Mandela to
end marrlag
SOUTH ARFICA - African
National Congre Leader
Nelson Mandela is ending his
33-year marriage to Winnie
Mandela, according to a pub­
lished newspaper report.
Mrs. Mandela, 57, will
resign from the group headed
by her husband and "retire"
from politics, according to
African National Congmsa of­
ficials.
Nelson and Winnie first
met in 1957. They married
June 14, 1958.
D OIT- The city L
Department recommended
a S15,000 award to Ponti c
church worker who ld h
w trip-searched by narcotics
officers.
City 1 wyer de cribed
Sandra Hardiman, 42, a
"Mother Teresa" type.
She egedly w strip sear­
ched in the Detroit home of an
acquaintance in 1991 when
police raided another flat in the
building.
The Law Department told
the aty Council in a memo
Thesday the "could lead to
... an explosive jury verdict."
DETROIT-Fredrick
Dougl Academy would be­
come a four-year high school
under a plan endorsed Tuesday
by the chool board's education
quality committee.
The academy now has a
two-year high school program
with an African-centered cur­
riculum for studen with be­
havior, academic and
attendance problems. Students
return to their regular high
schools for their I t two years.
The proposal now goes to
the full board.
Jack on
penalized
Jesse Jackson's unsucccss­
ful1988 presidential campaign
should repay the government
$306,698, mostly for spending
campaign dollars on non­
qualified expenses, auditors
say.
The Federal Election Com­
mission audit Tuesday said
Jackson's campaign wrongly
spent campaign dollars to pay
$61,127 in tax penalties and
$773,184 on expenses that
were nonqualified or lacked
necessary documentation.
NewProbate
Judge NomIn8bIKl
June Blackwell-Hatcher be­
came the first Black woman ap­
pointed to the bench by Gov.
John Engler when he narned
her to fill a vacant seat on the
Wayne County Probate Court
bench.
Blackwell-Hatcher, an at­
torney in private practice for
the last 12 years, will replace
Judge Joseph J. Pernick, who
died in office March 19. She
will have to seek election in
November to finish the term en­
ding Jan. 1;1995.
The daughter of former
Highland Park Mayor Robert
Blackwell and sister of Com­
ntis ioners Chairman Arthur
Blackwell said she was
surprised by the appointment.
I tho t
d they ere callin
'ni r,": id Henry Hende on,
pre ident of Elite, the co e e'
minority temity.
Police nd itne e aid the
brawl erupted r female tudcnt
argued with her boyfriend, both of
hom were bite, in her room in
Shipherd 1. When he made him
leave, he and 0 African-American
friends began knoc ng on the door,
pollee d.
Paul eo. , a bite ident -
• tant t Shiphcrd Hall, id the
oman then called a fraternity d
ked for help beca e ' he had two
bl c men b nging on her door."
The fraternity, Phi Alpha Pi, i
predominantly white.
"By the time I got down there,
there w an obvious division: Black
tudents on one ide of the lobby,
white tudents on the other and only
two or three cool heads trying to ort
d
r
Another aid, "Have we given up
trying to teach morals to our stu­
dents? Without a doubt the morale
of teachers and students will be
deflated?"
A third charged that this would
send "double messages" both "to
those who adhere to the rules and
those who break them."
One said, "It's totally demoraliz­
ing to the rest of the chool com­
mmlity. Why should anyone follow
the rules?"
ONE POINTED out 'that in the .
larger society, there are not second
chances for such an offense, adding,
"the rule is a gun in your possession
will get you an automatic two-year
sentence."
Some seemed to accuse the board
of playing politics with discipline.
"I do not believe the board shows
trong, convincing decision-making
by waffling and changing from
strong medicine to slaps on the wrist.
TeaclItng and learning is impossible
in this type of setting. "
Another asked, "When is the
board going to stop talJdng out of
both sides of their mouths and do
something positive and construe­
jive?"
One said that the policy showed
"unconcern" for "the large majority
of students who really want to learn."
ANOTHER POINTED OUT,
"These kids are no hero figures to the
otbers., It is another example to them
that they (the violent children) arc in
charge."
Another said, that this ,sends "a
clear message to all that staff and
students are not worth protecting,
our schools are battlegrounds and
not about education and one can only
settle one's problems with force."
One asked, "What's the board's
liabili ty in cases where a student or
staff member is injured or killed by
"
Students to experience
college life at eMU
thin out," id Ed rd Lon , 22,
an rican-American junior from
Southfield.
rican-
tlitteDCliDI: the col-
to 1 ,
could not
raci 11y
DETROIT - The Detroit Federa­
tion of Teachers (DFI), the official
union for teacher in Detroit,
claimed that a questionnaire it gave
to hundreds of Detroit teachers
revealed dissatisfaction with Detroit
School Board President Frank
Hayden' decision to readmit stu­
den uspcndcd for cmying guns
and other w pons in school.
