No title, no go. See ARTS Page 5. rrt UIT1U TODAY Flurries, then clearing; High: 45, Low: 31. TOMORROW Mostly fair; High: 48, Low: 36. Since 1890 Vol. Cl, No.114 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, March 19,1991 Te Mhg ly Students, Jernigan meet on South uad incident by Tami Pollak and David Rheingold Daily Staff Reporters Following a request to the Ann Arbor City Council to conduct an investigation into the police break-up of a Black soror- ity party in South Quad, Mayor Gerald Jernigan met with five representatives of Concerned Students Friday afternoon. "The atmosphere was cooperative, open and one of resolution," said Rack- ham graduate student Caurnel Morgan, a member of Concerned Students. Concerned Students is an ad-hoc committee of University students which arose in response to behavior of police and security during the break-up of a Dec. 9 Alpha Kappa Alpha party. Officers arrived after several small fights broke out at the party. Morgan went to the Feb. 21 Ann Arbor City Council meeting and requested that the city investigate the alleged misuse of mace by Ann Arbor police, as well as the alleged hurling of racial slurs by officials breaking up the party. Following Morgan's proposal to the council, he and Jernigan arranged last Friday's meeting. "The people who visited with me had some real good ideas," Jernigan said. "I thought the result would be to provide a secure environment for the students and increase response to the Ann Arbor po- lice." Morgan said the meeting covered several issues relating to complaints that Ann Arbor police behaved inappropri- ately while breaking up the fights. Spe- cific topics discussed, Morgan said, in- cluded police brutality, and communica- tion between police and Blacks. Concerned Students discussed two of their six objectives with Jernigan: the public acknowledgement of the students' concerns and the idea of a community review board investigation of the inci- dent. Morgan said he was optimistic about the possibility of organizing such a committee. "Jernigan proposed a committee of city council members. We are very much in favor of calling on citizen and com- munity input as well. "Our point is, if people don't feel comfortable going to the police, they won't feel comfortable necessarily going to city council members," Morgan said. Jernigan expressed little interest in the idea of a citizen involvement on the board. "I think we're elected to provide sup- port for the police department, and are responsible for the actions of the police department, and I think we should be the See MAYOR, Page 2 Duderstadt refuses to meet in Afro-American lounge; Concerned Students call off meeting with president by Tami Pollak Daily Crime Reporter Representatives of Concerned Stu- dents have announced they are no longer interested in meeting with University President James Duderstadt. "All you do is talk in meetings," said group member and Rackham graduate student Caurnel Morgan. "We're looking for action." In a March 8 letter written by Duder- stadt, the president told students that al- though, "we were unable to arrange any- thing this week," he still wanted to meet to discuss the incidents at South Quad during an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority party. Concerned Students was formed to examine the University and city police's handling of the incident. Duderstadt also wrote that he was ap- pointing Eunice Royster Harper, associ- ate vice president for student services, to follow up on initiating a dialogue. Morgan said it was not a conflict in scheduling, but rather Duderstadt's insis- tence on determining a location that has prevented the meeting. "He refused to meet with us because he did not want to leave the Fleming Building," said Devlin Ponte, an LSA junior and speaker for the Black Student Union. Both Ponte and Morgan said a meet- ing at a convenient time for both parties had been set up through Royster Harper. See MEETING, Page 2 Play ball! 'M. MUL..VU Erich Kzil, of the Athletic Department, covers the bullpen mound in Fisher Stadium in preparation for opening day on Wednesday. Programs aim *to promote Mandate goals by Henry Goldblatt Daily Administration Reporter University faculty, staff and students will soon see a plethora of new programs, workshops and films to promote the Michigan Mandate. University President James Duderstadt has awarded funding to 23 programs to help further the Mandate's goal of a multicultural University. The funding will come from the Presidential Initiatives Fund - a $100,000 fund established for the President to use at his discretion. This year, Duderstadt used the al- lotment to sponsor a contest to fund programs designed to further the Michigan Mandate. Winning proposals ranged from a Native American film series to a proposal to conduct a diversity cul- tural audit at the University's Med- ical Center. 