The Chigan Review

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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 Bryan case by Brian Gambs A large and unexpected de.ficit in one seems willing or able to say for The Michigan Student Assembly task of separating the applications the budget of the Michigan Student certajn. sponsored a summer fact- fi nding trip from the names of the applicants. Assembly has become a puzzling po MSA announced last February, to the West Bank that was organized in Thus, the organization that supplied litical issue at the University of Michi under the leadership of th~n-Presi large part by the Palestine Solidarity half the members of the committee was gan. Discussions with MSA officials dent Michael Phillips, that it had a sur Committee (PSC). Although MSA also the only organization with any and a review of various documents plus of $40,000 and that student spent $3,500 in student funds on the knowledge of who the applicants reveal that the $70,000 deficit may groups could apply to receive these trip, PSC members repeatedly refused were, according to Lev. Consequently, have been due largely to poor manage to tell the Assembly who was going on only PSC had the power to disclose the ment by the Assembly, although no See page 9 the trip. The PSC has never accounted applicants' identities or verify their ,...-______-" c:l for how the money was spent, and qualifications. PSC also was in charge ~ . MSA has never heard from or had a of spending the $3,500 the Assembly .:. chance to interview any of the students had allocated. ~ who went to Israel on MSA funds. After the selection committee had The West Bank trip was the second ~ of two MSA-funded summer trips. Seepage 9 ~ MSA sponsored trips to the West Bank ~ . and EI Salvador to have students re- E: port back to Ann Arbor on the condi tionsin these areas. As theMichiganRe view reported last month, the $4,000 El I'nside Salvador trip stirred controversy be cause all the people who helped organ ize it were members of the latin Roving American Solidarity Committee. The selecti on committee for the Photographer 3 West Bank trip was composed of Ori Le\' and Dan Tobocman, who are MSA representatives, and Hillary Shadroui Bush on Drugs 5 and Nuha Khoury, who are members of psc. The committee was instructed An Interview to select one MSA representative and one student at large. with LSA Dean Applicalions by students who Goldenberg 6 wanted. to go on the trip were sent The Michigan Student Assembly directly to the PSC, which also had the _,.". .. __ ,-__ ~. 1::::":",=::': ''''''*- -:~ ::::=:::"~~=:'''''~~~:~,~' "'''''',",''

The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 2

Serpent's Tooth THE MICHIGAN

Congratulations to UCAR and the ''There is only one devil walking on nese soldiers massacred students in REVIEW editorial staff of the Michigan Daily for this earth and he has been identified by Tiananmen Square, these radicals making P.J. O'Rourke's ''New Ene God as .being the Caucasian white changed their story. They now admit mies List" in the November issue of the man," according to the Ann Arbor that socialism has its flaws but argue American Spectator. The list, called "a News. Thanks BSU for helping to dis that socialism hasn't been around long The Campus Affairs lovely file on the ideologically sinister, pel the myth that only whites can be enough to reach perfection. How con Journal of the a fine, big matricula of scum," places racist. venient. University of Michigan UCAR and the Daily among the likes of DengXiaoping, David Duke, and Leon Trotsky. It's good to see these guys get UCAR posters appearing around When Provost Charles Vest wanted to the recognition they deserve. campus last month urged students to find ways to cut costs, he formed a Editor-in-Chief help ''Fight the Power." Is this a refer committee. When President James Marc Selinger ence to the rap song ''Fight the Power" Duderstadt wanted to better address To the person who anonymously left a by the group Public Enemy, whose. "women's issues," he set up another Publisher message on the Review answering lyrics are blatantly anti-white and anti committee. And when LSA Dean Edie Matthew Lund machine, saying, ''You must be the Semitic? Goldenberg wanted to study the biggest group of homophobic, egocen "undergraduate experience," she be Executive Editor Mark Molesky tric,racist(expletive)' ev~r created": gan creating yet another committee. It Please wipe the foam off your mouth. After a recent outburst of alleged racial looks like we've found what Vest's incidents, Markley's residence staff, committee has been searching for. Campus Affairs Editors student council, and minority affairs John J. Miller The ' Review's "I Beat Big Brother" council posted several anti-racism' Peter Miskech award goes to John Doe, the grad stu fliers. One of them said, "Did you MSA spent $7,500 to send students to dent on whose behalf the ACLU sued know there is no such thing as 'Reverse El Salvador and the West Bank and Editor Emeritus the U-M and had the old discrimina Discrimination'?" Nothing like fight Gaza Strip over the summer. Not to be Seth Klukoff tory acts policy declared unconstitu ing ignorance with ignorance. outdone, state lawmakers spent more tional.()Ur congtarulations and 'heart- than $35,000 of taxpayers's money on Staff felt thanks to Mr. Doe, whatever your out-of-state summer travel, according Jeff Alpernin, Dan Bandus, Rahul real name is. "The Shanties were built in 1986 and to the Detroit News. MSA has some Banta, Jim Borninski, Karen will remain until apartheid falls," says catching up to do. Brinkman, Mark Brodson, Scott the writing on a recently repainted Brower, Bryan Case, Karen According to the text of the new dis Diag shanty. That's funny. When the Chapel, Adam Devore, Brian criminatory acts policy for students, shanties were originally constructed, The following notice appeared in Daily Gambs, Melissa Gessner, Jeff ''The Michigan Review, the Michigan we were told they w6~uld be taken Editor-in-Chief Adam Schrager's Hartgen, Brian Jendryka, Phil Daily and other ffi,ilSS media enhance down(once the U-Mdivdted its stock "open letter to students": "Meeting for Johnston, Mark Kalinowski, the disCussion and debate of important in companies doing business in South prospective staffers tonight at 7 p.m .... Nadeem Khan, Joseph Klein, ideas and issues. The broadest range of Africa, .which actually happened last Looking forward to seeing you a week Peter Kogan, Matt Lattimore, speech and expression will be toler fall. Apparently, we are not supposed from tonight." We're confused. Mike McFalls, Brian Meadors, ated in these areas and by these publi to remember that. Ajay Mehrotra, Latha Palaniap cations." We can live with that. pan, Lisa Perczak, Dan Rice, Eric For the second year in a row, the Michi Riedel, Nate Smith, John Transue, Some college radicals used to say that gan Daily is celebrating its 99th year of Robert Urbanek, Vince Wilk, During a recent speech sponsored by China was a pleasant social democ "editorial freedom." The counting er Chau-Ye Wu, Fazlur Zahurullah the Black Student Union, Abdul Alim racy, not the oppressive communist ror occurred long ago but was not Muhammad, a leader in Louis regime that many people in the United caught until last summer, according to Farr;U

