Weather Tonight: Mostly cloudy, lows in the 30s. Tomorrow: Cloudy, chance of rain, high in the mid-40s. IC, One hundredfive years ofeditorialfreedom *rn Monday October 30, 1995 Grp . . n . g;, . '.; k , {, t + t := s , - zt I ... { : °°E" T "" : Q .., t ' n'a d .. , a;, rv aS. n .. r ' t ii r . _ . . C : r,.J, e r 's . ,. .1'P, .c...;.r .. . .:.:.i r L 4:w.t : sS3' s3,r M., i .x , ' S, . :. i . . : d=. , y;: Close v on Qu The Washington Post L'AVENIR, Quebec - In this vil- lage 50 miles from Montreal, a young man named Dany Labonte confessed he still didn't know how he will vote today in the provincial referendum on secession from Canada. "Too many questions in my mind," he said, shaking his head sheepishly. But there is just one question on the ballot. "Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign," it begins, "after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and politi- cal partnership ... ?" The last polls put the number of voters expected to vote yes slightly ahead of the no votes, but there remains a large contingent of un- decided Quebecers. rote expected bec secession Splitting Canada0 Quebec, Canda's second-largest province, has a long history of a separatist movement.' Today's vote is the second in 15 years. Some facts about the province: Population: 7.3 millio land Area: 594,860 The Language Barrier sq. miles While the rest of Canada is Average Salary: mainly English-speaking, 82 $20,439 U.S percent of Quebecers speak Compared to Michigan FonrealLavals: French as their first Population: 9.3 million Motel 'aal language. Land Area: 96,810 Quebue City, About 9 percent are native sq. milesa St. Leonard English speakers. $1rage Daiy Graphic Rene Gagne, a co-worker, edged over and gently punched his friend on the shoulder. "I'll convince him for the yes," Gagne said, explaining his sepa- ratist viewpoint. "We've had 50 years of this nonsense. It's like a business. It's the choice between having some- one else run your enterprise, or decid- ing to run it yourself." The Rev. Denis Lemaire said he voted no the last time, in 1980, as did 60 percent of Quebec voters faced with a similar ballot proposal for"sovereignty." "This time I'm not so sure," said Lemaire. He said he was skeptical of the "deceptions" of separatist leaders, promising an easy and cost-free transi- tion to independence. The separatists' "offer" of a Euro- pean Union-style partnership with Canada has helped to calm many Que- becers. But the English-speaking Ca- nadian majority outside Quebec rejects any concessions to, deals with or spe- cial status for Quebec - let alone an equal place at a negotiating table. Lemaire said he'd been reading about the economic costs and political un- knowns of declaring a republic on the northern border of the United States. But he said economic questions were not as important as ones of political destiny. "People say they want to affirm them- selves, they want to be put in charge,"lhe said. Lemaire also said he has no illu- sions regarding serious economic prob- lems that face Quebec and Canadaunited or separate. Even so, he liked something he heard from the separatist premier of Quebec, Jacques Parizeau: "Once we're sovereign, we won't be able to blame everything on the English." In that brief exchange can be found the critical elements at play in today's vote: the weariness at the end of de- cades of sometimes bitter squabbling over Quebec's place inside or outside Canada; the imagined consequences of breaking up a peaceful industrial de- mocracy and launching a quasi-ethnic state on an inchoate nationalist gamble; and the tug of collective memory, See QUEBEC, Page 7A Chinese student speaks on Tiananmen By Jeremy Bloom For the Daily Being a student leader often requires long hours on campus heading the ef- forts of a small group of people with a common interest. For Li Lu, a simple attempt to talk about problems in the government turned into the 23-day demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Lu came to the University over the weekend to speak at a conference orga- nized by the Office of Student Activi- ties and Leadership. "The people who played an impor- tant role (in the demonstration) were no older than you," he told the crowd of about 100 people in the Pendelton Room of the Michigan Union. After the demonstration Lu went into hiding and is now a student at Columbia University. "If someone would have the courage to stand up, others might follow. We've got to be the first," he said. "You don't have to be different from everyone else, you have to know they are just like you. That is the essence of leadership." These attitudes enabled a dozen col- lege students to begin world change. "In many respects it is a completely different world than it was six years ago," Lu said. "More countries have moved away from dictatorship. The tide against communism started in Tiananmen Square by Chinese students." Lu is "a living example of the whole concept of taking responsibility," said Tami Goodstein, a Student Activities and Leadership coordinator. Lu shows that everyone has the capacity to be a leader, said Goodstein, who coordinated the con- ference with Roger Fisher. "We all have an effect on others," Goodstein said. Lu is the third generation of his fam- ily to fight for change in China. When his parents and grandparents were ailed, Lut was given away to peasants. He knew nothing of his natural family until age 10, by which time he had lived with 12 foster families and spent two years in an orphanage. For others, especially those just be- coming student leaders or interested in becoming more involved, the confer- ence offered opportunities for roundtable discussions on women's is- sues, social change, diversity and inter- national activism. Nine workshops fo- cused on life transitions, leadership styles and marketing co-curricular in- volvement, among other things. The conference was specifically de- signed to attract more than the typical leaders. "We've got everyone from group president to new students inter- ested in learning more about leader- ship," Goodstein said. "I came to