r
N W YO -A recent
study revealed that most
school boards operate so inef
ciently that they hinder their
own effort to improve
schools.
The tudy, "Governing
Public Sdlools: New Times,
New Requirement ", ex
arni�d 15,350 of the nation'
local chool boards.
Problems cited included
unfocused management; turn
over of chool board mem
bers; and a lack of tate
legislation defining their role.
Michael W. Kirst, a school
reform expert at Stanford
University and co-author of
tbe study, said of the schodl
boards, "They are trying to
oversee everything, and they
are so pressed for time that
they don't do (anything) well."
A re ult of this i that
boards acro the country have
have been pressed by teachers
and the public. The study
recommends state lawmakers
to pass legislation that specifi
cally outlines dutie of the
chool board, concentrating
on policy.
SCLC·
, continued from Page 1
around conducting a 'Who looks
more like HaIry Truman contest,"
Lowery helped Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. found the national
civil rights group 35 years ago. Low
ery has headed the SCLC since
1971.
He told the Albuquerque audi
ence of about 175 they can create
charige by applying their faith to po
litical, social and economic prob
lems.
"Singing the Lord's song is
doing tberight thing," he said .. "It is
being ethical and moral and just in
our decisions in life."
Lowery said society is violent
in part because people have aban
doned spirituality for greed.
"When materialism am greed
connect, they produce some ugly
offspring:' including racism, sex
ism, corruption and violence, he
said.
The Rev. Charles W. Poole,
Albuquerque chapter president, said
the luncheon at the Albuquerque
Convention Center was intended to
introduce the SCLC to New Mexico.
"There are educational needs,
economic needs --and some preju
dices among people still exist:'
Poole said. "We need to teach peo
ple what brotherhood means. Our
group hopes to be a basis for that H
Poole said there are about 75
SCLC chapters nationwide. He said
the new Albuquerque chapter, with
about 150 members, is the only one
in New Mexico.
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be accepted, however we are making
some in-roads."
ouljah: ay
no oClinton
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By JULIE PIERCE
C.ptlal Nrn Swvlc.
u.nora Fulanl
appointment with a Black PubllsheIS
group because Fulani was on the
panel.
Clinton also "profited from apart
heid", Fulani said, with his invest
ments in DeBeers Consolidated
Mines, Ltd., a cornerstone of the
South African economy. According
to his tax returns, Clinton earned
$4,000 from the investment.
"THIS YEAR, going indo
pendent is the most reasonable thing
for Black voters to do," Fulani said
in a tatement released to the press.
"It' how the Black comunity and its
friends am pol tical allies -the Lat
im community, feminists, gays am
lesbians, environmentalists, rank
am-file labor, progressive whites
can gain real leverage in-the Demo
cratic Party. Even more importantly,
it' how we can have a voice in the
new independent political move
ment that .bas erupted like a volcam
this year will, between now the year
2000, undoubtedly solidify into a
ml:i0r new political party."
"Bven if you don't like a judge,"
Boyle said, "you can not show it in
the courtroom."
UPPO OF ICHIGA
AACP-Ronald E. Smiley
{left), corporate affair
central region manager for
Anheuser-Busch Com
panies, accepts an award
from Carl L. Breedi ng, presi
dent of the Michigan
Branche of the NAACP, in
recognition of the brewer's
support of the civil-rights or
ganization. In addition to its
financial support to local
NAACP chapters across the
state, the company also sup
ports th organization's an
nual conference, which was
held recently in Romulus.
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EMU's Greg Peoples works for ��Ii.�ellts·
minorities on campus, but to provide
programming to the university at
large on different cultures,
YPSILANTI - Associate Dean of
Students Greg Peoples has a full
schedule and a packed agenda, but
he said the main goal and reward of
this position is making an impact on
individual students at Ea tern
Michigan University.
"My overall effectiveness is
determined by how I can provide a
positive difference in the lives of
individual students," he said.
As associate dean, Peoples'
primary duty is to assist students
through administrative processes at
the University and to offer solutions
when snags occur.
