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Worker rally
WASHINGTON - Hundred
of joble worker, channng
"Layoff Bu h" and "26 weeks
i not enough" rallied
Wedne day July 25 on the
step of the Labor Department
for an extension in
unemployment benefi t .
The crowd called for
Congres and Pre ident Bu h
to extend unemployment
payment to those who e
che�k top after six months.
Sever I members of
Congress, addressing the
protester under a blazing sun,
agreed.
But Bu h's pokesrnan,
Marlin Fitzwater, said
Wedne day that pre ident
believe the economy is in
recovery and would likely veto
emergency legislation to
extend unemployment benefits.
Mugabe makes
sanctions appeal
WASHINGTON - Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe
urged President bush on
Wednesday July 24 nol to
relax any more s nctions
_ against South Africa until its
shift away from apartheid is
'''irreversible. "
Mugabe, in 2 1/2-hours of
talks and a working luncheon
at the White House, also
olicited more U.S. aid to help
his country's economic shift
from Marxist-Leninism to a
market economy.
Bush, in public, skirted
"courage" in abandoning
socialism, and promised, "We
will continue to look for ways
to help you invigorate
Zimbabwe's promising private
sector." ,
Mugabe, in departure
remarks, said southern Africa
was "still confronted by
apartheid despite the repeal of
the acts that legalized it."
Mandela in
Jamaica
KINGSTON, JAMAICA-,
- Hundreds of cheering'
supporters surged through
police lines Wednesday July
25 to reach Nelson Mandeta in
a street celebration with a
reggae beat in this Caribbean
island nation.
The enthusiastic crush
briefly trapped Mandela,
leader of'South Africa's large t
Black opposition group, and
Prime Mini ter Michael
Manley in a limou inc a they
arrived at a downtown hotel
from the international airport.
'SPO'ILIGHT 0
VOLUNTEERS
If anyone knows an individual
who has done outstanding volun­
teer work for Highland Park, con­
tact the Michigan Citizen at 869-
0033 or write us at P.O. Box O3S6O,
12541 Second St. Highland Park,
MI. 48203. '
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Number of Black'
den Ists staqnat
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Corre pondenl
Every year ince 1974 over 160
elem ntary chool tuden e part
in on of four, ix-wcck H on
Science Tr ining Programs pon-
ored by We tern Michigan
Univer ity's Bl ck American
Studies Dep rtment.
Dr. l..eRoi Ray, Jr., farmer, cien­
ti t, and profe or of black
Americana Studle , began the
project with th hope that hands-on
laboratory activiti would increase
the number of Black/minority tu­
dents enrolling in cience course in
high chool and college therefore,
addre ing the problem of low
minority repre entation in the
cience and engineering fields.
Students divide their activitie
between the laboratory at Dr. Ray'
farm in Bloomingdale d room
, tUdy on U camp .: Along
with learning to use computers,
micro cope , bal nee c les,
graduated cylinders, metric rulers,
and other lab equipment, the tudents
also become expert in the use of
rake , hoes, and water h es, in the
summer.
. Sherrie Fuller, Project Coor­
dinator, pointed out that the summer
se ion i two months long. "It gives
these future farmers and cienti ts
time enough to harvest their
produce," she explained. She said
her degree in biology wouldn't have
been so hard to come by had he been
as well-prepared as the Hands-On­
Science tudents.'
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i' i y?
Drs. Nath n nd Julia Hare have plans cl
for a newly-designed public school
system that will" ducate every Black
man, woman nd child. "
by uel
taffWriUr
In report rete d by th Califomi -b
Think 11 nk P ir of ed tion expe
pI n to do w 1, in light 0
incre ingly corned im ibl
of lnner-ci ty public hool.
Dr. N than H re, noted p ychologi nd
sociologi t, nd his wife, Dr. Juli Hare, former
cher and now a motivational lecturer nd author,
ve revealed "THE HARE PLAN to Overhaul the
Public School and Educate Every Blac Man,
Womlln nd Child."
According to the report, The Hare Plan "cu
through the popular myt and half-me ures th t,
d pite hype and hope, have failed up to now."
