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LANSING-Rep. Jo eph F.
Young. Jr., D-Detroit, beUeye that
Detroit should get a greater portion
of lottery profits, since the state's
largest city pends the most money
on the game. ,
Young either wants Detroit to
have a bigger piece of the action in
the present game or to have its own
I ottery,
� , "If we have our own lottery, we
:would have our own winners,"
:Young said.
Young has requesjed a bill to be
,drafted and it will be considered by
the first of the year.
AS IT STANDS right now all the
money that the letter raises got
toward administrative ftea, lottery
winner payment and state education.
The lottery makes up 17 percent
oftbe educational budget in the state.
· "I would be swprised if all the
money put together would pay for
.two days of school," id Rep. Floyd
Clack, D-Flint, aid.
The issue at hand i , if a certain
area plays the lottery more than other
areas, should that money be propor­
tionally,returned?
"If it i preferable that it is
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returned j,roportiOnally that i OM,
with me, Young said. "The key is a
lot of people that play in Wayne
County are upset because the win­
ners are coming from elsewhere."
THE POORER people are more
apt to play the lottery because they
want to get out of poverty, Clack
implied.
"In poor areas like Detroit and
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By TERRY K LLY
D OIT-Fueled by the
revelation th t Earvin" agic"
Johnson had the mv virus, rumo
wept through ome Detroit Public
High Schools 1 t wee According
to th rumo , blood dri held 1 t
pring at city High School h d
uncovered a m ny 64 mv
infected tudents at one high chool
alone.
Tbatrumorcanbelaid to rest The
worry can't.
"The bottom line i �re are lot
of mv infec d t e in Detroit,"
'd Jim Kent, AIDS Epidemiologi t
for the Michigan Department of
Public Health in phone interview.
Kent aid the MDPH does not
gather the' type of t ti tic that
would indicate the number of HIV
infected amples in any give blood
drive.
,_, According to the Red Cro
public relations po esperso Mark
Comille, there is "no uch report"
that would reveal the number of HIV
infected donors t any blood drive
site. "There i no w y that
to contact a doctor.
CO ILLE AID th t in
metopolitan Detroit 1 t year, the
Red Cross received 248,000 blood
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Health Care cri
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cultural
cho ling
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By DA NY COOK,
A recently retired Profes-
or Bmeritus at We tern
Michigan University poke
out on the need for multi­
cultural education, not just
for minorities, but par­
ticulart y for members of the
majority community.
eglnald Gammon
tauJh' art and the umarutfes
tor more than twenty of &is
seventy years while working
as an arti t. He recently
spoke to the Michigan
Citizen from hi studio on
WMU's campus.
Many people consider art
"pie-in·the-�ky", something
thai has no Significance to
the "real world," according
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LAN o-Legislation that would guarantee free expre ion for
public scbool students touched off a debate over who hould be
respo ible for the content of chool publtcatlons-c-schcol ad­
ministrato or tuden .
Rep. Lynn Jondahl, D-Okemos, has introduced a bill that would
override the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ca e, Hazelwood v .
Kuhlmeier, said Cheryl Pell, executive director of the Michigan Inter­
scholastic Pleas Association. The Senate is considering an identical
bill.
In Hazel ood, the Supreme Court gave chool admini trators ex-
p ed righ of censorsbip over all SChool-sponsored student expres-
Ion. '
Pell said her organization, be dquartered at Michigan State Univer­
sity, i not only worried about overt censoring themselve first rather
than ri king censorship later by their school principal.
Rep. Young proposes:
MO E.LO Y
Capiltll N eMl. S e",lce
Editors Note: This is 1M first of a
two-part series on health care
concerns facing Michiganians. Part
7Wo will look into the Canadian
heallh care system.
lANSlNo-1be card.
For countless families, the card
ha helped pay for prescriptions,
doctor's visits and other health
procedures. Prescription co ts can
run high, but the care allows you to
pay for them at a lower price.
Surgery costs may be high, but
again the card comes to the rescue,
allowing cardholders to pay less.
While some enjoy the benefits of a
health care plan, there are many who
have to face the jungle of rising
health care costs unprotected.
Currently, it is estimated that 37
million Americans have no health
insurance at all. Some say that
800,000 Michiganians have no
health care coverage. Among other
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industrialized nations, only the
United States and South Africa have
no national health care plan.
approved a 29-bill Jiealth care
package endorsed by Senate
Republicans. The plan would give
tax credits to busines es to buy
policies for the uninsured.
In tum, the uninsured would pa
a monthly premium ranging from
$75 a month for individuals and $120
a month. for families. The plan would
-cover such services as doctor office
visits, outpatient services and
ma temi ty care.
- Senate Republican spoke man
Guy Gordon said thi package will
rol
give 500,000 people who currently
have no in urance health care
coverage well cover every child
in the state.
He agrees with Democratic
charges that the monthly fees may be
too high for some, but counters that
the Senate Democrats have no plan.
Gordon siad Democratic
ammendments to lower the fee to
Ies -tban $10 a month wa
"unrealistic" given the high co t of
S'88 CRISIS, A·5
HEALTH CARE coverage of
the uninsured has become a hot topic
nationwide. Politicians at the state
and federal levels are concerned.
While some are interested in
scrapping the current system in favor
of a national health care system,
some would like to restructure the
current system.
The tate Senate recently
EDDIE HARRIS, Detroit:
"Reduce the percentage of
forcip aid and inaease job train­
ing 10 (more) people tan make
contributions through employ­
menL"
MARY WHITE, Detroit:
"There hould be less foreign
aid."
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