Tuesday, November 8, 1988 The University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Volume 33, Number 17 SFAC revokes newspaper's funding Major partie S 7 ~ .... .. in unused computer equipment and near-­ Michelle Bryant,, BSU president, said /JVN^VITT 4-r\ r\4-i r% o by Gregg Wirth ly $5,000 in operating funds to the that SFAC is purposely making it difficult Invictus." for BSU to publish Invictus because decry tactics he Segregated Fee Allocation Com­ BSU has promised to publish Invictus Dadabhoy feels "slighted" since he no mittee revoked $1,900 Oct 28, and on Nov. 28 and Dec. 5 and every two longer is allowed to use Invictus' comput­ Tplans to remove a computer and a weeks after Jan. 23, SFAC Secretary ers for his own use. used at rallies laser printer from the Black Student Tristin Richards said. Dadabhoy, citing the violation of an Union newspaper Invictus, citing the The amount of the deallocation was de­ by Norma Velvikis newspaper's inactivity during the last three agreement with former BSU Vice termined by a $237.50 publishing cost for President Ron Hendree, removed his soft­ semesters, SFAC chair Zav Dadabhoy said each of the eight issues not published so he election of 1988 has unarguably Monday. ware system from the computers Oct. 17, far this year, Dadabhoy said. after Bryant denied him access to the been wrought with negative cam­ In an Oct. 31 letter to BSU, Dadabhoy Invictus, which plans to appeal the fur­ computer system. BSU had been using the T paigning arid mudslinging by both wrote "SFAC is finding it hard to justify ther deallocation of its funds, has not pub­ major parties, and the political situation at the continuing allocation of over $10,000 lished an issue since February, 1987. Invictus, page 3 UWM is no exception, according to mem­ bers of both political parties on campus. Party groups have accused each other of undermining campus rally efforts by disrupting speakers, destroying campaign The music still plays for deaf UWM student signs, and vandalizing posted political announcements. by Renee Deger During the Nov. 3 Democratic rally, a group of students carrying Republican usic had been a childhood friend to signs attempted to overpower speakers Bob Potter, and he had escaped to with loud booing and organized chanting, M this friend when the frustrations of according to Bob Baxter, president of the growing up became overwhelming. UWM Campus Democrats. But an accident one chilly January night Baxter said the speech by Rep. Gerald in 1987 stole Potter's ability to hear music Kleczka (D-Wis.) was interrupted by stu­ and left him with nowhere to turn. dents shouting the Pledge of Allegiance, Potter, a disc jockey at UWM's radio sta­ and the noise made it almost impossible to tion WUWM, lost his hearing after slipping hear. on a patch of ice and hitting his head, frac­ turing his skull. Dave Stoller, a member of the College Republicans, denied Baxter's allegations "Music had been very personal to me that the ruckus was organized, but did say and when I lost my hearing completely, I there were members of the College Re­ had nowhere to turn," Potter said. "The publicans at the rally. music was gone." Because music had always been an im­ Representatives of the College Republi­ portant jjart of his life, he said he chose to cans have accused Campus Democrats of work in* radio. He had been a disc jockey similar behavior. at WRKR when he lost his hearing. At a recent Republican rally featuring "Radio was a poison kiss to me — I Senate candidate Susan Engeleiter and didn't make a lot of money, but I loved it," Elizabeth Dole, students disturbed the he said. "The work was never really work." proceedings with anti-Republican out­ Potter said his work at WUWM is chal­ bursts, they said. lenging, more so than he originally be­ Stoller said there were groups of Demo­ lieved. He said songs he was famaliar with crats screaming and talking throughout before his accident, he still can hear, if the the rally. volume is turned up loud. But he said he Baxter said there was hostility between was unfamiliar with the jazz played by the two groups, but denied the Campus WUWM. Democrats were affiliated with the protes­ Potter said he continues his work at tors at the Republican rally. WUWM in an active pursuit of his goal of "We didn't have any presence there be­ managing a radio station, which he set for cause we wanted to show some respect for himself about eight years ago when he first ,....,,,..,, ,•-"' — . _» —Post photo by Phil Kasun elected officials," Baxter said. "This is typi­ began working as a disc jockey at a station WUWM disc jockey Bob Potter