Foreign women find support BY ANNA SCHLOSSBERG Several women of different races sit around a table, engaging in ani- mated discussion. At a kitchenette nearby, a white male is cooking din- ner for them. Welcome to the second meeting of the International Women's Support Group, which meets each Tuesday in the Ecumenical Campus Center on Church Street. The group provides an informal forum for female students '.ust by talking to these, women, I've learned a lot. N They've come so far from N home, and they see a better future for themselves.We Ansal can share our feelings and intern feel that there's a better suppor future for all of us.' sity," s . studeni -Anjali Pathak, who fo University graduate student student. know' The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 12, 1988 - Page3 Anti-racism center starts film series -, BY PAM NADASEN The Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Education last night kicked-off a five-week film series which focuses on the struggle for equality and forms of racism encountered by people of color. The United Coalition Against Racism initiated the Baker-Mandela Center which has been serving the community since last spring and will officially open Monday. Last night, the project opened with a film, From Berkeley to Soweto, and a discussion about anti- apartheid activists around the globe. The Free South Africa Coordinating Committee co-spon- sored the film and led the discussion in cormemoration of International Day in Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, which was yes- terday. "The center is designed primarily to raise political awareness of issues concerning racism. UCAR initiated this project to try and bridge the gap between scholarship and activism," said Tracyc Matthews, full-time co- ordinator of the Baker-Mandela Cen- ter. "We are trying to create a place where student and community ac- tivists can come together and com- bine theory and practice," she said. The center was inspired by aid named after Ella Baker and NelsoA Mandela, who have been prominent in the struggle against racism. Bake was an organizer in the 1960s int both the Southern Christian Leader- ship Conference and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commit. tee. I Mandela is a leader in the libera- tion struggle in South Africa, and has been imprisoned for the past 26 years because of his challenge to the apartheid government. Nikita Buckhoy, organizer of the film series and FSACC member" said, "It's important that we make connections between racism interna' tionally and racism here. The joint sponsorship of the film is one wad that we're trying to make those con- nections." Education, Buckhoy said, is 4 tool that activists need to use. "W are here to serve the community, an4 specifically people of color in this community." i P Reena Shait, Jane Bai, and David Olo discuss womens issues ALEXANDRA BREZ/Dily Patar, Reen'Ssriti'i last night at an national women's support group meeting. from different countries to discuss women's issues. Currently there are about 10 members who gather and talk about their problems as international women students. "We felt that international women students were not getting enough interna and it h to talk Rev Ecumei get a istries council church istries t from others at the Univer- food and for books. aid Anjali Pathak, a graduate "Each week we will read a chapter t in the history department from a book on women's issues and )unded the group. "American discuss it," Pathak said. Currently, is have problems too, but they the group is reading Sisterhood is where to go for help. Often, Powerful: An Anthology of Writings tional students don't know,from the Women's Liberation helps for them to have people Movement.. to." Harper also helps the group each . Nile Harper, director of the week by cooking dinner for them. nical Center, helped the group "Food is love, a symbol of grant from the United Min- hospitality, and it's important for us in Higher Education, a state to share a meal together," Harper l which collects money from said. "I do the cooking because it's es to donate to campus min- important for women to see a man statewide. The grant pays for doing things that they may never have seen a man do before." "A lot of these women have good ideas, but they don't have the chance to present them to others," Pathak explained. "American students don't seem willing to understand our expe- riences or share theirs." "When I came here, I was sent to live in Baits, and I felt very isolated," Lourdes Sanchez, a graduate student in the School of Natural Resources said. "Just by talking to these women, I've learned a lot. They've come so far from home, and they see a better future for themselves," Pathak con- cluded. The films will be shown Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in Auditorium 4. every MLR Speaker tackles minority issues Senate rejects Said hike to poor WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate headed towards passage yesterday of a package of miscellaneous tax provisions after soundly rejecting an effort to liberalize a tax benefit targeted for low-income working families with children. On an 85-2 vote, the Senate defeated an amendment by Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., that would have raised the earned-income credit by about $1.6 billion, increasing the maximum credit from $875 to $978. The credit goes to low-income working families with children. "The disparity between rich and poor is now wider than in any years since the (Census) Bureau began col- lecting these data in 1974," Bradley said. Bradley's amendment would have deleted several popular benefits in the bill, including extension of the credit for business research and of a benefit for workers who receive employer-financed education or legal ser- vice aid. The bill would clear up errors and ambiguities in the 1986 tax overhaul; relieve farms and some other busi- nesses from paying the federal tax on diesel used for off-road purposes; extend several provisions and raise taxes by $2.7 billion over three years to pay for the benefits. Senate passage would send the bill to the House, which has passed a similar but larger version that would raise taxes by $7.5 billion over three years. BY JONATHAN SCOTT University doctorate candidate Susan Andrane yesterday tackled a multi-faceted topic that she herself introduced as an "almost impossible" study to take on. Her talk, "The