The Michigan Daily -Monday, March 4, 1991 - Page 3
'U' hopes to name
'visionary'
CAAS
Icy roads cause
50-car pileups
but no injuries
edirector by July
by Garrick Wang
Daily Staff Reporter
The Center for Afroamerican
'and African Studies (CAAS) is
conducting a nationwide search to
find a new program director.
"The new director, should have
vision and the ability to think
where CAAS should be in ten
Ses, and that's more critical than
'any other set of criteria," said
'Associate History Prof. Earl Lewis,
interim director of CAAS.
Lewis, who is not an official
candidate because of family
matters, said he hopes a new
'director will be appointed by July
' the beginning of the
University's fiscal year.
Lewis said he was named
,interim director last July to replace
English Prof. Lemuel Johnson
whose three-year, non-renewable
term expired in June.
Psychology Prof. James
Jackson, chair of the search
committee, said the committee
,was created in Fall 1989 to find
nationally-recognized candidates
to fill the vacant director position.
We added that no one has been
selected to fill the vacancy.
Lewis said the committee has
not produced a list of candidates
because the candidates are
nationally renowned in specific
areas of African-American studies
and nominees' home
are working hard to
faculty members.
institutions
retain their
Associated Press
Lewis said all candidates must
meet the specific tenure
requirements of the LSA
department they would join. CAAS
also has a set of criteria the
candidates must meet to be ap-
proved.
'The new director
should have vision'
- Prof. Earl Lewis,
Interim Director of CAAS
The committee will draft a writ-
ten list of nominees after the
necessary qualification checks
have been made. The list of
candidates will then be sent to
LSA Dean Edie Goldenberg and
the LSA Executive Committee:.
Lewis said Goldenberg will
look at the list, interview
candidates, and make a final
decision.
Lewis added that Goldenberg
has taken an active role in filling
the vacant CAAS directorship.
Goldenberg was unavailable to
comment on the search.
The dean's office will present
the selection to the University's
Board of Regents, who must
approve -the nomination.
Freezing rain caused two 50-car
pileups and power outages across
Michigan on Sunday, and a sliding
car pinned a Detroit police officer
against his squad car.
State police Sgt. Chris Ignaszak
in Detroit said no serious injuries
were reported in the two 50-car
pileups on southbound Interstate 75
and the Southfield Freeway.
Ramps were closed for several
hours in the early morningias tow
trucks dragged off the remains.
"It was awful slippery," said
Howard Gibson of Executive Tow-
ing in Detroit. "Some were totaled,
some were hit several times. Some
were able to drive away. It was a
mixture of everything.
The police officer was struck by
a car while directing traffic on the
southbound Southfield Freeway
service drive about 6:25 a.m. yes-
terday, Officer George Anthony
said.
The officer, who he would not
identify, was in stable condition at
Mount Carmel Hospital with head
injuries and a broken right leg, he
said. A Detroit driver was released
pending further investigation,
Anthony said.
More than 40,000 customers
scattered across the state lost
power beginning Saturday night.
Detroit Edison Co. spokesperson
Lori Kessler said 30,000 customers
in St. Clair, Marine City, Algonac,
Macomb County's Macomb Town-
ship, Sterling Heights and parts of
north Oakland County were with-
out power for a few hours.
Prof. to aid in repair
A2 News under attack
Rackham graduate student Eric Thurston joins protesters who marched
from the Federal Building to the Ann Arbor News to demonstrate against
what they call the newspaper's pro-war views.
Baltic republics vote on
RIGA, U.S.S.R. (AP) - Lat-
vians and Estonians voted over-
whelmingly for independence from
the Soviet Union yesterday, offi-
#cials said after counting more than
three-quarters of the ballots.
In Latvia, nearly complete vote
totals showed 77 percent voted in
favor of separation and 21 percent
against, officials said.