1 The administration sent letters to the winners a few weeks ago, but the contest winners were an- nounced yesterday. Special Assistant to the Presi- dent Shirley Clarkson said that creativity was a main factor in nar- rowing the field of 98 proposals. "We looked for creativity, imagination and new ideas that would be likely to achieve changes to advance the Mandate," said Associate Vice President for Student Services Eunice Royster- Harper. There was no special effort to choose a group of programs that would affect every ethnic group and race covered in the Mandate. Clarkson said although adminis- trators were pleased with the di- versity of the winning proposals, they were disturbed by the dearth of student entries. None of the proposals chosen were created by undergraduate students. Clarkson faulted the programs' publicity and said the contest's timing was bad for students who would have trouble designing a proposal while attending classes. As a result, the University will be sponsoring a separate, similar contest for students to submit pro- grams to further the Mandate. This contest will give clearer instruc- tions regarding qualifications and will offer students more guidance in creating programs. Students will be able to formu- late proposals over the summer and submit them in the fall. Despite the lack of student en- tries, proposal selectors say that the programs will affect students. Marvin Parnes, assistant to the vice president for research and a reader of proposals, said, "Students will be affected by the richer content in courses, special activities that involve the students, See MANDATE, Page 2 Chi Sigma, Deke, Kappa Sigma, Sig Eps and Alpha Xi Delta partake in the Chi Omeg a "Twistermania" Greek Week event on the Diag yesterday afternoon. When 'U' Greeks compete, local philanthropies win Students evacuate for dorm dryer fire by Jeannie Lurie Daily Staff Reporter Hundreds of South Quad resi- dents were temporarily displaced and evacuated- last night due to a fire contained in a dryer. When firefighters arrived at South Quad at 7:20 they had trou- ble locating the fire. "We had to-look for it. Most of the smoke was near the loading dock," Ann Arbor Battalion Chief Ronald Hieber said. The fire department sent six trucks with 20 firemen in response to a call about smoke in the hall- ways, Hieber said. "It took a little while to find it... From the general appearance, we thought it was a motor in the heating dock," he said. "I was outside. They went in and looked in a laundry chute where they saw smoke. Since smoke rises, they went down to find where it was coming from," Hieber added. When firefighters eventually discovered the fire, smoke had spread up through part of the build- ing. "The clothes in the dryer were burning," Hieber said. "It put a little smoke on a couple of the floors in the building." The Campus Fire Marshall was unavailable for comment. One student smelled smoke be- fore anyone pulled the alarm, but didn't know it was a fire. "It smelled like smoke in the hall for about 20 minutes," LSA First-year student Jeff Katz said. "We just thought it was burnt toast or some- thing." After the alarm sounded, Katz realized there might be a fire and followed the standard procedure. by Ken Walker Daily Staff Reporter The University Greek system's 55 houses will join forces this week in a combined effort to raise $50,000 for local and national philanthropies in the annual Greek Week competition. "We really want to emphasize that philanthropy is the reason that we have Greek Week," said Greek Week Steering Committee Co-Chair Cindy Graves. Graves pointed out that half of the $50,000 the steering committee hopes to raise in this year's competition will be donated to four local philanthropies and the American Cancer Society. The other -half will be allocated by the houses to the philanthropies they endorse individually, although they can donate their share to the six main charities. Greek Week will also help local charities by listing phone numbers and requests from 15 lo- cal charities on Greek Week calendars posted throughout Ann Arbor. "We're hoping to publicize what their needs are to the student community," said Steering Committee Co-Chair See GREEKS, Page 2 Confusion surrounds status of 'U' by Becca Donnenfeld Daily Staff Reporter For those students who were wondering what ever happened to fer parking operations from the city to the University, but there was a great outcry from the city... over the loss of revenues (that would sible for giving and collecting payments for all parking violations on University property. Currently, the city is responsible for this job. gotiations were she was unsure going. Leo Heatle parking bureau e being held but said "The University would like to of where they were pay for services rendered (by the city right now), but we don't know how y, the head of the much money the city collects.