The Michigan Daily--Thursday, January 21, 1988- Page 3 Educators criticize Bennett's comments By JIM PONIEWOZIK Local educators yesterday criticized statements by Secretary of Education William Bennett, who said that declining Black college enrollment is the result of poor preparation by schools, not financial need. Bennett, speaking to several hundred col- lege presidents at an American Council on Edu- cation meeting Tuesday in Washington, said better college preparation by high schools - not more intense recruitment by colleges or in- creased financial aid - is needed to increase Black enrollment. BUT SEVERAL officials interviewed yesterday said Bennett's statements were a sim- plistic explanation of a more complex problem. "I don't believe that there can possibly be just one explanation for the problem," said Vir- ginia Nordby, director of the University's Af- firmative Action office. Nordby cited a study by Sociology Prof. Walter Allen, which indicated that financial problems often prevent Blacks from attending college. Allen's study blamed Black enrollment de- creases on cutbacks in federal financial aid that began in the mid 1970s; at the same time the percentage of Blacks enrolled in American uni- versities began to drop. "When the money dried up, Black enroll- ment began to nosedive," Allen said. "(Minority) students are dependent on financial aid." BUT DAVID Robinson of the University admissions office said he agreed with Bennett that financial problems were not as damaging to Black students as the inadequacies in high schools. "Many of these youngsters have great fi- nancial need," Robinson acknowledged. "(But the University) can meet almost 100 percent of the financial need for all in-state students." Robinson said many Blacks are poorly pre-,. pared for college because they attend inner-city schools, which often lack adequate funding and teachers. Many teachers have left inner-city schools because of problems with crime and over, crowded classes, which often leaves the students with inferior teachers, he added. EDUCATION Prof. Percy Bates attacked Bennett's statement that a greater focus on math, science, and other basic skills in high schools would help increase Black enrollment levels. "Everybody in school can benefit from more of that," but that doesn't answer the ques- tion of why the percentage of Black students have dropped in comparison to other groups, Bates said. Several of the educators placed some blame for the enrollment drop on the Reagan adminis- tration, which Bates said has caused "an erosion of support for minority students in general." Heyward Richardson, deputy superintendent of the Ann Arbor Public School System, also criticized administration cutbacks in student aid. "There hasn't been a decline in the quality of (secondary) education over the past eight years, but there has been a decline in Black en- rollment," said Richardson. EDUCATION officials also disagreed with Bennett's statement that the "pool" of available Black applicants is too small. "One of the questions that we have to ask is, 'are we getting all the students out of the pool that we can get?"' said University Vice- Provost for Minority Affairs CharlestMoody. Blacks comprise 12 percent of the popula- tion, but less than 9 percent of college students, according to American Council on Education figures. -The Associated Press contributed to this: report. Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Bud Porter, left, and Rich De Borde, maintenance mechanics at a water treatment facility, overhaul one of the plant's tran- sfer pumps. Officials call Ann Arbor water safe despite natural pollutants By BETH COLQUITT Officials at Ann Arbor's water treat- ment plant say the city's water supply is safe and is not threatened by contamina- tion, despite a recent report that one out of five water systems contain unregulated chemical contaminants. Larry Sanford, assistant superinten- dent at Ann Arbor's water treatment plant, said the study - conducted by a Ralph Nader consumer advocate group - does not apply to Ann Arbor or the sur- rounding area. Ann Arbor's water source, the Huron River, is clean and receives little, if any, industrial or agricultural pollution, he said. "The pollution in the Huron River is. natural pollution. It's swampy water," Sanford said. "The stuff we take out is algae and leaves, mostly." BUT SANFORD added that water systems for the Ann Arbor area are sometimes tainted by rural pollution and road salt. In addition, Steve Manville of the Washtenaw