The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 7, 1989 - Page 5 Martha Cook campus in rec leads I BY STACEY GRAY Some dormitories and campus housing units collect newspapers, some cut up their cardboard boxes, and others collect tin cans and glass. Residents of Martha Cook are familiar with all of these recycling methods - along with many others. "Next to Oxford Housing we're probably the leading recycling group," said Martha Cook resident Emily Frydrych, an LSA senior who runs the program Since October Martha Cook's kitchen staff has saved tin cans and glass while the rest of the dorm has collected their newspapers, cardboard and old phonebooks. The dorm has eliminated the use of products made from styrofoam, which is a non-biodegradable, haz- ardous pollutant. 1 1 "People need to be aware of the need to recycle," said Jeffrey Mas- ters, a maintenance employee at Martha Cook "There are few things you can do which will help the hu- man condition - it's one of those things where you can see results." There are boxes in.the hall trash closets where students can deposit their waste, said Frydrych. She ex- plained that the boxes are collected by resident volunteers and taken to a spot where Recycle Ann Arbor - a local recycling organization - picks them up. "The Martha Cook program was initiated in an attempt to reduce the solid waste stream because the Ann Arbor landfill closed," said Frydrych. "If I had to crudely estimate the difference it makes in the amount of garbage that has to go to the landfill, cling I'd say it is over ten percent less be- cause of the program," said Masters. "You have to crawl before you can walk," he said adding that the Martha Cook program will eventu- ally need some sort of subsidy be- cause it won't be able to continue paying for itself. Beginning next fall recycling will be institutionalized by the Univer- sity and will take place in all Uni- versity Housing. Seven percent of the housing increase is for recycling. But Martha Cook is not considered a University dormitory and may not receive any of the funding, said Frydrych. "Because the University is just beginning their program they will only be starting with paper and we would hate to go backwards in how far we have come in the recycling process," said Frydrych. DAVID LUDLINER/JUa The Bursley snack bar reopened yesterday after several monthes of operation as a movie viewing room. Graduate student Bill Messner was one of the first students to try out the snackbar. Bursley snack bar reopens as Entree Plus operation State leaders object to court' - - BY STACEY GRAY Students will now be able to have the luxury of using meal cards to get credit for their missed meals in Bursley - just like the students at South Quad, East Quad and Markley have been able to all year. Yesterday the previously stu- dent run snack bar opened up as an University Entree Plus operation. When the Bursley snack bar and store closed last April many were uncertain if it would ever open again. After the closing, there had been some question about the. cause of the snackbar's nearly $2,000 debt. Some blamed the problem on poor management, others blamed it on embezzlement, and no one was sure exactly who to blame. "The debt is not fully paid off, but Bursley Council has taken re- sponsibility and will finish paying it," said Dennis Swayne, assistant to the building director at Bursley. There was originally some question about the involvement of two of last years managers Marc Peot and Abby Kurzman. How- ever, Swayne said they are now cleared of any wrongdoing. He also said the idea that Peot had con- tributed some of his own money to pay off the debt was "just a ru- mor." "It had been under review by different staff in housing for a couple of months, and it was de- cided to give it a trial for the rest of the semester," said Residence Housing Program Director Alan Levy. "The menu will be more lim- ited than what the central snack. bars have. It is a trial run, if it is successful the manager may in- crease the selection," said David Wahr, entree coordinator at Hous- ing. For these past six months Bursley Hall Council has used the snack bar area as a movie viewing room, and Bursley students seemed to be unaware of the snack bar's reopening. "I didn't know it was opening today," said Jeff Provenzano, a Bursley resident and a sophomore in LSA. "I heard there was something in the mail today about it, but I haven't gotten my mail yet," said Scott Meriloat, a sophomore engineering student living in Bursley. Bursley residents also had mixed reactions about going to the snack bar. "It will be convenient late at night when you want something to eat. It also offers an option to the dinners they serve in the cafeteria," said Michael Cohen, a first-year engineering student. "I probably won't go - it's too expensive, and the food proba- bly won't be very good because it is University run," said Gil Yap, an LSA sophomore. "Possibly Sunday nights, maybe during some basketball games --it goes good with your beer," said Jeremy Peskoff, a first- year LSA student. Ray Piechocki, the new man- ager of the snack bar and a Uni- versity employee, says that he has heard students are excited about the opening. "I put up a lot of signs about the opening right before spring break. I figure it will take a while for it to filter out, which is fine. It will take me time to get ev- erything worked out," he said. stance on affir LANSING (AP) - Government leaders vowed yesterday to launch a whirlwind effort to blunt a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking .down Michigan's contract set-aside program for minorities and women. "We are deeply disappointed the U.S. Supreme Court refused to uphold Michigan's contract