Je e Jackson
be bridged.
"In the final analysis, w will either
choo e polarization or partner hip.
We'l ch multi-cultural education
nd div rsity or e'll choos ethnic
clea ing," h said.
MORE T A 5,700 student
crowded into Ro e Arena to h ar th
civil rights leader p th university
to set up a multi-cultural center and
recruit more minority students, faculty
and administrators.
About 2.8 percent oft 16,349
dents t the uni rsity a BI r­
all, 5.9 peroent i minority. About 18
percent of the chool's athlet are mi­
noriti .
Jackson as invited to campus fter
racial tensions were h ight ned I t
.spring by a b ketball coach's tement
that he needed more "nigge "on the
team.
Coach Keith Dambro was fired, but
he protested that he used the word with
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t dy: aiti
emba gO ........... ....,
1,000 child en
monthly
NEW YORK (AP) - The oil em­
bargo and other sanctions in­
tended to help restore democracy
to Haiti are killing as many as
1,000 children a month, accord­
ing to a Harvard University
tudy.
"The human toll from the i­
lent tragedy of humanitarian
.gl n far tar than
ith l' the viol nee or human
rights abuses," said the study,
according to The New York
Times.
Although food and medicine
are exempt from the embargo,
the blockade makes it harder to'
bring humanitarian aid into
Haiti, Lincoln C. Chen, director
of Harvard's Center for Popula­
tion and Development Studies,
said. '
The embargo is meant to help
force the return of democratically
elected President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, who was overthrown by
the militaryin 1991.
In Haiti, the Western Hemi­
sphere's poorest country, nearly
3,000 children age 5 or under die
each month. That has increased
by about 1,000, the study said.
THE STUDY FOUND that
vaccination programs in some
rural 'areas and in Port-au­
Prince have reached only 4 per­
cent of their -target population
because of the embargo, which
has choked transportation on the
island.
And it said the embargo con­
tributed to as many as 100,000
new cases of malnutrition in
Haiti, which has a population of
about 7 million.
Chen said the' United States
and others should set up a "hu­
manitarian corridor" to ensure
delivery of supplies needed to
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WORKING MOMS - The flv member work crew of working mom Include: (l-r) Carla Wyalnger, Brenda ClOY, Kim Cavia, Ray Miller,
sup rvlaor, e MeAf e and Bobbl Bennett (photo by B. �rown)
, .'
Women tackle, learn home rehab s
By BERNICE BROWN
Michl sn Citizen
its to identify needs, set goals and make
appropriate referrals to other community
agencies and resources. Participants th n
begin 'to take steps to carry out individuals
goals, often through furthering their edu­
cation and/or training.
Miller said later on the crew will lay
carpet, tile and since they did such good
job putting in the chain link fen , they
have another job to install anoth r one.
"I've been surprised, I thought the
women couldn't handle th e things, but
. I'm very well pleased with the work that
they've done," Miller said.
The women, all dressed in blu cov r­
alls covered with paint, . id th y really
enjoy what they are doing.
"AT FIRST I was cared, but aft r
awhile I got used to it," said Brenda Cloy.
Cloy id after the program, sh will be
going back to Adult Ed to get her GED and
after that her goal is to get b ck into th
construction field, .
Carla Wysinger, the outspoken one of
S e MOMS,A8
BENTON HARBOR-A work crew of five
. Benton Harbor women had no ideal that
they would be in training, painting and
rehabing houses in the City of Benton Har­
bor, but thanks to the 21st Initiative
Neighborhood' Housing Program and
Christian Outreach Rehab & Develop­
ment (CORD), they had a chance.
The women in the six months training
program are all ADC recipients who are
lso participants of Project Together.
Project Together is funded by the Ber­
rien County Department of Social Services
and is operated in cooperation with the
staff of Berrien County DSS and Lake
Michigan College.
Program Assistants of Project Together
work with participants through home vis-
THE CREW 0 FIVE is working on a
house at 235 Hasting, where th y painted
th outside of the house and cleaned th
yard.
According to Ray Miller of CORD, who
is the supervisor of th crew said the
women have scraped off wallpaper, gutted
walls, did insulation, busted up concrete
porch, Put in a d k, dug out scrubs, put in
a 55 feet chain link fence, painted,
trimmed trees, poured cement, drywalled
and many other things that n ed to be
done.
c a
CHATTANOOG Tenn. (AP) -
Th b ttl in a Tenn court­
room prom ibl ho for
out- tate African Am rica in
Michigan who mus face whit
jud in counti uch as B r-
rien and Muskegon.
Hamilton County, nn
could have its first Blac jud
ifjudgeshi w re elected by di -
trict rather than at-I rge, a wit­
tified in federal court.
William Coop r, an expert
witn for 10 Black Hamilton
Countians challenging the cur­
rent ystem of countywide el -
tiona, aid Monday that 1990
census figures could be u to
develop districts from which
Black judges in Criminal and
S. ions courts could be elected.
Cooper showed U.S. District
Jud Thomas G. Hull maps of
districts for Circuit Court' four
poe " Criminal Court' thr
slots and the two-judge Chan­
cery Court.
COOPER, WHO works for
th nCivilLi
ch�nd, Va.-
te id it . ibl to
on majority- Ia district ch
for Criminal and Circuit courts.
But he agreed tha it i math
matically impossible to ite a
majority-Black district in 'h n­
cery Court because it h only
two judges.
The lawsuit charges that the
current system mak el ing
Blacks to judgeships nearly im­
possible since Blacks comprise
only 17.2 percent of the county'
voting-age population.
No Black has ever been
elected a county judge in Hamil­
ton County. There currently er
12 Hamilton County jud , all
white males.
But Deputy Attorn y General
Michael Catalano said th state
has not tried to discriminate in
the way jud are elected in
Hamilton County.
Catalano id the state is wor­
ried about judges d ling with
people outside th ar that
elected them. He id the tate'
concerned "not just about impar­
tiality, but the appearan ofirn­
partiality. "
A'ITOR E AU HLI
McDonald asked on of th
who filed the lawsuit if 1 ks
. consider the current y
p rtial.
"There i a perception about
all ofthejudges beingwhi , t at
it is part of th good-ole-boy n t­
work," said plaintiff Maxine
Cousin. Se ELECllON, A8
Do you agree
with Jesse
Jackson that.
teens should
snitch on their
peers?
-I agree 100% as long as the
person's identity is unknown.
Everyone' needs to stand up
and take charge of what's
happening.-
- Ar via Nichols
·1 a ree as long as the person
has some ype of protection."
- HI nrlck Carter
-I agree with Jackson because
its a good idea for solving the
(gun and drug) problem and it
opens the lines of
communication. •
-John Pow
"No. Jackson and ministers
need to concentrate on moral
and ethical values instead of
using guns/drugs as a political
platform for themselves"
- WIllie Harg' tt