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THE MICHIGAN REVIEW
Volume 7, Number 7 March 1989
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Review Forum: PIRGIM .. '. Just Say No! ;A:! .. MSA Under Fire . " . Interviews with the Mayoral Candidates .... ,;,y_~,. .v • ..., ~' _"'.,.""" '. ,, ~ . ~~ " , .~. l.-",, ~ , ." .. ,." -'. " _. -
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The Michigan Review 2 March 1989
THE Serpent's Tooth MICHIGAN REVIEW
The following correction appeared in a encourages all U-M students to stop about competence, not ideology. Above recent issue of the Michigan Daily: "Daily reading the Daily. It seems that Daily all else, we need someone who is not going The Campus Affairs Opinion Page Editor Elizabeth Esch did Editor-in-Chief Adam Schrager supports to concern him self wilh international Journal of the not defend the use of unsubstantiated facts the designated-hitter rule. issues. We need Michael Dukakis. University of Michigan in editorials. TheDaily misrepresented her statements in a news story yesterday." If the Daily cannot represent its own people With the MSA election right around the Michael who? Editor-in-Chief correctly, then who can it represent? comer, we have been thinking about what Marc Selinger kind of president the student body needs. We need someone with political The Review would like to thank the Publisher In the same spirit of the NOW boycott experience. We need someone who can departing duo of Phillips and Overdorf for Mark Molesky against Domino's Pizza, whose owner guarantee students good jobs at good providing us with countless ideas for this Tom Monaghan made contributions to wages when they graduate. We need column. You will be sorely missed. Arts Editor anti-abortion groups, the Review someone who believes this election is Jennifer Wori,ck 1 Assistant Editor Matthew Lund Letters to the Ed itor Associate Publishers Vicky Frodel Ryan Schreiber
The La La Legacy Personnel Manager I understand the disappointment you ex progressive position; denounce all others, Tom Roelofs John Miller press in your February 1989 editorial and argue their position to its extreme so as Engineering 1978 C'Living in La La Land") about how far the not to be outdone in espousing the virtuous Executive Assistant Michigan Daily Opinion Page is oul of point of view. Dana Miller touch with the everyday University of For example, 12 years ago the campus Michigan student, because it was the same Palestinian groups were on their own. The Is the Review Improving? Production Assistant way when I attended the University of so-called progressive students largely The Michigan Review is definitely im Rannie O'Halloran Michigan in the mid-1970s. considered them pariahs who had the gall proving. Your February 1989 issue fairly Back then as well, the Daily had no to support terrorists. The Daily did not oozed editorial equilibrium. The straight, Editor Emeritus grass- roots support. It was nothing but the even know how to spell "Palestinians," informational stuff was excellent. Overall, Seth Klukoff expression of an elitist clique of intellec much less editorialize on their behalf. But in fact, the only things I reacted violently to tual snobs who felt that the more radical now that the Daily has been informed that were the lame cartoon accompanying the Stall their position was on a given issue, the the Palestinian cause is an acceptable part book review ("Storming the Ivory Tower") Ian Beilin, Mark Binelli, Karen Brink more intellectual, moral, and beyond re of the progressive agenda, they can tell us and the patently stupid "Liberal Arts" rep man, Mark Brodson, Judy Cheng, proach that position must necessarily be. all we need to know about the Palestinian resentative pictured on the cover in a tacky Rick Dyer, Annette Elert, Brian In their view, there was no need to explain issue with absolute certainty. They have early-1970s shawl. To be taken seriously, Gambs, Stephen George, Ash Jain, it to the drifting masses who were neither given their full and unqualified support to I should not have to tell you, you must take Jeffrey Leiman, Ajay Mehrotra, Peler intelligent nor compassionate enough to the struggle, complete with compassion your readers seriously. Miskech, Chris Moore, Carol Nahra, comprehend. Possibly the worst example and moral indignation, and the campus Your Michigan Daily-bashing is more Jim Ouevaere, Belinda Pelt, Lisa of this attitude was their comparison of Palestinian groups have gone from wall pointed, and it seems like you really do Perczak, Brian Portnoy, Dan then-President Gerald Ford to Adolf flower to homecoming queen of the "sen want to help resolve some campus issues Shonkwiler, Perry Shorris, John Tran Hitler. sitive" elite. Meanwhile, we drifting instead of adding fuel to the fires of rheto sue, Elisabeth Weinstein, Bob Wier In addition, I see they still cannot grasp masses are still pondering the immense, ric. You have obviously done some of the enga, Chau-Ye Wu the concept of an issue having more than and often perplexing, historical, political, growing up which you prescribe for the one side worth considering. Rather, they religious, and strategic questions involved Daily, but not all of it. There are still a few The Michigan Review is an independ ascertain which is currently the acceptable in the matter. ugly kinks to work out, such as irrelevant ent, non-profit student journal at the I. . What makes the Daily's pontifications name-calling ("neo-hippie," "La La Land") University of Michigan. We welcome all the more sickening is the way its mem and shamelessly rehashing certain campus letters and articles and encourage StM-Letters to the bers are often intimidated into taking their fiascoes (President James Duderstadt's comments about the journal and issues Editor to: one-sided position by campus pressure inauguration, the 1988 Martin Luther King discussed in it. We are not affiliated groups. They could not consider another Day). with any political party. Our address side of some issues if they wanted to, for In other words, your generally admirable is: fear of violating the wrong party's sacred views are way ahead of your persuasive IThe Michigan Review! cow. Thus, their opinions are too often writing,skills. Cut the propaganda and you Suite One arrived at by default-with all other con mighffind,yourselves with a disarmingly 911 North University Suite One siderations having been censored-in lucid anq progressive following (n .b.: that Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109 stead of by the free and open exercise of is not a paradox). (313) 662-1909 911 North Un~verrity thought nn Arbor, M1481(J9 Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Andy Shaver Copyright 1989 indeed. LSA Junior • Xi'ta lI(_l:«n W\&at~/ol<~&~>~~'I~~W"">,IJf'_"'"h>
The Michigan Review March 1989 3
From the Editor
MSA's Presidential Challenge
Two years ago, Seth Klukoff, my prede strate a willingness to work with, rather Furthermore, the next president should those students whose disenchantment with cessor as editor-in-chief of the Michigan than against, the administration. He should try to make MSA more prudent with its student government is the least ingrained Review, ran unsuccessf ull y for president of also refrain from one of the most divisive finances. Instead of feeling obligated, as it and who have the most arnount of time left the Michigan Student Assembly. He was antics of the current president: the shout does now, to give away extra funds it has at in theircoilegecareers to become involved seeking, in part, to reform a student gov ing down of dissenting representatives. the end of the academic year, MSA should in campus politics. The next president emmentconsidered by many to be ineffec Likewise, he should not spend his time save its money for the following year's could also meet periodically with the lead tive and unrepresentative of the student labeling students "apathetic leeches" (see budget. MSA could then lower its fee ers of various student groups to get feed body. Since that election, not much has the Ann Arbor News, Feb. 24, 1989) be request to the Board of Regents. Although back and exchange ideas. improved at MSA. If anything, the situ cause they have shown a lack of interest in this savings