•
DAVIS,
e ior vice pre Ide t of
T e Equitable I
Co. i Ne Yor
recently . a appol t d to
tbe alion I Corporate
Council of I terloc en
Center for tbe Arts. T e
Interlochen Natlo al Cor­
por te Council is a leader-
hip upport roup of
corporate executive bo
Identify wit Interloc en'
ml ion to offer tale ted
youn people a oppor­
tunlty to develop t eir
creative kill. Oavls
gr du ted the
U Iver ·ity of Ark n
Pine Bluff wit
b che lor' degree In bu I·
e dmini tr lion nd
e rned m ter' degree
In educt tion from W yne
t te Univer ity. D vi
n t tbe Equit ble in
7, nd by 1971 wa
named gency m nager in
Detroit: He wa elected
full vice pre ident in 1974
nd moved to Equit ble
he dquarter in ew York
City.
inority
enrollment up
at u-
A ARBOR - Minority
tudent enrollment at The
Un ivc r s it y of Michigan
reached it highe t level in 16
year this fall, increa ing
10.8 percent from 5,454 to
6,044, according to prclimi­
nary figure released Oct. 17.
Minority student. nov
cornprisc 18.2 percent of the
33,123J.tudent hoare
U .. citizens or permanent
re idcrns enrolled in degree
credit program on the Ann
Ar r campu , up from 16.6
percent la t year.
African Amcricans now
compri e 7.1 percent of the
tudent body. up from 6.5
pcr ent l a t year; A ian
Am rican 7.5 percent. up
from 6.9 percent; and
Hi p ni c 3.2 percent, up
form 2.9 percent. ative
Americans as a .percentage of
the tudent body rem ined at
O.S percent.
NOVEMBER 11·
MICHIGA CITIZE
PAG 3
Conflicting policies hurt prisoners,
Commentary
By D nyR.Coo
State of Michigan ad­
mi nis trators faced federal
contempt sanctions recently
Ior failing to comply with
Court-mandated higher
education for convicted
felons. While the head of the
Michigan Corrections Com­
mission insisted everything
po sible was being done to
comply with the court order,
Detroit Federal Judge John
Feikens warned prison offi­
cials to bring toothbrushes to
the contempt' hearing.
Holding innocent people
in contempt of court does
nothing about the
Legislature's refusal to fund
COllege programs in prison,
aid Governor Blanchard's
legal dvi or, echoing
Department of Corrections
Director Robert Brown's
remarks that "the Department
is supportive" of education
programs but it can't imple­
ment them "without legisla­
tive appropriation ."
Conflicting pol ic ies
regarding crime and correc­
tions lay at the base of the
"bad blood" between the
federal judiciary and the
ta te of Michigan, ob ervers
insist.
The more progres ive no­
tion of the federal govern­
ment that crime is more than
a conflict between the in-·
. d ividual and the social en­
vironment isn't embraced by
the State of Michigan accord­
ing to sources in and outside
these agencies of govern­
ment. Instead, Mlcbigan cor­
rectional ad mini trato rs
(cri mi nologists, legi�lators,
and prison off cials) design
policies that i 0 ate the in­
dividual from i or her en- .
vironment.
After puni
U LIC
rning crime
nd correction forces a te-
(ul and self-def ating respon­
ses to the probl m of broken
human relation hip (crime),
some uggest, ncluding At-
torney Gen ral Dick
Thornburgh. .
"We live i a complex
world, and the pressure of
competition for good-paying
jobs hinges 0 literacy,"
-Thor nbur gh s id recen .. l y,
noting that sch oling is in­
tended to raise he chance of
felons not retur ing to crime
once leaving rison. His
remarks Io l lo ed the an-
nouncement of higher educa­
tional standards for ederal
prisoner which will take ef­
fect early n xt year. These
tandard include attending
classes until a 2th rade
reading level i re chino and
high school equi alency d -
gree is obtain d acc rdin to
the Justice Department.
Michigan' pri on sy tern
contain a lea t 18,000
prisoners (about 60%) who
read t or below the 6(1\­
grade level, the DOC ac­
knowledge. Jedge Feiken
noted that the people who
uffer while th State fight
him on every order for pri on
improvement are the
prisoners. Other disagree,
however, insi ting that the
state, which is contesting
Fei kens' o rd r . for higher
education in the U.S. Court
of Appeals in Cincinnati,
may be the ultimate loser.
BUF BANQUET
TO Y BROW (center) w
the keynote peaker t the
recent BI ck United Fund of
Michl an 2 th Aaniver ry
I Benefit Dinner. Brown. poke
to the need for the African
American community to keep
it money in the community.
He u ed the ex mple 0 such
benefit, urgin the not be
held at f ncy hotel uch a the
We uln where the dinner wa "
Ib t r the r in churth b e­
ment in th community. With
8rown r Hlghl nd Park
M yor M rth cott nd r­
I nd Ja ger, P t 81 c
Unlted Fund ch ir. (M rcu
p. tton photo.)
Nation turning off to drugs, exper says
"The nation may be in the
process of turning off at least
some drugs," says Dr. Joyce
De Haan, the Medical Dircc­
tor of Gateway Recovery Set­
vices in Kalamazoo.
She cites a recent rudy
spon ored by the ational In-
t i t utc on ·Drug Abu e
( IDA). which howed:
. - Use of cocaine i down
by about 46 percent ince
1987;
- U e 0 f rna ri j u a n a is
down 28 percent, with most
of the drop in the pa t year;
- 70 percent of teenager,
up from 63 percent just a year
ago. think even occa ional
use of marij uana or cocai ne i
ri kyo
Dr. DeHaan aid that the
decline howed the same
downward trend for white ,
Black and Hispanic, though
it was more marked in whites.
She indicated that the
study i reinforced by
another NIDA report which
hows a drop in the number
of emergency room visit f r
co c a� n e - rei ate d pro b I em.
The report howed a 4 per­
ccnt drop in the first quarter
of 1990, compared to the last
quarter of 1989, and a 27 per­
cent drop ince the third'
quarter of 1989.
"Althoughthis i a hopeful
ign, there are still adult and
tcenager here that need
treatment. Furthermore.
there are orne indication
that although teenager ar
turning away from drug.
they are turning to alcohol,"
the doctor said.
For more information
about al ohol and/or drug ad­
diction, telephone Gateway
R ov ry crvice at 616-
82-9
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with A C and elson Man­
dela.
Afrikaner deception. go
on and on hindering progress
to de mo l i h apartheid and
I unch a no n-r ac i I South
Africa. A C ha already
uspcndeu its "arm trug-
gle" in readlinc to par­
ticipate in negotiation for a
new constitution.
But d i l y, de Klerk
hatche new trategems to
·delay tho e long-awaited
negotiations. He ha many
ready excuses bccau e apart­
heid ha many facet • and i a
hydra-headed monster with
m ny tentacle .
What should be done in
Soutb Africa is wh twas
done in amibia to end.apart­
heid and white domination.
There must be external inter-
vention, and U.N. mu t move
into South Africa to monitor
the entire proc of olving
the racial problem and scuin
negotiation' on cour c.
Although it wo-uld
de irable for Black nd
white to olve their
country's racial probl "1
joi ntl y. it cannot happen be
cau e Afrikaners are th
cau e of the problem, and r
arrogant, stubbo en and in
tra igent.
A king Afrikaner and
African to olve the problem
i a prepo terou a a king
the victim of mugging to set­
lie the matter of hi mugging
With the man who robbed
him. .