Just passed eight... The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 24, 1988 - Page 3 'U" Press club talks politics BY DAN GODSTON The United States has been eroding for the past several decades because it places its em- phasis on money rather than on working to- gether, said former Michigan Governor George Romney, who was the keynote speaker at Friday's University Press Club conference. The all-day conference at the Michigan League featured panels about journalism and the presentation of "Excellence in Journalism" awards to six state newspapers, two television stations, and two college newspapers. Within the last several decades, "there has been a tremendous erosion in the power of the people," Romney said. This erosion, he maintained, has taken place governmentally, economically, and socially. His conviction that the United States must gain strength through the "power of the peo- ple" lies intrinsically with volunteer organ- izations. The emphasis on volunteering is as "weak as dishwater" in some areas, he said. While working under President Richard Nixon in 1968, Romney persuaded the presi- dent to look at volunteer organizations in ghettos, as well as organizing the first United Way drive. After his speech, Romney answered ques- tions regarding his speech, opinions on gov- ernmental issues, and opinions about pres- idential candidates George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Panels held in the morning and afternoon, which featured journalists and politicians from across the state, addressed maintaining morale in the newsroom, "Chasing the Copyediting Blues," and covering politics. A "slide show of horrors," that is, a slide show of bad news- paper articles, was also shown to give ideas on what type of articles to avoid. Then the University Press Club presented Between the traditional "Go Blue!" chants, Michigan cheerleaders entertain with acrobatics. This member soars over nine teammates at Saturday's Homecoming game against Indiana. Cheerleaders cure boredom Romney ...speaks at Press Club its Excellence in Journalism awards, naming The Detroit News the best daily newspaper in the state with a circulation over 50,000. Five other newspapers were given awards in differ- ent size categories. WDIV-TV Channel 4 Detroit was honored as the best television station in the Detroit area. The Student Movement, the newspaper from Andrew University, was named best pa- per in the university division. The Collegiate, the newspaper from the Grand Rapids Junior College, received honors in the college cate- gory. BY NICOLE SHAW Although they probably wouldn't :want to admit it, some people go to 'the football games just to watch the :cheerleaders. With 80-year traditions such as "bowling," "card spells," "flips off the wall," "circle back tucks," "body pitches," and "pyramids," the co-ed cheerleading team often saves fans from boredom when the games cease to excite. "They are so spirited, and you can tell they're enjoying what they're do- ing. They are a lot of fun to watch," said Lisa DiPonio, a first-year Interflex student. The team had been all-male for 80 years, explained co-captain David Ka- plan, a business school senior. Until last year, it was the only male squad in the country, but the male squad merged with the female cheerleaders after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a protest. Now, ten men and ten women perform together during the games, as well as at pep rallies and alumni func- tions. In preparation for the season, the team goes to National Cheerleading Camp for one week each summer, and they return to Ann Arbor two weeks early to start training. During the year, ~the squad practices three times a week. The squad combines both gymnas- tics and cheerleading in the group stunts, but each member works toward mastering an individual acrobatic stunt. A typical practice consists of warming up, conditioning, tumbling, practicing formations, and "lifts," in which team members lift each other into the air, vaguely resembling a bunch of Mexican jumping beans. Ideas for the team's stunts come mainly from brainstorming and varia- tions on old tricks. This weekend, the cheerleaders were joined by alumni cheerleaders whore- turned for Homecoming. "I thought it was great that the alums and the pre- sent team had so much fun working together," said LSA first-year student Susi Gardner. The most important part of the Michigan Football Cheerleaders, members said, is the team's sense of camaraderie. The cheerleading team also makes an effort to interact with cheerleading teams from other schools during the games. Team members say