would have a negligible im MSA will only become a credible and ation has deteriorated. In fact, a number of MSA. Rather, he should playa positive pact on students' pocketbooks, it would effective student government if these or articles that have appeared in this and other role and encourage students to become improve MSA' s credibility by demonstrat similar steps are taken. Hopefully, students publications illustrate that a growing more active in campus politics. ing that the Assembly can exercise self will elect the presidential can~idate who is number of students, as well as The next president should also lead restraint. MSA representatives would also most willing to accept this challenge. administrators, have given up on the belea MSA in addressing only those issues that be in a better position to criticize the ad guered Assembly. However, MSA could concern and directly affect students. He ministration for not cutting its own costs. still be saved. But to do so, the next should convince the Assembly to refrain In a4dition, the next president should president, who will be elected this month, from addressing national and international work to increase student awareness of, as ~~ must make some major changes. issues, except those that are education well as participation in, student govern To begin, the next president must em related' such as federal financial aid pro ment. Shortly after taking office, he should brace what some past MSA presidents grams. Then, MSA could concentrate on hold at least one formal Assembly meeting Marc Selinger is a junior in political have often rejected: diplomacy. He should issues, such as tuition and the quality of or informal gathering in each dorm. Since science and the editor-in-chier or the throwaway the "Duderstadt Is Illegal" classroom instruction, in which all stu dorms are populated mostly by underclass Michigan Review. signs and the kangaroo outfits and demon- dents share an interest. men, MSA would be able to reach out to ,------, I I Yes! I want to support the Michigan Review! I : Here's my tax-deductible contribution to help sustain the Univer I sity of Michigan's independent campus affairs journal. I under· Contents I stand that with my contribution of $15 or more, I will receive a lone year's subscription to the Review. I Serpent's Tooth 2 i I am enclosing: Letters to the Editor 2 From the Editor 3 I $15 $25 $50 $100 From Suite One: Editorials 4 1- --- I Coyer Story-Electjop '89 _$250 - $500 _$1,000 Other Review Forum PIRGIM ... Just Say No!, by Jeff Johnson 5 MSA Under Fire, by Brian Gambs 6 Make checks payable to "The Michigan Review" Interviews with the Mayoral Candidates, by Belinda Pelt 7
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The Michigan Review 4 March 1989
From Suite One: Editorials
The New Segregation
In his famous 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, Shon, in his essay "A 'New' Campus Racism?" eloquently ~escribes the dangers of "I have a dream that one day ... little black boys and little black girls will be able to join segregation. He writes, "The dogma of cultural separateness ... will in fact heighten mutual hands with little white boys and linle white girls as brothers and sisters." Yet, 25 years suspicion and hostility among Americans of different races and ethnic backgrounds." later, his dream appears in danger of being abandoned. The movement toward integration, The doctrine of voluntary segregation that many minority groups on campus have which became a dominant force in the 1960s, has been replaced by the voluntary adopted must be abandoned if they ever hope to effectively combat racism. Equal access, segregation of the 1980s. And nowhere is this new conception of racial relations more not preferential treatment, should be the vehicle to achieving a society free of mali gnant evident than on our nation's college campuses, including the University of Michigan. raciallensions. Only through integration will King's dream oc realized, At the U-M, blacks and other minorities have taken advantage of exclusive student groups and services, such as an Afro-American studies program, a black fraternity system, minority counseling offices, minority lounges, minority peer advisers in many of the residence halls, and even a "Diversity Day" dedicated to celebrating the U-M's multicultural atmosphere. While the proponents of these ideas may have good intentions, they are promoting what many perceive as the frightening belief that blacks should not demean themselves by interacting with whites. As Shelby Steele, a well-known black educator, writes in the February edition of Harper's Magazine, "In this formula , black becomes the very color of entitlement, an extra right in itself, and a very dangerous grandiosity is promoted in which blackness amounts to specialness." Nevertheless, the push for self-segregation continues. Several minority groups, including the Black Student Union, are currently demanding the establishment of a black student lounge, an idea which seems reminiscent of an outdated era when segregation was the law, and assimilation was the unrealized ideal. Minority groups are not the only ones promoting this exclusionary agenda. The Michigan Student Assembly recently decided to fund in full a 519,000 national "students of color" conference, which will include many sessions that white students will nocbe allowed to attend. At the same time, MSA ignored the fact that most of the conference's funding comes from white students. This makes MSA look as if it is endorsing the idea of separatism as well as ignoring the interests of the student body a'\ a whole. Moreover, if MSA were to fund a conference that admitted only whites, the Assembly would undoubtedly be viewed as racist, and deservedly so. MSA 's decision to sponsor an event which excludes white.s because of their skin color deserves a similar evaluation. Events which discriminate against any sector of the campus population are also detrimental to the entire civil rights movement. A minority community that wishes to be respected and treated fairly by the majority must agree to live within a macrocosm of varying ideas, values, and cultures, not within a microcosm of unilateral design. Thomas The Angela Davis Minority Student Lounge in Mary Markley Dormitory
Trim the Fat
The University of Michigan's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, deal of money is being lost because of heating systems that sometimes work too well. Many Charles Vest recently announced that he will be setting up a special task force by next fall dorm rooms become so hot that residents actually leave their windows open during the to examine ways of cuuing unnecessary costs. Considering that the cost of attending the winter months. Each year, South Quad and Bursley alone account for nearly $275,000 in U-M continues to grow at a much faster rate than inflation, this plan is a laudable one. heating costs. But it should have come sooner. The task force should also consider the enormous expense of removing the multitude Millions of unrecoverable dollars have already been spent on wasteful projects. For ~Uyers that plaster campus sideWalks. The U-M could cut down on some of this cost by instance, over the past two summers, the U-M spent $1 million renovating the West and constrllcting more kiosks or perhaps installing electronic billboards similar to the ones in South Quadrangle cafeterias. While some new equipment was justified,luxuries such as the*basement of Angell Hall. Campus organizations would then have an alternative to neon signs were not. Also, an incredible $500,000 was spent last fall renovating the postering sidewalks, subsequendy saving the U-M thousands of dollars in cleanillg ices. president's house. _. The creation of this task force is undoubtedly a step in the' right direction. Any While it is too late to recover the money SpeJlt on these projects, there are still many reduction in costs win be greatly appreciated by students attending the most expensive areas where the task force can help eliminate wasteful expenditures. For example, a great state-funded school in the country. ... .AltiJ~j"'t ~~~V:'> ""'*'~" '''''''"'''''','''','''-:''''''''' ~'
The Michigan Review March 1989 5
Cover Story: Review Forum
PIRGIM • • • Just Say No!
