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…Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 96 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, February 17, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily .. ., Group of students condemns Assembly By RYAN TUTAK More than 30 students packed the Michigan Student Assembly chambers during the assembly's } weekly meeting last night, blasting MSA for not representing student interests and criticizing the recent rash of assembly seat vacancies. Assembly ...…

…4 Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 17, 1988 BC assistant director resigns (C..UuueabdfwPal1e ) yesterday. "I have a range of research projects that I have been slowly working on that now I can devote more time to." Larimore, who currently teaches one RC class per term, will also become a full-time RC faculty member. As an RC associate director, Larimore is involved with admissions and recruitment, as well ;as developing educat...…

…The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 17, 1988- Page 3 Students evacuate MLB after bomb scare By MICAH SCHMIT Late yesterday morning, the midterm history Prof. Gerald Lin- derman's was administering "disinte- grated into 430 little pieces" after the Ann Arbor Police Department re- ceived a bomb threat at the MLB. The 10:30 a.m. threat was made by a male caller who told officers, "I'm tired of all the racism that's go- ing on, there's a bomb...…

…4 OPINION Page 4 Wednesday, February 17, 1988 The Michigan Daily 4 Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Steiner remarks reexamined Vol. XCVIII, No. 96 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, Mi 48109 Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. ,Boycott Sports Illustrated MONDAY, THE ANNUAL Spor...…

…h n v v, MSA works to create veterans holiday By ROSE MARY WUMMEL concert on the Diag. Tackett said May 7 was chosen as the annual date Vietnam veteran Charles Tackett because then-president Gerald Ford has a dream. pulled troops out of Vietnam on that He wants to see May 7 declared a day in 1975. na tional holiday for Vietnam Tackett, now divorced and living veterans. in the Ann Arbor Homeless shelter, With the help of 30 student said the pr...…

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… Bomb scare disrupts classes atMLB (Continued from Page 3) Linderman was unsure what course of action he would take with regard to the exam; he may design a make up. But, he added, "Students should have a pleasant recess and we'll take up the issue after break." Gina O'Donnell, who was in her French 231 class between 11 and 12, said she was not informed of the bomb threat until after her class had already ended. "There is no way to determine w...…

…I ARTS The Michigan Daily Wednesday, February 17, 1988 Page 8 Geoffrey olff finds fictionintruth Jennifer BrOstromPost and Newsweek, as well as a literary critic and contributing editor facts" and actual occurrences. for New Times and Esquire. Currently, Wolff is a literary critic and It is Wolff's clear, witty style - a style of writing that is never Art is above all a process of repudiation, whereby the chaotic this- contributing editor fo...…

…Wrestling vs. Ohio State Saturday, 2 p.m. SPORTS Men's basketball vs. Michigan State Monday, 9:30 p.m. Crisler Arena Page 9 The Michigan Daily Wednesday, February 17, 1988 '' looks for sweep over Minnesot . 'r i By ADAM SCHEFTER When Michigan journeyed off to Northwestern, Michigan State, and Wisconsin, Bill Frieder warned of the dangers that were in store for the Wolverines. Yet, each time that threat was easily brushed aside. Tonigh...…

…4 Page 10--The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 17, 1988 Women's basketball team loses pair to Indiana, Ohio State /' full court ARE! S1 By MIKE GILL The women's basketball team is currently going through the toughest part of its schedule - and it's showing. This past weekend the Wolverines dropped both of their games, losing 71-52 at Indiana Friday night and 87-73 Sunday to Ohio State. nI'm disappointed to lose two games, but certa...…

…The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 17, 1988- Page 11 Adam's Rib BY ADAM SCHRAGER Eastern's shady dealings draw no legal attention Eastern Michigan's Associate Athletic Direc- tor John Nordlinger received a car in exchange for giving out property that was not his. So what? Who cares? That question is so far unanswered. Since the publicizing (Feb. 8 Michigan Daily) of Nordlinger's possible violation of the Michi- gan conflict of interests...…

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…NCAA preview Pages 10, 11 Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom 41V Vol. XCVIII, No. 112 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, March 17, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily A Editorial troops to Honduras WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan is sending four military battalions on an "emergency deployment" exercise to southern Honduras as a "measured response" to counter the reported incursion of Nicaraguan forces into that country, the W...…

