d Summer Weekly 1a One hundred two years of editorial freedom Volume C111, No. 2S Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, May 5, 1993 (-o1993 The Michigan Daily! GRADUATION DAY I Public Health dean resigns, P By SAM GOODSTEIN And FLINT WAINESS DALY OPINON EDTORS Requesting a reversal of a December mora- toriumenactedby Schoolof Public Health Dean June Osborn, a University committee recom- mended that PPIH remain open. One day later, DeanOsbornannouncedherresignationasdean, effective September 1, 1993. The committee was formed by Provost Gil- bertWhitakertoinvestigatewhetheraxingPPIH was administered within University guidelines. Disgruntled PPIH students and faculty launched a vigorous campaign to insure PPIH would not be the first academic department to be closed in over a decade. Whitaker convened the committee to evaluate the behavior of PPIH and Osborn's decision to close the department. Director of University Relations Walter Harrison called the committee's report, which criticized PPIH as well as Dean Osborn, "very thorough and even handed." The report triggered a chain of events. In a memorandum distributed to all depart- ments at the School of Public Health - except PPIH - Osborn said she would be taking one year of administrative leave before returning to faculty status. Since Osborn enacted the moratorium - which froze recruitment of new faculty to the department andrestricted enrollment of incom- ing students - the campaign to keep PPIH has largely become a personal attack on her. PPIH Prof. Jason Finkle noted, "Osborn got trapped by not knowing the rules and standard procedures for closing a department." Hesaidsheignoredthedepartmentalequiva- lent of due process. Osborn left town on businessuntil tomorrow and could not be reached for comment. The committee's decision to liftithe morato- rium left many PPIH faculty members ecstatic. One PPIH faculty member, speaking on conditions of anonymity, commented, "Even 3IH spared Even when Nixon fell, Ifelt some sadness,.. although I laughed my head off. PPIH faculty member when Nixon fell, I felt some sadness ... although I laughed my head off." If the University would invest as much time helping departments as it does hiring bureaucrats, the entire PPIH fiasco would have been avoided, the faculty member added. But some felt sympathy for the dean. Speaking to the Ann ArborNews,PPIH Chair- man Yuzuru Takeshita said, "It's hard for her, I'm sure. I feel bad about it ... I'm going to reach out to her in some way." PPIH students said they were equally thrilled, if not surprised, about the recommendation to keep the department alive. 'Three weeks ago nobody in PPIH would have thought that this was possible .:. but a series of fortunate circumstances allowedit to happen," said Christine Kolars, a recent PPIH graduate. While some students questioned the administration's handling of the episode, Kolars was surprised that the University "had the guts to reverse the decision." The lifting of the moratorium was the culmi- nation of four months of intense campaigning on the part of PPIH faculty and students. Afterspeakingatregents' meetingsandMichi- gan Student Assembly meetings, writing letters and distributing fliers around campus, those op- posed to the decision refused to doubt them- selves. "I honestly knew that we were 100 percent right all along," said Kolars. SHARON MUSHER/Daiiy Hillary Clinton receives an honrary Doctorate of Laws at the University's 174th commencement ceremony Sunday. Artist waits for Law School censorship settlement By BRYN MICKLE The settlement resulted from a lawsuit filed DALY STAFF REPORTER by the American Civil Liberties Union, after TheUniversity'sLawSchoolmayteachlegal membersoftheJournal dismantled an exhibitby issues, but one Ann Arbor resident does not feel Jacobsen at a Law School sponsored forum on it practices what it teaches. pornography last fall. CarolJacobsen, the Ann Arbor artistcensored Jacobsen had taken down her exhibit after by the Law School feels that neither the Law Journal members attempted to alter portions that School nor the Michigan Journal of Gender and some forum participants found offensive. Law are abiding to the terms of the settlement In exchange for dropping the lawsuit, the Law reached last March. See SmuLMu, Page 2 University's Summer of Service program turned down By HOPE CALATI DAILY EDITOR IN CHIEF The University's application for President Clinton's Summerof Serviceprogramwas turned down recently by the Commission on National and Community Service. The University Task Force on Community ServiceLea*ing devisedaprogramwhich would have placed students from the University's Ann Arbor,Dearborn, andFlintcampuses andEastern Michigan University students at sites in Ypsilanti and Detroit. The program had a $1.8 million price tag to employ 350 students and 700 volunteers. "I would bet that ours was among the very largest that weresubmitted,"said task force Chair Barry Checkoway. "We werehoping that at least 300 college students and young people would get involved with a wide range of community is- sues." Fifty-five students applied from the Ann Ar- bor campus, said Jeffery Howard, director of the Office of Community Service Learning. The program would have placed students in areasofhealth,education,environmentandsafety. "We are disappointed that we could not get support in this first summer," Checkoway said. He added that the task force is motivated to bring Clinton's program to campus. "I feel very confident that the University will again search for other ways tormake community service learning available on this campus. If it doesn't happen through this program ... we'll find other ways," Checkoway said. Howard said, "We are still deliberating about offering a scaled down version of the Summer of Service program." The program would employ people on a part- time, voluntary basis. In a speech at the University of New Orleans lastFriday, President Clinton announced both the service program and a program in which the federal government will provide direct loans to students. Rep. Bill Ford (D-Ypsilanti), chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, is scheduled to submit National Service legislation tomorrow moning.