The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 2, 1988-- Page 3 Prof. says SSC site now top BY JONATHAN SCOTT of light. University Physics Prof. Gordon Kane said last night that Michigan is Offic now the "highest ranked site" for the over the $4.4 billion Superconducting Super and gen Collider. rounding "unstabl radioact The Michigan site has emerged of the S from 25 states that have been com- peting for the Department of En- Last ergy's formal approval and accompa- leased a nying package of federal funds. Ac- health ri cording to DOE officials, their final be insig selection will made before the end of fragmen the month. for a fev are not d Kane has been a strong supportera of the proposed SSC to be located at Kane Stockbridge - between Lansing and state pro Ann Arbor - and he served as a eral slide contributor in the project's concep- nical a tual design. tographs will pro The high-tech project, designed to oval trac study the nature of matter and energy, are the l would send sub-atomic particles whirling around a 53-mile under- "The ground oval track at nearly the speed in this pr ranked ials have expressed concern prospect of radiation leakage eral health risks to the sur- g community because of the e protons" that fragment into ive material during operation SC. week a state committee re- report indicating that the sks to the community would gnificant. The radioactive ts, the report said, only last w billionths of a second and angerous. 's presentation included a motional videotape and sev- es of the project's more tech- spects. He showed pho- of the huge magnets that pel the protons around the ck. According to Kane, they argest in the world. frontier technology involved oject is extraodinary," Kane said. He noted that researchers will come from all over the world to use the facilities, enabling the University community to ultimately benefit. "The Stockbridge community srongly supports this project," Kane insisted. He said more than 3,000 jobs will be created. The promotional tape claimed that the inhabitants around the proposed site area "cannot lose" if the SSC comes to Michigan. An opposition group formed two months ago, Citizens Concerned About the SSC, disagreed with Kape and the SSC advocates, saying that the project is simply "state-subsi- dized private profit." The group claims that SSC operation costs will be enormous and that state taxpayers will be subsidiz- ing the research and development of DOE projects including nuclear-re- search. Kane said that the SSC would use the equivalent amount of energy it takes to run the city of Ann Arbor. ROBIN LOZNAK/Doily State Senator Lana Pollack, now campaigning for Congress, addresses a crowd at the Michigan Union Ballroom yesterday at a Democratic Party rally. Levin urges Dems to set ,priorities for elections BY MICHAEL LUSTIG In next Tuesday's elections, voters will have to choose between another ,arms race or increased support for ed- ucation and the environment, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin said yesterday. During the first presidential debate Republican presidential candidate George Bush said deploying the space-based Strategic Defense Initia- tive program would be his top prior- ity. By doing this, Levin said, Bush made a trillion-dollar commitment. Levin then tried to illustrate how much a trillion dollars could buy. It ,could pay for 10 years of federal edu- cation funding, the cleanup of all 1,200 toxic waste sites on the Envi- ronmental Protection Agency's list of sites needing care, 10 years of fed- eral funds for a war on drugs, the care 'and cure of all the nation's heroin addicts, 10 years of funding for the Clean Water Act, a permanently or- biting space station, and a supercon- ducting supercollider, he said. "PLUS," Levin said, "it'll leave you with $400 billion in change.