4 I ii One hundred nine years ofeditoralfreedom till NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 www.michigandally.com Tuesday March 14, 2000 Iggil'iffl! jplijjgl : 1 imis I Letters show Bollinger- Goss disputes By Jon Fish Daily Staff Reporter Although many in the University commu- were shocked at the resignation of former Tthletic Director Tom Goss, documents released yesterday reveal the relationship between University President Lee Bollinger and Goss was marred by miscommunication and uncertain expectations as far back as August. Bollinger refused to comment on the release of the documents, saying in a written statement that the University was only doing s because "two Freedom of Information Act uests leave us little choice." "I have previously said I do not wish to comment further on this personnel matter and Numerous seat belt Iiolations recorded By Hanna LoPatin Daily Staff Reporter I reiterate that," Bollinger said. University spokeswoman Julie Peterson and University Chief Financial Officer Robert Kasdin had no comment. The documents include a letter from Bollinger dated Aug. I1 explaining why he gave Goss a 2 percent pay increase when pay raises for top University officials averaged 5.47 percent in 1998. "For next year I am increasing your salary by 2 percent, which I know is low but I have to give some significant sign of the state of affairs," Bollinger wrote. The "state of affairs" included concerns Bollinger had regarding the fiscal manage- ment of the department, as well as his disap- pointment in two of Goss' personnel appointments. The fiscal management of the department was an ongoing problem for Goss. Last Feb- ruary, he announced a 30 percent increase in the price of non-student football tickets to combat revenue losses. Although Bollinger supported Goss' decision, which was later modified, he dispatched a committee to study the athletic department's finances. The committee, whose members included current interim Athletic Director Bill Martin, issued its preliminary report in June, recom- mending "the most prudent path focuses on expense controls and treats the growth of rev- enue as a fortunate outcome rather than an important bedrock of financial stability." But the problems continued throughout the summer, when Goss addressed a $2 million deficit at July's meeting of the University Board of Regents. At this meeting, Goss was criticized by Regent Andrea Fischer Newman (R-Ann Arbor) for his handling of the depart- ment's fiscal affairs. In the letter, which was written just weeks after the regents meeting, Bollinger wrote "I know you are working very hard at doing well, and in many ways you are succeeding. You know, I think, how much I personally want you to succeed. But these are problems and we're going to have to address them." In his defense, Goss wrote to Bollinger on Aug. 13 that he was frustrated with certain unnamed regents, who he saw as undermin- ing his efforts to run the department and over- stepping their authority. "I felt I could succeed with our mutually established goals See GOSS, Page 5 "I have to say that in several ways I feel you haven't met all the responsibilities of th is position." - Universit resident Lee Bollinger in a Aug. 11,199 letter to former University Athletic Director Tom Goss ovi ng forward Michigan legislators worked to pro- te the new seat belt law that went into effect on Friday, but "some people didn't get it," said Ann Arbor Police Department Sgt. Michael Logghe who reported AAPD doled out 98 tickets that day. Last week Michigan was the 17th state in the country to implement a law that allows officers to pull over cars when either drivers or passengers are not buckled up. Violators can be fined 5. Prior to Friday, an officer could y stop a car for defective equipment or other traffic violations, a seat belt violation was a secondary offense. "I personally think you're crazy if you don't wear them," Logghe said of seat belts. But the high numbers recorded in Ann Arbor and the surrounding areas may be because officers were sent out s eifically to pull over violators of the Washtenaw County Sheriff Depart- ment Sgt. Anderson Brown - whose jurisdiction does not include the city of Ann Arbor - said the department traffic division sent out two officers to look specifically at seat belt violators. With a zero-tolerance policy, one of those officers logged 52 tickets Friday, Brown said. Logghe said AAPD encouraged officers to look for and ticket dri- Ws and passengers not wearing seat belts. But in Oakland County the numbers were not as high. "We have no extra See SEAT BELT, Page 2 Photos by MARJORIE MARSHALL/Daily ABOVE: Members of the Students of Color Coalition and the Native American community protest Michigamua at the Michigan Union yesterday. RIGHT: LSA freshman Toni Trucks and Law student Farah Mongeua remove items from the Union tower. Despite tower departure SCC continues to fight Michigamua By Tiffany Maggard and Robert Gold Daily Staff Reporter After boxes of Native American arti- facts left the Michigan Union tower, the Students of Color Coalition fol- lowed, feeling they had accomplished some of the goals they set more than a month ago. "The same spirit that induced us to occupy this space was the same spirit that told us to come down from it and that was our communities ... It is important that we go back to the com- munities where we belong so that this experience can be shared outside of the (tower) walls," SCC member Kevin Jones said. More than 150 students and commu- nity members crowded the stairwell and hallways of the fourth floor of the Michigan Union yesterday afternoon to watch members of Students of Color Coalition officially vacate the Union tower after 37 days of occupation. SCC members were greeted outside the tower entrance by friends and Native American community members as the massive crowd cheered to the beat of a Tree Town drum and shook handmade noise makers to show their support. SCC spokesman Joe Reilly said the decision to leave the tower was the result of a strenuous four-hour meeting late Sunday night. He said SCC mem- bers decided that the coalition had done all it could within the confines of the tower. He said the group must now voice their concerns in the broader See SCC, Page 7 I Seeing double? SACUA: No end in sight for parking woes By Jodie Kaufman Daily Staff Reporter The campus parking crunch dominated the conversation at yesterday's Senate Advisory Committee for University Affairs meeting. SACUA Vice Chairman Lewis Kleinsmith asked whether "we want to let the parking problem sit for two years?" Kleinsmith said he understands "there is no simple solution, but we need to keep it going. Do we want it to be said that SACUA has said the parking is okay?" he asked. Kleinsmith cited the main problem is that no one has taken the initiative to get things going. "Nobody has shown leadership or courage to say some- thing needs to'be done," Kleinsmith said. Jackie Lawson, the newly elected SACUA chairman who will take office May 1, said she will keep the parking situa- tion on the SACUA agenda until solutions have been made. Current SACUA Chairwoman Sherrie Kossoudji said "the parking situation hits every single faculty member, no matter their status." SACUA has recently begun to hold informal parking sur- JESICA 4JOHNSN !~tDily Federal Reserve Board of Governors member and former School of Public Policy Dean Edward Gramlich speaks yesterday on Social Security reform. Grmichaddesses socialsecurity reform By Jeremy W. Peters Daily Staff Reporter One of the more contentious issues in the 2000 presidential campaign will is to be extended to the nations future retirees. "In Washington, it's known as the 'third rail.' Politically, you touch it and you die," said Federal Reserve Board NMI x; .