DA
blesse
by State's indifference
Amurcon
:�:. the exception of seven can't understand ho Duvemey
could say that Amurcon provide
She . d Duvemey told her adequate management service.
that the tenants are mecely af- . Dawkins said Duvemey told
feeted by die 0\W8Il aime. She HCCG that �eir requests for
said Duvemey's letter did no security, respect and clean
ddre any of the concerns decent buildings were not com
raised by the tenants at the ,piled with because they did not
January mee . follow standard procedure. She
Dawkins id although it said Duvemey named serveral
seems apparent that inviting agencies that HCCG was sup
Duverney to the meeting posed to contact prior to con
resulted in HCCG being ·taken taeting MSHDA.
for a ride", she said she' in the Dawkins said the organiza
processofrespo ding to the let- I tion had previously gone
ter with plans of picketing through th� process Duvemey
Amurcon's Southfield office on .
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She said the tenants expect )
Amurcon and MSHDA to be
responsible and provide safe,
decent places to live.
Dawkins said on Friday,
February 10, she visited one of
the buildings managed by
Amurcon, the GrisWold She
said she visited the apartment as
the result of a complaint made
by a tenant about trash removal
She said the trash was piled
high inside the building in the
Grambl.·ng area designated for trash. She
said the stench from the trash
President in was very offensive and appeared
not to have been removed for
running for quite some time ..
EM U post Dawkins said while there,
Grace Martin, a senior tenant
By Collie J. icholson residing in the building, was in-
G RAM B LIN G , LA carcerated after being asked by
( PA) - Grambhng State management to lower the
University president Joseph B. volume on her stereo. She said
Johnson is .one of five finalists management threatened to
for the presidency of Eastern enter Martin's unit forceably
Michigan niversity. and lower the music.
Dr. Johnson was interviewed She said after the manager
Monday and Tuesday on the was denied access to Martin's
Ypsilanti campus by regents, unit, he proceeded to call the
vice presidents, campus union police. She said the police came
organizations, department and handcuffed the elderly lady
heads, faculty, student leaders and carted her off to jail.
and alumni, according to EMU· Dawkins said after seeing
spokeswoman Kathy Tinney. first-hand, two of the three con-
She said each of the can- cerns the tenants expressed, she
didates will undergo identical
on-campus interviews. Regents D h
hope to name the new president . em pus e s
by Mid-March-The school has
an enrollment over 20,000.
Johnson, who h served 11 By • berty M or
years as president at Grambling, CapitJ:ll News Servia
said he is interested in the EMU
job, but is no sure he is ready to
pull up his Louisisana roots.
Other candidates vying for
the position are:
Dr. Ronald W. Collins, 52,
provost and vice pl'esi<tent for
academic affairs t EMU; Dr.
Judith L Kuipers, 51, vice presi
dent for academic affairs at
California State University,
Fresno; Dr. Dale F. itzsch e,
51, pre ident of Marshal
University, HuntiDgton, W. VA.
and Dr. William E. Shelton, 44,
vice president for institutional
advancement at Kent State
University, Kent, Ohio.
The Eastem Michigan presi
dent earn 5107,000 annually
and' furnished a home and
automobile, Imney said.
By
DETROIT - Members of
the Housing Coalition Core
Group (HCCG) are dissatified
with the statements made by the
Director of the Michigan State
Housing Authority (MSHDA)
Terrance Duvemey.
Durverney responded in a
letter to tenant complaints
made earlier at a meeting held
. on January 28, 1989.
The meeting was called to
address the concerns of over
100 tenants residing in 13 of the
many buildings managed by
Amurcon Management Com
pany, Southfield
Tenants targeted inadequate
security, mistreatment of
tenants and neglected repairs
on their list of complaints.
Alma Dawkins, HCCG or
ganizer, said Duvemey ted in
the letter that he recognized no
problems with Amurcon
Management, and that he found
'it to be a good company. She
said Duverney also stated that
he found no repair problems
lANSING - Rep. Burton
Leland says he isn't anti-gun;
he's anti-gun accidents.
The Detroit Democrat has
sponsored legislation which
would require a training course
before a handgun permit to pur-
chase would be granted. .
The course, which would last
two to six hours, would include
instruction in the safe handling,
storage, cleaning and discharg
ing of a pistol. Leland
described the classes as "aware
ness" courses, not as a pass/fail
type situation.