this en- ables them to practice and learn stunts from other squads, as well as to ease tensions between the two schools. Detroit Job Fair targets minorities in journalism BY THERESE PADUA After failing to find a job with an advertising agency in the seven months after graduation, Michelle Banks thought she'd better branch out into other areas of the media. So last weekend, the recent communica- tions graduate took her resum6 and portfolio to interview with a newspaper company at the Minorities in Newspapers Job Conference in Detroit. "Before, I stuck to advertising agencies, but I saw the ad (for the conference) and decided to try for a job in advertising sales at a paper," she said. Banks was just one of 250 job hunters who met with recruiters from 30 different news or- ganizations at the conference, which ran Thursday to Saturday. The conference was one of 13 annual job fairs around the country that are part of an Af- firmative Action effort to increase the low number of minority professionals in the news business, according to Mireille Gates of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which sponsors the conferences. Currently, only seven percent of all media jobs are held by minorities, Gates said. Banks said she found the conference helped her circulate her resum6 with people who knew of immediate openings or might know of future ones. "You never know when something might pop up," she said, adding that meeting stu- dents who knew of other jobs was also help- ful. "I met a guy who ran into someone who worked for an ad agency that likes to hire University students. I would have never gotten (the agency's) address or name if I hadn't gone to the conference," she said. Banks said she interviewed with Detroit papers for advertising positions, but found that the Free Press and the News were not hiring until a Joint Operating Agreement cur- rently being worked out goes into effect: The agreement would allow the financially ailing papers to continue publication by com- bining their business operations while main- taining separate news and editorial staffs. "After the JOA, they'll start hiring again, and I'll have that to look forward to," she said. THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speakers "From Lancelot to Giraffe: Patterns of Change" - Prof. Carl Gans, Rackham Amphitheatre, 8 pm. Final part to a three-part series, recep- to follow in Rackham Assembly 'Hall. Free admission. "4Synthesis and Solution Prop- ertiessof Substituted Oligo-L- Prolines; An Investigation of Polyproline Mutarotation" - Robert Bloodworth, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program, 1300 Chem. Bldg., 3 pm. "The International Power of Bilingualism" - Prof. Rafael Diaz, University of New Mexico and Visiting Prof. King-Chavez-Parks, 3050 Frieze Bldg., 12 noon. "Prosodically-Constrained Syntax" - Sharon Inkelas, Stanford University and Draga Zec, Linguis- tics, 3050 Frieze Bldg., 4 pm. "Punishing the Poor: U.S. Policy in Indochina" - Ravi Khanna and Rev. Barbara Fuller, Pen- delton Rm., Michigan Union, 7:30 pm. Sponsored by World Hunger Ed- ucation-Action Committee. "Unearthing Iwo Jima" - Spon- sored by Asian Studies Student Asso- ciation, Commons Room, Lane Hall, 5:30 pm. Open to the public. "Integrated Pest Management: What is it Really?" - Vivienne Armentrout, Leslie Science Center, 1831 Traver, 7:30 pm. "Predation Risk and the For- aging Behavior of Competing Stream Insects" - S. Kohler, 1046 Dana, 4-5 pm. Coffee and cook- ies served at 3:30-4 pm. Meetings World Hunger Education-Ac- tion Committee - 4202 Michigar Union, 6 pm. Asian American Association - Guest Speaker: Ron Aramaki, MSS, Trotter House, 7 pm. U of M Taekwondo Club - 2275 CCRB, 6:30-8:15 pm. U of M Archery Club - Coli- seum, 7-10 pm. For more info call 7644-4084, or send message to Archery @- UB. Union of Students for Israel - Michigan League, Rm. D, 7:30 pm. Topics for discussion are Israel elec- tions and government system, and the Volunteers for Israel program. Asian Studies Student Associ- ation - Lane Hall, Rm. 49 (basement), 5 pm. Furthermore Employer Presentation - Re- cruit USA, Michigan Union, Welker Rm., 3-7 pm; Strategic Planning As- sociates, Michigan Union, Kuenzal Rm., 7:30-9:30 pm. Sponsored by the Career Planning and Placement Center. Choosing Your Major - Career Planning and Placement Center, 4:10- 5 pm. Women for Guatemala - Orga- nization Meeting, Guild House, 802 Monroe Street, 4 pm. The Guild House Writers Se- ries - Kevin Walker and Chris Brockman reading from their works, Guild House, 802 Monroe St., 8 pm. Connections between Racism and Sexism - A panel