The Michigan Daily - Sunday, August 5, 1984 - Page 7
Va. men's college prepares to go coed
Alumni of Washington & Lee Univer-
sity, one of three all-male private
colleges remaining in the nation, are
receiving letters explaining that their
alma mater has decided to admit
women as undergraduates.
Two-thirds of alumni at the 235-year-
old university-along with the same
ratio of students-had opposed the
COLLEGES
decision, made formal by the board of
trustees last month at the Lexington
Va. school.
The board voted 17-7 to begin co-
education in the fall of 1985. The
trustees rejected the same idea in 1969
and 1975.
"In conducting its study, the
trustees were, of course, mindful of the
continuing decline in the number of the
nation's high school graduates,"
Ballengee said in a prepared
statement.
The board also considered the
Election '84
Veteran cops
seek county
sheriff s post
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Gilless' main concern with the
current department is that there are too
many sub-stations in the area which he
says do not create jobs, but instead take
patrolmen off the street and puts them
in administrative positions. According
to this candidate, that is a move in the
wrong direction.
"My main objective is to eliminate
desk jobs and to put officers back into
the patrol unit," said Gilless.
Democrat James Spickard also is a
financially oriented candidate. He said
that his experience in police work as
well as his current job as director of
safety at Washtenaw Community
College give him the financial expertise
to make the budgetary decisions of the
sheriff's office.
William Zsenyuk, the fourth
Democrat in the race, now serves as the
police chief of Manchester. Zsenynk
wants to introduce new crime preven-
tion techniques and better controls over
juvenile offenders.
opinions of students, alumni and staff,
he said. Polls showed that 80 percent of
the faculty supported coeducation,
while polls show students and alumni
opposed it 2-to-1.
Students staged a sit-in at the
president's office to oppose it. Bumper
stickers saying "Better Dead than Co-
ed" appeared on cars, and a statue of
George Washington was dressed in a
banner saying "No Marthas."
Wilson says he anticipates as many
as 100 women could be offered places in
the first year of coeducation.
Washington & Lee has 1,700 students,
including more than 300 in its law
school. The law school has been admit-
ting women since 1972, and the un-
dergraduate college allowed women as
summer students during World War II.
Officials at the other two private
male colleges-Hampden-Sydney in
Virginia and Wabash College in
Crawfordsville, Ind.-say coeducation
has not been a big issue on their cam-
puses. Virginia and South Carolina also
have publicly supported, all-male
military schools.
-The Associated Press
Prof charges OSU with
racism in tenure case
An assistant professor at Ohio State
University plans to sue the school over
the denial of his request for tenure,
charging that his race was a factor in
the denial.
An attorney for Prof. Nkem Nwank-
wo said the Black Studies professor
"was qualified for promotion but it was
not granted because of consideration of
improper factors, and because they did
not give due consideration to his
achievements and reputation."
After Nwankwo's tenure request was
denied, he appealed to the University's
provost. Before the provost could in-
vestigate, he wanted the professor to
agree not to sue the University regar-
dless of the outcome.
"I am prepared to go through with
(the litigation)," Nwankwo said. "My
purpose is to establish a principle that
people can't get away with racism in
this University."
-The Ohio State Lantern
Stanford prof loses suit over
'Mickey Mouse' course
A federal judge said Newsweek
magazine's description of a criminal
law class as a "Mickey Mouse" course
was merely an opinion and did not im-
pugn the professor's ability or standar-
ds.
U.S. District Judge Robert Aguilar,
in a ruling released Thursday,
dismissed a libel suit against the
magazine filed by Stanford University
professor John Kaplan.
Kaplan, a nationally known authority
on criminal law, sued Newsweek for $1
million over an October 1983 article that
said his class was "recognized as the
easiest five credits a Stanford student
can earn."
Kaplan said he would appeal the
decision.
