I Forum focuses on fighting fascism The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, April 13, 1988- Opening Day brings fun to festive fans Page 3 By MICAH SCHMIT Prompted by what they called brutal treatment of anti-Nazi protesters by Ann Arbor police at a rally last month, four panelists at a Monday night forum said capitalism fosters the formation and survival of fascist and racist hate groups. The forum was sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee to Fight Fas- cism and Police Brutality. A group of about 10 University students and workers assembled to learn about fascism and how people can fight it. Paul Lefrak, one of the counter- demonstrators arrested at a March 19 Ann Arbor Nazi rally, said organiza- tions such as the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan are protected by police, while protesters often are not. L E F R A K denounced police protection of the Nazi demonstrators. "Even when I had completely given up resistance they pounded my head into the pavement," he said. Lefrak said free speech favors fas- cist organizations because reac- tionary groups help the capitalist establishment maintain the status quo. Therefore, he said, the right to freedom of speech must be limited. "When (the platform) calls for genocide then the freedom of politi- cal expression must be restricted," Lefrak said. Facism appeals to the disenfran- chised middle class youth, particu- larly "the skinheads and young peo- ple who see no future for them- selves," he said. PAUL HENRY, a member of the Revolutionary Workers League, attended the forum and said many of these people blame minorities for their personal crises. Young people who are attracted to the hatred and racism of those groups should be taught that these racist or- ganizations will not be tolerated, Henry said. Tom Gaughan, a community ac- tivist, recounted instances in which Detroit police brutalized protesters, including demonstrators against a 1981 neo-Nazi rally. "Police represent the bourgeois community and try to maintain the status quo. (The police) brutalize people who can't defend them- selves... the poor, minority, and non-mainstreamers," Gaughan said. PANELIST Eileen Scheff, de- fense attorney for several counter- demonstrators, said, "We can't de- pend on government to protect us from the fascists, we've got to do it ourselves... We need to build a big- ger broader mass of anti-fascist peo- ple." Mike Ketchum, a member of the Progressive Labor Party and the In- ternational Committee Against Racism, said, "If you can eliminate racism then you can eliminate capi- talism. We need Communist leader- ship to eliminate the ruling class and build a classless society. Don't vote. Sit in, protest, fight." By MIKE GILL Special to the Daily DETROIT - Red, white, and blue banners, Fat Bob Taylor singing the national anthem, Sparky Anderson addressing the crowd, the crowd booing Mayor Coleman Young and Governor James Blan- chard, and yes... a Tiger win ushered in Opening Day yesterday at Tiger Stadium. Fans young and old, clad in sportcoats and t-shirts, from Detroit and the suburbs, played hooky from work and school to attend the Motor City's unofficial holiday. Dave Bassett, a Chippewa Valley teacher, found solace away from school books as he attended his fifth consecutive Opening Day. WHEN ASKED if his princi- pal knew of this field trip, Bassett went on the offensive. "Not yet, but this guy here is Jim Myers and he says 'hi' to our principal, Don Wichert. Do you know this guy missed a department chair meeting to come here?" "The boss knows I'm here," said Norman Akar, an middle-aged em- ployee of Walbridge Aldinger. "I have a client with me. This is one of the most important days of the year. You can take your client to lunch and then to a big baseball game." Many. fans expressed concern, about an end, rather than the start Qf, the new baseball season - specifi. cally, the possible demolition of Tiger Stadium. 4 "I think it stinks," said Larry Flynn, 14, a student at Royal Oak Kimball High School. "It's been' here 76 years. (Tiger owner Tom) Monaghan and Young are taking the tradition right out of baseball." TIGER STADIUM'S new security guards also made their de- but. Dressed in blue blazers, this group of mostly college students were well groomed, a change from last year's privately hired "rent-a- cops. Before the game, Nick Feldman, an elderly Bengal fan with a long white beard, was once again seen circling the stadium on his bicycle in his full length Tiger outfit. In 1984, he circled the stadium 104 times - once for each Tiger win. This year he was assessing the Tiger's chances. "They got rid of a prima donna (Kirk Gibson) so they'll be more of a family," he said. "They've got a great chance." Doily Photo by ELLEN LEVY I scream, you screwm . . * Two-year old Robert Newton gets ice cream all over