"We've had parental involvement efforts, trike,
boycot , threats of choot clo ure nd debat over
money," ay Julia. "We've had 1I-Bl ck male-im­
mersion choots, tuition vouchers, • choice, ' bing,
integration, mentoring, magnet chool and corpora
bandaids," he add ,emph izin ineffectivene of
the efforts.
The Hares view other proposed solutions in a
imilar light. Th Y believe that the concept of multi­
cultural education=curriculum ed on teaching the
historical contribution of all racial and ethnic
groups-is "white ociety' ploy to to rerun intergra­
lion, " or a form of "curricular bing." They point out
the "fatal mi take Blac leaders almo t made" in
advocating the withdrawal of Black children from
athletics on the umption that the action "would
automatically generate a race of Black super­
scholars."
"para­
parents" and
"parenteachers, "
it proposes a
greater amount
of parental par­
ticipation, "while
taking care not to
replace
(te chers) but to N tb H re
invoke the services and untapped abiliti of the
biological parents," she warm. The plan empasizes,
however, that the sy tern must move far beyond
parental involvement to integrate school, home, com­
munity and society.
. PLANS TO RAISE teacher credential require­
ments and improve teaching techniques are also fruit-
1 , the Hare claim. "'Vi udon't have to have a person
with a master' degree from Harvard to teach a first
grade or fourth grade child how to read. And we've
already got too many techniques," says the report.
Sex education also com under fire in the Hare
Plan. "Sex education, including throwing condoms at
chool kids," ays Julia "can readily be een as a
mok creenif it i done by those who have ruined
Black literacy education and can't even teach Black
kids how to read, let alone dance or do sex or manage
their exuality. "
. TIlE HARE PLAN, however, does more than
shoot down previously-offered solutions to the
public-school education dilemma. The Plan also
proposes new wers. It describe the influence and
management of edu lion to be a two-way flow, with
communication and participation operating in pat­
terns that the Hares have termed "centrifugal," mean­
ing outwardly from the school system, and
"centripetal," which describes movement in toward
the school system from the outside community. The
couple believes that many of the difficulties in public
NATHAN HARE says that The Hare Plan diffe
from previous chool-reform package in that the
others are outdated. "In the reform movement and its
inventions," he ays," orne people have the wheel,
ome have the horse-drawn carriage, orne have the
combustible engine, but The Hare Plan i the
automobile, the Cadillac."
"Thes trategies are guaranteed to fly, guaranteed
to work," says Julia Hare, "because they program­
matically help the home and the community and
society to, in turri, influence the chool. It
Authors of Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood:
The Passage, the Hares were influential in creating the
contemporary "Black rites of passage" movement. Dr.
Julia Hare has taught in public schools and at Univer­
sity of San Francisco and the District of Columbia
Teachers College, among others. Dr. Nathan Hare
wrote the Conceptual Proposal for a Department of
Black Studies," which became a model for Black
studies programs nationwide in 1968 and 1969.
IN A RELATED effort by WMU
to interest Black and minority stu-
, dents in Science and, Engineering,
the Summer Engineering Experience
at Western Michigan University
(SEE- WMU) took place on campus
ANN ARBOR-The absolute num­
ber of Black dentists has increased
annually, but the percentage of Black
dentis has remained virtually un­
changed ince 1970, according to a
report from the Univer ity of
Michigan's recent conference on
"Black Dentistry in the 21st Cen­
tury."
According to the report, 12 per­
cent of the U.S. population is Black,
but only 2.6 percent of the 142,000
U.S. .dentists were Black in 1988--
the arne percentage in 1970 and
1980. ,
The relative dearth of Black den­
ti ts is one significant factor in the
�igh level of oral disease found
among low income, poorly educated
and di advantaged groups in the
United State, said conference
keynote peaker Audrey F. Manley,
deputyassi tant ecretary for health
in the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
Increasing the number of Bl ck
dentists i important, he explained,
for "minority practitioners are more
likely to locate and practice in medi­
cally underserved areas and to erve
low income individual.