- The Associated Press
County commission race has little interest
By DOV COHEN Pratt said his goals are to "keep government local" and
Ann Arbor voters will not get a chance to vote in the "do what the people wish," but he said he has no concrete
Washtenaw County Commissioners race Tuesday because The Board of Commissioners' primary responsiblity is
none of the city's four districts offer more than one candidate manamnoftC on'pgtand tesoperati
for each party. management of the county's budget and the operation of
In fact, voters in only one of the county's nine districts will county offices and services. The board is currently
be voting Tuesday. The Democrats have no candidate for the comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans, and
seat in District 1, which covers the southwestern part of the observers expect little or no change in that ratio this fall.
county, but Republican incumbent George Merkel is being Of the four commissioners who represent parts of Ann
challenged there by Ellis Pratt of Manchester. Arbor, only the two Democrats will face opponents in the fall.
PRATT SAYS he is running because people have told him Donald Duquette (District 8) is being challenged by Richard
Merkel has not always voted in the best interests of his Chesbrough, while Ray Shoultz (District 7) faces Collene
district, but he could offer no specific examples of such Conrad in what is expected to be the most hotly contested
battle.
actions. County voters Tuesday will also choose between two
Crediting this to Pratt's lack of experience, Merkel said, Democratic candidates vying for the chance to challenge
He's just barking in the dark ... he doesn't know what the Republican Dan Bicknell in the November election for Drain
whole deal is down there (in the commission)." Commissioner.
Lawyers vie for juvenile judge nod
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IN HER announcement of candidacy,
Saline attorney Pamela Byrnes said
that "while detention must sometimes
be used, there must also be alternatives
to detention. Diversion, a method of
identifying troubled youth prior to ac-
tual arrest, is a technique I support."
Donald Kenney, a 51-year-old Ann
Arbor attorney, said substance abuse is
a leading factor contributing to
delinquency. "We have a generation in
peril, with the misuse and abuse of
alcohol and other drugs occurring at
ever younger ages," he said.
Shirley Burgoyne, a soft-spoken local
attorney, focused much of her attention
on imprisoning child abusers, citing a
child who expressed relief when he
found out that his father would be get-
ting 40 years in prison for abusing him.
John Minock, who at 36 is the
youngest of the candidates, has been.
involved in juvenile law since
graduating from law school. He pointed
out that the probate court is a "highly
specialized court" which deals with
juvenile law only.
Minock has been a volunteer at
juvenile help centers, and claimed his
hands-on experience gives him an ad-
vantage over the other candidates.
John Stanowski cited TV violence and
substance abuse as major causes of
juvenile delinquency, and he said he
was outraged that the movie The Joy of
Sex is being advertised on TV.
In order of popularity, the
Washtenaw County Bar Association
lists the candidates as follows: Wood;
Conlin; Byrnes; Kenney; Minock; and
Burgoyne and Stanowski (tie).
HAPPENINGS
Sunday
Music - Medieval Festival, 1-5 p.m., Arboretum.
Performance Network-American Buffalo, 8 p.m.,
408 W. Washington.
CFT-A Hard Day's Night, 7:50 & 9:30 p.m.,
Michigan Theatre.
Monday
Course-"Filing & Information Retrieval," 1:30-4
p.m., 130 LSA; "Grammar: A Modern Review," 1-4
p.m., 4051 LSA.
Ultimate Frisbee Club-meeting, 5:30 p.m., Fuller
Park.
CFT-A Hard Day's Night, 7:50 & 9:30 p.m.,
Michigan Theatre.
Education better,
study shows
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"SCHOOLS ARE getting better, in areas ranging
from the basics to discipline, and the survey reflects
it," Kopp said.
President Reagan has claimed credit for helping
initiate the reform, which have included nearly all
states moving to raise high school graduation
requirements, improve curriculum and boost
teachers' salaries.
The survey found, however, that Americans
believe schools would be in better hands if
Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale
was president instead of Reagan, who has pushed
federal spending cuts in education.
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