How Congressional seats would be apportioned in 1991 based on 1987 Census Bureau estimates ti . ,a SStates gaining seats Sa taes losin seats change new "ta change ne~w total 1. California +4 49 7. Michigan -2 16 2. Florida +3 22 8. New York -2 32 3. Texas +3 30 9. Ohio -2 19 4. Arizona +1 6 10. Pa. -2 21 5. Georgia +1 11 11. Illinois -1 21 6. Virginia +1 11 12. Iowa -1 5 13. Kansas -1 4 [AMother states would remain 14. Mass. -1 10 the sane 15. W. Virginia -1 3 Sourca: Elction Data Services Inc. AP Reapportionment Based on 1987 Census Burean estimates, seats in the House of Represen- tatives would be reapportioned as shown in 1991. lestaurateur By JOON KANG Two Republican state legislators have proposed to reduce the minimum wage of waitpeople in an attempt to create 60,000 new jobs. However, local restaurant employers don't believe the plan will work. The House Republican proposal - which faces much opposition in the house - decreases the minimum wage for waitpeople to $2.01 from the current level of $2.51, which in effect increases the amount employers can estimate as earnings on tips from 25 percent to 40 percent. A report done by the Michigan Restaurant Association three years ago said that lowering wages would add 1,900 new restaurants and $2 billion in new restaurant construction. Some owners believe that in Ann Arbor there is no incentive to bring in new restaurants or more workers. "There isn't an oversupply of people trying to find jobs," said George Paron, owner of the Brown Jug on South University. "On this street alone, there are at least 10 job openings... the jobs are there," he said. Steve Buchanan, manager at Ashley's restaurant of State Street, also agreed that the The Michiga s question lov proposal would be ineffective. "I don't believe that it has anything to do with the wages offered. It has more to do with the effectiveness of management and the location of the restaurant, especially in Ann Arbor," he said. But the main emphasis is on revitalizing the job .market in the state, according to Michael Neuman, president of the Michigan Restaurant Association. Employers could save money through the new proposal because they will be required to pay tipped employees less. Employees must receive at least the federal hourly wage of $3.35 an hour, but tipped employees can make the difference up in tips. Employers currently assume 25 percent of $3.35 will be made up in tips, but the proposal would change the amount to 40 percent. "The proposal is not a reduction in the minimum wage overall," Neuman said. "If the tip-credit came out less than the federal wage level, the employer has to match the difference." House Democrats call the proposal ineffective. Brett McRae, a spokesperson for Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor), said the tip-credit difference would save each restaurant an extra 0 ver wage biil $8,000 to $30,000 per year. "Many restaurants gross that much in a day...it doesn't make that much of a difference to them. The task force 'report is simply a conclusory assertation with no evidence to back it up," McRae said. Republican Caucus leader Jack Mowat said, "Most states are at the 40 percent credit level and Michigan is one of the slowest developing states in increasing labor. We're trying to rectify that situation." The proposal is just one area in a 15-point plan introduced by Representatives GordoO Sparks (R-Troy) and Paul Hillegonds (R-Holland) to improve the state's business climate. The sudden interest in table servers' wages came when Jerry Hill, president of Bill Knapp's Inc. and originator of the proposal idea voiced opposition to the Republican proposal. To Ann Arbor table servers, many of whom are students, the proposed decrease in the minimum wage would have only a slight impact. The Associated Press contributed to this report. in Daily-Thursday, January 14, 1988- Page 5 11 oil's Students to lobby on Toxic dump frightens parents' KINGSFORD, Mich. (AP) - A building for 1,100 students on citizen's group wants a local school acres of land owned by the city. district to reverse its decision to build The land is adjacent to a form an elementary school next to the site dump used by Ford Motor Co. a of a former industrial dump, a Kingsford Chemical Co. spokesperson said yesterday. School Board President T The Breitung Township District's Brown said he believed the site w Board of Education approved safe, but he thinks the oppositi construction of an $8.7 million will be so intense that the board w 27 ner nd im was on will By ROSEMARY WUMMEL Tina Meldrum and Kasha Fluegge will leave their studies behind and spend the weekend in Washington D.C. attending a forum on El Sal- vador. Meldrum and Fluegge, both LSA sophomores, are joining 40 other college students to look at pressing human rights issues in El Salvador. "I think its really sad that El Salvador is a dead issue," said Mel- drum. "It's the third largest recipient of federal aid, and yet democratic principles and human rights are not necessarily being practiced." The forum, sponsored by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, features speakers from the University's sister school in San Salvador, as well as organizations against the El Sal- vadoran government. Meldrum, an MSA representative helping and a member of the asse Peace and Justice Committ the forum will encourage pants to educate their peer problems in El Salvador, TI mittee and LASC are plan dedicate a week to raising av about the problems in El S this March, and she hopes th El Salvador mbly's will give her ideas for events. ee, said She also hopes to learn ways to partici- spark a large turnout in dorm semi- *s about nars, which the committee is spon- he com- soring on El Salvador this winter. ining to Few students showed up last term wareness for forums on militarism, she said.' Salvador Meldrum joined the committe'e 1e forum last term. High court allows school * censorship (Contnued from Page 2) tains to any other situations other than high school newspapers," Shapiro said, adding that this leaves the Supreme Court's options open if a case involving a university news- paper were to arise. "It is a common tool of the Supreme Court," he noted. Robert Baine, the attorney for Hazelwood East said, "I don't think (colleges) were an issue in the case." He noted that he was not sure what the outcome would be "if you were to find a university paper with a similar case." White wrote that there should be judicial intervention involving free speech rights for students "only when the decision to censor a school-sponsored publication, the- atrical production, or other vehicle of student expression has no valid edu- cational purpose." The dissenting justices viewed the court's decision as a step towards "thought control," and that "such unthinking contempt for individual rights is intolerable." "The Supreme Court is getting worse and worse. 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