The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 25, 1987- Page 3
Fast food
king pays
college
Sbills
DETROIT (AP) - When Herb
Schervish, owner of two Burger king
franchises, found his employees
turning over as fast as burgers on a
grill, he came up with a way to per-
suade them to stay- pay their col-
lege tuition.
Turnover at his two Detroit area
restaurants, one in the downtown
Renaissance Center and the other at
Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn,
has dropped from 300 percent n 1986
to 40 percent in January-June 1987.
"We've found other problems
such as (employee) tardiness or ab-
senteeism have dropped off as well,"
said Robert Kopecky of Henry Ford
Community College's management
development division, who helped
create the program.
So far, 40 of Schervish's 100
employees have taken him up on the
offer. The workers attend Henry Ford
Community College in Dearborn,
with the option of transferring to a
four-year school.
Participants must be high school
graduates, maintain at least a C
average, and continue to work at his
restaurant.
Each employee also is required to
take five management courses at
Henry Ford.
"There's great competition in
terms of starting wage, but there is
only so much you can pay to stay
profitable...so you find other ways
to maintain employees," Burger
King spokesperson Tony Garel-
Frantzen said in Miami.
Garel-Frantzen said Schervish is
the only Burger King franchisee he
knows of offering such a program.
All crew members at company
owned Burger King restaurants are
eligible to participate in a tuition
reimbursement program, he said.
Otherwise, he said, the company
offers guidelines to individual fran-
chise owners on providing education
assistance programs for restaurant
workers.
Participating members offer
workers scholarships or tuition re-
imbursement.
Wendy's and McDonalds said they
offer owners similar guidelines and
give them the option whether to take
part.
'U'
will be base
for network of
supercomputers
By RYAN TUTAK The supercomputers - at San
The University will be the site of Diego, Boulder, Pittsburgh,
a multi-million dollar project that Princeton University, Cornell
will enable researchers at research University, and the University of
centers around the country to share Illinois - are used to process and
information faster. analyze data. The NSF network
The National Science Foundation (NSFNET) will allow researchers to
(NSF) will fund a five-year, $14 transmit their data to other
million project to connect six supercomputers. Currently, only
supercomputer sites and seven researchers at the supercomputers
regional centers across the country. could use them.
The Merit Computer Network on The regional centers, like the
North Campus, which links University, are junctions to the
computer systems at Michigan's supercomputers for other
eight public universities, will institutions.
coordinate the system. The network will also increase
The long-distance telephone the speed of transmitting
company MCI, IBM, and the State information. The equivalent of 50
of Michigan will also contribute a pages of text will be transferred in
combined $5 million to the national one second.
network, which Gov. James
Blanchard announced yesterday "We're tying everything together
during a press conference at Wayne mg a high-performance network,"said
State University. Doug van Houweling, Merit board
The $14 million will go toward chair and the University's vice-
the staffing of up to 30 employees provost for Information Technology.
and two IBM mainframe computers IBM will develop and provide
at Merit. software and hardware for NSFNET
This award is a significant to transfer data from one
achievement in NSF's leadership of
this important national enterprise," supercomputer to another. MCI will
said NSF's Deputy Director John connect the supercomputers through
Moore. land and radio circuits.
Cubanintmates
free one hostage
Daily Photo by SCOTT ITUCHY
On hold
LSA senior Jeannie Storer uses both phones at the CRISP problem desk to try to straighten our her financial
hold credit while LSA junior Trevor Thrall waits.
Ford disinvests from Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Ford
Motor Co., one of the biggest U.S. companies in
South Africa, has agreed to disinvest from the country
but will still sell vehicles here, officials said yesterday.
Ford has a 42 percent interest in the South African
Motor Corp., known as SAMCOR. The giant U.S.
automaker will donate 24 percent to SAMCOR
employees and sell the remaining 18 percent to the
Anglo American Corp. and its subsidiaries, Anglo said
in a statement.
Under the arrangement, Anglo American will now
control 76 percent of SAMCOR, and company
employees will hold the remaining 24 percent in a trust
fund.
However, Ford will assist SAMCOR and continue
to sell its products in South Africa, the Anglo
Statement said.
Ford will still supply SAMCOR with vehicles,
parts, management,and technical assistance and allow
SAMCOR to use the Ford trademark, the statement
added.
"Ford will continue to be involved very heavily in
supporting SAMCOR," said Anglo official Leslie
Boyd. "South Africans will be able to continue to but
Ford products in this country."
Anglo spokesperson James Duncan declined to say
how much the deal was worth, and Ford officials could
not immediately be reached for comment.
