r
Art tide, in e ile in e his
o ter in a coup I t Septem­
ber. Hi backers left th talks
late 1 t week.
The pact call for a new
prime minister and a cons en­
government but gave no
timetable or details of its
compostion.
-Ohio college
catering to
women's
learning
habits
PEPPBRPIKE, OHIo-Ur­
suline College is using a
revamped curriculum and
retrained faculty to test the
theory that women learn bet­
ter when they work together
in mall group ans relate
what they study to their lives.
"Our approach reflects
the different ways boys and
girls are socialized," said
Gary Polster, a professor of
sociology at Ursuline. "Boys
are raised to be more inde­
pendent, agressive and com­
pei tive; girls are raised to be
a lot more group oriented,
and they work best in co­
operative ways."
The college is in the mid­
dle of the debate: Do women
really learn and think dif­
ferently, or does that view
trap women in the very
stereotypes they have been
trying to dispel?
Colleges
forsaking .
'need-blind'
admissions
policies
Eroding "need-blind" ad­
missions policies, coupled
with the increasing flight of
middle-class students who
get accepted but feel they
cannot afford an academic
degree that can easily cost
$90,000, the nation's elite
schools appear to be return­
ing to their earlier 20th cen ..
tury days as bastions of the
rich.
Schools such as Brown,
wesleyan, Columbia, Smith
and other prestigious schools
are making a policy of con­
sidering a students' potential
wealth when choosing its
freshman clas .
In the past three years, the
percentage of students at the
25 most elective private
schools whose family income
is at least $100,000 a year
ro e from 31 percent to 37
percent, according to the
UCLA Higher Education Re-
earch Institute.
.,
O-The
ental
tion re beginnin more
coordin ted progr m to divert
people from prison nte to 1
costly programs imed trehabili t­
ing t individual.
Th m t immedi e ample'
new forensic ho pital to be built for
mentall y ill prisoners in Y ilanti.
ental- He lth Director J me
H vern n id orne of the new
f cility' taff could be tra ferred
from the tate pri on at Ionia pendin
Gov. John Engler' e ecutive order
within a few wee .
Haveman also aid there i a need
to educate corrections officers in
dealing with inmates who uffer
from mental illne es. Haveman
id no major corrections training
programs addre the i ue of mental
health leading to, what he fee were,
questionable entencing patterns.
"Someone with a mental ilIne
commi ts a minor crime, and they end
up with more charge on them,"
Haveman said. "There are lot of
myths people till hold onto." The e
myths and fears, Haveman aid, fur­
ther injure those with mental
problems.
THIS BELIEF MAY have in ..
fluenced a U.S. Federal District
CoW1' decision to order the transfer
o carin for men lly ill prisone to
ental Health Dep rtment.
Correctio Director en Mc-
Gi disagreed with tb idea that
people being unfairly charged by
the judici I tern, but be did y he
elt tly prison terms could be ex-
c nged for diversion programs.
cGinnis id it co ts $25,000
year for e ch of Michig n' 35,000
confined pri oners, with 1 percent of
the p ce going to cute m ntal ill­
e and another 3 percent for
variable mental ill
McGinni id pri on hould,
therefore, be the "last option" forcer­
lain people.
Both departmen ee this a
move toward de-institutionalization
and the reduction of financial burden
upon the tate budget.
THE DEPARTMENT of Men­
tal Health bas een huge deere in
the number of patients in p ychiatric
hospital over the past 30 years.
Patients have gone from more
than 19,000 in 1960 to orne 2,600 in
1991. Haveman expects that num­
ber to remain fairly constant over the
next few years.
McGinnis said diver ion
programs such as boot camp have
also reduced the need for lengthy and
co' tly prison stay . McGinnis noted
40 percent of Michigan's inmates are
non-violent property offenders. Fifty
Source: Michigan Dept. of Mental Health
. Patrick SinColCAPlTAL NEW SEavlCE
percent of tho e have sentences of24 McGinnis said those people can local communities and their diver-
months or less. be dealt with more effectively by sion programs.
State board recommends major changes at HPCC
By RON SEIGEL
COITHPO"""
HIGHLAND PARK - A survey
reviewing management procedures
of the Highland Park Community
College by employees of the state
board of education was presented to
the full state board and representives
of the city school board Tuesday
�ay 12.
Ron Root, Director of Higher
Education Management Services,
said that the study found that the
college was bankrupt and was only
surviving because of loans it
received from the K-12th grade
section of Highland Park Schools.
However, it praised the current
president Dr. Cbarles Mitchell, for
doing "a good job of identifying
fiscal problems and presenting a
recovery plan. "
HOWEVER, ROOT ADDED,
the state report warned that even if
Root did "bring the college's budget
into balance," this would not "solve
the problem."
Root said, the report noted,
- $7-10 million were necessary
to improve health and safety for the
faculty and staff in the college
building, because it had "the worst
condition of any COllege in the state."
- State of the art equipment was
necessary for classrooms.
- While HPCC had a good
hiring policy, hiring practices were
not in accord with the pollcy. Some
were hired in management po itions,
who were not qualified.
- There was a danger of losing
high quality faculty members
because of retirement. It was
necessary to attract new faculty of
high quality.
- The report opposed a
. residency requirement for staff,
stating that because 85 percent of the
students lived outside the Highland
Park school district, the college was
serving the region rather than the ci ty
and faculty and staff should do the
same. Root added there were denials
by ome officials that the college did
have a residency requirement.
The report also said that there was
a poor management communication
system.
