ICI VMflUI o ti Weather Tonight: Mostly cloudy, low near 50. Tomorrow: decreasing cloudiness, high in the mid to upper 60s. One hundred four years of editortalfreedom Tuesday September 26, 1995 I Vol.C-.No. 31- I Next provost to be from outside 'U Committee narrows search to 5 By Amy Klein Daily Staff Reporter The next provost will come from outside the University, an official close to the search said yesterday. The pro- vost, the second-highest ranking aca- demic post at the University, has not been selected externally in 18 years. The Provost Search Advisory Com- mittee, which has been conducting a nationwide survey since February, has narrowed its list to five external candi- dates, School of Business Dean B. Jo- seph White confirmed yesterday. The committee is expected to con- clude the search by the end of the se- mester. Suspect arraigned in Friday's Baits fire Preliminary exam set for Oct. 4; police still investigating North Campus incident By Jodi Cohen Daily Staff Reporter A man was arraigned yesterday in connection with Friday's fire that damaged a ground-floor room in the Baits II Ziwet House on North Cam- pus. Police said Dale Lipke, 23, of Oak- land County, was arraigned on one count each of arson of a dwelling house and conspiracy to commit arson of a dwell- ing house. Both charges are felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Capt. James Smiley said in a state- ment that DPS officers worked w ith the Ann Arbor Police Department and the Washtenaw County Sheriffs Depart- ment to develop source information, leading to the investigation and arrest of Lipke. . Lipke, who is not affiliated with the University, is being held at the Washtenaw County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond. "The charges were brought against him today," said Department of Pub- lic Safety spokeswoman Elizabeth Hall. DPS officers responded to the fire in Room 2101 Ziwet at about 1:40 a.m. Damage was estimated at $200,000. The were no injuries reported in the fire that ravaged parts of the room, including the corner of a bed, part of a chair and some carpet. A DPS report indicates that investi- gation into the fire continues, including investigation about Lipke's possible motives. "I can't comment on the investiga- tion itself," Hall said. "But the inves- tigation will continue and Dale Lipke will go through the court process." Smiley could not be reached for com- ment yesterday. The preliminary examination date is set for Oct. 4, when the court will deter- mine if Lipke will stand trial. Search Committee Chair Kenneth E. Warner and University spokeswoman Lisa Baker would neither confirm nor deny that the list had been narrowed to five external candidates. Although deans have traditionally been promoted to provost, several ad- ministrators denied that selecting an external provost would be detrimental to the University. "There are always trade-offs. An ex- ternal person always brings new and interesting ideas, but they take longer to get up to speed, and to get to know other people," White said. Glenn Knoll, interim dean for the School of Engineering, said he inter- viewed some of the external candidates when they visited campus. "It really depends on the person, rather than on whether the person is external or internal," Knoll said. The provost oversees the academic deans at the University, and reports directly to the president. Two of the last five provosts - Harold R. Shapiro and James J. Duderstadt - have become presidents at the University. Charles Vest, who served as provost for 18 months begin- ning in 1989, left to become president of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. White said that in the current search at least one of the candidates is either a woman or a minority. "The deans have been informed as the search has been going on," White said. "I'm aware of a candidate that meets that description (of a woman or minority)." Duderstadt said last year that the University decided to conduct a nation- wide search in an effort to broaden the pool of women and minority candi- dates. In an interview with The Michigan Daily two weeks ago, Duderstadt said, "I just want to get the best person. (Dental School Dean J. Bernard Machen) could be interim for the entire academic year. I would hope the search is completed this fall." The search committee is com- prised of 15 members, including one undergraduate and one graduate stu- dent. "We hope the search will move along quickly. We hope to be done by the end of the semester," Baker said. Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. announced he was stepping down as provost last Janu- ary, after five years at the post. The provost operates as a link be- tween the deans of schools and the central administration. "I think it's kind of the on-campus nerve center for the academic pro- grams," Whitaker said last January. "One ofthe opportunities is to see where cooperation would be better than going alone." The University Board of Regents approved Machen, the Dentistry School dean, as the interim provost last June. Machen is to serve from Sept. 1 through Recent Provosts The following is a list of the University's last five provosts, when they served as provost and what they did prior to being named to the position. Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr., 1990-95, Business School Dean Charles Vest, 1988-90, Engineering School Dean James J. Duderstadt, 1986-1988, Engineering School Dean Billy Frye, 1980-1986, LSA Dean Harold Shapiro, 1977-1980, Economics Professor Dec. 31, if necessary. - Daily Staff Reporter Ronnie Glassberg contributed to this report. Y" \ THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY? MSA to battle over budget items tonight I AP PHOTO Ross Perot (right) tells Larry King last night that he will help establish a new political party "for the independent voters" who are disenchanted with Democrats and Republicans. Perot appeared on King's talk show last night. Perot to support third-party efforts WASHINGTON (AP) - In a turn- about that could dramatically reshape the 1996 elections, Ross Perot vowed last night to establish a new, reform- minded political party that would nomi- nate a presidential candidate and try to swing congressional races. Perot said he had no intention to run as the new party's standard bearer. "This is not about me running for President," he said. "The last thingI1 want is for this thing to be about me." But he did not flatly rule it out. As recently as six weeks ago, Perot said he had no interest in launching a third party. But, in a stunning change of heart, he said his United We Stand America political organization would spearhead efforts to certify a new party in California, Maine and Ohio -all of which have 1995 deadlines to