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THE CHIGAN REVIEW Volume 8, Number 2

October 1989

Problems Mount or Stude t Gover ment Budget Deficit Remains s ept Uninformed Somewhat of a Myste

o West Bank Tri by Brian Gambs

by Bryan case A large and unexpected de.ficit in the budget of the Michigan Student Assembly has become a puzzling political issue at the University of Michigan. Discussions with MSA officials and a review of various documents reveal that the $70,000 deficit may have been due largely to poor management by the Assembly, although no

one seems willing or able to say for certajn. MSA announced last February, under the leadership of th~n-Presi颅 dent Michael Phillips, that it had a surplus of $40,000 and that student groups could apply to receive these

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The Michigan Student Assembly sponsored a summer fact- finding trip to the West Bank that was organized in large part by the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC). Although MSA spent $3,500 in student fund s on the trip, PSC members repeatedly refused to tell the Assembly who was going on the trip. The PSC has never accounted for how the money was spent, and MSA has never heard from or had a chance to interview any of the students who went to Israel on MSA funds. The West Bank trip was the second of two MSA-funded summer trips. MSA sponsored trips to the West Bank and EI Salvador to have students report back to Ann Arbor on the conditions in these areas. As theMichiganReview reported last month, the $4,000 El Salvador trip stirred controversy because all the people who helped organize it were members of the latin American Solidarity Committee. The selection committee for the West Bank trip was composed of Ori Le\' and Dan Tobocman, who are MSA representatives, and Hillary Shadroui and Nuha Khoury, who are members of psc. The committee was instructed to select one MSA representative and one student at large. Applicalions by students who wanted. to go on the trip were sent directly to the PSC, which also had the

task of separating the applications from the names of the applicants. Thus, the organization that supplied half the members of the committee was also the only organization with any knowledge of who the applicants were, according to Lev. Consequently, only PSC had the power to d isclose the applicants' identities or verify their qualifications. PSC also was in charge of spending the $3,500 the Assembly had allocated. After the selection committee had

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Bush on Drugs

An Interview with LSA Dean Goldenberg

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Serpent's Tooth Congratulations to UCAR and the editorial staff of the Michigan Daily for making P.J. O'Rourke's ''New Enemies List" in the November issue of the American Spectator. The list, called "a lovely file on the ideologically sinister, a fine, big matricula of scum," places UCAR and the Daily among the likes of DengXiaoping, David Duke, and Leon Trotsky. It's good to see these guys get the recognition they deserve.

To the person who anonymously left a message on the Review answering machine, saying, ''You must be the biggest group of homophobic, egocentric,racist(expletive)' ev~r created": Please wipe the foam off your mouth.

The ' Review's "I Beat Big Brother" award goes to John Doe, the grad student on whose behalf the ACLU sued the U-M and had the old discriminatory acts policy declared unconstitutional.()Ur congtarulations and 'heartfelt thanks to Mr. Doe, whatever your real name is.

According to the text of the new discriminatory acts policy for students, ''The Michigan Review, the Michigan Daily and other ffi,ilSS media enhance the disCussion and debate of important ideas and issues. The broadest range of speech and expression will be tolerated in these areas and by these publications." We can live with that.

During a recent speech sponsored by the Black Student Union, Abdul Alim Muhammad, a leader in Louis Farr;U<han's Nation of Islam, said,

''There is only one devil walking on this earth and he has been identified by God as .being the Caucasian white man," according to the Ann Arbor News. Thanks BSU for helping to dispel the myth that only whites can be racist.

nese soldiers massacred students in Tiananmen Square, these radicals changed their story. They now admit that socialism has its flaws but argue that socialism hasn't been around long enough to reach perfection. How convenient.

UCAR posters appearing around campus last month urged students to help ''Fight the Power." Is this a reference to the rap song ''Fight the Power" by the group Public Enemy, whose. lyrics are blatantly anti-white and antiSemitic?

When Provost Charles Vest wanted to find ways to cut costs, he formed a committee. When President James Duderstadt wanted to better address "women's issues," he set up another committee. And when LSA Dean Edie Goldenberg wanted to study the "undergraduate experience," she began creating yet another committee. It looks like we've found what Vest's committee has been searching for.

After a recent outburst of alleged racial incidents, Markley's residence staff, student council, and minority affairs council posted several anti-racism ' fliers. One of them said, "Did you know there is no such thing as 'Reverse Discrimination'?" Nothing like fighting ignorance with ignorance.

"The Shanties were built in 1986 and will remain until apartheid falls," says the writing on a recently repainted Diag shanty. That's funny. When the shanties were originally constructed, we were told they w6~uld be taken down(once the U-Mdivdted its stock in companies doing business in South Africa, .which actually happened last fall. Apparently, we are not supposed to remember that.

Some college radicals used to say that China was a pleasant social democracy, not the oppressive communist regime that many people in the United States portayed it as. But when Chi-

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MSA spent $7,500 to send students to El Salvador and the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the summer. Not to be outdone, state lawmakers spent more than $35,000 of taxpayers's money on out-of-state summer travel, according to the Detroit News. MSA has some catching up to do.

The following notice appeared in Daily Editor-in-Chief Adam Schrager's "open letter to students": "Meeting for prospective staffers tonight at 7 p.m .... Looking forward to seeing you a week from tonight." We're confused.

For the second year in a row, the Michigan Daily is celebrating its 99th year of "editorial freedom." The counting error occurred long ago but was not caught until last summer, according to the editors of the Daily's new student edition. Seems like we cannot count on the Daily for anything these days.

