Page 2-Friday, March 5,1982-The Michigan Daily Creationisrn'debate shifts to local districts (Continued from Page 1) board officials say it seemed to be the will of the majority. The 2,200 student Western School District in Jackson County for the last four years has exposed high school seniors to the tenets of creationism in an advanced science class which has a three-week segment entitled "Con- troversies in Science." A poll in 197 in the largely rural south- ern Michigan school district indicated that parents, by a large majority, wan- ted both creationism and evolution taught in high school life science )classes. Of 231 parents polled, 210 thought both should be taught. On the strength of the opinion, creationism was introduced into the science curriculum. ACCORDING to Howard Simon, director fo the Michigan chapter of the American *Civil Liberties Union, the ef- forts of creationist to change the local curriculum closely parallels the con- troversy over the removal of prayer from the public schools in the early 1960's. After attempts to pass state legislation permitting prayer in the public schools failed, proponents took their fight down to the -local level. There it has stayed, said Simon, with the will of the majority deciding if their schools will allow prayer. This is precisely what is happening with the creation controversy, said Simon. The major shift from the state legislature to the local school boards makes the monitoring of constitutional violations much more difficult, he said. Any one organization simply does not have the resources available to in- vestigate each local school district, he said. Simon said it is the Michigan Board of Education and the state attorney general's office that have the necessary resources. But, more importantly, they are "charged with the duty" of taking action against constitutional violations, said Simon. BOARD officials have said repeatedly, however, that until there is some legal challenge to instruction in creationism, they are powerless to for- bid it. The board recently voted down a proposal that would have asked Attor- ney General Frank Kelly to rule on the constitutionality of teaching creation science in the public schools. Board President Barbara Dumouchelle said, it is a "non-issue." "The attorney general has already said we can't teach religion in public schools'" she said. "Until someone registers a complaint with us, we can- not and will not do anything." THE BOARD of Education will meet again next week to decide what action it will take, if any, against local school boards that have allowed the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Simon has been critical of the board's stance on the issue. "It seens" he said, "that what the Board of Education v r 6 41 e ANN ARBOR'S ONLY oriental food CHIN THEFO 01 HNNAIIN STYLE to take out IKON SUN has done is simply abdicate its respon- sibility to uphold the Constitution and supervise all public education." Simon said the ACLU will urge the board to investigate how many districts are teaching creationism under the guise of science and adopt a policy ban- ning it. Cropsey feels the ACLU would be "obnoxious and hypocritical" if it at- tempts to ban the teaching of creationism. "It Would be back to book burning with the ACLU leading the way," said Cropsey. Official says U.S. vulnerable tSoviets WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviets could knock out the entire U.S. military command system with two or three well-aimed nuclear blasts disrupting communications, a senior defense of- ficial said yesterday. At the same time, this official said the U.S. satellite-based system for warning the United States against nuclear at- tack is vulnerable to sabotage because a relatively small number of "guys with wirecutters" could disable cables leading from satellite ground stations to command posts. "WE HAVE been remiss for a long time in not paying attention to com- mand, control and communications," the official said. The official said the Soviets are aware of U.S. vulnerability. He spoke of indications of such Soviet knowledge but did not elaborate. The official gave these graphic statements on the vulnerability of the U.S. command and control system to a group of reporters in amsession apparen- tly designed to generate support for the Reagan administration's costly plan to correct such weaknesses. Ground rules for the session barred use of the official's name. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Business frets over budget WASHINGTON-- The nation's business leaders, who stood shoulder-to shoulder with President Reagan in last year's budget battle, are breaking ranks this year because they fear the large deficits Reagan is proposing will choke off an economic recovery. The Business Roundtable, whose members run 200 of the nation's largest corporations, became the latest corporate backer of Reagan's to complain, saying yesterday that it does not believe the record deficits the ad- ministration is projecting have been "adequately addressed." Increasingly, business leaders are urging Reagan to trim the increase he proposes for the defense budget, reduce spending on Social Security and' other programs tied to an automatic cost-of-living adjustment and consider changes in the tax reduction program approved last year. In a cautious statement, the Business Roundtable called for "major, per-. manent spending cuts" in future budgets to slow increases in defense programs and reduce payments for benefit programs tied to cost-of-living adjustments. But despite the red-ink criticism, business still is behind the president's basic economic program. Internees apply to leave Poland WARSAW, Poland- Martial law authorities said yesterday that more-- than a dozen internees, most of them former Solidarity union activists and leaders, have applied to leave Poland permanently, the official PAP news agency reported. Col. Hipolit Starszak of the Interior Ministry told a news conference the in ternees applied for emigration passports that were offered for the first time Wednesday. He did not name the internees or give their precise number. In Washington, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said the passport offer was "a cynical and deplorable move" and that the "net effect is forced deprivation of citizenship ... and permanent exile, all without due process." Debate continues in Atlanta ATLANTA- Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown said yester- day that several of the Atlanta killings do not fit the pattern of the 28 slayings that were assigned to a special police task force over 22 months before Wayne Williams came to police attention last May. The task force cases were "young people, black, from low-income families, were reported missing, and we found their bodies away from where they were killed," Brown said inan interview yesterday. "We see absolutely nothing that connects these (later) cases," he said. Williams, a 23-year-old black free-lance photographer, was sentenced to two consecutive life prison terms following his double murder conviction Saturday night. Gynecologist blasts Reagan birth control policies WASHINGTON- The administration's proposed teen-age birth control rule would punish the poor and reflects the unrealistic "father knows best" morality of a conservative minority, president of the nation's gynecologists said yesterday. Dr. George M. Ryan Jr., president of the American College of Ob- stetricians and Gynecologists, said the rule would drive away girls seeking help, thus punisnig the poor, endangering health and resulting in as many as 160,000 more teen pregnancies and an upswing in venereal disease. The Reagan administration last month formally proposed parents be told within 10 days when girls under 18 receive prescriptions from federally fun- ded clinics. Receipt of the notification also would have to be verified. 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