"THE FACT IS," 'he added,
"that minority America ' rely in
need of practicing phy icians, den­
tists, researchers, academicians, and
scienti ts who are sensitive to cul-
the wee of July 14-20. High bool
minority studen from So
west Michigan got a chance to ,
the potential of careers in enai r-:
ing. Now in i second year, the pro- :'
gram h attracted tuden from
Albion, Battle Creek, Benton Mar ..
Black polltlcal women convene in Detroit
by CARLA HU ON
Staff Writer
Rainwater said, "Political action
is what fuels our society and I'm
really excited about our conference
because we are a group of political­
ly active women who have been
around for a long time. Detroit will
be the site for some exciting politi­
cal debate and the formuJauon of
some new approaches to some very
oppressing social problems."
paigning, and a forum on educating
Black youth for survival.
Several national role models
were also invited to participate in
activities including Oprah Winfrey,
td.C. Hammer, Rev. Judith Howid
of the Univer ity of Bo ton, Alexis
Herman, Executive Director of the
Democratic National Committee,
Congresswoman Barbara Rose
Collins, President of the National
Conference of Black Mayors Unita
Blackwell and Barbara Lee, As­
semblywoman rom Oakland,
California.
Donaldson stated, "We are
recognizing each of them for their
outstanding contributions to the
proce of political action."
T e ational Conference is
scheduled for August' 8 to August
11 t the Westin Hotel.
Dr. LeRoI Ra1, Jr.
bor, Com tock, Covert,' O�and
Rapids, Mattawan, and Mus n.
While on camp , tuden lOOk
part in exploratory labo ... tory _
sions in such fields as computer ..
aided design, manufacturina
anal ysis, paper engineerina. prind
technology, electrical engineeri
and physics and electronics.
, According to Audrey L.
Mayfield, director of fre hmen
programs in eQ&iDeerina at WMU
the activi tiel arc intended t�
motivate participan • guidfDI tbom '
in their selection of pre-coUe cour- I
ses.
Former Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm, Founder and Chairper-
on of the National Poll· Con-
gr of Black Women (NPCBW)
and Dr. C. Delore Tn , an -
cia! of the tional Democratic
Party held a media briefing July 17
to promote the upcoming 5th bi-en­
nial conference of the National
Political Organization.
Over 1,000 politically ctive
omen fro every tate are ex­
pected to ttend d participate in
the National conference to be held
in Detroit.
Founder of the Octroi Chapter
and Founding member of the na­
tional organiza 'on, Annette Rain­
w ter, d that very ex­
cited that the national meeting w
being held in Detroit this summer.
ACCO 01 G TO Detroit
Ch pter Pre . dent Marie Farrell
Donaldson, participants will ex­
change views on such issues the
impact of the 1991 census on the
political future of Black people, in­
fluencing the sy tern at the state
lobbying level, the stresses of being
Super om and Wor ing
Wom , nding in male/female
relationships and how it affect a
family's homelife, political cam-
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'turaland ethnic distinctions wbocan I'
serve as mentolS and role models for
our youth. " I
Manley also noted that the in-
cidence or oral cancer is 30 percent I
higher among Blacks than whi
and that the mortality rate of the dil­
ease is twice high for Blacks u for I
whites. I
The conference w organized by
Emerson Roblnson, U-M profeuor
of dentistry, and Michael E Raz- r
zoog, U-M associate professor of :
�entistry In attend,nce were more :
than 170 health care profeuionala, ,
dentists, university researcbezs and 'I
corporate representatives. 1be QOn-
terence concluded with the follow- "
Ing recommendations: I
-Increasing funding for trainin. ,
at Black dental choola and , .. titu- I
tions.
-Increa ing financial support
for Black dental tudents. I
-Establish programs that anow I
dental tudents to repay loa with I
community ervice.: I
-Beginning recruitment of
potentia! Black dental studen in·1
high school. I .
-Promoting employee benefit �
plans that provide preventive dental :
care. ;
-Es�blishing a data bank of :
Blacks in denti try nd acade I
who are interested in faculty and ad-
ministrative POSitions. J