While attending an anti-Tom Monaghan speech last summer, several members of the Coalition for Democracy in Latin America (COLA) ordered -some Domino's pizza. Imagine how many jaws dropped when the COLA walked in with Mr. Monaghan's pizza.

We proudly report that Seth Klukoff, our editor emeritus, correctly predicted last April that the American League West division would be won by the Oakland Athletics. As for the rest of his baseball predictions ...

THE MICHIGAN REVIEW The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan Editor-in-Chief Marc Selinger Publisher Matthew Lund

Executive Editor Mark Molesky Campus Affairs Editors John J. Miller Peter Miskech Editor Emeritus Seth Klukoff Staff Jeff Alpernin, Dan Bandus, Rahul Banta, Jim Borninski, Karen Brinkman, Mark Brodson, Scott Brower, Bryan Case, Karen Chapel, Adam Devore, Brian Gambs, Melissa Gessner, Jeff Hartgen, Brian Jendryka, Phil Johnston, Mark Kalinowski, Nadeem Khan, Joseph Klein, Peter Kogan, Matt Lattimore, Mike McFalls, Brian Meadors, Ajay Mehrotra, Latha Palaniappan, Lisa Perczak, Dan Rice, Eric Riedel, Nate Smith, John Transue, Robert Urbanek, Vince Wilk, Chau-Ye Wu, Fazlur Zahurullah

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Tanisha Scott, Engineering sophomore: "I know that about $6.37 goes to them. I see it on my bill, but I do not really know much about it."

Joy Tsoucaris, RC sophomore: "On the whole, 1am not really impressed by MSA. They become obsessed with very minor issues when there are more substantial problems to attack. 1 have a problem with the vice president (Rose Karadsheh), who absftlined from voting on a big issue (the MSA budget) because she ,did not want to become involved in a controversial topic."

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From Suite One: Editorials

The Code, Part II The University of Michigan introduced a new discriminatory acts policy for students last month. The policy is much better than the old policy, which a federal judge recently struck down for violating the First Amendment. But the policy still has too many grey areas for us to endorse it. Last year, the administration implemented an anti-harassment policy prohibiting "any behavior, verbal or physical, that stigmatizes or victimizes an individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, handicap or Vietnam-era veteran status." As we reported last month, U.S. District Judge Avem Cohen declared the policy unconstitutional over the summer because it violated the First Amendment's protection of offensive speech.

The new policy represents a significant improvement over the old one. The administration replaced the old policy last month with a new one called the "Interim Policy on Discrimination and Discriminatory Conduct by Students in the University Environment." Under it, "Physical acts or threats or verbal-slurs, invectives or epithets referring to an individual's race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, ancestry, age or handicap made with the purpose of injuring the person to whom the words of actions are directed and that a~_ nQt made as apart of a discussion or exchange of an idea, ideology or philosophy are prohibited." Punishment for violating the new code could range from a formal reprimand to expulsion. The new policy represents a significant improvement over the old one. Compared to the old policy, the new policy is less likely to prevent the exchange

of even offensive ideas, which the First Amendment protects. For example, a student who "states in a physiology class the theory that the average size of the craniums of each race is related to the average intelligence of that race" would not bein violation of the new policy, whereas he probably would have been under the old one. As the administration's policy statement points out, several Supreme Court decisions indicate that this new policy may be constitutionally permissible. For example, according to Tinker v. Des Moines Community School District (1969), speech by students in secondary schools that "would materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school" is not protected under the First Amendment. In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), the Supreme Court decided that the First Amendment does not protect "fighting words." The new policy still has too many grey areas, however. Racism toward whites and sexism toward men are, of course, very real possibilities. Yet the policy does not state clearly, as it should, whether whites and men enjoy the same protection as minorities and women. Moreover, the policy's vagueness makes it difficult to determine what actually constitutes forbidden speech, leaving students vulnerable to the whims of the policy enforcers. The policy does try to clarify the limits of the policy by discussing what would happen in a few hypothetical cases. For example, a policy violation occurs when "(i)n a classroom before an exam a white student uses a racial epithet to a Black student and tells her to go home and stop using a white person's space." But what if a student in a classroom points at another student and says, "People who have your skin color should be thrown out of this school?" Would this kind of speech be protected or subject to discipline? , The administration plans to introduce a permanent discriminatory acts policy as early as December. If the administration uses the interim policy as its model, it will need to find a way, if possible, to dean up all these grey areas. Otherwise, the administration would be wise to refrain from trying to regulate speech.

The Michigan Mandate's False Promise The University of Michigan administration has tried to fulfill the very noble goal of increasing minority student representation on campus. As part of the "Michigan Mandate," the administration has dedicated a large amount ofits financUd t~utCes to bOosting minority student recruitment' and retention. But recently released student enrollment figures reveal that the administration's affirmative action efforts have not paid off. On the minority recruitment front, the U-M has d~voted considerable attention, although it has not put a dollar figure on these efforts, according to the Office of Financial Analysis. On the minority retention front, the administration has set up counseling programs and a number of other services specifically designed for minorities. The administration' s affirmative action commitment also covers financial aid, which serves as an important recruitment and retention mechanism. Aid for minority undergraduate students went up 44 percent last year, from $2.9 million in 1987-88 to $4.1 million in 1988-89, according to the University Record. During the last 10 years, U-M spending on minority financial aid grew 183 percent compared to only 90 percent for the entire student body. Despite its efforts, the administration has failed to recruit and retain enough minorities, especially blacks. Black student enrollment, for example, did rise from 6.2 percent last year to 6.5 percent this year, but that is down from a high of 7.7 percent in 1977. Blacks represent about 13 percent of the state's population. Affirmative action has failed because it is nothing more than a band-aid approach. It does not address the fact that a disproportionately high number of minorities live in urban areas, which tend to be plagued by inadequate elementary and secondary school systems and other problems, and can therefore not be

expected to be as academically competitive as students from affluent areas. Some administration critics fall back on theargumentthat the SATs and ACTs are culturally biased in favor of middle-class whites and serve as an admissions barrier to disadvantaged minorities. But lowering or eliminating the current standards, which some propose, would serve to bring the standards down to disadvantaged minorities rather than raise disadvantaged minorities up to the standards. A fresh approach is needed. Michael Hirschom, senior editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, offers one possibility. "Many inner-city black children need

