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Lee Smith, a member of
the Black Student Union
(BSU) t W yne State
Univer ity (WSU), aid he
c lied for a meeting of all the
Blac student organizations
"so that we could get to know
each other and up port each
other. I'm tired of pas ing
Blac tude nt on c�.mpus
and not receiving positive
re crion . We should com­
munic te with each other.
How much doe it cost to say.
hello?" .
According to WSU' fall
1990 "Student Organizati-on
Roster," there are almo t 200
group and organizations on
campus. Twenty are Black
oriented. The school has up­
ward of 34,000 tudents and
30% or roughly 10,000 are
BI ck.
Several re pre entatives
voiced their concern about
"joining" the BSU.
Smi th assured them that
"no-one will lose autonomy,
we feel that there should be
I an umbrella organization for
BI ck issues and objectives.
We duplicate' too much. The
mai n purpose for this meet­
ing i. for us to network." '
H ci ted the efforts of no
Ie than three organizations
all trying to persuade rap art­
� t KRS-ONE to co me to
c mpu .
MIT" SAID THAT we
should "pool the funds we get
from the univer ity together
and co-spon or events. The
engineer could get a Black.
stronaut to speak on cam­
pu . The pre-med 'students
could get Dr. Ben Carson.
We'll all benefit."
Other topics of discussion
were increasing membership
and helping the freshm n stu­
dents.
students co
Student Council president
Beni ta Miller, who,
remarkably, is al 0 president
of the Alpha Kappa Alpha
orority, said that "the best
way to get the support of the
student body i to unite
around omething pecific.
We'll get more tudents to
participate if we lead by ex­
ample and get concrete
re ults."
EVERYO E WAS recep­
tive to this and agreed to at­
tempt to bring KRS-ONE to
perform or peak.
The fact that the freshmen
were spending too much time
laughing, joking, watching
rV, playing card or pool or
video games in the student
center building concerned
many.
It was suggested that the
freshman students would be
approached and "educated"
on the import nee of respon­
sibility and participation. .
One student interrupted
the meeting explaining that
be couldn't stay becau e he
had a class, but what was
needed wa an African Alum-
r9-15,
ni ociation. "We need that
here real bad" he said. He
pplogized for barging in and
trutted out. '
Raye Lynn Russel, student
council member at-large, an­
nounced the formation of the
Minority and Wom�n -Affairs
A visory Committee. '
"THE COMMITTEE was
composed to make recom­
mendation concerning mat­
ters in the minority and
women affair within the
university. It will 'review and
make recommendations on
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I.
MIcliIGAN CITIZEN
andicapped tell S ate Legislators:
I
. liS op making deals with
The Handicapper CIUCU
of the Michigan .Democratic
Party announced it i eeking
help from the state', Black
Caucu to head off a
proposed medic I bill. which
it fears could promote medi-,
cal neglect and di crimina­
tion gain t people with
h ndicap , particularly those
ho are poor or BI ck.
The bill, H.B. 4016, ould
allow third partie (or agents)
to withdraw ordinary care,
uch a in ulin for di betics
or even food nd water, hen
a patient i uncon ciou or
medic lJy incompetent -
en when the patient h s a
g od chance for recovery.
The caucu arn that
nothing in the bill' could
prevent the e agent from
determining th t a patient i
Ii'e
the overall status 0 mir.0rity
and women students as far a
recruitment, support ser­
vice, placement ser ices,
and non-discriminati nand
affirmative action policies
are concerned, Russel
reported. "
S urged the tud nts to
support it.
The meeting elided with
Miller tating that "we will
make the Africana Studie
Committee permanent.
That's the committee of the
future. "
N m�s and numbers were
exchanged and everyon left.
YPSILANTI- WILLOW RUN NAACP recently held It F Dinner and
attracted a crowd of over 4 person. e er 0 he r ab t educati n. Dlgnltarle
included, from I-rt: Rev. S.L. Roberson; Ethel II w rd, n t lee-pre ident; Atty Anita
-Horne Jenkin, keynote pe ker; Mr. Ho lie Rober on, cho-c ' ir P tr lc!
Horne-McGee; and Raymond G. Mullin , Dr nch Pre ident.
better off dead than living
with a handicap.
Ron Seigel, corresponding
ecretary for the caucus, ex­
pres ed concern about
propaganda in the general
media nd in medical jour­
nals t ting that those with
handicaps are "inferior
quality lives, second class
Grade B or C persons, it is
acceptable to destroy."
HE OTED THAT the
mo t vulnerable victims of
this philo opby would be the
poor r cial minorities.
re weakest in ociety,
He said offici I in medi-
cal organization were
quoted in the pre a up-
porting euthana ia (mercy-
jJling) to reduce the cost of
medic I service .
"This is like advocating
the shooting of poor people
in order to reduce welfare
costs," Seigel said.
The sponsor of the bill,
State Repre entative David
Hollister, aid that under
H.B. 4016 the agents would
be cho en by the patient and
. be their trusted repre­
entatives.
The caucus replies that
nothing in the bill would im­
po e penaltie on health care
in titutions for pre uring or
forcing a patient to chose' an
agent or a ure the patient
opportunity to know their
right ,the a�e protection
we give to su peered mur­
derer ."
SEIGEL CHARGED that
the bill h gone through a
sen tt commit ee without
ade uate cruti y, because
Hoi iter has t reatened to
u e hi power chai r of a
key mmittee i the ho e to
blo a bill 0 llawing a -
si t d suicide.
e caucus a rees with a
ban on assisted uicide, be­
cau it is now unclear th t
as i ted suicide illegal and
no ne know hat. will be
dete mined by t e courts.
" i thout lega or court im­
pos d re triction on a si ted
sui ide, it wo Id be open
ea n on hand capped per­
on ," he said. "Patient
coul be killed ght and left
wit the tate ha ing to prove
bey nd a reaso able doubt
that hey did not ant to die."
t e caucu
on a i ted
1
uicide should. p
condition.
"Hollister mu t stop
making political d al with
our live ." he aid, Stop the
poll tical gam s."
The caucu u ges all
people to write lette s to their
tate representative upport­
ing an as isted sui ide bann
without conditions nd write
to their state repres ntatives
opposing H.B. 4016