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Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom
Vol. XCVIII, No. 6SE: Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, June 10, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily
It's President Duderstadt
Regents name provost to top 'U' post
Gregorian
...rejected regents' offer
Papers:
Search
may be
illegal
BY RYAN TUTAK
Debate over the University's
closed presidential search process
continues, even after the Board of
Regents chose the 11th President
this morning.
The regents voted unanimously to
appoint Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost James Duder-
tadt, effective Sept. 1.
But the Ann Arbor News and De-
troit Free Press have sued the re-
ents, demanding that the search take
lace in the open.
A Michigan Court of Appeals
three-judge panel will consider this
uesday whether to hear the
newspapers' appeals. If the appeal is
heard, when a ruling would come is
unclear, Joan Lowenstein, an attor-
ney for the News, said.
Lowenstein added that Duderstadi
could be stripped of the position ii
the court rules against the regents
and that such a ruling could force the
regents to restart the search in pub-
lic.
But Roderick Daane, the regents'
attorney, said, "I think that's a very
unlikely result." To invalidate
See Search, Page 3
BY RYAN TUTAK
The University's Board of Re-
gents, in a special meeting this
morning, named Provost and Vice
President of Academic Affairs James
Duderstadt as the 11th University
president.
The regents voted 6-0-to appoint
Duderstadt to the position, after they
and chairs of the three presidential
search advisory committees inter-
viewed Duderstadt for about one and
a half hours, asking general ques-
tions about his vision of the
University's future and his responsi-
bilities as president. The questions
ranged from his ideas about the role
of research at the University to ad-
dressing concerns of increasing mi-
nority involvement.
"The state must increase its in-
vestment in education... its future,"
he said, adding that business,
legislation, laborers, and Michigan
citizens must reprioritize higher
education. "American society is go-
ing into a transition... to depending
on knowledge rather than resources."
He said the University's success
will hinge on the access minorities
have to the institution."There is no
doubt that the America of the 21st
century will be multicultural," he
said, adding that the University must
learn to accept and tolerate people of
different races and culture. "Diversity
and excellence are essentially
linked."
One essential goal, Duderstadt
said, is to reestablish a strong bond
between students, specifically stu-
dent government, and the
administration which he said has
been lost throughout the years.
"Students are an integral part of the
institution," he said. "The
confrontational attitude from the
'60s and '70s has led to a division
and a gap between student govern-
ment and the administration.
"The irony is that the goals of the
students and the goals of the admin-
istration are by and large the same."
The Michigan Student Assem-
bly's External Relations Chair Zach
Kittrie, an LSA junior, said he
doubts Duderstadt's commitment to
improving the administration's rela-
tionship with students.
He said former MSA President
Ken Weine had invited Duderstadt to
speak at MSA at least four times
'I'm results-oriented. I like to move rapidly, but also last year, adding that one time the
to listen and learn what people are concerned about. provost cancelled and the other three
Because without consensus, we can't move ahead.' he never showed up.
- Incoming University President James Duderstadt the University's goals and responsi-
bilities, but his stand on a code of
Duderstadt, who will assume the the University will face, and that he non-academic conduct was definite
presidency Sept. 1, said his first has the motivation to take them on. and firm. The early history of educa-
project is to find his successor as "I'm an individual that likes tion, he said, focused not on the de-
provost and vice president foraca- achievement," he said. "I'm results- velopment of the mind but the de-
demic affairs. oriented. I like to move rapidly, but velopment of character. "There is an
Duderstadt said he accepted the also to listen and learn what people increasing sense that the abdigation
post because he wants to confront are concerned about. Because without
the challenges and opportunities that consensus, we can't move ahead." See 'U', Page 3
New president to face mixed reaction
FROM STAFF REPORTS Zachary Kittrie, chair of the Michigan Student subcommittee, said that, based on his past dea
The choice of Provost James Duderstadt to be Assembly External Relations committee, ex- ings with Duderstadt, "I think (he) was an exce
the University's 11th president surprised few of pressed concern that Duderstadt might support a lent choice... He did an outstanding job assistin
his associates or members of the University code of non-academic conduct broader than the (Former University President Harold) Shapir
community, but many expressed strong reactions Policy on Discriminatory Acts approved by the His knowledge of the University is unequaledi
favorable and unfavorable - to the an- regents in March. the state of Michigan.
nouncement. GILMER added that he thinks Duderstadt
Several of Duderstadt's colleagues praised him 'He's been a part of (t h e experience at the University will benefit hin
as a capable administrator familiar with Univer- University) for some time. He "He's been a part of (the University) for som
sity operations. But student and staff representa- , time. He won't have to learn the hi ritage."
tives expressed concern the new president will won't have to learn the heritage. University Vice Provost for M nority Affai
place excessive priority on financial concerns and -State Representative Donald Charles Moody also said that Di derstadt, wh
weapons research. has held the office of provost for wo years, wi
"I'm not surprised, but I'm very disap- Gilmer (R-Augusta), a member of help provide "continuity" withini i e administr
pointed," said Tobi Hanna-Davies, co-chair of the House Higher Education tion.
Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, a lo- Committee But Judy Levy, bargaining chai for America
cal group which has opposed University weapons Federation of State, County and I unicipal En
research. But Kittrie added that he hopes Duderstadt ployees local 1583 - the Univ rsity maint
THE APPOINTMENT of the former Uni- "will set an example for the rest of the adminis- nance worker's union - doesn't d nk continui
versity engineering dean "means... that the 'U' is tration of being accessible (to students) and being is an asset.
likely to do everything it can to get even greater open-minded." "I think he's no better than the last tw
amounts of research money for weapons of all Representative Donald Gilmer (R-Augusta), a (presidents)," Levy said. "I don't s .him as
sorts," Hanna-Davies said. member of the State House Higher Education See React-an, Page
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