Districts ready AIDS
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CapitIIJ M Serviu
LANSING - local school
boards around the e wiD
soon be impleme1lting policies
fo t chiDs abo AIDS in
publi schoo
The Department of Educa­
tion is also developiDa a paper
on how to deal with school­
dilldren and staff who
ve CODlraded AIDS, which
· be sent to all the schools.
Under the guidelioea of
Public Ad 185, which requires
that AIDS by taug!lt with
other communicable diseases
in sex education counes, aD
00 will be ddiDg. to
- their curriculum.
act, . cb affeda every
schoo district in the wiD
be to all the local scbooJ
boards, said MarJie Thelen,
specaiIst OIl school law and
logic for the Department of
EducatiOn.
The la dosen� require the
DepartmeDt of Education to
do anythiDs. • Tbden, b
materials wiD be sent to the
schoo reprding AIDS.
"The department of educa-
tion will be kiDa OIl AIDS
and emphasize the
need for a health PJ'OIf8ID,­
said WaDda Jubb, health
education ofIicer foe the
Departme of EducatioD.
Before any AIDS leSSons
caD be implemeoted, local
scbool boards must approYC
the currieulum, Jubb •
Even thou&b law
passed, it's up to each school
distrid to decide on ita own
education
how to implcmcnt teaching
abo AIDS.
The policy 00 deating with
school- children and staff
who have coatraeted aids, will
be dealt ·th soon, said Jubb.
At the oeu board meeting
in December, the State Board
of Education will m likely
pproYe a position paper,
which will emphasize h to
treat those who have AIDS.
The oePartment of Educa­
tion wiD be • • the
schools to help them deal with
the situatio of students and
staff 0 have AIDS.
"It dosea't mandate any­
thia& • said Jubb. "It's j
guidelines that will be passed
to the local schools in the
e.
New drive to
"Unlock jails II
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Har h government censor­
ship .. .had made it difficult for
any accurate information about
detentions to be revealed, he
dded. However, it is reported
by the Detainees Parent Sup­
port Committee in South Africa
that approximately 1,500 people
are in jail, including 100 to 150
children.
Medi accounts of the jailed
and beaten children were fearu­
tured recently on a CBS-TV
report by commentator Wal er
Cronkite.
. And this reporter received an
eye witn account of detainees
during a recent visit to South
Africa m November. I talked
with students and anti-apart­
heid ctivists in the KwaZulu1
and Capetown are who told of
beatings and jailing in their
"townships- while protesting
racist, apartheid practice .
Ironically, some of the children
attended a chool named for
Mahatma Ghandi, the noted In­
dian leader who began his non­
violent pr ctices in South Africa
before influencing Dr. Martin L.
King.
The Africa Fund, with Bill
Cosby a honorary chairman,
may be contacted at 198 Broad­
way, New York City, Y
10038 ... (212) 962-1210. Joshua
Nessen and Dumisani Kumalo
are co-coordinators.
celebrations begin
deed performed during the
year One or two mall meaning­
ful gifts may be given during the
days of Kwanzaa. The sum total
of the e days are nown s
guzo S ba, the seven prin­
cip of Blackn .
In order to correctly officiate
Kwanzaa ceremony, all
decorations must be in red,
b and green.
Red is for the blood that our
people ed. We dedicate our­
selves to the purpose so that they
will not have shed blood in vain.
wanzaa
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be 30, is Nia which
me Purpose, the most out-
tanding i ue of Kwanzaa, in
that it par a rekindling of the
tr ditio of our Ancestors. .
On her 31, or Kuumba
meaning creativity, a Karamu or
feast i held for family nd
friends with singing d dancing
and a variety of foods.
J"�r'Y 1, or Imani which .
fi ·th,· de ed to the W toto 0
children. They are re arded
with Za eli or gifts for th good
Blac is for the co or of Black
people. Green is for the Mother­
land, Africa and those lands
here that have become African
by our design, and for the youth
who represent our future.
Three artifacts, the Mkeka,
the Kinara and the Muhindi all
represent things essential to the
growth and development of our
nation.
The MIcek is a mat on hich
all the items for Kwanzaa are
placed. The Mkeka is put on a
10 table or the floor. It is the
Con i u io celebration endures,
Bicentennial ceases
By cey arr
Capital News Service
LANS} G While
Michigan' Sesquicentennial
celebratio are ending in
Jmuary, the state celebrations
for the .. on's Bice -
tennial are set to continue.
For the Michipn Commis­
· on on the Bicentennial of the
U.S. Co . . ·'t .
to top until 199L
The 26-membcr colDlDis-
· on will ponsor educational
ctivities in 1988 honoring
r tification; 1989 the three­
branch em of government;
and 1990-91 ratification of the
Bill of Righ • d Ronald
Russell, outgoing executive
director.