"We're just trying to get
people to realize that they got
something. that if used inap
propria�ly, or if stored inap
propriately, can kill somebody,·
was referring to, which is why
HCCG contacted MSHDA at
the point they did
Dawkins said HCCG invited
Duverney to the meeting on
January 28, to hear how Amur
con managed MSHDA's build
ings. for himself. MSHDA sub
sidizes a number of the build
ings managed by Amurcon. She
said she had no idea Duverney
wbG came to the meeting and
heard the tenants first-hand
would condone the company's
behavior.
Brown addresses AFSCME
AFSCME Council 2S held its annual b nquet recently in
Detroit, Hi hi d Park Mayor Martha Scott and Co nell Presi
dent Jim GI s, left, congratulated CalIforni As inblyman
Willie Brown his stirring keynote peech, Brown w cam-
paign m for Jes e J CksOD '88 Campaign. He i al 0 the
speaker of the California House. (Fred Ferri photo)
gun
he said,
According to tile National
Safety Council, more than 1,800
people are killed accidentally by
handguns in the United States
every year.
The legislation simply is
designed to heighten awareness
of the liability and problems that
gun owners hould know,
Leland said. For example, gun
owners need to be reminded not
to place the gun where children
can reach it and take it to school,
as ha been a problem in
Detroit, he said
Gun owners also should
know )'ou don't shoot some
body because they're taking
ga cline out of your car or
throwing rocks at your window."
Although some people may
criticize the legislation an in
fringement on the right to bear
arms, Leland said he has no in
tention of doing that.
I'm trying to get folks to be
come conscious and respon
sible," Leland said. "If they want
to have a gun, it's certainly their
right...and I'm not trying to take
away or diminish their rights."
The legislation i aimed only
at educating those legally pos
sess handguns, he said. It will
not deter those who commit
crimes with stolen or illegally
purchased guns, he admitted.
An education course for
something as potentially
dangerous as a handgun makes
common sense, Leland said
There are warning signs .
eve ere - on the food you
eat - but are there warning
signs on guns?" he asked
The bill will be taken up by
the House Judiciary �mmittee
MICHIGAN CmZEN Pace 3 .
Wiretapping
i ue.pu s
Blanchard
on' the line
By Be ny It.. Thies
CapiloJ News Slrvice
LANSING - Go . James
Blanchard's proposal to legalize
court-supervised wiretapping
may face the stiffest opposition
from within his QWD party.
Last year, legislation to allow
state police to use wiretapping
to monitor telephone conversa
tions in the investigatioa of
I drug-related crimes was intro
duced by Sen. Nick Smith, R
Addison.
The measure passed the
Senate but was held up in the
House Judiciary Committee by
Rep .. Perry Bullard,-D-Ann
Arbor, chair of the committee.
"We don't see the need for
wiretapping at all in the state of
Michigan," said Jon Hansen,
staff director of the House
Judiciary Committee and an
aide to Bullard.
Hansen lis ed the high cost,
about SI8,'OOO to $20,000 per
tapping at the sta e level, waste
of manpower and possibility for
abuses as reasons why Bullard is
against wiretapping leg' tion.
Because the governor call
ing for wiretapping au hority
under judicial supervision for all
police agencies (I r all crime ,
the fight to get the legislation
passed could be even more dif
ficult this time r und, sa id
Rep. Frank Fitzgeral , R
Grand Ledge, vice chair f the
House Republican Policy om
mittee.
"That proposal in particular
could be used as a benchmark to
determine the governor's
leadership over the coming
term, he said.
The test will be whether the
governor can convince Bullard,
an outspo en opponent of
wiretapping legislation, to side
with him on this issue,
Fitzgerald said.
"The difficulty has been th t
the governor doesn't like to get
involved in the legislative
process," . said Rep. Paul Hil
legonds, R-Holland, House
Republican leader. "He'll lay
the plan out there but when
someone like Perry (Bullard)
sits on one of his proposals, he
really doesn't work very hard to
secure a fair hearing.
"It would be obvio sly put to
a challenge," Hillegonds said.
"There would. be a case very
quickly that would go to the
Court of Appeals and then to
the Michigan Supreme Court.",
The ACLU would also fight '
it, said Howard Simon, execu
tive director of the ACLU of
Michigan.
"In this country, we can have
an efficient crime control
program and the Bill of Rights,
he said. "All wiretapping is a
license to spy on people.·
I '