The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 3 . Roving Photographer Question: What do you think of the Michigan Student Assembly?

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, , - \' ., ~-.t:::"l::.\ \l~ J " Meg Carsky, LSA senior: "I see it as Jeff Drott, LSA junior: "MSA? Who Rich Kotite, LSA junior: "It has not Tanisha Scott, Engineering sopho a good internship for political science is the president? Aaron Williams, the done anything for me to make me more: "I know that about $6.37 goes majors, but other than that 1 do not little guy?" really think about it. It seems to be a to them. I see it on my bill, but I do ,------,see it as accomplishing very much." paper tiger." not really know much about it." : Yes! I want to support the Michigan Review! ,_ :

: Here's my tax deductible contribution to help sustain the' : I University of Michigan's independent campus affairs jour- 1 1 nal. I understand that with my contribution of $15 or more, I 1 1 will receive a one year's subscription to the Review. I I I 1 1 : I am enclosing: : 1 ,I 1-' $15 ' _$25 _$50 _$100 I' I , I I _ $250 _ $500 _ $1,000 _ , Other I 1 1 1 1 1 Make checks payable to "The Michigan Review" , 1 I I l I :1 I , Send to: , , ~, The Michigan Review, Suite One, 911 North University, Ann : Joy Tsoucaris, RC sophomore: "On Julie Wolf, School of Nursing I Arbor, MI 48109 I the whole, 1 am not really impressed freshman: '1 do not even know what by MSA. They become obsessed it is." I I with very minor issues when there I I are more substantial problems to I Please send my subscription to: I attack. 1 have a problem with the I I vice president (Rose Karadsheh), This month's roving photographer I Name: 1 who absftlined from voting on a big was Karen Brinkman, a sophomore issue (the MSA budget) because she in English and the School of Art and ': Address: : ,did not want to become involved in a a photograp"~f forth~ Review. L ______~ controversial topic." ---+'~"~""""""""~""<"'<"'Y~"_«&~'*"'/'J;I_~h"''''''''_'<''<''''~.M'>'~<' . •c»'''<''', 'Vb 7 The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 4