Despite its efforts, the administration has failed to recruit and retain enough minorities, especially blacks. to be divorced early on from the aspirations and attitudes they inherit, and given an education that helps them transcend their environment," he writes. Such an education cannot begin at the university level, where it is too late, but in the elementary and secondary schools. If minority representation at the U-M, as well as other colleges and universities, is to increase significantly, then society must look beyond the admissions office for a solution.

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Review Forum

Drugs and the College Student by George Bush

Summer is over and classes are back in session. As we begin the school year, our thoughts again turn to the future-a future gravely threatened by drugs. Americans agree that the biggest threat we are facing as a nation is drugs, in particular cocaine and crack. Who is responsible? Everyone who uses drugs. Everyone who sells drugs. Everyone who looks the other way. Some people used to call drugs just a benign form of recreation. They are not. Drugs are a real and extremely serious threat to our schools, our homes, our friends, and our families. It does not matter where you live or what school you attend. No one is free from the threat of drugs. Inner cities, small towns, and college campuses all are under siegebecause America is under siege. On Sept. 5, I announced the first comprehensive national strategy to end the siege-to fight drugs with tougher laws and enforcement, and with improved treatment, education, and prevention. The programs we have proposed are an all-out assault against the evil of drug use and drug trafficking. We are aggressively attacking the problem from every angle and proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling over $8 billion dollars-the largest single increase in history. America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the most important weapons in the war on drugs are the

least tangible: self-discipline, courage, character, support from one's family, faith in God and in one's self. Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is not one of supply but of demand. We are taking strong new action to stop the flow of drugs into this country and to stop the dealers themselves; but as long as Americans are willing to buy illegal drugs, somebody, somewhere in the world will sell them. Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the widow of a veteran DEA agent who was killed by drug-using cowards. A woman of considerable dignity, she put responsibility for her husband's death squarely on "casual" users of cocaine. She is rightand there is now blood on their hands. Similarly, President Barco of Colombia recently made an appeal to Americans to stop buying the cocaine causing the slaughter of innocent civilians in the drug wars there. Every student in America at some point-at a party, in a locker room, in a donn room--every student must choose to accept or reject drugs. But there is another choice that college students, as responsible adults, must make-whether to get involved in a personal way to end drug use or to look the other way. College campuses have long been centers of conscience and idealism in this country, places where students have raised their voices to protest oppres-

sion, injustice, and human suffering around the world. Yet, no one would deny that often drugs go hand in hand with injustice, suffering, and even death. But where is the sound of protest? Innocent bystanders are killed at random on city streets. Babies are born addicted to crack and heroin. Young children are forced into the drug trade by addicts. What greater human rights violations exist? What greater. injustices? Yet, recreational drug users still on some college campuses are ambivalent to the death and destruction they are financing. We must appeal to the social conscience of every . college student on every college campus in America. The way to protest the misery and oppression brought about by drugs is to commit yourself to staying away from drugs-and working to keep them away from your friends. Drug use does not usually begin the way most people would think, with young people getting their first drugs from an addict or a dealer. Instead, they get them free from "friends" who think casual drug use hurts no one. Peer pressure is what spreads drug use and peer pressure can help stop it. You can help stop it-if you get involved. George Bush is president of the United States. This column was written exclusively for Collegiate

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A Student Rebuttal: Legalize Drugs by Brian Meadors If you favor keeping drugs illegal, then think of

the beer in your fridge or the punch at last weekend's party. If one insists on the criminalization of drugs, then the same standard should be applied to alcohol as well, a dangerous drug in its own right. 50, then, should we criminalize alcohol? Should we force beer to be sold on the black market? Of course, the immediate reply is, "No! Remember Prohibition." But many of the problems that characterized Prohibition-the speak-easies, the smuggling, fortunes earned illegally, violence, police searches, and confiscations-are present today because drugs are iIIega!. What few realize, though, is that like legal alcohol, cheap and legal drugs are the answer to the nation's drug crisis. The government's drug policy has given rise to civil liberty violations, deterioration of the inner cities, and wasteful expenditures. Look atthe nature of drug laws. The U.S. government has decided what we may put inside our bodies. Imagine what would happen if Congress passed a law requiring that all Americans eat at least two bran muffins per day. The public would be outraged at such a government intrusion into our lives. Drug laws are very similar; the government has decided what is best for you and will try to force you to follow their rules. Granted, taking drugs is very stupid, but

it is a choice that should be left to the individual, not to Congress. Criminalization, like Prohibition, affects much more than individual liberties. Government drug enforcement reduces the supply of drugs or makes them more costly to supply, kicking in market forces that make drugs more expensive. The potential to make big money selling drugs lures poor urban youths away from such middle-class values as going to school and getting a job and produces much of the gang violence that terrorizes the nation's major cities. If drugs were made legal, the bottom would fall out of the market. Legislation worked 60 years ago with alcohol; it would work with drugs now. The real scandal of keeping drugs illegal is the billions of dollars spent on enforcement that has not worked, does not work, and will not work. Considering the national debt, poor educational opportunities, and lack of housing, the cost of the drug war is difficult to justify. 50 how do we stop or at least curb drug use? We should do what should have been done for legalized alcohol 60 years ago: education, education, education. Education must be used to reduce demand. Assuming drugs were legal, a mild sales tax could then be levied. Half of the revenue could be spent on rehabilitation and the other half on education. Thus,

