The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 2, 1984 - Page 3 Reagonomics builds .poverty, speaker says TV writers postpone strike By ANDREA WILLIAMS Working women, along with blacks and Hispanics, have been hit hardest by Pr esident Ronald Reagan's economic policies, Sheldon Danziger, Director of the Institute of Research on Poverty, .old an audience of about 150 people athered at Rackham Auditorium vesterday. ' "The poverty rates for blacks, ispanics, and working women is higher today by 20 percent than the poverty rates of the 1960's," Danziger 'satd. DaU nziger spoke at a seminar in Rackham entitled "The Impact of Reaganomics on Children and the 1 :mily . The most pressing problem, .he said, is that under Reagan's budget cuts low- income wage earners can no longer work and still receive welfare paymen- ts. Unlike the policies before Reagan's term, only those who are unemployed fall within the president's definition of "truly needy" and can receive benefits. Because very few women were willing to quit their jobs in order to collect benefits, they ended up taking a loss in their actual income. "There was a decline in these people's salaries by 17 percent," he said. Danziger outlined an economic scale which rated poverty at 3.3. Danziger estimated that Reagan's policies ac- counted for between .6 and two of the points. Unfavorable social trends and residual effects account for the rest of the points, he said. From AP and UPI NEW YORK - Four hours before a midnight strike deadline, leaders of the Writers Guild voted yesterday to post- pone a threatened walkout by 600 newswriters against CBS and ABC for three days. The Guild's executive council voted 21-0 to give the networks "one last chance" to come up with a settlement acceptable to the union, said Mona Mangan, associate executive director of the Guild. The new deadline was set for 12:01 a.m. Monday. THE UNION'S membership was to vote on the postponement last night. "Monday is a better day for us, because the networks are going full steam. We want to strike when it has most impact," Mangan said. Meanwhile, talks were continuing between representatives of the union and the networks, with union jurisdic- tion apparently the biggest stumbling. block to a settlement. A MANAGEMENT proposal that the Guild give up some previously ex- clusive union work would mean a loss of jobs, Guild spokesman Dan Ratner said. "It's the issue of jurisdiction that could cause a strike," Ratner said. "We can't negotiate on that." If members vote to strike, anchor- men on network news shows will either have to write all their own copy or "have some executive producer do it for them," Ratner said. "It means that Dan Rather and Peter Jennings will not have their writers,"~ Ratner said. 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A,'7& 9 p.m. Cinema Guild - The Fugitive Kind, Lorch, 7 p.m.; On the Waterfront, Lorch, 9:10 p.m. Performances - School of Music - Violin recital, Eleanor Kosek, Recital Hall, 6 p.m.; Campus Band, Hill Aud., 8 p.m.; piano recital, Kirsten Taylor, Recital Hall, 8 p.m. Ark - Rare Air, 1421 Hill St., 8 p.m. Union Arts - Music at mid-Day, Judy Tsou, harpsichordist, Pendleton Rm., Union, 12:15 p.m. Performance Netv, ork - People Dancing,408 W. Washington St., 8 p.m. The Brecht Company - "St. Joan of the Stockyards," Residential College Aud., East Quad, 8 p.m. Organization of Arab Students - Evening of National Songs & Music featuring George Kirmi, Union Ballroom, call 561-3950. Speakers South and Southeast Asian Studies - Brown Bag, Linda Lim, "Life in the -Brave New World: Religion, Ethnicity, Class & Gender in Singapore," Lane Hall Commons, noon. Nat. Resources - Laird; Norton Distinguished Visitor Series, John Crowell, "Public Land Management - National Policies & Priorities," 1040 Dana, 3:05 p.m. Romance Lang.; Programs in Comparative Lit. - John Beverly, "Hispanism in America: Problems & Perspects," E. Lec. Rm., 3rd fl. rl kcham, 4p.m. S .C'R'- Richard Phillips, "The Developing Computer Environment at the Col'ege.of Engineering," 3-5 p.m. To