Caddying pays off
tor Detroit students
Kudo to four Detroit high
Ichool students, ho were.
prolent d ith four-year
Icholarships from the Bvan
Scholar Founs! ion at la t
T aday Detroit' school board
eetin .
C I Technic 1 Hi h School
loniorl Tod Willon, brothers
a e and Shawn Ward, and
Rc aiaunce Hig School
I.aior Kevin Siefker ore the
Blacks can·
fight media
•
racism
b1 Lea A. SalDuel
Corr •• ,oNl'nt
, " , . tereotypical images of
African-American.. seen
throuahou\ the history of print
and electronic media in this
country, can be transcended and
overcome through the use :Of
Black economic power. This' is
the view of Gerald Smith, who e
February 20 lecture on Racism In
The Media was sponsored by the
Department of Africana Studies
at Wayne St te University.
"If we are people that com­
prises 10.8 percent of the popula­
tion, our television viewing
habits suggest that we comprise
16 percent of the market," said
Smith, manager of community
development at WTVS-Channel
56. "This means that our con­
sumer dollars repre ent some-
<;ontlnued �n Paae
Caddie Schol r hip, named
after the 191 amateur U.S.
Open champion, who placed
his prize money in a foundation
in order to keep his amateur
tatus.
The fouadation tarted with
the $600 in prize money
donated by Evan and ex­
panded, where now it budget
is over 3. m!l�ion a ye r ,
,
a. � .A., say he ants to
major in Industrial Design at
the University of Michigan.
He a pires to de ign c rs for
General Motors .. Shane said
he like golf, and the only
reason he' didn't play on the
golf team was because he
played on the football team.
Continued on Pel
T xpayer
by MICHAEL SCHILLICUTT
Muskegon Correspondent
David B., not his real name,
got out of prison expecting to
find work in his community. He
had served eighteen months of a
two-to-four year prison sentence
thinking that h had repayed his
debt to society.
But David B. found closed
" ociety" doors. He was an "out­
cast. rf An ex-felon. He was also
African-American.
Over eighty-percent' of
Michigan' prison population
consists of two, three-time or
CorrupofUl."t
Ho ever, efforlJ to oppo e the
cu continue.
Opponent 0 oclal service
cut will hold a Community
Forum to wor out .trategy
Saturday March 16 from 3-5 p.m,
, at -tbe Ca I United Methodi t
Church, 3901 Ca . Spokesper­
on ay aU concerned citizens
re welcome to come.
Under ay also, i a court uit
by the UAW, the Michigan As­
oclation for the Education of
Young Children, individual
pay for
reclptem nd d y care providers
to block the M rch 1 cuts.
W yne County Circuit Court
Judge Loui Simmons granted
the governor an extra week to
prepare his ca e, which in effect
permi tted the cut to go into ef ..
feet at le t temporarily.
MAUREEN TAYLO , head
of the State Fair Branch of tbe
Welf re Right Organization
(WRO) urged people to comc 0
BLAC IN THE HALL OR FAME, tb,·.t· e productlo cODtlDDIDlat MUllc Han
for aD exteDd d perfo ace, u beeD ODored wit . a re olutloD frO tb. WaYDe CODDty
Co 11.loD, .po .ored by Co 1 •• 10ner Ed a Bell. DurlBI tb. pre •• DtatloD I tbe
co IDII.loD'. leal.latlYe e a.ber (left to Ilbt) are Co I 10Den Jaeld L. Currie, Kay
Beard, aDd Ricardo Solo 0 ; Flip ra.er, cnator, Barrator. d director; J.D. Doulla t crlpt
a�d dlalolue writer; Co Bell; KeD Ke.drlekl, lie arnDler; aDd Co Kevla F. Kelly.
Doctor.
fleeing.
the poor
By LATONYA IT
C.,U.l New. Servlc.
LANSl o-Pre nant
women in urb n and rural
are could be ufferin be-
cause of .a lac of
obltetricians and
ynecologi ts willin to prac­
tice in poor reas, po fbly
due to high m lpractice in-
surancc. .
� prenatal health care sur­
vey done two yea 0 by the
'Michi an Depar ment of
Public He lth indicate that
10 percent of Michi an ho pi­
tall it obstetrical unit
cho e to cl e them. One of
the reuon cited m t often
for closing the units u a
lack of phy iciaOJ wilUna to
pay the blah �rice of malprac­
tice Insurancc'that com itb
an obstetrical practice.
All seven rural providers
that participated 'In t ltudy
and clo ed I units cited blah
insurance as the rea on for
clo in .
OBT OIT- Tho e on locial
service received pproximately
17 le in their chec at th
beginnin of March. La t w e
ichi an Governor John En ter
.proposed further cut, startin
next October including the total
elimination of aid in General
sistance and Job Start for th
without children who did not
have a handicap.
Commentary
more- repeated offenders. Well
over three-fourths of the Itate's
36,OOO-plus incarcerated men
and women are from poor and
uneducated backgrounds. And
most of them are Black.
While most offenders come
from broken homes and one
parent homes, 8 out of 10 com­
itted felonies wtiile under the in­
fluence of alcohol or naroctics.
vo
al
yers Ai ociatlon, laid the
lack of doctors in urban and
rural areas hould not be
blamed on high io uranee
costs. She said here are plen­
ty of doctors, but they only
want to practice in rich.lub-
Continued 0 Pa e 2
non- rehabili a
ion
govenor elect, Michigan found cuts, the state had already axed
itself buried under a million-dol- educational and vocational
lar deficit. programs within the DOC
Governor John Bn ler has designed to provide Inmates with
vowed to erase Michigan' Itag- neces ary skill for employment
gering deficit. on returning to SOCiety. This
The governor's "double-edged should arou e every honest tax­
sword" pierced many social payer who cares where and how
programs for the needy, but their tax dollars are spent.
spared the Department of Correc- The lock-em-up-and-throw-
tions (DOC) from -masstve away-t�e-key concept will only
layoffs. By ctosing several ' keep Incarcera�ed men and
prisons, Engler has created wo�en H.ke sardine tacked in
another problem taxpayers ill society wareho� e. Lacking
be forced in the long run to foot. adequ te ��catlonal an.d voca­
Most Prison are now double- tional training, many Inmates
bunking. will return to ociety just like
Before the current budget Continued on Pa.e 2'
DO ITA RO S: "It' new
plan for the destruction of
Black people. Now he's ju t
getting with the other govern­
ment of the other oppressive
countrie to devi e the next
step."
CASES LIKE David B. are
common. Every incarcerated
person c ts the state almost
$30,000 'per year, ju t to keep
confined. Thi astounding figure
is more than an adequate income
for a �amily of four. An it la the
taxpayers who must bear the'
responsibility and carry the bur­
den for keeping inmate locked
up behind bars.' ,
Under ex-governor James
Blanch rd, MiChigan prisons
multiplied to become the state's
second largest industry.
At fir t, it appeared a though
stiffer penalties and Ion er sen­
. tences' would alleviate much Of
the crime problem plaguin our
nation's streets.
At the turn of 1991, and a new
'-
DAVID BU TON: "It'l per­
taining to the caucasion race,
.. opposed to people of color.
I think people of color should
come together to fight thi new
policy."
DA RELL ADAMS: "I
think Bu h' "New World
Order" is the me as the "Old
World Order," with Europeans
domin ting over people of
color."