a poor choice," Sundholm said. "We plan to sit down and take a long look at all of our ions to prevent this from happening again." Sundholm said MAW is looking at the costs of these options. See THEFT, Page 2A INSIDE TODAY U.S. ready to aid refugees U.N. force aims to secure Rwanda-Zaire border The Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Clinton has decided "in principle" to send U.S. troops and helicopters to Central Africa as part of a Canadian- led, multi-national military expedition to help deliver aid to hundreds of thou- sands of Rwandan refugees, the White House announced yesterday. The deployment would send as many as 5,000 Army and Air Force personnel to the volatile region along the Rwanda-Zaire border where up to 1.1 million refugees are reportedly in des- perate need of food, water and shelter. The U.S. contingent would include up to 1,000 U.S. ground troops sent to secure an airport and a short stretch of with the humanitarian consequences of the genocidal, ethnic massacres that ravaged Rwanda in 1994. Clinton sent troops to Rwanda two years ago on a relief mission similar to the one contemplated now. At that time, administration officials said they had laid to rest the specter of the 1993 U.S. mission in Somalia, a debacle that many volunteer groups and relief agen- cies feared would block the administra- tion from ever becoming involved in another African crisis spot. Nevertheless, the administration approached the latest request for help with extreme caution. Clinton made his decision under intense pressure from Canada, France and U.N. Secretary AJA DEKLEVA COHEN/Daily Mangled mete Alessandro Pizzillo, who was recently admitted to the University's graduate business school, examines the crashed car on the Diag yesterday. The display is part of Alcohol Awareness Week. 1 S S Regents to discuss child car, nwexecutive ps road near the refugee camps, and the entire U.S. force would stay about four months. "Any deploy- ment of our forces involves risk," Defense Secretary William Perry said. But he and other officials expressed hope that the oper- ation would be peaceful because its purpose. is to deliver food and medical supplies, not to intervene in AFRICA ZAIRE UG ND KENYA L. s TANZANIA Clinton agreed to Isends5,OOO BURUNItroops to Zaire to secu'e the border. General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and after long hours of heated discussions within his adminis- tration. The hesitant approach to this effortatraces its roots to Somalia in the sense that an ill-defined open- ended military involvement would risk disaster. McCurry said the structure of the U.S. effort "reflects our desire to have a 0 By Jeff Eldridge Daily Staff Reporter After weeks of intensive work on the presidential search, the University Board of Regents will return to normalcy today. During their regular monthly meetings today and tomorrow, the regents will discuss several business items - with the University Medical Center and child care high on the agenda. Tomorrow, the board will vote on the creation of a new executive officer position, known as the executive vice presi- dent for medical affairs. First discussed at September's meet- ing, the formal creation of this post now depends on the regents' approval. It would require the vote of the board to create this posi- tion," said Vice President for University Relations Walter Harrison. Harrison said that if the regents approve the new position, a search committee will form within a few weeks. with expectations that the position will be filled in approxi- mately six to 18 months. At today's meeting, the regents wil hear a series of speech- es and presentations. Prof. Thomas Dunn, chair of the facul- ty's governing body, will deliver an annual report on behalf of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. Dunn said he plans to say a few words about the regents' decision to hire Lee Bollinger as the next University presi- dent, but that most of his talk will relate to issues like facul- ty governance, salary parity and Value Centered Management. Many on the faculty think the openness of the presidential search was a net plus, Dunn said. "Most of (the faculty) feel there is a point to the Open Meetings Act selection of the president. ... The concept has probably caught on to some degree as far as the faculty is concerned," Dunn said. Michigan Student Assembly President Fiona Rose and Nursing School Dean Ada Sue Henshaw will talk about a Child Care Task Force assembled to investigate child care options at the University. Tomorrow, the regents are sched- uled to vote on whether to adopt a $1-per-student fee hike to fund daycare for the children of students. Rose said she will also request the University pays match- ing funds to those supplied by students. She said she thinks the regents will be receptive to the child care options. "[ feel good about it," Rose