Page 2 --The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 12, 1987 Students to host Bunyan By RYAN TUTAK After months of searching, the Natural Resources Club has rescued Paul Bunyan and brought him back to the University. Well, not exactly. This Paul Bunyan is a 15-foot-high papier- mache replica of the legendary forester. Members of the club built him in 1979 as an emblem for its annual Paul Bunyan Ball. The club lost track of Paul last year, but recently found him, torn and frayed, in a barn just west of Ann Arbor. He is being patched up right now and should be in fine form for the club's upcoming ball, which will be held at the Michigan Union Ballroom this Friday at 8 p.m. The dance started in 1938 as an alternative to the stuffy, formal balls in other schools and colleges. "In those days, all the schools at the University had a formal ball each year with tuxedos and long dresses. And the forestry students at the School of Natural Resources wanted to have an alternative to that. So they decided to have a square dance/hoe-down kind of thing," said Steve Houseal, an environmental law student and president of the Natural Resources Club. Last year, the ball was not held because of low student interest. Members of the club are reviving it this year and making a few changes. Instead of holding the dance in a barn in Saline, it is being moved to the Union Ballroom. The club will hold a Paul Bunyan look-alike contest, a whooping contest, a buck-sawing contest, and contests in which participants guess at Paul's height and diameter at chest level. In addition, the Pendleton Room in the Union will have refreshments and several table displays by such groups as the Recycling Club, the Wildlife Society, and the Environmental Law Society. The displays describe the history and focus of natural resources fields. me support code as response to racism (ContinuedfromPage1) ...... ....I «.«.... n ..n.--. nsr-.' t-*..- V expulsion of the students responsible for the incidents. "These recent events have certainly brought the question of the code to the forefront," said Jacoby. Although the University can currently expel students only with a presidential order, a code would give the administration the power to use academic santions to regulate unwanted non- academic student behavior. "I can't say that it wouldn't be nice to handle such incidents with a consistent policy, rather than having to form an ad-hoc committee each time such an incident occurs," said Richard Kennedy, vice president of government relations and head of the committee investigating both the Couzens and WJJX incident. Jon Cosovich, vice president for development and communication, stressed that any discussion of the code has to conducted in the context of protecting civil rights. "No one should be expelled just because another student group calls for action, but I would not be surprised if more talk is ahead for establishing some kind of standards for student behavior," Cosovich said. Potential students may be deterre (Continued from Page 1) Sims realizes that whichever school she choses, she will encounter racial discrimination. But she hopes to minimize this by choosing a school with a reputation for positive racial relations. Referring to a racist flier slipped under a lounge door at Couzens Hall, Sims said, "My feeling is that if someone can stick a racist flier under the door where black women were meeting, I should choose another school where racial pressures and discrimination are less demanding and prevalent. But Sims's classmate Christoph Mosby does not regret his decision to attend the University. "The events themselves didn't affect me that much. U of M is still a good school, and I don't think the publicity will change many minds about going there," said Mosby. Mosby feels that the media has implied that racist incidents pervade all aspects of student life. But he felt that the Couzens flier and recent racist comments made by a WJJX announcer are isolated events and the actions of a small minority of students. According to Mosby, the incidents won't sway many minority students' opinions about the University. "On a national level, some minority students may not want to go. But on a local level, based on what I've seen and heard, I don't think many students will change their minds, because a lot of them have been to U of M or know people there," Mosby said. Mark Rush, another senior at Cass Tech accepted by the University, agreed. "The media should have focused on these issues a long time ago. It's not like racism has just surfaced. It has always been around. I kind of feel that the media is overreacting, that racism is not really anything new," he said. According to Monique Washington, Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions, only a few prospective students have contacted her office about the racist incidents. But she stressed that it was too early to assess the influence of recent publicity on minority students' decisions, and that such an assessment will probably never be made. "Unless we survey all the students and ask them why they didn't choose this school, we will never know the causes behind their decision not to come," she said. To encourage minority enrollment in post-secondary institutions, the State of Michigan has legislated a bill that allocates d by racism funds to the four-year institutions in Michigan. The funds are to be used in a newly instituted program, called the Martin Luther King Jr.