Lesbian/Gay Pride Week seeks to educate public BY VERONICA WOOLRIDGE School's in. Tomorrow, organizers of Les- bian/Gay Pride Week will begin educating the public, trying to elim- inate the "awkwardness" many het- } erosexual people experience in the presence of lesbians and gay men. At an Ecumenical Service on Federal Plaza tomorrow, the organizers will also work to dissolve the "disenfranchisement" many ho- mosexuals feel in the heterosexual community, said Ann Arbor resident Brian Durrance, the week's orga- nizer. "The purpose of the week is to commemorate and celebrate gay pride that began with a rebellion at a gay bar called the Stonewall in New York City, June 27, 1969," Dur- rance said. "Homosexuals were al- ways being harassed by police, but that night they fought back for the first time; the rebellion marked the Regents' refusal to incorporate dis- crimination on the basis of sexual orientation into bylaw 14.06 was "symbolic." The bylaw currently prohibits discrimination based on "race, sex, color, religion, creed, na- tional origin or ancestry, age, mari- tal status, handicap, or Vietnam-era veteran status." Groups like the Lesbian and Gay Rights Organizing Committee have sought to amend the bylaw to in- clude lesbians and gay males. The regents, however, maintain that such a change would affect their business relationship with companies, such as the U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency, which do dis- criminate on this basis. Participants will rally at the Fed- eral Plaza, march up Liberty to State Street, then down to Main Street. The purpose, Durrance said, will be to make the University, as well as Ann Arbor area downtown merchants open to the public - gay, straight, and bisexual," states a leaflet to be distributed during the march. In addition to the march and rally, workshops will begin Monday in the Michigan Union with "Lesbian/Gay Rap," and continue through the week to conclude with workshops titled "An Open Discussion," "Men as Victims of Rape and Violence," and "Jewish Lesbians and Bisexuals." Ann Arbor resident Linda Kurtz, one of the event's organizers, said the week will offer "interested people the opportunity of getting together to engender a sense of neighborhood within the gay community." A lot of people do not realize how large the gay population is in the Ann Arbor community, said Kurtz, adding that it should be "interesting for those who pass by the Federal building to see how many of us there are." A number of workshops will If you can't find a pool Sacha Moustakas, age 9, and her brother Misha, age 6, of Ann Arbor cool off in a sprinkler next to City Hall last week. be col be "e BI ginning of lesbian and gay pride." and businesses aware of the homo- serve as "political education," she DURRANCE said homosexuals sexual community. "Homosexuals said, so people can "understand thea nstantly face the problem of not are proud of their sexuality and that different groups within the gay ing regularly acknowledged, is why Lesbian/Gay Pride Week is a community. People have to under- Continued from Page 3 specially on paper." visual show," he said. stand they are dealing with gay peo- Michigan entered the National He said the University's Board of "ALL EVENTS are free and ple on an everyday basis." Debators' Tournament seeded third, behind Northwestern and Dartmouth. t ' ize ard c at l o The team of now-graduated Speta and 'U' to computerizecard catalog junior Denise Loshbough was seeded Y JEFF H A SS sure, it is one of the largest, if not the largest." 10th in the toumament TT ' 1-1 ,. 1 I .f - ,, ..al o-tSchrank and Green went on to semi-finals and finished in third place. Speta and Loshbough took fifth. Dartmouth took the tourna- ment. "It's all pretty remarkable," said Schrank. "There are really a lot of good teams out there." Next year only one member, Speta, will be gone. "They very likely will be able to repeat as na- tional champions," he said. "It's a safe bet." University library users will no longer face the end- less drawer-pulling and card-flipping required by card catalogs once the University library system unleashes what it refers to as "the magic of MIRLYN." In August, card catalog material at University li- braries will become computerized through the Michi- gan Research Library Network (MIRLYN). MIRLYN users will be able to access the Univer- sity's six million-volume collection through a network of 200 terminals scattered throughout the University's 20 branch libraries. Users will also be able to tap into MIRLYN through UM-Net, the University's computer network. "IT'S A PROVEN SYSTEM," Chris McIn- tyre, the library's coordinator of public relations, said. "It's not something that's brand new." MIRLYN's software, he said, is the same as that used at North- western University. He said it is the size of Michigan's collection that makes MIRLYN unique. The massiveness of large research libraries have dis- couraged computerization attempts in the past, McIn- tyre said. David McDonald, assistant director for li- brary systems, said a trend toward computerization among the University's peer institutions has arisen over the last five years. "MIRLYN will be able to support 400 simultane- ous users," McIntyre said. "If you use that as a mea- mcintyre said te does not anuitpate crashes ecause of the system's large size and its past success else- where, but McDonald said the system has no backup and it will be brought down on a nightly basis to copy data so it can be restored if problems arise. Although computers have long been a tool in Uni- versity libraries, they have been available for research purposes only in the form of GEAC, a system which lists only books acquired during the last 10 years. Ear- lier material has only been included in GEAC in a piecemeal fashion as the need has arisen. INITIALLY, MIRLYN will include the library's most heavily used material, and all material acquired since 1975, because these items are already computer- ized and can be easily transferred to MIRLYN. McIn- tyre said he expects the library to convert its entire collection within three years. MIRLYN will possess full bibliographic informa- tion and can list all material found under various sub- ject, author, and title headings. Users will not need to know the complete and correct heading before begin- ning their search however, since even partial headings will elicit a response. Paper card catalogs may soon be obsolete, McIntyre said. After MIRLYN debuts in August, the Graduate Library will cease updating its card catalog, though it will still be available for use. UNIV E RSITY OF M IC HIGA N ALL DEPARTMENTS Computer Maintenance On-Site annual maintenance agreements are now available from $75.00 per year, for IBM, Zenith and Epson Computers. Printers, laser printers, color monitors and hard drives also at low option prices. For options and other equipment, call for a UM price list. MAYDAY OFFICE PRODUCTS 665-0919 Faculty Continued from Page 2 plaints go to the Affirmative Action Office. THE REPORT is now circulating throughout the Univer- sity where faculty and students will be able to see the document for the first time. "I don't think the faculty as a whole knows what the policy is completely secret. yet," Howard said. "I don't know if " p y.i everybody knows it's being worked This policy mandates, in most yb s be r situations, absolute secrecy regarding the discriminatory conduct ofyfaculty When Fleming's policy was ap- and staff," he said. The policy would also be "designed to cover up acts of proved, many student leaders de- institutionalized racism" because in- manded the administration draft a vestigation would not take place faculty policy as well. But law stu- vublicly he said n dent Eric Schnaufer, an anti-code ac- tivist, criticized the policy because Hearings for the student code the investigation process remains would also be conducted in private.