The Michigan Daily -- Friday, January 25, 1985 - Page 3
Students help recruit minorities
By MARLA GOLD
The University's admissions office is expanding its
use of student recruiters to increase minority
enrollment through the "Each One-Reach One"
program.
The program, which in the past has depended on
enrolled minority students to suggest names of poten-
tial new minority students, added volunteer student
''ambassadors'' this year to step up its recruitment
efforts, according to Dave Robinson, the University's
assistant director of admissions.
BY INCREASING the use of student recruiters, the
University hopes to boost the number of students who
enroll as a result of the program. Over 300 names
were submitted for the program last year, and 14 of
those students enrolled.
Although 14 more minority students may seem like
just a handful, those numbers can make a difference.
"Anytime we can get 14 students enrolled through
an activity like this, we are happy," Robinson said.
BOB HOLMES, assistant vice president for
academic affairs, sees the program as having a low
success rate and wants to push the program to its
potential.
"I am convinced that there is room for im-
provement in the Each One-Reach One program,"
Holmes said. "The challenge is to try to improve the
numbers, to try to find qualified students."
One way to improve the success rate is to increase
the number of students involved, past participants
say.
VALENCIA RONER, a freshwoman from Los
Angeles, was recruited by the University last year af-
ter her name had been submitted to the admissions
office by another student.
"It is a good program, and if a lot of people get in-
volved, it will become better established and will help
get more minority students here," Roner said. If she
hadn't been recruited by the Each One-Reach One
program, she would not have enrolled, she said.
"It made me feel important to be pursued by the
University."
Another advantage the program offers it that, as
LSA junior Ronald Kirkland of Southfield said:
"Students believe students would tell it exactly as it
is." Kirkland said he tries to help dispell some high
school students' fear that the problem of racism can-
not be overcome.
"This problem is only as big as you allow it to be,"
he said.
Besides doling out encouraging advice about how to
succeed at the University, student volunteers can
assist in a letter-writing campaign and host in-
terested high school students who visit the University
for a weekend during the school year.
Student volunteers can often get as much out of the
experience as the high school student, according to
Holmes.
"Students feel that they are making a contribution,
and they are," he said. "It's a way of saying to
presently enrolled students that there are a whole lot
of things students can do" to help raise the number of
minority students attending the University.
Republicans call state recovery insufficient
LANSING (UPI) - Republican
lawmakers said yesterday Michigan
has benefited from an economic surge
sparked by the Reagan administration,
but has not benefited as much as it
could.
Top GOP leaders were responding, in
a program taped for public television,
to Gov. James Blanchard's upbeat
State of the State message, deliviered
Wednesday evening.
IN TH AT speech, Blanchard stressed
the state's economic and fiscal strides,
prouldy proclaiming that "Michigan is
back."
Rep. Gary Randall, moderator of the
program, said Michigan has "certainly
benefited" from the national economic
recovery.
But, he said, the state has not "taken
the additional steps necessary" to fully
participate in it.
WHILE THE federal government has
cut taxes, Michigan has raised them, he
said. Michigan's unemployment rate is
4 percent above the national average,
the Elwell Republican added.
"Michigan is a very expensive place
to do business," said House Republican
leader Michael Busch of Saginaw.
Steps are needed, he said, to lower
the cost of worker's compensation,
unemployment compensation, and
health care.
Senate Republican leader John
Engler said Republicans favor broad
changes which will "affect everyone
doing business in Michigan."
The Blanchard administration, he
complained, has concentrated on aiding
"specific cases."
On education, the GOP lawmakers
stressed their support for requiring in-
creased accountability from those in-
volved in the system. Engler suggested
it is time for Blanchard to "stand up to
one of his trusted friends" - the power-
ful Michigan Education Association.
Associated Press
Discovery soars
'The space shuttle Discovery lifts skyward yesterday at Kennedy Space Cen-
ter in Florida. On its first military mission, the shuttle will launch a spy sat-
telite to monitor the Soviets.
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MOSCOW (UPI) - Soviet
newspapers displayed prominently
yesterday a letter to a Canadian
teenager written by President Konstan-
tini Chernenko in what Western
diplomats said was an attempt to dispel
rumors he is ill.
The Soviet leader, out of public view
for nearly a month, penned a response
to Canadian student Lauri Piraux, 18,
~vo had written to Chernenko about her
fears of a nuclear conflagration.
ANOTHER letter - congratulating
participants in a peace conference in
Moscow - wes also published on the
front page of every major newspaper
and mentioned on radio and television
news.
The letters recalled the six months in
which the President Yuri Andropov was
unseen before his death last February.
During that period the Soviet press
published numerous letters and
statements in his name.
"It's just all so familiar," one
Western diplomat said of Chernenko's
published reply to the letter from
Piraux, of Calgary, Alberta.
Although Chernenko may have writ-
ten the letters, another diplomat said,
they were meant to dispel fears he is in
poor health.
Sharon loses libel case
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a false story, thus ending the trial.
~If it had found for Sharon on the ac-.
tqal malice question, a mini-trial would
have been held to determine if Sharon's
reputation was damaged by the article
and to set any monetary award.
Legally, Sharon was not libeled if his
reputation was not damaged.
4HAPPENINGS-
Highlight
If you:'re in the musical mood, the music school is sponsoring two piano
recitals tonight, with Timothey Cheek in Recital Hall and Nancy Hueber in
the Rackham Assembly Hall at Rackham. Both begin at 8 p.m.
Films
Alt. Act.-Arsenic and Old Lace, 7 p.m., It Happened One Night, 9 p.m.,
Nat. Sci. Bldg.
MED-Risky Business, 7:30 p.m., MLB 3.
CG-Being There, 7 p.m., MLB 4.
SAAFC-The Good Fight, 7 p.m., Aud. A, Angell.
SSpeakers
i Kelsey Museum-John Pedley, "The Palace of Nestor," 8 p.m., Aud. D.,
Angell.
1 So. and SE Asian Studies-Elena Bashir, "The Spring Festival of the
Kalash People of Northwestern Pakistan," noon, Lane Hall Commons.
Engineering-Paul Sojka, "Computer Simulation of Autoignition of
Hydrogen Plus Air Mixtures," 3:45 p.m., White Aud., Cooley Bldg.
Anthropology-Glynn Isaac, "Central Place, Foraging and Human
'Evolution: Theory, Evidence and Actualistic Studies," 4 p.m., Lec. Rm. 1,
MLB.
Stats-Prof. Harry Cohn, "Limit Behaviour for Stochastic Monotonicity,"
4 p.m., Rm. 451, Mason Hall.
Far Eastern bangs. and LitProf. Liu Yuehua, "Language and Society,"
~Meetings
#Chinese Students Christian Fellowship-7:30 p.m., Memorial Christian
SChurch, corner of Hill and Tappan.
IAnn Arbor Chinese Bible Study--7:30 p.m., basement, University Refor-
'med Church, 1001 E. Huron.
.Korean Christian Fellowship-Bible study, 9 p.m., Campus Chapel.
:Deadly Connections Task Force-Conf. on links between nuclear war, in-
tervention, and social oppression, 4 p.m., Burns Park School, 1414 Wells St.
Miscellaneous
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