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DETROIT­
Proficiency ,Ex ination
(EPE)· ruiDing people's
liYes ••
These were the cis of
,I Ms. Martina Gifford, a former
W yne State Univer ity
(WSU) stadeat ] Criminal
Justice - rganiud a group
la t summer - called the
PrisoDen OfWSU.
This organization
u
poblicized the· of many
WSU students who. after
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Wqae SII* University/ow-
lltUism Instilute '
DETROIT
BeYerly intends to
of the grant to del ee
to the iDstitu e t ortherD,. -
. cluding a coapnunity-based
development corporation
made up of students and
pareD from the d
orthern H'JIb ScboOl There
are plana to add Wayuc
Slate graduate Ids so-
cial workers for DIs· the
prop
&verly hopes evaa-
tully, growth and positive
CbalI&eS withiD school will .
extend to the urroundiDg
C01DIIIDIlity. .
More speci�, �rly
d like to ys to COD-
nect ideas taught, in Cla!iK5
uch as business and
ecooomia, to real-life .
thereby . 0YiDg
dent compre ell ioll. Also,
thegr· U
Afric:aD-Ameri cla
proclu<u/Writer Brock Peters
and talk aho ho t Oprah
Winfrey, to come d peak
ith t e tudent as role
mode .
fie
ove
suit agaiD t the
miDisaratioD •
of the EP.E. KI.'�LaJII
requirement
ODe of t e tudents,
Patricia WIUtIoc:k, had com­
pie ted 32 graduate credit
hours to ds a de ..
gree, en she forced to
halt matriculation iD the
program because of her
failure to the eu.m.
Backed by the American
Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) aDd Detroi attorney
Ernest Goodman, the
stuclenrs actions represen
ongoing activity at WSU
aimed - .the removal of the
E.P .E. requirement which stu ..
- dents charge discriminate
. again t African-American
and other Third World stu­
dents.
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According to a tatenlent
issued by the Prisoners of
xpert coil f
alcohol . limi s
M1CMrJ ... me her the
leDC:rars�
panel on . . and driving
says although stroager restric­
tions on those age 21 and
under will limit their rights,
ot.he also are eatided to "the
freedom &om be' mashed
into by people 16 years old,"
awl AtkiD, a Michigan
State U�nity oomm a­
tion professor" on a panel
to . Surgeon Geoual C.
Everett Koop 0 t e IDa
media's influence dr
celeOlrJbC:s.
Atkin said t ere is a
�Jqtala' 5lJ'lCargument for keep­
ing the ds out of college
n paper beca most of
the rea� are UDder the legal
drinkiilg . He pared it
to �rtisiag for coaine d
During the 1 89 school
year several demonstra-
tions too pia t WSU
. t the E.P. Hundreds
of signatures e collected
Martina Gifford and sup­
porters calliag for the aboli­
tion of th exam. In March a
group of protestors attempted
to deliver a stack of anti- EPE
pe itions to WSU Pre ident
David Adamany.
Students however were
barred from Adamany's office
at Mackenzie Hall by WSU
Public Safety officers. The
University has st unchly
defended the exam as objec­
rive and necessary to maintain
academic standards at WSU.
Students who are Plantiffs
in the case are also calling for
. immediate granting of their
degrees by WSU and oompen-
lion for what they claim are
many missed job oppor­
tunitie resulting from their
Ia of a Bache degree.
r stricter
on . youth
, .
Although all the alCQhol
ache . ing likely Will not be
removed, Wolf said MADD at
t hopes to' titute "equal
time- for . the dangerso al­
cohol She id public semce
pots should . elude people
ta' about the effects of al­
co 01 on pregoant womeo's
babe
Aaother suggestio de
to the urgeon general' to
decrea e the blood-alc:oho
.threshold at which tho e
under 21 uld be 00 i rd
legally drunk. It ould be -
reduced from .10 percent to
.02 percent, Atkin . d,
Certainly it does restrict
the �ts of young people tq
,I I t
drink and drive,- be said. "But
a driver's license is a
privilege. "
William N. FairgrieYe, ex­
ecutive director of the
Michigan division of the a­
tional Council on Aloo oli m,
said young peop e involved ill
alcohol-related car ccidents
haYe 10 r blood IeYeI content
�evels than dults in such cci­
dents,"
The surgeon general'
panel also uggesterl ra.:sing
the federal exi tax on al­
cohol, prohibv ing happy'
hour and requiring stronge
pe . for first-time drunk
driving offenses.