0 I1e £Irb4 Ian 4ai1Q Ninety-five years of editorialffreedom Vol. XCV, No. 16-S Copyrigh ,1985 TheMichigan Daily Tuesday, June 11, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Wallenberg gave Jews a chance By STEVE HERZ Tom Lantos, a United States congressman from California, is the only survivor of the Holocaust ever elected to Congress. He is a survivor and a leader, but his parents were vic- tims-two of the nearly six million Jews murdered by the Nazis. He remembers his parents and he also remembers Raoul Wallenberg, the man who saved his life and the lives of nearly 100,000 others. WALLENBERG WAS born in Sweden, a member of an extremely wealthy family. His father died when he was an infant and Wallenberg was groomed by his grandfather. Although his grandfather wanted him to become a banker, he allowed Raoul to cross the Atlantic to study architec- ture at the University of Michigan in 1931. Albert Melniker, in town for last week's 1935 class reunion, remem- bered his classmate as "a real down- to-earth individual. He had a great sense of humor and he was an ex- cellent student." Melniker said Wallenberg was dif- ferent from his American classmates. "He had a worldly outlook then that the average American student didn't have." THAT WORLDLY outlook had an effect on Wallenberg's role in the war, classmate Milton Fischer explained. "Actually, in Scandinavia they thought you could do something about the problem-not just let nature take its course." There was nothing natural about Hitler's master plan and Wallenberg knew that. During some unsatisfying years as a banker in the British man- date of Palestine, Wallenberg learned of the atrocities occurring throughout Europe. "In Haifa (Palestine) he realized how bad things were," Fischer said. Professor Ingemar Hedenius remembers how Wallen- berg was sympathetic to the Jewish plight. "He was a Wallenberg, an eighth part Jew and seemed to regard this asa guarantee of success in life." Wallenberg could not have known then that his concern for the welfare of the Jews would result in his own in- ternment after the war in the Soviet Union, but it did not stop his effort to save the victims of Hitler's tyranny. He did not like banking and told his grandfather in a letter of his wish to quit his joh. "POSSIBLY I am not cut out for Photo courtesy of the Alumni banking. Architecture is another Raoul Wallenberg in his ROTC uniform next to the Golden Ga See HERO, Page 3 Wallenberg liked to hitchhike out west during his summers at from 1931 to1935. 'U' selects research vice president By CHRISTY RIEDEL An eight-month search for a University vice president forresearch has ended with the nomination of Lin- da Wilson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Wilson, who is currently associate vice chancellor for research and associate dean of the Graduate College at Illinois, will be nominated to the regents at their June 20-21 meeting by University president Harold Shapiro. IF THE REGENTS approve the nomination, Wilson will assume the post Aug. 15 and become the highest- ranking woman in the University ad- ministration. Wilson's responsibilities would in- clude approving research proposals; maintaining a liason between the University and various foundations, corporations, and government agen- cies interested in research; and ac- ting as a source of information for the regents. "Theentire climate for research at the University of Michigan is something this person could affect," said Susan Lipschutz, assistant to the president. WILSON said yesterday that enhancing the University's research climate-which entails developing resources and alliances with other organizations-while preserving the University's "academic core of values" is a primary responsibility of the vice president of research, "Universities are looked to by society to do a variety of things," Wilson said. "You give alot of thought to what a university is and why society set it up. You think about its functions and you think about the principles behind its responsibilities. And then you let them guide you in a certain way." "That's the meat of the job, I think," Wilson said. WILSON said she has often been See WILSON, Page4 Council unaninously supports festival funding By JOHN LOGIE The Ann Arbor City Council last night unanimously passed a resolution granting $15,000 to the organizers of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. The resolution earmarks $11,911 from the 1984-85 Contingency Council Programs budget and $3,009 from the General Fund Undesignated Fund Balance to assist the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in promotion and organization of this year's festival. The General Fund Undesignated Fund Balance currently stands at about $1.9 million, according to City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw. THIS SUMMER is the second year festival organizers have attracted internationally reknowned performers to local venues. The Canadian Brass, actor Hal Holbrook, and pan- tomimist Marcel Marceau will be here for this summer's festival, which runs from June 29 to Concerns voiced over propriety July 23, dovetailing into the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. Councilmember Kathy Edgren (D-Fifth Ward) voiced concern that festival organizers might be "overreaching" in their selection of performers for the festival. Edgren also said that she thought last year's. $25,000 allocation was meant as a one-time grant, and that she was "bothered by the expectation of funds" on the part of the organizers. She also said she doubted whether the festival is in fact an economic boon to the city. In response to Edgren, Mayor Pierce moved to strike the second paragraph of the resolution, which said the festival "would improve the city's business climate and would create new em- ployment opportunities." The motion was unanimously approved. EDGREN SAID that while she supported the resolution, she would not renew her support next year, and that she "was not certain that tax dollars should be used" for events like the festival. The resolution represents a decrease of $10,000 from last year's city council appropriation for the festival. Summer festival executive director Richard Alexander said the festival had depended on a renewal of the $25,000 grant in its original budget, and "had hoped to even get $35,000." While Alexander said he wasn't certain how a no vote would hurt the festival, he said the festival organization, a non-profit group, must maintain financial viability. "If we come out in the red," he See COUNCIL, Page 2 Kerasotes Murk Irish The Daily calls for an explanation. good chance of thundershowers A review of the play translations. Opinion, Page 5 Arts, Page 6