Page 4-The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 22, 1991 G4be £td14ju1a4Ig 420 Maynard Street ANDREW GOTTESMAN Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Editor in Chief Edited and Managed STEPHEN HENDERSON by Students at the DANIEL POUX University of Michigan Opinion Editors Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. f7.'"' f'r: ' 4'44fti 4;.; vF, : v: v.".".v.".":::v.: rr ": Y " r."1": rrr.:Y."::.":.":.Y: r.Y."." -: "rr "r: r:::.:: r.":::v::. :": r.:Y:.: J::::: s4v:::::::: Y .Yrt:::::: ::":. ::::::."::: ::":. ...................... "r 7} ","r 4.,..t 7 .7.. °"r: ". " ,7{":: .,S"I:f":.vr ": "r:"":.Y:.v. .,%.%;f ::" ::" :v:::::::.v: "::.Y. .,.}...:: ":::F f.. ..I. A4... .7. f:%::"7:f:?"7.".1.,h,..:...":"r..:.4.,"...Y:{f:{f.,:, ..J..1...... ^ ........:....:::?':"7}7 . ,..,. I v 1'" Y u. .4v. rJ vr.".. w= r: r 7.. , r: "{.,,,4,5.'}:?f:?'}:v7: F" . :........ 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The other was her applied fin husband. portantly,N Until recently, this incident would have been told that su dismissed as just a particularly perverse exaipple Frederik of of a common phenomenon: men using the legality quite right of marriage to treat "their" wives as if they are message to property rather than partners. One of every seven you can pr wives is raped by her husband who is either inca- first have a pable or unwilling to recognize that even in mar- Conseq riage, "No means no." assure that Until 1988, Michigan's courts were equally around the incapable orunwilling to recognize that rape means know that t rape - whether it takes place within marriage or prosecution not - and hence should be treated as a crime. But understand the laws have changed. This month, the man who transformi raped his wife last January became the first person message h to be convicted under Michigan's 1988 marital included o rape, law. For nur The law makes it much easier for the wife to rare enoug prosecute her husband than before, and carries a rates appr much steeper sentence - up to life. Moreover, cessful mar even if neither divorce proceedings nor a legal a stark war separation is in place, the courts now recognize hurdles co what they should have recognized a long time ago: necessary Even in the best of marriages, the institution of relationshi Ice, ice, baby Students are falling... and they can't ge Dog bite? sidewalks, Injured on the job? Even with1 Slip and fall on your butt on the way to class? maintenan A s thousands of University students worry last week n about upcoming midterm exams, term pa- Often, t pers, and summer jobs, we are burdened with yet sidewalks, another, more immediate concern: getting from place to place on campus without slipping and falling on the ice and slush that was vir- tually everywhere in Ann Arbor last week.3 Students could hardly walk 10 feet without slip- ping into a puddle or splashing slush on their clothes. And it was not un-V common to see a fellow student completely wipe. out, hurting him or herself, . looking very silly and un-F doubtedly ruining his orher day. But the University JOSE JUA Grounds Crew Snow Removal Service does not close behin remain idle in this time of crisis. It uses truck- and and suntan tractor-mounted plows and snow brushes to re- corner. Mea move snow from the Diag and campus sidewalks at sidewalks.. about 50 miles per hour. It also uses special trucks to spread salt and sand in icy areas. "...call Uni Although the University Grounds Crew makes That's 764- every effort to clear and make safe all campus unless you tself favors men. at this law finally exists, it should be mly and upheld consistently. Most im- women throughout the state need to be ch a law is on the books. Though Debbie f the Michigan Women's Foundation is to claim that the law "should send a women who are living in fear that yes, rosecute your husband," women must access to that message. uently, funds should. be allocated to information about the law is circulated state. Marital rape survivors need to hey now have legal venues available for n, and both men and women need to [that a marriage license is not a title deed ng women into property. To drive this ome, a copy of the rape law should be n all marital licenses. merous reasons, healthy marriages are h in our society as it is; with divorce oaching 50 percent, a long-term, suc- rri age is becoming an anomaly. Including ,ring about one of the most significant )nfronting all marriages represents a step toward assuring that one day all ps are genuinely equal. t up inevitably they will miss some areas. the help of Building Services and other ce crews, incessant amounts of snow made their job much more difficult. hen, we are left with partially cleared and students can be seen slipping and sliding their way to class, and occasionally ending up with a dislocated hip. But administrators don't have to worry about such problems. The heated side- walks on either side of the Fleming Administration Building shield the University's top officials from embarrassing wipe outs and injurious falls. Perhaps such an innovation is in order so the entire campus could enjoy this privilege. But in the meantime, Uni- versity students need not be completely discouraged. REZ/Dally Warmer weather follows d Spring Break, and frisbee on the Diag fning in the Arb are just around the anwhile, if you are bothered by slippery versity Snow Removal at 764-3422. 