Page 10-Saturday, July 21, 1979-The Michigan Daily
DNR says state air, water quality good
LANSING (UPI)-The state Depart-
ment of Natural Resources (DNR) said
yesterday air and water quality is still
good in most of the state, despite
problems with several Lower Peninsula
rivers and widespread violation of
ozone standards.
The conclusion was based on two
reports-one dealing with water quality
from Oct. 1, 1977 through September
1978 and a second coverning the air
quality situation during calendar year
1978.
The water report, written by John
Hartig of the DNR staff, described
water quality as good in most Upper
Peninsula and northern Lower Penin-
sula streams. Most southern Lower
Peninsula streams were in the medium
range.
SOME OF THE streams with good
water quality in northern Michigan in-
cluded the Tahquamenon, AuSable,
Presque Isle, Menominee, Mainistee,
Betsie, Sturgeon, Muskeon, Pere
Marquette, Boardman, Rifle and On-
tonagon.
Seven stream segments were
designated poor quality because toxic
materials concentrations in fish collec-
ted from them exceed safe limits.
Those stream segments are the south
branch of the Shiawassee River, Por-
tage Creek, Kalamazoo River, down-
stream Chippewa River, Pine River
downstream from St. Louis, Tit-
tabawassee River downstream from
Midland and the Saginaw River.
Of the nearly 2,000 Michigan inland
lakes greater than 50 acres, 973 have
been classified according to produc-
tivity-the amount of nutrients and
living material present. Of those, 11 per
cent had low levels, 53 per cent had in-
termediate levels and 36 per cent were
considered enriched.
HARTIG SAID lakes naturally age
and become more enriched with
nutrients and living material.
Enriched-eutrophic-waters are not
necessarily the result of increased
pollution, hesaid.
Water quality in the Great Lakes
generally is very good, with a few ex-
ceptions-Green Bay, Thunder Bay,
Saginaw Bay, Lake Eric and a portion
of the western shore to Lake St. Clair.
Hardig said water quality in the
Detroit River has improved
"dramatically since the 1960s."
Michigan's air quality continues to
meet federal health-related standards
in most areas for five of the six
pollutants monitored.
Ozone continued to violate air quality
standards throughout Michigan, as it
has in most of the Midwest, but
Michigan's air met federal standards
for suspended particulates, sulfar
dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon
monoxide and lead in most parts of the
state.
PRIVATE EYE
PHILADELPHIA (AP)-An exhibi-
tion, "The Private Eye," is on view at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts through Aug.26.
The academy says the show "in-
cludes 71 works of American art from
the 18th through the 20th centuries on
loan from 50 outstanding private collec-
tions in the Philadelphia area."
Philippines offers asylum for boat people
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP)-In
what a U.S. delegate called a "break-
through" toward saving Indochina's
"boat people," the Philippines offered
yesterday to establish a transit camp
for up to 50,000 refugees on its soil.
Despite this and other new proposals,
the opening of a two-day world con-
ference on the Southeast Asian refugee
crisis was far from harmonious. An
angry Chinese delegate accused Viet-
nam of committing "genocide" against
its Chiense residents and forcing them
to flee and risk their lives at sea.
CHINESE DEPUTY Foreign
Minister Zhang Wenjin urged the more
than 50 nations attending the conferen-
ce to cut off aid to Hanoi and spend the
money instead on emergency relief effor-
ts.
The Vietnames delegation, mean-
while, expressed a willingess to
cooperate in "properly channeling and
legalizing" the flow of refugees from
Vietnam, which U.N. officials estimate
total one million since 1975.
But the Vietnames gave no sign they
are ready to curb the exodus.
Philippine Foreign Minister Carolos
Romulo said the plight of the boat
people has become a "wound on the
conscience of our world."
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HE SAID HIS country was ready to
establish the new processing center in
an effort to take some of the pressure
off Malaysia, Indonesia and the other
"first-asylum" states that have borne
the brunt of the refugee flood.
"The Philippine government's
decision is a breakthrough," said Rep.
Hamilton Fish Jr. (R-N.Y.), a member
of the U.S. delegation, "and we are
going to try to build on it with the
Malaysians and Indonesians."
As U.N. officials had hoped, the
opening of the conference produced
other new pledges of financial assistan-
ce and new offers of permanent homes
for the Vietnamese, Cambodian and
Laotian refugees.
VICE-PRESIDENT Walter F. Mon-
dale in an address today is expected to
elaborate on President Carter's
statements that he would instruct the
U.S. Navy to use its ships and planes to
help rescue boat people adrift in the
South China Sea.
The U.S. delegation also includes 11
other congressmen and Govs. Brendan
Byrne of New Jersey and Robert D.
Ray of Iowa.
The conference was called by U.N.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to
mobilize international assistance for
the estimated 400,000 refugees, many of
them ethnic Chinese, crammed into
makeshift camps across Southeast
Asia.
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with King on the project. He referred to
the 1970 Black Action Movement strike,
during which several hundred students
demanded the University strive for 10
per cent black enrollment by 1973.
"Some of the same concerns we had
then we have today," Williams said.
New minority groups on campus are
not needed, King explained. "I don't
want to start a new group, because we
have groups that need to be
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strengthened," she said. She added that
she wants to unite those in black frater-
nities and sororities, minority campus
organizations, and individuals.
KING ALSO SAID she plans to try to
keep University programs and
organizations, such as the Coalition for
the Use of Learning Skills (CULS) and
Trotter House, from folding. "They're
slowly getting rid of the black
programs," she said.
Besides facing an unfamiliar Univer-
sity bureaucracy and inadequate per-
sonal counseling, King said, many
minority students are confronted with
financial difficulties.
"A lot of students have to leave be-
cause they can't afford the bill. A lot of
students are flunking out because they
have to do work/study, and then get
another job," King said.
SOON KING WILL submit an outline
of her proposals to Williams and Direc-
tor of Housing Special Projects Andrea
Strong.
King said that although moststudents
she has approached about her cam-
paign support it, some have questioned
whether students will have time and
desire to get involved, and have cited
past organizational efforts that have
fallen through.
"The main thing is to get everybody
to work together," King said. "It's too
hard to do it yourself."