The Michigan Daily -Friday, February 1, 1991 - Page 3 WING Continued from page 1 these issues than white men, even though both groups reported nearly identical amounts of coverage of these issues. "It was interesting that women and minority students were less satisfied (than white men)," said WING task force co-chair Peg Lourie. "White men are more likely to respond positively to the coverage of white men in that course." Stewart concurred. "It's men - ,,,,and specifically white men -- who fperceive the coverage is ade- quate," she said. In light of the difference, WING xx -wants departments to survey intro- , 'ductory courses and ensure each a. "explicitly mentions the race, gen- ,der, ethnicity, and sexual orienta- ,tion biases imbedded in their dis- w, ciplines. WING desires, an in- creased faculty awareness of the survey results. "Faculty need to be more con- Calvin and Hobbe IT1R-. CwIT TO B: N OF CR e cerned than we often are that stu- dents are not alike," Stewart said. "What feels adequate to one stu- dent is totally inadequate for an- other. We can't be just responsive to one group." "The important thing is for the faculty to be aware that this is a very pervasive pattern. There is generally not sufficient coverage. People should be taking seriously that there is this general pattern," Stewart added. WING members are especially concernet with the issue of sexual orientation. "More and more peo- ple are including sexual orienta- tion, but it's obviously lagging be- hind," Lourie said. First-year student Sarah Miller, said sexual orientation and ethnic- ity were discussed in an anthropol- ogy course used in the survey, which she took. "It definitely deals with ethnic- ity," Miller said. "It didn't deal with gender as much as I would have liked. I was disappointed that the professor didn't attempt to fill in those gaps. Anthropology Prof. Conrad Kot- tak asserted anthropology is a field which encompasses diverse topics. Kottak tackles issues of race, eth- nicity, gender, class, discrimina- tion, and sociolinguistic discrimi- nation, or prejudice based on how people talk, with a textbook titled Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity. "Anthropology has always been a course about cultural diversity. Long before colleges began to be- come interested in diversity, an- thropology was interested," Kottak said. Miller said other academic dis- ciplines must be more sensitive to feminist issues. She said an Art History course neglected issues which needed to be discussed. "This professor spent two days showing us classic rape scenes from Western art without ever ad- dressing the political and social implications like this (rape) is part of our culture," she said. "It's not that I feel he has a ZSE. L Xk~tT WtNu .f ,: ,. " . +N , ft ae °"' ti . . A '" ' " .. ; t CIGF.sr V Vv '{ 1 V Vi.. r% LAW AGAINST NAViNCs 9CKc Al. ON MIS WIAW to; SNOh1 TONPW F MEW SNOQO BE SCHOOL- I *N~ TH. FALL THER..AN '. f0 0 99 to,% GO TO SC\NOl c NDM 4K IN MPROcH. by Bill Watterson B1I SECOND GRADE, W D E PACK\NG INK R-NCN ?,OX Y1Tt DEMURE C\.EAERS. GT T ETPI GRAE ,I Ct\DY RET\RE. ea compulsion to be political in class... It was insensitive and irra- tional to spend that much time on rape and not discuss why our cul- ture is a rape culture." Other students feel certain classes, including Great Books, do not lend themselves to issues con- cerning diversity. Second-year LSA student Alex Ginsburg, who is against the idea of a Great Books course, argued it is not feasible to deftly include such issues in that course. "Let's face facts: Greek white men wrote the syllabus. Either you have to redefine Great Books, which is the right idea, or face up to the reality that these are marginal issues in the defined Great Books. I think the Great Books program has lost touch with reality," he said. Great Books Prof. Don Cameron disagreed, arguing unless a narrow definition is used, diversity in- cludes the study of Greek culture. Cameron also asserted the is- sues presented in the survey were touched upon by books read in the course. The content value of discussion was disputed, however. "It was a sham. We had a token discussion of race. It just seemed to be in- jected. It was highly artificial and most of the students seemed to take it that way," Ginsburg said. WING does not expect an im- minent student backlash to diver- sity, since less than five percent of responding students felt these issues were being given too much coverage. DEFICIT, Continued from page 1 Senate, and Executive Office at- tempting to reconcile the Democratic and Republican plans began yester- day. University officials said last week they were hopeful that the governor would continue to stand by his promise not to reduce higher ed- ucation funding. Keith Molin, assistant to Vice- president for Government Relations Richard Kennedy, said higher educa- tion has been continually under- funded for the past 10 years. "Effectively, education has had its growth curtailed over a long period of time." Last year, for the first time in the University's history, student tuition and fees composed a larger share of the budget than state appro- priations, Molin said. Nuts and Bolts HEARD YOO'URE HAING P©oB.EIS w~rnH 7HE FAIREFR ,'YEP. WORD T RAVLS Fg,r ' WEa .L.KID Y'WAJAT -ME T - IDATIt4G? WHAT3 ilTHAT. YOU ACT ALOO. LIKE YOU DON CARE.L WO*V& YO~U ACTr LKE' YOU'RE I4AL P'AYING ~ATTENniOr. "MU"!CAN SENdSE-m E OCcF~tVe WHEN4 WAS THE tLASr1TME' You HAD A DAM FYL'HPY. i I I V C M-> 0C3, ' iC y._ by Judd Winick ( '66 Bur ASK QiICXS k: SHE COOL&9 E vUvA-/. YU'RE -RE1ff a, Sr ., om. Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports' Big Three will idle car plants DETROIT (AP) - The nation's Big Three automakers plan to shut down 24 car and truck assembly plants next week, temporarily idling more than 62,000 workers because of a shortage of dealer orders, the companies said yesterday. General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. have been trying for more than a year to balance production with slipping demand. Closing assembly plants frequently means shutting down some of the thousands of supplier and component plants. Employees covered by United Auto Workers union contracts with the companies receive benefits designed to get them 95 percent of their regular pay when their plants are closed because of sales slumps. GM officials said the company would stop production at 11 of its U.S. and Canadian factories, and production at two plants will be cut in half. In all, about 39,000 employees will be idled. Levin urges new trade laws WASHINGTON (AP)- Sen. Carl Levin has renewed his push for tougher trade legislation, saying the Bush administration's more con- ciliatory approach has failed to open Japanese markets. "We ought to stand up and defendaour jobs here with the same de- termination that we defend liberty around the world," the Detoit Democrat said. "Michigan and every other state is losing jobs to com- tries who defend their workers' jobs." The bill, which Levin said had bipartisan backing, is similar to one he introduced without success last year following the administration's decision to remove Japan from the list of nations with the most unfair barriers to U.S. exports. Countries on the list are subject to retaliatory limits on their acc ss to U.S. markets. Smoking death rate rises ATLANTA (AP) - More Americans are quitting smoking, and more are dying, now more than 400,000 a year, as the habits of the 1950's and 60's take an increasing toll, federal health officials said yesterday. The national Centers for Disease Control reported the 434.175 Americans died from smoking in 1988, up 11 percent from the 390,000 deaths attributed to smoking in a 1985 study. Those numbers reglect a steady, deadly trend, CDC researchers said. Back in 1965, the calculated toll from smoking deaths was 188,000. "The problem is, we are now paying for what happened 20 to 30 years ago, when large numbers of people smoked in large amounts," said Dr. William Roper, director of the Atlanta based CDC. Soybeans, death syndrome are linked say researchers CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (AP) - Some varieties of soybeans bred to fight rot are more vulnerable to a mysterious and lethal disease- Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), researchers say. However, little is understood about the link between the gene for resis- tance to phytophthora root rot and susceptibility to SDS, said Paul Gib- son, a plant and soil scientist at Southern Illinois University. "We came upon it entirely by accident, but the link just stood out, said Gibson, one of a group of scientists in the South and Midwest study- ing the disease and the soybean's response to it. "It is a very elusive disease; it comes and goes and it is not always where you expect it to be," said Keith Smith, director of research for the American Soybean Association in St, Louis. "Any piece of the puzzle like this will help us come up with the final solution." EXTRA' Best of luck to the Daily's new editors. You'll need it! Today, to most of you, is just another cold February day, with classes, work, and, if you're lucky, a night at the bar. But for this year's Daily editors it is the end of an era, and the great step into the unknown. For incoming Daily editors, today begins a journey into Daily responsibility and a step into the murky world of college journalism. We wish you, the incomiing editors, the patience to deal with new reporters who can't write a complete sentence and with old reporters, who know how, but sometimes don't feel like doing so. We wish you the friendships that we have found and the strength to deal with each other in times of great stress. We wish you dozens of happy Thursday nights at Ashley's and a hundred coronary-free meals from Mabel and Pete at Frank's. We hope you learn from your mistakes and never stop laughing at yourselves when you make them. And, perhaps most of all, we hope you take advantage of this year' and appreciate it before it's gone. It will be over before you know it The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates via U.S. mail for fall and winter $39 for two terms, $22 for one term. Campus delivery $28.00 for two terms. 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