Duncan described the deal as an "innovative
licensing agreement" between Ford and SAMCOR.
The employee trust will be administered by workers
elected by their peers, Anglo said. Dividends from the
trust will be used for community projects, the
company added.
ATLANTA (AP) - Rebellious
Cubans freed one hostage yesterday
but held on to more than 100 others
at federal prisons in Atlanta and
Oakdale, La., spurning offers of a
case-by-case review of threatened de-
portations with shows of defiance
and crude weapons.
A prison guard who suffered from
high blood pressure was released by
inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in
Atlanta, said Warden Joseph Petro-
vsky, adding that 75 hostages were
still held. He said one inmate had
been killed in the rebellion.
Negotiations at both facilities
continued intermittently, Michael
Quinlan, director of the Bureau of
Prisons, said in a statement issued in
Washington.
"Our No.1 priority is the welfare
of those being held against their
will," Quinlan said.
"The negotiating team since 7:15
last night has been dealing with at
least 12 leaders or groups of leaders,"
Petrovsky said, adding that the in-
mates were not accepting an offer by
Attorney General Edwin Meese of a
case-by-case review.
"As long as the hostages are not
being injured, and as long as we're
making headway, we're going to ne-
gotiate this thing out," Petrovsky
said. He said 315 inmates had sur-
rendered since the takeover began
Monday morning.
Inmates of the Oakdale Federal
Detention Center in Louisiana, who
took over the facility on Saturday,
brought two of their 28 hostages to
a gate yesterday to show that they
were being well-treated.
Warden J.R. Johnson called that a
"positive sign," but the Louisiana
inmates brandished crude weapons
and continued to demand their free-
dom, "Liberty or die," said one slo-
gan painted in the yard.
MSA officials dispute
condom machines
By LISA POLLAK
The chair of the Michigan
Student Assembly's health issues
committee met with opposition
from the assembly last night when
he took a stand against the
installation of condom vending
machines on campus.
MSA passed no formal
resolution for or against the
machines at their weekly meeting,
but vice president Wendy Sharp
anticipated assembly action after
further research on the issue.
"I don't think the machines would
benefit students," said health issues
committee chair Dennis Lopez, a
student in the School of Public
Health.
Lopez said vended condoms are
more expensive and of poorer quality
than store-bought condoms. The
vended condoms - unlike those
obtained free at University Health
Services - do not come with
educational literature, he added.
But some assembly members said
the machines would offer a
convenient way to obtain condoms
without embarrassment and thus
encourage condom use.
"If you're in a dorm and it's two
in the morning... chances are you're
not going to go to Kroger to buy
condoms. They aren't going to be
AMPU
0 HAPPY
"o^o
RT HANKSGiVING
N
readily available," Sharp said.
"But our committee felt that,
with all the access students have to
get condoms at U of M, vending
machines aren't going to change
anything," Lopez countered.
Fouzia Kiani, head of the
Residence Hall Association,
supported the condom vending
machines - despite a University
rule that forbids premarital sexual
intercourse inside residence halls.
"Before the administration is
going to agree to put condom
machines in the residence halls,
they're going to have to change that
rule," said Mike Phillips, chair of
MSA's Student Rights Committee.
~ Eugene Ingram, director o f
University Purchasing and Stores,
told Lopez this month that without
student pressure, the administration
would never approve the purchase of
condom vending machines on
campus. The machines have already
been installed at schools across the
country, including Amherst,
Columbia, Arizona State, and
Michigan Tech.
Although the assembly asked
Lopez to research the machines, his
committee's opinions do not have to
reflect MSA's final decision, Sharp
said.
r-------------
,
!i ;:
G
iI
u
Ii
I i
I
i,
1
i ,
,,
TIME FOR A
RESUME
Ve know it's a busV time for you - Time
to celebrate. time to reflect. But it's also
time to look to the future.
Kinko's can help you prepare for your
future. We have a wide range of specialty
papers and matching envelopes to give your
resume the professional look it deserves.
Great copies. Great people.
540 E. Liberty 1220 S. University
Open 24 Hours Open 24 Hours
761-4534 747-9020
- - --------- -- - ----------- --I
Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY
Fowl play
Kroger meat clerk Gayle Kiest stocks the turkey freezer. Kroger sells
over 1,500 turkeys during the week of Thanksgiving, she said.
THE LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
1
i
1
1
1
acauley's
ncrth SCHOOL SUPPLIES
1
1
'I
1
I
I
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
I
I
Campus Cinema:
night features twelve stand-up
I
I
I