the people hurt by drugs would not be innocents killed by drug gangs but only those stupid enough to take them in the first place. If people were educated aboutthe dangers of drug use, then those hurt would have no one to blame but themselves. However, this does not mean drugs should be sold to children. The government should protect the young from drugs, just as it protects them from alcohol with a minimum drinking age requirement. But adults should be able to legally and cheaply purchase controlled substances. After all, one responsibility that comes with being an adult is self-amtro!. Legalization is not a new concept. A constitutional amendment ratified earlier in the century sol ved a similar problem with criminalization. Noris it a liberal versus conservative issue. Both Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-in-chief of the conservative National Review, support it. Drug legalization would be a giant step toward the protection of our life, liberty, and property. Until our political leaders hear the voice of reason, however, the situation will only get worse. History has already shown this to be the case. Brian Meadors is a junior in nuclear engineering and a staff writer for the Review.

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Campus Affairs

An Interview with Dean Goldenberg The Review interviewed LSA Dean Edie Goldenberg on Sept. 29. Goldenberg became an assistant professor of political science at the U-M in 1974 and later held the positions of associate professor and professor. She served as director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies (1987-89) before filling her current post on Sept. 1. She is the first woman to head LSA.

as much as is appropriate for students. Another priority of mine is to work on improving the research resources for LSA faculty, which are superb but could always be better.

REVIEW: What are your main goals as LSAdean?

REVIEW: Your predecessor PeterSteinerwas in many ways a controversial dean. What is your view of his administration?

GOLDENBERG: One of them is to maintain and expand the excellence of LSA. In terms of faculty and students, that is not going to be an easy task because we will be facing a number of faculty retirements over the coming years, and the demographics suggest that the competition for faculty and students is going to become very, very tough. Another goal of mine has to do with taking a hard look at the whole undergraduate experience. The University of Michigan offers an ou tstanding undergraduate education-it is regularly ranked among the top schools in the country-but we cannot be satisfied with where we are. I will be

intellectual activities outside the classroom, lectures, and other things that go on on campus, such as the-advising and counseling system. The committee represents, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive review of the

Steiner accomplished a lot in the eight years he was dean. establishing a planning committee to study the undergraduate experience. Robert Weisbach, chair of the English Department, will be chairing that committee. I am meeting with members of the LSA Student Government to talk with them about student representation on that committee. The idea behind it is to start a planning effort. I see this as a multi-year, long-term process to take a look at undergraduate education and build a consensus around changes that may be recommended. We can set in motion a fair amount of momentum and initiate some changes over the five years I am going to be dean, but we probably will not see many of those changes right away because we have to take a hard look at what we have. When I call it the undergraduate experience, that is meant to include not just what goes on in the classroom, but also the intellectual aspects of residence hall life, the

undergraduate experience that has ever taken place. A third priority for me is to implement the Michigan Mandate and see that LSA plays a leadership role in doing so. It is clear that there is a commitment to improve the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty and students on this campus, and I am fully supportive of that. Bu t I do not think we can just stop with recruitment. The Michigan Mandate has implications for retention and achieving a community that allows people to succeed and makes them feel welcome. It implies many things. What I think we need to do in LSA is keep recruitment and retention activity but also have discussion over what else we should be doing. Beyond that, we live in a world economy and an international political system, and while a lot of the courses in LSA recognize that, we need to make sure we have internationalized the curriculum

GOLDENBERG: Steiner accomplished a lot in the eight years he was dean. He strengthened the budgetary processes of LSA, argued successfully for more resources for the college, which was and still is underfunded, put a lot of energy into external fund-raiSing, and accomplished amazing results of increased giving from our alumni. He also insisted on very high standards for the appointment and promotion of faculty. While we still have a lot to do in LSA, as is reflected in the priorities I have mentioned for my own deanship, Steiner established a foundation that I will build on. REVIEW: James Duderstadt and Charles Vest advanced to the U-M's top two administrative posts within the past year orso. Both came from the College of Engineering, raising some concern that they will pay too much attention to Engineering and neglect the others. Do you think they will effectively advance LSA's interests?

ited to Duderstadt when he was serving as provost. And I was on the advisory committee to select the new provost that eventually resulted in Vest's appointment. Both of these people hailed from liberal arts undergraduate education and placed great value on it. They have made LSA their top priority, they have acknowledged the fact that LSA is the cornerstone of the UM-that without a strong LSA the UM will not be strong-and they have put money and resources behind those words. REVIEW: Are you in favor of a mandatory class on racism for LSA students? GOLDENBERG: First of all, there never was a proposal for a single mandatory class. There was a proposal for a requirement to select among a set of courses that were being discussed. That proposal came before the LSA faculty last year and was referred to the Curriculum Committee for further discussion. I thought the discussion at the faculty meeting was useful, and now the Curriculum Committee has been instructed to take a look at this. This is a high priority of mine, and I . have asked the Curriculum Committee to make a report back to the Executive Committee and me. They will look at this whole broad issue, not just whether it should be made a requirement. But beyond that, we have funded University Course 299 for next fall, an elective interdisciplinary course devoted to racism. I favor the establishment of a board which would oversee University Course 299. Beyond that, we will support and encourage the responsible teaching of this kind of content in the regular courses throughout the LSA curriculum. REVIEW: Do you foresee University Course 299 ever becoming a require-

We will not serve the students well unless we help them come to understand other cultures, deal effectively with them, and value them. GOLDENBERG: Not only will they, but they already have. LSA's improved resource position can be cred-

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Goldenberg late on that. There will be no requirements added without a vote by the LSA faculty, who have the authority to make those decisions. Although the vote last year was close, the faculty ha ve spoken against ha ving a required distribution coutse on this topic.

men do. REVIEW: Do you think these classes help women and minorities once they enter the world outside the U-M?