…Page 2 -The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 17, 1988 MSA puts code, PIRGIM to vote IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports By LISA WINER Two traditionality hot issues on campus - a proposed code of non- academic conduct and a negative chek-off funding system for the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan - may help decide the outcome of Michigan Student Assembly elections next week. The issues will be voted upon by students as th...…

…Forum focuses on sexism in advertising By VICKI BAUER Some advertisements perpetuate violence against women by portraying them as sexual objects or by showing fragmented body parts, said Dr. Jean Kil- bourne in a film shown at a seminar on sexist adver- tising yesterday. Over 100 students, men and women, packed a Ma- son Hall classroom for the seminar, forcing more than another 50 to be turned away. The one-hour seminar was the second of five ...…

…TPINI N Page 4 Thursday, March 17, 1988 The Michigan Daily Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Vol XCVIII No. 112 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. Save the Sharpsville Six 'U' should examine values SOUTH AFRICA: FRIDAY morning "at dawn. S...…

…Val- Debate team ranks third in nation iti 0o The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 17, 1988-Page 5 Dems hope to avoid brokered convention By STEVEN FELDMAN Five years ago, the University of did not have a debate team. Now, Michigan debaters are ranked third in the nation. In the past years, the ten-member squad has racked up an impressive list of accomplishments, including five tournament victories and six second place finishes. In the rec...…

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…t ARTS The Michigan Daily Page Thursday, March 17, 1988 Good By Elizabeth Block A unique collaboration of Tom Stoppard's play Every Good Boy De- serves Favour with the world premier of Nicholas Delbanco's Wolf opens tonight at the Power Center. Director John Russell Brown unites the Project Theatre Company with the University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustav Meier. WOLF, the commissioned com- panion piece to Every Good Boy De- s...…

…Basketball vs. Boise State Tonight, 9 p.m. Salt Lake City, Ch. 2 SPORTS Women's Tennis vs. Eastern Michigan Friday Ypsilanti The Michigan Daily Thursday, March 17, 1988 Page 8 Silent contributor's efforts rewarded By LISA GILBERT A ceremony honoring three peo- ple took place at last weekend's final women's basketball game, but only two of the three honored were bas- ketball players. Easily recognizable were team captain and MVP Vonni...…

…Page 9 -The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 17, 1988 full court PRESS. Women cagers finish fine season By MIKE GILL The last ounce of life plummeted out of the 1987- 88 basketball season for the women Wolverines. It's all over - there is no more. But as the final seconds ticked off the clock Saturday, there were smiles, high-fives, and many memories running through each and every player. Yes, this year was special. 14-14 is a nice record. Bu...…

…Page 10 -The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 17, 1988 NCAA tournament preview Rush Delivery BY JEFF RUSH 'M' hopes Final Four more than a dream Michigan basketball coach Bill Frieder looked lazily out the window of his team's charter flight to 'Salt Lake City and hoped the Wolverines wouldn't be 'as flat in the NCAA tournament as the land below. The plane's speakers crackled, and the captain's voice came over. "In a few minutes, we'll be pa...…

…The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 17, 1988-Page 11 Wolverines' By ADAM SCHEFTER Gary Grant was born to be in the spotlight. So it would be only fitting to end his Michigan ca- reer celebrating in Kansas City - the place he was born - with every camera flashing his way, each mi- crophone being jammed in his face, and Grant, as usual, being the center of attention. It's the way he would want it. On Tuesday April 24, 1984, Michigan landed a fi...…

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…TOP OFTEWE When My Turn Strikes a Special Chord M y Turn, the column writ- ten by a student, is one of our most popular features, but every so often a My Turn strikes a very special chord. Four years ago a UCLA student wrote that his mother had treated him as "the man of the house" when his parents di- vorced; instead of being flat- tered, he felt that she had "stol- en my childhood." The essay attracted dozens of letters- some sympathetic,...…

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…CO L G Fratern ties . Under Fire At the height of their popularity, Greek organizations face charges of racism, violence and hooliganism a Timely sign? Illinois graffito traveled to the University of Illinois last fall to perform at She was only 15, a member of a high-school band that a big game. As part of the football festivities, she wan- dered over to the Lambda Chi Alpha house for a pre- kickoff party. She stayed too long. And bef...…

