Railroad Jerk doesn't suck. See ARTS Page 8. Jr4iriaulu TODAY Mostly sunny; High: 62, Low: 40. TOMORROW Cloudy, rain likely; High: 59, Low: 44. Since 1890 Vol. Cl. No. 136 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, April 18, 1991 and EO clash f' bq I ~over strike turnout by Stefanie Vines press statement. "As of late yes- TAs who did not return the Daily Faculty Reporter terday afternoon, our survey shows form, or who admitted to partici- 4 The University is not planning even less impact from the current pating in the job action were to be T to take action against teaching GEO job action than from that held penalized by a 1.5 percent cut in pay assistants who participate in this on April 4." and tuition waivers for each day week's work stoppage and adminis- University spokespersons they missed. 4-trators now say their latest offer Colleen Dolan-Greene and Joseph Owsley, the director of News submitted at Monday's media- and Information Services, said, y Owleysai the University pack- an tion session - is "subject to age presented at Monday's media- "With such a light impact on the change." Bargainers from the tion session is not a final offer and University we aren't going to send .'e y,,Y44t s4(4ff Graduate Employees Organization is "subject to change." the letter." had said the University presented "We are interested in reaching a "We don't really sce a problem. the package as its final offer. settlement and in improving un- The work stoppage has not been Provost and Vice President for dergraduate education," Dolan- widely implemented," Owsle Academic Affairs Gilbert Greene, the University bar- said. "We think less than 5 percent Whitaker said this week's three gainer, said. of the TAs participated." day work stoppage has not been Dolan-Greene denied accusa- But GEO organizer Ingrid Kock disturbing enough to warrant ac- Lions that the University is trying disagreed with Owsley. tion to break the union. "Hundreds of TAs participated "The University has been After conducting a survey of by cancelling classes or holding s b/ . closely monitoring the impact on different departments, the them off campus. I went to depart "..'"'E' ' . ....undergraduate education of the University decided not to send a ments like English, Sociology, and A FELDMAN/Daiy three-day work stoppage announced roll-call letter to TAs asking to History and no one was there. I Members of the Graduate Employee Organization marched in a picket line outside the Fishbowl yesterday. by the Graduate Employees report their participation in the don't know where (the University) Marching will continue through Friday. Organization," said Whitaker in a work stoppage. See GEO, Page 2 'Democratic majority will influence city redistricting by Lynne Cohn Daily City Reporter As the Democrats take control of Ann Arbor politics, they gain the opportunity to influence the upcom- ing redistricting in their favor. But whether or not they will engage in a little gerrymandering remains to be seen. The wards go through a redis- tricting after every 10-year census. After the city receives the census re- sults, a council-appointed 11-person commission must divide Ann Arbor into five pie-shaped wedges. The wedges meet in the middle of the city, commonly thought to be the campus area, according to the city charter. Herb Katz, a staff member in the city clerk's office, said the intention of the charter is to create diverse wards. "Usually, the party in control appoints a committee sympathetic to their side," Katz said. "It is sup- posed to be a bipartisan committee, but it seems to me there'll be one party dominating." David Cahill, an attorney for the Michigan House of Representatives who has been involved in Ann Arbor's redistricting for more than two decades, said the last two redistricting commissions created "classic gerrymanders." "The Republicans tried to put as many Democrats in the first ward as possible and divide the Democrats equally into the remaining wards," Cahill said. "They tried to dump a majority of students in the first ward because two-thirds to four-fifths of college students are typically known to be Democrats. As a result, we tend to have wards which are fortresses," he said. shaped wards should be representa- tive of the city as a whole, was written before students had the right to vote in city elections. "The purpose is not to water 'Those were wild days on council. They ordered pizza at the meetings and were instrumental in putting through the $5 mari- juana fine' - Herb Katz, of the city clerk's office "unusually low." "It is more difficult for stu- dents to get elected because their constituency doesn't get to the polls," he said. University students were active in local politics in the early 1970s through the Human Rights Party, a political party that attracted stu- dents who were against the Vietnam War, Cahill said. "The Democrats weren't liberal enough - it died out with that gen- eration of students," he said. "There is not the same social alienation as it was then." Two students were elected to council in 1972 under the Human Rights Party. They did not run again in 1974, although another student was elected and served on council until 1976. "Those were wild days on coun- cil," said Herb Katz, from the city clerk's