GOLDENBERG: I think they help men and majority students, too. They help all of us understand these issues better.

If we had more resources in LSA, we could offer more courses and keep these class sizes smaller. REVIEW: A growing number of classes at the U-M seem to study gender- and race-specific issues. What do you think of this trend? ' GOLDENBERG: I support the notion of women's studies and Afro-American Studies, just as I support Chinese Studies and a lot of the offerings we have here at the U-M. But I would like to see these materials become part of our other courses, our introductory courses. But let me give you some examples of why it is important to focus on women's studies and AfroAmerican studies. At the U-M, we have been without question the world leaders in the study of elections and voting behavior. One of the methods that we have used to study that area is through the survey method, where we survey a systematic sample of the population. The surveys that we have done have, just by chance, traditionally not produced large enough numbers of blacks to do a separate analysis to see how blacks make their voting decisions and whether those decisions are different from the voting decisions that whites make. But in the last few years, there has been a black election study run out of the Institute for Social Research. We are learning that the factors that contribute to political participation are different for blacks and whites. These findings are enriching our understanding of voting in general and are now being taught in regular election courses. Here is another example: For years we did not know much or pay much attention to why women vote the way they do until women's studies and women's politics developed as a field. We did not really understand the gender gap, but it is now taught in regular election courses because of people who researched gender's relation to voting. We came to understand better that women sometimes vote for different reasons than

REVIEW: Last year, Stanford University replaced its required course on Western culture with a required course seeming to emphasize an author's gender or ethnic background. Do you foresee anything similar happening to the Great Books requirement for U-M honors students? GOLDENBERG: I do not really know, but I do think we have to make our curriculum offerings reflect the multicultural reality that exists out there. The world that we live in is multicultural, and it is becoming more so all the time. U-M students are going to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, or politicians, o.r they are going to be involved in business or whatever. Their clients, patients, customers, and constituents are going to be very di~ verse in their backgrounds. We will not serve the students well unless we help them come to understand other cultures, deal effectively with them, and value them. It is a benefit to all of us to be exposed to people of different backgrounds and cultures, as it is to be exposed to readings of different backgrounds and cultures. Whether these

kinds of courses should become a requirement must be decided by the faculty. REVIEW: When we interviewed President Duderstadt last year, he mentioned an idea he once had to implement a student bill of rights. For examp Ie, students would be guaranteed a certain number of small classes. Do you believe LSA should develop such a plan? GOLDENBERG: I do not know if we should develop such a plan. But let me comment on the size of classes and the nature of the interactions students in LSA have with their instructors. I would like to see our students have high quality interactions with our faculty. This is a world.:...class faculty, and · that is one of the main reasons people want to come to the U-M and study in LSA. It is a shame, to say the least, if a student goes through his program without getting to know a number of these outstanding faculty. But sometimes this happens. Some courses are so large that the students may not have significant interaction with the faculty members. One of the things tha t we are trying to do is put more resources into hiring lecturers in order to increase the number of course offerings and provide courses of reasonable size. But in the end, we are constrained by a resource problem. If we had more resources in LSA, we could offer more courses and keep these class sizes smaller. We could have more high quality interactions outside of the classroom. One of the things I am going to be talking about with the LSA Student Government is the interest it has in promoting faculty-student interactions outside of class. I have already. asked the dean staff, the Executive Committee, and all the chairs and directors of LSA to be available for invitations to residence halls each term, and all of them have enthusiastically agreed to be available. I am going

to participate in a faculty-student evening in West Quad sometime next month, and I gather it is the first time this sort of thing will have been done. REVIEW: Do you think students in the United States study enough liberal arts today? GOLDENBERG: We know from many studies that students today are not taking as much math and science as they need to function effectively in the world. The phrase that many people use is "scientific literacy," that we need to be worried about the scientific literacy of our students. I do not know what the status of that is in LSAyet, but I am interested to learn. There is another perspective one can take on this question that has to do with whether students come. to us so professionallyoriented, so sure they want to be premed, pre-law, or whatever, that they take a fairly narrow set of courses all geared toward their professional training. That is a mistake when people do that, but it is something we often see at the U-M, which happens to have the largest proportion of pre-professional students of any school in the country. We produce a lotof people who go on to law school, to medical school, to business school, and so on. My own advice to students is to not be narrow in their course choice. This is a time to explore, to try out different things, to enjoy the full range of the liberal arts. There are opportunities for students to enroll in freshman seminars which are smaller in size and present another way to get to know faculty members. .Students should take advantage of these opportunities.