From Suite One: Editorials The Code, Part II

The University of Michigan introduced a new discriminatory acts policy for of even offensive ideas, which the First Amendment protects. For example, a students last month. The policy is much better than the old policy, which a federal student who "states in a physiology class the theory that the average size of the judge recently struck down for violating the First Amendment. But the policy still craniums of each race is related to the average intelligence of that race" would not has too many grey areas for us to endorse it. bein violation of the new policy, whereas he probably would have been under the Last year, the administration implemented an anti-harassment policy prohib old one. iting "any behavior, verbal or physical, that stigmatizes or victimizes an individ As the administration's policy statement points out, several Supreme Court ual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, creed, national decisions indicate that this new policy may be constitutionally permissible. For origin, ancestry, age, marital status, handicap or Vietnam-era veteran status." As example, according to Tinker v. Des Moines Community School District (1969), we reported last month, U.S. District Judge Avem Cohen declared the policy speech by students in secondary schools that "would materially and substantially unconstitutional over the summer because it violated the First Amendment's interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the protection of offensive speech. 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 The new policy represents a significant and sexism toward men are, of course, very real possibilities. Yet the policy does improvement over the old one. 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 actu ally constitutes forbidden speech, leaving students vulnerable to the whims of the The administration replaced the old policy last month with a new one called policy enforcers. The policy does try to clarify the limits of the policy by discussing the "Interim Policy on Discrimination and Discriminatory Conduct by Students what would happen in a few hypothetical cases. For example, a policy violation in the University Environment." Under it, "Physical acts or threats or verbal-slurs, occurs when "(i)n a classroom before an exam a white student uses a racial epithet invectives or epithets referring to an individual's race, ethnicity, religion, sex, to a Black student and tells her to go home and stop using a white person's space." sexual orientation, creed, national origin, ancestry, age or handicap made with the But what if a student in a classroom points at another student and says, "People purpose of injuring the person to whom the words of actions are directed and that who have your skin color should be thrown out of this school?" Would this kind a~_ nQt made as apart of a discussion or exchange of an idea, ideology or of speech be protected or subject to discipline? , philosophy are prohibited." Punishment for violating the new code could range The administration plans to introduce a permanent discriminatory acts policy from a formal reprimand to expulsion. as early as December. If the administration uses the interim policy as its model, it The new policy represents a significant improvement over the old one. will need to find a way, if possible, to dean up all these grey areas. Otherwise, the Compared to the old policy, the new policy is less likely to prevent the exchange 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 expected to be as academically competitive as students from affluent areas. goal of increasing minority student representation on campus. As part of the Some administration critics fall back on theargumentthat the SA Ts and ACTs "Michigan Mandate," the administration has dedicated a large amount ofits are culturally biased in favor of middle-class whites and serve as an admissions financUd t~utCes to bOosting minority student recruitment' and retention. But barrier to disadvantaged minorities. But lowering or eliminating the current recently released student enrollment figures reveal that the administration's standards, which some propose, would serve to bring the standards down to affirmative action efforts have not paid off. disadvantaged minorities rather than raise disadvantaged minorities up to the On the minority recruitment front, the U-M has d~voted considerable atten standards. tion, although it has not put a dollar figure on these efforts, according to the Office A fresh approach is needed. Michael Hirschom, senior editor of the Chronicle of Financial Analysis. On the minority retention front, the administration has set of Higher Education, offers one possibility. "Many inner-city black children need 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 Despite its efforts, the administration minority undergraduate students went up 44 percent last year, from $2.9 million has failed to recruit and retain enough 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 minorities, especially blacks. 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 to be divorced early on from the aspirations and attitudes they inherit, and given 6.2 percent last year to 6.5 percent this year, but that is down from a high of 7.7 an education that helps them transcend their environment," he writes. Such an percent in 1977. Blacks represent about 13 percent of the state's population. education cannot begin at the university level, where it is too late, but in the Affirmative action has failed because it is nothing more than a band-aid elementary and secondary schools. approach. It does not address the fact that a disproportionately high number of If minority representation at the U-M, as well as other colleges and universi minorities live in urban areas, which tend to be plagued by inadequate elementary ties, is to increase significantly, then society must look beyond the admissions and secondary school systems and other problems, and can therefore not be office for a solution. ~~""'''''*,t~~W),(~~~''''~-4'''~~''''_."'<>'\~'''"", " 'I< .~""'""'}~ ...,_"*'J;>"""',,"'''''''','''',,'''¥'''"'' ....''' .. ''''>.,<,, .....,~'''''''

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Review Forum Drugs and the College Student

by George Bush Summer is over and classes are back in session. least tangible: self-discipline, courage, character, sion, injustice, and human suffering around the As we begin the school year, our thoughts again turn support from one's family, faith in God and in one's world. Yet, no one would deny that often drugs go to the future-a future gravely threatened by drugs. self. hand in hand with injustice, suffering, and even Americans agree that the biggest threat we are Fundamentally, the drug problem in America is death. But where is the sound of protest? Innocent facing as a nation is drugs, in particular cocaine and not one of supply but of demand. We are taking bystanders are killed at random on city streets. Babies crack. strong new action to stop the flow of drugs into this are born addicted to crack and heroin. Young chil Who is responsible? Everyone who uses drugs. country and to stop the dealers themselves; but as dren are forced into the drug trade by addicts. What Everyone who sells drugs. Everyone who looks the long as Americans are willing to buy illegal drugs, greater human rights violations exist? What greater. other way. somebody, somewhere in the world will sell them. injustices? Yet, recreational drug users still on some Some people used to call drugs just a benign form Recently, I met with Mrs. Everett Hatcher, the college campuses are ambivalent to the death and of recreation. They are not. Drugs are a real and widow of a veteran DEA agent who was killed by destruction they are financing. extremely serious threat to our schools, our homes, drug-using cowards. A woman of considerable dig We must appeal to the social conscience of every our friends, and our families. It does not matter nity, she put responsibility for her husband's death . college student on every college campus in America. where you live or what school you attend. No one is squarely on "casual" users of cocaine. She is right The way to protest the misery and oppression free from the threat of drugs. Inner cities, small and there is now blood on their hands. Similarly, brought about by drugs is to commit yourself to towns, and college campuses all are under siege President Barco of Colombia recently made an ap staying away from drugs-and working to keep because America is under siege. peal to Americans to stop buying the cocaine causing them away from your friends. On Sept. 5, I announced the first comprehensive the slaughter of innocent civilians in the drug wars Drug use does not usually begin the way most national strategy to end the siege-to fight drugs there. people would think, with young people getting their with tougher laws and enforcement, and with im Every student in America at some point-at a first drugs from an addict or a dealer. Instead, they proved treatment, education, and prevention. The party, in a locker room, in a donn room--every get them free from "friends" who think casual drug programs we have proposed are an all-out assault student must choose to accept or reject drugs. But use hurts no one. Peer pressure is what spreads drug against the evil of drug use and drug trafficking. We there is another choice that college students, as re use and peer pressure can help stop it. \ are aggressively attacking the problem from every sponsible adults, must make-whether to get in You can help stop it-if you get involved. angle and proposing a 1990 drug-budget totaling volved in a personal way to end drug use or to look over $8 billion dollars-the largest single increase in the other way. George Bush is president of the United States. This history. College campuses have long been centers of column was written exclusively for Collegiate America is fighting a war against drugs. Yet the conscience and idealism in this country, places where Times. most important weapons in the war on drugs are the students have raised their voices to protest oppres- A Student Rebuttal: Legalize Drugs

