7/1 -I i r' It . AN 41bf onight: Chance of shower, )w 53°. omorrow: Partly sunny, gh 680. One hundred four years ofeditorialfreedom Thursday September 14, 1995 G Ao AdmWj "i,;a ; ocket-propeled grenade hits U.S. Embassy MOSCOW (AP) - A masked attacker fired i rocket-propelled grenade that pierced the hick brick wall of the U.S. Embassy and ex- >loded in an empty office yesterday. No one as injured in the daring mid-afternoon attack hat came at a time of rising anti-American sentiment. There was no claim of responsibility, and Afficials said there was no clear link to growing Russian criticism of NATO airstrikes on Bosnian Serbs. Russian and U.S. spokesmen insisted the attack was an isolated incident. "It's the act of a lone manrtac," said a senior Russian security official at the scene, speaking n condition of anonymity. The grenade was fired at 4:25 p.m. from the opposite side of the busy Garden Ring road, crossing 12 lanes ofrush-hour traffic. It punched through the facade of the mustard-and-white 10-story building on the sixth floor, sending thick smoke swirling. The blast broke two win- dows and gouged out brick and plaster, leaving a hole and scorching the wall. There were no reports of arrests, but the Interfax news agency quoted security officials as saying they had a composite sketch of the attacker, a tall, young man in jeans. Embassy spokesman Richard Hoagland called the attack "an isolated act" and said it "will have no impact on the Russian-Ameri- can relations." In Washington, the State Department said President Clinton was briefed on the attack, which came just a day after the Kremlin accused NATO of genocide against the Bosnian Serbs, Russia's historic allies. It also came on the eve ofa visit to Moscow by Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, charged with trying to heal the widening rift between Wash- ington and Moscow. Hoagland said the grenade exploded inside a large photocopying machine, which absorbed most of the shock. The small room was empty at the time, he said. "There were no warning calls," Hoagland said. "As of now, no one has claimed responsi- bility." A spent grenade launcher, a black ski mask and a glove were found across the ring road, Hoagland said. Police said the launcher was lying inside an archway leading to a tree-cov- ered courtyard that may have been the escape route. Some Russian media reports said the attacker escaped in a waiting car. Glass, shrapnel and what looked like the rocket-propelled grenade's tail littered the pave- ment outside the embassy. Inside: Croats, Bosnian government forces advance on Serb-held towns. Page 9A Embassy Attacked~ Parliament Bd./ ib{ EI'drHo eU.S. Embassy Compound Mayor'soice U.S. Embassy A ttac kers fre grenade at AP 'Ur revamps position of ombuds ELIZABETH LIPPMAN/Daily ow recycling center to open this weekend iyin Bond sorts containers at the Ann Arbor Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station, which is scheduled to open officially Saturday. Story, Page 3A. By Josh White Daily Staff Reporter Richard Carter, an associate dean of students, has been assigned to serve as a second interim ombudsman and plans to work on changing the focus of the office. Citing a need to be more in touch with students' academic needs, Dean of Students Royster Harper said Carter will join current interim ombudsman Jennifer Walters in an attempt to create a new sense of the position. "We want to reconceptualize the Ombuds Office over the next year," Harper said. "There is a need to re- focus the office so that it may be of more help to the students in the long run." The ombudsman's role is to assist students with problems involving the University, acting as a mediator be- tween two parties Maureen A. Hartford, vice president for student affairs, said the change to the office is mainly to help with student outreach. "I am surprised that more students don't know about the help the Ombuds Office can offer them in all sorts of areas reating to the University," Hart- ford said last night. "It is a one-stop shopping area that students can go to for help. ... I feel that students will notice a little more attention thrown at the postion." Hartford said the decision to move Carter into the job was Harper's, but that she supported the move. "Rich really knows the University of Michigan and has worked here for quite a long time," Hartford said: "He knows the students, the faculty and has a lot of contacts throughout the University. He will bring a lot to the position." Having worked as an admissions counselor, financial aid officer and in the dean of students' office, Carter said his 25 years at the University will help him carry out his new responsibilities and that he is "in a position to know how to help get problems resolved." Position change. Richard Carter is the second interim ombudsman, joining Jennifer Walters. Undergraduates and changing the position to help better assist students with problems with the Univeristy will be Carter's main focus.. Included in the changes are a program to reach disinterested students, working toward an exit- interview program and increasing faculty involvement in the office. Walters will work primarily with graduate students. Harper said Carter will bring a lot of interest into the position. "He is terrific in terms of advocacy to and for students," she said. "As we talked about the job, it seemed like a great ar- rangement for him. He has shown a lot of interest in working with this." Walters is serving as the interim ombudsman, filling the role vacated by Donald Perigo, whose contract ended Dec. 31, 1994 and was not renewed after 13 years in the position. Walters will continue to work