qualify a new party for the 1996 ballot. "We are going to start the process of creating a political party for the inde- pendent voters," Perot said. "It will not be owned by the special interests." Perot left open the possibility that the effort could stop at the end of the year - if polls now showing that 60 percent of Americans open to the idea of a third party suddenly shift and indicate a growing satisfaction with Democrats or Republicans. Some weirdo is not ,going to get 10 percent of our rotes." -- Ross Perot He said the new venture would be named the Independence Party, or the Reform Party in states that either have an independent .party or do not allow use of that name. Once the new party qualifies for the ballot, Perot said it would open its presi- dential nominating process to anyone who could can get petitions signed by 10 percent of the new party's members. "We want world-class people," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live." "Some weirdo is not going to get 10 percent of our votes."~ The organization then would choose a presidential nominee through a na- tionwide convention process. He said it was possible, but highly unlikely, that the party could decide to back one ofthe major party presidential candidates. He said the new party would not field congressional candidates, or at least not on any widespread basis, but would en- dorse candidates from the major parties and offer them its slate on state ballots. This is not unheard of; the Conservative Party in New York, for example, often backs Republican candidates. Perot said the newparty's agenda would mirror that ofhis United We Stand group: dramatic campaign finance and lobbying reforms including a gift ban, trimming congressional and presidential pensions and balancing the budget. He said he would financially support the early work, but that the venture ultimately would have to raise its own money. Joan Vinson, the Maryland execu- tive director of United We Stand, said the new party could be available to "a candidate like Colin Powell or Bill Bra- dley or Ross Perot or Sam Nunn." A spokeswoman for California Sec- retary of State Bill Jones said Perot's supporters filed papers yesterday to organize as the Reform Party. Not since the Republican Party was established in 1856 has a new party been able to push aside a major existing party and establish itself as a national force. Like the Whigs did then, Perot predicted either the Democratic or Re- publican party would disappear if his effort is successful. Perot's decision sets off an intense N Students' Party 'alternative' proposal will not be considered, Wainess says By Michelle Lee Thompson Daily Staff Reporter A faction of Michigan Student As- sembly representatives from the Stu- dents' Party are planning to propose an "alternative" budget at tonight's meet- ing, but MSA President Flint Wainess may prevent them from doing so. MSA is scheduled to discuss and voteon its annual budgettonight. Remco Van Eeuwijick, in his role as BPC chair, introduced a budget last week he drafted with the assembly's executives, includ- ing Wainess and Vice President Sam Goodstein. Earlier this week, LSA Rep. Jonathan Freeman and a faction of other Stu- dents' Party members drafted a pro- posed Students' Party "Alternative" Budget, which includes no allocation for some internal groups. "We wrote our budget because we felt that the budget that was handed to us was very based on history," Freeman said. "If we want to look to the future and look to grow, we need our commit- tees and commissions to sit down at the beginning of the year and plan what they're going to do." Van Eeuwijk, also a member of the Students' Party, said he was not taking the side of the executive drafters or his party comrades. "As BPC chair, I am an executive," Van Eeuwijk said. "It would be dishon- est of me to be involved in two pro- cesses. ... I negotiated with Flint and Sam, but the rest of the party wasn't happy with it." Although the BPC chair is the only person who can move a budget in its entirety, the MSA Compiled Code al- lows Freeman or any assembly member to present amendments to the budget, which was first read last week. However, Wainess said in an inter- view last night that he, as the assembly's chair, will attempt to stop Freeman from presenting his budget as an amendment and accused him of trying to filibuster. $10 30 50 70 Committee Discretionary 0 $5,707 $3,404 Payroll $1,500 Operations F $26,440 AATU E $18,250 $25,000 RAY WRIGHT/For the Daily "The budget isn't written by parties," Wainess said. "Our constitution deliniates who writes the budget-and those people did. Period." Freeman said MSA should not allo- cate funds to its internal commissions until the chairs of those groups submit line-item budgets for their expenditures. Van Eeuwijk requested that chairs submit such budgets earlier this month and said yesterday he has received those figures from all but two commissions. External Relations Chair Fiona Rose said upon seeing Freeman's ideas, "It's not allowing us to lead our committees. It's making us jump through the same bureaucratic hoops that have halted our progress in the past." Van Eeuwijk said he was planning last night to draft a "compromise" bud- get that would disregard party lines and satisfy most assembly members, but such a proposal had not been released as of press time. "I'm currently working on contact- ing about 25 MSA members to get a compromise budget," Van Eeuwijk said yesterday. Budget Proposals MSA is expected to vote on its budget at tonight's meeting. Here is how both of the proposals would allocating funds to four line items. Li Exec utive Students' Party in thousands of dollars SAT scores up in 1995; higher enrollment in honors classes cited Man hospitalized after fall near Blimpy Burger By Jeff Eldrdge For the Daily Recent figures from the Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate the class of 1995 was one of the most academically prepared in recent history. The national averages for the class of 1995 were 428 in verbal and 482 in math. This is a bounce test," Graff said. Ted Spencer, director of undergraduate admis- sions at the University, downplayed the impor- tance of the increased scores. "As far as the number of students in advanced- placement courses increasing, that's a factor," Spencer said. "I don't know if these courses are Police investigating 'suspicious incident' By Jodi Cohen Daily Staff Reporter A man was taken to University Hos- pitals late last night after falling off a. Joe Pryor, an LSA junior who wit- nessed the event, said it occurred at about 10:20 p.m. "I saw a group of them arguing for a while," he said. "(The victim) was be- ing chased." Allen Mikhail, an LSA first-year stu- . zfi ~ >.... A 2 S M"