4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 6, 1988 Group aids rain BY RACHELE ROSI Forty-three members of the Penan Tribe of Borneo are now in jail because they tried to block logging machines from deforesting an area of the Sarawak tropical rainforest. The tribe has hunted and gathered in this rainforest for centuries, if not longer. A newsletter published by the School of Natural Resources' Rainforest Action Movement said the tribe was "charged according to the Malaysian government's crackdown on dissidents under the Internal Security Act. If found guilty... they face up to two years in jail and fines." While this episode in Malaysia is only one concern of the -Rainforest Action Movement (RAM), it is of its prime interest for National Rainforest Awareness Week, which begins Sunday. RAM was conceived in September, 1987 in a research paper by Mare Cromwell, an Natural Resources graduate student. She was looking for an interesting topic to write about - not realizing her paper would lead to letter-writing, petitioning, and finally to a full-fledged organization. The goal of the group is to inform people about the devastation of the world's rainforests as well as to "challenge people to educate themselves to be responsible consumers," said Bill Foederer, a Natural Resources graduate student. Rainforests cover only seven percent of the globe but are home to 50 percent of the world's one-million-plus plants and animal species. They also have a tremendous role in the global carbon and oxygen cycles, which means their destruction contributes to global warming (the Greenhouse effect) and is believed to be one of the causes of dramatic change in the earth's weather patterns. "I believe there is a direct correlation between the drought in the U.S. this year and the destruction of the rainforests," Foederer said. If rainforest destruction continues at the current rate of 100 acres per minute, there will be forests no rainforests by the year 2000. "We want to provide reasonable solutions and move away from saying 'don't eat fast food' but rather 'don't eat McDonalds or Burger King,"' he added. Both fast food chains buy beef from South and Central America where cattle graze on deforested rainforest land. The group has involved local high school teachers and science clubs, local environmental groups, the Latin American Solidarity Committee and School of Natural Resources- sponsored speakers in its outreach programs. Over 50 people attended RAM's first working meeting last week, contributing ideas for this year's National Rainforest Week. In addition, RAM has a mailing list in excess of 400 people. "It's great that people of all ages are getting involved; students, grad students and professors," said RAM member, Robin Cohen, an Natural Resources sophomore. "There were so many people at Festifall asking questions," she continued. Prof:P U' strays from education BY KELLY GAFFORD Non-academic programs such as the University Hospital and the intercollegiate sports program should only be of marginal concern to the University and its members, Harris McClamroch, professor of Computer Information and Control Engineering said yesterday. In a round table discussion at the Alumni Center, McClamroch, former chair of the faculty's Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, said the University has been straying from its central educational mission. SACUA is the faculty's governing body which represents the faculty's concerns to the administration. McClamroch, who has been a faculty member at the University for nearly 20 years, expressed concern about the increasing size of non-aca- demic areas in the University to a group of about 12 people. Because some events get more media attention than others, the Uni- versity is increasingly thought of by its football team, and not its schol- arly achievements, he said. "It's important to recognize that the central mission (which is to edu- cate) is becoming a smaller part of the University." McClamroch pointed out that less than 50 percent of the University budget is actually used for instruc- 'It's important to recognize that the central mission (which is to educate) is be- coming a smaller part of the University. - Harris McClamroch, Engineering Professor tional purposes. A faculty member who preferred to remain anonymous attributed this problem to the pressures on all uni- versities to make money. "The per- ception (of education) has changed. Now people are under pressure to make money and little discussion is ever used for quality and care. It seems that higher education, is no longer held in the highest esteem." Melvin Williams, another partici- pant in yesterday's discussion said, "government and corporate heads of corporations have intruded on the mission of the University, (and be- cause of this) we have lost control of our central mission." McClamroch concluded by saying that faculty members should do all that they can to make sure that education remains the central part of this University. DAVID LUBLINER/Doily King-Chavez-Parks scholar Charlotte Heth finished her visit to the University yesterday by meeting with minority stu- dents to discuss issues concerning Native Americans. IN BREF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Mich. AIDS cases top 800; legislation moves slowly LANSING - The number of AIDS cases in Michigan as of Sept. 12 has reached 802, with one out of every 1,000 women giving birth carry- ing the incurable virus, but state officials say legislation addressing the problem has moved slowly because of its complexity. Because of the severity of the disease, AIDS bills have been a favorite among state legislators, who have introduced more than 20 measures ad- dressing the disease during this session. The House Public Health Committee's Subcommittee on AIDS is scheduled to meet Friday to discuss three bills. Proposals include permit- ting the state to contact AIDS victims and request a voluntary personal interview, prohibiting physicians from testing individuals for AIDS without their consent, and allowing local health officials to require an in- fected individual to cooperate in order to prevent the