3422. They won't know if you've fallen, call 'em." MUG mugs for profit, not for environment To the Daily: How many of you have a plastic mug at home? Maybe one of your housemates has one that you can borrow? A ceramic or tin mug? A silly Valentine mug that your lover gave you this year? In any case, you do not need to buy one from the MUG. Under the auspices of recy- cling, the MUG in the Union is promoting sales of a plastic (perhaps you have seen them) green and purple mug with a lid and a handle. Very attractive, colorful, refillable and a bargain at only $2.50, but not necessary. Consumerism runs rampant when one is convinced to buy some- thing of which one has several of equal value and utility. Why can't we just recycle the mugs we already have in our cabinets and fill them up at the MUG? Because nobody would make a profit. But wouldn't this be a more effective way to recycle? Unless we buy more than 10 cups of coffee, we lose money anyway. And that's where they make their profit. Though profit is in many cases an effective motivation for recycling, this sale of reusable mugs at the MUG is not recy- cling; these mugs are increasing consumerism under the guise of environmentalism. We must recycle and reduce consumption in order to conserve our re- sources; mug sales at the MUG are doing neither. Christy Krieg LSA junior Column lacked common sense To the Daily: I can't help but think Brad Bernatek's turtle neck has restricted the blood flow to his brain ("Engler: making the right choices," 2/20/90). In backing Gov. John Engler's cuts he shows his lack of common sense when it comes to economic feedback. Yes, if we cut spending, this will solve all our problems. For example, we can slash all funding for things like the Detroit Institute of Art and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. When looking for a place to locate, companies never consider quality of life for their employees. These art things really do "cater to only a select minority." Good thinking. More importantly, art wouldn't be able to "remain ahead of society" (whatever that means) if it were funded by the govern- ment. Gee, I didn't realize that art served that purpose. It's a good thing people who own homes worth more then $250,000 will receive a 20 percent or more property tax cut. It seems for the cuts that he has proposed, Engler can't make good on this promise for anyone who doesn't have a $250,000 home. I guess Engler doesn't have a child in any of the special programs that will be eliminated. He wouldn't let his own child and hundreds of his child's friends be scattered throughout the state so someone in a $600,000 home can pay $1,000 less in property tax, would he? Jonathan Greenberg University graduate Guerrilla theatre inappropriate in class To the Daily: The 2/20/91 Daily reminded me of a very uncomfortable incident that occurred last Monday. Pam Jordan and her guerilla group representing the Nonviolent Action Clearing House (NACH) did their song and dance in front of the Psychology class in MLB in which I am a TA. The article seems to represent NACH in a positive way. How- ever, I would like to describe the situation from Monday. Before lecture started, Pam and her group asked the professor permission to sing a song of peace before lecture began. The professor asked them not to, since the classroom was not the place for such activity. The group appeared very angry and con- fused. They asked why, and the professor told them that it was his class. I felt likeI was watching a group of angry pre-schoolers. They appeared to leave, but they instead turned on their radio and began their song. At the end, they received many boos from the audience, and many students yelled, "... this is a Psychology class... Get out now..." This incident set the tone for the entire class. Not only did this group disrupt the start of a lecture, they were extremely disrespectful to the professor. It was nice of NACH to ask permission, but as long as they do that, they should respect any response of the professor. I am for free speech, but when a group is disruptive in an academic setting, I am quite against that. The University of Michigan is an academic institu- tion, and its classrooms are no place for a guerilla theater. If NACH is supposedly a nonviolent group, then they should think twice when planning to violently disrupt a lecture. The emotions that this group elicited in many people were of anger and dismay. I propose that disrespect for professors should not be tolerated and that Pam and her group be punished for their activities. Keep the protests outside the classroom! Jeffrey S. Kaufman Rackham student The Daily wishes all students, staff, and faculty a happy, healthy and safe Spring Break. See you all on March 4. 