'U' bends on South Africa policy By BARRY WITT Despite a 1978 policy to the contrary, the University maintains investments in several companies that do not abide by a set of guidelines for conduct in South Africa, according to a Daily review of the investment office records. The administrator responsible for implementing the University's policy could not explain why several of these companies received poor grades from an independent ratings firm for their activities in South Africa. Norman Herbert, the University's investment officer, also said after being presented the Daily's findings that there had been several "oversights" in his most recent report to the Regents on South Africa. THE REPORT, prepared by Herbert and presented to the Regents in March by Vice President and Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff, stated that Companies fare poorly in helping black employees although 13 companies with South African operations received low ratings from the independent monitoring ser- vice, correspondence between the com- panies and the University had shown that they complied with the Regents' guidelines or had not yet replied. But investment office files and repor- ts from an independent research agen- cy show that several of these com- panies do not comply with one or more of the Sullivan Principles-a set of anti- apartheid guidelines for U.S. com- panies in South Africa-and therefore could be interpreted as in violation of the University Regents' 1978 resolution on South Africa. The University policy asks com- panies to affirm the Sullivan Prin- ciples; work toward the enhancement of political, economic, and social rights for its employees in South Africa; and publicly disclose corporate progress toward achievements in these matters. THE INVESTMENT office presently monitors 42 University stock and bond holdings for compliance with the 1978 resolution that also states the Univer- sity will divest from companies that do not "within a reasonable period of time take reasonable steps" to implement the measures outlined in the Sullivan Principles. Of those 42 countries, three have not .signed the Sullivan Principles. Herbert reported that each of those companies hold only minority interests in their South African subsidiaries and do not have the authority to determine em- ployment practices there. Twenty-six of the remaining 39 com- panies in which the University invests part of its $120 million endowment received satisfactory ratings from the monitoring service, Arthur D. Little Inc. Little is a private consulting firm retained by Rev. Leon Sullivan-a General Motors board member and See 'U,' Page 10 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, May 27, 1982 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages I Judge allows list linking Kelly to victim By GEORGE ADAMS A list containing the names of several Bursley Hall residents-including murder victim Edward Siwik-which was found in the room of accused killer Leo Kelly, was submitted as evidence yesterday in Kelly's trial. Kelly, a 23-year-old former Univer- sity student from Detroit, is charged with the shooting deaths of Douglas McGreaham, 21, of Caspian, and Siwik, 19, of Detroit, last April in their Bursley hallway. JURORS ALSO heard testimony regarding several books found after the shooting in Kelly's room and a note pad containing information on various civil rights activities. Experts testified that the slug taken from Douglas McGreaham's body was fired from a shotgun which bore Kelly's fingerprin- ts. Defense attorney William Waterman objected to admitting the list as eviden- ce. "It merely shows names, I contend, who the defendant met or knew on the sixth floor of Bursley Hall," he said. "We don't know who wrote it." He added, "Because Mr. Siwik's name is listed among those on the sheet ... I think it is probably one of the most damaging and prejudicial items in this trial." SIWIK'S NAME was set off from the rest on the list by a dark blue ink mark made before the first letter of his name. Also on the list was the name of Michael Neumann, who testified Monday that he saw Kelly throw a fire-bomb down the hallway shortly before the shooting. Washtenaw County Prosecuting At- torney Brian Mackie defended the ad- mission of the list, saying "We (the prosecution) have to show premeditation." Admitted as evidence along with the list was a note pad, also found in Kelly's room after the shooting, on which was written: "The Civil Rights Movement 1950 to 1964, Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas. It's all meaningless. This is it." The last two sentences were underlined three times. (Brown vs. Board of Education refers to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 1954 regarding school desegregation.) ANN ARBOR Police Detective John Atkinson, one of the principal in- vestigators in the case, identified in court several photographs taken of books found during the search of Kelly's room, including a U.S. Army marksmanship guide, a Kung-Fu book, a New Testament, and a book about gunfighters of the Old West. Waterman argued against admitting the pictures, saying they would bias the jury against his client. "The books give the impression that my client is in- volved in violent, aggressive behavior," Waterman continued. Commenting on the pictures Washtenaw County Circuit Judge Ross Campbell said, "There is nothing here I See JUDGE, Page 2 Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Frog day afternoon Yesterday's rainfall is all this pond-loving creature needs to make its day a wonderful one.