EAST LANSING - Amid
thunderous applause and cries
of "Al1ahu Akb r (God i
Great) from a capacity crowd
an call
of bout 4,000 at the MSU
. Audi torium February 18,
Minister Louis Farrakban
said tbat MSU is a "modern
day plant tion" that thinks
nothing of Blac studeats.
"Nobody care if you
$uduate ith �egree, but
put tbe ball in that hoop," Far­
rakhan aid. "You (MUS) use
Black people to build your
credit. "
Farrakh n, leader o..f the
U' 'a
p
,
Nation of I lam, said that it
was "wicked" of the univer­
sity to give BI ck student a
degree in Black studie that
they wilJ not be able to use.
·Wb t kind of policies re
they going to'make to belp out
the Black community ith
their degrees in Black
studie ? be aid. "You
(Black tudent) don't need to
pend S5,000 a year for four
years to learn BI ck studie , I
can give you a bibliograpby
of boo to tudy on your
own."
America .
arrior
LA sINQ-Micnigan'
drug warrior ju t got a $13.6
ion t in the rm from a
al grant.
. r r nt hich
nounced la t ee, i
mil ion increase 0 e r Ia t
year' aid P t Cuza director
of the ichigan Office: of
Criminal Justice.
But the increa e in federal
doJlar 1 not enough to battle
the inva ion of cocaine,
heroin and other drugs into
the tate, Cuz aid.
"It' never enough; he
"I WA T YOU to under­
stand our pain for the 400
FARRA BA LSO years of hell you put u
condemned attempts by the through. It' not h te ... it's
Jewi h community and the pain," he aid. "You cannot
university to re cind funding deprive another per on of <>
from As One, the Black stu- humanity becau e you will
dent or,anization re ponsible 10 e your humani ty in tbe
for hi appearance at MSU, process."
because tbey referred to Far- Out of the capacity crowd
rakhan a an anti-Semite. of 4,000 attending Mini ter
"How could yu aJJow 12 Farr akhan ' speech at the
Jewish students and a rabbi to MSU Auditorium, there were
take a ay S5,000 from a everal while student in the
regi tered tudent organiza- audience. some of the e tu- -
tion on- your campu and then dent aid Ii tening to F rr - .
call me r cist?" he said. ban pea broke down num-
Farrakhan took t me to ber of mi conception they
prai e the courage of ictoria h d read or heard about in the
Lyl ,the pre ident of A media.
One, for going "throu h helJ" D vid Bivin an Engli h
to bring him on camp . ophomor who i white aid
An wering critic who ay that F rra h n' me ge wa
that he a te chcr of h te nd not one of b te.
violence Minister Farr han "Hi over 11 me age wa
ai" hi mcs age to Black tu- one of more uni ty and
��:;:�ifit0illt�O.D�O�filih�t.re�d .. ,.,�eq lily mong t the r ce ,"
Biv n aid.
Michelle Tinti, multi-dis-
ciplin ry junior fr Mil-
do 18
unit
int
ge
13.6 millio
id. "But I thin we're final­
I y ccing enough money to
make n impact."
Mi c hi g a n i one of 10
state so far to receive a
chunk of the $44 .7 million in
gr nt money appropriated
under the federal Anti-Drug
Abu e Act of 1988.
ceo DJ G TO
recent tudy conducted by the
tate Office of Drug Agen­
cie tate government alone
spend about $250 million an­
n ua l ly to age tbe war
gain I drugs.
he federal money will be
used (0 finance community
policing of high crime rea,
Michigan' 23 drug inve tiga­
rive units and provide money
for a i tant pro e cutor
or ing on d�g case , Cuza
aid.
It also ill fund treatment
• progr m in prisons and coun­
ty jails nd provide additional
money to labor torie th t
te t confi cated drugs for
evidence in courtroom .
Sixty percent of the gr nt
money will be allocated to
local juri diction for drug I
enforcement program begin=-'j'
ning March 23, be said .•
Soine drug warrior are
aying the money-can't come
too 000.
ST TE POLICE record
show that reported drug ar­
rest have gone up Ir o m
17.301 in 1986 to 27,114 in
1988. Record also show a
ri e in cocaine and heroin in
the tate.
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