SUMMER WEEKLY 1jeSijauitaiaing One hundred three years of editorial freedom ;U' to slash Entree Plus, replace with new system 3y James M. Nash )AILY EDITOR IN CHIEF Once a simple meal pass and now a popular lebit-card program, Entree Plus will likely volve into an all-purpose plastic currency by all 1995. Off-campus merchants who fought the Uni- ersity for access to the card expect an official nnouncement early next month. But Univer- officials already have revealed details of a revamped Entree Plus-perhapswith a different name - modeled after debit-card programs at other schools. The biggest immediate change is to extend Entree Plus to off-campus merchants, who have been denied use of the card. The University contends that extending the program off cam- pus would violate banking laws. The University would sidestep that legal problem by transferring financial control of the program to local banks. The University now oversees the finances of Entree Plus. Much like the current Entree Plus program, the future system will allow students to deposit funds into an account from which they draw money at the point of purchase. "It will be even more useful to students and allow a lot of flexibility," said Farris W. Womack, the University's executive vice presi- dent for finance. "That's the beauty of it - you still have an i.d. card and you don't have to use it (for purchases)." The University will continue to manage the debit card for on-campus purchases. Off-campus purchases will be administered by a bank. The new card may include an option for students to activate their accounts from an auto- matic teller machine (ATM). Unlike current student i.d. cards, new cards issued this fall will See DEBrr, Page 2 ame-sex ouples to {/ ce'rive'U enefits Y:f y Lisa Dines Study: mandate for minorities left unfulfilled nd Ronnie Glassberg By Cathy Boguslaski ALLY NEWS EDITORS and Lisa Dines University President James J. DAILY STAFF REPORTERS uderstadt promised to extend ben- In 1987, President James J. Dud- fits to same-sex couples based on the erstadt unveiled the Michigan Man- aw 14.06 task force report intro- date - a blueprint for creating a Uni- ed at Friday's Board of Regents versity reflective of the nation's ra- eeting. cial and ethnic make-up. The regents voted in September to Monday, the Committee for a dd sexual orientation to the list of Multicultural University said the haracteristics that the University may promise is an unfulfilled one. ot use to discriminate against indi- Since the mandate, the proportion iduals. of minority assistant professors has Following this move, Duderstadt increased, but the number of Black ssigned a 12-member task force to and Hispanic associate professors has dy the implications of the addition remained constant. The number of e bylaw. Black and Hispanic full professors "We do intend to fulfill our respon- DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily has actually decreased. sibility to the Board of Regents and Regent Deane Baker expresses his opposition to Bylaw 14.06 Friday. Asian faculty have fared better :sove ahead with the policy they ap- under the mandate: They represent 8 roved last September," Duderstadt tion." U The University will grant stu- percent of the faculty, according to taid at the meeting. U Employment benefits will'be ex- dent residency status to same-sex re- the committee report, and only 2.9 Duderstadt said the recommenda- tended to gay male or lesbian partners lationships in the same manner as percent of the population of the United :ions will probably be implemented by of University employees. married couples. States, according to the 1990 census. he beginning of next year. Same-sex couples will have the While there was strong approval, The statistics do not include fac- The report spelled out many rec- same access to family housing as mar- the report was not unanimously sup- ulty members who have considerable Smendations. ried couples. ported by the regents Friday. administrative or other non-instruc- WE Same-sex couples will be re- U Financial aid available for Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Ar- tional duties. For this reason, some uired to document their relationship spouses will be extended to gay male bor) expressed concern over the report administrators question the validity with "a domestic partnership registra- and lesbian partners. See BYIAw, Page 7 of criticism that the University is not living up to the mandate. "A lot of minority faculty have Duderstadt looks at year-rounu classes advanced to the point where they have become administrators, and those people would not be counted," said 3y Ronnie Glassberg But this may soon change. falls to one-third of the academic year, Associate Provost Susan Lipschutz. md Shelley Morrison The University needs to move in and in the summer term student en- "We just presented a set of recoi- LY STAFF REPORTERS the direction of year-round educa- rollment drops to one-tenth of the mcndations for the hiring of minority With the end of winter term, most tion, said Preside o James J. Duder- number during the year. faulty to the reg'crts and there were tudents head home for a long sum- stadt in an interviHw last wek. We said the University :houtd 22 promotions last wek," she said. ner - only a small number remain in Duderstadt sad that during the move in the diree Vnof I"W-pereeit -W are rot doing neary s well aswe Ann Arbor to take classes. spring term the number of studenod See Y.-ROUND, Fag 2 would like to be, but I think we are doingbetterthan this reportsuggests." The report compares the number of minority faculty to 1990 census numbers for the percentage of mi- norities in the U.S. population. The Medical School is one of the areas most deficient in minority rep- resentation. Associate Dean for Faculty Af- fairs in the Medical School Lorris Betz said the small pool of minority candidates available for positions in the school is part of the problem. "In general we do not have ... a lot of senior minority faculty here and it is a goal of ours. We are working toward that," he said. Betz added that the number of Black medical residents in the school has doubled and Hispanic representa- tion has tripled in recent years. The report also showed a large turnover rate for Black faculty. Of those individuals who were assistant professors in 1982-83, only one in five is still at the University, the re- port said. This retention has been par- ticularly troublesome for Black women - none has reached the rank of full professor. "There's quite a large proportion of minority women who remain assis- tant professors even after 11 years," said multicultural committee mem- ber Charles Smith. Faculty of color receive signifi- cantly lower salaries than non-minor- ity faculty, even at the same seniority le vetls, accordi: to the committee port. Women at generally rece e tower sata s than men within Pe2 See Rrtoi r Pug 2