by Brian Meadors If you favor keeping drugs illegal, then think of it is a choice that should be left to the individual, not the people hurt by drugs would not be innocents the beer in your fridge or the punch at last weekend's to Congress. killed by drug gangs but only those stupid enough to party. If one insists on the criminalization of drugs, Criminalization, like Prohibition, affects much take them in the first place. If people were educated then the same standard should be applied to alcohol more than individual liberties. Government drug en aboutthe dangers of drug use, then those hurt would as well, a dangerous drug in its own right. forcement reduces the supply of drugs or makes have no one to blame but themselves. However, this 50, then, should we criminalize alcohol? Should them more costly to supply, kicking in market forces does not mean drugs should be sold to children. The we force beer to be sold on the black market? Of that make drugs more expensive. The potential to government should protect the young from drugs, course, the immediate reply is, "No! Remember make big money selling drugs lures poor urban just as it protects them from alcohol with a minimum Prohibition." But many of the problems that charac youths away from such middle-class values as going drinking age requirement. But adults should be able terized Prohibition-the speak-easies, the smug to school and getting a job and produces much of the to legally and cheaply purchase controlled sub gling, fortunes earned illegally, violence, police gang violence that terrorizes the nation's major cities. stances. After all, one responsibility that comes with searches, and confiscations-are present today be If drugs were made legal, the bottom would fall out being an adult is self-amtro!. cause drugs are iIIega!. of the market. Legislation worked 60 years ago with Legalization is not a new concept. A constitu What few realize, though, is that like legal alco alcohol; it would work with drugs now. tional amendment ratified earlier in the century hol, cheap and legal drugs are the answer to the The real scandal of keeping drugs illegal is the sol ved a similar problem with criminalization. Noris nation's drug crisis. The government's drug policy billions of dollars spent on enforcement that has not it a liberal versus conservative issue. Both Ira Glasser, has given rise to civil liberty violations, deterioration worked, does not work, and will not work. Consider executive director of the American Civil Liberties of the inner cities, and wasteful expenditures. ing the national debt, poor educational opportuni Union, and William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-in-chief of Look atthe nature of drug laws. The U.S. govern ties, and lack of housing, the cost of the drug war is the conservative National Review, support it. ment has decided what we may put inside our bod difficult to justify. Drug legalization would be a giant step toward ies. Imagine what would happen if Congress passed 50 how do we stop or at least curb drug use? We the protection of our life, liberty, and property. Until a law requiring that all Americans eat at least two should do what should have been done for legalized our political leaders hear the voice of reason, how bran muffins per day. The public would be outraged alcohol 60 years ago: education, education, educa ever, the situation will only get worse. History has at such a government intrusion into our lives. Drug tion. Education must be used to reduce demand. already shown this to be the case. laws are very similar; the government has decided Assuming drugs were legal, a mild sales tax could Brian Meadors is a junior in nuclear engineering what is best for you and will try to force you to follow then be levied. Half of the revenue could be spent on and a staff writer for the Review. their rules. Granted, taking drugs is very stupid, but rehabilitation and the other half on education. Thus, The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 6

Campus Affairs An Interview with Dean Goldenberg

The Review interviewed LSA Dean as much as is ap ited to Duderstadt when he was serv Edie Goldenberg on Sept. 29. Gold propriate for stu ing as provost. And I was on the advi enberg became an assistant professor dents. Another sory committee to select the new pro of political science at the U-M in 1974 priority of mine is vost that eventually resulted in Vest's and later held the positions of associ to work on im appointment. Both of these people ate professor and professor. She proving the re hailed from liberal arts undergraduate served as director of the Institute for search resources education and placed great value on it. Public Policy Studies (1987-89) be for LSA faculty, They have made LSA their top prior fore filling her current post on Sept. 1. which are superb ity, they have acknowledged the fact She is the first woman to head LSA. but could always that LSA is the cornerstone of the U be better. M-that without a strong LSA the U M will not be strong-and they have REVIEW: What are your main goals REVIEW: Your put money and resources behind those as LSAdean? predecessor Pe words. terSteinerwas in GOLDENBERG: One of them is to many ways a REVIEW: Are you in favor of a man maintain and expand the excellence of controversial datory class on racism for LSA stu LSA. In terms of faculty and students, dean. What is dents? that is not going to be an easy task your view of his because we will be facing a number of administration? GOLDENBERG: First of all, there faculty retirements over the coming never was a proposal for a single years, and the demographics suggest GOLDENBERG: mandatory class. There was a proposal that the competition for faculty and Steiner accom for a requirement to select among a set students is going to become very, very plished a lot in of courses that were being discussed. tough. Another goal of mine has to do the eight years he That proposal came before the LSA with taking a hard look at the whole was dean. He faculty last year and was referred to undergraduate experience. The Uni intellectual activities outside the class strengthened the budgetary processes the Curriculum Committee for further versity of Michigan offers an ou tstand room, lectures, and other things that of LSA, argued successfully for more discussion. I thought the discussion at ing undergraduate education-it is go on on campus, such as the-advising resources for the college, which was the faculty meeting was useful, and regularly ranked among the top and counseling system. The commit and still is underfunded, put a lot of now the Curriculum Committee has schools in the country-but we cannot tee represents, to my knowledge, the energy into external fund-raiSing, and been instructed to take a look at this. be satisfied with where we are. I will be most comprehensive review of the accomplished amazing results of in This is a high priority of mine, and I creased giving from our alumni. He . have asked the Curriculum Commit also insisted on very high standards tee to make a report back to the Execu for the appointment and promotion of tive Committee and me. They will look Steiner accomplished a lot in the eight faculty. While we still have a lot to do at this whole broad issue, not just years he was dean. in LSA, as is reflected in the priorities I whether it should be made a require have mentioned for my own deanship, ment. But beyond that, we have Steiner established a foundation that I funded University Course 299 for next will build on. fall, an elective interdisciplinary establishing a planning committee to undergraduate experience that has course devoted to racism. I favor the study the undergraduate experience. ever taken place. A third priority for REVIEW: James Duderstadt and establishment of a board which would Robert Weisbach, chair of the English me is to implement the Michigan Man Charles Vest advanced to the U-M's oversee University Course 299. Be Department, will be chairing that date and see that LSA plays a leader top two administrative posts within yond that, we will support and encour committee. I am meeting with mem ship role in doing so. It is clear that the past year orso. Both came from the age the responsible teaching of this bers of the LSA Student Government there is a commitment to improve the College of Engineering, raising some kind of content in the regular courses to talk with them about student repre numbers of underrepresented minor concern that they will pay too much throughout the LSA curriculum. sentation on that committee. The idea ity faculty and students on this cam attention to Engineering and neglect behind it is to start a planning effort. I pus, and I am fully supportive of that. the others. Do you think they will ef REVIEW: Do you foresee University see this as a multi-year, long-term Bu t I do not think we can just stop with fectively advance LSA's interests? Course 299 ever becoming a require- process to take a look at undergradu recruitment. The Michigan Mandate ate education and build a consensus has implications for retention and around changes that may be recom achieving a community that allows mended. We can set in motion a fair people to succeed and makes them feel We will not serve the students well un amount of momentum and initiate welcome. It implies many things. some changes over the five years I am What I think we need to do in LSA is less we help them come to understand going to be dean, but we probably will keep recruitment and retention activ other cultures, deal effectively with not see many of those changes right ity but also have discussion over what away because we have to take a hard else we should be doing. Beyond that, them, and value them. look at what we have. When I call it the we live in a world economy and an undergraduate experience, that is international political system, and meant to include not just what goes on while a lot of the courses in LSA recog GOLDENBERG: Not only will they, ment for incoming freshmen? in the classroom, but also the intellec nize that, we need to make sure we but they already have. LSA's im- tual aspects of residence hall life, the have internationalized the curriculum proved resource position can be cred- GOLDENBERG: I would not specu- ,~• OO~ it:~:i('ilI,j;».?kii'AV~:;:",Mw,,~,r'U" ~'~"'~~~~'~\:Ii

