'on wen.
"An all Afric n-American in­
tramural b etb 11 team w unfair­
ly terminated from the Ie gue after
n al reation that w brought up by
t opposing team," he id. "The
11- hite team provo d the incident
by playing Califomia-b ed rap
group N.W.A: ong entitled:Nig­
gaz for Life,' which w obviously
disturbing to the African Am rican
team."
THE STUD h d planned
to be there Wedn day March 25, the
same day the Michigan high school
tate basketball finals are scheduled
to tip-off.
After the students received the
university's first response to their
proposal. an apparently disappointed
J ckson said "we have to go b ck to
the drawing board," and revise the
propo al given to the university.
Prote tors prepared for an indefinite
tay, stocking food, toiletries and
their textbooks. .
The university's proposed solu­
tion was "vague," indicating per­
petual insensitivity on behalf of the
university, J clcson aid.
THE OlUGl AL U t of
demands inch� :
1) ty ting t tbe
demonstratlng tudents not be penal­
ized as far as suspension from
school, termination from wor and
or non-work tudy employment and
refusal to make up assignments
missed while protesting.
2) The establishment of a com­
mittee consisting of concerned
African-American peers decidi g
the fate of those who commit crime
against African American students
and those African American students
who commit crimes.
contlnu from P #g 1 .
current voter tti tude
developing for Ion tim .
"Th re alw y been move in
thi direction, e pecially in the Bl ck
community," hid. "Th re have
been all the e experimen . In the
1 t t experiment. in 1972. Bl c
were told that if we would elect more
Black offici Is, thin would get bet­
ter.
"Since tbat time, there has been a
365-percent increa e in Bla�k
elected official , but deere e In
gains for the Black masses. The'
women's movement, too, has made
some gains, but th y've also been
ripped off by the Democratic party. "
Fulani doub about attribut-
ing the current voter attitud.e to the
recession, "beca e even 10 good
economic times, BI cks and the poor
lose." She also is not sure that the
recession itselfwill make voters con-
ider independent candidate like
herself for office.
been
"THE RECESSIO i a factor,
but it's not necessarily creating the
push, toward progressive politics.
The recession makes people Ie
likely to li ten to the incumbents and
therefore see out independent can­
didates, but it also triggers a reaction
that has whites blaming Blacks and
the poor for their problems and call­
ing on a Buchanan or a Duke. which .
is dan rous."
MA BA COTT, former
mayor of Highland Park, says �t
voter attitudes are fed by the media,
and that the public is dissati fled be­
cause it has not been completely in­
formed.
"The press looks at the very nega­
tive things and that's what they
print," she said. "There's just too
much bashing. Don't sweep the bad
things under the rug, but when all
you print is the negative, you destroy
the community, and the press has to
H P , aid Scott, i wh t
leads to th call for ousters and term
limitatio .
"You have to give people the op­
portunity to prove themselve ,and it
. takes more than one term. You have
to make them accountable while
their in office.
"I think that the voters need to
read the information, chec people'
records and become better informed,
and the pres , particularly the Black
press, can help by finding out what
officials have done and giving the
people that information or even en­
dorse candidates. Everybody-offi­
cials, vote and the press-has to
work together to build the com­
munity."
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H fight to
reform chool, laid-off Pep i
workers 1 0 ked the bo rd to
boycott Pepsi products and pull the
vending machines out of the hools.
Victor Long aid the workers
were demonstrating with the pro­
condom activi as part of a call for
city-wide boycott because Pep i
didn't honor n agreement it made
with the Oty of Detroit.
"Pep i lied to the City Counci�,
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the community in which the bottling
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In 1990, Pepsi closed its Exeter
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Reportedly, Pepsi agreed to give
180 laid-off Exeter workers-80
percent of whom ar� Afr.i�an
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rights at the new plant. But when
these workers applied for jobs, they
were tested. Only four white males
p sed the' test and were hired. Over
400 predominately white workers,
who were transferred into the new
plant from uburban Detroit loca-
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ciple , 1) pi cing tudent nd
paren first riority, 2) providi
the freedom to c diverse
edu tion I pro ram , 3) providin
p ren with tru choice of "best"
educ tional programs for tudent
needs, and th central dmini tration
will be a upport en rpri e.
I PO TO the board'
em werm nt pl n the p rent group
offered more pecific view.
P rent and community ctivist,
Helen Moore, pearheaded the
paren presentation.
The parent ' plan included
having the right to elect principals,
as i tant pnncip Is, teachers nd
departtnenthea .
They a 0 . d they deserve to be
given the re ponsibility to monitor
books, supplies and equipment req­
uisitions for their schools and as ure
that these orders are promptly filled
and arrived at the chool on time,
including picking the order up them­
selve at the warehouse.
"This i nothing new to us, a lot
ofus have done this since the 197CB,"
the parents agreed.
Requiring that all teachers, ad­
ministrators nd other personnel
should live in the city was anothe
stipulation asking that an updated
reprt of employees' place of resid�n­
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mediately.
The p ren concluded by saying
that the executive ummary plan
re v
"shabby, insensitive, and exclusive
of parents." . f
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