…JFeAN LAUA Fear of retaliation: Hooded women protest incident of sexual abuse at an Illinois frat house 1984, as the minimum age for drinking rose to 21 in most jurisdic- tions, Greek social life has assumed more importance-you can often drink there even if you can't get served in a bar. Some colleges understood that the new order meant they would have to police student behavior more carefully. And when administrators began to look closely, t...…

…C exciting anymore," says ATO president Scott Kaul. The liability-insurance crisis is a national problem; fraterni- ty hazing only seems like one. Twenty-seven states now have criminal laws barring hazing- physical or mental-of pledges. The National Interfraternity Conference has helped lobby for some of the legislation and has been formally opposed to hazing since 1979. But laws are not elixirs. "Our greatest tool is education," says NIC's B...…

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… 0 JENNIFER GOLDSMITH GREG MACK Good deeds: Giving blood at Bowdoirt (left), brothers from Bowling Green State painting the home of an elderly woman took place. To add insult to their injuries, they were later convicted on perjury charges. Not everyone gets off with only bruises and a battered reputa- tion. In the spring of 1986 Steven Jones was the dean of pledges for Omega Psi Phi at North Carolina A&T. Just after his term expired, he says...…

… was reinstated, then suspended again in the fall after several brothers got into a brawl inside a predominantly Jewish house. Students marched, but Fiji was reinstated once more. Still, chapter president Glenn Thom- as warned members that "now is not a good time to get in any kind of trouble-racist or not." T rouble seems to follow the Delta Kappa Epsilons at Tulane. Last April the all-white fraternity held its 30th annual Debutramp pa- rade ...…

…Showing their colors but staying hush-hush: Society logos decorate the Virginia campus They've Got a Secret Honorary societies keep anointing new elites, but now they seem to matter mainly to themselves One evening last spring 16 Yale juniors were led, blindfolded, to a tomblike building, where they were ordered to sing, answer stupid questions and do the limbo. "It was optional to drink. I did," says senior Betsy, who recalled the secret rit...…

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…C For the chosen few, 'a place to go and feel superior': Two of Yale's imposing tombs around the New Haven campus, including Book and Snake's Parthenon look-alike and Skull and Bones's monolithic mausole- um. Some of their occultish initiation rites sound as if they had come straight out of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jeff, a member of Yale's Berzelius society, recalls being greeted at the tomb's door on initiation night by a pair of black-hood...…

…COLLEGE L FE SPORTS A New Outburst of Hoopla 6 Purists are flocking to women's basketball, but students are not For decades Iowans young and old have flocked to high-school gyms and big-city arenas to scream their excitement about girls' basketball. But the enthusiasm of the fans and the opportunities for the players seldom extended beyond high-school level. Sel- dom, at least, until C. Vivian Stringer ar- rived five years ago to coach Iowa'...…

… PHOTOS BY DAVID BRADSHAW-UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE 25,000 seats sold and 3,000 wanting to get in at Tennessee: Coach Pat Summitt (left) and a shaken-up player officials tried to find room for an extra 3,000 fans clamoring outside the sold-out, 25,000-seat arena. So who are these newfound fans of the women's game? Oddly, it's not fellow stu- dents who are leading the charge to the arena, but college-town adults and their families. Consider Iowa...…

…1C ' ww1w 0 :. - , © SUSAN ALLEN CAMP Fans in high places: Constitutional scholar Barbara Jordan and other VIP's at UT autographed basketball, a tour of the arena and, finally, earn the privilege of sitting behind the bench during a game. Rutgers gave away posters of its All-American Sue Wicks,withthecaption, "She LightsUpthe Knights," to the first 2,000 fans who arrived for the Maryland game. Tennessee went a lot further: two years ago the...…

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…1.C A L L E G E L I F E Rejecting the establishment: At UCLA, the Free Association staff pitches in to mail out the p Thunder on the Left Liberal-to-radical papers challenge conservative pre serve a void of debate," says CNP's Julie Goetz. During the '60s and well into the '70s, the term "alternative press" was almost synonymous with left wing. But in tandem with the Reagan revolution, a well-organized conservative press sprang up in the ear...…