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men do. kinds of courses should become a re to participate in a faculty-student Goldenberg quirement must be decided by the evening in West Quad sometime next REVIEW: Do you think these classes faculty. month, and I gather it is the first time help women and minorities once they this sort of thing will have been done. late on that. There will be no require enter the world outside the U-M? REVIEW: When we interviewed ments added without a vote by the President Duderstadt last year, he REVIEW: Do you think students in LSA faculty, who have the authority to mentioned an idea he once had to the United States study enough lib make those decisions. Although the GOLDENBERG: I think they help implement a student bill of rights. eral arts today? vote last year was close, the faculty men and majority students, too. They For examp Ie, students would be guar ha ve spoken against ha ving a required help all of us understand these issues anteed a certain number of small GOLDENBERG: We know from distribution coutse on this topic. better. classes. Do you believe LSA should many studies that students today are develop such a plan? not taking as much math and science as they need to function effectively in the GOLDENBERG: I do not know if we world. The phrase that many people If we had more resources in LSA, we should develop such a plan. But let me use is "scientific literacy," that we need comment on the size of classes and the to be worried about the scientific liter could offer more courses and keep nature of the interactions students in acy of our students. I do not know what these class sizes smaller. LSA have with their instructors. I the status of that is in LSAyet, but I am would like to see our students have interested to learn. There is another high quality interactions with our fac perspective one can take on this ques ulty. This is a world.:...class faculty, and · tion that has to do with whether stu REVIEW: A growing number of REVIEW: Last year, Stanford Univer that is one of the main reasons people dents come. to us so professionally classes at the U-M seem to study sity replaced its required course on want to come to the U-M and study in oriented, so sure they want to be pre gender- and race-specific issues. Western culture with a required LSA. It is a shame, to say the least, if a med, pre-law, or whatever, that they What do you think of this trend? ' course seeming to emphasize an student goes through his program take a fairly narrow set of courses all author's gender or ethnic back without getting to know a number of geared toward their professional train GOLDENBERG: I support the notion ground. Do you foresee anything these outstanding faculty. But some ing. That is a mistake when people do of women's studies and Afro-Ameri similar happening to the Great Books times this happens. Some courses are that, but it is something we often see at can Studies, just as I support Chinese requirement for U-M honors stu so large that the students may not have the U-M, which happens to have the Studies and a lot of the offerings we dents? significant interaction with the faculty largest proportion of pre-professional have here at the U-M. But I would like members. One of the things tha t we are students of any school in the country. to see these materials become part of GOLDENBERG: I do not really know, trying to do is put more resources into We produce a lotof people who go on our other courses, our introductory but I do think we have to make our hiring lecturers in order to increase the to law school, to medical school, to courses. But let me give you some curriculum offerings reflect the mul number of course offerings and pro business school, and so on. My own examples of why it is important to ticultural reality that exists out there. vide courses of reasonable size. But in advice to students is to not be narrow focus on women's studies and Afro The world that we live in is multicultu the end, we are constrained by a re in their course choice. This is a time to American studies. At the U-M, we ral, and it is becoming more so all the source problem. If we had more re explore, to try out different things, to have been without question the world time. U-M students are going to be sources in LSA, we could offer more enjoy the full range of the liberal arts. leaders in the study of elections and come doctors, lawyers, teachers, or courses and keep these class sizes There are opportunities for students to voting behavior. One of the methods politicians, o.r they are going to be smaller. We could have more high enroll in freshman seminars which are that we have used to study that area is involved in business or whatever. quality interactions outside of the smaller in size and present another through the survey method, where we Their clients, patients, customers, and classroom. One of the things I am way to get to know faculty members. survey a systematic sample of the constituents are going to be very di~ going to be talking about with the LSA .Students should take advantage of population. The surveys that we have verse in their backgrounds. We will Student Government is the interest it these opportunities. done have, just by chance, tradition not serve the students well unless we has in promoting faculty-student in ally not produced large enough num help them come to understand other teractions outside of class. I have al bers of blacks to do a separate analysis cultures, deal effectively with them, ready. asked the dean staff, the Execu to see how blacks make their voting and value them. It is a benefit to all of tive Committee, and all the chairs and ***Circle Play-Care*** decisions and whether those decisions us to be exposed to people of different directors of LSA to be available for are different from the voting decisions backgrounds and cultures, as it is to be invitations to residence halls each that whites make. But in the last few exposed to readings of different back term, and all of them have enthusiasti Pre-school-Elementary years, there has been a black election grounds and cultures. Whether these cally agreed to be available. I am going study run out of the Institute for Social Play-based Research. We are learning that the factors that contribute to political par Environment ticipation are different for blacks and whites. These findings are enriching Hands-on Projects, our understanding of voting in general Hot Meals and are now being taught in regular election courses. Here is another ex ample: For years we did not know School teacher for much or pay much attention to why small groups women vote the way they do until women's studies and women's politics 3901 Ann Arbor developed as a field. We did not really understand the gender gap, but it is Saline Road now taught in regular election courses because of people who researched For more information gender's relation to voting. We came to Call 761-9392 understand better that women some times vote for different reasons than '~"'~~"" '''''',':,·*... ·w,.~'''' ' '''' 'W.i«>;.':Il:t.!r·#t'''W>It!-~<1l\-'iI~~'.\'1'''I;''''~*'' '''''''''!{< _1-' '' ' '''''''''$ _b''''''~,., <~W'\I<' ''''''''_' '''~'~~"'"", ..,.,~ ' '' ,''''