spread of the disease. Protests shake Yugoslavia BELEGRADE, Yugoslavia - Communist Party chief Stipe Suvar called for a shake-up in the ruling Politburo and the policy-setting Central Committee after weeks of ethnic and economic protests, state-run media said yesterday. About 5000 workers marched on Parliament yesterday for the second straight day. Workers have stepped up strikes and demonstrations over the communist government's failure to reduce 217 percent inflation and 15 percent unemployment. Radio Belgrade said 140,000 Serbs attended two rallies in central Ser- bia to push demands for greater Serbian control over the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina, where ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs. Suvar said that the Central Committee probably will vote on person- nel changes in the Politburo October 17. As the top body of Yugoslavia's only political party, the Politburo is the most powerful institution in the country. It has 23 members, but two resigned last week under mounting criticism. Reagan denies CIA order WASHINGTON - The White House denied yesterday that intelli- gence authorizations signed by President Reagan in the mid-1980's gave C.I.A. agents latitude to use assassinations in the fight against terrorism. Reagan said he was "quite upset" about a published report saying there had been such authorizations and said his 1981 executive order prohibiting assassinations "continues until this day." White House Spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater acknowledged that lan- guage in two intelligence findings in 1984 and 1985 subsequently was recinded by the National Security Council, though he would not say why. Reagan's spokesperson took strong exception to a Washington Post report yesterday which said the phrasing in the earlier documents amounted to a "license to kill" for intelligence agents. Fitzwater suggested that the Post story was an attempt to embarrass the administration during the election campaign. Boy cleared in shooting DETROIT - A 3-year-old boy who shot and killed his father when the man beat his mother said afterwards he would have done it again. "I killed him," the boy reportedly said. "Now he's dead. If he would have hit my mother, I would have shot him again." Prosecutors said Tuesday they won't take any legal measures against the child, who has not been identified, because he couldn't have acted in- tentionally. "We feel that this is an act a 3-year-old cannot contemplate," said Ron Schigur, head of the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office juvenile division. "I mean, he can't form any kind of intent." The boy's mother, who spoke Tuesday on the condition that neither she nor her son be identified, said "It was an accident; it just happened." The boy, now 4, is apparently the youngest person in Detroit ever to shoot someone fatally. EXTRAS Property tax return means small change to tool renter. GEORGETOWN, Colo. (AP) - When Kenny Walters used 3,000 $1. bills to pay the county taxes on his tool-rental business, he thought his feelings were clear and the matter was closed. But Clear Creek County Treasurer Geraldine Thompson may haves upstaged Walters. She returned his change of $110 mostly in nickels, dimes, and pennies. "I guess he was just trying to make a statement," said Thompson. "I just gave him all the change I could dish out. I mean, turnabout is fair play." Walters said he enjoyed Thompson's response to his "silent protest." He said he was trying to make a point when he paid his $2,890 in taxes# in person with an old gunpowder crate full of $1 bills. "I don't mind paying my property taxes," said Walters. "But; sometimes they (county officials) have a tendency not to realize how much money they're taking from people." C eMt,6,t4,a n a t T he Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: January through April - $15 in Ann Arbor, $22 outside the city. 1988 spring, summer, and fall term rates not.yet available. 'The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the National Student News Service. 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In the movement, which began in the 1840s, descendents of the first white immigrants from England - who referred to themselves as "Native Americans" - sought to restrict immigration and the rights of new Americans because they feared the growing influence of German and Irish "foreigners." "It's such a political term," she said. "Older people are not used to it." She says she is "American In- dian." Heth earned her doctorate in eth- nomusicology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1973. After being hired there to teach music full-time shortly after, she developed and taught by herself five courses on Native American music, almost dou- bling the number of UCLA's Native American classes. To do so, she traveled to reservations accumulating field records, slides and musical recordings, a portion of which she had a chance to show University au- diences during her week-long visit. Since then, she has served as di- rector of the UCLA program, which now offers around 80 courses. When a college offers a program of study, even a cluster of courses, in Native American heritage, the bene- fits to its Native American students are not merely academic, Heth noted. Combined with active Native American student organizations and counselors who can act as role mod- els, these classes have strengthening, unifying effects on the Native Amer- ican campus population, she ex- plained. The University currently has no program in Native American'Studies. "Any intellectual area worth studying" should be studied, Heth said, regardless of excuses of faculty shortages or - in the specific case of Native American studies - the small number of students of that minority at the University. "It should not be driven by how many members of that minority are on campus," she said. "If you don't have any Indian faculty, get some enlightened non-Indian faculty to teach the courses," she said. i INTRAMURAL SOCCER OFFICIALS NEEDED EARN $4.60 PER HOUR. YOU SET YOUR OWN SCHEDULE! 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