The Michigan Daily-Monday, February 8, 1988- Page 3 Snow sculptors show o their art By LINDA McFALL After four days of frigid chipping, shaping, and scraping, 16 ice sculpting teams flaunted their snowy creations on Main Stree yesterday in the first annual Snow Sculpting Competition. The three person teams competed by carving figures into four-ton blocks of snow which measured six by six by 10 feet. The first-place winner, a team from Cranbrook Kingswood high school, made a sculpture called "Ann } Arbor's Bar" - a life-size sculpture of a man sitting at a bar covered with bottles. The team won a trophy for the creativity, technique, and the message which their sculpture conveyed. "You have to make something that usually isn't made from snow sculpture. You have to go beyond," winner Clay Wellman said. Winners of this competition will have the chance to represent Michigan in the U.S. Sculpting Competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin next January. If they win the U.S. competition they will go on to compete in the World Championship which is held every four years during the Olympics, as an Olympic Arts event. The contestants came from all over Michigan to compete. One team of University art students entered the contest after event coordinator Eric Johnson visited their class. "We totally learned while doing it," School of Art sophomore Luke rJohnson said. The other teams consisted mostly of people who have sculpted in various mediums as a hobby or professionally. Before the event, each team submitted a drawing of what they intended to sculpt. When approved, they were given a tool kit and a block of snow that had been made with snowguns at the airport. The contestants were allowed to bring their own tools as long as they were not power tools. Despite the cold, participants agreed the competition was a success. Old Man Winter, a sculpture by a team from Saginaw, won The People's Choice and The Artist's Choice awards. Flood damages Union , computing By ANNA BORGMAN Last Friday at 4:00 a.m. students We turne in the Michigan Union computing came pour center looked up as water dripped on mess their heads. ms . By 4:30 a torrent was rushing -Jona from the ceiling - 21 computer terminals were damaged as well as immediately, the floor, ceiling, and one wall of the and 5:30 bef room. actually stopp The flood started when a copper The comp line in a window unit heater ruptured Friday at no in the International Center, which is Friyt o located one floor above the up print jobs computing center, Supervisor of remained clo Maintenance for the Michigan UnionaEugene Ki Mark Scott said. Union and Ni The water leaked through the floor saidnhanwasu and made its way through the ceiling h as into the computing center. An muhdamag estimated one dozen students were to 15 were t forced to leave their terminals as the The dollar am center was shut down. . epdo na WORKERS and security officers depend upon hurried to cut the chains which held replaced. a the computers in place and to move Tpaired. the terminals out of the way of the possibly tot flood. "We tried to help each other ...60000 if all everyone really chipped in," said bereplaced. Ramona Stevens, the supervisor on Approxim duty in the computing center. ceiling tiles Although the main valve for the wall was rep burst pipe was turned off blistered. W center d some of the machines over and water just ring out. It (the computing center) was a real than Hoyle, Union computing center assistant it was between 5:00 ore the flow of water ed. uting center reopened on for students to pick , but the terminal area sed until 4:00 Saturday ssling, supervisor of the ubbs computing centers, unsure of exactly how e was caused. Of the 21 t were rained upon, 12 aken away for repairs. ount of the damage will how many need to be [d how many can be VS said damage could al as much as $50- of the machines need to ately one fourth of the were replaced, and one ainted where paint had* orkers vacuumed excess water off the computing center floor- Except for the missing terminals, no signs remain of the flood. Nothing was damaged in the International Center except for the floor. ALTHOUGH workers could not agree which machines were damaged in the flood, Jonathan Hoyle, a data processing assistant at the Union computing center, said that at least two graphics terminals, one Zenith, and eight Ontels were taken away. "We turned some of the machines over and water just came pouring out," said Hoyle, who was at the computing center during the flood. "It (the computing center) was a real mess.... I'm shocked how well they cleaned this place up." Louis Markus, a graduate student in English, was also in the computing center during the flood. "The water just kept pouring down," he said, "It was pretty wild to watch." Ann Arbor synagogue holds forum on fighting local r Doily Photo by ALEXANDRA BREZ LSA sophomore Teri Wolf and Engineering Senior Greg Kosti dance the night away at the School of Nursing dance-a-thon Friday. The dance was held to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. Dancer r aise ca.sh for McDonald House By LISA WINER From dusk 'til dawn, about 40 students "kept on dancin'" and endured 12 hours of blisters, chafing, and sore knees at the Third Annual Ronald McDonald Dance-A-Thon Friday night at the Ann Arbor Inn. The event - which lasted until Saturday morning - was organized by the Student Nurses Association. The group has raised over $3,000 in previous years for the Ronald McDonald House, a temporary "home away from home" for the families of seriously ill children being treated at the University Hospital. Students danced throughout the night despite their morning plans. Eastern Michigan University first- year student Jorge Espinosa had a class at 9:00 Saturday morning. "The true hero behind it all is the D.J.," second-year Medical School student Alex Lin said. His class pledged $300 and sponsored him and his friends in the dance-a-thon. Dancers took ten minute breaks every hour. Every three hours they were allowed a half-hour to eat pizza, ice cream, and in the morning, bagles. Some dancers attempted to bribe the DJ into giving them a longer break, but the DJ could not be coerced. Major sponsors of the event were WIQB, who announced the event every two hours, and hlocal merchants, who generously supplied prizes. Mark DeMers from WIQB was the disc-jockey for the event. The SNA has not yet calculated the amount of money they have raised from the event. The dance-a-thon is the SNA's major project. Aside from this event, the group devotes most of its time to promoting a positive image o f nursing, recruiting minorities into nursing, and