Page Two THE !MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 20, 1977 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 20, 1977 APRIL GRADS! Commencement will be held on April 30, 1977. ALL CAP & GOWN orders MUST be placed by MARCH 30. LATE ORDERS are subject to availability and $2 late fee. Black involvement as effective as desegregation, says Bell By SUE WARNER Black community involvement and leadership could be just as effective in assuring quality ed- ucation for black students as integration plans, Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell stressed yesterday. In the keynote address of the day-long conference on desegre- gation, sponsored by the Black Law Students Alliance, Bell said: "A L L F E A S I B L E routes should be taken, includ- ing desegregation, busing, and racial balance - but not to the exclusion of structures, curric- ulum, personnel and parental involvement required to provide the effective schooling which is the heart of equal educational opportunities.", iU BELL, who has spent the last "In the final analysis policy 20 years in the civil rights field decisions on every level are bas- and particularly in school de- ed on self-interest," he added. segregation activities, believes "For most white people blacks that a review of effective all- are not a part of the self." black schools in New York, Bos- Schools, said Bell, must con- ton, and Chicago would provide sist of involved people who in solutions to the problem. He turn can go into the community urged analysis of such successes and involve parents - what he' and their translation into "en- called "the self-help community forcable relief and programs of type of thing." action. "I DON'T THINK we should BACHELOR MASTER DOCTOR All orders must1 Sun. 12-5 Rental $6.25 7.00 Rental Deposit $2.00 Total $8.25 5.25 2.00 14.25 7.50 5.50 2.00 15.00 be prepaid IN FULL when placed. Mon.-Thurs. 9-9 Sat. 1-5 "The limits on school deseg-! regation are becoming clearer," Bell emphasized. "The risk of equating desegregated schools and effective schools is obvious. The priorities of black parents have been sacrificed to the ideal of integration." The conference was designed to provide a forum of thought- provoking discussion of deseg- regation. Bell's speech came be- tween two panel discussions, which dealt with legal tactics and future trends in the field. BELL FAVORED a move away from systematic solutions to the integration question. "We've tried both integration and separation and haven't been successful with either," he said. "The lesson is that blacks must rely neither on separate or integrated schools but must work for successful education. ignore the effectiveness achiev- ed in all-black schools," Bell said. "Where we went wrong was placing total reliance on the full momentum of the integra- tion process. They ca'n cheat us just as effectively when we're with them." But Bell did not rule out legal action by blacks. "Litigation has some leverage value," he said. "Without a city order, we can't deal with teacher's un- ions, for example." "We are witnessing the close of an era of hope and no little accomplishment," Bell sum- marized. "We urge a broader theory of the Brown, decision (Brown vs., Board of Education, the 1956 case which outlawed "separate but equal" schools)- one that focuses on the equal educational opportunity provi- sion of that decision." y , . 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But that decision is postponed until after the upcoming may- pral and council elections April 4. An administrative memo re- porting that repairs could be fi- nanced solely by rate increases has also decreased support of the program. This rate increase would involve boosting hourly meter rates a nickel higher to 25 cents an hour and monthly parking rates to $25. SOME touncilpersons said that by raising the rates too high, people will start avoiding the downtown area and using the free parking available at the malls. Mayor Wheeler would prefer property owners 'to pay either 40 per cent of the cost or none at all, leaving the entire cost to be borne by carport users. "THERE ARE a number of people in the defined (special assessment) district who don't use cars at all," he said. "Apart- ment owners are going to col- lect the money for the carport repairs in increased rent. If I use the parking structure, -I ought to pay for the repairs. If you don't even own a car, there's no reason for you to pay for it." According to Wheeler, two dis tricts were created to assume the cost for the repairs. "One of the districts would group togeth- er property owners in the South University commerical area, who would pay 60 per cent of the $350 000 estimated cost for repairing the First Ave. car- port." he said. "The second world lump together central business district property own- ers to pay 60 per cent of $80,000 for the Maynard structure and $250,000 for the Fourth-Ave.- William St. carport." Mayor protein Louis , Belcher (R-Fourth Ward), however, ad- vocates the plan. "The plan is justified unless we go to a spe- cial assessment program where a homeowner or an apartment dweller would have to pay as much as Jacobson's or any oth- er business," Belcher said. 1 UNIV6PSITV Corner of S. FOREST & SOUTH U. TOWELS OPEN POETRY READING An opportunity to read your own poetry. An opportunity to hear the work of student poets. 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