However, if you did not want PIRGIM to doing something without your consent. tem or waste their time trying to figure it TIw opllliollsGpmSed ift fhis guest get your money, you would have to obtain Yet that is just what PIRGIM is doing by out. editorial do Dot Dfcessarlly and complete a refund application. You forcing students to either give them money PIRGIM is preying upon apathy and represent those 01 the Miclaipn would still pay the $2 fee, but it would be or spend time filling out their refund confusion and sacrificing your rights in the R .el'}ew editorial board. refunded to you at a later date. application. PIRGIM will argue, as it has process. It is interesting to note how hypo The negative refund scheme is similar to in the past, that it will only take a minute of critically Ralph Nader. the founder of the by Jeff Johnson a Book of the Month Club membership in your time to fill out the refund application PIRGs. reacted when he was confronted Last year, students at the University of which you are sent a book to purchase each if you want your money back, and with the negative refund system which Michigan voted down a ballot proposal by month unless you send the club a notice by therefore it is no big deal. BUl PIRGIM is PIRGIM would like to foist upon us. For PIRGIM (the Public Interest Research a certain time. :fhe only difference be wrong. It is a big deal. It does not matter mer Nader associate David Sanford, in his Group in Michigan) to assess each student tween this and PIRGIM's system is thal how long it takes to fill out the refund book Me and Ralph : Is Nader Unsafe for a 7S cent fee per term through a negative one can choose to join the Book of the application; it is the principle that matters. America? wrote, .. A young woman assist refund system. If it had been approved, this Month Club, while U-M students will be A student should not be obligated to ing Ralph in his auto safety wprk who was system would have obligated each student forced to comply with PIRGIM's negative expend any resources whatsoever on an bothered that Nader would lli!ver answer to pay the fee unless he completed a refusal refund system if its proposal passes in the organization if he chooses not to. It is any of her memos hatched a negative form. During the election campaign, option scheme of her own. She wrote PIRGIM claimed that without the funds Ralph about some now forgotten malter, generated by this fee, they would "die" and The mission of the university is to educate 'Unless I hear from you otherwise. I'll as be forced to leave campus. Well, get out sume this is o.k.' Nader replied quickly your wallet. Even though PIRGIM did not students and not to act as a collection and angrily with a phone call to her associ get its funding scheme passed, the group is agency for a state-wide politicaZZobbying ale, Lowell Dodge, 'I do not and will not amazingly still alive and soliciting student run my life on the Book of the Month Club dolJars. However, this year its appetite has organization. System.'" . grown and it wants to take $2 of your Fellow students, send PIRGIM the'mes money each term. sage on election day that they should fol PIRGIM is Michigan's version of the March MSA elections. apparent that PIRGIM feels that you as a low the advice of their founder and not try national public interest groups that were So what reasons do students have for student should not have that right to to run our lives by the Book of the Month started in the early 1970s by consumer opposing PIRGlM's ballot proposal in the choose. System. On March 21 and 22, vote against advocate Ralph Nader. The function of upcoming election? One reason is that the PIRGIM, as a student group, has access PIRGIM's negative refund proposal. these PIRGs is to influence legislation U-M is a state institution funded by to the same funding mechanisms em through lobbying and litigation in pursuit taxpayers' dollars. The mission of the uni ployed by other campus groups, yet it re Jeff Johnson is a senior in electrical of an agenda which , they claim, is in the versi ty is to educate students and not to act fuses to use them . Its Ius! for money is so engineering and a candidate for MSA on "public interest." as a collection agency for a state-wide great that it is willing to sacrifice each the Conservative Coalition ticket. He is These public interest groups, including political lobbying organization. The voters student's rights in order to gain a few extra also the director of STAFF (Students PIRGIM, often use the claim that they are of the state of Michigan never requested dollars. Its proposed negative funding Against Forced Fees), a group formed to "pro-environment" or acting in the "public that the U-M take on this function for system would exploit those students who oppose PIRGIM's negative funding interest" in an attempt to neutralize any PIRGIM. accidentally forgot to fill out the refund system. criticism of them or their funding methods. Another reason for opposing the pro application, or did not understand the sys- They even use these claims in anempt to posal is that PIRGIM is not entitled to any justify special treatment or funding sys more privileges than other campus groups. tems for their group such as the negative Allowing PIR G1M to use a negati ve refund refund system. However, the fact that funding system to the exclusion of all other GIVE ME MONEY PIRGIM is an actor in the political arena campus groups implies that the U-M in and is taking positions on issues which some way favors this group over all others. have at least two sides makes it quite clear It lends a credibility and acceptability to OR I WILL DIE that they are not working in the public PIRGIM which no other campus political interest any more than other politicalJy group receives. oriented campus groups. They may be The most important reason to oppose working in what they claim is the "public PIRGIM's funding proposal is the very WHO SAID THIS? interest," but to that extent so is every other nature of the negative funding system it campus group. Therefore, PIRGIM is no self. At no time will you be offered the more immune to criticism or entitled to option of refusing to participate in special privileges than any other campus PIRGIM's funding scheme. You have to a. Oral Roberts group. "play their game" whether you want to or Most students' primary quarrel with nOL PIRGIM is in effect saying to you, b. PIRGIM PIRGIM is not necessarily with the group "We are going to take your money unless itself; rather it is with its proposed funding you take action to prevent us from doing , c. All of the above through the negative refund system. The so." Whatever happened to PIRGIM solic h negative refund funding system which iting for donations like any other campus PIRGIM wishes to enact would work in the group? Why should students bear the bur STOP THE"PIRGIM FEE following manner. Each term when you den of stopping PIRG 1M from taking their register for classes, you would pay a $2 fee money? No student group has the right to to PIRGIM through your tuition bill. take your money or have y~u spend time An anti·PIRGIM flier. . ' ~'_~""'~'_'""'1.'_",... 'ik_~~ ·"""""'Wo\ ~"-4'''.'... '«\ ..... ,I. ~~'' 1\\jJo'~~,~ ,, ,>J...' 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The Michigan Review 6 March 1989
Cover Story: Pre-election Analysis MSA Under Fire
