In defense of Cong. Gus Savage
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DETROIT � A group of
ichigan St te U oiversity
state News· reporter say,
campus daily ne paper'
when it comes to racial
d sexu I harrassment.
T 0 Hi P nic, one A ian,
one white and si Afric n
eri e n r r er
Editor-in-Chief, John Secor, 14
deman Sunday April 8 and
ed off their jobs charging
him of codimitting bi and
reprimanding aff accused
of exual and racial harrass­
ment,
The ten staff reporters
d not to return until each
demand i met, said Darius
Peyton, group spo esperson,
adding they feel t ey don't have
to put �p ith Secor's non­
responsive ttitude any more.
Secor's resignation i the
group's first demand.
Secor, calling the walk-out a
". bor dispute: says he ha
"bent over backwards" dealing I
with staff issues.
Students charge, "Secor per- .
petuates the problem, and his
• ck of understanding of their
• ues is exactly wby they walked
o Sunday before a weekly staff
meeting.
In a Feb. 2 memo, prior to
Nation of Islam Minister Louis
Farrakhan's Peb. 18 camp
. . t, Secor is quoted, . ng two
r 0 "T � ation
of Islam in hicago agam and
fmd out if Farrakhan is intend­
ing to bring his Uzi-toting boys
to MSU, If he is, see how this
flies with DPS (Department of
Public Safety)."
Student reporters also
charge, Secor ccepted a full­
expe paid trip to Isr el the
Summer of 1989, after he on
the paper' editorialship elec-
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Subiect % of the budget Grad
J FY89-90 FY90-91
34.6%
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Governor: "Pumping
money into system
won'thelp schools'
duc tton:
budg
void
I teroid
appro ch'
By
Capital News Service
tANSI 'G - orne educators
y the answer to ichigan's
education problem i to pump
mon y into th system, but the
governor's top budget analysis
says "the steroid approach" to ,
school financing is not the
answer ..
The sounder approach is
that taken by Gov. James
Blanchard, who propose
balancing the quality of educa­
tion . th the quantity of money .
spent on educati by the ate,
. d Do Dr, director of
e office of revenue and tax
� cting direCtor of
the edu . budgeting office.
Blan d to increase
SdlOOI aad fUDC:IiJ' III by more thaD
14 perceat, from $6l2.5 million
to S700 million.
Student: Governor James Blanchard
Subject: 1990-91 proposed budget
.' .
Education's total hare of
the st te budget h grown from
33 percent in 1983 to 36 percent
in 1991. The total state expendi­
ture for K-12 would incre by
6.5 percent, or S200 million. But
Blanchard want schoo to be
more accountable for quality
improvement in the school,
Drake aid.
He . d there has to be a shift
in under anding to 100 at
K-12 education. -We are being
more pre' about t we ex­
pect out of the education sys­
tem," Drake . d.
front of kid , or steady
teacher, kids are not going to
learn much," .
He aid there are trings at­
tached. The st te i demanding
that public schools report to the
tate and the public bout how
students ate doing in the public
schools.
tate Rep. Bill Martin, R­
B ttle Creek, said educations
begins with teacher nd a stu­
dent. And he believ too much
money is being spent on non­
educational rvi . He . d
there is too much emph . on
the business-side of education,
Associate State Superinten­
dent for �I.nnjng and School
Man gement J ame Phelp
� · Drake. oney .
necessary, it . key to
quality education," he id.'
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