",- ". The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 8

Campus Affairs CRISP Better, Worse than Othe.r Systems

by Lisa Perczak She planned her strategy care scan sheets are processed by compu- e fully. She drew long lists, recorded terized scheduling programs to help 'e endless strings of numbers, and pon individual academic units determine ~ dered her future. She knew it was class demands. Students are then . ~ coming just like it did every term. This placed into courses and sections by ~ time she vowed to be ready. their individual schools. 8 She arrived at Angell Hall, Room Classes selected during enroll 17 at exactly 11:4Sa.m. She slid into the ment do not constitute final schedules back of the line just as the official began for most students. Students may be checking for grid sheets and identifica dropped from classes, added to new tion cards. She filed through the door ones, or switched into sections other way behind the others and waited for than the ones originally elected. the flash of a r~ number and an open "Scheduling is done on a priority seat. basis. First-term freshmen, honors, What happene,

The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 9

Deficit to MSA President Aaron Williams. Development Center (SOOC) to pay August 1988, the Phillips-led execu This proposal failed. But according to off its deficit by cutting its 1989-90 tive board and committee chainnen Continued from page 1 MSA minutes, the Assembly then allo budget, raising its per student fee by 49 may have overestimated the number cated $7,000 to the United States Stu cents, and taking out a loan from the of students coming to the U-M, funds. dent Association, making MSA's defi U-M at 9 percent interest. thereby inflating the amount of money By late March, much of this money cit approximately $10,000 by the end of According to Williams, the MSA would expect to receive from had been allocated to student organi April. Assembly's eagerness to satisfy stu student fees. zations. According to an official March The deficit became worse when it dent organizations was largely to The SLS and AATU allocations 31 report by MSA Treasurer John was revealed in May that MSA had blame for the April overallocation. estima tes would then have been based Wilson, only $12,907 that could be shortchanged Student Legal Services "They gave money away like water," on too high of a head count, while the spent during the rest of the winter tenn (SLS) and the Ann Arbor Tenants he said. A majority of the representa money MSA received would have was left in MSA's general account. Union (AATU), which MSA is re tives apparently forgot about the been based on the actual pool of stu According to MSA minutes, the As- quired to fund under its constitution. budget limitations announced March dents. 31 by Wilson. To prevent a deficit in the future, It is still unclear why MSA failed to the Assembly agreed to "tighter finan pay SLS and AA TV $63,000. Phillips cial management in MSA," according MSA does not plan to have an investi and past MSA treasurers could not be to reports from the July regents' meet gation to determine what exactly went reached for comment, and Williams ing. Income and allocations are to be declined to comment on this matter. more closely monitored. wrong. But Zach Kittrie, fonner chainnan of No other measures have been the MSA External Relations Commit taken and MSA does not plan to have tee, said it may be that MSA overesti an investigation to determine what sembly in April allocated the rest of "According to Roger Wolf (of the Of mated its own revenue projections for exactly we"t wrong and who was re this money, as well as several thou fice of the Vice President for Student the 1988-89 year. sponsible. "The blame must be spread sand dollars over the limit. Services), MSA had not paid SLS and According to MSA's constitution, over too many people," said Williams. When MSA first realized it had a AA TV about $63,000 that it owed them the Assembly's executive officers and deficit at its April 18 meeting, some last year (during the Phillips admini committee chainnen are supposed to Assembly members proposed that stration)," said Williams. estimate before each academic year Bryan Case is a senior in English and MSA use a portion of the $45,000 in MSA eventually worked out a begins how many MSA-fee-paying honors history and a staff writer for funds earmarked for MSA's spring plan with the Board of Regents, SLS, students will be attending the U-M the Review. and summer tenn expenses, according AA TV, and the Student Organization during that year. Kittrie said that in