* In Estonia, 77.8 percent voted
for independence, election offi-
cials said. Officials had hoped for
a strong pro-independence vote so
the three Baltic republics could
march in step away from the So-
viet Union.
On Feb. 9, 91 percent of
Lithuanian casting ballots voted in
favor of independence. The
Lithuanian government scheduled
the referendum after Kremlin
forces imposed a crackdown in the
Baltics that left more than 20 peo-
ple dead.
Like the Lithuanian vote, the
elections in Latvia and Estonia
were mostly public opinion polls
and carried no legal weight.
They did, however, represent a
strong challenge to President
Mikhail Gorbachev, who has
branded as illegal last year's inde-
pendence declarations by the
Baltic republics.
Gorbachev has scheduled a na-
tionwide referendum for March 17
on holding the Soviet Union and
its 15 republics to
of the Baltics, as w
publics of Armeni
Moldavia, have s
participate in thatN
Only 54 percent
million people are
33 percent are Rus
percent of Estoni
residents are ethni
28 percent are Rus<
The margin of%
pendence was as 1
cent in the Talsu r
and on Hiiumaa Is
indicating many
voted to leave thet
In some areas,
as the predominant
independence
gether. Leaders of Sillamae, Estonia, voters stayed
iell as in the re- away from the polls or voted no.
ia, Georgia and The Latvian election commis-
aid they won't sion said 88 percent of Latvia's 1.8
vote. million voters had cast ballots. Es-
t of Latvia's 2.7 tonian officials said 83 percent of
ethnic Latvians; those eligible voted.
sians. Sixty-five "We have dreamed all our lives
a's 1.5 million about independence. Our fathers
c Estonians and lived in a free Latvia," said Zi-
sians. naigur Radjabova. The three Baltic
victory for inde- republics were independent for 20
high as 98 per- years before being incorporated
region of Latvia into the Soviet Union in 1940.
land in Estonia, In Latvia, pro-Kremlin forces
Russians had passed leaflets warning a "yes"
union. vote would lead to a "totalitarian"
however, such regime and turn non-ethnic Lat-
ly Russian town vians into second-class citizens.
of Hubble
by Julie Schupper
A University professor is work-
ing with a team of researchers na-
tionwide to repair the Hubble
Space Telescope.
Expectations soared last April
as the Hubble Space Telescope
was launched into the solar sys-
tem.
However, these expectations
soon dwindled when an imperfec-
tion in the telescope's main mirror
became apparent, indicating a se-
vere focusing defect in the camera.
NASA immediately responded
to the malfunction by appointing
ten scientists to redesign the cam-
era instrument.
John Clarke, an assistant pro-
fessor of Atmospheric, Oceanic,
and Space Sciences at the Univer-
sity, is working with other scien-
tists and engineers to produce the
new Wide Field/Planetary Camera
(WF/PC II) to be implemented on
the telescope.
"Researchers are scattered
throughout the country," Clarke
said. "Work is currently being
Ielescope
conducted at Arizona State Uni-
versity, John Hopkins University,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
the University of Wisconsin, and
at the California Institute of Tech-
nology."
He said that while the new
camera is basically a clone of the
original, the slight redesign in the
optics of the camera will restore
the original potential of the Hubble
telescope.
Kim Leschly, a system engi-
neer for NASA, said she has a
great deal of confidence in the
WF/PC II. "It will be quite a chal-
lenge since the replacement cam-
era will be more difficult to align
than the original camera," she
said. "But it is certainly do-able."
"I'm excited we will be able to
do this kind of rescue mission.,"
Leschley said.
"The telescope will do the kind
of astrophysics and astronomy that
is done by earth based observers,"
said George Carignan, associate
dean of engineering.
Molotov cocktail
starts patio fire
A molotov cocktail started a
fire on the patio of a home on the
2000 block of Independence at
about 3:30 Saturday morning.
