Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 8, 1988 p Forum stress BY MICHELLE NELLETT sity students a place to ga "Benign neglect" is how Michael discuss the Black commun Dawson, a University professor of pact on the upcoming elec African and Afro-American studies, Todd Shaw, a graduate stu described the presidential candidates' the Black Student Union commitment to the Black commu- advisor. pity. The forum focused on i "It is clear neither candidate is the education of urban yi concerned about inner-city problems panelists also stressed the and the urban agenda," Dawson said effects of grass roots politi yesterday in a forum entitled as an important way of g "Empowering Black Youth to Black voice heard both lo Learn." nationally. About 30 people attended the "We can't depend on Black Student Union's forum in wins tomorrow to help us, Stockwell Hall's Blue Lounge to said. "We have to depen observe national Black Solidarity Black community to advan Day. regardless of whoever is pr For the past two years, Black of November 9." Solidarity Day has provided Univer- Panelist Pedra Chaffers es Black education ather and pity's im- tion, said udent and 'S policy improving outh. The e positive ical action etting the ocally and whoever " Dawson nd on the ce society resident as s, a senior in art education and a student teacher at Huron High School, said a unified community is essential to ending the problems. "There are always barriers, and we have to overcome. We have to look at what people have done before." Richard Coleman, a Save Our Sons and Daughters member, said community support and use of role models would excite young Black students about education. The group is a state-wide support system cre- ated to provide positive support for Black youth. "We as individuals need to take time to help children feel good about themselves," said Coleman. "(Right now) they're getting their drive from peer groups, and frightening." that's very Each panelist suggested ways to interest Black children in learning. "They need something to connect to outside the classroom," Chaffers said. She advocated programs both inside and outside the school system, including library clubs and textbooks covering Black figures. Dawson emphasized that the community needs organization to develop an independent, positive base in the Black community which would empower the youth to gain self-esteem and interest in education. "A tree without roots is sick and endangered," Dawson said, quoting Malcolm X. I SSC may collide with overruns BY NOELLE SHADWICK The cost for the world's largest atom-smashing superconducting su- percollider may be up to $2 billion more than expected, according to a recently released congressional budget office report. The SSC could cost up to $6.4 billion if the collider were to have post overruns similar to other super- colliders. Without extra costs, the price of the collider could range from $4.6 to $5.1 billion. The report examines cost overruns v of four particle accelerators built in the 1980s, and the Department of Energy's proposed estimated costs. Seven states are still vying for the collider, and several of those have approved public funding to help de- fray construction costs. The report of higher costs may not hurt Michigan's chance at win- ning the conductor, said Michigan's SSC commission spokesperson Jack Burdock. If Michigan wins the col- lider, it will be located in Stock- bridge, a city roughly halfway be- tween Ann Arbor and Lansing. + "It's impossible to predict what will happen, but nobody wants to pay more than they have to," Bur- dock said. The atom smasher will use about 10,000 superconducting magnets to hold protons on a 53 mile long path as they accelerate to nearly the speed of light. The protons will collide at intervals along the path and break into smaller particles called quarks. The Department of Energy, how- ever, stands by its original $4.4 bil- lion estimate. Additional projects during the research and developmental stage increased the cost, said Phil Keef of the Congressional Press Of- fice. "A more valid comparison," Keef said, could be made with the super- collider at the Fermi lab in Chicago - currently the largest supercollider in the United States - which "came in on time and on budget," he said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Gun vote may impact U.S. BALTIMORE - The future of gun control may hang in the balance when Maryland voters decide today whether to keep that state's pioneering new law effectively banning cheap handguns. Both sides, in what has become one of the nation's most bitter and costly ballot contests, predict the outcome could affect gun control legis- lation pending in states across the country. Pro-gun lobbyists have spent more than $4 million on Maryland's ballot issue, making it the most expensive campaign of any kind in the state. "Either way it goes, it's going to have some impacts in other states, said Richard Gardiner, a counsel for the Washington-based National Rifle Association. Polls projected a close race in the referendum on whether to keep the new gun control law or repeal it. Afghans low on weapons KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Moslem