said. "I think they'll see the stu- dents support this." The regents will also review an external audit of University finances, examine 1998 state budget requests and hear an annual report on research activity from interim Vice President for Research Frederick Neidhardt. the tribal fighting that recently forced the refugees out of their camps. The total international force is likely to consist of more than 15,000 troops from a dozen countries, including Britain, France and some African nations, officials said. White House spokesperson Mike McCurry listed several cuestions still to be answered and conditions to be met before a final U.S. decision is made. Assuming those matters are resolved at a planning meeting to be held today in New York, the Clinton administration would for the second time in three years send U.S. military forces to help cope very carefully constructed mission that avoids some of the pitfalls we've seen in the past." Yesterday, France and Britain wel- comed Clinton's decision and announced they would participate in the relief mission. A Canadian general is to be in operational command, McCurry said, but U.S. forces will remain under the command of U.S. officers. Pentagon officials said the U.S. ground troops to be sent to Zaire prob- ably will come from the light infantry brigade of the Southern Europe Task Force, based in Potenza, Italy. MOTHERHOOD AND DA N C E' Artists depict pregrnanc By Stephanie Powell Daily Staff Reporter A personal experience came to life last night on the dance floor. Using a dance to show the plight of working mothers, associate Prof. Jessica Fogel showed feeling through chore- ography last night. Upswell, a solo dance, symbolized the different stages of a woman's life while she is expecting a child. Graduate student instructor Terry Wilson acted out the progress from finding out one is pregnant through childbirth to the repercussions on her professional life of being a mother. In a lecture, Fogel said she believes dance and movement are important because they comprise a different form of com- munication people may not be accustomed to. "There is something very special about shaping one's own vocabulary of movement and sharing it with an audience," Fogel said. Wilson performed the six-minute dance twice - once before Fogel's lecture and once after. The dance included movements counting down the number of months until labor, going through the adtual tabor and showing a baby's first movements. Fogel and Wilson used their own pregnancies and children as inspiration. Because Fogel cannot dance because of a strain incurred while giving birth last year, Wilson danced in her place. However, the mostly female audience said they understood Fogel's personal emotions nonetheless. "I thought the'dance was very informative. By listening to the lecture I got a better perspective of the dance through the choreographer's eyes," said LSA sophomore Deepa Ambekar. The dance began by showing the joy of finding out one is nrprnnt nd nririwit th cniole f rvsing o it iggle lnk-uplooks at diversity ® 60 students gather on campus for videoconference on 'isms' By Ann Stewart Daily Staff Reporter Ability or disability. Age. Class. Gender. Geographic region. Race. Religion. Sexual orientation. These were among the elements that compose diversity at last night's nationwide videoconference event on campus. About 60 students gathered to watch a videoconference broadcast at colleges across the country that centered around "isms" on campuses and the ways change can be made toward more diversity. The conference featured Ronald Takaki, University of California at Berkeley professor and author of the book "A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America." Takaki talked about the need for diversity requirements for graduation in university curricula and making diversity an "intellectual project." Prof. Michael Dyson, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of "Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture," were also on the panel. Dyson said "isms," such as racism and sexism, put one group in a position of power over others. "They are about power and they are about privilege given to difference," Dyson said. The videoconference panel also included two student activists. Mindy Michels from American University and Jose Palafox from Berkeley related experiences they had at their universities to the discussion on diversity. Palafox was part of protests at Berkeley against Proposition 209, which eliminated affirmative action at pub- lic institutions last week. "I think of my three younger sisters and what messages this sends to them in terms of equality," Palafox said. The panelists defined diversity as a recognition of "differ- ences" between all people on campus. They said diversity has advantages and disadvantages. "It invites us to acknowledge I I Cn Steve FFidw nut II .A~jA;7':>. -' § I