by Brian Gambs The Michigan Student Assembly is in regents increased MSA's fee by the sub not confined to diag boards and student decisions directly affecting students. And, the public spotlight more than most other inflation amount of 3 cents per student, newspapers; some students who have And, if MS A is not heard when it speaks on campus organizations. But frequently, the while they doubled the fee students pay to attended MSA meetings believe that student issues, it cannot fulfill its purpose publicity MSA receives reflects students' their school and college governments. The Constituents' Time does not represent a of representing students. discontent with the Assembly's regents have recently threatened to defund sincere effort by representatives to find out Many representatives believe that MSA performance. And as if on cue, the regents MSA entirely if it does not take certain what their constituents are thinking. One is ineffective in other ways. Bell says, are warning MSA to change its ways, or steps, including talking with the Student Assembly member has referred to "MSA completely fails to serve student face defunding or outright abolition. The Organization Development Council. Constituents' Time as "MSA's greatest needs on this campus. It is run so poorly possibility that MSA will be dissolved Many students, both members and non weapon." Many believe that the entire that it fails to command any respect from presents students at the University of members of the Assembly, feel that process is slanted against students who virtually any group on this campus. It has Michigan with the alarming prospect that MSA's problems lie in three major areas: bring their concerns to the Assembly fallen into such disfavor that it cannot the student body as a whole will have no communication with students, the ability because students are unable to question perfonn its function. It is g,~nerally ~ waste voice in campus affairs, because although of the Assembly to perform its function, representatives, while representatives are of money." Over the Pltst year, ; many every school and college at the U-M has its and MSA's political composition, Few allowed to grill constituents. Williams student groups were denied MSA funding own government, only MSA is designed to MSA representatives feel that it is says that he has seen representatives "just because Assembly members did not represent the entire campus. » believe they had enough money to support :l ,-'<, :l everyone who deserved funding. But many people accuse MSA of being \--.. ~ out of control, and out of touch with the f;; fa n Recently, an audit discovered $83,000 that tTl student body. Glenn Kotcher, an LSA ~ MSA is now trying to spend before the end .::::. junior and a vice president of the College ::c of the year. The money is now essentially being given away "wholesale." According RepUblicans, says, "MSA does not '"§" represent the wishes of a majority of the " to Bell, this is a typical example of MSA' s students." LSA senior and former MSA complete lack of fi scal comPetence. Representative Bryan Case says, "MSA is William s thinks that much of the prohlem controlled by a self-proclaimed elite is in the way MSA conducts business. He cQmpletely convinced of its own says that "if MSA's function is debating righteousness, willing to do anything to useless things and not gelling to the heart of retain power." the maller, then it fulrill s its function, I fits These two students do not appear to be function is representing student interests isolated cases. Concern that MSA has and concerns, it docs not. " Hayes agrees chosen an agenda that does not include the that there arc problems with MSA , but interests of a majority of students has points out that "there arc problems with frequently resulted in protest by segments any large bureaucracy ." of the student body . Last year the The bureaucmtic nature of MSA may Engineering Council circulated a petition well be a large part of the problem. One calling for secession from MSA. The Michigan Student Assembly phenomenon commonly attributed to According to Engineering junior Aaron bureaucracies is that people working Williams, an MSA representative and a succeeding in its attempts to communicate fry people." Williams also says that within them lose sight of ovemll goals as member of the Council, the petition drive with the student body. MSA Assembly members generally do not listen they attempt to advance the priorities of occurred partly as a result of the election of Representative Heidi Hayes, an LSA during Constituents' Time, and many, their own small committces or offices. LSA senior Mike Phillips to the presidency junior, says that there is "a lack of including Phillips, leave without even Some people feel that MSA is of MSA. According to Williams, most communication between MSA and the making a pretense of listening. experiencing these kinds of problems in its Engineering students "could not believe" students. MSA receives bad publicity, The ability of MSA to communicate budgetary process. Murray says that the he had been elected, and did not feel he basically through the MichiganDaily. I do with students, and the respect, or lack way money is allocated to student groups is would represent the interests of engineers. not think that the student body knows what thereof, received by the Assembly as a "inefticient", and adds that "there should The petition was also partly a reaction to a MSA is doing." Williams says, "MSA result, has a direct bearing on the influence be more regulation." protest sponsored by MSA for the benefit rarely takes that first step to talk to of MSA and its ability to perform its job. In fact, MSA does not check to see if the of minorities. According to Williams, who students." Julie Murray, an LSA sophomore and money it allocates is being spent as it is is black, the protest was not supported by This semester, MSA launched a chair of the MSA Student Rights supposed to be. Of MSA's roughly Sl minority students on campus and became publicity drive in an attempt to Committee, says, "Our number one million annual budget, about 50 percent is "a fiasco ." communicate directly with the student problem is a lack of respect from students allocated to two organizations. Student Displeasure with MSA is not limited to body. The campaign included posting and the administration. MSA' s power is in Legal Services and the Ann Arbor Tenants engineering students. According to Rob bulletin boards and placing centerpieces in the number of students that support it, and Union. Despite the huge amount of Bell, an LSA junior and an MSA dormitory dining halls, both with the right now, I do not think that students do." funding the two groups receive from MSA, representative, "The Engineering Council slogan "MSA: Students Working For Howttyer, Murray does feel that an audit has never been performed to check is not alone in its disgust with MSA. Other You" printed on them. Williams says that "commun~tion is getting better." if the money they receive from the groups are similarly upset. But the the drive has been "ineffective." Mean,while the administration and the Assembly is being spent properly. engineers are not as apathetic when it According to MSA Representative James regents do not appear to believe that the Inefficient bureaucracies often have comes to taking action." McBain, an LSAjunior, "We are doing as students have respect for their own bloated operating costs, and the Assembly The Board of Regents has also made much as we can to improve our outreach, government, and as a result, it is not is no exception. MSA spends about public its disappointment with MSA's but it is just not enough." surprising that they have become less $156,000 annually on offices, recent performance. Last summer, the MSA's communication problems are willing to listen to MSA when making cOlltinued 011 page 11 t , t t 'It( !Wlt~~4!i"_i~~1\o,~')I.Af~'A"'''''''';~·\ '>1,i,;.'",w w.~c~,''-',.~ " . ,
The Michigan Review March 1989 7
--Cover Story: Interviews with the Mayoral Candidates Mayor G. Jernigan Ray Clevenger
when I was first on the City Council, and ment. I would try to pick up where the for the last couple of years we have worked Citizens Comminee left off 10 years ago real hard together. We hired a new city [in developing] a proposal to set upa shred administrator on a bipartisan basis and we der and some recycling efforts. did it in a very open process on television. I think Ann Arbor is one of the most We have also had racism training. We wealthy of cities. It has immense amounts have done some other fairly significant of human resources and knowledge as well things. We have begun two very signifi as fairly affluent taxpayers. For instance, cant housing projects-one is a single we have some of the country' 5 outstanding room occupancy facility downtown on top engineers in our midst, and I WOUld, in of the 'Y,' and the other is 240 units of '- addition to utilizing city employees them badly needed single-family housing units selves, try to use these experts to layout out on Packard StreeL short-, middle-, and long-range plans to I have also initiated a series of regular tell us where we are at. I think we are going discussions with both the university and to finally have to recognize that we ~nnot the townships that we did not have before. keep ruining our environment. . This I think I have a very good record to run on, landfill question has been coming on for and I am pleased with where we are at. the last 15 years. It has become particularly There are a few problems, but I think that acute in the last two years, and nothing has we can work them out. been done about it.
