m
var¥1alltSm 0
BI tud nt' paign
ner for tudent government
come under the in ti tive
eye of Miami Univer ity.
Sophomore Stan Smith run­
nin for vice-p idcq of mi­
nority airs t the Unive ty
cind, recently, found one of his
campaign fliers in a puddle of
urine in front of his ldeoce
hall door.
A campaign bannerw also
removed from a well-lit area al¥l
sOOved into toilet, tall. Smith
said he w a victim of racism
last fall when the word "nigger"
w scrawled on the door of his
donn room. Blacks make up 2.5
percent of Miami' enrollment.
School "clo ed
due to raci mil.
A barricade by a group of
students demanding greater eth­
nic and racial diversity among
. faculty, ended after 43 bours of
the studems occupying a hall at
Cl aremo nt California College.
The barricade ended after ad­
ministrators from the COllege
and students repre entatives
came to an agreement.
The students locked employ­
ees out of Alexander Hall and
put up signs that read: "Cased ..
d ,racism,: .. "- v." J
Teacher' ell '
Black tudent
at auction'
ATGLEN, PA-ParentS and
community members are in an
uproar over a first-grade
teachers lessors for Black his­
tory. The teacher used the two
Black students in the class in a
mock slave auction, with the stu­
dents posing as slaves.
Almost 30 people demon­
strated outside of Octorara EI'e­
mentary School in Chester
County, calling for the firing of
the teacher and holding cards
that read "Fire Insensitive
Teachers Now" and "Thi is
1993, not 1950." The demon­
strators also called for the resig­
nation of the di trict
Superintendent, Timothy Davi ,
who, they S:8y, has been unable
to deal with mounting racial ten­
siors in the chools.
The teacher, Mary Homing,
apologized to the parents of the
two children after the incident.
District officials took no di ci­
plinary action against the
teacher, citing the well-inten­
tiers and the lesson was "not ,
meant to be racis t. It
In November, two notes con­
taining the nam of Black tu­
dents and their white friends
were posted in the high school
with racial slurs attached to the
names.
conomic
independence
in action
GRAND RAPID I'MI-A
group of Black Orand Rapids
busines owners are trying to .
form an inner city ank that will
(ocus on lending funds to spur
economic development in the
predominately Bla k eetion of
the city. Thebank whichwould
be known a the Southside
Bank, is a representation of in­
ner city capitali m encouraged
by Clinton.
During his campaign, Clin­
ton pledged to form a network of
. 100 community developmental
banks that would make money
nurturing small busin and
community revitalization.
Th group' in led by
Ja k Black, Birthal Lambert'
and Frank Th mas. Th roup
currently mee in the city
N w Hope Bapti st Church.
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ed ln 85 percent
Annetta Miller, D-Huntington Woo ,a
22-y S te Board member, d' puted th
research that w done by the Senate commit­
t and. aid that the Michigan Model
been used nationally a model of education.
Miller aid that it i necessary for choo tum 0 I -
to teach the ubjects thalare ircluded in the . lators and not the S e Bo Edu lion
Michigan Model because parents aren't when then: edu tional probl
teaching their children about uch things and "Who p th Ie lation on education?
tudents are having more problems. ot the Board of Ed tion," D' ello des.
"Evidence how that ignorance, not However, Miller 'd she do n't feel th
knowlegde, crea problems," Miller said. board i removed from famlli needs.
"We can't be 0 tricbes and hide our h "I believe the Sta Board of Education
in the and." - ttl ard to represent th children of the
New Buffalo Area School D' trict Mi- tate," Miller aid.
chael Lindley said that on the whole the Sal aid having a S Board ofEduca-
success of the Michigan Model' hard to tion i important because ihe board i free
measure, but he can think of certain i taeces from legislative politics and independent
where the model h helped individual tu- from the Legist reo
dents. · Sal addet1 that DiNello might want to
100 toward the Legislature for t problems
in education-and dded a reminder that
term limits ere p ed by the people for
legi lators and not the State Board for Edu­
cation.
"We don't need to know the ubjects the
icbigan Model teach ," D' ello aid.
"It' far more important to read and wri te
than to lcmw about problem solving am ex.
education values."
DiNello aid he thinks parents should be
the' 0 to educa their children on some of
the ubjects the Michigan Model teaches.
However, some State Board members
don't agree at all with DiNello.
"I 0 UTEL Y insane," , aid
Gumecindo Salas, D-East Lansing, in re­
sponse to DiNello' ugg tions that remov­
ing the Michigan Model will improve MEAP
scores. .
"How abou . g away lunch hour, too,
so that th tudents can tudy? That's how
ridiculous (DiNello's suggestion) i ."
MIcm Model' subject mat-
ter is directed toward such ubj ects as emo­
tional and mental health, afety, sexual
education valu ,nutrition, and problem
BESIDES THE aboli hment of the
Michigan Model, one of the recommenda­
tions in the final report of the Senate commit­
tee is to do away with the State Board on the
r·
y
b (l
By LYNN G .[ BOWSKJ cited: for that lac of success is com-
�pltOI Ne� Setvlc. - petition among groups to benefit·
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LANSING - Shoppers may be
paying a few more penni at the
grocery store come 1994, if the De­
partment of Natural Resourc has its
way.
Recently, the Natural Resources
Commis ion voted to back a tempo­
ral)' l-cent incre e to the tate ales
tax that would bring in about $700
million to set up a permanent endow­
ment for tate parks.
But will the proposal ucceed?