"Primarily I assist students
through the red-tape process, which
is not necessarily a negative situa
tion, but sometimes it's helpful to
have an administrator work on the
.students' behalf to help solve a par
ticular problem," he said.
HOUSING, ACCOUNTING,
judicial and personal problems all
pass through his office, and Peoples
wants to make an impact in all those
areas. '
In addition to his responsibilities
as associate dean, Peoples has been,
in effect, serving as coordinator of
Multicul tural Center while the coor
dinator position in that office is
vacant.
He admi ts that it carries wi th it an
additional workload, but the value
of the experience he has received
working with different student
groups on campus has more than
repaid the effort.
"For me, I've learned a lot this
year, particularly from working
closely with other minority groups
on campus. I've learned a 10,t from
the Latino community and the
tive American community just in
terms of helping them plan their ac
tivities," he said.
Peoples noted that the goal of the
center not only is to provide
programming and sup.port for
IN ADDITION TO his work
with the Multicultural Center,
Peoples has been spending time
wi th Greek organizations and also
working to t' tablish a
gay/bisexual/lesbian ��sollrce cen-
ter on campus.' ,
"The University, recognizes that
we have a number of gay, bisexual
and lesbian students on campus who
have various �eeUngs ,abqut their
sexual orientation. There is a grow
ing need to provide some type of
services for those students," he said,
explaining that the resource center
would serve to provide information,
but would not function as a student
organization.
The number of' activities that
Peoples oversees makes demands
on his time, and he said he warned.
his wife. of the demands when he
accepted the posi tion.
"When I took this job I told my
Wife that she had to understand that
part of thi responsibility is working
with the Greek organizations (and
the Multicultural Center) and that a
lot of that would have to do with
attending functions in the evening.
But tho e are things. I've always
liked 10 do," he said. ..
People said that besides his busy
family life with his wife and three
daughters, he i involved in the com
munity is several way.
"I AM
4 CRET ARY of Wit-
LANSING-Lady Justice is on the
move in the state-literally. Her in
fluence is visible in the courtrooms
and on the judicial campaign trial.
This year marks a unique moment
in Michigan's judicial system. It is
the first time two women have run
against each other for a seat on the
Michigan Supreme Court.
Judge Marilyn Kelly of Bloom-
J field Hills, nominated by the
t •• v • ....u.,) .. �.�<o# _. De , ,. 4ehallenging �
overshado\Vt/ .. I '"'' I� Do�y+:SO�l9C� �9Y oJ �q,o � t
d Pointe rarms, nominated by the
orms Republicans.
NEW YORK-According to "There is still some resistance to
a 1990 census, there are nearly women judges," said Kelly, who has
, as many people in correctional been an Appeals Court judge since
imtitutions in New York City 1988. "It has'taken time for women
as there are in college dor- to
mitories. Among Blacks,
more than four times as many
are in jan as are living in col
lege dorms.
Of tbe more than 10,000
homeless people "visible in
street locations" in New York,
half were Black and about one
third were hispanic. The cen
IUS counted three people who
Identified themselves as
Japanese.
good." But there are obstacles to be "Some women still don't quite ac-
overcome. cept another woman in a po ition of
The biggest challenge to women is power," she said. "And, there have
"IT CAN BE difficuh profes- themselves, Kelly said. "Our self- been times when I ve been cam-
sionally for women, " she said. "But, THE IMPACT of having a co- image and conception of whether we paigning with my husband to a new
.we have gotten a lot of favorable educational judicial system has can ucceed, how we are brought up group and have had him mistaken for
press coverage recently." That created a difference in the courtroom and what we believe is appropriate or 'Justice Riley.'"
wasn't always the case. environment, said Thomas E. Bren- not, is what holds us back," she said. Overcoming these barriers are just I
Riley said that as recently as dght nan. Brennan, who is president and "There is still some paternalism part of the job and sometimes
years ago the press was guilty of judi- chairman of the board at Thomas within the field," Boyle aid. "As an bumorous. .