as ombudsman, but will now concentrate on graduate students' affairs, while Carter works with undergraduates. Carter said the decision for him to take over responsibility for the under- graduate aspects of the job came from informal discussions with Harper and arose out of a need to "bring more attention to the position." "What I'm doing right now is be- cause we recognize that students do need assistance with problems," Carter said. "If we look at the role of ombuds- man, it's really a role to assist students in problems with the University and to work as a neutral." And working as a neutral contact will still be the main objective of the office, but not the only one, Harper said. "We are looking at creating a more systematic and diligent approach to an See CARTER, Page 5 3y Amy Klein )aily Staff Reporter Fourteen of the University's doctoral Programs were ranked among the top 10 :the National Research Council's com- rehensive survey released yesterday. The anthropology program was anked No. 1 nationally. The study, "Research-Doctorate Pro- rams in the United States: Continuity ind Change," examined programs in 41 ields in the arts and humanities, bio- ogical sciences, engineering, physical ciences and mathematics, and social ind behavioral sciences. The last ankings were published in 1982. The University has three other pro- rams ranked in the top three of their eld: psychology is second, and politi- al science and classics are both third. Robert Weisbuch, interim dean of he Horace H. Rackhani School of 3raduate Studies, said that the raw .cores, not just the rankings, should be onsidered. "We did very well in terms of faculty "I lthink it's valuable an its dangerous at the same time.,,If students just read it as who's No.1, then it's not that valuable." - Robert Weisbuch Interim dean, Rackham Graduate School quality; 19 of the 24 programs went up in terms of how many think they are 'excellent' or 'good,"' Weisbuch said. Leigh Ann Vaugn, a doctoral student in psychology, said that the quality of the department's faculty contributed to its No. 2 ranking. "The faculty (in the psychology pro- gram) do tend to be very strong. One of the reasons is that their interests are not concentrated in a single area," Vaugn said. "Given a strong faculty, the very large size of the department makes it possible for us to have a lot of breadth in terms of what we study." Within the University, social and behavioral sciences tended to receive the highest ratings, capturing top 10 rankings in five fields. "(The social and behavioral sciences) are a traditional strength at Michigan and those strengths have been main- tained," Weisbuch said. "It gives those of us in humanities and sciences some- thing to shoot for." John H. D'Arms, former Rackham dean, a member of the committee that conducted the study, said it offered a more comprehensive alternative to the studies published in U.S. News and World Report. "(U.S. News and World Report) just talked to chairmen and deans. We sur- vey at least 100 faculty at more than 250 universities," D'Arms said. "It's amuch more in-depth look at the doctoral pro- cess." Weisbuch said the survey is more carefully designed than simple rankings. "I think it's valuable and it's danger- ous at the same time. If students just read it as who's No. 1, then it's not that valuable," Weisbuch said. Both D'Arms and Weisbuch saidthat even with a comprehensive survey, it is difficult to change a university's repu- tation. "These reputation ratings can't be taken over-seriously," D'Arms said. "One of the downsides is that the facts of change move much more quickly than do the reputations. So both im- provements and decline aren't always captured." CoddOIe f Y blasts ;a Senate keeps aid for kids born to welfare moms Cs pj~kroposbals AyKlein ly Staff Reporter -m ,K "1ein This inj By )ai Students railed against suggestions or the University's new code of non- cademic conduct last night at an open forum designed to give the code's workgroup more student input. The workgroup presented its ideas n community values, which the mem- bers have said should be one of the new :ode's four sections. The group listed the essential values as: civility, dignity, safety, freedom, nelusivitv, eauality and diversity. special place from the rest of the - Greg Parker LSA junior "I think a better approach is to look at these as rights." said Greg Parker, an WASHINGTON (AP) - Heeding warnings that a national welfare "fam- ily cap" would drive up abortions and punish poor families, the Senate de- railed a conservative push yesterday to deny additional cash payments to single mothers who have more children. Twenty Republicans sided with ev- ery Democrat as the Senate approved an amendment by Sen. Pete Domen- ici, 66-34, to strip a family cap policy from the Republi- can blueprint to overhaul the nation's welfare nrograms. the tooth fairy. It just isn't going to happen," said Domenici (R-N.M.), while warning that the family cap could increase abortions and add to the mis- ery of the poor. The family cap has divided Republi- cans as Bob Dole, the Senate's majority leader and a top contender for the GOP presidential nomination, tries to win approval for historic legislation to turn responsibility for welfare over to the states, cut spending by $70 billion, and require recipients to go to work. Dole has said he hopes to pass the bill, the centerpiece ofthe GOP's social agenda, by tomorrow. Several issues remain to be settled, among them de- mands that spending on child care be KRISTEN SCHAEFER/Daily Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen A. Hartford (center) answers a student &I. - a L - -...----&.. ._- 2-..n