4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 28, 1988 UCAR outlines year's goals, calls for unity and new ideas BY LAURA COUNTS "We are in the midst of a student movement," said political science graduate student Daniel Holliman to about 80 students at the the United Coalition Against Racism's mass meeting last night. UCAR had originally scheduled activists from Stanford and Columbia universities to speak about anti-racist protests on their campuses, but the speakers were unable to attend. Instead, videos were shown of UCAR's clash with the University administration last year, and of recent racial problems at Stanford and the University of Massachusetts. "The central focus of the campaign this year is to expose and counter institutionalized racism," said Rackham graduate student and UCAR steer- ing committee member Barbara Ransby. More specifically, Ransby criticized the Uni- versity's access policies, labor hierarchy, and curriculum. "Who the University lets in is a very impor- tant barometer of what the University is," she said, citing SAT scores and high tuition costs as factors which may limit the enrollment of people of color. The present Black student enrollment is about 5 percent, down from 7.3 percent in 1975. If the University were to follow a policy of representa- tion proportional to state numbers, Black stu- dents would constitute about 13 percent of the student body. Last year at Stanford students fought for the inclusion of the history of women and people of color into a required course in Western culture. UCAR also hopes to increase diversity in the University's curriculum, and a special committee will be proposing changes to the LSA curricu- lum committee this fall. At the first general meeting tomorrow, UCAR will begin formulating an anti-racist bill of rights. Holliman urged students to attend. "Whatever minimal successes there are, and they are minimal, are specifically because of -stu- dents," he said. Assaults Continued from Page 1 that's not racism, I don't know what Is." Barbara Ransby, a member of the steering committee of the United Coalition Against Racism, refuted Bender's position. "We oppose any type of random violence. However, assaults upon whites in a situation where whites constitute 90 percent GE GE TIT! PIO The Personal Column MICHIGAN DAILY CLASSIFIED ADS of the population do not suggest that they are being targeted because of race. Therefore, we would not term these types of assaults as racist." Lunsford said the area around the Nectarine has been a trouble spot for police since 1984. He said from that time until the middle of the summer in 1987, most of the violence in the area was related to "crimes of opportunity," including shootings, stabbings and one homicide. He said most of the crime involved one suspect and one victim. But since the mid-summer of 1987, groups of local youths, from Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, have begun "using their numbers to intimidate" people in the area, Lunsford said. Police Notes Theft Thieves reportedly stole speakers from two campus-area homes in the last few days, Ann Arbor police said. Sgt. Jan Suomala said speakers valued at $800 were stolen from a home in the 700 block of South State Street Monday. On Sunday, a $300 set of speakers was reported stolen from a residence in thel1000 block of East University Avenue. - Nathan Smith IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Jury decides Brawley fabricated rape story NEW YORK - A special state grand jury decided not to indict anyone after finding overwhelming evidence that 16-year-old Tawana Brawley of Wappingers Falls lied and helped create the conditions in which she was found wrapped in a garbage bag and smeared with excrement, The New York Times reported yesterday. The investigation of an alleged rape and abduction had led to repeated charges of racial discrimination and several protest demonstrations. The Black teen-ager claimed she had been kidnapped by a gang of white men on Nov. 24 and subjected to four days of sexual abuse. But the grand jury, in Poughkeepsie, concluded after more than 100 witnesses and a variety of evidence that she had chosen not to return home and hid for four days, said the Times. Official: Nidal seems to be resuming terrorism WASHINGTON - Abu Nidal, after lying low in 1987, appears to be resuming his terrorist campaign with support from Libya, the top U.S. counterterrorism official said yesterday. L. Paul Bremer, ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism, also said that the number of terrorist incidents appears to be headed for a record level of 1,000 this year, although the number of Americans killed in such attacks has fallen. Good news in the battle against terrorism is increased cooperation among the United States and its allies. "We estimate at least several hundred incidents have been stopped by steps that we and our allies have taken over the last three years... maybe as many as 300... some major and some not," Bremer said. He declined to., give specifics. Candidates pledge plans DETROIT - LLoyd Bentsen told the Economic Club of Detroit yesterday that he and Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis would work hard for a strong trade policy to boost the state's automotive industry. The democratic duo proposes to do this by easing trade barriers and improving the international market for Michigan's producers of semiconductors and robotics. . George Bush outlined a plan yesterday that would allow Americans to save up to $1000 a year in accounts of five years or more - with federal income tax deferred. When withdrawn, the accumulated interest would be taxed at the saver's income tax rate then in effect. Bush officials estimated the program would benefit 8 million Americans, at a cost to the Treasury of about $70 million in 1989 and $550 million by 1993. Contra questions refuted MIAMI - Two long-awaited indictments accusing a private network of illegally supplying mercenaries and arms to the Contras steered clear of thorny questions about the group's links to the Reagan administration on drug trafficking. Thirteen men are accused of having violated the U.S. Neutrality Act by mounting an illegal campaign to help the Contras overthrow the' Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The latest development in the case is the government's response, filed ' Sept. 16, to defend contentions that the Neutrality Act does not apply because the United States was effectively at war with Nicaragua. 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