The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 7, 1979-Page 9 FINA L PLAN DUE JUNE 15 A2 committee studies school integration By ELEONORA DI LISCIA The Citizen's Committee for Racial Balance and Equal Opportunity last week considered five plans for alleviating racial imbalance in Ann Ar- bor schools, but failed to make a decision on submitting a final plan to the city's board of education. The committee will meet again at 7 p.m. today in Slauson Junior High School. THE 60-MEMBER committee, com- posed of parents, administrators, and community members, must submit a plan to the board by June 15. The com- mittee was organized last year to make recommendations for fulfilling state guidelines on racial imbalance in Ann Arbor schools. According to Michigan guidelines, six Ann Arbor elementary schools are racially imbalanced. Busing is critical to each of the five plans. According to committee member Gerald Abruscato, one subcommittee worked on finding ways to ease a tran- sition to busing with little disruptions to, students. "We've called it 'de minimus' because we've tried to come-up with a proposal that would have a minimal amount of busing and expenditure," said Abruscato. THE SUBCOMMITTEE found it could reassign 978 children currently bused to different schools. However, 356 children who currently walk to school. would be bused under this plan. Eighty- four children who now are bused would walk, said Abruscato. According to Abruscato, not all sub- committee members agree that busing is necessary. "There are several who are more in favor of some of the other proposals than this one," he indicated. A second subcommittee submitted a proposal that would provide separate schools for kindergarten through fourth grades and for fifth and sixth grades. Children in the fifth and sixth grade schools would then channel into the same intermediate and secondary schools. According to spokeswoman Lynn Johnson, this plan utilizes busing, but would achieve racial balance by redrawing boundaries. Johnson said the plan would increase educational opportunity because "you would have to include more students in K through 4. With more students at a grade level you would be able to have more curriculum such as electives," she explained. "I feel racial balance would be beneficial because some schools don't do well educationally and culturally. It would help all of us. In areas where the schools have become desegregated, the community has become desegregated," she added. A third subcommittee suggested challenging the state's guidelines. Ac- cording to spokesman Lyndon Welch, "Any guidelines should be given in the context of the community it is being ap- plied." Krakow welcomes Pope KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - Jubilant residents of ancient Krakow greeted Pope John Paul II yesterday with chan- ts of "It's your town! It's your town!" when the Polish pontiff returned to the city he once served as archbishop. Thousands stood in the-rain to cheer his helicopter as it landed in center of the city, bringing the pontiff to his old bishopric after three days in Czestochowa. Thousands more, chanting and clap- ping as he went by, stood 20-deep along the twisted, flower-decked procession route leading to Krakow's hilltop for- tress, Wawel Castle, where he held evening prayer services in the cathedral at the tomb of St. Stanislaw, Poland's patron. HIGH ABOVE the cathedral, Poland's mightiest bell, the 16-ton dub- bed "Zygmunt" for a Polish king, boomed out a welcome as the papal motorcade climbed the approach to the castle. The former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla served as archbishop of Krakow, in southern Poland, before being elected pope last October. It was here that he confronted communist authorities with demands for greater religious freedom for Poland's 30 million Roman Catholics. After praying at the cathedral, the pope spoke briefly to an audience of priests and church officials before retiring to the archbishop's residence, where he chose to stay in the same. Ypsilanti police apprehend' escapees from county jail (Continued from Page).r drobber apprehended as he was hitchhiking on arme ery. Ecorse Rd. near Michigan - Ave. Hopkins was in jail awaiting trial on Hopkins surrendered without incident, charges of carrying a concealed and because he was wearjng civilian weapon and possession of stolen clothing at the time of capture, Zakr- property.