his face, much to his mother's chagrin and to his delight. After picking up his sister from kin- dergarten, the three stopped for a sunny day treat at the Dairy Queen on Stadium Blvd. Prof le Continued from Page 1 At the University's International Center - a source of counseling, education, and advice for the 6.9 percent total foreign student popula- tion - Lee is helping three other students start the Women Interna- tional Student Exchange (WISE), "for students from different countries to get together, learn about each other, and share experiences." Lee, whose light voice is tinged with a British accent ("people always ask me about it") after four years at Oxford boarding school, says she was surprised by the lack of foreign students she encountered here in her first term. ACCORDING to International Center statistics, only 1.5 percent of undergraduates come from other na- tions, in contrast to 16.4 percent of graduate students. "So it was hard for me, espe- cially in my dorm (Betsy Barbour) where there are only two interna- tional students in the whole build- ing, and I was meeting more Ameri- cans than international students in my first weeks here. It's hard to meet people in huge lectures, and then, after classes end, you stop see- ing people you met there." "Basically I love to meet people from other countries, American and otherwise. But it's important to meet other international students so you can have people around to dis- cuss your problems, people who are going through the same things you are." THOUGH still in her first year of college, though still making so- cial and academic adjustments, Lee has already distinguished herself to peers and administrators as one of a small group of foreign students who's especially involved in trying to meet and educate the others. "There's a lot of information and programming available," said Lee, who regularly attends seminars for foreign, female undergraduates at the Center for the Continuing Education of Women. "But many international students aren't aware or don't partic- ipate. I try to tell to people to come, and the ones who do really appreciate the information," Lee said. "At one seminar on cross-culture communication we learned that in America if two people are talking, and then there is a silence, people feel uncomfortable. I wasn't aware of anything like that," she said. "I would call her participation unusually active among international students," said Kay Clifford, the In- ternational Center's programming director, "And considering that one of the difficulties our office has is participation, I would see her as one of the leaders." YET Lee's most important role on campus may not be her "uniqueness" as a leader, but her ea- gerness to relay the "typical" diffi- culties of foreign University students to others. She smiles and laughs constantly when she thinks back to her first weeks at school. "It was so strange when I would hear people say, 'Oh I just called my mom, I just called home,"' Lee says. "I suppose I could call home but even then I don't know if they could understand how I feel or what I am going through because they haven't seen this University and don't know what it's like." What-it's-like, Lee says, is hav- ing to figure out American slang ("like when we're standing outside of the cafeteria, and I say 'Oh, how long is the queue down there." And everyone says 'what do you mean?' because I think 'queue' means 'line' and they don't know that..."), and trying to learn how to pay tuition when your checks come from across the world. And it means having special forms filled out for even a one-day trip to Windsor because - even though you might sometimes forget - you only have a temporary stu- dent passport; and it means staying at friends' houses for vacations be- cause you can only go back home to Hong Kong once a year. "I WAS so lost back at orienta- tion. I got the big course guide and I didn't know how to use it, or what I could get from it.... Especially the first semester; I was lost in this whole big system."- "But I guess I'm more settled this term. I know more about what the system is like, the weather, the peo- ple and things." In place of her confusion, Lee is beginning to develop ideas about how the University "can do more to help international students learn about the system and how it works, how we can learn to translate our ways to theirs." She wants to be ac- tive next fall in orientating incom- ing international students, teaching them the "little things" like the meaning of abbreviations in the course guide, and how to start a bank account. Margaret Krasnoff, coordinator of CEW program's for international women, supports Lee's plans. "There is a definite need for in- coming foreign women students to have something more than the orientation they had when they come in," Krasnoff said. "They need more support