On Monday, Feb. 20, Review staffer REVIEW: What would be your main On Monday, Feb. 20, Re~'iew stalTer REVIEW: What would you do to im Belinda Pett, a senior in history and priorities if reelected mayor? Belinda Pelt interviewed Raymond F. proye housing, especially for students? political science, interviewed Clevenger, the Democratic candidate Republican Mayor Gerald D. Jernigan, JERNIGAN: I think the solid wasteprob for mayor. Clevenger currently prac CLEVENGER: I would suggest that the' who is seeking re-election to a second lem has to top the list of things that we have tices law in Ann Arbor and has served as university build 2000 to 3000 more units. two-year term. Before becoming to work on. We simply have to find solu commissioner of the Michigan Corpora The university should provide the housing mayor, Jernigan represented the 4th tions to where we are go in g to put the tions and Securities Commission (1961- that is necessary for the students. It need Ward on the Ann Arbor City Council garbage and solid waste material in the 1963), U.S. Representative from not be dormitory housing . The university, (1982-1987). He has also served as a city. As I have said, we do have a plan for Michigan's 11th District (1965-1967), presumably, should be working with the member (1983-1985) and chairman that and it is just a matter of now moving and chairman of the Great Lakes Basin private Se{;tof within Ann Arbor to see if (1984-1985) of the Zoning Board of ahead to implement the plan, getting the Commission (1967-1968). the private sector can assist the university. Appeals and as a member of the Plan financing in place, and establishing the So, that is a university problem. ning Commission (1982-1983). priorities. REVIEW: What would be your main Jernigan currently works as a senior Crime is also an area that we have to priorities if elected mayor? REVIEW: Lately, the $5 fine ror the investment analyst at the University of constantly work on and try to deal with as possession of marijuana has become an Michigan. best we can. CLEVENGER: The budget crunch, the issue. Do you consider the fine to be an landfill, and cutting down on crime in the adequate penalty for possession of mari REVIEW: What have been your major REVIEW: Why should the people of campus area and in the city. juana? Hnot, what would you suggest as accomplishments as mayor? Ann Arbor reelect you when the city is an alternative? facing a budget deficit under your REVIEW: If elected, how would you JERNIGAN: I think there are several ac administration? And ir reelected, how solve the city's budget deficit problems? CLEVENGER: There is a group in town tually . We have worked real hard to get the would you solve the city's budget prob popularly referred to as the Tom Mon rate of increase in crime down substan lems? CLEVENGER: We would raise money aghan-Millie 5chembechler group that tially in town. Two years ago, when I was by increasing the fees paid for the cost of has raised the question. The group was said elected to office, it was up 17 percent. Last JERNIGAN: The budget problem is one the city services. We would try to collect, to have conducted a survey showing the re year, it was up 2 percent to 3 percent, and that was not caused by my administration. through a moratorium on the parking tick lationship between the minimal fine for the this year we expect it to be about the same. It has been caused by the people who were ets, a considerable sum of money. We possession of marijuana and drug abuse. I So, we are working on those problems, and in control. I have been mayor for two would try to collect the unpaid property would like to see that. I am not convinced we are being successful. We have also years, and for three of the last four years, taxes, the personal property taxes and that thathas been demonstrated. I just have added police over the course of time. the other party has actually been in control. debts that are owed to the city. I would not not seen it. In the area of solid waste, [Councilman] They have had a majority on the City set aside the Hedley Amendment and JeffEpton [D-3rd Ward] and I were the two Council. We just took over in April. When would not want the property owners to REVIEW: What would you do for the councilmen who started the solid waste we did that, we started asking a lot of have their taxes increased as is being pro University of Michigan if elected? task force. That task force has come up questions about the budget. [We are now posed by the incumbent with a strategy that says that the city ought considering] leaving positions vacant, CLEVENGER: I think the city may al to get into recycling, composting, waste leaving some capital equipment REVIEW: ijpw would you try to im ready be overextending itself in trying to reduction, and a waste-as-fuel option. expenditures unfilled, and the other thing prove Ann A~bor tnvironmental condi help the university. The university does Clearly some sort of recycling program that we would like the voters to do is pass tions in general,llnd deal with the issue or not need the direct help of the city as much will be needed and we will do that. a modified H~ley Amendment. Now, my the landfill in particular? as the city needs to have the university pay One of the other major things that I have done is to get rid of a lot of the partisan Continued on page 11 CLEVENGER: The landfill specifically Continued on page 11 bickering and complaining that went on has to be negotiated with the state govern- ---- ,. ,~~
The Michigan Review 8 March 1989
Campus Affairs: Academics Is There Grade Inflation?
