HPCC receive state grant for
building improvem nt
mOHLAND P - State Rep.
Morris Hood Jr. presented
Highland Park Co munity
Community College °eith a
cbeci for S1oo,000 on MoDday,
I •
Oct. 9.
HPCC had submitted six dif­
feren proposals for a Capital­
Outlay grant. The projects
ranged from S9�,OOO to
$520,000. Among the requested
projects were these:
repair/replace the heating
plant; install air conditioning in
cl ooms; replace incandes­
cent lighting in cia srooms;
repair or replace the plumbing
sy tem; develop and expand
parking f cilities; renovate the
area UDder the Commoos into a
Job Training Retaining Center ..
Dr. Collier He th, HPCC
president, thanked Hood on be­
half of the Board, faculty and
stude body.
The check present tion
ceremony was held in the Col­
lege Commons hich was also
built with the help of a $250,000
Capital Outlay grant or­
chestrated by Hood ap­
proxim tely nine years �o.
�ollege St dents
continue protest
FLOD s. RIGGS
Stll/lRepotter
DETRorr - The protests goes
on for Wayne State University
and Michigan State University
former "Study-Iners."
Though they arc no longer
occupying the Helen Newberry
Joy Administrative Services
Building or the John A. Hannah
Administration Building, stu­
dents still find themselves fIght­
ing to get their demands met by
university officials.
Friday Sept. 29 was a bleak
day for both groups. .
The WSU Board of Gover­
nors Voted on a proposal sub­
mitted by Provost Saaford
Co D on be of udents.
Students charged that
Cohen's proposal a glossed
over draft underrepresentiDg
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their original list of demands.
The Cohen document dealt
mo tly with the proposed
Department of Africana
Studies, omitting other impor­
tant items such. as the formal
recognition of the late Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther'S Birthday and
establishing scholarships for
more African American stu­
dents and granting more
African American profe ors
qualified tenure.
Students also complained
about the university's lack of ef­
fort to involve them in the selec­
tion process of the Department
of Africana Studies chairper-
on. Brend Berrin, as -
sod ate professor from the
University of Pitts urgh wu
chosen to fill the . tion. The
students disappro ed, saying
he w unqualifie. A week
later Berrian deliYerCd a two­
sentence resignatio
On Wednesday Sept. 27
WSU � �ed· a
Board of GOYeI'D01'1 committee
meeting. Afterwardl tudcn
re outr st01'lDiDg of
the meeting beca the board
elected to retain Cohen'
�.!.1 .
pru� .
In reference to the original
. of demands 0 Boardmem- '_'
her suggested that it be dealth :.
with a companion document,
accompanying Cohen's. Stu­
dents disagreed saying th the
Auditol'i explaln delay
. lion of the deputy. This, he
added, was because of resigna-
HIGHLANP PK. _ lions of civil service employees
Gregory Terrell, head of the who were not under M yor
firm responsible for doing the Scott's control.
city audit for 1988-89, which .The city was unable to fill
completed after long delays, these positions, because of a
dimissed Mayor Martha G. lack of qualified applicants able
Scott's charges that his com': Ito pass civil service exams, he
pany responsib e for miss- said, leaving the Finance
ing the state deadline. Department with a shortage in
However, he does not blame staff.
Mayor Scott either and backs' Terrell said he hoped to
up some commen� she made complete the audit for 1988-89
about being hampered b� forces in December, approxima ely
beyond her control. two months after the official
Earlier thi year the state C?ctober deadline. An exten-
warned that if the audit was not sion had been ed from the .
completed by September 12, state.
procedures would be started to Terrell dded that he would
put Highland Park under state be sending out a document con­
receivership. taining recommendatio "to
Scott blamed the delay on help man gement people in
council' decision t6 hire operating more effectively."
Terrell's firm to do the audit, Terrell expressed the ope
rather than one of he own that his ideas ould not be a
choi ceo casualty of political partisan-
Terrell Called this "j talk", ship and disputes between
stating "Weare experienced mayor and council, but seen
and qualified." suggestions which would im-
He cited the experience of prove the finance department's
his firm, Gregory Terrell & efficiency.
Company auditing for the City ---------�- .....
of Detroit, Ypsilanti, Inkster, Payment I legal,
Wayne County �nd the state
auditor general's office. Board ay
He added that he worked
with Mayor Scott's officials.
However, Terrell seemed to
express disagreement with sug­
gestion of some city council
members that M�yor Scott's ad­
ministration itself was respon­
sible for the delays.
He said that before Mayor
Scott came into office, auditors
looking over the records of
former Mayor Robert B. Black­
well wrote a disclaimer of
opinion, unable to vouch for the
city documents that Blackwell
administration . officials
presented.
"The records were in bad
shape," he said. .
Terrell added the situation
became worse, because of a
turnover in the city fmancial
department with the resigna-
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In a report from an Oct. 5
finance committee meeting,
Committee Chair, David
Olms ead presented recom­
mendation.
"The State Board of Educa­
tion has issued a check to the
district for $250,000 to pay a
portion of the project costs
leaving a balance of $312,530.
The Finance Committee
recommended that the Board
accept the $2!5o,ooo from the
State for payment to Cooper
and Lybrand and uthorize an
additional payment' of $3l2,530
to the firm for the fmanical con­
su'tting s rvices projects."
From this recommendation
the board is suppo e to take ac­
tion at a formal board meeting,
..... .,..1 but a Osborne charge the
deci ion was m de without the
entire board's consent.
Olmstead 0 came under
fire because funding from cor­
porate donations, s he
promised, never came in le ving
the board to pay balances such
as the $312,530.
Ii t of demands should be the
prim ry document and no
other. °
While W U's 'Board voted
on the pr 0 t's resolution
MSU students were organizing
anoth r protest claiming
university officials were moving
too slow with their demands.
About 500 students marched
in front of the Administration
Building expressed dismay in
the progress of the university.
Darius Peyton declined to
comment on whether any, fur­
ther .protests may occur.
H� Peyton did dmit that
he has continued coat ct with
sources who helped him form
last pring's" udy-in.·
MSU spoke person Terry
Denbo reported, the studen
protest demands repeated a
resolution pre ented by the
university prior to the "study­
in: .
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