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POST Thursday, January 26, 1989 The University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Volume 33, Number'36'S{ Coggs proposes bill addressing racist conduct The bill, which he said may pass in disciplinary procedures and added that mendation to the Assembly College and by Peter Hansen March or April, will be an "emergency the current code was ambiguous. University Committee on March 8. The administrative rule," effective until the Left to the Board, Coggs said a new recommendation contends that racist and he passage of a proposed bill ad­ Board approves a System code which code would not take effect until Septem­ discriminatory acts are serious enough to dressing discriminatory and racist would be modified to serve the needs of ber. Without the bill, minorities "will be warrant severe penalties such as expul­ Tstudent conduct will implement each campus. going an entire semester without any sion, he said. more quickly similar policies being con­ A working policy was passed by the direction," he said. Under the current policy, "they (UW structed at campuses Systemwide, accord­ Board in November, but lacked disciplina­ Coggs said his decision to make the campuses) are not sure that they have ing to G. Spencer Coggs (D-Milwaukee). ry procedures. Regent Laurence proposal was in response to several recent enough leeway to use expulsion," Coggs If passed, Coggs said the bill he has Weinstein said the passage of a disciplina­ racist incidents, including a mock "slave said. proposed will enact a new code which has ry code without Systemwide agreement auction" conducted by the Zeta Beta Tau The legislative route will fill the gaps in been agreed upon by all UW campuses, would have violated the First Amendment. fraternity at UW- Madison last fall. the current policy according to Jim Smith, but not yet reviewed by the Board of Coggs, co-chair of the UW Minority Coggs said the Subcommittee also is Regents. / Issues Subcommittee, said his bill includes scheduled to present a separate recom­ Bill, page 3 Campus Protest Expulsion of Arabs called for by Kahane alling for the expulsion of is not just against the Arabs, but all Arabs from Israel and a against anyone who doesn't fol­ C harsher line against dem­ low his religious beliefs. Groups onstrating Palestinians in the oc­ that Kahane opposes include all cupied West Bank, Meir Kahane of the black rights movements, spoke at UWM and the Jewish the Christian church, and Jews Community Center Wednesday. outside his sect, Itayem said. Kahane, leader of the right Among the dozen protesters wing KACH movement in Israel was Brian Verdin, who said, "I'm and founder of the Jewish De­ expressing solidarity with the fense League in America, spoke people of Palestine." to approximately 20 people at an invitation-only forum in the U- Kahane, in his speech at the nion's Milwaukee Room. His visit Center, called the majority of was sponsored by the UWM Bap­ American Jewry "foolish and in­ tist Student Union. sane" for condemning Israeli brutality against Palestinians. Kahane's views, which have been called extreme and racist by "The American Jew fears that both Arab and Jewish groups, the anti-Semetism in Israel will sparked protest from the General come to the U.S., so they ask for Union of Palestinian Students Israel to give in quickly to the and others. Arabs," Kahane said. A sign at the protest declared: The only solution to the prob­ "Kahane wants to do to Arabs lem in the occupied lands, said what Hitler did to Jews." Kahane, is for the complete ex­ —Post photo by Rick Leonard pulsion of Palestinians from Isra- A speech by Meir Kahane drew protests from the General Union of Palestinian Students Wednes­ GUPS President Bahzat Itay­ day in the Union Ballroom. em said he believes that Kahane Kahane, page 3 $6 million in retroactive pay awarded to academic staff Kathleen Moylan, president of the ram, and UW officials decided to cut the George Brooks, Assistant to the Vice by Norma Velvikis UWM chapter of WEAC, said System ad­ salaries of the senior academic staff by President of University Relations, said all ministrators implemented an Academic lowering them one grade, an average of senior academic staff members will not be ane County Circuit Judge Mark Staff Title and Compensation Plan four $4,000 per person. recompensated. Frankel ordered the UW System to years ago as part of a catch-up raise plan. Moylan said about 100 UWM employ­ "Contrary to what WEAC says," Brooks D either pay up to $6 million in back As part of the plan, a salary grading pro­ ees have been affected by the cuts, all of added, "There will be winners, but there pay to approximately 600 senior academ­ cess was approved by the UW System whom have worked here a minimum of will be a number of losers in this process ic staff members, or show why senior Board of Regents, the Department of Em­ eight years. as well." members should not be retroactively reim­ ployee Relations of Wisconsin and the "Righteous indignation and moral re­ "He (Frankel) is contemplating ordering bursed. Joint Committee on Employee Relations sponsibility had very little to do with what us to go back and look at all the academic A'suit filed by the Wisconsin Education of Wisconsin. they were going to do," she said. staff under the original senior definition Association Council and The Association The plan approved grading salaries on a "I think this lawsuit is a symbol as well as and qualify those entitled to retroactive of University of Wisconsin Professionals in scale of one to 13 for all UW academic a real victory for those who have senior pay," he said. May 1987 claimed System administrators staff employees. prefixes. Academic staff is no longer going "Many (senior members) will be re­ illegally denied full pay increases for se­ However, Moylan said, there wasn't to sit back and let things happen. We're duced one salary grade, and probably at nior academic staff. enough funding to implement the prog­ going to fight if we need to," she said. least half will lose their senior prefix." AIDS brings changes in attitudes 183 as of Dec. 1. The total for the by Paul Krueger state of Wisconsin was 390. THURSDAY These numbers only include doc­ Basketball 21-year-old UWM stu­ umented cases. Men's basketball broke a dent, when asked recently NEWS FOCUS "You could multiply those record Tuesday with a mar- A what his reaction would :_ numbers by 50, and it would still gin-of-victory of 46. be if he discovered he had AIDS, The Post offers an examination of be a conservative estimate," he —Sports, Page 5 wasn't kidding when he said he the confidentiality laws protecting said. The life expectancy of som­ Track would kill himself. AIDS patients both in society and eone with AIDS is about three The Milwaukee Open at The fear of Acquired Immune in treatment. Story, page 3. years after becoming infected. the UWM Klotsche Center Deficiency Syndrome and its While almost everybody fears features a strong home team. consequences is on the rise, both deadly to experiment with sex or AIDS, many people don't believe —Sports, Page 5 with young people and their par­ drugs the way some people did they are at risk. The attitude pre­ ents, and the fear shows few during the sexual revolution of vails among both the students of /Torch Song' Film Fest signs of dying down. the '60s. today and people who graduated Torch Song Trilogy's a The UWM student film fes­ Beliefs and attitudes on sexual According to John Lueztke, from college during the 1960s. thor and star talks of acti tival will include a dance and behavior have changed greatly coordinator of the AIDS hotline Tom Schultz is a 45-year-old and activism. an extravagant light show. since the 1960s. Because of the in Milwaukee, the total number —Arts, page —Arts, Page 7 AIDS threat, it is now far more of AIDS cases in Milwaukee was AIDS, page 3 Page 2 three compositions and dances dedicated to the South African Liberation struggle, at 7 p.m. in the Brooks Memorial Union, Marquette University. The Mil­ waukee-based company, which combines African forms of music and dance with American chore­ ography, performs as part of the Thursday, Jan. 26 "Art and Social Change" per­ formance/lecture series. Winter Festival: The ""We Inter­ rupt This Winter" festival lingers Gallery Night: The Milwaukee on with a performance by belly Art Museum presents a night of dancers at noon in the concourse gallery and museum hopping in and a performance by the band Milwaukee area. The evening be­ "The Heat" at 9 p.m. in Channel gins at 5:45 p.m. with a lecture at 1, Sandburg Hall. Admission is the museum by Chief Curator 50 cents for UWM students and James Mundy on "The Detec­ $1 for the general public. tive's Eye: Investigating the Old Masters." After the lecture, par­ Loosen Up: Morrigan Hurt and ticipants travel to those locations PERSONS OR PERSONS Branwyn Rhodes, massage ther­ hosting an open house. Gallery apists, speak on1the benefits of Night is free. For more informa­ massage and demonstrate vari­ tion, call 271-9508. ous techniques for the neck, shoulders and back. Sunday, Jan. 29 AVAILABLE TO WORK Seminar: Rick Piraino, MSE, will Friday, Jan. 27 speak on "Rebirthing: The Con­ nected Breath" at 6:30 p.m. at The "We Interrupt This Winter" the Counseling Center of Mil­ ANY HOURS BETWEEN celebration continues with a waukee, 2038 N.

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