- The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 15. 1987-9Page3
Jernigan vetoes Sister City Task Force
By ELIZABETH ATKINS
and JON EIN
Ann Arbor Mayor Gerald
Jernigan vetoed a resolution last
Monday to reestablish the Central
American Sister City Task Force
because he and other Republicans
on city council think the task force
has become too politically involved
in Juigalpa, Nicaragua.
According to David DeVarti (D-
Fourth Ward), the council's seven
Democrats will probably be unable
to override it. By city charter, an
override requires eight votes, and
DeVarti thinks chances of getting
one Republican vote are slim.
Jerry Schleicher (R-Fourth Ward)
added, "We will probably not over -
ride the veto." At the meeting he
proposed to turn the issue over to
the voters.
But Jernigan is willing to reach
a compromise with the Democrats
in return for an override.
Jeff Epton (D-Third Ward) said,
"It is possible to work this out,
identify the concerns behind the ve -
to and still maintain the spirit of
the task force."
James Eckroad, a member of the
first delegation to visit Juigalpa,
said the task force is proceeding to
send a second delegation to Juigalpa
at the end of June. Last November,
a 17-member group visited the city.
Eckroad added that it is very im -
portant that the task force has the
official endorsement of city council.
"People tend to identify with
(the sister city) and feel ownership
of it," Eckroad said. "Without city
council endorsement, people view
the task force as just another private
organization doing good things."
Eckroad wants the city endorse -
ment of the task force until the se -
cond delegation to Nicaragua returns
in July.
The resolutionnwouldr have re -
established the seven-member task
force. Two task force members
would hold positions on the Hospi -
tality Committee, which oversees
relations with Ann Arbor's other
two sister cities in Japan and West
Germany.
Democrats are opposed to plac -
ing members on the committee
because they think that Nicaragua is
in a different situation than the oth -
er eieries
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Regents approve procedure to
select new University president
By MARTHA SEVETSON
Special to the Daily
DEARBORN - The University
Board of Regents approved a reso -
lution yesterday to formally initiate
the search for a new president at
yesterday's monthly meeting. The
regents have patterned the search
process after the procedure used to
select University President Harold
Shapiro in 1978.
The regents will comprise the
Presidential Selection Committee,
and will interview and evaluate all
candidates for the position. Last
month Shapiro announced that he
will leave the University to become
the president of Princeton Univer -
sity in January.
According to Regent Thomas
Roach (D-Saline), faculty members,
students, and alumni will form ad-
visory committees and provide the
regents with guidelines to evaluate
presidential candidates. These com -
mittees will consist primarily of
faculty and students from the Ann
Arbor campus, but will also include
representatives from both the Flint
and Dearborn campuses.
The regents hope to compile a
list of candidates for consideration
in the past.
"The faculty participated in the
interviewing of candidates, evalu -
ating applicants, and developing a
short list of individuals," Johnson
said.
"A revelation of candidates will be considered a
breach of trust."
Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline)
by early September.
The Senate Advisory Committee
on University Affairs has already
invited faculty members to volun -
teer for the advisory committee.
Both the Michigan Student Assem -
bly and the Alumni Association
will soon select the members of the
student and alumni committees.
School of Social Work Dean
Harold Johnson, chair of the faculty
advisory committee in.1978, said
the faculty has played an instru -
mental role in the selection process
Three members of the faculty
committee and two members each
of the other committees will join
the regents in the interviewing
process this year. Members of the
advisory committees cannot com-
municate with the candidates unless
they have regental approval.
According to Roach, committee
members will be forbidden to publi -
cize the names of candidates consi -
dered for the position. "A revelation
of candidates will be considered a
breach of trust," he said.
University President Harold Shapiro and Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost James Duderstadt attend a noon luncheon with the
Board of Regents yesterday at the Fairlane Mansion in Dearborn before
the Regents' meeting.
Research group gets
lighter work load - juS
By REBECCA COX
University officials are currently
seeking ways to implement the new
research policy which, according to
members of the University commu -
nity, provides researchers with more
lenient guidelines.
The Research Policies Commit -
tee will meet with Vice President
for Research Linda Wilson in a
special session on May 20 to dis -
cuss interpretation and implementa -
tion of the new guidelines.
The new policy eliminates the
"end-use" clause which banned se -
cret research that could kill or maim
human beings.
The guidelines replace the kill-
maim clause with a general state -
ment that the University has had "a
long standing tradition of conduct -
ing research aimed at enhancing hu -
man life and the human condition."
The new guidelines also bypass
review from the two panels that
check classified research proposals
- The RPC and the Classified Re -
search Review Panel
Under the new policy, involved
researchers, department chairs,
deans, directors of institutes and
centers, and the Vice President for
Research will be responsible for re -
viewing both classified and unclass -
ified projects.
Political Science Chairman John
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Daily Photo by DANA MENDELSSOHN
Ken Prielipp, a local farmer, helps his mother, Irene, load flowers into
their truck Wednesday after selling them at Kerrytown. On their farm 25
miles south of Ann Arbor, the Prielipps also grow corn, soybeans, and
other vegetables. The Kerrytown flower sale occurs every Wednesday
and Saturday.