0 0 I I Patriot or turncoat? :.1':.4':.41:LVt:::.1".":::.:111"t:::::.1"::: X:. : ".": '.":.": :"::::.:"::: : :v11 "!."':: tip'%';%} :ti: ':;:::ti t:ti " r%"J ":.11":.1V: t:: ".":::'::: ' 111:": "ti :':":::M: ::":"t: ::"::': } J The buck stops with the Dude 0 Last week's U.S. bombing of a Baghdad building that killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians brought Peter Arnett-bashing to a new low. First, the CNN reporter/ Iraqi sympathizer was siding with Hussein by reporting that "Iraqi officials said" allied forces had destroyed a baby milk factory. Now, he has indeed renounced the good old Red, White and Blue by bringing us footage of sobbing Iraqis collecting the burned remains of their loved ones. Such stories, our government tells us, are Iraqi propaganda brought to us by traitors like Arnett. Funny, our government also tells us that similar stories coming out of Israel are called news coverage brought to us by respectable reporters. All sorts of people have joined the Arnett-bashing game. A group called Accuracy in the Media has accused Arnett of being an Iraqi sympathizer for reporting information he receives from Iraqi officials and for showing pictures ofcivilian areas that have been bombed. Their brand of "accuracy" apparently depends on whether what the reporter has to report is complimen- tary to the U.S. position. During a recent airing of CNN's Crossfire programs, Pat Buchanan said the U.S. military should jam television and radio signals from Baghdad so U.S. citizens would not be swayed to oppose the war because of pictures of civilians being killed. And we condemn other countries whose leaders impose censorship on citizens as a means of social control? We are told that we should not believe what Arnett is telling us because his reports are censored by the Iraqis. Well, yes they are, and Arnett takes great pains to tell us so every time we see his face on the screen. And at the same time we are being told to disregard Arnett because of Iraqi censorship, we are bombarded with assurances from our government that all is going well in that faraway war thing, and if we are good Americans we will believe that and not ask questions. U.S. leaders are engaged in a high-stakes public relations war. They give out only the smallest tidbits of information and only what makes them look good. They are now questioning the patriotism of Peter Arnett in hopes that CNN will pull him out of Baghdad. Patriotism means a lot of things, but it should not be a synonym for stupid. Feb. 18, 1991, The Minnesota Daily University of Minnesota When students return from Spring Break, the people who teach almost half of their classes - the graduate students - could be working without a contract. By the end of March, TAs : - could be on ' strike - w h i c h means no classes, no R . . - exams, and no grades. It isn't a prospect I M ike enjoy. I'm one of those Fischer TAs, and like most of my colleagues, I care passionately about my students. I don't relish the thought of telling them to carry on without me. But I may have no choice, precisely because I do care about my students - and do want to offer them their monev's worth. the class was not restructured or changed in any way, the University paid Browning less the second time around - while stripping him of his tuition waiver and health ben- efits. N The Universityjustified the cuts by claiming that Browning's class took less time to teach than origi- nally estimated. Suddenly, the 36 hours Browning had been given a year earlier for grading were reduced to 30. The 26 hours set aside for. tutoring were slashed in half. And the eight hours once provided for grading the final were cut to six. Browning was thereby faced with an agonizing choice - one that eventually confronts almost all of us as TAs. He could abide by the University's new rules and fictional hour assignments - even though School of Architecture Chair Kent L. Hubbell openly acknowledged that the new 317 hours' estimates were revised to justify reduced pay. Or Brownin- could actuallv teach told him to quit teaching - imme- diately. Quit teaching - just like that. Never mind that students were de- pending on Browning for further instruction, exam proctoring, exam grading, and a final grade. Never mind that this University, which claims to be concerned about un- dergraduates' education, was telling an educator who was trying to ful- fill his commitments to stop doing his job. Quit teaching -just like that. I don't want to, and hopefully I won't have to. But things don'tlookgood. The University is stonewalling shamelessly rather than negotiating faithfully. The Graduate Employ- ees' Organization (GEO) - the TA union - has asked that all the Bruce Brownings here are paid for the hours they actually work. The University has responded by trying to subvert the grievance procedure which had at least allowed Bruce Browninoy to lodoea nrotest 0 Nuts and Bolts By Judd Winick M4&5E 1?.REE MEN AEA ,=-r !r ~ )?.EBT ~~O~.AJxri5- 1.ARK ON A Ja.)O'. ~A - CYou ps.