says the loss of his hearing hasn't dampened his en­ cal of how the Republicans have run their in Texas. thusiasm for music. entire campaign." But because his goals had changed, he now calls his work at WUWM symbolic. "I gratifying if I can help people who can deaf, I realized I still had a life to lead," he Representatives at both the Dukakis wanted to prove that life goes on," he said. hear and deaf people to understand one said. Becoming a student at UWM in Sep­ and Bush local headquarters said they He said that many of his friends and another. tember was the turning point have had problems with vandalism therapists had urged him to return to "People don't have to run from deaf The small community of 147 deaf stu­ throughout the campaign. UWM and pursue another career. He had people because it's difficult to communi­ dents at UWM gave him the niche on cam­ Frank Maloney, an assistant at Dukakis returned with the intent to study business cate," he said. pus he needed, he said. Communicating headquarters, said many lawn signs have and someday manage a radio station, but Since losing his hearing, he said music with other deaf people is easier than with been burned and spray-painted. "We've he said his contact with other deaf people was still in his head, but he missed it, along people who can hear because of a shared lost too many in a variety of places," he had opened his eyes to their problems. with the sounds of children playing, the understanding among deaf people, he said. "It's not just kids fooling around." "People treat us like we're stupid. As wind in the trees and the splash of foun­ said. Mary Buestrin, a spokeswoman at Bush soon as they realize we can't understand tains. "Stuff you take for granted." Potter said that he is able to communi­ headquarters, reported similar problems. them, they think it's from a lack of Accepting the permanent loss of his cate with people who can hear by reading intelligence," Potter said. hearing was difficult, he said, and not until lips, but only 33 percent of what is spoken "I put up 12 lawn signs myself, and they He said he now wishes to pursue recently did he come to terms with his loss. actually can be seen, he said. were ripped to pieces," Buestrin said. "I've careers in deaf education writing. "I now "I had lost a lot of motivation to go on, had phone calls from all over the city have a more positive future — more self- but once I accepted the fact that I was DJ, page 4 asking what to do about it." Vote today Computers' accessibility UWM students who have recently moved to the Sand­ opens them to attack Pantries burg Resident Hails or the In part because of a lack of East Side can register and jobs, food pantries are Serving vote En the Milwaukee area CV.'M's computing services divi­ by Robert Kiesling more families than before. Tuesday, even if they are regi­ sion, and it was only a coinci­ —Page 3 stered in their hometowns. dence that the University's com­ However, students must no­ W-Madison's accessibility puters were not affected by the T.S. EHot tify their hometown city or vil­ as an academic computing virus. "Murder in the Cathedral" lage hall that they will be vot­ Usystem contributed to its Paul Beebe, director of aca­ is a riveting drama of guilt ing in Milwaukee, according being vulnerable to a computer demic computing services at and temptation* to a Milwaukee City Election virus that swept computers UW-Madison's Computer Sci­ —Arts, page 5 Commission spokeswoman. across the country last week, offi­ ence Department, said that if the Volleyball Students must then go to cials said Monday. 150 computers in UW-Madison's U2 The film Rattle md Hum The UWM volleyball team the nearest polling place, The UWM computer provides system were closed to viruses, displays the hand and its mu­ won its seventh straight dis­ which is based on their ad- the same type of access to its us­ the system would become too sic in a revealing light trict title Sunday. ers as those at Madison, accord­ —Arts, page 5 —Sports, page 7 Vof*f page 4 ing to Neil Trilling, director of Virus, page 12 'SgeT tost Tuesday, November 8,1988 University Briefs that take jabs at Democratic Brothers' chairman is a Repub­ continue to distribute the cards, U.S. blamed for UFO coverup presidential candidate Michael lican, so I think that's why we're the company's legal counsel Dukakis, Parker Brothers spok­ allowed to use them," Rossi may take action, McGovern eswoman Patricia McGovern told the Arizona Daily Wildcat said, "but ifs difficult to say the University of Arizona's what well do." Documents of UFO sightings, least 50,000 years and that said.