- Levin, who is not up for re-elec- tion, was speaking at a rally in the Union ballroom on behalf of Demo- '(U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell) always waits to stick his finger up and feel the political wind' before making up his mind. - State Sen. Lana Pollack cratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. Dukakis has the right pri- orities to be president, he told about 100 people cheering on the Demo- cratic candidates. Levin has known Dukakis for nearly 35 years; both attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School at the same time. State Sen. Lana Pollack, who is running for the Second Congres- sional District seat, also spoke to the crowd of supporters, predicting she will carry the student vote 3-1. POLLACK focused her speech on disposing nuclear waste, empha- SrIZIIg 11C1 (J)PUS1L1U11 LU a WZISLe dumping agreement among several states, including Michigan. The waste compact was designed by the federal government, and Michigan was designated as a dump site for nuclear wastes from six states. Pollack wants Michigan to pull out of the compact, and said it should be the government's responsibility to take care of nuclear wastes, not the state's. When Pollack asked the audience, "What's the contest? More of the same? Carl Pursell?" she was met with a rousing "No!" She also criticized Pursell as a follower. "He always waits to stick his finger up and feel the political wind" before making up his mind, Pollack said. SHE WAS greeted by loud chants of "Lana" when she said she would have the courage to stand up and lead in Congress. State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) also spoke in support of Pol- lack, hammering the podium while discussing Pollack's support of the environment, education, and national health care. While addressing health care, Bullard looked over at about a dozen student supporters of Bush and asked, "What kind of mindless position can all these Bush-Quayle kids be waving these signs about? I'd be ashamed if I were them." County candidates Kevin Mc- Cormick, running for county clerk, Jan Bendor, running for county trea- surer, and Terry O'Hagan, running for county prosecutor, also appeared on the stage. MSA fills Student Publications Board spots BY MIGUEL CRUZ Since May, two of the three stu- dent positions on the Board of Stu- dent Publications, which oversees the Michigan Daily, the Gargoyle, and the Ensian, have been vacant. Last Tuesday, the Michigan Stu- dent Assembly approved appoint- ments of two members of the Daily staff, LSA senior Ryan Tutak and graduate student Mark Weisbrot, to fill these openings. This marks the first time Student Publication Board nominees have also been current Daily staffers. According to Regental bylaw 13.11, student appointments are to be made by "an electoral commission consisting of an interviewing com- mittee of the Michigan Student As- sembly," as well as the remaining student members of the Board for Student Publications. Tutak did not apply for the posi- tion and was not present at the ap- pointment. In a letter to the Daily and MSA, he said,-"I do not accept the offer and I never did." But MSA President Mike Phillips said, "I asked Ryan, did he want to do it. He said yes." Weisbrot said he intends to remain on the Board, since he thinks that it is "important to have people on the Board who will oppose any adminis- tration attempt to censor the Daily." Susan Sherman, as of last week the only student on the Board, was not present when MSA decided to install the two students. But Phillips said, "She's been notified every time we bring the vote up. She gets a let- ter; she gets called." Sherman said she was not told the issue would be taken up at lIst Tuesday's meeting, but stressed tliat the problem is more with ambigui- ties in the bylaw. It does not define the procedures for appointment and does not address clearly who frqm MSA is to participate. "That bylaw can be interpreted very badly," she said, "but it doesn't seem that we're doing what it said we're supposed to do." LSA senior Kery Murakami, who had previously submitted an appli~a- tion, was appointed to replace Tutak by the entire assembly last night. Sherman said she objected to MSA's use of its role in choosing Board members as "a way of address- ing grievances with the Daily," but she did not object to Murakami's se- lection. MSA supports grape boycott THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today BY KELLY GAFFORD The Michigan Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution last night supporting the boycott of California grapes and denouncing University Food Services for pur- chasing the grapes. The boycott was