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Campus Affairs

CRISP Better, Worse than Othe.r Systems by Lisa Perczak She planned her strategy carefully. She drew long lists, recorded endless strings of numbers, and pondered her future. She knew it was coming just like it did every term. This time she vowed to be ready. She arrived at Angell Hall, Room 17 at exactly 11:4Sa.m. She slid into the back of the line just as the official began checking for grid sheets and identification cards. She filed through the doorway behind the others and waited for the flash of a r~ number and an open seat. What happene<I in the next few moments was critical. The operator entered her data, there was a brief pause, and then the screen was full. She had CRISPED. Computer Registration Involving Student Participation, otherwise known as CRISP, is the University of Michigan's class scheduling system. Views about CRISP range from downright hatred to quiet acceptance. On the other hand, at Michigan State University and Ohio State University, there is no such ambivalence. Students there either hate or love their systems. Todd Moshier, a senior journalism studentatMSU and sportseditorofthe State News, says, "Registration here is hell. It is almost medieval-total pandemonium." Students at MSU must enroll early; either before they leave campus at the end of spring term or, if they are incoming freshmen, during summer orientation sessions. During enrollment, students reserve classes by recording course and section numbers on optical scan sheets and depositing them in large wooden boxes located around campus. The

scan sheets are processed by computerized scheduling programs to help individual academic units determine ~ class demands. Students are then .~ placed into courses and sections by ~ their individual schools. 8 Classes selected during enrollment do not constitute final schedules for most students. Students may be dropped from classes, added to new ones, or switched into sections other than the ones originally elected. "Scheduling is done on a priority basis. First-term freshmen, honors, and handicapped students are given top priority, followed by seniors, juniors, sophomores, and other freshmen," says Virginia Angell, associate registrar at MSU. "We do our best, but CRISP: Angell Hall, Room 17 sometimes adjustments have to be made," she adds. These adjustments can be espe"People camp out all over the floor credit hours earned, beginning with cially troublesome for working stuand cry and beg for classes," says seniors and ending with freshmen. dents. Suzanne Hollyer, a senior in Moshier. P ACs are four-digit identification journalism, says, "It is impossible to Any adjustments made to schednumbers assigned to each student. ules after final registration are costly, To register, students punch in the give an employer a definite work since students automatically lose 25 year and semester by code and their schedule because your schedule after final registration is likely to look nothPACs on any touch-tone phone. An percent of the cost of a class if they automated voice (BRUTUS) instructs ing like your schedule from early endecide to drop it. rollment." "There is not the same opportustudents to enter course and section nity for experimentation here that numbers. After elections have been Shortly before MSU students remade, BRUTUS processes the inforturn to campus in the fall, they are there is at other schools," says Hollyer. mailed registration pt!!rmit cards and mation and then reads the schedule "People do not sign up for six or seven classes and then select their four or five appointment dates. Everyone must go back to students. The days and times favorites. Such experimentation is through registration, which is the that lectures and sections meet, as well payment portion of the scheduling way too expensive here." as the number of credit hours and the process. At OSU, attitudes about registracost of tuition, are reported to the stuTo register, students report to the dent. tion are generally more positive than intramural building. If students are those at U-M and MSU. BRUTUS informs the student if a pleased with the results of early enroll''The majority of students do neit class is closed and checks to make sure ment, then all they have to do is pay mind registering for classes at all," all the prerequisite course work is tuition. Students living off campus says Bob Bunge, assistant campus complete before allowing successful reporter at OSU's Daily Lantern. must pay the entire cost of tuition at registration. that time, while oJK:ampus residents "Here, it is really easy because BRU~ Classes can be rearranged, can pay half and are then billed in two , TUS does just about all the work." dropped, and added at anytime while quarterly installments later in the BRUTUS-Better Registration a student's window is open. The earterm. Using Touch-Tone Phones for Univerlier students call in each window, the If students wish to make schedule sity Students-allows students to sebetter chance they haveof getting what adjustments, they proceed to the PIT. lect classes from the comfort of their they want. The PIT is a large gym filled with own homes and thereby avoid long tables, lists of open and closed classes, lines. She rose from her chair. It had and people-lots and lots of people. "BRUTUS is great," says Kathy taken three trips, but she finally had a To rearrange early enrollment Nemeth, an engineering sophomore. schedule that she felt Was satisfactory. schedules, students must wait in line "1 really like this system, eSpecially in Although CRISP is no picnic comto sign up for new classes or sections. the winter when I avoid trudging pared to OSU's scheduling system, it Problems arise when classes fill up through the cold to register." certainly seems to work a lot better before the hundreds of people that Packets containing windows and than MSU's. need them can claim their spots. personal access codes (PACs) are Moshier describes the PIT as commailed to students prior to registrapletely chaotic. Desperate ' students tion. Windows are time-frames asLisa Perczak is a junior in communi~rawl the names of classes they need signed to students when they may cation and English and a staff writer on huge signs and hunt for others that register. Windows span the length of a for the Review. might be dropping courses they need . week and are granted according to

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Deficit Continued from page 1 funds. By late March, much of this money had been allocated to student organizations. According to an official March 31 report by MSA Treasurer John Wilson, only $12,907 that could be spent during the rest of the winter tenn was left in MSA's general account. According to MSA minutes, the As-

"According to Roger Wolf (of the Office of the Vice President for Student Services), MSA had not paid SLS and AATV about $63,000 that it owed them last year (during the Phillips administration)," said Williams. MSA eventually worked out a plan with the Board of Regents, SLS, AATV, and the Student Organization

Development Center (SOOC) to pay off its deficit by cutting its 1989-90 budget, raising its per student fee by 49 cents, and taking out a loan from the U-M at 9 percent interest. According to Williams, the Assembly's eagerness to satisfy student organizations was largely to blame for the April overallocation. "They gave money away like water," he said. A majority of the representatives apparently forgot about the budget limitations announced March 31 by Wilson. It is still unclear why MSA failed to pay SLS and AATV $63,000. Phillips and past MSA treasurers could not be reached for comment, and Williams declined to comment on this matter. But Zach Kittrie, fonner chainnan of the MSA External Relations Committee, said it may be that MSA overestimated its own revenue projections for the 1988-89 year. According to MSA's constitution, the Assembly's executive officers and committee chainnen are supposed to estimate before each academic year begins how many MSA-fee-paying students will be attending the U-M during that year. Kittrie said that in

