OCC Race

Two Jewish candidates vie for board positions.

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n the Monday, June 14, county-
wide school elections, two of nine
candidates running for three six-
year terms on the Oakland
Community College Board of Trustees
are Jewish: 18-year incumbent Judith
Wiser and newcomer Elliot Parnes.
Wiser has the distinction of having
been an OCC student, a teacher and a
trustee on the seven-member board.
She has served as vice chair and chair.
A graduate of Wayne State
University, Wiser entered politics when
she ran for mayor of Southfield. She
was first elected to the OCC Board of
Trustees in 1986.
'At the time I decided to run, I had
been both a student and a teacher at
OCC; I already loved the college," said
Wiser, who founded the Southfield

Ballet Company, which led to a teach-
ing position in the OCC Performing
Arts program. She later returned to
OCC as a student, where she received a
degree as a paralegal.
"I came in first the very first time I
ran," she said. "I've stayed because I
still think the college is wonderful; it
does a great deal for the community in
many arenas."
Wiser believes one ongoing major
challenge for OCC is keeping education
costs affordable in the face of increasing
expenses and reductions in state fund-
ing. She says that OCC is better pro-
tected than most community colleges
because it is less reliant on state aid as
county taxpayers voted millage support
"Although we will continue to face
fresh cost pressures, we have agreed to
hold tuition to the cost of inflation,"
Wiser said
As the only Jewish trustee, Wiser has

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• West Bloomfield resident
Chamber of Commerce
• Widowed, one son and grand-
• Member, Royal Oak Arts
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• BA, Wayne State University
• Volunteer Coun.cil, Detroit
• Paralegal Degree, OCC
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Symphony Orchestra
• Former Assistant-Associate
• Board Member, Pebble Creek
Professor, Performing Arts,
Condo Association
OCC
• Election canvasser,. West Bloomfield
• Past member, Birmingham Temple,
Township
B'nai David
• Trustee, OCC, 18 years, served as
chair and vice chair

Blaming Israel

Novi school board candidate claims U.S. aid
to Israel thwarts school funding.

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ovi school board candidate
Mario Nesr Fundarski has a
novel approach to providing
adequate school funding: End U.S.
aid to Israel.
Fundarlci is one of five candidates
vying for one of the two available seats
on the Novi Board of Education in
the June 14 election.
Answering a League of Women
Voters questionnaire to Novi School
Board candidates about state funding
and programs that might need to be

cut if funds are not available,
Fundarski writes: "Our U.S.
Government currently gives the ter-
rorist State of Israel 4.3 billion dollars
per year, UNCONDITIONALLY!
The funding for 'No Child Left
Behind' is $4 billion. Why are we giv-
ing Israel money to murder Arab peo-
ple and support their $30-billion/year
nuclear arms industry instead of fund-
ing our schools?" In response to a
question about other issues of impor-
tance, his list includes "Stop sending
U.S. tax dollars to Israel!"
A regular on the campaign trail,
Fundarski (changed from Fundaro in