cial sexism. Cooley Law School and was Chief example, there can be a reluctance to "When the court w all men,"
"I was running for a (Supreme Justice of the Michigan Supreme assign women lawyers to the Riley said "no one gave a thought to
Court) seat eight years ago against a Court from 1969-1970, said that toughest criminal cases because of the judicial robing room facilities.
man and a woman," Riley said. "The judge' behaviors changed when the .. �1l.��IW'JJK8i"��IIAG WhelllMll¥cQolerMR,w olected
press was horrified and sald, 'You dineD � 'P' t. "l1�,�(I�"�tIt�ttI�lari •• m tlle fi '\ '.. • inl '1 it
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This time, i haven t heard anything." made behind closed doors," Brennan sitting ina room interviewing them is 0 Y one eamroom, .
Justice Patricia Boyle of Detroit said. "That's how things are con- not acceptable to some because of "We have very limited space back I
said that respect for authori ty is struc- ducted, mo t of the work goes on In afety." there," she said. "The small area
tured into the legal profession and private. Withwomenpresent, there's can't be divided, but you ee more
h I bat i uali f f ha d and more unisex facilities, so it isn't
e ps com at meq ity. more 0 a sense 0 rmony an RILEY SAID THAT society's
that bad." '
civility; I see the involvement as expectations concerning authority
are still male dominated.
" THEY HAVE et an agenda for
your thoughts. That is a state of ac
commodation to whi te supremacy,"
Souljah said as she rattled off a Ust
of issues relevant to African Amen- . • •. ::;'."'t:... .....
cans that neither Bush, Clinton or
Perot were discussing.
Hoesing, health care, mending
male-female relationships. jobs,
Haiti and South Africa were among
the issues she said the campaigns
were not addressing.
If African Americans vote for
Clinton, he will be elected --am
gloat - without having to address
African issues, witbout having gone
into African communities and after
insul ting Rev. Jesse Jackson, dlsre
sp . g Sister Souljah, pushing the
death nalty, among other" racist,
disrepectful" acts towaIds Africans,
the rapper said.
Fulani said for people of color
there are 10 reasons not to vote for
Clinton.
She reminded people that the
. Democrats have worked hand in
hand with the Republicans to "make
. America a paradise for the weal thi
est few and he� on earth for the rest
of us."
Fulani called Clinton a "poll tical
opportunist," changing views to
pte.e constituencies.
She aid Clinton .bas made point
of insulting Afrlcan Americans, in
cluding Rev. Jesse Jackson am Sis
ter Souljah. Clinton broke an
ConIInued from A1
the national agenda to focus on is
sues important to people of color.
"How can you believe you're a
Democrat, when the Democrats
don't believe you're are a Demo
crat?" Sister Souljah asked her audi
ence. "It is not alright to .have a
campaign that doesn't discuss issues
that relate to Africans."
low Run School Board, a memberof
the board of directors of the Hope
Clinic in Yp ilanti and I'm very ac
tive as a deacon at Packard Road
Bapti t Church," he said. Peoples
also serves as a mentor to a student
in EMU's su'mmer incentive pro
gram for potential incoming fresh
man. Serving a ociate dean is
not the; first position Peoples has
held at EMU.
Gregory A. Peoples
'.
In 1977, he served as coordinator
for the Campus Interact Center and
later was named assistant, then as
sociate director of admissions. He
left EMU in 1984 to sc;�e a cor
porate speciali t and then as director
of admissions at General Motors En
gineering and Management In
stitute.
In 1985, he went to Washtenaw
Community College as director of
enrollment services. When the op
portunity came to return to EMU,
Peoples sa�d he was excited.about
the prospect.
"Having the opportunity to work
in a number of different institutions,
I think one thing that really en
couraged me to come back to East- •
em was the ct that I really do
believe that Eastern Michigan is an
institution that is committed to the '
development of the tudent,"
Peoples said.
"(The commitment) i evide
when you lOok at the programs fft
terms of diversity, opportunity and
research, there rea 11 y is a comml •
ment to the growth and developme�
of the student."