by Ajay Mehrotra Over the past few decades, colleges and number of Yale seniors graduating with Those who argue that the rash of "A" noticed that while the GPAs of people universities around the country have seen a honors to the top 30 percent. Before pas grades has devalued excellence often point accepted into this national honor society steady rise in grade point averages. Many sage of the resolution, which goes into to the "gentleman's 'C''' being replaced by has increased in the pasl30 years, the GPA educators and administrators question effect for the 1989 graduating class, close the "gentleman's 'B'." Others disagree. required for selection has been the same for whether this grade inflation has resulted to 50 percent of Yale's seniors were gradu "The gentlemanly 'C' is a mythic beast like several years. . from better students or relaxed grading ating with honors. "The idea of half of the the unicorn," says Professor H.D. U-M Assistant Registrar Douglas standards. class graduating with honors did not seem Cameron of the Great Books program. A Wooley attributes grade inflation to a At the University of Michigan, the like much of a distinction," said Meeske. U-M alumnus and professor for 30 years, number of causes. According to Wooley , average student grade point average has "It became almost a lack of honor not to get Cameron believes that grades have not GPAs at the U-M went through their great· increased from 2.61 in 1958 to 3.02 last honor." changed much over the years. He asserts est rise in the 1960s, but have maintained year. The percentage of class honors Some professors at the U-M have de that people fall back on a "good-ole-days their present level since the mid-1970s. awarded has also risen . At the 1958 tected this grade inflation. U-M history mythology" when they compare the past "There certainly was gr.lde intlation in the Honors Convocation, about 5 percent of Professor Bradford Perkins has noticed with the present. "It has always been th e late-1960s and early-1970s," says the eligible students recei ved class honors. that although high school preparation has case," says Cameron, "that the easy-going, Wooley. "It was ge~erally a more liberal Last year, 10 percent earned such become less satisfactory over the years, he amiable student would be safe getting by period. People were against grading distinctions. has been giving bener grades. "Maybe it is with just a 'C'." policies. They questioned th e importance The trend of rising grades at the U-Mhas a psychological adjustment. Students have According to Cameron, the rise in of classes and requirements . But since been less significant than at other schools been coming less prepared, so we have average GPAs has come about not because about the end of 1975 , grade inflation has such as Dartmouth College and the Univer overcompensated by giving better grades." of relaxed grading standards, but because not been a problem ." sity of Chicago, where average GPAs have Perkins adds that grades often vary from the admission process has become more Wooley adds that what little change may risen close to a full letter -grade in the past department to department. "In history selective. "If we select 'A' and 'B' stu have occurred in the past decade or so 30 years. there is inevitably a large subjective factor dents, we can expect them [0 get those could be a result of "better caliber stu And even though average grades have in grading. Sometimes it is difficult to grades here. A criterion of selection will den ts" and the influence of financial aid. risen at the U-M, they are still low com decide between what qualifies as a 'C+' or yield a GPA that is built into it." "With financial aid, s tudenL~ can spend pared to other universities . At Stanford 'B-' essay." While most professors and dean s seem more time on th eir stud ies" an ti w(my less to agree that average grades have increased about having to work their way through since the 1950s, many also believe that this school, sa ys Wooley. At the University of Michigan, the average tendency has leveled off in th e recent past. Although it appears that grade inflation Biology Professor Emeritus Norman is no longer the "crisis" it once wa~ at the student's grade point average has increased Kemp suggests that a lenient grading sys U-M, a consensus has yetta be reached to tem may have caused the initial risco explain why average grades arc higher from 2.61 in 1958 to 3.02 last year. "There may have been a relaxation in the today than the y were in the past. 'C' category," says Kemp. '''C's may have University and Yale University, about 40 Comparing the present situation with his been pushed up to 'B 's and 'B+' s up to the Ajay Mehrotra is a sophomore in LSA percent of the grades received every undergraduate days at Harvard University, 'A' level." Kemp, who is also the secretary and a starT writer for the Revjew. semester are "A" grades. Both schools Perkins observes that although on Iy a small of the local Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has acknowledge that their students average number of students actually approach him around a 3.3 on a 4.0 scale. According to about grades, students today are generally Yale Registrar John Meeske, Yale has not more grade conscious then they used to be. given less than 40 percent "A" grades in "When I went to school, it was tough to go Be a Part of any year since 1978. This high proportion through four years and not get a 'C' ," he of "A" grades has prompted Yale's faculty says. "Now students worry that an 'A-' to pass a resolution last year limiting the will keep them out of law school." the Michigan Review.
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The Michigan Review Match 1989 9
Campus Affairs: Academics
Julius Lester: Rebel with a Cause
by John Miller At first glance, Julius Lester appears to condemned New York City for its ethnic Jackson might not be beneficial to blacks. be a living contradiction. He is black, and composition, Lester accused Baldwin of Thomas Neumann, executive vice he is Jewish. This unusual combination of unintentionally making an anti-Semitic president ofB 'nai B 'rith International, in a race and religion has contributed to his re statement, although he pointed out that letter to the New York Times, accused markable story, which has recently created Baldwin was not an anti-Semite. "demagogues" of "blacklisting a thinker." an enonnous amount of controversy. and After the incident, the other 15 faculty He added, "We are all losers, when rigid raised many questions concerning race, members of the U-Mass Afro-American party line standards be.come the basis for religion, and scholarship. Studies Department endorsed a statement academic thought and speech, and political Lester visited Ann Arbor's B'nai B'rith labeling Lester "the anti-Negro Negro" loyalty tests are penniaed to stifle free ex Hillel Foundation on Feb. 7, and spoke, of ang calling for his removal from the depart pression in the United States," his conversion to Judaism and the many di menl, primarily for his "deliberate misrep Lester responded to the charges by his lemmas that arise from being both black resentation" of Baldwin, former black colleagues in "W~n Black and Jewish: Professor Charles Davis, the department Unity Works Against Critical Inquiry," an Lester is the son of a Methodist minister, chainnan, told the Amherst Bulletin, "We essay in which he indicted black academia, and as a youth in the Midwest and South, have nothing against his Judaism .... [Blut scolded the narrow-mindedness of many he was continually saturated with religion. when one develops a vicious attitude to of its leaders, and accused it of fostering He had a true love for the Old Testament, ward blacks and black organizations, "an intellC(tual climate that confuses but secretly doubted much of what he was Jackson, Baldwin, and civil rights, there is criticism with assault" taught in church. some question as to the appropriateness of The entire episode places the sacrosanct "Christianity did not speak with the his remaining in the department." ideas of black intelligentsia under a critical chilling truth of reality," he sqid at Hillel. Lester was eventually removed from the spotlight. Disturbing questions regard\ng Unknowingl y, Lester had embarked on a prestige and accolades. Today, he is the spiritual odyssey that was to 'last until only U-Mass faculty member to have re 1983, with his ultimate conversion to Juda ceived all three of the university's major ism. His journey was long and arduous, as awards: the Distinguished Teacher's Lester's career as a teacher ofAfro-Alneti he frequently changed religious loyalties Award, the Faculty Fellowship Award for can studies was destroyed because he had from his collegiate atheism to a general Distinguished Research and Scholarship, ized