August 1988, the Phillips-led executive board and committee chainnen may have overestimated the number of students coming to the U-M, thereby inflating the amount of money MSA would expect to receive from student fees. The SLS and AATU allocations estima tes would then have been based on too high of a head count, while the money MSA received would have been based on the actual pool of students. To prevent a deficit in the future, the Assembly agreed to "tighter financial management in MSA," according to reports from the July regents' meeting. Income and allocations are to be more closely monitored. No other measures have been taken and MSA does not plan to have an investigation to determine what exactly we"t wrong and who was responsible. "The blame must be spread over too many people," said Williams.

conditions in the West Bank. It was only by questioning PSC members after the meeting had ended that Lev determined that the name of the student-at-Iarge delegate to the West Bank was Donald Blome, a Law stu-

PSC put in themselves." Blome could not be reached, Peterson declined to comment, and no member of PSC could be found who was willing' to discuss the situation. Lev said that although he does not

Assembly." Williams added that if the situation continues, he will order an accounting of "how MSA money was spent. If they abused that money, or did not use it in the way we eannarked it, then they are in violation of any agreement we had with them. In that case, we will go through the Central Student Judiciary and request that they return every drop, every red cent." If conducted, this probe might also include an examination of how the MSA money that students used to go to EI Salvador was spent. Williams said he does not anticipate any MSA-sponsored trips in the current year, because MSA "just does not have the money," thanks to a large budget deficit.

to MSA President Aaron Williams. This proposal failed. But according to MSA minutes, the Assembly then allocated $7,000 to the United States Student Association, making MSA's deficit approximately $10,000 by the end of April. The deficit became worse when it was revealed in May that MSA had shortchanged Student Legal Services (SLS) and the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU), which MSA is required to fund under its constitution.

MSA does not plan to have an investigation to determine what exactly went wrong. sembly in April allocated the rest of this money, as well as several thousand dollars over the limit. When MSA first realized it had a deficit at its April 18 meeting, some Assembly members proposed that MSA use a portion of the $45,000 in funds earmarked for MSA's spring and summer tenn expenses, according

Bryan Case is a senior in English and honors history and a staff writer for the Review.

Trip Continued from page 1 agreed to take its first choice from the student-at-large applications, Lev said he "wanted to know if the bases on which we selected this person were true." He said he asked to know the name of the committee's choice to verify what the student had written on his application. Shadroui repeatedly refused to tell him the person's name, ci ting security as a reason, according to Lev. Lev said he does not know how his "knowing the names 'of those selected for the purpose of confirming their qualifications could compromise their security." Khoury said she does not know if MSA was ever told the names of the people it paid to send to Israel. She refused to comment on the selection process, the trip, or its aftennath. During the entire summer, both before and after the trip took place, MSA members were not informed of anyof the details ofthe trip. Lev said he discussed the situation at MSA's second meeting this year, where several PSC members spoke to MSA about

MSA members were not informed of any details of the trip. dent. The other delegate, MSA Rep. Mike Peterson, was by that time known to at least some Assembly members, as he was the only MSA representative who applied to go, according to Lev. Peterson and Blome were not among those who had spoken at the second MSA meeting, and even now MSA has not been officially infonned of the delegate's name. According to Lev, "The Assembly has never heard from the people it spent the money on to send to the West Bank." MSA President Aaron Williams said he agrees that the MSA-funded delegation never reported to MSA even though "a report was one of the agreements that

wish to imply wrongdoing, he "does not know to this day if these people were really the people" that he helped select or even if Blome and Peterson actually went to the West Bank last summer. Tobocman could not be

"Some kind of report should be made back to the Assembly." - MSA President Aaron Williams reached for comment. Williams says that since the trip was funded by MSA, "some kind of report should be made back to the

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Arts:. BoOk Review,

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Detroit Edison, one might · already have a good idea of how he treats his various subjects. Thebooklacksa scrutinizing edge, as it fails to view the Pistons, the National Basketl>all Association,or anyone who has ever pid<ed .'. up a basketball with anything but an "I'm ok, you're ok" attitude. . The whole Adrian Dantley affair last February is a very good example. Thomas devotesrur entire chapter to the controversial and, at first, unpopular Dantley-Mark Aguirre trade. This chapter is one of the book's highlights, as the trade itself is presented in an objective and infonnative manner. But instead ·of tackling tough issues, such as Dantley's emotional and bitter response to being traded to the Dallas Mavericks;. a team unlikely to be a title contender in the near future, Thomas, in another chapter, praises Dantley's mother, even though she accused Thomas of being responsible for the trade. Mrs. Dantley umakes the best home-made biscuits I've ever tasted," writes Thomas. who does not bother to challenge her accusations. · " 1 · ..... II'~~

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Arts: Record Review

Soundgarden Sprouts Success Sound garden Louder Than Love A&M Records

by John J. Miller The term "heavy metal" is far too broad for its own good. Who can justify including the glam-rock wimps of Poison in the same category as the guitar-crunch toughs of Metallica? Or compare the outlandish, maniacal style belonging to Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction with the resonant, full-blown screams of Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson. Heavy metal has come to represent so many different sub-genres that the term no longer means much of anything anymore. However, if one were to embark on a quest in search of the definition of heavy metal 1989-style, one might want to begin in Seattle. If heavy metal this year must have one true definition and one perfect exemplar, then its na me is Sou ndga rden, a nd much of the proof can be heard on their album

