Speakers iscuss s substance abuse BY K RISTINE LA LON D E Crack gangs in Ann Arbor? Local high school students who experi- ment with drugs more than students in other cities? These and other examples of sub- stance abuse in Ann Arbor were the subjects of a City Council anti-drug task,.force-sponsored public forum last night. Social workers, prison coun- selors, and grassroots political lead- ers offered explanations and possible solutions for the city's substance abuse problems. Most focused on the social, family, and economic reasons for drug abuse. "We have (rehabilitation) centers that are accessible to those who can pay for it," said Chuck Kiefer, who works at the SOS Crisis Center. "The sad fact remains if you don't have the dough, you ain't got nowhere to go." Marlene Gonet, a substance abuse counselor at Pioneer and Commiu- nity High Schools, said drug abuse among Ann Arbor teenagers is high. According to a survey given to the students in 1986, 65 percent of Ann Arbor's high-school seniors had tried marijuana; 20 percent had tried crack. Another survey will be conducted this spring. Next year local public schools will, for the first time, have manda- tory substance abuse education in the elementary schools, said Nancy Schleicher, a member of the Sub- stance Abuse Group for Education. The task force was established by the council last May to establish a coordinated effort to fight the abuse; it is made up of 11 members with experience related to substance abuse. The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 9, 1989 - Page 3 EMU building b urns BY MICHAEL LUSTIG Wisps of smoke were still rising from the ruins yesterday afternoon, 12 hours after a fire gutted the second-oldest building on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. Ypsilanti Fire Department officials said they have yet to determine the cause of the fire, which began early yesterday morning inside Sherzer Hall's first-floor printmaking lab and spread through the building. Sherzer Hall, which housed part of EMU's art department, had been standing since 1903. EMU spokesperson Kathleen Tinney said it will cost "well over a million dollars" to replace the building, though no specific costs have been determined. The EMU Regents last month approved funding to renovate the building, which would have included installation of an extensive fire alarm system, Tinney said. The fire caused Sherzer Hall's entire roof to cave in, dropping a telescope in the rooftop planetarium into the basement. For safety reasons, at least part of the building's remaining shell will be lown torn down beginning today. Eventually, the entire building may have to be razed, but EMU plant supervisors said insurance adjustors are examining the rubble to see if anything can be salvaged. "We just don't think that we're going to be able to" salvage the building, Tinney said. The building housed the art school's printmaking, photography, and textile labs. The main offices of the art department, as well as sculpture and ceramics labs, are elsewhere. One woman, who said the building was named for her husband's grandfather, just shook her head while looking at the remains of the building, repeating, "It's a shame." "It's going to be a miserable rest of the semester," said Obaid Ali, a design major who said he lost several oil paintings of his in the fire. Lisa Koivisto, a junior, said she took all of her work home, but added that she hadn't heard anything yet about relocating classes. Arrangements to relocate the 29 classes which met in Sherzer Hall will be finalized over the weekend, Tinney said. ROBIN LOZNAK/Daily Dan Steward and Oliver Edmond prepare a crane for demolition of the Eastern University building wrecked by fire yesterday. Prof.: U.S., Panama strife hurts citizens BY ANDREW KAPLAN "When two elephants struggle it is the grass which suffers," Professor Miguel Bernal said last night in his speech on the relations between the U.S. and Panama. Ihe grass, he said, represents the Panamanian.citi- zens who are suffering as the result of the struggle be- tween the United States and Panamanian President Manuel Noriega. Bernal, the self-exiled editor of Alternativa, the only opposition newspaper still distributed in Panama, spoke for an hour to a small audience of students. le said the U.S. imposes harmless economic sanc- tions on Panama and continues its military support of the Noriegan military regime. "The real problem in Panama is militarization of all of Panama's society, militarization of our country," he said. 'This will not end until the U.S. halts military involvement in Panama." Concerning the historic American backing of the Noriegan regime, Bernal said the U.S. government must understand that "Big guns don't lead to national security, but absolute power (in the form of Noriega) leads to absolute corruption." He said Panama, the business center of Latin America, has also become its drug center under Nor- iega. Since the 60s, Bernal said, Noriega has been in- volved in the illegal drug trade. "Panama has become a totally criminal empire, possibly as large as any that may exist in the world," he said. Although Noriega called the U.S. "a monkey that dances to the music I play," Bernal said the U.S. has been funding the corrupt regime for 20 years. Bernal said Noriega is responsible for brutal mis- treatment of political prisoners, the outlawing of a free press, and the exile of numerous Panamanian citizens. Bernal himself has been beaten, jailed, shot and exiled. But Bernal did not condemn all types of U.S. fund- ing. "We want the U.S. government to stop the sup- port of the military, not of our nation," he clarified. L OF IN d ! j THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Glendale, Arizona 85306 USA A representative will be on campus THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1989 to discuss GRADUATE STUDY Interviews may be scheduled at CAREER PLANNING AND PLACEMENT Correction Daily Opinion Page Editor Elizabeth Esch did not defend the use of unsubstantiated facts in editorials. The Daily misrepresented her statements in a news story.-yesterday. I I The 8th Warner-Lambert Lecture Save 4O0 on color processing & 4x6 prints Each picture is the best it can be or we reprint it free... now! OLIMTONROLLS 8x10 Color Enlargements 4x6 Color Prints in One Hour!( 8in One Hour §i 4 (reg. price $x99 C No limit on number of rolls discounted Free Custom Cropping! wihthis coupon. Prnt length varies iCso I im size. 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