Trip conditions in the West Bank. It was PSC put in themselves." Blome could Assembly." Williams added that if the only by questioning PSC members not be reached, Peterson declined to situation continues, he will order an Continued from page 1 after the meeting had ended that Lev comment, and no member of PSC accounting of "how MSA money was determined that the name of the stu could be found who was willing' to spent. If they abused that money, or dent-at-Iarge delegate to the West discuss the situation. did not use it in the way we eannarked agreed to take its first choice from the Bank was Donald Blome, a Law stu- Lev said that although he does not it, then they are in violation of any student-at-large applications, Lev agreement we had with them. In that said he "wanted to know if the bases on case, we will go through the Central which we selected this person were Student Judiciary and request that true." He said he asked to know the MSA members were not informed of they return every drop, every red name of the committee's choice to cent." verify what the student had written on any details of the trip. If conducted, this probe might also his application. Shadroui repeatedly include an examination of how the refused to tell him the person's name, MSA money that students used to go to ci ting security as a reason, according to dent. The other delegate, MSA Rep. wish to imply wrongdoing, he "does EI Salvador was spent. Lev. Lev said he does not know how Mike Peterson, was by that time not know to this day if these people Williams said he does not antici his "knowing the names 'of those se known to at least some Assembly were really the people" that he helped pate any MSA-sponsored trips in the lected for the purpose of confirming members, as he was the only MSA select or even if Blome and Peterson current year, because MSA "just does their qualifications could compromise representative who applied to go, ac actually went to the West Bank last not have the money," thanks to a large their security." cording to Lev. summer. Tobocman could not be budget deficit. Khoury said she does not know if Peterson and Blome were not MSA was ever told the names of the among those who had spoken at the people it paid to send to Israel. She second MSA meeting, and even now "Some kind of report should be made refused to comment on the selection MSA has not been officially infonned process, the trip, or its aftennath. of the delegate's name. According to back to the Assembly." During the entire summer, both Lev, "The Assembly has never heard before and after the trip took place, from the people it spent the money on - MSA President Aaron Williams MSA members were not informed of to send to the West Bank." MSA Presi anyof the details ofthe trip. Lev said he dent Aaron Williams said he agrees reached for comment. discussed the situation at MSA's sec that the MSA-funded delegation Williams says that since the trip Brian Gambs is a sophomore in LSA ond meeting this year, where several never reported to MSA even though "a was funded by MSA, "some kind of and a staff writer for the Review. PSC members spoke to MSA about report was one of the agreements that report should be made back to the · 'm'li>~~~~~_'-_ _ _ _ _ ·· """''' '''''''''''~'''''·'''~'''_''''''''''''' · ··''''''''''·~····''·~'''''''·~_· .--.... - .... ~ ..... -- , ' . -~-~, ...... ~ --.~'" .... -

The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 10

Arts:. BoOk Review, ; / 'Bad Boys' .. Fouls Out

Bad Boys! analysis olthe basketball world, the o "November" and "December" are as Islah Thomas book fails. ~ . stirring as their names imply. Too with Matt Dobek . Thomas is just too nice a person to ~ much time is spent rehashing games, HardCover, $19.95 be critical of anyone or anything. Hone . ~ otherwise quickly forgotten, without Masters Press is at all familiar .with his "Look up!" ~ sprinkling them with entertaining 232 pp. public service announcements £01: ~ . anecdotes. Detroit Edison, one might · already Bad Bays is not all bad, though. The by John J. Miller have a good idea of how he treats his chapter on the all-star game weekend .It seems like every lime a profer various subjects. Thebooklacksa scru contains what the other lack: an inter sional sports club from Detroit wins a . tinizing edge, as it fails to view the esting look at what happens off the . .championship, somt'One Writes a book Pistons, the National Basketl>all Asso court. Thomas iriitially had reserva . about the team's season. At my itQme; ciation,or anyone who has ever pid

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The Michigan Review, October 1989, p. 11

