contlnu d from AS
The ide of mini police t tions,
fi ed or mobile, I 0 dre upport.
Athtetes
ContInued from A 1
leadership rol ," laid Tim Smith,
Junior football player, acting as stu­
dent pok person.
"Athletes
f el they
have
chance to
make it, as
the white
man
defln s
making it
in this
society.
You have
a chance,
togo
and make
millions "
of dollars
and you
don't
want to
jeopardize
that by
, speaking
out about
injustice. II
"Athletes feel they have a chance
to make it, as the white man defines
making it, in this society. You have
a chancce to go and make millions of
dollars and you don't want to jeop-
ardize that by speaking out about
injustice.
"We feel it's our responsibility to
speak out and lead. That's what'
surprising a lot of people. As athletes
here, we have a lot of untapped
power because we bring so much
money into this university," Smith
aid.
Hardin i pmpo ing an existing
center, which has glas walls on
three sides, be expanded.
"I favor a center that is by geog­
raphy and program inviting and in- .
elusive, a forum not a fortress,"
Hardin told the ball players.
"To me, when he says we want a
forum, not a fortress, he' saying he
do n't want us to have any power,"
Smith aid. "Having our own build­
ing would give us a unique ense of
power. As long you can have us in
gl -enclosed room where you
can watch everythi ng we do, every
move we make-- you ccan control
us. We want our own building, he
know now we're willing to fight to
get it. We're not going away."
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RDI H ffron,
ov r p riod of on y ar 12 tor
have been clo ed in Detriot for non­
compliance, but the consensus of
many i that more tore de erve
clo ing.
Fo dr maininginthcmarketwa
giv n t St. Vine nt D Paul, a
charity organization.
As the Jani zew ki' w r xplain­
ing the injustice that were impo ed
upon them by the Mi higan Depart­
ment of Agriculture a caravan of live
cockroach paraded aero the
wooden floor.
The Michigan Citizen will
tinue to report on the merchants who
continue to sell food in filth.
Call 86Q-0033 if you want a
reporter to accompany your group
inspection of nei thborhood tore.
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continued from AS
intensify our efforts to minimize the
losses until this 'wonder drug' can
reach us. There i a simple equation
to our problem at the pre ent:
African-American-unemployment
� povcrty- hunger-crime­
crack u c=-ccmmunity devastation.
Obviously there i nothing that
anyone can do about the first value
of the equation. Yet it is within our
power to i nten ify our effort to
remedy the other values of the equa­
tion to avoid the urn.
.MANY ORGANIZATION as
I stated earlier are already addre ing
these prohlem • but I feel that now
our efforts mu t be intensified dra -
tically - even viciously in our ef­
forts to win over this crisis.
The mo t astounding revelation
exposed by those arne
Neuroscienctists ' that were men­
tioned. was the discovery that where
the te t mice were placed in the
'environment' whenever the addic­
tive proce s began the mice reacted
as though cocaine was present­
even in the ab ence of the drug! Thi
evidence throw a profound light
upon the effect of environment.
If these results apply to humans to
any degree, then what we may be
facing is a complete overhaul of
crack-infested communities; possib­
ly even a total wipe out of architec­
tural con iderations in these areas.
A simple example could be ex­
pressed by supposing that a person
who began usir.g 'crack' in school,
can actually trigger this craving for
the drug simply by continuing to at­
tend school!
Thi could mean that to .cxpect
former 'crack' addicts to ucceed on
a wholescale basis after being placed
back into the arne environment in
which their addiction began is futile"
and simply will not work.
WITHOUT AN intensification
of our concerns we may find more
and more of our people falling victim
to this epidemic. As it stands now,
an overhaul of our communities will
take place whether we direct it or not.
We can either use the tools avail­
able to u and rebuild our com­
munities according to our own
choice, or we can stand idly by and
watch this epidemic turn our com­
munities into devastated wastelands.
My hope i that thi cientific
evidence will top-up the investiga­
tion in seekin s lutioru to thi hor­
ronco s prohl m.
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"I THI HI music i 0 far-
reachin ," Van M ter aid ina Time'
interview. "So many white people
Ii ten to this music. But we have no
idea who our audien e i going to be.
We think if oin to be thi real
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long to achieve. It
Conyers ' aid the board should
either t e the empowerment i sue
off the table or sign an agreement
saying it could not upercede the con­
tract, is an agreement in New York
state.
LATER, AFfER GOING to the
negotiating meeting, an aide stated
that Conyers refused to make any fur­
ther statements to the press.
In her interview with The
Michigan Citizen, McGriff said that
there was a verbal agreement with the ,
union on empowerment on Friday
one day before Conyers complained
about the issue.
When asked why she pushed the
empowerment of local school , Mc­
Griff said, "We want to be able to
educate citizens. No solution is right
for all schools. Local teams of
parents, teachers and community
members are best."
One pro union ource accused
McGriff of intimidation by sending a
letter 'threatening to take health
benefi ts away.
MCGRIFF SAID HE only in­
formed teachers that she was obliged
to provide health benefits only as
long as the old contract lasted and she
would not provide benefits after that
unless a new contract was igned.
She said she was in her rights to
do so.
McGriff also denied that board
members were being obstructive in
not showing up for negotiations on
the .weekend. She said that union
negotiations were usually conducted
by her and her negotiators, not by.
board members. Board members
come on week days because they
were ordered by a trial judge to do so,
but management persuaded the judge
they were not obliged to come on
weekends.
She said the main i sue holding up
a contract were questions on the rate
of salary �reases the teachers
should get
"I want students back in school,
teachers rewarded, no raise in taxes
of the city and a balanced budget, It
McGriff said. "I want an agreement
that does all that,"