If history is a good indicator it
won't since past propo al have been
voted dow n, ti me after ti me. I
_ State Budget Director Patti
Woodworth aid she do n't think
the NRC' quest will be a successful
.one inee a rai e in the ales tax re-.
quires a constitutional amendment
voted on by th people of Michigan.
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les tax. One, to inc the
tax to 6 n the other to -raise .
the sales tax to 4.5 cents aOO consti­
tutionally dedicate the money to local
schools. This too w defeated.
Guy Gordan, a pokesperson for
the DNR, ays its propo al to raj
the Michigan sales tax by a penny
tand a better chance than previous
propo als because of its simplicity.
"Edu ation reforms on ballot are
confusing," Gordan said. "There are
different formulas to be considered.
The state park's proposal is clearly
worded and the investment would
benefit the parks and not be diverted
into other interests."
The fact that the voters would be
able to ee that the money w going
where it was uppo ed to i another
plus for the NRC, according to Gor­
don.
"Education would like that next
penny as well," Woodworth aid.
A poke man for Gov. Engler,
John Truscott, also has rejected the
idea.
"The idea public i not willing to
upport a tax increase at this ti ,"
Truscott aid.
In the past 13 years, three propo -
als that incl uded a rai e in the ales
tax have been hot down by the vot­
ers, aid George Herstek, as i tant to
the director of elections in the Secre­
tary of State' bureau.
In 1980, Senate Joint Re lution
X attempted to provide property tax
relief and to reimbu tate and local
government with an additional ales
tax. It was defeated.
WANDA F. ROQUEMORE/Michigan Citizen
Modeling the "Heritage Line of Afrocentric coordinates are
(front): Sherry Arington, Jaquette Bradley, (back) ?indy �ta­
pies, Heather Staples and Tyrone Staples. The Hentage Lln�,
the creations 01 Maria Hildreth, presi nt sign Scope, IS
featured in the African Shop at J.e. enney's N land.
"THE ULT WOULD be,
real and tangible," Gordon aid. "It
would show in th upkeep of the
parks and in educational and infor­
mational programs that we would be
IN 1981, another attempt to re­
duce property tax and return an
additional ale tax to local govern­
ments and school , inHouse Joint
Resolution 0 a1 0 w defeated.
"P T HI T RY OF constitu­
tional amendments to increase the
al tax has not been a very ucce -
ful one," Woodworth aid.
On of the reasons Woodworth
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children hi life is just beginning. It was just
clear to me that being the only Black Phar­
macist left in Muskegon Heights, they were
going to convict us no matter what."
Patterson received a ix month-jail en-
ence and a $20,000 fine while Smith re­
ceived a mi demeanor Charge and a $5,000
fine. The pharm y remains open for busi­
n . However, prescriptions for controlled
ubsta can not b lled.
Apologizing for hi actions, Dr. Bergren,
pleaded no cont t on November 3, 1989 to
two counts of delivery of controlled ub­
tances. In a plea bargain, other drug charges
were dropped.
He was finally entenced to three y in
federal pri on and w ordered to pay
0, in fin .
In addi tion, h was' ordered to erve a
36-month prob tionary p ri d which w to
include a 4 -hour per month community
rvicework.
It was revealed that he would urren-
der his equity in Bergren' orth Salem
Medical Clinic alo g with hi m..¢ical li-
TT D, the jury w lh • ccnse whi h the Michigan Board Of 0 teo-
deciding f tor for her acceptin a on count pathic Medicine has uspended.·
f lorry during a plea bargain. "After king He will b eligible for relicensing in three
at the jury it w 0 vious that justice would years.
n t prevail. I couldn't let tbern take my son
on felony charge. At31, with a wif and two
By PATRICIA COLBERT
Michl sn CI!jnen
MlJ KI<:GON -lnMarcho 1 (2,
g neric equivalents were an important source
f income for Patterson' Drug Store,
It a 0 stated that Dr. Bergren handed out
pr criptions on a monthly basis for four
controlled substances to a large number of
people who did not medically r quire them.
The lengthy document contained other
violations.
What Carolyn Patterson and Gloria
M aji have in common, oth r than b ing
African American pharrn y owners, is that,
they b th were completely overtaken to
learn th t they w re t center of an inve ti­
gation.
"I have been in busin for 17 years," aid
Patters n, "Stat Inspe to cam in twice a
year, 1 w never cited. I often k if every­
thing w alrigbt. They never indicat d that
there was a problem. We h d heard for a
couple of years that the lar er corporations
wanted to get rid of indep ndent neigh r­
h od pharmacies. My on had just gradual d
and had been working for thr months when
th lndictmcn were handed d wn."
"�JL""J'-J�' PHARMACY which
h PP A to be ituated in a predominantly,
Bl: ,low ocio-cconomi area was rounded
up a a r ult of an invcsti ali n done on a
I al phy ician.
or more than 20 years, it was alleged that
Dr. Harvey Bergren, D.O., now 62, of 3316
W. Riv r, over-wrote pre ription for con­
troll d ubstan
After an inv tigation, hi� more than 20
year r ign of writin ille al pr criptions
end 0 when he was ar sted at hi orth
alcrn Clinic, 1179 Whitehall Ro: d, Muske­
g n ownship.
After hi conviction th DEA foil wed
up and egan to confront and h rras ar a
pharm i is, who bad in th p t, filled pre­
cnptioru Io Dr. B r reno
"They came in on d y and aid they
need d my record to h lp build a cas
a ainst Dr. Bergren. I gave them willingly.
Aft r nvi tin Dr. Bergren th began to
h me until fin By they hand d down a
17 unt felony ind i tment a ru ns t me and
my, on. They aid I w< frllm Dr. Bergren'
pr scrtptions illegally."
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