guerrillas surrounding this southern city say they are running low on weaponry while Moscow supplies new warplanes and missiles to the Marxist government to repel the guerrillas' advances. One guerrila leader says some fighters have acquired satellite-guided U.S. mortars but supplies are limited and some of the weapons were destroyed by Soviet bombings. Soviet-Afghan forces defending Kandahar, the country's second-largest city 300 miles southwest of the capital Kabul, bombed the area in the past week with newly introduced Soviet MiG-27 jets, the guerrillas said. The Soviets said last week that they have sent advanced weapons to their southern neighbor because of unrelenting pressure from the anti- communist guerrillas known as the mujahedeen, or Islamic holy warriors. Addicts get free needles NEW YORK - New York city yesterday began a pilot program to stem the spread of AIDS by providing drug addicts new hypodermic needles in exchange for their used ones. Although the program, aimed at reducing needle sharing among ad- dicts, is intended to serve as many as 200 intravenous drug abusers, by early afternoon no applicant had appeared at Health Department head- quarters in lower Manhattan. "Today, we're going to have only a handful," said the health commis- sioner, Dr. Stephen Joseph. "We're going to build slowly up" over a period of weeks or months, he predicted. The program is open only to addicts over age 18 who have applied for drug treatment and been denied immediate admission to the city's over- crowded programs. Rise in transfusion-linked AIDS attributed to detection DETROIT - Several years have passed since the screening of blood donors began, but the number of people developing full cases of transfusion-related AIDS is still growing since the virus in pre-detection donations has had sufficient time to incubate. In Michigan, five ofi 5 cases of AIDS linked to blood transfusions have been reported within the past year alone, said Dr. William Hall, chief of disease surveillance in the state Department of Public Health. Those who received the AIDS virus through transfusions of contaminated blood were infected before the spring of 1985 when a test to screen donated blood was federally approved. Hall said transfusion-related AIDS cases eventually will level off because of blood screening and other factors. EXTRAS Thieves reel in big one ANCHORAGE - Police on the Kenai Peninsula are keeping an eye peeled for the one that got away, and by allaccounts it's a real whopper. The Alaska state troopers said a thief or thieves swiped a 14-foot-long king salmon made of plastic foam and fiberglass. The fish had been installed in front of Lynn and Kathey Kennedy's southwest of Anchorage. Troopers said it was removed from its mounting poles sometime Friday or Saturday. The trout of trouts is valued at $2,300, troopers said. 0 Quake Continued from Page 1 Radio Beijing report said total casual- ties were 600, including both dead and injured. The State Seismology Bureau in Beijing, which had reported 18 killed and 54 injured, said it had no new figures. Dispatches from the official news agency Xinhua said at least 37 people were dead and more that 100 injured. UM News in The Daily 764-0552 A Yunnan official reached by telephone said the provincial govern- ment had no idea how many people were killed. Asked whether 600 was plausible, he said: "It might be. It might not be." If the death toll of 600 is accurate, this would be China's worst earth- quake since the 1976 tremor that hit the northeastern city of Tangshan. Officials say 242,00 died, but unofficial estimates put the toll as high as 800,000. That quake measured 7.8 to 8.2 on the Richter scale, a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake. Each number on the scale indicates a ten-fold increase in strength and a temblor of 7 can cause heavy damage in populated areas. Suspect Continued from Page 1 Ransby said if the suspects were singled out solely because of their race, police are not necessarily any closer to arresting the rapist. "To alarm the community of one type of person in no way brings (the police) closer to the one person that they're trying to catch," she said. Julie Steiner, director of SAPAC, said she did not condemn the use of the composites in the Daily. But the Daily article accompanying the composites should have addressed the myth of the Black male rapist, she said. Caldwell said the public should not view all Black men that fit the description of 6-foot-2 and 160 pounds as rapists. But he said people should call the city's emergency 911 number whenever they feel threat- ened. "I don't want (people) to be call- ing me just because (a man) is Black - that doesn't mean anything to me," Caldwell said. He added that the two composite sketches are different from each other because the victims weren't able to recall precisely what their attacker looked like. "The sketches were made 18 days apart by two different people - why should they look alike?" He said even though the compos- ites are different, they both are still helpful in generating information that might lead to an arrest. 0 BUSINESS I 0 LOOK YOUR BEST!! 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