belief in God, and then to experimentS and the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer's the "audacity" to believe Jackson might not in Catholic mysticism and Native Ameri Award. Most recently, U-Mass gave can faiths. Lester a Chancellor's Medal, its highest be beneficial to blacks. As a leader of the civil rights movement, honor. Lester became a controversial figure in But Lester's success in academia did not 1968. At the age of 30, he penned Look remove him from the center of contro Afro-American Studies Department, the abilities of blacks to criticize their own Out. Whitey! Black Power's Gon: Gel versy. In 1979, members of the black com though he was given a full-time position in heritage and traditions, without immedi Your Morna! The same year, Lester was munity criticized him for writing "The the Judaic and Near-Eastern Studies Pro ately losing favor with their peers, inevita branded an anti-Semite by a large number Uses of Suffering," an essay for the Village gram, where he had previously taught blyarise. of Jewish organizations. Voice, in which he sided against blacks several courses and still works today. But during a question-and-answer ses The conflict arose over a radio call-in who held Jews responsible for Andrew This entire episode sparked widespread sion at Hillel, Lester seemed very comfort program Lester hosted on WBAI-FM in Young's departure as ambassador to the outrage in much of the academic commu~ able in rmding fault with Jackson. New York City. He encouraged a guest to United Nations. Young. presently mayor nity and among many Jewish leaders. "Even during the civil rights movement, read a poem written by a 14-year -old black of Atlanta, had met with representatives of Joseph Duffy, chancellor of the U-Mass, I was never fond of Jesse Jackson. I have school girl that began, "Hey Jew boy, with the Palestine Liberation Organization and called the incident a "dangerous, even never been able to trust him." said Lester. that yarmulke on your head/Y ou pale was antagonized by much of the Jewish ominous threat," that could potentially Lester also mentioned that Jackson faced Jew boy - I wish you were dead." community for doing so. extinguish freedom of thought and expres- could possibly threaten the well-being of Lester said his intentions were not belliger Even today, the controversy surround sion. blacks. ent and hoped the segment would simply ing ~ster continues. He has converted to In an essay on Lester in the Clev.eland "He is like a messianic figure, and that is be an effective lead into a discussion of Judaism and has criticized Louis Farra Jewish News, Rabbi Douglas Weber of very dangerous," he said. " When a large strained black-Jewish relations. Neverthe khan, leader of the Chicago-based Nation fered an analogy to explain the situation. group of people wrap all of their hopes up less, some members of the Jewish press ofIslam, for making anti-Semitic remarks. Weber said that if a professor of psychol into one individual, hopes are easily de were outraged. But Lester received But Lester has received the most trouble of ogy held the view that homosexuality is the • stroyed. We saw that happen 20 years ago enough support from much of the Jewish late for the publication of his latest boojc mark of arrested development or emo [to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]." community at large to salvage his Lovesong: Becoming a Jew. tional illness, his career could possibly be As long as Lester challenges the black reputation. The dispute centers around commet:lts ruined, due to the pervasive belief among . community by offering these and other In 1971. Lester joined the faculty of the Lester made in his book concerning black academic ,,,orthodoxy that a variety of controversial ideas, his position in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in author James Baldwin. When referring to sexual preferenCes is completely nonna!. limelight will most likely continue. the Afro-American Studies Department Baldwin's criticism of the media for re Likewise. Lester's career as a teacher of He has become known as an excellent porting the Rev. Jesse Jackson's infamous Afro-American studies was destroyed .. John Miller is a sophomore in LSA and teacher and acquired a great deal of "Hymietown" statement, in .whichJackson beeause he had the "audacity" to believe the personnel manager of the Re~'iew. --... ·.~'f:\'~"'~·'''~':O.vil~·Jt~~W\'' '''_'i''~ '''''''''''''''~·)'''·~'''','''"",,,~':m;L.>...... 1~·_... ~:.n~, ... ,·"" ~ .,~ ,...... """'..,,.,''"''' .,·''' ~ ....~ ,~...... '''.... . ·... ,· II ...... ' ...... , ,,,,,,, ..• •·. The Michigan Review 10 March 1989
Arts: Academic Affairs
At the Movies
by Mark Blnelll It was voted Best Picture of the Yearby shop that is considered one of the best in the the New York Film Critics' Circle. It has world, and Tsipora Trope, whose film ~'The idea at the U-M is to teach [film] stu also received several Oscar and Golden Berlin Tel Aviv won the Israeli equivalem Globe nominations. And hey, Siskel and of the Oscar for Best Screenplay and Best dents to understand what goes into the mak Ebert gave it two thumbs up, so it has to be Picture of 1988. quite a movie! Today, the bulk of the U-M's student ing offilm and to give them a strong liberal The film is The Accidental Tourist, but fIlmmaking is done in two graduate-level more significantly, the director is Law workshops taught by Professor Doug arts education." rence Kasdan, a University of Michigan Rideout. The best films are then entered in alumnus. Kasdan' s impressive list of films festivals, and all of them are displayed in a also includes Body Heat, The Big Chiil, popular showcase in April that is open LO - Professor Frank Beaver and Silverado. the public. Although Kasdan, who made his first During the fall tenD, students lake Intro- ' , film as a U -M graduate student in commu duction to 16mm Film Production, where 16mm Film Production, . ''Everything House in return for wonsorship. Student nication. is the most famous U-M alumnus they are divided into teams of about five Ieamed first tenn is applied with sound," filmmakers are often helpful to these working in Hollywood, many graduates members. Several short ftlrns are made, says Rideout This process is much more organi1ations because they are able to I from the U-M have succeeded in all facets with students taking tlDTlS at the different complex, ~ ~h team makes one 10 to 30 make a mm for $5,000, whereas a \ of filmmaking, from writing and editing to filmmaking roles of director, editor, pr0- minute fIlm. T~ are solidified by this cornrnetcial producer could charge up to t producing and directing. Some of the big ducer, and cinematogfapher. These early point, ~h member laking on a sel role. $50,000. I name films that U-M alumni have been films, which usually run between four and Specific projects are not assigned, and Also, according to Beaver, 'The spon I involved in include Top Gun, Trading seven minutes, are shot silently, with a Rideoul believes that students like this best sors are usually very pleased with the proj ! ! Places, Spies Like Us, and Michael soundtrack dubbed in later. about the course. "Students are given the ect because students put a lot more imagi I According LO Rideout, flfSt-tenn stu I - Jackson's Thriller video. But there have liberty to express their own ideas and to nation into them than a commercial,. pro- I also been many other lesser-known U-M dents are taught "both technical and aes develop their own projects without inter ducer would" success stories. such as Bob McKee. who thetic" skills of filmmaking; During the ference from the department," says Ride For most students, the films are well runs an international ~eenwriting work- winter term, in a course called Advanced out wonh the time and money they spend on .