Students
offer help
for city's
home less
By VICKI BAUER
Holiday plans for the more than
450 homeless people in Ann Arbor
are no different from their everyday
concerns - where to find a hot
meal, warm clothes, and a place to
sleep.
To help the homeless during the
holiday season, two campus groups,
SANE and Project Warmth, are or-
ganizing food and clothing drives.
"Holidays are a mess with these
people. I've noticed they become real
introverted and depressed," said Beth
Yaroch, staff worker at Ann Arbor
Shelter Association. "I think it's
very misleading to think holidays are
a happy time of the year. For many
of us they are, but for many of us
they are not."
Yaroch said Ann Arbor's home-
less population is steadily increasing
because of the economy and the lack
of affordable housing for people who
receive federal aid and minimum
wage workers. She said the night
shelter at 420 W. Huron fills to ca-
pacity, 48 people, every night but
directors haven't yet turned anyone
away.
This Sunday afternoon, members
of SANE, a canvassing organization
working for nuclear disarmament,
will ask Ann Arbor residents for do-
nations of food and clothing. The
donations will be distributed to local
shelters and crisis centers.
Through the drive, SANE hopes
to raise the community's awareness
of disproportionate spending on de-
fense weapons over human re-
sources, said LSA senior Karen
Klein, a SANE member and a coor-
dinator of the drive.
Klein said the government spends
2 percent of tax dollars on food and
53 percent on the military. "Last
year we cut $185 million from child
care and social security," she added,
adding that the statistics were re-
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The Michigan Daily-Friday, December 11, 1987- Page 3
'U' program
awaits renewal
of private grant
By MICHAEL LUSTIG
Directors of a five-year old Uni-
versity program, funded by a private
grant, are waiting for the benefactor
to tell them if the grant will be re-
newed after winter term.
If the grant isn't renewed, the $2
million Program in American Insti-
tutions - created by Detroit busi-
ness executive A. Alfred Taubman
- will end.
An interdisciplinary program,
American Institutions offers courses
in government policies and practices
from an American 'perspective.
Courses are offered jointly i n
American Institutions and political
science, history, economics, law,
business administration, and sociol-
ogy. If the grant is not renewed, the
classes will be retained, but offered
only through the respective depart-
ments.
Without the grant, several ele-
ments unique to the program could
end. An internship program, visits
by outside lecturers, teaching assis-
tants for some classes, and computer
conferences will be lost without the
grant unless departments reallocate
internal funds, said LSA Dean Peter
Steiner.
University President Harold
Shapiro has been personally negoti-
ating with Taubman to renew the
grant, said Robin Jacoby, an assis-
tant to Shapiro. "We have not gotten
a response to our request from Mr.
Taubman," Jacoby said, "But he also
hasn't said 'no'."
A spokesperson for Taubman said
he has been on vacation and has not
yet made a decision on the program.
Taubman will release a decision later
this month or earlier in January, said
spokesperson Judy Lerwich.
"It's always possible we'll get a
Christmas present," Steiner said,
"But what we have to do now is se-
riously rethink the program for fall
'88."
"It's not that he said 'no,' it's
just that he's said nothing," Steiner
added.
Political Science Chair Jack
Walker, who is currently teaching a
class in the program, said the pro-
gram benefits the University by cre-
ating smaller, more personaliied
communities within the larger
community.
This term, Walker has a teaching
assistant help him teach a class on
political mobilization to 15 stu-
dents. If the grant is not renewed,
Walker will not have a TA the next
time he teaches.
"It'll be harder for me to teach,
but I can still do it," Walker said.
But because officials don't know
if they will have money to run
American Institutions next fall, they
have been unable to complete plans
for classes or hire faculty and TAs.
John Jackson, the American
Institutions director, said program
directors can wait until late January
or early February, when course
guides for the Fall 1988 term are
printed.
There is no specific deadline when
a decision must be made, Jackson
said, but the situation worsens the
longer they wait for word from
Taubman.
Taubman owns shopping malls
across the country, including Ann
Arbor's Briarwood Mall. He also
owns A & W Root Beer. A Uniyer-
sity student in the 1940s who never
graduated, Taubman has donated ex-
tensively to the University.
Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBI
Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson listens to questions from reporters at the Ann Arbor Inn last
night. Robertson, whose appearance was protested outside the hotel, called for unity among Michigan's con-
servative Republicans.
Robertson calls for conservative
unity within Michigan's GOP
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lobby and in the parking structure.
A search following a bomb threat,
made just prior to Robertson's arrival
yielded nothing, Miller said.
There is no organized anti-Rob-
ertson group on campus or in Ann,
Arbor, protesters said. Participants of
the rally - including members of
the Latin American Solidarity Com-
mittee, Lesbian and Gay Rights on.
Campus, and students from Com-
munity High School - said they are,
an ad hoc group against Robertson.
"Pat Robertson is the epitome of
why workers need a party," said Judy
Levy, bargaining chair for the Amer-
ican Federation of State, Local, and
Municipal Employees local chapter
1583. gate selection process, which is be-
"It's ridiculous that Pat Robertson ing challenged in the courts by some
should have as much political clout Republicans.
that he does. It's ludicrous that he He said Republicans must put
should even be considered" as a pres- "conservative principles ahead of
idential candidate, said Alicia Luck- candidacy."
sted of LaGROC. "Let's hope we can keep them out
Robertson, former leader of the of the courts," he said. He said,
PTL television ministry, stressed though, that the current maneuvering
solidarity among conservative Re- involves political pressuring "I didn't
publicans in his short address to ab- think existed in the post-Watergate
out 150 people. Those present in- period."
cluded University Regent Deane Robertson commented briefly on
Baker (R-Ann Arbor) and campus this week's Reagan-Gorbachev sum-
ministers Mike and Missy Caulk. mit, saying "I am always hopeful for
"It's time we won some elections peace, but I'm concerned the INF
in this country," Robertson said. le treaty might leave our NATO allies
spoke mainly about the conflicts open to an overwhelming (conven-
over the Michigan Republican dele- tional) Warsaw Pact force."
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