office. "They ordered pizza at the meetings and were instrumen- tal in putting through the $5 mari- juana fine." Councilmembers representing the Human Rights Party joined the Democrats on council, influencing the 1972 redistricting. But in the 1982 redistricting, the Republicans held a council majority. "Gerrymanders occurred (in 1982) to make the districts favor- able to the Republicans because Ann Arbor is a basically Democratic city," Mayor Liz Brater said. Zimmer has a strong interest in creating five balanced wards, in See ZONING, Page 2 Many believe the commission generally tries to avoid creating a student ward. However, that has not been substantiated. Also, the city charter, which dictates that the pie- down the student vote, even though it does that," said Councilmember Kurt Zimmer (D-Fourth Ward). Cahill said the problem is that student turnout in city elections is Ex-CIA agent assails U.S. More students protest CUNY tuition increase foreign policy as by Robert Patton Daily Staff Reporter Last night, a man spoke of a U.S. government which lies to its peo- ple in order to subvert democracy and wages warfare to promote the economic interests of a select few. One might be tempted to dis- miss this as nonsense, but the man, Phillip Agee, served in the govern- ment as a member of the CIA for 12 years and can speak first-hand on the subject. Agee, speaking to about 350 people in MLB Auditorium 3 last night, began by discussing the Gulf War. He said that with the demise of communism, a threat he called "manufactured," the U.S. needed an international threat to "justify the continuation of the permanent war economy in the United States." The U.S. government, Agee said, decided after the Second World War the U.S. needed a crisis situa- tion in order to promote arms ex- ports. He quoted a National Security Council resolution to that effect. "(Bush) needed a world crisis to replace the East-West crisis which has largely disappeared with the end of communism," he said. Agee claimed the U.S. lured mperialist Iraq into attacking Kuwait. Bush gave "not on word of warning to Kuwait - this with 100,000 (Iraqi) troops massed at the (Kuwaiti) border," he said. "The Bush administration... needed the crisis, wanted the crisis, and encouraged Saddam Hussein to think he could get away with it," Agee added. Agee also said that despite the end of the East-West aspect of the cold war, the North-South dimen- sion had continued. "The war against Third World countries for control of their na- tional resources, markets and labor Agee continues," he said. It is here, he said, that the CIA does its work. "The CIA has undertaken to overthrow democratically elected governments and replace them with military dictatorships. This See AGEE, Page 2 by Melissa Peerless Daily Higher Education Reporter Students at four more City University of New York (CUNY) campuses and two State University of New York (SUNY) campuses joined CUNY students protesting proposed tuition hikes yesterday. The original protest, which be- gan at CUNY City College in Manhattan, is in its 10th day. If a proposal by Gov. Mario Cuomo passes in the New York State Legislature, CUNY students will face a 67 percent tuition in- crease, program cancellations, and scholarship cuts. There will be more than 800 faculty layoffs. SUNY schools will also be hurt by the cuts. Early yesterday morning, stu- dents at York College in Queens took over a classroom building on their campus. Students at John Jay College (Manhattan), York College (Queens), and the CUNY Graduate Center (Manhattan) also occupied campus buildings in protest. Students at SUNY Cornell in Ithaca and SUNY Purchase have also begun protesting. Columbia University students have organized a rally in support of the CUNY students. * Rafael Alvarez, president of the Day Student Government at CUNY See CUNY, Page 2 House passes 'cool-off' for national rail strike; industry shippin Associated Press Freight trains ground to a halt * yesterday in the first nationwide railroad strike in nearly a decade, halting rail shipping of everything from coal to car parts and interfer- ing with most Amtrak trains and some commuter services. Congress and the Bush adminis- tration sought a quick end to the strike, with talks focusing on a cooling-off period that would al- low a new emergency board to make * recommendations for settlement on ditch bargaining failed to produce a settlement before the midnight Tuesday expiration of an initial cooling-off period. The strike waged by eight unions and honored by three others against 10 companies, started at 7 a.m. The strike by 235,000 rail work- ers over wages, work rules and health care costs could also idle as many as a half-million non-railroad workers. Earlier this week, the Bush ad- ministration said Congress should g stops strike," said Earl Lockwood, presi- dent of United Transportation Union Local 683. His local repre- sents about 200 Conrail employees in the Detroit area. Lockwood said his members were angry over three years without a pay increase and an industry pro- posal for further wage erosion in the next four years as well. "They want to take away our health insurance," said Bobby Schmittou, an inspector and repair- man. "They've kept us down for -~_ :*u. ." 4 4f;''.4