The commission spon-
sored bringing the original
The .• Citizen of-
fices will be closed W�d.,
December Z3 S p.m. aDd re
open OD., Jan 4 in order
our employees may enjoy
the holiday with their
Magn Carta to Michigan, his­
torical contests, seminars and
tatewide convention in Sep­
tember for communiti that
wanted to sponsor historical
events.
-(The comission's) purpose
. to promote and celebr te
observances of the 200th an­
niversary of the signin& - Rus­
sell said.
So far, it been ap-
propriated SSO,<m through
1986 Michipn act that ap­
pointed the members and set
the commission's time span,
Russen said.
The colDlDission members
are volunteers, while the staff
members are paid by the state
departments they previously
rked for, Russell said.
Members include State
Board of Education pr . dent
Barbar Roberts Mason,
OTICE
fammes.
Monday, December 21, 12
DOOIl· the deadline for all
DC and adcopy for publica­
tio in the December rJ and
January 3' ues,
Michigan's Republican party
leader Spencer Abraham and
former Gov. G. Mennen WU­
Iiams, along with ttomeys,
educato and other Michigan
residents.
"We're authorized in
statute, in line with the United .
States comission, - he said
The u.s. commission is
responsible for regulating the
use of the logo which incl�des
a flag and -we the people- writ­
ten of a scroll,
Meanwhile, the Michigan
SesquiDcentemUal Co··oo
will contiDue until March
1988, en it will re ease
report on the Sesquincenten­
Dial, said Bill Castanier,
spo perSOD for teh
SesquicentCllDial Office.
The office wiD sponsor its
last event Jan 26, one year
after Michipn's 1SOth anniver­
sary of statehood, Castanier
said. A short, formal
ceremony at the Capitol is
planned for that day, with a
balloon drop and by
schoolchildren, he said.
Merri Jo Bales, directo of
the Sesquicentennial Office,
caDed the Sesquicentennial -a
short-term, once-in- -lifetime,­
event, comparing the e's
c:ommiuion for the Co itu-
tion more historical .
foundation on which I else
rests.
The Kinara is a candle holder
for seven candl each labelled
with the principle of the day. On
Umoja one candle is lit, on
Kuiichagulia two candles are lit,
and so on until Imani, the
seventh day.
When all the candles are lit,
the Kinara represents the
original stalk from which we all
sprang.
The Muhineli is an ear of com
and we use as many Muhindi as
we have children.
At each family gathering the
candles are lit on the Kinara and
something inspirational is said
about Kwanzaa, a hymn of
thanksgiving is sung, the meal is
enjoyed, and everyone takes
drink from th cup of U oity and
passes it on to the next person.
Dr. Ron Karenga says,"By
readopting Kwanzaa we take
b ck a holiday that is rightfully
ours. By reaffirming our Blac
Holy days we begin to create the
traditions that will be passed on
to yet unborn generations of
African people when e be­
come ancestors"
This ceremony is a collective
committment to continue the
struggle they began for truth and
freedom. Together our spiritual
consciousness will lay the foun­
dation for our growth and res­
toration to remember the names
of great men and women in the
struggle to teach and inform the .
youth.
For our people there, here
and everywhere. For the
development of our home land .
Africa, the origin of man,
For all who participated in
the yesterday, today and tomor­
row of the struggle, and for our
spiritual and conscious growth
unity and strength to forge for­
ward.
Phy toten ur
war toy boycott
• to the peop e 0 do 't ye
have fixed ideas abo
intensiYe care at I .. nsing' society ould look, - • d
E.W. Sparro Hospital. Thomas Wertz, another mem-
Guertin, who· also an - ber of the Central Michigan
sistant professo t Michigan Physicians fo Social Respon-
State Pniversity, said these sibility. "Por the 0 der peop e,
violent toys promote the no- we need to restructure the
tion that violence is an ceept - concept of violence in 0 cul-
able option for every situatio tore ..
A toy is vio if a destructive Last year the campaign
purpose is imp . cit in a toy, he dre national allen· and
added. had � easier time getting
The war toy industry in- people's sympathy and inter-
creased by 600 percent since : 1!st this year.
1983, said Katherine Roth, the· ·Awaren mush-
acting co-chair of the Central roomed," Wertz . d. "Our
Miclrigan Physicians for Social oext ep is to create . moe-
Responsibility. ment within the toy industry it-
According to a study done " "
by the University of Utah, Scandinavian coUDtri
there is a direct link between have special r . clio 0
war toys and violent and toys caD be sold and
gressive behavior, Roth said it would be great if the u.s.
"We are in this toys projed could the same system,
to � an UDpO Roth said.
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