The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 3, 1989 - Page 5 'Super Max', jail approved Lansing (AP) - Legislation to permit prison officials to get tough with the worst-behaved inmates won unanimous approval yesterday in the Michigan Senate. The bill which was passed 33-0, was sent to the House. If it passes there, the bill would clear the way for "Super Max," a program delayed by a circuit court order which offi- cials said would limit its effective- ness. A second bill passed by the same vote, would require that inmates who commit crimes while on probation for an earlier offense would serve the new sentence only after their original sentence was served, not concur- rently with the first sentence. Both bills are sponsored by Senator Jack Welborn. He said Su- perMax is intended to crack down on the most assaultive and predatory inmates. "They're the people who can't live in the system without... trying to kill somebody, trying to stab J'OA Continued from Page 1 Knight-Ridder, owner of the De- troit Free Press, has threatened to sell the Free Press if the JOA is de- nied. "I worked for a JOA in St. Louis, but it collapsed not long af- ter.... (It was) a very unpleasant end somebody, trying to start a riot," Welborn said. The bill would clear the way for a new Super Max prison in Ionia, to house about 330 inmates. But We- born said it also would apply to other prisons in Michigan. Based on rules used at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, Su- per Max would deprive inmates of most of the limited privileges ac- corded maximum-security inmates. Inmates largely would be re- stricted to their cells, wear prison uniforms, be limited to non-contact visits, and be stripped of most be- longings that could be fashioned into weapons. But a recent Ingham County Cir- cuit Court order, issued in a lawsuit filed by inmates, has blocked a rule calling for prison garb and a reduc- tion of personal property. To get around that ruling, Wel- born sponsored the bill to make the Super Max program a law, instead of a rule. to a quarter of a million-dollar pa- per," McKay said. University Communications Prof. Buckley also said that even with a JOA the Free Press could fail. JOA opponents contend that De- troit can support both newspapers and asked for a stay in the imple- mentation of a merge on the grounds that the newspapers would suffer lit- tle harm for the delay. Bill to provide seed money, LANSING (AP) - Businesses owned by minorities and wometi would be able to get temporary seed money from the state under a bill proposed by Rep. Joseph Young Jr.(D-Detroit), who plans to intro- duce the legislation in the House next week. "The state would give them the money they need up front, and at the end of the contract, they would re- imburse the state. That way we wouldn't be just handing out money," said Young. "Our interest is giving them the opportunity to compete, not to create a situation where the state is granting money." Under the bill, the state would provide loans to minority and woman business enterprises and cre- ate a minority and woman develop- ment financing board within the De- partment of Commerce. The measure may offer an alternative to Michigan's set-aside program, which awaits a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Richmond, Va., set-aside program that required that minorities get 30 percent of the city's construction business. Michi- gan's set-aside law requires 7 percent of all purchasing and construction grants to go to minority-owned businesses or and 5 percent to go to businesses owned by women. CAMPU_ 0 Milwaukee Best 1/2 Barrels N E $25.95 - +Tax +Deposit -While supplies last 1665=4431 1 818 S. STATE, ANN ARBOR OPEN TIL MIDNIGHT SUN-THURS 2AM FRI & SAT ROBIN LOZNAK/Daily Blackjack! Holli Norton of Dexter takes part in the festivities at the "Millionaire's Party". The party is a benefit for the Michigan Theater and will continue through tomorrow at the Ann Arbor Inn. Profs. Continued from Page 1 fruitful lines of research in eco- nomics in the the last several decades." He said "traditional" cardinal util- ity theory has, in fact, been discred-n ited in the field. But he said neither Cross nor any other University eco- nomics professor uses the rejected theory. Cross has denied using the cardi- nal utility theory. Applying the traditional theory, Apeople thought they could measure happiness quantitatively and then compare these measurements be- tween individuals," he said, adding that the modern treatment of cardinal utility is quite different. The use of utility theory for which Cross is known, Courant said, is derived from the respected work of mathematician John Von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern. He said Cross's treatment of car- dinal utility theory is "at the heart of micro-economic theory." Economics Prof. Daniel Fusfeld said that cardinal utility as a whole has, as the doctoral students claim, been discredited in economics. He said that "nobody uses cardinal util- ity anymore." Most economic theorizing in- volves "ordinal utility," not cardinal, he said. Ordinal utility allows economists to study the way people treat uncertain events without quantifyinghand comparing individual happiness, he said. Neither Courant nor Fusfeld would comment on the allegations against Steiner's scholarship, which were based on a January, 1987, arti- cle published in the Southern Eco- nomic Journal. The. professors said debate over such matters should be addressed outside a newspaper. The students said the SEJ article indicates that both Steiner and Cross have presented work in the field of economics that is "sloppy and often consists of absurdities and esoteric trivia." The SEJ article said Steiner has taken credit for a theory which had actually been presented by another economist 22 years earlier. Steiner has declined comment on the charges. 4 sSelf Service with coupon kionko's the copy center 540 Emitlibery Open 24 Hours 1220 S. University Open 24 Hours Michigan Union Open Early - Open Late PR INT ING COTTON HANES BEEFY-T HEV. WT SWEATS 1002 PONTIAC TR. 994-1367 _MSA Continued from Page 1 She suggested forming a group of six MSA members to act as a liai- son between assembly committees and SODC; forming a group of three MSA members to compile a report of the assembly's accomplishments over the past two terms to give to the regents; and asking SODC to compile a list of improvements and suggestions for MSA. "Some of the problems should be delegated down," Hayes said. Hayes said she will meet with other MSA representatives tomorrow afternoon to formulate a specific proposal and will bring it to MSA's general meeting Tuesday night for a vote. However, many MSA members, including President Mike Phillips, said the SODC representatives failed House Continued from Page 1 be unmanageable and will institu- tionalize prisoners, rather than inte- grating prisoners back into the community. "We're trying to find a site where we can put all the prisoners in the area," Quarles said. She said centralization of county halfway houses will be a way for the DOC to achieve "optimum administrative efficiency" and will save money. Leo Lalonde, another DOC to address what MSA has been doing wrong. He described in detail all that MSA had done since September and explained that he has been meeting with SODC and informing them of MSA's activities since July. "I am disappointed and hurt by comments made at last January's meeting by Johnson and Borland," Phillips said. Wilson said one of the main problems is that there is not enough communication between MSA, its constituents, and the regents. "At this point we're looking for documentation about what you've done and what you're planning to do," Wilson said. "If you have done everything the president (Phillips) said you've been doing, the problem is not what you've been doing but how you've been communicating it." Deputy Director, said the "prisoners who will be selected for the halfway house are prisoners who are least assaultive." The DOC, which has temporarily halted the plan, also pledged to seek more community involvement in an attempt to find an alternative site to the Varsity House. However, Quarles apparently worried the crowd when she indicated there might be two halfway houses of 50 to 60 beds each. Ti SpringBrea, o Greyhound® instead. 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