LoCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 18, 1997 - 7, Con tnetd from Page i refiting guidelines for affirmative acii6n policies. Many institutions have looked to this case in forming their admiiissions policies, he said. SNRE Prof. Bunyan Bryant said he believes that affirmative action is an important policy for the University to uphold. "Affirmnative action is a plan to have COY area of the University to reflect the diversity of the world," Bryant said. "We need affirmative action to deconstruct race, to deconstruct institutional racism, to enrich the University in both the class- room and extracurricular activities." RC Prof. Carl Cohen, a long-time opponent of affirmative action, said that despite "honorable motives" of affirmative action, it is constitutionally impermissible to include "preference by race" in admissions standards. "If the purpose of affirmative action is to balance the races, that is constitu- tionally wrong," Cohen said. "The University does not have the authority to compensate the wrongs of society. It is our legal and moral duty to cleanse ourselves of racial discrimination." Steve Waterbrook, an officer of the campus chapter of the College Republicans, said the symposium was necessary to inform students about both sides of the debate. "I myself came to support the anti- affirmative action stance," said Waterbrook, an LSA sophomore. "But tonight's panel hopefully showed that it is important to hear both sides, because education is really the key." MSA Continued from Page 1 Nonetheless, posters, fliers and sidewalk chalkings are com- mon campaign methods at most universities. "Most everybody chalks, along with fliering and poster- ing," Murty said. "Some of the candidates will stand outside and pass out fliers:' @isconsin's student government holds two elections each year for the 33 available seats, Murty said. Two seats are reserved for incoming first-year students, while the remain- ing seats are filled during a spring election. "Some seats are very hotly contested, and in some schools, people will win on write-in votes," Murty said, adding that eight-to-10 percent of students turned out to vote in the last spring election. The voter turnout at the University for MSA elections last spring was 15 percent. Spring elections, however, usually attract more student voters due to the presidential race. *eople don't care or don't take student government seri- ously enough,' Murty said. Ii addition to personally funded campaigns, the Wisconsin student government distributes an informational flier contain- ing the name, picture and brief statement from each candidate. A University of Pennsylvania student government committee sponsors an advertisement for candidates in the student newspa- per giving each candidate room for a 150-word statement, said Joshua Cohen, first-year undergraduate assembly representative for Penr student government. The tradition caused some contro- versy this year, prompting new elections. ;xvo statements were left out of the paper," Cohen said. The elections were ruled biased and then re-run. Voter turn- out for the second election dropped from 30 to 20 percent, Cohen added. Until this year, the Penn student government barred candi- dates from speaking with the student paper to avoid unfair publicity, Cohen said. "No one really had a platform - if you got your name out there, it counted," Cohen said. While the Wisconsin student government operates on a multi-party system, most parties don't last from one election to the next, Murty said. They are mainly used to "link names together," he said. About two-thirds of the elected candidates are run with par- ties, Murty said. Unlike MSA elections, OSU students can vote for two rep- resentatives in their annual student government elections; one vote is based on their school and a second vote is based on the area in which students live, such as residence halls, off- campus housing or co-operative housing, Daniels said. The student government at the University of Alabama recently returned to its campus after a four-year hiatus, said Wade Smith, executive secretary of the student government association for Alabama. "There was a young lady who was running for president and she was assaulted (because she was a candidate)," said Smith, adding that the administration then disbanded the stu- dent government. Smith said the last election produced slightly less than a 26-percent turnout of students, falling just short of the elec- tion that brought student government back to the Alabama campus. Event focuses on future of media By Ken Mazur Daily Staff Reporter An all-day conference on the future of media institutions and its relation- ship to democracy brought scholars from around the country to the University campus on Saturday. The conference, titled "Media & Democracy 2000," gave scholars an opportunity to air concerns, debate alternatives and offer solutions to the questions that exist in the field of media and communications. "This conference is a good way for us to identify directions that make sense for Michigan to explore, in light of what other universities are doing," said Vincent Price, chair of the communica- tion studies department. "This is really an agenda-setting meeting for us, a way to find out what to do, and what to do different." Saturday's conference was sponsored both by the Department of Communication Studies and the Howard R. Marsh Center for Journalistic Performance. The current trend of media industry mergers and the resulting concentration of power in fewer hands was a cause for concern to some of the visiting schol- ars. "Where is the serious academic research of telecommunications major mergers?" asked American University communications Prof. Patricia Aufderheide. "How many minority owners are there of radio and television stations?" Topics brought up at the conference included the different agendas of the various actors in the media and com- munications field, and the uneasy sym- biosis between communication acade- mia, industry and the public. Jane Brown, a professor of journal- MALLORY Si. FLOYD/ftly Panelist Henry Jenkins and Communication Studies Chair Vincent Price speak at. the Media and Democracy 2000 Conference on Saturday. ism and mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke of the relationship between academic research and industry grants and possible conflicts of interests. "We have to be very careful about preserving our intellectual integrity," Brown said. Reaction to the discussion was posi- tive, with audience members saying they found the conference informative and thought provoking. "I've wondered about the interface of academia and the industry," said Jayne Hamilton, a writer from Bloomfield Hills. "It's disconcerting to hear that we're not that close to a solution on some of these problems, and it's horrible news that students are getting these great edu- cations, and then they go into the work arena and have to conform to the current state of the media journalism." University of Texas at Austin College of Communication Dean Ellen Wartella also spoke about the new direction that academics in communications are heading toward. "Universities today are being held accountable in ways that they have never been held accountable before" Wartella said. Other communication acadenwes voiced concerns with emerging meta technology and its consequences foi democracy. Nolan Bowie, a communi cations professor at Temple Universiy, said he wants more public discoursem communications policy. He noted I lack of commentary in the mainstrea, media on the debate and subsequent passage of the I 9 Telecommunications Bill. "This bill was debated in academic journals, instead of in the public Bowie said. "We need to concentrateq.n, technology, and what technology ca and should do." Brown said she remembered bein a professional intern at The Detroit News. in 1980 and how it made her realize tbai being a professor was much more to her' liking. "It's hard work being a journalist; Brown said. "I'd rather teach it than o it." Some of the University's commuli- cations scholars said they found The conference to be highly informational. 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