European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 20, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5mills College reverses decision to go coed Oakland Calif. Apr trustees of Mills College confronted by a two week Long student protest that shut Down the elite 138-year-old women a school have reversed their decision to admit men As undergraduate students. Cheers tears of Triumph and popping Champagne corks greeted the announcement by Board of trustees chairman Warren Heilman on Friday. A fall of you have had a lot of banners for us All week. Here a one for you a a Heilman told a crowd of about 300 women As he unfurled a Banner that read a Mills a for women.  a i think we have All won a he said. Two weeks ago the trustees decided to admit male undergraduates because of financial problems stemming from declining enrolment. The school has 264 graduate students of which about 50 Are men. Federal Law mandates that graduate programs be open to both sexes. During the ensuing demonstrations women chanted a better dead than  sensing Victory they ended their Boycott of classes thursday. Alumnae raised $3 million during a seven Day Telephone fund drive after a group of former Mills students met with Heilman and offered a massive Rescue Effort. A they made a bad decision and the Community has risen to the occasion and Given them a Way to solve this problem they be created Quot Michelle Law daughter a 1989 graduate said before the reversal. Mills students erupt with Joy Friday As the trustees decision is announced. A the Mission of Mills College is to cd she said the trustees were simply in Cate  aware of the resources that existed Cathy Gildea who graduated in 1987, among Mills alumnae and Hadnot taken said she talked to Quot hundreds of alumnae advantage of them to keep Mills afloat As and we re committed to making the res a women s school. Cue plan  the Rescue plan includes adding $10 million to the colleges endowment and doubling the alumnae associations yearly gift to Mills. Teachers voted by a 2-to-l margin to ask Mills trustees to reverse the move and allow five years to see if changes in recruitment and curriculum could increase enrolment. Protests swept the Campus of the elite Liberal arts College after the trustees May 3 decision to begin admitting male undergraduate students in the fall of 1991 to boost enrolment and stabilize finances. When the decision by the Board was announced students some tearful screamed a no no a and a traitors Quot Mosi of the school s 777 students took control of the Campus the next Day boycotting classes blockading administrators offices demanding Heilman s resignation and staging a sit in at president Mary Metz soil ice. The switch to coeducation had been under consideration fora year prompted by declining enrolment and Revenue and a desire to avoid dipping heavily into the schools $70 million endowment. The school said it needed to increase enrolment to 1.000 to help balance the schools $24 million annual budget. Enrolment in Mills 33 undergraduate programs is Down 4.2 percent from three years ago. Yearly tuition at the school is almost $ 1 2.000. Mills is the Only single sex undergraduate learning institution in Northern California. Two women a colleges Are located in Southern California and 94  virtual certainty in neb. Demo primary Omaha neb. Apr the Lead switched hands in Nebraska a Cliff Hanger democratic primary for governor Friday As the last Absentee ballots gave Omaha lawyer Ben Nelson a 73-vote Edge Over former political aide Bill Hoppner. Final unofficial results showed Nelson with 44,585 votes or 27 percent and Hoppner former aide to Sens. Jim Exon and Bob Kerrey with 44,512 votes also 27 percent. The remaining votes were split among five other candidates. The eventual Winner will compete in november against gov. Kay Orr the first Republican woman elected governor of any state. She is seeking a second term. The state Board of canvassers is scheduled to meet june 11 to certify the results based on official reports from each county. By Law it must order a recount if the margin Between the two front runners is less than i percent of the leaders total. That is now a virtual certainty. That recount would begin june 13. But Secretary of state Allen Beermann said he had asked attorney general Robert spire to determine whether it might Start As Early As May 30 a in Advance of the Board meeting a if both Nelson and Hoppner request it. Both men have said they want the Issue settled As Quick As possible. After the counting of votes was completed tuesday. Hoppner held a 94-vote Lead. The Lead see sawed a half dozen limes Between thursday and late i Ida As More counties reported final Absentee re urns. Quot we definitely Are hoping for the Best but we still have to be guarded Quot said Nelson spokesman Sonny Foster. Quot we be been through so Many disappointments Over the last Lew  controller loses Job for taking anti aids drug Washington apr the Federal aviation administration removed an air traffic controller from his Job at Dulles Airport near Washington for taking an ant aids drug the controller said Friday. Faa spokesman Bob Buckhorn said the Agency could not comment on the Case because of privacy Laws. But he said the Faa policy is to give controllers who take the drug at other jobs because of possible Side effects that May impair their ability to keep track of aircraft. The controller Ron Wilkinson and the National air traffic controllers association which has filed a grievance said there is no evidence that at affects a controllers performance. Buckhorn said however the Faa is reviewing the medical data to see whether the policy should be reconsidered. He said controllers found to carry the human immunodeficiency virus his but who do not take at can remain on the Job. President Bush in March urged an end to aids discrimination in the workplace calling on business executives not to Lay off or fire people infected with or exposed to the virus. A they can serve Many More productive years with no threat to you your other workers or your companies a Bush said. Or. William Reiter director of the Center for special immunology in fort Lauderdale fla., where Wilkinson is being treated said tests of patients on at have shown no significant sleepiness dizziness or any other problems. In some cases he said patients Given a Placebo showed More Side effects than those Given at. Also new studies have failed to find any Impact on the nervous system from the presence of his virus Reiter said at is the Only drug approved for anti viral treatment of aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Aids is an incurable fatal disease that attacks the body a immune system rendering it incapable of resisting other diseases and infections. Wilkinson 29, said he was put on forced leave last july and has not been Given another Faa Job. He said he has tested positive for exposure to the virus but has developed none of the symptoms of aids itself. The controllers Union in its grievance against the Faa contended Wilkinson was not being treated properly under Federal guidelines that require agencies to make a reasonable accommodations for people who test positive for the virus. A i think that there is some discrimination because of the nature of his condition a said Jim Morin counsel for the controllers Union. Wilkinson in a Telephone interview after a report on his Case by Washington Sousa to said that when he first started taking at he had a headaches and a Little nausea but he now experiences no Side effects. A i done to feel any impairment As far As functioning or making decisions a he said. Buckhorn said the Faa is examining All available medical evidence to determine whether at still ought to be included on the list of drugs that disqualify controllers. Susa to reporter Kent Jarrell interviewed another controller who said he has ignored a doctors orders to take at because he does t want to lose his Job at one of the nations busiest air traffic control facilities. That controller whose identity was concealed for the report said he knew of several others facing the same dilemma. Wilkinson said he followed Faa regu lations last july and announced his intention to take the drug and was immediately put on leave. His leave including several weeks donated by Oiler Faa employees ran out in february and he now has no income Wilkinson said. He had worked at Dulles Airport in suburban Virginia outside Washington for 2 months and was an air Force air traffic controller for eight years Wilkinson said. In about a year he expected to qualify As a lop level controller he  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 20, 1950 a Gen. Omar n. Bradley said the United states must keep up its defences to meet the threat of a possible soviet atomic attack a in a few years."30 years ago today. May 20, 1960 a vice president Richard Nixon reported a soviet employee of the United nations had been expelled from the United Stales for spying at the Lime russian Leader Nikita s. Khrushchev was addressing the u.n.20 years ago today. May 20, 1970 a Federal Reserve chairman Arthur f. Burns and housing Secretary George Romney spoke out sharply against the Nixon administrations handling of inflation.10 years ago today. May 20, 1980 a National guard troops in Miami diverted thousands of motorists driving to work away from 50 Square Miles of heavily populated areas devastated by two Days and nights of burning looting and rioting that left at least 19 people dead and hundreds injured