groups, opportunities to meet together." Such groups are es- pecially important for women be- cause they are a minority (33 per- cent) of the foreign students, Kras- noff added. UNDERLYING Lee's as- sertiveness is a true appreciation and desire for "international" education - despite the problems. In fact, she isn't even sure if she will return to Hong Kong after graduation. "In your own country you might feel more comfortable. On the other hand, I think here in Michigan I get to learn other stuff, too, like the American way of living, and I get to meet other international students who are not from Asia. Learning about other cultures is fascinating; it makes everything worth it." ROTC Continued from Page 1 would be responsible for the loading and unloading of ships. "The marine corps offered me a physical challenge," Pastva said. "I like the comraderie and the discipline." Pastva said her decision to join the military was natural because her father was in the Navy and she grew up on various naval bases around the country. ROTC awards two, three, and four year scholar- ships to students based on their academic merit and leadership, ROTC Lt. Col. Charles Narburgh said. The four year scholarship, the most competitive, pays for tuition, books, and provides $100 a month for expenses. ROTC cadet Ann Panzica, on a four-year scholar- ship, joined ROTC initially so she could attend the University. But Panzica, an Engineering sophomore, said she intends to pursue a military career. "IN 20 YEARS from now, I will get a pension. I can be retired by the time I'm 40 years old," Panzica said, who hopes to work in a technical capacity in the Army. LSA senior Brigette Seeger, an ROTC Army cadet, hopes to fly air ambulances, helicopters that transport wounded soldiers to hospitals. But Suzanne O'Donnel, a cadet in ROTC Air Force and Engineering sophomore, said though she originally joined to get a free education and to fly, she now wants out of the military. "Seven years of your life is a long time," she said about the time it takes to qualify to fly in the Air Force. "I couldn't see myself staying in it for that O'DONNEL said she could take out a student loan and pay back the Air Force for her education, exempt- ing her from serving. "They are paying for my school right now, that's why I'm going to be an officer," O'Donnel said, adding she dislikes the stress and physical training of the ROTC program. "I want to do the four years and get it over with," O'Donnel said. She hopes to work as an officer in a technical capacity. In the military, women are excluded only from combat positions. Job opportunities run the gamut from military intelligence to working for the national space program to working in the medical field. WOMEN make up 10.4 percent of officers in the Army, 10.1 percent in the Navy, 3.3 percent in the Marine Corps, and 11.5 percent in the Air Force, ac- cording to an armed forces report issued last year. Col. Raymond Hunter of Air Force ROTC said the only problem he sees for some women officers is bal- ancing their time and roles if they decide to marry and have children. Narburgh said pregnant women in the military are given a paid leave of absence of about six weeks or as advised by a doctor. The prospective ROTC cadet must also meet before a board made up of ROTC officers, professors, and students in the program. The applicant is interviewed to determine leadership potential and sincerity for get- ting a commission into the military. Narburgh said ROTC Navy and Air Force have similar interview pro- cesses. Applicants must also pass a physical exam which tests their vision and physical ability. AFTER their sophomore year, students must sign a contract in which they agree to serve and to comply with military regulations. Narburgh said a student's background is investigated by a national secret level security check. THE IST What's happening in Ann Arbor today long." Vietnam Continued from Page 1 longer hold the event there. THE S O D C, employees of which could not be reached for comment yesterday, has enforced the policy more rigorously since the be- ginning of fall 1987. Dolgan called the policy "repres- sive." He said past MSA president Ken Weine told him that MSA never addressed with the issue of the Diag use rule. "This is a policy that the administration determined without student input," Dolgan said. Dolgan said the mistaken reservation was the administration's fault. "It's my contention that the policy is ludicrous and that it denies anybody the right to have a demon- stration outside the hours of twelve and one," he said. Colonel Charles Tackett, a Viet- nam veteran who has crusaded for a Vietnam Veteran's national holiday and worked with MSA on the pro- ject, said he was disappointed with Johnson's decision. Considering Abortion? 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