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VOL. XV NO H; I' I (' I' ,
"1 I'," 'I, t ,I ","'" II i , i'I"'t'.'I' March 7-13.1993
Blae
,Hi tary
onth Program
By RON SEIGEL
f Root said. "We're trying to help the
�::.:....==��_____ institution (HPCC) improve man­
agement and get bac on track." .
"lope there is some under­
standing of what we are trying to do,"
h said.
The s tate Department of Educa­
Hom action to withhold appropriated
s tate aid to the college led to charges
by HPCC officials that the state
w.i,,�oA1 to shut HPCC down. '
Students and communi ty activists
warned that this would .depnve
young people of ucational oppor­
tunity and take away another impor­
tant institution from the community,
at a time when important business
. have left the city .
- Ron Root,
State irector of igber Education
Management Servi , denied that
the Michigan D p duca­
lion i hostile to Highland Par Com­
munity College (HPCC).'
"I want to reemphasize that we're
trying to operate in the best interest
of the (Highland Park) community as
well as t best interest of the state,"
T TE EDUC 110 taff
, members said the money was with­
'held because of the failure of the
college to meet state audit require­
ments fo 1990-91 and 1991-92.
HPCC officials said the reason
for the de ay in the audit was contract
problems with the auditing finn De-
loitte Toucbe. '
who attend the Foundation's after-school and weekend tutorial
HOWE R, NOW the state
board has refused to provide the $2
million promi ed. Root aid be
was not aware of the taff m mb r's
r
,
By MATT STRATTON
C.pltol New Service
LA INC - Some auto insuranc
compani are charging ignificantly
In January, when tbe difficulties higher premium rat b ed on race
wi tb the auditing firm eemed re- "Tn Black Detroit area n ighborhoods
lved, th tate school board gave said the presid nt of the Michigan
the college $650,000 0 the money Citizens Lobby.
du it , The proc involves I redlining"
A state staff member verbally certai n map areas and charging rates
stated in January that as soon as the neighborhood by neighborhood in-
audit actually began, $2 million tead of by territorial boundari ,
verbal promis to restore $2 million
when t audit tatted. He said th
board' official po ilion is exp ed
in a letter by S13 Superintendent of
Public Instru tion obert Schiller
aying that n thing after h October
allotm nt would b given to the col­
lege, until both audits are completed,
Only then would all the tat money
be res tored.
He anticipat that it will take
day to complete the audit.
Rick Stoddard charged.
.House Bill 41 ,which i a cur­
rent aut i nsuranc r form pa kage,
would limit tcmtorial divi io to a
mmimum 60 ca and hop -
fully redu e the redlming practice,
toddard aid,
The bill al. 0 r quires that insur­
ance compani with a volume of
busin that pu them' n the top 85
percent of the market would re­
quired t have at least one agent,
phy ically located and writing b i-
,
By RON SEIGEL
",lchlp." Citizen
or police
ment ve been
mounti in to million dollar
ttlemen "which drain tremendo
resources from city' 00 ely
hard p ed to upport vital city
rvi "SOSAD ·d.
D orr - S ve Our So and
Daughte (SOSAD, g� roo
rganization concerned with teena
violence, called for fundamental
chang in the D troit Police Depart­
ment as a ult of the Malice Green
beating.
The SO-SAD Winter ew letter
notes, "Every young Black male in
Detroit has a ."war story" of police
hams I1\ nt or brutality gainst him­
self or a friend. Yet inoe 1976 I
than 7% of th complain of police
brutality in anyone year were held to
have m rit" by the Board of Police
Commis loners, et up to prot t De­
troit citizens rom police b e.
Last y ar over half of all, police
complain re lved by'tbe Commi -
ion were ent b k to the olice
Departm nt or. inv tigation,
SOSAD tated "which," it declared,
t e entially amoun to t police po-
llcin t lv."
eSOSAD,A7
DESPITE
com-
, HPCC A ting P ident Thom
Ll yd said in the middle of February
that the college would go outcf busi­
n 'in a month, if it did not get th
promised 2 million.
Lloyd charged that failing to pro­
vide the mon y was part a tate'
policy of continuously changing re­
quirements, making it more difficult
See HPCC, A6
'c
r
nes .' in h rating territory of its
ranng plan, aid Stoddard.
BU ,J E 0 0, vice presi­
d nt and gen ral cou el for Citizens
I nsuran Company of America di -
agreed with St ddard that th redlin-
ing even ex is . '
"1 refer to them as alJeg d redlin­
mg practice because there i no
proof behind th claims," 01 on aid.
Se TAX,A10
-Q.
What are the
first steps, the
NAACP
bouki do to
be more
relevant in the
community?
LARRY EDWARDS: "The
first thing they should do is
equalize the rights of the citi­
zens of 0 trot ."
LEON WASHINGTON: "Put
more jobs and training pro­
grams into th community."
GERALDINE BLEDSOE·
'FO : "The question should
be how can we as African
Americans be more rei
vant"