The small bomb, made from a
glass bottle filled with gasoline
and ignited by a gasoline-drenched
rag, was thrown at the home's
glass door but bounced off without
breaking the window and fell on
the porch where it caught fire,
causing minor damage, Ann Arbor
police reports said.
Several more molotov cocktails
were found during the ongoing
investigation.
Reports said there is a possible
suspect.
Bonnie and Clyde
strike again?
Two suspects entered the
Michigan National Bank at 201 S.
Main last Thursday afternoon,
walked up to the teller and handed
her a note explaining that they in-
tended to rob the bank.
The teller handed the robbers
between $1,000 and $2,000 in
cash, after the suspects implied
they had a gun, Ann Arbor police_
reports said. The teller never saw a
weapon.
The robbers ran away and were
last seen fleeing northbound on S.
Ashley from W. Washington.
Two men looking
for some change
drop their pants
A man not wearing any clothes
approached a woman in the Art
and Architecture building at about
4 a.m. last Friday.
The man asked the woman if he
could have some change for the
telephone, according to reports
from the University's Department
of Safety and Security (DPSS).
A woman also reported having
been flashed by a housemate in a
residence on the 1800 block of Hill
in late January.
The victim asked her house-
mate for some change, and he told
her to come to his room to get it.
When the woman knocked on the
door, the man opened it and was
standing there stark naked, accord-
ing to Ann Arbor police reports.
The woman left quickly, reports
said.
Ann Arbor police also reported
an indecent exposure incident on
the 900 block of Baldwin Saturday
night.
The complainants were sitting
in a cafeteria when they noticed a
man outside gyrating by the win-
dow with his pants down.
Staff report thefts
over spring break
At least a dozen thefts from
University buildings and offices
were reported to DPS S over the
past week.
Three thefts occurred the Natu-
ral Science building.
Early Tuesday morning, staff
reported about $25 cash missing
from an office coffee fund, and
told DPSS officers it must have
been taken overnight.
That same afternoon, staff in a
lab reported that $100 in lab prop-
erty had been stolen. There are no
suspects in either incident.
Late Monday afternoon, a purse
of undetermined value was stolen
from a Nat. Sci. office. Purses and
wallets were also stolen from of-
fices in the Med Sci II, W. Eng-
neering, CCRB, and Public Health
buildings during the break.
KRISTOFFER GILLETTE/Daily
Back to work
LSA junior Robert Jackson, a philosophy major, works on a paper dealing
Computing Center.
with existentialism at the Angell Hall
TTHE LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Meetings
Enact, weekly meeting. DANA Bldg.,
Rm. 1040,7:00.
People of Color Against War &
Racism, weekly meeting. West Engi-
neering, 1st floor Center for African &
Afro-American Studies Lounge, 5:00.
U of M Asian American Student
Coalition (UMAASC), weekly mtg. E.
Quad, rm 126, 7 p.m.
Speakers
"The International Impact of
AIDS," Polly Paulson. International
Center, rm 9, noon.
"Democracy and Middle Eastern
Exceptionalism," Dr. John Waterbury
service. Functions 8-1:30 Sun.-Thurs.,
Fr.-Sat. 8-11:30. Call 936-1000 or
stop by 102 UGLi.
Northwalk, nighttime safety walking
service. Functions Sun.-Thurs. 8-1:30
am., Fri.-Sat. 8-11:30. Call 763-
WALK or stop by 2333 Bursley.
ECB Peer Writing Tutors available
to help with your papers Sun.-Thurs.,
Angell/Haven Computing Center, 7-
11:00 p.m.; 611 Church Street Com-
puting Center, Tue. and Thurs. 7-11:00
p.m., Wed. 8-10:00. p.m.
U of M Shorin-Ryu Karate-do Club.
For info call 994-3620. Every Monday,
CCRB, Small Gym, 8-9:00.
U of M Tae Kwon Do Club. Every
Monday. CCRB Martial Arts Rm.. 7-
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