involving themselves politically in issues concerning nurses. By LISA WINER About 50 people participated last night in a forum which focused on fighting racism in the community. The forum entitled, "Confronting Racism: Working for a Diverse Community," was held at the Beth Israel Synagogue and included speakers University Vice Provost for Minority Affairs Charles Moody, Ann Arbor City Councilmember Larry Hunter (D-First Ward), Ruth Zweifler of the Student Advocacy Center, and Rev. Herbert Lowe of the Church of the Good Shepherd. The congregation's Social Action Committee sponsored the forum which focused on racism in the public schools, the city of An n Arbor, and the University. The forum was designed to establish interest in community members to work toward fighting racism. The forum specifically focused on racism as it affects the Black community, although Rabbi Allan Kensky said that anti-semitism makes his congregation more sensitive to the problem of racism. Kensky and his congregation were motivated by their wish to "establish a dialogue with the Black community" and to become better informed of Black people's lives in the community. "It is a fundamental statement of our faith that all of us are created in the image of God," said Kensky. "It is our deep concern as Jews to bring all the citizens of Ann A r b o r together." Moody stressed his belief in acting to fight racism, rather than simply labeling people as "racist." Moody said people must "stop believing our own press releases about how liberal we are. Ann Arbor is the most conservative town in the world." Hunter stressed the problem of the isolation of the Black community in the public school sytem and in the city as a whole. Hunter recreated some of his own experiences as a child in Ann Arbor. When first admitted to school as a child, Hunter said he was immediately placed in lower-level classes. Only upon his mother's intervention was he moved to the higher-level "track." "If you do not have an advocate to push that, you are lost forever," he said. Expressing her concern about the fear of the Black community in the public school system, Zweifler spoke of teachers and administrators who treat Black students differently from white students. -e Moody . .. speaks at racism forum a Lowe said people must recognize racism within themselves before they. can begin to fight it on a larger scale. He said that being a reverend 2d years ago in Warrenr- second only to Dearborn in its "racist understanding of life" - was less difficult than being a reverend in 1988 in Ann Arbor because then, he said, "people knew who they (racists) were." THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speaker addresses extinction Speakers Joe Clements and William Rice - Dueling poets, Guild House, 802 Monroe, 8 p.m. Guild House Writers Series. Meetings El Salvador workshop - East Quad, Rm. 124, 7 p.m. Mich- igan Student Assembly Peace and Justice Committee Public Relations Club - Kay Erdman from J.P. Industries. Frieze Building, Rm. 2035, 4:30 p.m. Deciding Your Career Pt. I (Jrs. and Srs.) - Career Planning and Placement Office, Student Activities Building,4:10 P.m. CP&P Summer of Success - MLB, 4:10 p.m., CP&P CP&P Employer Presenta- tion - Paul Revere Insurance Company, Michigan Union, Wol- verine Rm., 7 p.m. Bible Students of U of M -"'The Divine Plan of the Ages," Fletcher Hall, Basement Lounge, 7:30 p.m. Crossroads Africa - Infor- mational meeting on interneships in Africa for minority graduate stu- dents, International Center, 3 p.m. The Nitty-Gritty of Trav- el in Europe - International Michigan Hodgkin's Dis- ease Foundation -monthly meeting, Providence Hospital Medical Building, 8th floor, Rm. C, Nine Mile Rd., Southfield, 7:30 p.m. Graduate Student Group - For older grad students interested in forming a group (discussion and social), Michigan Union Grill, 7 p.m. Basic Concepts of Data Communications -4212 SEB, 9 a.m. Registration Required 763- 7630 VersaTerm Terminal Emu- lation hboxProgram - 3001 SEB, 10:30 a.m. Registration Re- quired, 763-7630 Lotus 1-2-3, Part I - 3001 SEB, 1 p.m. Registration re- quired, 763-7630 Computer Networking Technology, Part I - 4212 SEB, 1 p.m. Registration Required, 763-7630 Moday Programmer's Seminars (C Minicourse 2) - 4003 SEB, 7 p.m. Registration Required, 763-7630 Florence - Italian Language program, MLB Commons, 4th floor, 3 p.m. Center for Western European Studies. Fvrfit mnr By BERND STRUBEN During the past 100 years the number of threatened and endangered species has risen in Michigan from zero to 280 and many species have already become extinct, said a speaker from the Department of Natural Resources. Sylvia Taylor, head of the DNR's wildlife supervision in the state's seventh district, spoke Friday to about 60 people at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Taylor, who spoke as part of the University's Distinguished Speakers Series, addressed issues, problems, and solutions to w i l d l i f e preservation. TAYLOR, who has done extensive research with endangered species, said most of Michigan's plant and animal species can be recovered from the endangered species list. One of the key issues of conservation, she said, is the "search for an ideal balance between man and nature." Taylor said plants and animals should be saved not only for aesthetic reasons - people enjoy looking at pretty plants, impressive birds and animals - but every species has an ecological value. Therefore, one species' extinction hurts the rest of the species in some way because the loss creates an ecological imbalance. In 1974 Michigan passed the Endangered Species Act which gave people like Taylor the power and the funding to restore declining plant and animal populations. Taylor has worked extensively to keep more species from becoming extinct. She said her organization learns finds out which species are in trouble and sets up a system to protect them. ONE OF Taylor's greatest successes is the Kirtland's warbler, a small ground nesting bird whose numbers have been rapidly depleting. The birds' nest only under the Jack Pine tree which grows only in areas where there has recently been a forest: fire. Since large forest fires in the state have decreased in the last few decades, fewer Jack Pines have grown. As a result, warbler populations have also decreased. Once the birds' plight wal discovered, Taylor initiated a series of steps to prevent their extinction, including setting controlled fires and planting thousands of Jack Pine. Many species have been making a comeback in the last few years, Taylor said, so the future for these species is not hopeless. . What's Happening Recreational '(