Lol{der Than Love. The most important prerequisites for the ideal heavy metal sound include an unrelenting barrage of guitars, a furious but disciplihed rhythm section, and a set of powerful, tireless vocals. The best heavy metal creates a sense of indomitability and releases repressed frustrations. And though

Soundgarden may use a deceptively idyllic name for their big, loud music, they frequently embody these required principles. Louder Than Love, the band's first major label release, begins with a Matt Cameron backbeat and quickly adds

moment of serenity.The song's intensity builds during a pair of verses, climaxes with Cornell at one of his common bursts of shrieking, a nd then ends by placidly fading into nothingness. "Power Trip" and "Uncovered" are easily forgettable, and "Get on the

If heavy metal this year must have one true definition and one perfect exemplar, then its name is Soundgarden. the hyperactive guitar of Kim Thayil and bass of Hiro Yamamoto. The album opener, "Ugly Truth," does not really take off, however, until frontman Chris Cornell unleashes his nearyell vocals, reminiscent of Mary My Hope's James Vincent Hall. Each song, in turn, has its own feel, sometimes forceful in delivery, sometimes slightly off-target. "Gun" has a slow and short beginning but soon dives headfirst into an irresistible groove. Like "Gun," "Loud Love" is a solid, convincing Led Zeppelin-like onslaught-Soundgarden at its very best. "1 Awake" contains an enticing spacey introduction before a brutal guitar-led rhythm destroys this brief

Snake" is unremarkable except for its ridiculous phallic implications. "Big, Dumb Sex," the most obvious catalyst behind the album's "Explicit LyricsParental Advisory" warning sticker, might have a very smart melody, but the whole effect is lost in a shockingly lew<\chorus.

Soundgarden's biggest drawback is their seeming inability to write good lyrics. But come to think of it, the boys from Seattle probably do not really care. If you want to learn the meaning of life, go buy something by Bob Dylan or U2. In the meantime, tum up the volume and keep in mind the fact that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant created a legacy by writing lyrics about hot dogs, flower children, and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Louder Than Love is by no means a classic album. Despite its flaws, it is one of the best heavy metal albums to come along in quite some time. Soundgarden is what heavy metal should be: rough, raunchy, and rebellious. John J. Miller is a sophomore in LSA and a campus affairs editor of the Review.

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Satire

L' Arc d' Activiste by L. Ives Skemoloy

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The Diag is cluttered. Buildings of all shapes and sizes-buses, shanties and, small jails-jut out from all sides. Preachers, aging frisbee players, and campus demonstrators all vie for the eyes and ears of the passing masses. Chaos is truly king in this upsidedown world where diversity has seemingly been elevated to its most dangerous extreme. While many can be found who applaud this plurality of interests, the sad fact remains that the power and meaning of each individual statement has become lost among the jumbled rantings of the whole. Fortunately, there is a solution to this dilemma that would salvage the individual messages of each campus activist group; Not only would all Points of view De given equal access to students, but they would gain an added dimension of universality. In short, we need to build a unifying symbol that would bring together all groups on campus. Rather than condoning a multiplicity of structures and demonstrations on the Diag, each with

its own' individual message, we need to petition the admInistration for the construction of a huge monolithic structure that would represent all of us. We need to erect a monument to the causes of all student activists-an Arc d' Activiste. Once built, this monument would serve as a symbol of the unified power of campus groups across the political spectrum. Such a symbol would encourage campus groups to channel their energies in one direction, to seek out their commonalities rather than their differences. It would represent the resolve of the student body to transcend the everyday realities of school, credit cards, and football games. It would highlight that marvelous and irrepressible urge of young people to reach out beyond boundaries of time and space and touch the lives of th6se ~ho are oppressed and exploited. It would celebrate the intellectual as well ashutrtafie awakening of an entire generation. Social responsibility would again come into vogue as it did wi th such unselfish freshness in the 1%Os. While it is doubtful that anyone building could bring about a radical transformation in the student body, it would certainly be a prudent first step.

As a matter of fact, it lS difficult to foresee any real objections to the project arising. Essentially, the monument would

ists, or signs of protest would have to be removed from the Diag. The shanties would be bulldozed, Preacher Mike would be escorted home, and

We need to build a unifying symbol that would bring together all groups on campus. not offend anyone because it would in theory be repreSenting everyone and everything at the same time. Since all campus protests could be accomodated around the immediate grounds of the monument, the administration would be assured that there would be no unauthorized protests. And as the monument would serve as a permanent symbol of protest, only in the rarest instances would campus unrest r~ult in a serious revolt. The physical presence of the monument itself would help to diffuse such tension. Actual construction would have to be carried out with the utmost attention to detail. In order to make room for the monument, all other structures, activ-

any remaining demonstrators would be politely asked to leave university property. Since the monument would serve as a center of protest by all groups, it would have to be big enough to accomodate gatherings of large groups of people at its base. Perhaps it could be built in the shape of a large glass warehouse. Or perhaps it should be constructed in the form of a tall rod-like tower, as this would enable people from all parts of campus to see it. (Not to mention what it would do for psychology majors). Inside the monument, there would be various rooms and lecture halls where student organizations could meet to discuss their concerns. Debates between students and administration officials could be held in the building. Visiting activists could find a particularly safe haven within the walls to deliver their speeches. After all, would not anti-establishment types feel more comfortable lecturing within the cozy confines of a ~. student monument than within the e , plushness of Rackham Auditorium? Inside, students would cover the walls with murals of their own design and creation. There would be a library that would cater solely to the needs of student groups. In the most sacred room of the monument, only students would be allowed to enter and celebrate the common bonds that unite all student activist groups. And in the center of the room high up behind the altar would hang a large shimmering mirror.

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