, campus, incre
, percent ov I
ment.
A thr -ye -old program
· called Michigan M t en-
oowues � EnrO and
hiring. On in five
no a minority.
Th univ ity h 2,510
BI dents enrolled, com­
pared to th previous record of
2,456. ian-Americ 0 num­
ber at 2,697, or 8.2 percentof
th campus popul tion.
. : Oakland County
· pushes for more
· minority cops
PONTIAC. Mich. (AP) - The
Oakland County Sheriffs De­
partment is going high-tech it
· push for more minority offi-
o cers, producing a slick video to
o entice Blacks, Hispanics and
· Asian into law enforcement.
"We found we didn't have
minorities applying," said Pm1ela
Newsom, chairwoman of the de­
partment', 14-member Minor­
ity Recruitment T Force.
"We're not trying to meet quo-
· tas - we want people to know
t the o�ti are there,"
Of the department' 690full-
t time employees, 86 are rninori­
· ties. There are 18 Hispanic em­
: ployees, 63 Blacks and five Asian
: or Indian workers. The recruit­
, ing video; tentatively titled • 'The
: Challenge," is scheduled to be
: completed next month. It is ex­
;. pected to be eight t ,0 minutes
: long, and is being filmed· and
; produced by Jamie Smith, com­
: munications specialist for the
: city of Rochester Hills.
The video will be shown on
: public access stations, job fairs
: and recruiting events through­
:, out the state, as well as possibly
: at cable 1elevisioo, Newon said.
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companies from these mandates if
those companies agree to meet cer­
tei n conditions:" said Jeff
Thompson, manager of legislative
research for Blue Cross and Blue
o �hield of Michigan.
, One of thoseponditions concerns
price. A potent' I healthcare pack­
age can cost no more than $120 per
11l0I)th for a famil y, and non more
than $75 per month for an individual.
The mandates in question cur­
rently require insurance companies
to incl ude coverage for uch services
as chiropractic treatments, hospices,
newborn care, cancer treatment,
mammographies and rnasectomies.
All of the mandates were originally
dropped from the bills but some have
been re-adopted in committee.
Sen. Schwan, who re-added
mandates for hospice, cancer treat­
ment and breast care, said that he
could not support the measures un­
less they contained mandates for
ho pice, cancer treatment and breast
care. "Those are basic, necessary
services, ,t he said.
, And while the plan may still be in
infancy for state government, small
business owners say it's long over­
due for Michigan.
, "WE ARE IN an age where
$2,OOO-per-month health-care
policies are commonplace for com­
panies of two to five employees,"
said Steve Artwood, state director
for the National Federation of Inde­
pendent Business. The federation
represents almost 600,000 busi-
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Malcolm X' home
. "IF THE district decides to do it
and everyone grees, then it' liable.
to work within the district," h said.
"Ho ever, I don't believe it hould
imposed from above."
Dillion said that the intra-district
schools of choice plan i adding an
extra burden to chool districts that
already e truggling to implement
CHOICEd -
Y th n ighborhood ch
school system," Dillon aid. "Also
it wouldn't be easy for to
stay after' hool'for extracunicul
activiti because of difficulti in
transportation. "
Young -district
choice pI could adv ly affect
neighborhoods. "Schools of choice
destroy communiti . It's difficult
for kids ho go to di nt schools
to get to know oth in th ir neigh­
borhood.I
Although the chool aid bill pro-
vid 20-percent inere in fund-
ing for both intra-district and a
district chools of choice programs,
opponents are skeptical that enough
"11IE THEO Y behind schoo
o choice can be summed up 'f
dom works and freedom i right,"
said Sen. D vid Honigman, R- W t
Bloomfield, vice chairman of the
Senate Education Committee and a
proponent of the bill.
D •
"People should have a nght to
make decisions bout the personal
growth of their children."
ite
Its
Malcolm X
ister, Ella Collins, and he moved in
with her. '
HE MOVED BACK to the heme
after pending time in jail for bur­
glary, here he converted to I lam
md renamed hmJeIf Malcolm X. "All
praise is due to Allah that I went to
vandalized, obscure
"I
, .
wrong
starts
hungry?"
"First,weh vetom e ure all
children are healthy and nutrition! ·
ally fit Then can educa them. Jt .:
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Lo tery - wt:lo plays?"
Lo lery up for revie�::
by la akers
By USHA MANCHA�DA
C pital News Service
LANSI o-Sixty-two ot
Michigan ·den ayed te
lottery in 1989, according to • re­
search study conducted for the Bu-
re u of Sta Lottery. '
About 14 percent of the lottery
players were retired people, while 4
peeeent were students and 3 percent
unemployed. The rest of the lottery
players �ere either employed or
worked homemakers.
The 1989 Michigan latEly Trade­
ing Study, conducted by Moore and
Associates; Southfield. indicates that
most of the lottery players (23 per­
cent) were unskilled laborers, fol­
low by (22 percent) skilled and
semi.' illed laborers and trade
employees.