discussion covering the Legal System, Racism in the Women's Movement, and connec- Two in anti-Nazi protest to perform community service BY DAVID SCHWARTZ A University student and a former student were each sentenced to 72 hours of community service last week for disturbing the peace at an anti-Nazi protest in March, during which several protesters hurled rocks at Nazi demonstrators. Former University student Paul Lefrak, an Ann Arbor resident, entered a plea of no contest Thursday to a charge of disturbing the peace. Both he and LSA junior Rashid Taher, who pleaded no contest to the same charge Sept. 29, were sentenced by 15th District Court Judge George Alexander. Under a plea-bargain agreement reached before appear- ing in court, Lefrak and Taher entered their pleas with the stipulation that an additional charge of assault and battery would be dropped. Both Lefrak and Taher have maintained their inno- cence throughout their trials. Their attorney, Detroit lawyer Eileen Scheff, said, "They pled no contest because of the time and cost involved in a trial." "We were reluctant to (give in) without fighting, but there was an absence of a large mobilization" on our be- half, Lefrak said, although he added, "I think there was a lot of passive support." Scheff said Taher and Lefrak should not even have been tried for their participation in the protest. "The real acts of violence at the demonstration weren't protesters throwing rocks," but the Nazis espousing their views, she said. "I think the question is how to stop a movement that is based on genocide from growing," Lefrak said, defend- ing his participation in the demonstration. Lefrak said of his sentence, "They couldn't get away with an especially severe sentence because that would make them look bad." Soviet reform BY JEFF HASS The much-touted reforms in the Soviet Union instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have led to some increase in the emigration of Soviet Jews, but have not eliminated the suffering of the refuseniks who remain in the country, speakers at a sympo- sium on Soviet Jewry said last night. Three panelists spoke to a crowd of 44 gathered in the Henderson Room in the Michigan League for over two hours, at a program sponsored by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Barbara Gaffin, congressional liaison for the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, spoke about efforts that can and are being made by her organization to alleviate the plight of Soviet Jewry through lobbying Congress. She said members of Congress and officials in the State Department are very re- sponsive to this issue, and she views the mo- bilization of the American Jewish community as her group's greatest challenge. "Both [presidential] candidates have flaw- less records on Soviet Jews," said Gaffin, re- ferring to Vice President George Bush and Gov. Michael Dukakis. helps emigres Refuseniks are Soviet Jews who have ap- plied for permission to emigrate from the So- viet Union but have been refused by the So- viet government. Psychology Prof. Howard Shevrin ex- plained that many refuseniks also suffer from stress because of the discrimination and ha- rassment they endure. "The Soviet government by its actions was isolating a large group of people (refuseniks). from their traditional social supports,"' Shevrin said. The stress and social isolation inflicted upon refuseniks by the Soviets could lead to a doubling of their mortality rate, he said. Dan Grossman, a representative from the Soviet desk of the State Department who has served in the Soviet Union, said Jewish emi- gration has increased under Gorbachev, but has not come close to releasing all who wish to go. Now is an opportune time for Americans to press for improved treatment of Soviet Jews because of the great, fundamental re- forms the country is undergoing as a whole under Gorbachev, Grossman said. The RAND Graduate School (RGS) Invites applications for its doctoral degree program in policy analysis. Deadline for submitting appli- cations for 1989-1990 is February 1, 1989. RGS, which is fully accredited by the Western Associa- tion of Schools and Colleges, is an integral part of The RAND Corporation. Its curriculum consists of multidisciplinary course work and policy workshops, combined with on-the-job training (OJT), leading to the dissertation and award of the Ph.D. in Policy Analysis. Sub-fields of specialization include health policy, national security policy and Soviet studies. Students typically receive OJT support enivalent to doctoral fellowshinS Fellowshins are also availhle for innlieants with snecia1 interests i