u-
plan,
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ANN ARBOR - A Lakota
(Sioux) Indian ceremony .will
open The University of
Mi hi an' annual com­
memora Ion of Martin Luther
King Jr.'s birthday in,
January.
Kevi n Locke, a lecturer
and consultant on American
Indian values and social
, t r u c t u r es , w i.II beg i nth e
, symposium with a ceremony
.:»: de cribing the Plains Indian
vic w of "the races of
humankind" at 9 a.qt. Jan. i1
in Rackham Auditorium.
Adelaide Luvenia Hi ne
Santord..a regent of the State
University of New York, will"
then deliver the keynote ad­
dr c . The clo ing addre '
will be delivered at 1:30 p.m.
J by Molefi Kcte Asante , chair
of the Department of African
Studies at Temple Univer ity.
Four simultaneou panel
d i: cus s i o ns will begin 'at
10:30 a.m. Jan., 21 . in loca­
tion to he, announced. The
panel will be on "Multicul­
tural I ue and International
Relations: Focus on the Gulf
Cri s i II. "The Future of
Pqver{y':; "Student Wor'ksoop
on As s i rn i la t io n/Cul t uru l
Hegemony: Psychology of
Self-Identity"; and' "Race,
Environmental Hazards and
the New Civil Rights Move­
men t."
INUIVII>UAL ,U-M
dcpa nme nts, units and stu­
dent group also are-planning
core of events including a
King event,
,
candle l ightrne mortal at 7
p.m. Ian. IS at Trotter House
and the annual Uni y March
at 1100n on Jan. 21.
Sanford. keynote peaker
at the Jan, 2] ympo ium,
began her education career as.
an elementary school teacher
in New ork City.vShe later
erved a principal of PUbNC ,
School 21 in Brooklyn's Bed­
ford-Stuyvesant section.
Under her ad mi ni tra lion, the
school earned city-wide
rec-ognition J for p up i l
achievement, teacher morale,
an special p r o'gra ms for
gifted and talented tudent ' .•
Locke, who will make th"e
op ning presentation at the
sympo iurn, this year
won the National Endowment
for the Arts' National
Heritage Fellowship Award.
Locke. a doctoral candidate
in education at the University
of South Dakota, i. a member
Of the National Spiritual As-
ernbly, the governing body'
of the lIO,OOO-member U.S.
Baha'I community,
Asante, whowill give the
'clos ing speech at the lJ-M·
symposium, IS the author of,
hund reds of articles and 26
books including his latest,
,"Kemet, Af'roc cntr icity and
Knowledge," �nd, t.�e,
forthcomi ng "Histor ical and
Cui t u sa l At I a s or African
Americans." Asunic founded
the 'firs,t docto ral program in
African American s t ud i c
"'-
and 'of the, Afrocentri.c
philosophic. movement.
January '.ll, 1991' MICHIGAN CITIZE.
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de H. Mc ree Incentive cholars from Detroit showoff sample taken from Lake
Mi�bigan, W ile aboard the Univer ity of Michiga.n.' research ve set Laurentian.
(From left) Kaibe upuwoon of Renaissance High School, lJ-M tudent leader Vickie
Beene, Aaron Hart of Mar�in Luther King I1igh School, P.byll ha Shinbolster or
MackeDzie'lIi 'School, Randall .Jhons of "ass Technical High School, Bobby
Roberts of Rena is ance Higb School and Michael Oden of Northwestern High chool.
tbe student w'�re among the Me ree Scholars who spent three week la t ummer on
.tbe V-M campu taking classes, conducrlng research and attending cultural
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program ." ,
·Aero 'S the Nation
-,
��o'�yers_ cornmtttee finds: �
''\'Star Wars out-of controt'
.�. '" .
WASHINGTON, D.C, - A
report relea ed Dec. 17 .by
Rep. John Conyer, Jr. (0-
Mi), chairman of the House
. Government· Operations
Commi nee, Slates that Phase
I of the Strare gtc Defen e
System (SDS) suffers from a
lack of stable, de stgn, weak
cot estimates, and inadequate
testing.
"Our findings.indicate that
due to mismangement, poor
planning, nd lack of aggre -
sive overs ight by the Depart­
ment of Defense, SOl is
simply out of control," Con­
yers said. "Futherrnore, with
the goals and techqelogy in a
continual state of flux, there
is no pos ible w y to ac­
curately predict the cost of
this program. Es ti ma te s
from DOD on the cost of
deploying Pha e I have.
ranged from S69.6 billion·t •
S183.6 billion.
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More Cheese,
... Iess' Peanut
',' Butter
- or ny. of it components
cannot be deployed until jhe
Pre ide nt ce r ities to Con­
gress that the s,y tern can do
its intended job of safeguard­
i ng' the U.S. from a nuclear
mi site attack.
WASIIINGTON - Due to in-
. creases in th cost of peanuts
and decrease in the cost of
cheese, the U.S. Department
of'Agriculture will ubstitute
chee e for peanut butter on a
litmited basi in it food as-
As a result, Nel en aid,
peanut butter ha in reased
from less than a dollar per
pound. Meanwhile, the
average price of proce
chee e has dropped from ap­
poximate lj; $1.65 per pound
to $1.20 per pound.
Niles NAACP
electsRev. Halbert .
Jackson
The President i scheduled
to make a Phase J decision in
1993. The report, ba ed on a sistance program, .
series of conyers subcommit- Betty Jo Nel en, ad­
t e oversight hearings, GAO ministrator of US,DA' Food
reports, and Defense Depart- and -Nutitioe Service, which
ment documents, de cribe oversees the food assistance
the present stare of SDS.· programs, aid change in
"We found that no stable, . market conditions have led to
sound deployment plan can falling prices Ior cheese.
exist because or the radic I., Meanwhile, drought reduced
changes made recently by the the ize of this year" peanut
intlu ion of 'brilli nt butter.
pebbles' (a new' weapon sys­
tem consjsti ng .of thousands
of self-contained, space­
based interceptor) into the
de ign and the subsequent
restructuring of the Pha e I
architecture," Conyer aid.
By law. the SDS - or Star •
Wars as it has become known
'ontinued from Puge 1
IL - The Rev. John
R. Halbert has been elected
, p r c s i d e n t 0 f J heN i l c s .
branch
of the
National "TilEY ARE BUILDIN
Associa- more jails and fewer school,
tion for If you pend one year in law
the Ad- school at the Univer. ity of 11-
van c e - lin o i - h.a m P a i g n , i t oW i II
ment of cost S1'()OO, It costs '23,OnO
olored to spend one year in Cook
People. County and $27,000 for one
H a 1-
bert has year on death row."
bee n . Jackson also appealed to
HALBERT pas tor the inmate iohclp hi'm fight .-
. of the the war on vilence, by' warn-
Franklin ing those who are on the out-
AME Church for more than side committing crimes to
a year and resides in Niles. stop the violence.
Other 1991-92 officers .
re Sondra Hodges-Wilson, "You know where the guns
vice president; Clarence and drugs are coming from.
Hodges, treasurer, and You know amebody dealing
Ruth Newton, secretary. with drugs and gun You
The officers will be installed know who i on the way here
Jan.8andthetermsofoffice and since you know rtne m ,
are two years. call \hem on the telephone
. Plans for 1991 also will be nd 'tt! them that this i not
reviewed durin the instal- the place to he on Christmas
Day." ..
lation meeting. The branch
serves southern Berrien and
Cas counties.
<.l i spa r (t y b c t wee n .... lI·n din
tnr the penal and cducati nal
insri tutions. "