VOL XIV NO.5 DECEMBER 22 - 28. 1991
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By THA IEL SCOTT
shin ril.,
3O-pl years, ente the world of the
litUe people.
He makes magic, builds fan i
and walks the field of dreams and
imagination where prejudice and the
baping of individuals come face to
face with the clean late of
childhood.
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There are not enough African American male role model in Detroit
Public School, id Board Vice Pre ident Frank Hayden.
"One of the problems we ee in our
, m le tudents, they don't ee a lot of
role mode until high hool," Hayden
id. "There' especially a shortage of
African-American male te chers on the
elementary chool level. We are plan­
ning pecial recruitm nt efforts to try to
find more African-American male
teachers."
The plan to recruit more African
American male Detroit's public
chool teachers i cheduled to be im­
plemented fa111992, he said.
"It will motivate our students to
want to stay in cbool," he said. "It will deal with our attention
problems and our attitudual problems (with the students)."
Approaching African American male college students and offering
them the opportunity to teach in the public chool system is a part of
the plan Hayden has devised.
DETROIT-When you wa into
the office of Michigan' Court of
Appeals Chief Judge Pro Tern Myron
H. Wahls, you are greeted by th
tool of his trade.
There are the law boo and
journal and ocial commentary
boo he re ds to stay in touch wi th
a fast-moving ociety, hi eybo rd
for relaxing and stimulating thought,
the bell that make that wonderful
Christmas background music when
he make Santa Claus calls, and his
pipe .
But there is another aspect of
Judge Wahls that you will be
introduced to. At this time of the
year, Judge Wahls, who has been
practicing or interpreting the law for
JUDGE WABLS plays S nta.
He i into his econd generation of
playinng Santa via telephone with
ome families. And this year will
mark the fourth year that he has
robed himself in a Santa co tume and
played Santa for Project Hope.
He begins his Santa calls about
the 15th of each December and
usually finishes by the 23.
S e SANTA, A-10
f Judge Pro Te Myron B. W
Michl n' Court of Appeals C
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AFRICAN AMERICAN colleges including Morehouse College,
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constitutional rights of free thought
and expression.
This is the climate Dr. Abron
believes causes Black America to
be "gun-shy."
"The Black press is an essential
ingredient in any formula seeking
to empower us," Abron told the
Michigan Citizen. "Is it reasonable
to expect the white media to
promote and adverti e po itive
Black idea and activities,
particularly in view of it
indifference, if not antipathy
toward us?"
each other.
Law were passed making it
illegal for anyone to teach us to
read, Abron . d.
By DANNY COOKS
CO".spO "d. III
seeking to understand Black
reluctance to' employ Fir t
Amendment free expre sion
guarantees. Her statement
appeared to sum up the sentiments
of many participants on the panel,
held at Douglass Communi ty
Center at 7:00 p.m. on Monday,
December 9th.
As moderator of the panel,
Abron sketched in the background
leading up to today's Black presss
situation: When we first stepped
off the slave ships we were
forbidden to communicate wi th
Dr. Jonina Abron, Associate
Professor of Englisb at Western
Michigan University and Publisher
of the quarterl y magazine, The
Black Scholar, said Black people
are "gun-shy" when it comes to
exercising their rights to free
, thought and expression.
Abron' statement was made at
the conclusion of "How the Black
Press Can Be More User
Friendly?" a panel discussion
LINCOLN EVENTUALLY
freed Southern slave , though it
had nothing to do with the injustice
of human bondage. And, as if to
underscore this point, a hundred
years later Malcolm X, Martin
Luther King, Georgt Jack on, and
an army of lessor known warriors
were slaughtered for articulating
the idea that Blacks also have
Drunk driving to be more costly first of New Year
By DANNY COOKS
CO".SpOlltl.",
within 77 days. '
Kirk believ the City must act
quickl y to put the machinery in place
for the effective prosecution of
OUIL cases under a revised City
ordinance modeled after the .state
statute. "Pro ecution of Oun.. cases
under Ci ty ordinance afford u
many advantages, among which is
the right to retain all fines collected
sense to act now to ensure that our
ordinance is fully consistent in all
en tical areas with the
new state statute,"
Kirk said. The new
statute provides for
harsher license
sanctions against
individuals convicted
of repeat offenses.
Also, it requires aU
drunk driving cases to be dispo ed of
convicted of violating the new state
law or a local ordinance which
substantially
corresponds to that
law, according to A.
Lee Kirk, Assi tant
City Attorney, in a
memo prepared for the
City Commission.
"We (Department
of Public Safety and
the City Attorney) feel it mate's good
Because a significantly tougher
statewide drunk driving (OUD...) law
will take effect on January 1st, the
Kalamazoo City Commission is
playing a frantic case of 'Beat the
Clock,' trying to reshape its OUIL
ordinance to make it consistent with
the new state law.
The new tatute provides
enhanced penalties for drivers
See COSTLY, A-a
'THIS KALAMAZOO youngster had a lot to teU Santa this year. (photo
by D. Coob)
JUDY" Ira" BOI
am going to spend ' tmas j t
like any other day: with my fami­
ly and giving thanks for being
alive."
intend for my wife and I to have
a quiet, peaceful and loving
Chri tmas and a happy New
Year."