Prof. sees teaching as more than ajob BY MARION DAVIS Teachers are more than robots who program students with statistical information. That's what Architecture and Urban Redevelopment Prof. James Chaffers would tell you. And he might also throw in something about personal expression and mutual respect. "(Teaching) is an extremely personal and social activity," Chaffers said. He prefers the seminar class format, in which students can share their beliefs and teachers can get to know stu- dents individually. Chaffers said teaching is a creative profession because teachers have thepotential to shape and re-shape the lives of students. Teachers can redefine students' lives by encouraging them to use their communicative talents, he said. "We inspire others to exercise their creativity and to think about their own talents," Chaffers said. He said he encourages stu- dents, or "young professionals," to use their talents not only be- cause they possess them, but also because they have a social obligation to use them. Chaffers said students can make a real dif- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 22, 1989 - Page 5 Court cracks down on adult bookstores WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, boosting a growing nationwide drive against pornogra- phy, ruled yesterday that states may use anti-racketeering laws to crack down on adult bookstores. The justices said prosecutors may not use such tough crime-fighting statutes to shut down the stores be- fore trials are held to determine whether any of the material sold is obscene. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, said Indiana's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) may be applied to adult bookstores. Indiana's RICO law provides civil penalties that permit authorities to seize property owned by anyone convicted of a RICO offense. The law is patterned after a federal statute aimed primarily at organized crime. Most states have similar anti- racketeering laws, and in 19 states besides Indiana the law can be used to battle pornography. A presidential commission on pornography, appointed during Ronald Reagan's administration, urged all states to take similar steps to limit the spread of sexually ex- plicit material. In the case, the justices rejected arguments that Indiana's law is too vague. "Given that the RICO statute to- tally encompasses the obscenity law, if the latter is not unconstitutionally vague, the former cannot be vague either," Justice Byron White wrote for the court. In a dissenting opinion, Justice John Stevens said Indiana's anti- racketeering law violates freedom of expression. Stevens said the law al- lows authorities to seize the contents of a bookstore and padlock its doors after a trial in which two books, films or magazines sold there have been judged obscene. The law arms "prosecutors not with scalpels to excise obscene por- tions of an adult bookstore's inven- tory but with sickles to mow down the entire undesired use," Stevens said. "A bookstore receiving revenue from sales of obscene books is not - the same as a hardware store or pizza.i parlor funded by loan-sharking pro-, ceeds," Stevens said. In the latter case, seizure of prop--, erty does not violate the Constitu- tion, he said. Urban Redevelopment Prof. James Chaffers sees teaching as a personal and social activity. ference in the world around them. In his urban redevelopment class, for example, Chaffers' primary objective is to make students realize that their actions as young professionals will di- rectly affect the city of the future. "That," he tells them, "is not an abstract class project, but your future." Chaffers said teaching goes beyond the chapters and summary pages in a textbook and reaches into mutual respect. Although students primarily are in the classroom setting to learn, he re- spects their ideas and concepts as much as he hopes they respect his. If you ask James Chaffers what teaching is, he'll tell you that teaching is an honorable profession. He'll tell you it is a valuable component of our culture which plays a major role in our lives. "Everybody has had a teacher somewhere that has made a posi- tive difference in their life," he said. He'll tell you that teaching requires a lot of discipline. He'll tell you that it's hard work. And finally, James Chaffers will tell you, "I'm a teacher... It's worth the effort." Class dismissed. Salvadoran rebels propose cease-fire Special showing: Students critique Cry Freedom BY DARCI MCCONNELL In recognition of Black History Month, student leaders commented on the film Cry Freedom and dis- cussed its representation of the apartheid government in South Africa last night at Stockwell Hall. LSA junior Lisa Parker, a repre- sentative from the Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center, said the movie shed light on the problems in South Africa, but didn't "give the whole picture. Cry Freedom is a main- stream movie... It's important to look at movies critically because they have a tendency to distort things." Parker criticized several aspects of the film, including its emphasis on journalist Douglass Woods' escape from South Africa and not the efforts of anti-apartheid leader Stephen Biko. She said the movie concen- trated solely on events in Soweto but failed to depict other areas of struggle in South Africa. Set in Soweto, the film depicts the struggle of Biko, who, in the late 1970s, encouraged South African youths to learn their history and culture. This effort, Biko believed, would discourage South Africans from feeling that they are inferior, an idea created by the apartheid system. The other major story-line in the movie is the friendship of Biko with Dou- glass Woods and Woods' attempt to publish the story describing Biko's efforts. The special screening of the film was sponsored by Stockwell Hall's Cross Library. OAXTEPEC, Mexico (AP) - El Salvador's leftist rebels offered yes- terday to lay down their weapons if the armed forces are sharply cut, the police force reorganized and next month's presidential elections post- poned by at least four months. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front presented its revised proposal on the second day of talks with delegates from 13 political par- ties seeking ways to end El Sal- vador's nine-year civil war. The Front's offer attempted to ad- dress a major stumbling block in the talks - the constitutional require- ment that President Jose Napoleon Duarte leave office by June 1 - by proposing an interim president. The proposal appeared to be aimed at neutralizing El Salvador's rightist-dominated military, which has warned publicly it might seize power in a coup if Duarte does not* step down as scheduled. The revised proposal came as guerrillas in El Salvador attacked the country's principal army base and an engineering detachment, leaving eight dead and 17 injured. Reports from San Salvador said the rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance, Arena, was standing firm against postponing the March 19 vote, which it is favored to win, but deputy chair Jose Lopez said the party would not tip its hand. The Arena and guerrilla represen- tatives met for talks yesterday morning but both groups refused to disclose details. E .Fed continues efforts to fight inflation GE T IT! ffof lrl The Personal Column MICHIGAN DAILY CLASSIFIE} ADS I Cornerstone CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WASHINGTON - (AP) Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan said yesterday that the central bank will keep up its inflation-fighting efforts by pushing interest rates higher to combat what he termed a troubling acceleration in price pressures. Greenspan, in his semi-annual report to Congress on monetary policy, said the Fed expects "to sup- port continued economic expansion while putting in place conditions for a gradual easing in the rate of infla- tion over time." Since last March, the Fed has been nudging up interest rates in an attempt to slow economic growth and avoid a flare-up of inflation. Those efforts intensified last week after a report on prices at the whole- sale level showed a one percent in- crease during the month of January, equivalent to a compounded annual inflation rate of 12.7 percent. 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