•..: " Students tum to the Department of them, and one way that they can be rc RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS Theater and Drama to find quality student warded is through film festivals. Although actors for their films. Professor Frank there are relatively few films being made Beaver, chainnan of the U-M Department on campus, students at the U-M generally of Communication, says that it can create do well in major festivals such as the Chi problems· "if you are having to deal with cago, Cleveland, and Dalla, Festivals. just your roommate because he is available "If they are good IIIms, the idca is they to you." can recoup their money through festival "If you get amateurs, they can behave prizes," says Beaver. and do what you tell them to do," says Beaver recalls Kasdan' s first fi 1m at th e Beaver, "but they do not always add the U-M. "IL was a very sophisticated rich little things that make for better tex docudrama about an English professor's tured, more interesting perfonnances." attitude IOward teaching and the power he Raising money can often prove to be holds when he gets a student in his office," more difficult than fmding actors. The he says. "A very eloquent Engli sh costs of these short mms can soar ~ high professor did an almost poetic voice-over YOUR FIRST STEP ~ $15,000 for a half-hour synchronized narration. The mm was very funny and l sound film. Students can often obtain fined with innuendo. It did very well in TOWARD SUCCESS IS m ONE YOU some of the money to produce their films festivals." from grants and scholarships, such ~ the The types of films !,hat one can expect COULD TAKE THIS SUMMER. Leo Burnett Scholarship. However, David from a today's students varies. Some stu Army ROTC Camp Challenge. Its exciting TheueJkorn, a graduate student in commu dents choose traditional documentaries or and it may be your last opportunity to grad nication and a teaching ~istant for Ride slraigbt nanatives. while others opt to uate with an Army Officer's commission. out. says that it is "getting harder to gel make more bizarre, experimental films. support at the university. The trend has According to Theuerlcom, "Everyone is gone more toward students or their parents learning. and people tend to experiment spending their own money, which is sad, while they are learning so they can express because some students just cannot afford their ideas differently than they see on the ABMYBOTC it" screen." Another way to obtain money is to seek The fIlms are also often used to get a TIE SMUTEST" COWGE from non-profit 0rganiza ~ip COUlSE YOU CD TIlE. foothold in the business. Professional tions. Students have chosen to make half production houses will want to see your Find Out More : Call Captain O'Rourke ~ docmnentaries for groups Suc".~ the Visit 131 North Hall or Call 764-2400 Humane Society. the Michigan Almus SeenaJpage Association, and the Ronald McDonald ~~~~~.l'>'If,"''''l~S:''\:'' 'I ' ;~''''''''';';''''''''';'! ··''''''~''''''''''''''''..$l !''' ''''\ ''~ ,' ' ', "~" """ " "" '''\'''''~'
The Michigan Review March 1989 11
Movies
Continued from previous page and make splices," says Rideout. "Stu 7- E; dents at other film sc hools learn the basics r. "reel." Beaver says, "They only watch two but what we are reall y concentrating on are :::l or three minutes but they can tell that you structural ideas, what it is about a film that r know what film continuity is and how to makes it different from anything else, and co construct ideas." what is the students place in the world of 2 ... ::::: film as opposed to everyone else that came Nevertheless, Theuerkorn feels that the ~ "~ . film industry is becoming more and more before him. " ;; inaccessible. "As far as feature filmmak One bright spot for student filmmakers is ing goes, it is starting to seem like you have the abundance of independent fi lmmaking to know somebody to get in . Nepotism going on today. "The business itself is runs wild in Holl ywood. People like Ste moving towards independent prOd uction ," ven Spielberg like to go back to their old says Theuerkorn. "There is a lot of produc schools and get people." tion go ing on in Michigan right now." Whereas the big-name film schools like So it seems that despite the lack of fund the University of Southern California and ing, the lack of size, and the lack of a name the University of California at Los Angeles like USC or UCLA, student filmmakers at concentrate on the technical aspects of the U-M are doing quite well . And who filmmaking, Beaver says that "the idea at knows? Perhaps someday, their films will the U-M is to teach students to understand be in contention for some of the highest what goes into the making of film and to awards in the film industry. And maybe, give them a strong liberal arts education." just maybe, they will even receive the Rideout sees another advantage in the U much-coveted "two thumbs up." M's system. "Students can synthesize their entire university experience via this Mark Binelli is a freshman in English Communication 630 students. L-R: Rob ChaWn (behind camera), Benjamin medium, as opposed to a film sc hool where and a staff writer for the Review. Fishkin, and Michael Edelstein. one would just learn how to thread cameras
Jernigan alternative? Clevenger bor? JERNIGAN : The 5S fin e has become a CLEVENGER: I think [it could be in continued from page 7 symbol across the country of Ann Arbor's Continued from page 7 volved in) the whole area of what I call liberalism. Maybe we need to put on the intergovernmental ag reements. For ex opponent says that we do not need to do ballot a law that increased the amount of its fair share of the costs of whatever serv ample, Ann Arbor there are three sepa that, but that would generate about the fine from 5S to 510 or SSO, or make it ices the university gets from the city. The rately owned but publicly owned bus sys $600,000 a year, and we need to make up a the same as it would be for alcohol. uni versity seems to take the position that tems: the Ann Arbor Transportation Au deficit in the current year of about $1.2 the city should somehow always be doing thority , the University of Michigan, and million. REVIEW: Do you think that raising the things for it, and to raise the question of the the public school system. There is a fourth line to something like $30, $40, or $50 is university paying its fair share is un bus system operated by Washtenaw REVIEW: What have you done during going to be a serious deterrent? friendly. County. 1 wonder why the public has to the past two years to improve housing, have four different bus systems? I also especially for students? JERNIGAN: No, I do not think the sizeof REVIEW: What could the University of think there are other areas that we might the fine, particularly with marijuana, will Michigan do to aid the city of Ann Ar- look into. JERNIGAN: In the past two years, we be a serious deterrent. What it will do is have redone a housing inspection program remove the stigma of this $S symbol which to upgrade the quality of housing. So, it is leads people to think that we are kind of going to students." inspected more frequently and a little more flaunting things. MSA Another source of controversy with rigorously than it had been in the past. continued from page 6 MSA is its consideration of non-campus Unfortunately, we have not been able to REVIEW: What have you done for the issues. Some criticize MSA for have any new housing constructed in the University of Michigan, and what would phones, supplies, and services. Bell esti representing only one side of campus student area A lot of new apartments have you do for the U-M if reelected? mates that as much of a third of this sum is views on international politics, and more gone up on the edge of town and we have pure waste that could be eliminated with importantly, wasting an enormous amount been told by the Apartment Owners Asso JERNIGAN: I have started to meet with out impairing the performance of the As of time on non-campus issues. Murray ciation that the rents are down and the university officials on a regular basis sembly. Overall, Bell estimates that if disagrees, saying that "about one in 20" of vacancy rates are up, or at least the rate of which is something that we have never MSA were to allocate its funds in ail effi the items on MSA' s agenda deals with off the increase in the rents is down. Housing done before. I have had an opportunity to cient manner and see to it that they were campus issues. McBain feels that "MSA does not seem to be as critical this time as meet with President James Duderstadt and used properly, it could triple the percent no longer is totally one-sided. There are it was a couple of years ago because of the talk about some of the common problems age of MSA ' s budget that goes directly views from all over the political number of new units we have in town. and goals that we have. back to student organizations without spectrum." On the other hand, Williams impairing theii\bJlity of any MSA-funded says, "Sometimes issues come up, and you REVIEW: Lately the $5 fine for the pos REVIEW: What kinds of topics have group to function as it does now. Bell have to wonder whose issues they are: the session of marijuana has become an is come up so far? estimates that o~ly about 7 percent of what students' or MSA 's?" sue. Do you consider the fine to be an MSA receives every year goes directly adequate penalty for possession of mari JERNIGAN: Basically, we talked about back to student organizations under the Brian Gambs is a freshman in LSA and juana? Unot, what do you suggest as an housing for students, parking, and safety. current system of allocations. Williams a staff writer for the Review. agrees, "There is a lot of waste, and it is not ZAIRE
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