Oppression of Women of Color," given last night before an informal audience of 25 people at the Guild House, dealt with specific parts of a much larger theme. Because "women of color" en- compasses a great many women all over the world, opened Andrane, a study which deals with general themes such as men's oppression of women, or the wealthy's oppression of the poor would simply "reduce" the broad-based problem into "two binaries of oppression." . She then discussed specific con- temporary issues. Women of color's reproductive rights, she argued, is a "problematic issue" that needs immediate attention, especially, she said, in light of the up-coming vote to ban or continue medicaid abor- tions. Some women of color, explained Andrane, tend to think of birth con- trol as "genocidal." The reason birth control became popular in America, she noted, was because President Franklin Roosevelt, for example, had called declining white birth rates coupled with an increasing minority population "racial suicide." Birth control then, Andrane said, was initiated by the government in See Minority, Page 5 THE LIST Peacock displays poetic flair at talk What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speakers Tropical Rainforests - Good Signs/Bad Signs - Marie Cromwell talks about South American Rainforests. 1520 Dana Building, noon. The Lorax - Oncelers in the Rainforest? - East Quad, 7:30 pm; Alice Lloyd, 9 pm. "How is it with the Pales- tinians" - Rev. Robert Hauerb. Ecumenical Campus Center, 7:30 pm. Spectral Decomposition Theorem for Generalized Domains of Attractions - Mark Meerschaert. 451 Mason, 4 pm. Libertarianism - The Third Party Option - Dick Jacobs, Libertarian candidate for Senate will speak. 2231 Angell Hall, 7:30 pm. New Developments in AIDS research - a lecture by Jill Joseph, part one of a continuing lecture series. 138 Hutchins Hall, 4 pm. Free admission. CSE Theory Seminar - Speaker to be announced.1301 EECS, 3:30 pm. Mechanisms and Synthetic Applications of Mn(III) Ox- idation Reactions - Organic Chemistry Seminar, Sang Ho Koo. 1300 Chemistry Building. 4 pm.~ Post-Kadar Hungary from the Viewpoint of a Legal. Historian - Dr. Laszlo Peter,- Lane Hall Commons Room, noon. Conserving 3obal Plant Diversity - Dr. David Given. 1040 Dana Building, 8 pm. Coffee, tea, and cookies at 7:30 pm. Meetings Latin American Solidarity Committee - Topic: Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. 2435 Mason Hall, 8 pm. B'nai B'rith Hillel, Mitzvah Project - Bi-weekly meeting, Wolverine Room. Michigan campus. Anderson Rooms A & B, Michigan Union, 730 pm. Greeks for Peace - Hotspot and Dominick's at 8 pm. Film Series Discussion - "Legacy of a Dream" and "Fighting Back". 447 Mason Hall, 4-6 pm. Stilyagi Air Corps/Science Fiction Club - Michigan League, 8:15 pm. Outing Club - Planning Point Pelee camping trip in Canada. 2413 Mason Hall, 6 pm. Women in Communications, Inc. - 2050 Frieze Building, 4:10 pm. Study AbroadWorkshop - International Center, 4 pm. Furthermore U-M Taekwondo Club - 2275 CCRB, 6:30-8:15 pm. Star Trax - Record your own vocals over taped music - free! At Mountain Jack's, Stadium and Maple. 8:30 pm - 12:30 am. Beans and Rice - Central American food and talk (in English and Spanish), $2 charge, Guild House, 802 Monroe, 6 pm. Holden Village Vespers - University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, 9 pm. Invain - Back by popular de- mand. The Holy Cows open. At The Beat, Ann Arbor's only rock- n-roll night club. 215 N. Main. 10:30 pm. Pre-Interviews - United Tele- phone of Florida, 1303 EECS, 5:15-7:15 pm; American Mgmt Systems, 1311 EECS, 6-8 pm. Organ Conference - Organ recital by Heinz Lohmann, Hill Auditorium, 11:30 am.; Lecture- recital by Janette Fishell, 3:30 pm; Recital by Almut Rbssler, 8 pm. Resume Writing Lecture - 1046 Dana Building, 4:10-5 pm. Job Search Lecture - Career Planning & Placement, 3200 SAB, 6:10-&:30 pm. Employer Presentation - The BY MARK KOLAR Visiting New York poet Molly Peacock entertained a spellbound crowd as she read from several of her works in the East Conference room of Rackham yesterday evening. Peacock, a New York State Uni- versity graduate, spoke clearly and honestly as she discussed the influ- ence of her life on her works, citing her teaching in a Quaker school as particularly influential in her devel- opment as an artist. She also used piercing eye contact effectively in expressing her emotions as she read. The works Peacock read displayed an extensive variety of subject mat- ter. They came from her 1984 Raw Heaven and soon to be released Take Heart collections. Peacock's poems such as "Among Tall Buildings," with its nuclear war message; "The Sky Inside," about the emotional growth of children in institutions; and "Say You Love Me," concerning an aborted act of child molestation, came across with exceptional power and meaning. "The Surge" also provided thought-provoking sexual imagery through its use of obscene terminol- ogy, while championing an uplifting message of human worth. Peacock stressed the value of hu- manity and growth at other times as well. "I was a good girl for most of my life... and there's still a lot of that in me," she said. But eventually, being good involves "following the rules" so the world stays in order, she con- tinued, "Growth is so contrary to that." After the reading, Kevin Walker, an MFA poetry student said,"You can really tell her .love of literature and her poetic vision shapes the way she experiences her life." Peacock's visit was a part of the Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by the English department. WEEKEND MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily 763-0379 Uof M CYCLING CLUB + Men's/Women's Racing Teams + Recreational Rides Call 761-7226 HEALTH & FITNESS -.-.- """ -- s ... WHAT'S ( HAPPENING RECREATIONAL SPORTS *BIKE REPAIR CLINIC II: BRAKE AND DERAILLEUR ADJUSTMENT AND INSTALLATION Wednesday, October 12 7pm - 8:30pm North Campus Recreation Building $6.00 Clinic Fee Call 764-3967 for more information JUST A SHORT WALK FROM CENTRAL CAMPUS t :s t " -_ ;, ', .: -.., :;_ it! yoga, If~ia i iJ f. Please join us for lively discussion, music, and a sampling of Vedic cuisine. Every Thursday, September - December 1988 6:30-8:15 2439 Mason Hall Sponsored by the Detroit chapter of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. ffFO R U M Celeb ration Of Jewish Arts Yoram Boker Mime Troupe Saturday, October 22 - 8:00pm I I ' i