Evironmental Health Depart- ment said dioxane - a common, water- soluble, industrial solvent from the nearby Gelman Sciences plant - has contaminated the groundwater. Andy Buchsbaum, the program director for the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, said the environmental group receives few complaints about Ann Arbor water. He said PIRGIM usually refers such problems to the Washtenaw Public .Health Department, which refers them to the State Health Department. ALTHOUGH city water is consid- ered safe, Seth Hirshorn (D-Second Ward) said industrial pollution has been a prob- lem in Scio Township, just south of Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor pipelines have been ex- tended so that the city water system can supply better water to some parts of the township. The Environmental Protection Agency said regulating every chemical contami- taminants found in water are known or suspected to be harmful, according to the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. THE EPA is presently feeling pres- sure from Congress to test and regulate more chemicals as a result of the 1986 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, according to EPA reports. The Supreme Court has drawn a timeline requiring the EPA to set standards for at least 85 contaminants within the next three years. Sanford said water problems generally occur in small towns since large towns and cities usually have sufficient water systems. Small towns often cannot afford proper regulation of their water sources. Testing and regulating water systems is expensive, Buchsbaum said. For example, Sault St. Marie, a city of 15,000 people in northern Michigan, is presently paying approximately $6 mil- lion for a plant to remove salt from their Lake Superior water. But Jim Scott, an engineer at Black & Beach in Detroit, said the construction expense for a water plant is minimal compared to its value over time. First case of Type A influenza reported at, 'U' By ALYSSA LUSTIGMAN Wintertime to most students means chilly nights inside by the fire, swooshing down ski slopes, braving the icy winds on the way to class - and the flu. Yes, influenza season is upon us again. This year's first case of Type A influenza in the state of Michigan infected a University student this week, the University School of Public Health reported. Dr. Hunein Maassab, professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, said the community can expect to see more cases of all strains of the flu in the next few weeks. Although many cases have been reported in other states, Michigan has not been heavily hit with the flu yet. Flu season lasts from December to February or March. Maassab said that it was not possible to-. predict how contagious the flu will be this year on campus, but close confines such as classrooms and residence halls increase the x number of cases. But "some people have antibodies and are. partially protected," he added. Although there is a vaccine for Type A influenza, Maassab said no more than 10 percent of all students have probably received it. Symptoms for flu include fever, dry cough, muscle aches, chills, and fatigue. They. usually last between three and seven days, and can lead to secondary bacteria pneumonia if symptoms are ignored. "If you follow the doctor's orders, with fluids, aspirin, and going to bed early, you will get well soon," said Maassab. "It is usually a self-limiting disease." nant in a given water system ble. In fact, only 190 of the is impossi- 2,100 con- 3 THE IST what's happening in Ann Arbor today Campus Cinema Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky 1948) MLB 4 7:00 p.m. A corrupt attorney (John Garfield) tries to keep the numbers racket from destroying his brother, a small-time bookie. Compelling and well-photographed film noir , with some of therbest dialogue around. The careers of both Polonsky and Garfield were destroyed in the subsequent HUAC trials of the '50's. With Thomas Gomez and Beatrice Pearson. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray 1950) MLB 4 9:00 p.m. A cynical Hollywood screenwriter tries to exculpate himself from a murder charge. With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, and Frank. Lovejoy. Cuyocuyo, Peru: Studying Agri- cultural Production." Brown Bag, 12:00 p.m. at 2009 Museums Building. Meetings Agape Campus Fellowship Bible Study - 6:30 p.m. in S. Quad Ambatano Lounge. Torah Bible Study Goup - 4:30 Chabad House. Talmud Study Goup Laws of Prayer - 8 p.m. at Chabad House. U of M Outing Club -- Meeting at 6 p.m. in 2203 Michigan Union. Baha'is Under the Guardian - "The Purpose of Life." 7:30 p.m. at 2209 Michigan Union. ' Rainforest Action Move- ment - 7:00 p.m. at Room 1520 Dana. English Department By ROSE MARY WUMMEL to a former Hopwood wi Eleven students split $2,900 died last year; his new worth of prizes in the prestigious progress, Enter from Hopwood Underclassmen Awards which vividly describes t ceremony last night, while the En- of English playwright C glish Department awarded $3,900 to Marlowe. ninestudents in other literary con- Though the audience h tests. ten during the beginni The Hopwood Underclassmen comic and satirical baccal Contest, established in 1967, grants dress, some spectators - awards to first year students and turned off by Garrett's pol sophomores for fiction, essay, and and comments on femin drama as an alternative to the major before the end. upperclass Hopwood awards held i Garrett was the firstc April. the MFA English progra GEORGE GARRETT, a poet, ative writing at the Univ novelist, editor, and playwright, re- left four years ago to b placing the previously scheduled Pe- Hoyns Professor of Creati ter Taylor, read at the ceremony in at the University of Virgi Rackham Auditorium. THE HOLLYWOO Garrett read from a poem dedicated were established in 1930 inner who novel in the Sun, he murder hristopher aughed of- ng of the aureate ad- apparently itical satire ism- left director of m for cre- versity but ecome the ive Writing ma. )D awards when Av- ery Hopwood, a successful broadway playwright, left one-fifth of his es- tate to his alma mater to encourage young writers to create. Individual Hopwood winners are as follows: in the essay category; first year LSA student Stephen Adams $325; Natural Resources first year student, Sharon Jackson, $325; LSA sophomore Mary Glover, $250; first year LSA student David Lubliner, $225; in the fiction cate- gory; Residential College first year student Kristin Fontechiaro, $350; first year LSA student Stephen Adams, $250; LSA sophomore, Laura Sagolla,$225; first year LSA student, Wendy Sherrill,$225; and in the poetry division; LSA sopho- more, Aime Ballard, $200; RC sophomore, Carrie Brown,$200; RC sophomore, Monica Scherer, $200; presents Hopwood awards LSA sophomore Joshua Charlson, $125. WINNERS IN other contests sponsored by the Department of En- glish are; graduate student Joseph Clements, $100, Academy of Amer- ican Poets; RC junior, Meredith McGhan, $125, Bain-Swiggett Po- etry; graduate student Richard Terrill, $100, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry; graduate student Gail Gilliland, $75, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry. Recipi- ents of the Roy W.. Cowden Memo- rial Fellowship included: graduate student Joseph Clements, $750; graduate student Linda Miller, $750; graduate student Christina Shea, $750; RC senior, Kristin Herron, $500; graduate student Anne Sheaf- fer, $500. Speakers Furthermore Ellen Silbergeld - "Dioxin: Linda Bradley - School of From Receptors to Risk Assess- Music violinist performing ment." 1040 Dana, The School of Schumann and Moussorgsky at Natural Resources. 12:15 in the Union. Bill Moore -s "The Cost o f Ladyhouse Blues - Presented Commitment." InterVarsity Christ- by River of Understanding En- ian Fellowship meeting at the semble at 8 p.m. at the Perfor- Kuenzel Room of the Michigan mance Network, 408 W. Washing- Union at 7 p.m. ton. Fiona Marshall - "The Lesbians of Color Collect- Beginnings of Pastoralism in East i v e - Third Floor of the Africa." 3:30 p.m. in 3207 Angell Michigan Union at 7 p.m.- Hall. Midwestern Music Con- W. Harmon R a y - "The ference - Gala Opening Concert Dynamic Behavior of Polymeriza- at 8 p.m. at Hill Aud. Council opposes deputization (CondnoedfromPage1) work exclusively on campus, b campus safety officers the necessary spend only about 20 percent of th power to enforce their authority. Be- shifts there. The rest of their time cause they cannot make arrests, devoted to answering off-camp Heatley said his officers are some- calls. times put into dangerous situations while waiting for police officers to Once approved, Heatley said arrive. two year phase-in period would Heatley said the University required before establishing the ca spends $500,000 each year to rent pus police force. The senate bill sa seven officers from the Ann Arbor all officers will have to attend a tw Police Department to patrol the year police academy. campus. 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