Hayden could not be reaChed for
comment at press time.
OFf did release comments made
by different teachers.
Most of those recorded agreed
with the view, "There must be alter­
natives for these students rather than
putting them back in the classroom. "
MANY STRESSED THE idea
that readmitting them created a
climate of fear that would affect
'learning.
One said, "When teachers and
students arc scared of being physi­
cally assaulted, no learning can take
place."
Another said, "It would be dif­
ficult for a teacher to concentrate on
lessons and students' individual
needs if they have to be concerned if
there will be a reappearance of
weapons in the classrooms."
One suggested that "If students
are going to be readmitted, they need
to be put through a program that ad­
dresses conflict' and resulting,
violence and then they hould be on
some sort of probation."
Some expressed Concern about
the effect on discipline.
ONE SAID, "The Board ot
Education is soft on discipline. To
the children, it is all a joke. " ,
"How arc we expected to teach
other students that there arc conse­
quences for their actions?" one per­
son asked.
MOVNl'l'l.Jt.t..UNT-Minority tu­
dents from around Michigan will par­
ticipate in week-long workshops on
cultural explorations, marketing,
journalism, cience, teaching and
Native American traditions at
Central Michigan University in Junc.
The workshops arc designed to
encourage African-American In­
dians, Asian American and
Hispanic Americans, a well as
educationally or economically dlaad­
vantaged students, to consider col­
lege enrollment as a future option,
aid Ulana Klymyshyn, director of
multicultural programming at CMU.
Student participants attend at no COlt
and stay in university residence hallJ.
"Tbc programs arc aimed at tho c
tudents who need extra encourage.
ment and help in preparing for a col­
lege education," aid Klymshyn.
"The college-day programs are
designed to provide studen with in­
formation of the preparation needed
for college and with an idea of what
the college experience is like."
M3PEP participants are
nominated by their school district.
The program i supported by cor­
porate and educational ponsorship.
For more information about
M3PEP, call Mary Kay Mus, CMU
College of Extended Learning, (517)
714-7137.
"Thi white tudent body howed
that they don't ant here. oUr
need for an educa on wfil upcrsede
your want," Henderson d, draw­
ing ppl. from the estimated 2S
African-American tuden in the
uditorium.
"Thi pot boiled over and
boiled over d it' oi08 to eep on
injurie .
"For the 1 t three wee ,the
tension h reall y been building up,"
aid Davonne Pierce, an African­
American resident i tant on duty
at Shipherd Hall when the fighting
one of Mr. Hayden's 'second
chance' students? It's bound to hap­
pen."
One said, "Hayden doesn't mind
readmitting these students because
he does not have to deal with them."
There were suggestions that
Hayden should "wal the hall for
six hours everyday amid the felons in
our chools," and that th e he read­
mitted should "take their cl es in
the School Center Building (where
the board meets).
ONE SUGGESTED THEY
belong in an alternative education
program, "preferably taught by
Hayden himself."
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One teachcrlisted more ym- •
pathetic, noting "the Idmini tra
and teache arc on the same team
and have their bands tied as much or
littl the judicial system in
general. My daughter's murdered
arc free aDd they had weapo too."
Detroit teachers are not required
to llve in the dty.
THE DETROIT-WINDSOR DANCE ACADEMY will be featured performers in ·Oancestry .•. FMI the
Fire,· an original jazz-ballet concert on Saturday, May 2, at 7 p. m. and Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m. The
annual concert will be held at the Martin Luther King High School auditorium, 3200 E. Laf8y at
McDougall in Detroit. For more information, call 963-0050.
Commi tee to me
pli of area code
Telephone rate will not be
changed by the area code plit.
Call that are "local" today will
remain "local" after plit occurs.
A citizens committee develop­
ing a plan to split the 313 area code
in early 1994 announced recently
that it will conduct public meetings
this month to gather comments.
The group's preliminary plan
would split the area into north and
outh regions.
Communities such as Detroit,
the Grosse Pointe , Ann Arbor and
. Monroe would remain in the 313
region. Commu,nities such as Far­
mington, Mount Cemens, Flint,
Lapeer, Port Huron and Sandusky
ould receive a new area code.
MICmGAN BELL enlisted
the committee last fall to develop
an area-code. plit plan because the
existing area code quickly is run­
ning out of telephone numbers.
Committee leader Joe O'­
Connor, president of Consumer
Market Analys in Birmingham,
invited telephone users to attend
one of the meetings to lD8.ke com-
on
ments �r ask queations about !be
preliminary plan.
Committee membem will
the commen they ptber to btJp
reach a final recommendation that
will ubmitted to Michipn Bell in
JUDe.
There is a meeting smedulecl t
7 p.m., April 13, Nonhw AI/). •
tivitie Center, 18100 Meyoll,
Detroit.
atizens unable to attcDd ODD of
the mee1:inp can COllUDeDt on
preliminarypbmby�l�
831-8989.
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