-Rosa Parks Educational Initiative. A specific provision in this bill designates a certain proportion of the funds for a College-Day Program, in which students in grades 7 through 11 are invited to these four-year institutions. The program targents school districts with high proportions of minority students. The College-Day Program follows a student's course through high school into college, giving advice along the way. The goal of the program is to reach down the "educational pipeline" and encourage minority students early in their academic careers to plan a curriculum that will prepare them for college. Sims, Mosby, and Rush all agreed that the publicity has increased an awareness of racial tension at the University, but that tension did not surprise many high school students. IN BRIEF Compiled from Assocated Press reports State official says federal budget may cut student grants LANSING - President Reagan's proposed 1988 budget would mean 24,000 fewer Pell Grants to Michigan college students and a loss of $60 million in Development Action Grants, says state Budget Director Robert Naftaly. Those were just some of the highlights of Naftaly's report Tuesday on the impact of $300 million loss in federal aid to Michigan over the next three years. Naftaly sent the report to Michigan's 18 congressmen in hopes they can help lessen the blow to the state of belt-tightening measures in Washington. "We support congressional efforts to strike a reasonable balance between funding key programs and restraining federal deficits," Naftaly wrote. "The real losers would be the citizens throughout our state. Czech. jazz promoters jailed PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - A judge yesterday convicted five leaders of the Jazz Section, a cultural group that promoted jazz and other non-sanctioned art forms. Two defendants were sentenced to prison terms of 10 months and 16 months, while the other three were given suspended sentences. About 150 supporters outside the courtroom sang "Give Peace a Chance." Their rhythmic clapping could be heard throughout the court proceedings. Some spectators tried to prevent plainclothes agents from filming them but were pushed away by a man in a raincoat. One handcuffed defendant shouted "long live jazz" before he was led away. Congress votes on immunity for U.S.-Iranian businessman WASHINGTON - Congressional committees voted yesterday to seek limited immunity for Iranian-American businessman Albert Hakim, sources said, as investigators worked to penetrate the tangled financial web of the Iran-Contra affair. At the same time, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh met with the Senate Iran-Contra panel to press his case for a 90-day delay before partial immunity is granted to two former Reagan administration officials, ex-National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his former aide, Lt. Col. Oliver North. The exact votes in the House and Senate committees on limited immunity for Hakim were not disclosed, although a two-thirds majority is required for such proposals to pass. '86 trade gap hit all-time high WASHINGTON - The nation's merchandise trade deficit hit an all- time high of $38.4 billion from October through December as higher- priced imports swamped gains in U.S. export sales, the government reported yesterday. The Commerce Department said the imbalance between what the nation imported and exported rose 3.3 percent from the July-September period and helped to push the annual trade deficit to a record $147.7 billion. The figure was 18.7 percent above the previous all-time high of: $124.4 billion set in 1985. The new report confirmed parallel figures released earlier that put both the quarterly and annual deficits even higher. The new deficit totals are lower because they reflect trade on a "balance of payments" basis, omitting such factors as military sales and the 'cost of shipping 'and insurance. EXTRAS A(Mwolooo !fie 1lirbigttu uilg I okv 0 leavin' for the summer? stayin' for the summer? advertise it in the summer sublets! MARCH 27 ONLY $25 Deadline: March 23 Ads may be purchased at The Michigan Daily (8 am - 5 pm). Also, for your convenience, ads will be sold in the Fishbowl March 11 & March 18, 10 am - 2 pm. For more information call 764-0557 The University of Michigan School of Music presents A GALLERY OF DANCES Thurs-Sun., March 12-15 University Dance Company Murray Louis, Guest Choreographer Power Center, 8:00 p.m. (Thu-Sat), 2:00 p.m. (Sun) Tickets $8, $5. Call 763-5460 JAZZ BAND Thurs., March 12 Louis Smith, conductor Music of Ellington, Basie, Jones, Herman, and Akiyoshi Rackham, 8:00 p.m. FACULTY ORGAN RECITAL Fri., March 13 Edward Parmentier Works of Bach, Byrd, Buxtehude, Sweelinck, and Scheidemann Blanche Anderson Moore Hall, School of Music, 8:00 p.m. 'Jigsol' isn't a slur, it's a game Jigsol, a word that has been spray-painted around campus and misinterpreted as a racial slur last semester, is actually a word game played with hexagonal tiles. And if Scrabble and Boggle have lost their appeal for you, just hang on one more week because relief may be on the way. Jigsol players must use their 25 tiles to form words in an allotted three minutes, while competing to earn the highest score. But - more challenging than Scrabble - players can build words three ways off of a tile, vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The name Jigsol is a combination of the words jigsaw and solution, according to inventor Eric Whittler, age 33, a University alumnus and Ann Arbor resident. Whittler designed the game to do away with the problems in other word games. "The game is designed to transcend all the flaws you can think of in Scrabble and Big Boggle." Jigsol was designed to allow large numbers of people to play, and there is a larger variety of words one can spell than in other word games, he said. Jigsol is being released next week in K-Marts and Community Newscenters in Ann Arbor for $14.95 to $16.95 a set. Whittler hopes the game will be a best seller, and predicts Jigsol "will be the number one word game in the next three years, and will stay that way for at least 16 years." -Rebecca Cox '4 I UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES CENTER COMMITTEE CHAIR APPLICATIONS 0 he Michigan ButI Vol. XCVI --No.110 The Michigan Daily (IS SN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term-$10 in town; $20 outside the city. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and sub - scribes to Pacific News Service and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. I . .i Impact Jazz Dance Soph Show Comedy Company Starbound Tech. Crew Viewpoint Lectures Special Events Ticket Central Michigras Laughtrack Mini-Courses MUSKET Editor in Chief............................ROB EARLE Managing Editor..........................AMY MINDELL News Editor..........................PHILIP I. 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