- zewski speculated that "he had help (escaping) on the outside." ZAKRZEWSKI ADMITTED the locks MINICK SAID both men probably on the jail's steel doors were a potential contacted the same outside acquain- security problem. tance. "It was a part of the original building In 1977, Cross was convicted of design," he said. "Several complaints burglary and sentenced to a five-year were made about the locks by prison of- maximum prison term. Prior to the ficials, but nothing was ever done to escape, Cross was being held at the change them." Washtenaw County Jail on a special Minick said, "Yes, something will be writ from the state prison. He is being done. We've got to try to reinforce the questioned by Ypsilanti police on dead-bolt concept lock. We'll pursue a charges of breaking and entering and more secure iron-type door." CONTE1CT LENSES soft and hard* contact lenses $210.0 includes exam, fitting, dispensing, follow-up visits, starter kits, and 6 month checkup. * includes a second pair of hard lenses Dr. Paul C. U san, Optometrist 545 Church Street 769-122,2by appointment - sparse room he used when he was arch- bishop. HE APPEARED at a window and said to the chanting mass of people below: "I never used to talk up to the windows when I lived here before." The crowd shouted, "It's your town! It's your town!" "Aren't you going to sleep?" the pope asked repeatedly. Each time the response a resounding "No!" "Well, Iam," he said, and calmed the boistrous crowd by asking them to join him in saying an evening prayer. ON SUNDAY, the pope plans to celebrate a Mass in honor of St. Stanislaw, a Pole who was martyred 900 years ago in a dispute over whether the church or state should be supreme. During his visit to his homeland - and most strongly in the three days he was in the city of Czestochowa - the pope has challenged the communist government to recognize religious rights and improve the conditions in which the church operates. Yesterday, a government spokesper- son expressed "surprise" at how much the pontiff was speaking out about mat- ters that touched on politics. Later in the day, the pope preached against building the human spirit only on the basis of labor. SPEAKING AT a second Mass in two days for Silesian workers, he said work was "the fundamental dimension of man's life on earth," but added: - "Do not let yourself be seduced by the temptation to think that man can fully find himself by denying God, erasing prayer from his life and remaining only a worker, deluding himself that what he produces can on its own fill the needs of the human heart." WELCH POINTED out that even the schools with the lowest academic achievement still had higher test scores than the national average. "The question is whether racial imbalance causes bad education in Ann Arbor. I don't think they are related. We really have to have a better reason for busing than just racial balance," he said. The third subcommittee also suggested a review of housing patterns, particularly government-subsidized housing projects, which are attractive to lower-income families. Welch said planning for future housing should take racial balance into account. According to committee spokeswoman Nancy Darnell, a fourth subcommittee discussed the concept of magnet schools. "Magnets are schools that are set up with a special learning style or something that is different from the regular schools. They are set up or placed in a way that would draw people to integrate the school," Darnell said. THE SUBCOMMITTEE suggested, for example, employing programs at- tractive to black students in a predominantly white school by using survey data. "The strongest point is that we could get desegregation voluntarily and also give people choices that they don't have now. Thiswouldn't put the burden of transportation on people except people who wanted to," Darnell explained. . Darnell said she felt desegregation is important in changing perceptions so people "don't see schools as good or bad, black or white" since there would be no racially identifiable schools. THE LAST subcommittee's plan would regroup elementary schools into clusters. The clusters then would feed into the same intermediate schools. This proposal would leave integration plans up to individual clusters instead of to the community at large. Once the clusters were formed, community in- volvement committees would decide the program and budget matters of their individual schools . I W 111 k, AVENUE at LIBERTY-ST. 761-9700 Formerly.Fifth Forum i heater STARTS FRIDAYI EsT FOREFILM ACTRESS _ Nat'! Board of Review i C t M 4 FRI7:10.9:00 SAT-SUN 1:30-3:205:207:10-9:00 The Ann Arbor Film Cooperetive presents at Aud A $1.50 THURSDAY, .JUNE,7 THE KING OF HEARTS (Philippe de Broca, 1967) 7 & 9-Aud A Our most popular film. A Scottish soldier during WWI is sent to a French town, evacuated except for an asylum. Meanwhile the fleeing Germans have left a time bomb. The asylum inmates escape, taking up various costumes and roles. 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