started by Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers Union, in 1984. The goal of the boycott is to ban the five deadly poisons: Captan, Parathion, Phos- drin, Dinoseb, and Methly Bromide, which are used.on the grapes, said Pam Galpern, LSA junior and chair of the Peace and Justice Committee. Many of these croplands are sprayed with these deadly pesticides, which have been shown to cause cancer and serious birth defects, Galpern said. She added that the pesticides used on California table grapes are said to be the most dangerous pesticides in use today. Some of the pesticide residue left on these grapes cannot be washed off, and the effects on con- sumers are unknown. Galpern said the goal of the Peace and Justice Comrrmittee is to "get the University Food Services to stop buying California grapes." She added that MSA has been doing some "awareness raising" in the dorms. During the meeting; MSA also gave $600 to the Homeless Action Committee, in order for the Committee and other interested pd~o- plc to participate in a rally in Wash- ington D.C. on Nov. 8. Speakers "Socialist Realism and M-1 Friend Ivan Lapshin" - Prof. Herb Eagle, Lane Hall Commons Rm., 12 noon. Lecture will focus on the film by Alexei German. "Instantons and Geometric In- variant Theory" - Prof. Karen K. Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, 3201 Angell Hall, 4 pm. "Women, Technology, and De- velopment in West Africa" - Dr. Selina Adjebeng-Asem, CAAS Lounge, 4 pm. Sponsored by Center for Afro-American & African Studies. "A Novel 3, 4-Dibenzyloxyfu- ran Cycloaddition Approach Towards the Synthesis of Diol Epoxides of the Carcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocar- bons and Methyl Triacetyl- shikimate" - Dept of Chem Kee- Yong Jung, 1300 Chem Bldg., 4 pm. Meetings Outing Club - 2413 Mason Hall, 6 pm. Planning Cabin Camping Trip. Coalition for Democracy in Latin America - Michigan Union, Welker Rm., 8 pm. Roberto Frisan- cho, 668-0348 or 996-0953. Stilyagi Air Corps/Science Fiction Club - Michigan League, 8:15 pm. U of M Taekwondo Club - 2275 CCRB, 6:30-8:15 pm. International Student Affairs F Committee - International Center, 7:30 pm. Part of MSA. U of M Asian Student Coali- tion (UMASC) - 2439 Mason Hall, 7 pm. - Is Food Your Drug?/Support Group - Michigan League, Confer- ence Rm. 4, 6 pm. Confidential. Business Meeting - Basement of Furthermore Star Trax - Performs at Mountain Jacks, 8:30-12:30 pm. Your vocals may be recorded over 400 songs for free. Pre-Interviews - Boeing, 1013 Dow, 6-8 pm. English Peer Counseling - 4000A Michigan Union, 7-9 pm. Answer English related questions. University Lutheran Chapel - "Holden Village Vespers" , 9 pm. 1511 Washtenaw Ave. Study Abroad Workshop - In- ternational Center, 4-5 pm. Film/Discussion Series - "My Hands are the Tools of My Soul", Film shows range of Indian art. 447 Mason Hall, 4-6 pm. "Essence of the Spirit" - Opening of the Asian American Art Show, Michigan Union Art Lounge, 1st floor, all day. MBA and Graduate School Day - Michigan Union, 11 am-4 pm. Deciding Your Career Part I. (Fr/Soph) - Career Planning and Placement Center, 4:10-6 pm. "An Evening of Siddha Meditation" - Intro, program with guest speakers, First Congressional Church, 608 E. William, 7:30-9 pm. Beans and Rice Dinner - by Pi- lar Celayas (Proceeds to Santuary), Guild House, 6 pm. Men's Campus Club - Social for Gay & Bisexual male students, 9- 11 pm, E. Law Quad Cook Rm. Faculty Brown Bag Lunch - Guild House, 12 noon. Performances Jonathon Richman - At Alvin's, 5756 Cass, Detroit (WSU campus). Tickets $9.50 in advance. Residence Hall Repertory The- ater - "Babes and Biceps: Is That All?", a show on sexism and gender roles, Alice Lloyd, Blue Carpet Lounge, 10 pm. I anhtrnrli - Professinal Co'medv ml -A I Cornerstone i'i HEALTH &FITNESS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (an interdenominational campus fellowship) Students Dedicated to Knowing and Communicating Jesus Christ Weekly Meetings: Thursdays: 7:00 pm 219 Angell Hall John Neff - 971-9150(0), 747-8831(H) I: k1 E' Li 0 { w I JUST A SHORT WALK FROM CENTRAL CAMPUS It's For You! 1a We've got your number in the University of Michigan i o I I StuUafl1t ureciuy .. ... _ .. .. .. ... 1 m - . i rin Ii ini m '- _°