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Question: Are you planning to attend any events today in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday?
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Rachel Williams, Music
School graduate student
"I'm doing the march
and I participated in events
Friday. It's a reminder of
your history. We have to
keep the dream alive."
Paulo Frank, history grad-
uate student
"I'm working my ass
off. I would like to go to
activities but I have too
much work unfortunately."
Michele Thomas, LSA
senior
"I just came from the
march. I'm a member of
Delta Sigma Theta and I'm
going to hear Andrew
Young tonight. Dr. Martin
Luther King died for us. It's
necessary for me to en-
hance myself so I can one
day enhance other people."
Barbara Cossman, Art
School first-year student
"I'm going to the march
and I may be going to the
discussion at the CCRB
about Black athletes. My
RA brought me to the rally
and I thought it would be
interesting."
Dave Cusano, Aero gradu-
ate student
"I'm too busy. I'm tak-
ing an extra trip to the li-
brary because if I don't
start this project, I'm
history."
Laura Sullivan, RC first-
year student, employee at
Museum of Art
"I have to work. It's
Sstrange that I need to work
bpt I feel compelled."
Jiayao An, visiting re-
searcher at the Anthropol-
ogy Museum
"Last night I went to a
concert to celebrate Martin
Luther King. It's a time to
think about the rights of
human beings."
James Duderstadt, Uni-
versity president
"I've spent this morning
at series of workshops, I
have to give three to four
lectures, and I'm going to
hear Andrew Young."
Silas Norman, LSA junior
"It's important to show
solidarity and to realize it's
important. Today is not a
regular day."
Carol Bell, School of
Natural Resources senior
"I'm going to a program
at the School of Natural
Resources. It would be
wrong not to spend some
time today working on the
diversity issue."
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports
Closer watch imposed on
Fermi 2 nuclear plant
MONROE, Mich. - The Fermi 2 nuclear power plant is on the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's watch list for another six months, but
the Detroit Edison Company says the plant is improving.
The NRC list was begun in October 1986 and is updated every six
months. It currently includes nine plants with 16 of the nation's 108
nuclear reactors.
"Fermi 2 was a charter member," NRC spokesperson Jan Strasma said
recently.
Critics like Mary Johnston, assistant director of the Safe Energy
Coalition of Michigan, an anti-nuclear group, point to a string of
shutdowns at the plant.
"I think their operating record has been disturbing," Johnston said.
"There have been so many problems."
Fermi 2, one of the nation's largest nuclear plants at 1,100 megawatts,
began commercial operation Jan. 23, 1988.
Bush organizes for office
WASHINGTON - President-elect Bush began his inauguration week
by paying tribute yesterday to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and
working on his inaugural address as those organizing the swearing-in
ceremony anxiously prepared.
Bush offered a strong tribute of the slain civil rights leader at a prayer
breakfast for Black supporters.
"We must not fail the nation he loved so much and gave his life for. I
understand this five days before becoming president of the United States
of America," Bush told the gathering of some 300 Black leaders.
House Democrats arranged a "Majority Party Party" at a hotel
ballroom Thursday night, at the same time the GOP scheduled a televised,
star-studded inaugural gala.
Class dodgers get slammer
NEW ORLEANS - Students who cut class in Miriam Waltzer's
school could end up behind bars.
Waltzer got tired of seeing young defendants who couldn't read the
legal paperwork, so she turned her courtroom into a classroom.
She started what she calls Probation Education Program, with classes
in her courtroom run by volunteer tutors.
Once class starts, the rules are simple: Study and don't cut class.
One unexcused absence gives students a weekend in jail, two absences
ends probation and lands them in prison. For those who stay out of
trouble, the five years' probation ends as soon as the student earns a high
school diploma.
Roosevelt Thomas, 21, convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, said
he would like to go on to college and perhaps become a lawyer.
"That's what my mama wanted me to be. I got a lot of court room
experience already," he joked.
Violence falls in prisons
LANSING - Inmate violence in Michigan prisons took a nosedive in
the system's history, Departmentof Corrections records show.
A 29 percent drop in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults from 1987 to 1988
can be attributed to the hiring of additional staff, tougher security
measures and administrative adjustments to the massive prison expansion
program.
Prisoner assaults on other inmates fell from a record 693 in 1987 to
491 in 1988, while the average prison population increased by 16 percent,
or more than 3,200 inmates.
"We're no longer just allowing somebody to attack somebody and get
away with it," said Jack Welborn, R-Kalamazoo.
While additional staffing and tighter security measures have cut down
on inmate violence, impending state budget cuts may reverse that trend,
says a spokesperson for the guards' union.
EXTRAS
Mattress saves man in blast
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. - A flying mattress carried a 79-year-old man
to safety as his suburban home was leveled by a natural gas explosion.
Last Thursday, James Steurer was sitting on his bed, putting his shoes
on, preparing to visit his daughter-in-law. Moments later, he found
himself sitting on his mattress - on the driveway outside, blown out a
side wall of his home by the force of the explosion.
The explosion scattered broken glass, threw a side wall of the home
against a neighbors garage and gave off a blast of heat that melted the
siding on a neighboring house.
"Absolutely I'm lucky," said Steurer, who suffered only minor
scratches. Firefighters searched through the remains of his home for clues
to the cause of this strange occurrence.
Steurer had one request for the firefighters: "Do you think you could
find my car keys and glasses?"
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video, shown in the Michigan
League, brought in more people than
the room cauld hold. More than 125
,.students and faculty attempted to
crowd into a room meant to seat 70.
"I don't understand why they
don't have space in this room," said
a student who couldn't get past the
doorway.
"The turnout is phenomenal. We
tried to get a larger room, but we
couldn't," Morson said.
"This is the first thing I was re-
ally interested in. I'd say the day was
definitely a success," said Brooke
Mayer, a first-year student in the
School of Natural Resources.
Most residence halls offered their
own "Diversity Day" programs.
Programs ranged from open forum
discussions to formal speechs and
films, and reactions to these events
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"I don't think many of them are
into it. Most of them just see it as a
day without classes - not a day to
attend programs," said Elan Sandelin
who works at the front desk at
Couzens Hall.
Diana Leland, who works at East
Quad's front desk, said that East
Quad residents seemed to be attend-
ing the University's events and that
the turnout in dorm events was also
high.
Some students felt that too many
of the day's programs were geared
towards educators and not students.
"Frankly, I think that a lot of the
forums didn't touch me," said a
Rackham student.
But for the most part people
seemed to find the programs educa-
tional and interesting.
"It was just right. We had a really
open, sharing forum," said Gail
Freeman, an LSA junior who took
part in the Experiential Workshop
on Cross-Cultural Understanding at
the Union.
People who took part in planning
"Diversity Day" said they were
happy with the way things went.
"I'm very pleased with the day,"
said Vice Provost Charles Moody.
He added that the planning commit-
tee will evaluate all the reactions
before planning next year's
"Diversity Day."
"I was glad with the number of
people who turned out. Education is
one part to solving the problem. If
people take what they learned and do
something with it, then the day is
worthy," said Barbara Ransby, a
steering committee member of the
United Coaliton Against Racism.
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