set-aside program for minorities and women. Unfortunately, the supreme court has thwarted one of Michigan's best tools to ensure equal access to state contracts for women-and minority-owned businesses," Gov. James Blanchard and Lt. Gov. Martha Griffiths said in a joint statement. Blanchard said he was asking Griffiths, chair of the Michigan Equal Employment and Business Opportu- nity Council, to develop new methods to ensure equal opportunity. "We feel really strongly that the minority set-aside program was something that was needed. We have found that it is a positive program, so the first thing we're going to be doing is making that our number one legislative priority," said John Castillo, director of mative action the Department of Civil Rights. He continued, "A bill will be introduced immedi- ately in the legislature to continue that concept, within the guidelines that the Supreme Court has estab- lished." Rep. Nelson Saunders, chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said that group would soon begin lay- ing the grbundwork to pass the bill. "We will be working on this as quickly as possible. I don't envision this as taking a inordinate amount of time. When this law originally passed, it was sup- ported by Black and white legislators, men and women legislators," the Detroit Democrat said. "I think this legislative body realizes discrimination does exist. I hope we can improve the law while com- plying with the guidelines outlined by the Supreme Court. I think the vast majority of this legislative body supports this." "Just striking down the set-aside law, only takes away the hard numbers, the quotas if you will," said Lawrence Martin, the group's executive director. USSR proposes VIENNA (AP) - The Soviet In a later sp Union yesterday proposed huge State James Bak reductions in troops and armor and ministers gathe recommended yesterday that the palace that the V Warsaw Pact and NATO negotiate to initially, is to r eliminate all battlefield nuclear Pact's current ac weapons from Europe. tional forces. Foreign Minister Eduard Estimates var Snevarndadze's proposals went far the Soviet-led al beyond the reductions NATO plans advantage in tank to suggest at conventional arms "The Warsaw talks that begin Thursday. military prepond A U.S. official, briefing reporters the spearheads on condition of anonymity, said makes an invasi Shovarndadze's purpose in proposing said. the missile talks was "to see whether He urged possible fissures in the alliance Mikhail Gorbac could be developed." the "new thinkin " I wouldn't call it one of the nomic and polit most positive characteristics" of Soviet Union b Shevarndadze's speech, the official Breznnev Doct said. arms reductions eech, Secretary of ker told 35 foreign Bred in a baroque West's goal, at least educe the Warsaw dvantage in conven- ry, but usually give liance at least a 2-1 ks. pact's conventional erance, especially in of attack, is what on possible," Baker Soviet President chev to implement ng" that guides eco- tical reform in the by renouncing the rine "beyond any shadow of a doubt." The doctrine permits military in- tervention in a Soviet bloc country in the event of a liberal insurrection. "Those in the East should be free of the fear that armed Soviet inter- vention, justified by the Breznnev Doctrine, would be used again to deny them choice," baker said. Baker also said Australia- would organize a conference to prevent the spread of chemical weapons and the Bush administration was ekploring ways to speed the the removal of U.S. chemical weapons from West Germany. He added however that "unilateral action is not enough. The Soviet Union has enormous stocks of chemical weapons threatening Eu- rope." Drunk drivers may not get trial Washington (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that' people accused of drunken driving usually have no right to a jury trial if they face a jail term of no more than six months. Despite mounting national con- cern over the seriousness of intoxi- cated motorists, the court said unan- imously in a Nevada case that states do not violate fair-trial rights by treating drunken driving as a petty offense not warranting trial by jury. The court said imposing other *penalties such as suspending driving privileges or requiring community service generally does not require a jury trial as long as six month re- mains the maximum jail term. The court left open the possibil- ity it might be unconstitutional to deny jury trails if a repeat offender could be sentenced to more than six months in jail when convicted more than once. twThe justices rejected an appeal by two Nevada men who said the penalties for being convicted of driving under the influence are seri- ous enough to warrant jury trials. Justice Thurgood Marshall, writ- ing for the court, said the Nevada LSA Continued from Page 1 two proposals is the LSA faculty' proposal provides for a faculty- student oversight committee to identify and develop courses to fulfill the requirement. The Executive Committee proposal provides for the LSA dean and the committee to designate the courses which could satisfy the Pranuation rauirement. Legislature classifies first-time drunken drivers as petty offenders by limiting the jail term to six months. Other possible penalties do not raise the offense to a serious crime, he said. They also rejected an appeal by northeastern states seeking to force the federal government to crack down on acid rain and other pollution they say -is caused by smokestacks in other states. In other business: the court also left intact a Texas law that allows*" public school officials to use all necessary corporal punishment, short of deadly force. 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