A1
COD G TO PER·
� rt..I'I'TrI, over th 1 t 300 ,
the Bushman were hunted,' mur­
dered and driven from their lands
and now truggle to urvive in
d I gions of the Kalahari
rt in th rn Africa.
Perrott id that in addition to
the few hundred native bushman
who continue to live in nomadic
family groups as their an tors
did, there are also tens of thou­
san of surviving Bushmen de­
scendant Iiviug in southern
Africa who have also n dispos-
of their land and culture
d generally live in poverty.
"In recent y rs, cattle ranch­
eI'S, miners and even so-called con­
rvationists have dispossessed
the e people of their rightful
land, " he said.
Perrott cited large price sup­
ports on beefpaid by the European
Community to cattle ranchers in
Botswana as one of the main 01>-
tacles which prevented a quick
'resolution to the problem.
The ubsidies, aceordingto Per­
rott, made t land too profitab
to return to t Bushm n w n
instead it could be used for cattle.
Pa.:.� ..... _
ve the B hman, t go rn­
ment of Bo wana will to
gi t hm n m of their
land back in ord r to give them a
t fighting chan ot urvival. He
cited imilar n by the
Aus ralian governm nt to protect
the Aborigin and by the CJlIUl­
dian government to the Inuit
(fonnerly ferred to as Eskimos)
Perrott said that if imilar c­
tions are not taken by' Botswana,
the Bushmen culture will soon
vanish.
In 1992, world leaders called
for the protection of Earth endan- .
gered speci at the Earth Sum­
mit, and hortly' afterward the
United Nations and the World
Bank d lared 1993 the Interna­
tional year of the World Indige­
nous People," Perrott said "Yet
the plight of th Bushmen - our
old t urviving an tors who
face certain extennination - is
being addressed with less concern
than that being given to the plight
of the California condor or the
spotted owl. "
PERROTT, AN engineer who
lived and worked in Africa for
more than 16 , a mem­
ber of an expedition in 1988 which
met and traveled with a mall clan
of surviving Bushmenin remote
regions of the Kalahari Desert in
Botswana. '
Perrott chronicled his adven­
tures on the expedition as well as
th current plight oft.beB, mnen
in the book Bush for the Bush nun: .
Need "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
Kalahari. People Die?" ,
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Michigan Department of
Educa ion withh mo BY all0-
cated to HPCC on the basi that
t eoll I. failed to comply with
tate audit requi ments.
. HPCC officials charged that
this w imply an excuse for
tate 0 ci who did not ant to
have a community college servio­
ing poor people.
Community idents nt to
Lansing earlier this y r to pro-
t tb policies at Michigan
Department of Education meet­
inga,
Mayor Linsey Porter demon­
strated his support for HPCC
funding and at his State of the
City Address this spring, made a
break with tradition by asking
HPCC President Thomas Lloyd
to brietly address the community
explaining the problems at the
college, noting that a community .
college was necessary for the pro­
gress of Highland Park
Chry ler' Jeffrey Gardner
ha a econd job.
And the benefit - are endless.
The World of W k
lives of m or program has given m th
program C��;di�t���nts in seven schools wheree I s:r��d�tunity to touch the
For the last t . mentor, tutor. and
student and I h wo years, DeAngelo McWilliams D .
SOcial Skills. ave been working together to dev�lo� D��OIgt (�dy High School
We met shortl . n e 0 s academic and
grade. This wa y after DeAngelo (alias Nin'a T
school to high SSCh�o)e�iod of adjustment for h/m a�r��e) entered the ninth
focusing . . n the beginning he wa moved from middle
making a��d�i school w?rk. Now DeAngelo i� ��Yt and was having difficulty ,
Stampin.g EXPlor�ra��s�oi��rfg�ess. OutSide of SCh��1 e��v����n:��de .;nd is.
ele� to South CarOlina d' a so serve as his post adviso ·w 0 arren
Sprl�� for an Explorer's aC�nf:�:n��w Planning an August t�iP �oh���o�aadv�
.' en I look back over m
rae that those activities h ,y years of inVolvement with ou '
have, imagined. I'm' prQud �veb brought me greater hapPine�s t�g people, I real-
. 0 e a part of the Chrysler World faWn I could ever
, 0 ork program.
n 1 d to tter j h
ndh
H s hu)'ing a hom r r fin n ing th on ou
()\\ n [w a) � sc .rned lik
vour r h?'
Dc )()U v -r fc-Ilike ) ing. "What', th
u l' of t r\ in ?"
W -II h -r ' an id a vou'll like.
I h e lruu live Mort ag ,1\1 from
hr't of m 'ri Bank.
With f1 ible l rm nd om -uuv c
rarev, u's a \'\<, to help p -opl buy hom' in
-t r oit , Il.ghl n Pc rk , Hamtramck ir
Pont It\{ .
\Vh -n pur has ing a hr me, )our d wn
p � men! l n b a liul a. 5% for Ii. d r l
mOrlgag nd i you'r int re l din r -fin n -
uh .. -r \\ .' I )our mortg,
or under. \\ 'II \'\- IH' our point. and th �
for apph . tion nd de urnent pr p ration.
nd \'\ 'II w iv th P int on
lot me re w n l II, ou if )U
[ust c all Fir of mertca ar I- 0-735-116.
1111 t k from ou i. lrul mill uv
loom Stlbjel t to cr lill approvol
it mber f()1( Equal l lou 108 L rnkr G)
ALTHOUGH BOTH ED­
ERAL and local programs which
t aside a certain percentage of
contracts a warded for minority­
owned companies have been
struck down in recent yea ,
She dded though t t disci­
pline hould be combin with
love. "Smil win t mover. •
She . d som children have
not n hugged or· by
omy generally n tight for paren and a frequently told
the I three or four years, he . to "Be quiet nd hut your
thought it might help nerate mouth,"
more busin One mother said, 'VIe have to
Hall said banks should offer love our child. You'd be urprised
10 -inte t 10 to help mall at t problems tb children
bus in start up, but Carter bave. Let them know they're
id the solutions mu t come somebody."
from tb community itself. Eady urged parents to attend
"There are ill a lot of obsta- their students' cl and see
cles and di crimination that what they were learning and
limit African American eco- what the teachers ere doing.
nomic development, but nothing
that couldn't be overcome with a, PARE T SHOULD
singleness of purpose in th com- CALL the school in advance and
munity itself," Carter said. note they were coming, she said.
ut our pr ram, writ t
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Title: e rey Gardner
School: go�mU?ity A,ffairs Coordinator
St 0 y HIgh School DetrOit M' h'
udent: DeAngelo MCWilli�ms ,IC 19an
hrvsl r's "World lW()rk" pr ram f( u ( n h lping kid und r t nd h w g
and mor ful illing liv .. It provid a link tw n th world of hool and th d m n f th w rkpl
ovcr2, mplov � patti ip tin .all h lpin t m k
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