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Berrien County h Tiff s
office hir d t 0 of thr
patrolmen laid off for no m­
p lance ith the city's residency
r quirement.
Sandy and
S Yen rsh e into jobs
at the S riff's office Monday.
. Judy Gladney, a St.
[o ph To n ip resident, f ce
termin tion February 15 from
the Benton Harbor Police force
for non-compli nee ith th
re id ncy equirern nt.
. residency require-
ment d mands all city
emptov hired fter J un 1,
1973, to' become re idents by
July 1 of thi year.
150,
• Officer Friendly" rv d
total of t 0 year , eight months
on th B nton Harbor force,
Ii e in Coloma. e joined
th force ye r o.
In e pi ining hy Judy
GI dney . not hired by the
sheriff's office, Sheriff ick
Je lid, "To my 'no I dge
iss. Gladney did not ubmit
. - an pplication."
"Social Po er shouldn't
be concentrated in too fe
people", so says Dr. an fred
Thullen, Community Resource
Development Sp ialist of ichi-
gan State University, h
addressed Vle Horizons
Leader hip CI held at th
Benton Harbor Public Library
last Wed esday e ening.
r. Thullen po e on
"Po er, Po er Actors, and
Po er Structures in Community
Decision Making". H said that,
"Only 5% of the adult popula­
tion in communities are acti
and diiectly in olved
community decision making".
That's wh it is important to
kno ho this 5% is in order to
effect social change. ,
February 6, 1979
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resources like w Ith and land,
obligations 0 ed, c ntrol over
job ,credit and mor lity.
I He went on to y that,
"Social Po er i exercised
through co rcion, influence or a
combination of both. They c n
facilitate, p emote, bloc or
delay' many community deci-
ions". "
Th red-he d d lecturer
d fined Po er Actor as,
"individuals who e directly
involved in deci jon making".
Thullen referred to various
tudies hich 0 ed Po er
Actors in olv d in th folio ing
catagories: 1) Local government
participants such as elected
officials, political party lead rs
an public employees; 2) non­
gover' ment influencials, such as
The M.S.U. rofessor busines and industri I managers,
Social Po er as "The bankers, media p ople, and large
cap city to control the actions landowners; 3) non-government
of others". He added th t, gencies, such s ho pitals, pri-
"Social Power u ually comes vate schools and United Fund;
from two sources, authority and 4) voluntary organizations like
control of resources". neighborhood associations and
Thullen stated that con- civic cubs.
trol of resources can mea many' Dr. Thullen said that,
different things, such as s ills, "power structure is a pattern
knowledge, reputation and social of interaction among the power
standing. It can mean material tors in a community". There
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Three other patrolmen
are affected by the residency
requirement: Larry T vlor,
Georg Schemenauer and ike
Slater .
According to Chief
Andre Rod z, the three intend
to comply. Rodez stated that
ill purch a home, one
and one is still 100 ing.
ith th fo down by
three, Rodez is m intaining
police coverag by reassigning
officers from Special Assignment.
to patrol.
as
Steven
ar h
lac s on disaster's brink
In its nual economic
revi , the State of BI c
''America 1979, the ational
Urban League says BI c Ameri­
"cans are on the "brin of disas­
ter."
the legislati gains di -
appointing, saying, If s ye r
e re reduced to trying to
preserve the f w meager pro­
gram currently in existence."
A mood of "nega ivism"
as ell as a "rec lcitrant, in n-
itive,- callou Congres H, were
pinpointed by Jordan the
reason for the reluctanct to
boo t federal spending for
employment and social
programs.
�ALENTINE'S DAY
BI GO
Smdy Watson
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Judy Gladn y
Carter orders, funds for Blae
President Carter has
issued - a memo ordering all
federal department and agency
. heads to increase their invest­
ment of millions of dollars in
BI c colleges.
"1.. have repeatedly
e pres ed m hope" that the
. historically Black college will
be stronger when I leav office
than hen my dministration
began," Carter said.
In the memo, he. endor-
d the nation's app <> imately
100 BI c colleges and the
"Uniqu role" they provide in
educ tion I opportunities for
thousands. '
colleges
The most recent statistics
from th Department of Health,
Education and Welfare (HEW)
how that in 1975 Blac colleges
received $239 million of n arly
$5 billion granted to all th
n tion's colleg .
BEOG student loan
from HEW accounted for 85
percent of that $239 million.
Minimal funds were pent by
. Government agencie . for
re arch grants, f culty aid nd
facility construction.
Th Dep rtment of the
Interior a arded the Ie st -$40,
000 - to Blac colle in th t
year.
Citin fed ral budgets
and a threatened recession as
the cause, Vernon Jordan,
le ue pre ident, tated, "The
income gap between BI cks and
ites is actually widening."
Loo ing back, Jordan
noted th t a year go the civil­
rights group was hopeful that
the economic ills of Blacks and
other minoritie ould be
ddressed by expected tax cuts,
development of an urban policy,
passage of Humphrey-H wkins
full employment bill and new
elfare measures ..
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are many ind of po er true-
tur s' in Am rica tod y In
referring to on m d b Ron
Po ers of 10 a State Uni ersitv,
Thullen id, "thi study ho ed
four different typ s of po r
I .
ructure . They Include:
a) Op n Person po er structure,
re on person controls all J" •
the d isions. b) Tightly nit
group po er structur s, here
all group of Po er Actors
ith . common intere t d high
interaction control d ision.
c) Split community po er struc­
tures, here 0 tightly- nit
grou�s are dying for dominance.
d) Po er pool po r tructure I
wher a 100 Iy nit group of
Po er Actors ho n e ch
other, but are not invol d ith
all d ci ions.
I Dr. Thullen id that
po er tructures in olve and
chang 0 r time in commu­
nity, and the Po er Actors also
change. Outsid Po er Actors
d structures often ffect a
community more so than those
inside.
Th .S.U. lecturer ys,
"th prob em ith po er stru -
tures is that th y often do not
reflect the rna e-up of th
community. Therefore, people
must org nize nd mo in
concert to effect ial chang ".
e Horizon is pon-
sored by the B rrien County
Cooperativ Extension Servi ce
in an effort to stimul citiz n
partici ation in th ir
community.
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garage.
Jam s Cren ha . ,a publi
orks mechanic, attempting
to eld a me J tep onto a
hen th fir
e out.
er n ha not in-
jured, but he $10,000 tr: c
total lo 1
Firemen, who r
called to the ara hortl
b fore 5 a.rn., u d fo m to put
out th blaz. The fire burn d a
small hole in the ro f of the
garag ,. but did not d rna e
other chicles in id th build- I
ing. I
Reported I
cI im d h did not no h
att ching th step to a gasolin
tan which is I ca ed b t n
the cab nd c rgq d p rtrn nt of
the true