register call 763-2367. .Anthropology - Daniel Bradburd, "Economics of Pastoralism: Case Studies and Wider Implications," W. Conf. Rm., 4th floor, Rackham, 4 p.m. Engineering - Andrew Robinson, "A Fully-Self-Aligned Joint Gate Technology," 2076 E. Engin., 10 a.m.; Bernard Koff, "Propulsion and Readiness in the 21st Century," 1017 Dow Building, 12:30 p.m.; Duncan Steele, "A Study of Atomic Collisions Using Nonlinear (Lasar) Spec- troscopy," White Aud., Cooley Building, 3:45 p.m. Chemistry - Vincent Pecoraro, "Exchange-Inert Metallonucleotides as Enzyme Active-Site Probes," Rm. 1200, Chem. Bldg., 4 p.m. Meetings Ann Arbor Chinese Bible Class- Univ. Reformed Church, 7:30 p.m. Korean Christian Fellowship - Bible study, Campus Chapel, 9 p.m. Chinese Students Christian Fellowship - Bible Study, 3rd floor, Trotter House, 8p.m. Muslim Students Assoc. - Arabic Circle, discussion on events in the Muslim World, 407 N. Ingalls, 9p.m. Markley Council and staff-Reggae Night, Dance - Rockers, 8 p.m.; dan-- cing, 10 p.m., multi-purpose rm., Markley Hall. Miscellaneous Duplicate Bridge Club - Open Game, League, 7:15 p.m. Tae Kwon Do Club - Practice, CCRB Martial Arts Rm., 5-7 p.m. : Mich. Gay Undergraduates - Semi-annual trip to Canada, call 761-3051. AstroFest 133 - Films, The Active Sun; The Quiet Sun, Jim Loudon, "The ;Incredible, Marginal, Dangerously Visible, Terminal Annular Eclipse," MLB 3,. 7:30 p.m. MSA - MSA elections mass meeting, Pendleton Rm., Union, 4 p.m. UM Folk Dance Club - International folk dancing, teaching, 8-9:30, equest dancing, 9:30-midnight, 3rd floor dance studio, corner of State & vVS' 1 l1ia n. Matthaei Botanical Gardens - The Beauty of Ikebana, flower arranging display, 1800 North Dixboro Rd., 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. VCBN - News program, 5:30 p.m. (Continued from Page 1) defeated," the group of gay rights ac- tivists gathered at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday in the Diag to start the rally. The group then marched across State Street, past the Cube, and up to the second floor of the Fleming Ad- ministration Building to Shapiro's of- fice. Finding Shapiro out for lunch, demonstrators settled into the president's conferenceroom chanting, "Two, four, six, eight, tell Shapiro we won't wait" as they waited for him to return. WHEN HE ARRIVED, Shapiro greeted the group's cheers and jeers with a smile. He refused, however, to commit himself on any policy or date. "I think it's unfortunate that it's taken so long," Shapiro said, referring to administrators' consideration of a policy. "(But) I'm not ready to issue a policy statement now." Last October Shapiro said that he favored issuing a presidential policy statement to protect gay rights, but he has yet to formulate any proposal. The policy statement is a weaker statement than creating a regents' bylaw, which is what the group originally asked for. ALTHOUGH he declined to comment on what work still needs to be com- pleted before a decision can be made, Shapiro said he has been working on the policy. "I've probably worked a good deal more than anybody in this room on this," he said, eliciting groans from the protestors. He said there was nothing the group could do to speed up the decision- making process. Despite Shapiro's refusal to speed up the process, most of the participants felt the rally was successful in promoting gay rights on campus. "I THINK it was, a success," said sophomore Naomi Braine last night after the rally. "All you can hope to do is build up the pressure and raise the issue. That's all you can get out of one action . . . (Shapiro) may not have said anything, but he wasn't very com- fortable." But not all the group's members were so encouraged by the results. "I'm even more angry and frustrated now than when I first walked into the room," said Cathy Godre, a fifth-year LSA senior. But that anger and frustration is motivating her to put more energy into fighting for a policy, she said. "I can guarantee that there will be more pressure. 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