01 Author Lappe criticizes U.S. world hunger policy By JULIE HINDS U.S. charity toward third world coun- tries is not the solution to combatting world hunger, author Frances Moore Lappe said Sunday. "Our role is not to go in and set things straight," Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Food First, told an audience of 300 at the Michigan League. "Our role in' the third world lies in removing the obstacles in their path" to self-sufficiency. ALTHOUGH American food exports have doubled over the last ten years, Lappe claimed that American foreign policy is actually "accelerating all the problems." She said such figures create an illusion that everyone is win- ning, when actually "two-thirds of our exports go toward feeding livestock," not people. Lappe criticized large grain .cor- porations for upping production solely for profit. Cereal industry profits of 200 percent above the average of other in- dustries "defy anti-trust laws," she said. 'The current trend toward fewer and fewer farms with larger and larger acreage has "created a landed aristocracy," with increasing control of political and economic power. LAPPE, WHO came into prominence in 1971 with publication of Diet for a Small Planet, said she began her. crusade against world hunger by visiting talk shows as a self-described "Julia Child of the soybean circuit." Further research led her to refute what she calls "propaganda" that overpopulation causes world hunger. _Daily Photo by DAVID HAI FRANCES MOORE LAPPE criticizes U.S. policy on world hunger issues before an audience of more than 300 at the Michigan League. Lappe spoke Sunday night during part of the week-long World Food Crisis Conference. Dorm residents protest c Her second book, Food First, proposes long-range solutions to world hunger involving self-reliance and redistribution of world agricultural resources. Lappe described her present role in the fight against world hunger as one of reaching individuals, not of changing government policy. "What is needed to be changed is so profound it.won't be changed by one piece of legislation," Lappe said. "My role is to build the troops through classrooms and the media." Lappe, who is currently researching for a book on American agricultural export expansion, spoke as part of a week-long conference on the world food crisis sponsored by the Committee Concerned with World Hunger. aulking putting in new windows in eight dorms. Workers began to replace Mosher- Jirdan windows during spring break, according to Maksym, who said many students are upset that they were not informed of the construction. "The students believe they should have been involved in this major housing decision, since it affects where they live," Maksym said. But according to Sunstad, students have been informed a day before their room was scheduled to be worked on. Maksym suggested that is necessary, his organization may take further ac- tion, even court action, to halt the win- dow installation. Sunstad said that crews will stopt work, even if the job has not been com- pleted,by April 3. '.We want to give the students time to study for exams," he said. (Continued from Page 1) But according to Assistant Director of Housing Norman Sunstad, .the caulking compopnd was tested last summer by the University's Depar- tment of Environmental Health and determined unhazardous to health in the amount used for the window replacement project. As student com- plaints increased, Sunstad said the sealant was retested lost Friday, with the same results. SUNSTAD SAID the Univerkity has received "virtually no complaints" sin- ce the project began late last summer. Mosher-Jordan residents have been "more vocal on the subject than we've encountered before," he said. He suggested that the residents are exaggerating the effects of the com- pound. Sunstad said windows in most of the other dorms have already been replaced in the same manner with the same materials. "I haven't had any problems at all," said hall resident Marvin Rotblatt, whose windows were just replaced, "and neither has my roommate." But he did say he had heard of other people who had gotten sick. Paul Pardales, another resident, commented, "The smell doesn't bother' me, but the intruding does," referring to the workers' early 8 a.m. start. SUNSTAD SAID the crews "try to go into a room only one time." House Council spokesman Maksym suggested that the repairs should have been made last summer. Because some of the dorms were used to house people affiliated with the Republican Conven- tion last summer, Maksym clailtied that students are taking a back seat to conventioneers. "The convention people only had to live in the dorm a few days," he said. "For students, the dorm is their home." SUNSTAD SAID the project couldn't begin until late summer because a $5 million HUD loan for energy conser- vation in residence halls wasn't ap- proved until then. He said $2 million has been allocated to new roofs while the other $3 million will be spent on reglazing (installing new glass) and TUESDAY LUNCH-DISCUSSION TODAY, March 17, 12 NOON "If This Is The Doughnut, Where Is The Hole?" -a look at subtle bias in the Media Speaker: JANE MYERS, columnist and feature writer for The Ann Arbor News at the INTERNATIONAL CENTER 603 E. Madison Street Ron eats jellybeans but Festival suffers 4 Lunch $1.00 For information call: 662-5529 Co-sponsored by the Ecumenical Campus Center (Continued from Page 5) viewing to dislodge its secrets. ANOTHER Great Day was the program's only animated offering and the only self-contained masterpiece. 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Which leaves us with' Dan Dinello's Rock Lobster, a wild-swinging fantasy about a couple's disintegrating marriage, cornerstoned by a large pet lobster in their living room fish'tank. Dinello's film lurches crazily from situation comedy into surrealist chaos, interweaving New Wave mythos, Camus' The Stranger and contem- porary world econo-politics. The movie is damningly erratic, yet exhilirating in its furious lack of compromise. Dinello drives, drives, drives, throwing caution to the winds; in the process, he comes to symbolize everything the Ann Arbor Festival used to be at its best and worst. But that was before our government told us we had to sacrifice, before "playing it safe" became a gospel, before artistic originality became a tax liability. M, 'I I EML