The last audit took place in fiscal
year 1989 -1990, where the college
.had a deficit of $2 million.
Root praised the school system
for hiring a major auditing firm,
Tousche-Ross, to get an audit for last
year and complete this fiscal year's
audit on schedule.
Root said that Dr. Mitchell noted
there was a great deal of difficulty in
getting COllege records.
ON THE positive side, Root said,
the report noted a commitment on
the part of the faculty and students to
"make sure it (the COllege) survives
and becomes the quality institution
h been for many decades. "
HPCC was founded 79 years ago
and had once had "an excellent
reputation, " he said.
"It can't afford to do everything
in the world," he said. "They have to
tie it to occupational opportuni ties in
southeast MiChigan. "
Some subjects were taught there,
because of the availability of faculty
members, rather than because of the
opportunities in the area, he stated.
"Resources are too limited (to do'
this)," he aid.
. Vincent switches to
GOP for Congress run
Democrat seek
support in oppo ing
medical di crimina ion
As the Democratic Party
prepares for a public hearing on its
1992 political platform Monday
May 18, advocates for the rights of
those with handicaps are lobbying
for a plank against discrimination
or destruction of patients in hospi­
tal or nursing homes.
The party's Michigan Hand­
icapper Caucus (MHC) is calling
for a one-sentence plank support­
ing "necessary government action
to prevent any health care provider
or health care institution from or
destruction of patients or dis-
. criminatory neglect of their treat­
ment or care, because of handicap,
age, social or economic status, sex,
or race."
Presidential candidate Bill
Clinton and Jerry Brown have
been asked to support it.
.MHC Corresponding Secretary
Ronald Seigel said, "The issues
here are the same issues in the Rod­
ney King beating case - whether
any individual can be denied equal
protection and due proce of law
or denied recognition as a full
human being."
SEIGEL CHARGED THAT
articles in some medical journala
have expressed "open prejudice"
against individuals with hand­
icaps, "labeling them 'lower
quality' human lives."
MHC suggests that such
prejudices can esculate toward the
poor, Black people, or other vul­
nerable minorities.
"No one should take their rights
for granted," said Tommy
MeadOWS, MHC Chairperson.
"Today we (those with handicaps)
are fighting for our rights. Tomor­
row it may be you." .
Seigel cited findin� of the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission in the
early 1980s of discrimination in
health care and noted there were
articles in medical journal where
doctors boasted of neglecting ordi­
nary care for babies with certain
handicaps in the hope that they
would die and supported attempts
to block law enforment in uch
cases.
"This would take us back to the
1950s, where in some southern
states, Black people could be
lynched and the law would look
tbe other way," Seigel said.
"IF "ASSISTED SUICIDE"
is legalized without firm
safeguards ensuring patient con­
sent beyond a reasonable doubt,
Seigel said, it .could mean "active
killing."
Seigel emphasized that he was
not attacking the medical profe -
ion a whole, just calling for ac­
tion against the abuses of an
influential minority in it.
"MHC has respect for doctors,
nurses and other heal th care
workers," Seigel said. "We
respect police officers too. But no
group, however re pected, can be
above the law or exercise powers
over life and death."
The highly-publicized trial of
Black religious sect leader Yahweh
ben Yahweh is just ending a two­
week recess called by the judge in the
case. Chief U.S. District Judge Nor­
man Roettger said that he hope the
recess has insulated jury delibera­
tions from any po ible influence by
the verdict in the Rodney King case
aJ¥l the riots that followed.
But the recess comes after the in­
cidents in Lo Angele have raised
questions about the fairnes of the
U.S. criminal justice system when
race and religion are factors, defense
attorneys in the case said.
The attorney and Chief U.S. Di -
trict Judge Norman Roettger, the
judge in the Yahweh case, are
primarily concerned that the
televised violence in Los Angele
Dr. Charles C. Vincent, 58,
Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Detroit Riverview Hospital has
announced that he will be challeng­
ing Democratic Congresswoman
Barbara-Rose Collins as a
Republican in the new 13th district.
Dr. Vincent ran as a Democrat
two years ago. .
"I changed partie because the
incumbent has already been
awarded the party enforcement ,
which leaves little room for fair ..
ness, Vincent stated. "I have not
changes my platform and will rely
heavily on the democratic support I
received before in addition to the
support from the Republican
Party."
Vincent's campaign is being
managed by Detroit-Based political
consultant Mario Morrow who was
Dr. Vincent's day to day manager in
his last attempt to win the seat.
Rodney King, audit
. ,
affect Yahweh trial
Compll«l from IWport!
,"WATERGATE SHOWED
us that we cannot even allow the­
Pre ident of the United State to be
above the law."
MHC calls for a "Resistance
Movement," urging citizen to
write in support of their plank to
Platform, Democratic National
Committee, 430 S. Capitol Street
S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003.
"Don't ay this is our mess and
you don't have time for it,"
Meadow aid. "Our me could
become your me . People can
develop a haJ¥licap in the blink of
an eye through an ccident, illn
or imple old age."
may affect j ury deliberations. Miami
has a hi tory of racial unre t stem­
ming from high-profile court cases.
"WE LIVE IN a country where
racial issues are present in a case in
Miami as they are present in a case
in Lo Angeles," defense attorney
Chris Mancini said. "We hould ad­
dress the i ue of racial and religious
prejudice at orne point with this
jury."
Indicating before the recess that
the break "will help," Judge Roettger
said that he did not think the Rodney
King case or its aftermath would
necessarily have ap impact on the-
S ,YAHWEH, Pag A.10.