Page 4- The Michigan Daily - Saturday, June 8, 1985 Josephson advocates student regents IN BRIEF From United Press International (Continued from Page1) "It was really a big switch coming from a small high school with 100 people to a gigantic public university like Michigan." "I was very much up in the air," Josephson said. "It's a new place. I was just kind of thrown out there like the first month of school always is. All the comforts you used to have, all the assurances you used to have are no longer there and you change." With his mind abuzz, one day freshman year, Josephson says he was walking through the Diag and, came across a flier for a meeting about the McGovern campaign. JOSEPHSON, WHO even in his high school days "couldn't find any justification for the arms race," was attracted to McGovern's policies, and saw him as uniquely honest in politics. Gradually he was drawn into the campaign when he spent much of his first year knocking on doors. "The first time I read his literature, I thought, 'hmmm, this is a little hokey,' but after working in the cam- paign and really getting into it, I saw what was going on. That in com- bination with some political science classes really did it for me." "Basically, you'll see that it's a smaller number in 1984 that got in- volved in liberalism, but in '72, you'll find that the people McGovern brought into his campaign are the major forces in the Democratic party right now. Gary Hart was his cam- paign manager. Pat Cadell was Mon- dale's poll-taker." ANOTHER INFLUENCE in Josephson's transition was Cherie Bullard, an advisor to MSA and the state coordinator of the McGovern campaign in 1984. With Bullard as a bridge between the two groups, Josephson became involved in the assembly as a volunteer. "I grew up in MSA, so to speak," Shiites guard against guerrillas BEIRUT, Lebanon - Shiite Moslem militiamen went on alert yesterday to guard against hit-and- run attacks by suspected Palestinian guerrillas who have been trying to stop a Shiite takeover of three refugee camps in Beirut. In the northern port of Tripoli, officials said fighters from a pro- Syrian militia and the pro- Palestinian Islamic Unification Tawheed movement battled with multiple rocket-launchers, grenades and machine guns Thur- sday and yesterday. Police sources said seven people were killed and 38 others wounded in the 14 hours of fighting that died down yesterday afternoon despite the absence of a formal cease-fire. It was the worst fighting in Tripoli since December. Reagan to decide on fate of SALT 2 WASHINGTON - With his key advisers pulling in opposite direc- tions yesterday, President Reagan approached a tough weekend decision on whether to continue honoring the unratified SALT 2 arms treaty with the Soviet Union. Reagan arranged to fly to Camp David in the afternoon to spend the weekend weighing the pros and cons before informing Congress of his decision on Monday. Couple acquitted on child neglect charges ST. JOSEPH - A Berrien County Probate jury acquitted a Berrien Springs couple yesterday on child neglect charges filed after their three children were found padlocked inside a school bus dwelling in January. The six-member jury deliberated about eight hours before issuing their verdict shortly before 3 p.m. on a petition filed by the Berrien County Department of Social Services. The children - giris ages 11 months and three years and a four- year-old boy - have been in foster care homes since they were taken from their school bus home by police. They were to be im- mediately returned to their paren- ts' custody, court officials said. NATO supports U.S. Geneva efforts ESTORIL, Portugal - NATO foreign ministers ended a two-day meeting yesterday with a joint statement "strongly" supporting U.S. efforts at the Geneva arms talks, but offering no backing for President Reagan's "Star Wars" plan. In a final communique, the chief diplomats of NATO's 16-member nations called on Moscow to respond positively to the U.S. ap- proach at Geneva and said the alliance wanted "genuine detente through constructive dialogue and broad cooperation" with the East Bloc. State's jobless rate dips; nation's steady WASHINGTON - Michigan's adjusted jobless rate fell slightly in May, from 10.2 percent to 10.1 per- cent. Despite the decline Michigan still had the highest jobless rate with Illinois second at 9.6 percent and Pennsylvania third at 8.3 per- cent. Both Illinois and Pen- nsylvania recorded increases. Nationally, the seasonally ad- justed unemployment rate for the civilian labor force remained un- changed at 7.3 percent from April to May. The government said the economy added 345,000 jobs but the unemployment level for new college graduates rose. The 7.3 percent civilian unem- ployment rate is not only the same as every month since January, it is also the average for the past year, an unusually long period without any improvement or deterioration. In May, 1984, the unemployment level in Michigan was 11.6 percent. Doily Photo by DAN HABIB Michigan Student Assembly President Paul Josephson, who was so con- servative in high school that he would have voted for Ronald Reagan if he were eligible to vote in 1980, now supports virtually the entire liberal agenda. Josephson says. It was there, through that, they're just trying to protect one pet project. My pet project is the "socialization," that Josephson they're security," Josephson ex- student regents proposal." Josephson developed many of his current views. plains. wants to push a measure through the When he went home the next sum- state legislature, changing the state mer, Josephson says that "it was HIS TRANSITION in assumptions is constitution to appointnstudents to the totally different from when I left." evident now as president in his belief University's governing board. For example, Josephson tells of one that some members of the assem- "My main goal is that students night when he walked home wearing a bly-especially its executive officers should have input into the decisions McGovern button, and a neighbor and committee chairmen-should be that are made at the University," he asked him, "'What are you, a com- given a stipend for their work. His says. munist?' I mean, this is a guy who has idea is that because students in these Josephson says that after about a pictures of his whole family with positions work too many hours to be year on the board, the regents would Reagan on the wall." able to get through college with a job realize that students can make and still find time to study, the whole responsible decisions and tell the ad- system of MSA discriminates against ministration, "Hey, this student isn't "THAT'S the first time I discovered poor people who want to get involved. a bad guy. He comes to the meetings that my assumptions had changed," "It goes back to the idea of what prepared. He may have differing he says. your assumptions are. Back then (in views than we do, but he's not a bad According to Josephson, the dif- high school) I guess I would have guy and there's no reason to be dum- ference between "conservatives" and assumed my father worked hard to ping on students with things like the "liberals" are sets of assumptions get where he is to give me the oppor- code. And basically, the ad- both have. "Basically if I were tunities that I have," he says. ministration realizes that, well, the McGovern and you were Reagan and "Since then I think I've gotten a bet- regents like students now. We better we were sitting here, there are certain ter understanding of the fact that it's start opening up relations with them things that no matter how much we not how hard you work but also how a little more," he says. talk about we'll never agree on. And the society is set up. If society isn't The plan has drawn much skep- it's not because you're right or I'm conducive for blacks to do well in, ticism, including from Regent right. It's because each of us is right then there's going to be a lot less Thomas Roach (D-Saline) who said using their own assumptions." blacks with the opportunities whites that he has seen proposals for student "For example, you would say the have," he says. regents for 20 years and nothing has reason we need more defense is come of it. because you assume the Russians are JOSEPHSON'S MAIN objective for Josephson responds, "There's on the offensive. McGovern would say his term, however, is one that he says always people who say you can't do it, you don't need more defense because he would have supported in high but the people who say you can't do it I assume the Russians are not on the school: student regents. aren't the people who get things offensive and that they're justĀ° like "I think every president has at least done." 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