this conference to learn about myself and develop my leader- ship skills," said Sapna Yathiraj, an LSA senior. "You don't have to be a stand out or a student leader' to benefit from something like this." T C A 4 . _rt itT"mrn..o -.. + ,. j . Y.. C. +4: t u '9 F K H C O ING' 5 Nectaiine leads to pickets HUES Magazine claims party shutdown was racially motivated By Gail Mongkolpradit Daily Staff Reporter A downtown Ann Arbor dance club is facing pickets from a multicultural organization following an incident a week ago that also led to another group canceling a party scheduled last night. HUES Magazine, an Ann Arbor- based multicultural women's magazine, is picketing the Nectarine Ballroom for alleged discriminatory practices. The picketing is scheduled to be held to- night from 9 to midnight in front of the Nectarine, located at 320 E. Liberty St. HUES is also holding a "Speakout Against Discrimination and Police Ha- rassment" Wednesday at 8 p.m. Yesterday, the Rainbow Oasis Coali-. tion stood in front of the Nectarine to inform prospective party-goers that the AIDS Prevention and Awareness Fund Raiser had been canceled. The groups' protests stem from an alleged incident Oct. 22 in which Nec- tarine management shut down a HUES fundraising party -a move party orga- nizers claim was racially motivated. The party's stated goal was to raise $2,000 for two shelters for battered women - SAFE House in Ypsilanti and MY Sister's Place in Detroit. Organizers say about 25 people were at the party with more waiting to be let in at 10:10 p.m. Then, they say, Nectar- ine owner Mike Bender shut the party down at 10:30 p.m. "He handed me a check for $500, but I kept on trying to convince him not to shut down the party," said Tali Edut, a HUES co-publisher. "I wondered why he would give HUES $500 because the Nectarine allowed us to use their facili- ties for no charge at all," she said. Repeated attempts by The Michigan Daily to contact Bender or a Nectarine representative were unsuccessful. In an e-mail message to HUES, a Nectarine employee described what he said was the dance club's position. In the message, employee Noah Scot Snyder wrote: "The Nectarine had only scheduled three bouncers, because they thought it would be a mellow crowd of mostly women (not to be sexist, but the people who usually start acting up when they , get drunk at a bar, at least in mine a well as the Necatarine's (sic) management's experience, is men.) With all the men that showed up the management knew they couldn't con- trol them in a worst case situation (on a normal Saturday night when the crowd is mostly frat boys, there is still several bouncers (six or so.) The Nectarine's managemnet (sic) feels like they were intentionally misled." See NECTARINE, Page 5A TONYA BROAD/Daily Above: An alumni cheerleader rides a unicycle around the stadium during the Homecoming game against Minnesota on Saturday. The cheerleaders performed before and during the game. Right: University alum Mike Wallace conducts a round of "The Victors" during halftime Saturday. Wallace was made an honorary member of the Michigan Marching Band. Senate approval of budget leaves many issues to be resolved Budget Numbers The House passed the federal budget bill Thursday and the Senate followed suit with a similar bill Friday. Here are some numbers on the budget and the vote tallies. Devil's Night is just another night in A2 WASHINGTON (AP) - Beneath the high-profile fights over Medicare and tax cuts, the massive Republican budget bill is also a battleground for smaller, but no less intense, showdowns. The bruising battle over who will shoulder health care costs for thou- sands of retired coal miners pits giants of the coal and steel industries, like Peabody and Pittston, LTV Corp. and U.S. Steel, against each other. "It's a classic Washington big com- pany-versus-big company fight," said Morrie Feibusch, a spokesman for the Bituminous Coal Operators Associa- tion, and just one of many less-publi- cized - but no less contentious - miners. But that would mean shifting all the costs for 67,000 beneficiaries - an estimated $60 million a year - onto the shrinking number ofcompanies still in the mining business. Those compa- nies, including Peabody, Westmoreland and Consolidation Coal, have formed an unusual alliance with the United Mine Workers union to oppose the change. Feibusch said that to undo the pooled liability arrangement Congress wrote in 1992 would amount to cor- porate welfare for the companies that avoid health care assessments, since part of the money to make up for the Saves $450 billion from projected spending on Medicare and Medicaid programs in the next seven years. The tax cuts total $245 billion. Only one Senate Republican voted against the bill - William Cohen of Maine. Michigan's delegation split its vote along party lines. The bills now head into conference committees, though President Clinton has threatened to veto anything resembling the current spending plans. a lower alcohol content. 1 f I - ^ A ..11._ __t_, By Zachary M. Raimi Daily Staff Reporter While large cities across America will attempt to extinguish fires andcom- bat crime tonight - Devil's Night - the city of Ann Arbor is expected to remain calm and controlled. Among University and city law en- forcement agents, the consensus is that Ann Arbor tra- ditionally has few We see year on Devil's Night. Sgt. Phil Scheel of the Ann Arbor Police Department said that histori- cally the police department has not had much to worry about on the night ei- ther. However, Scheel said the depart- ment will beef up security a little, "but nothing signifi- cantly, simply be- to get cause we don't r fgo have a lot of prob- lems or the man- power." than V"We seem to get more problems on Halloween than ' Devil's Night," ;t. Phil Scheel Scheel said. e Department Young children are often robbed of their "trick-or- problems on more pro Devil's Night.1 "The whole Ann Hallowee Arbor community is pretty good," Devil's N said Department of Public Safety -S spokeswoman Ann Arbor Pol Elizabeth Hall. GGUI _a ntfa tin 'b ii Sg lic, I Is