THE BUREAt1 conducts ourto
six studies every ye .. to "insure that
the product matches the interest of
lottery players," said Kerry M.
McN , director of public relations
at the bure u.
The purpose of the research is 'to
get feedback from th people bout
their I� and dislikes, she said.
adding that the rege.-dl is Il'Qe u.wiuJ.
when "we are going to initiate new
game or a new concept. tI '. ,"
THE STUDY shows that Super
Lotto' was the most popular lottery
game in the state. Ninety-three per-'
cent of lottery players and 58 percent 0
rl Michigan . dents played the �.
in 1989. ,.
Zinger, Super Lotto's add 00 prie
was played by 40 percent of die'
lottery players and 25 percent of di�
public. '.�
Fifty-two percent of the 10tle!'Y ..
players were between 25 and 44 years
of ag . While 91 percent of players.
had a high school education, 48 J>E!. :
cent had attended or graduated fr� �
college. I •• : •
A majority of players, 63 w.;-,
cent, were married. More males cii
percent) played than females, the'
study said. , .....
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By USHA MANCHANDA
Capital New Service
, ...
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the money collected from the PQP.t '
through the lottery is distributed tQ
everybody in th state, he id. .. ' ",'
. However, Kerry M. McNultY,
direc of public relations at the
Bureau of State Lottery, aid she w •
not aware of the possibility of such_ '
review of the lottery. .
"OUR ADVERTISEMEN�
appeal to players' sense of humor
and primarily inform tive ,ill
nature," he id, adding that "I��
tery d are statewid in focus 8ft(t
target t informing th people abQu�
th game.
"It' a game of chance. There'is
nothing compulsory bout the lot-
tery," aid Sen. J ie Vaughn IU,
D- Detroit. .-
M bile, Rep. Y reveakd
that I t h h d met w·th U;t:
tery Commi ion Jerry R. Cran-·
dan md id the canrnissioner wWld
be called in gain by the
committee.
Crandall expressed his concern
IItxU repa1S rl Blades spending RUe
money on th lottery than others. .
GODLINGS AND GHOSTS - In the 100 block of E. Ferns Street, is �Is Halloween art display. A
reclining person, holding an alcoholic container is in an induced state of intoxication, uDlDindfol
the world is passing him by. How graphic. Ho true. How sad the tatement is acted out daily. (photo
by N. Scott)
BOSTON (AP) - The home where
Malcolm X spent his teen-age years
sits boarded up, vandalized and ob- .
scure, even as new books and a $25
million Hollywood movie chronicle
his life.
"You're lying to me. Get out of
here," said Kenneth Mills, 19, as he
leaned against the fence of the house
in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.
"You're saying Malcolm X used to
live here? No way.'t
UNLIKE ANOTHER home in
Boston where Martin Luther King
Jr. lived a student, the 2 1/2-story
house that Malcolm X moved into in
1941 has no commemorative plaque.
It h instead been vandalized and
boarded up. The yard is overgrown.
"I think nobody knows anything
about this," said Amand Houston,
head of black studies at Boston Col­
lege.
Born Malcolm Little, the politi­
cal and religious le� lived in the
Roxbwy horne a teen- ger, ac­
cooling to The Bostoo Sunday 0
The home w bought by his half-
Boston when I did," he told the writer
Alex H y while preparing . The
Autobiography of Malcolm X. " "If I
hadn't, I'd probably still be a brain­
washed black Christian." Malcolm
X, who was ass inated in Harlem
in 1965, did not mention this par­
ticular home in hi autobiography.
Instead, he referred to another neigh­
borhood where he lived with hi is­
ter in an apartment before she bought
the house. The house still is owned
by hi family, but i up for sale. A
nearby park was named for Malcolm
. X, but the house how no sign of his
pre ence there.
"DURING the 10 year that I
w runningth Afro-AmericanMu­
sewn, I never heard bout this ite,"
said tate Rep. Byron Rushing, D­
Boston. "It fell out of peoples' minds.
It certainly hould be noted in the
community history. It But Rushing
also said Malcolm X, whose life is
the subject of a film by director Spike
Lee to be released n xt ye., proba­
bly would not have cared w�ther
hi howe as a landm
LA SING-The Michigan Lottery
is set for a Legislative review in the
near future.
"A special hou committee will
review and investigate the rules and
regulations of the state lottery by the
first of the next year, It aid Rep.
Joseph F. Young Jr., D-Detroit.
Rep. Young, who is also th chair
of th house committee on state af­
fairs, . d he thinks that on the who ,
poor peopl pend more money on
gambling, and the revie committee
will determine if th 10 dver-
tisements geted to poor I .
"THESE EOPLE are in
hopei ituation. Even when they
don't h ve disa'etionary income to
sp e th y play lottery in the hope of
winning," he aid.
Rqnald FIsher, put of eeo-
nomics at MSU, agreed that lottery
advertisements are _geted'to BI
and the poor. There have been many
studi supPorting the allegation that