Arts: Record Review Soundgarden Sprouts Success

Sound garden Soundgarden may use a deceptively moment of serenity.The song's inten Soundgarden's biggest drawback Louder Than Love idyllic name for their big, loud music, sity builds during a pair of verses, cli is their seeming inability to write good A&M Records they frequently embody these re maxes with Cornell at one of his com lyrics. But come to think of it, the boys quired principles. mon bursts of shrieking, a nd then ends from Seattle probably do not really by John J. Miller Louder Than Love, the band's first by placidly fading into nothingness. care. If you want to learn the meaning The term "heavy metal" is far too major label release, begins with a Matt "Power Trip" and "Uncovered" of life, go buy something by Bob Dylan broad for its own good. Who can jus Cameron backbeat and quickly adds are easily forgettable, and "Get on the or U2. In the meantime, tum up the tify including the glam-rock wimps of volume and keep in mind the fact that Poison in the same category as the Jimmy Page and Robert Plant created a guitar-crunch toughs of Metallica? Or If heavy metal this year must have one legacy by writing lyrics about hot compare the outlandish, maniacal dogs, flower children, and J.R.R. style belonging to Perry Farrell of true definition and one perfect exem Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Jane's Addiction with the resonant, Louder Than Love is by no means a full-blown screams of Iron Maiden's plar, then its name is Soundgarden. classic album. Despite its flaws, it is Bruce Dickinson. Heavy metal has one of the best heavy metal albums to come to represent so many different come along in quite some time. sub-genres that the term no longer the hyperactive guitar of Kim Thayil Snake" is unremarkable except for its Soundgarden is what heavy metal means much of anything anymore. and bass of Hiro Yamamoto. The ridiculous phallic implications. "Big, should be: rough, raunchy, and rebel However, if one were to embark album opener, "Ugly Truth," does not Dumb Sex," the most obvious catalyst lious. on a quest in search of the definition of really take off, however, until front behind the album's "Explicit Lyrics heavy metal 1989-style, one might man Chris Cornell unleashes his near Parental Advisory" warning sticker, John J. Miller is a sophomore in LSA want to begin in Seattle. If heavy metal yell vocals, reminiscent of Mary My might have a very smart melody, but and a campus affairs editor of the this year must have one true definition Hope's James Vincent Hall. the whole effect is lost in a shockingly Review. and one perfect exemplar, then its Each song, in turn, has its own feel, lew<\chorus. na me is Sou ndga rden, a nd much of the sometimes forceful in delivery, some proof can be heard on their album times slightly off-target. "Gun" has a Lol{der Than Love. slow and short beginning but soon The most important prerequisites dives headfirst into an irresistible for the ideal heavy metal sound in groove. Like "Gun," "Loud Love" is a clude an unrelenting barrage of gui solid, convincing Led Zeppelin-like tars, a furious but disciplihed rhythm onslaught-Soundgarden at its very section, and a set of powerful, tireless best. ANN ARBOR'S vocals. The best heavy metal creates a "1 Awake" contains an enticing sense of indomitability and releases spacey introduction before a brutal SOURCE FOR repressed frustrations. And though guitar-led rhythm destroys this brief MICHIAGN MEMORABILIA

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Satire L' Arc d' Activiste

by L. Ives Skemoloy

Monuments all too frequently celebrate the its own' individual message, we need As a matter of fact, it lS difficult to ists, or signs of protest would have to pieties of their builders. to petition the admInistration for the foresee any real objections to the proj be removed from the Diag. The shan construction of a huge monolithic ect arising. ties would be bulldozed, Preacher -Anonymous, fourth century structure that would represent all of Essentially, the monument would Mike would be escorted home, and us. We need to erect a monument to the The Diag is cluttered. Buildings of causes of all student activists-an Arc all shapes and sizes-buses, shanties d' Activiste. We need to build a unifying symbol and, small jails-jut out from all sides. Once built, this monument would Preachers, aging frisbee players, and serve as a symbol of the unified power that would bring together all groups on campus demonstrators all vie for the of campus groups across the political eyes and ears of the passing masses. spectrum. Such a symbol would en campus. Chaos is truly king in this upside courage campus groups to channel down world where diversity has their energies in one direction, to seek seemingly been elevated to its most out their commonalities rather than not offend anyone because it would in any remaining demonstrators would dangerous extreme. While many can their differences. It would represent theory be repreSenting everyone and be politely asked to leave university be found who applaud this plurality of the resolve of the student body to tran everything at the same time. Since all property. interests, the sad fact remains that the scend the everyday realities of school, campus protests could be accomo Since the monument would serve power and meaning of each individual credit cards, and football games. It dated around the immediate grounds as a center of protest by all groups, it statement has become lost among the would highlight that marvelous and of the monument, the administration would have to be big enough to acco jumbled rantings of the whole. irrepressible urge of young people to would be assured that there would be modate gatherings of large groups of Fortunately, there is a solution to reach out beyond boundaries of time no unauthorized protests. And as the people at its base. Perhaps it could be 'I this dilemma that would salvage the and space and touch the lives of th6se monument would serve as a perma built in the shape of a large glass ware individual messages of each campus ~ho are oppressed and exploited. It nent symbol of protest, only in the house. Or perhaps it should be con c activist group; Not only would all would celebrate the intellectual as well rarest instances would campus unrest structed in the form of a tall rod-like .. Points of view De given equal access to ashutrtafie awakening of an entire r~ult in a serious revolt. The physical tower, as this would enable people , students, but they would gain an generation. Social responsibility presence of the monument itself from all parts of campus to see it. (Not ., added dimension of universality. In would again come into vogue as it did would help to diffuse such tension. to mention what it would do for psy ~i ;j short, we need to build a unifying wi th such unselfish freshness in the Actual construction would have to be chology majors). ., symbol that would bring together all 1%Os. While it is doubtful that anyone carried out with the utmost attention Inside the monument, there .j: groups on campus. Rather than con building could bring about a radical to detail. would be various rooms and lecture ;:' doning a multiplicity of structures and transformation in the student body, it In order to make room for the halls where student organizations demonstrations on the Diag, each with would certainly be a prudent first step. monument, all other structures, activ- could meet to discuss their concerns. Debates between students and ad ministration 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-establish ment types feel more comfortable lec turing 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. '"

L. I yes Skemoloy is a fifth-year sen ior who still has not declared his major and a staff writer for the Re view.