6 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 15, 1989 Drive raises funds for anti-rape rally BY MONICA SMITH A nickel, a dime, a quarter. They are small amounts, but they're just a drop in the bucket to help women fight against sexual as- sault. The two-day bucket drive for the Take Back The Night march. and rally began yesterday and runs through today. The bucket drive is 1the primary fundraiser for the event, sponsored by the Ann Arbor Coali- tion Against Rape. "The purpose of the march and rally is to protest the violence against women and children, specifi- cally incest and sexual assault," said Elizabeth Clare, a member of the coalition. "It is symbolic of taking back our whole lives as women," Clare said. "We are taking back the right to be free from sexual assault." "It's an issue I think everyone should be concerned about and aware of," said LSA junior Jeff Zoellner, who was collecting on the Diag yesterday.-"I think everyone should devote some time to an issue .that concerns them." The 10th annual Take Back the Night rally and march will be held April 15 in front of the Federal building. The rally is open to all, but usually only women participate in the march to symbolize their unity and strength together. The money raised in the bucket drive covers the costs of the demon- stration. The coalition plans to use the money to pay the $500 for the liability insurance necessary to ob- tain a permit from the city. The money will also go toward public- ity, such as printing brochures and posters promoting the event, and to pay some of the speakers' and enter- tainers' expenses. Clare said the bucket drive needs to raise $2,000 to cover the expenses and have a cushion for next year's rally. The majority of the bucket drive collectors, stationed throughout campus and other Ann Arbor areas yesterday and today, are student vol- unteers. Members of the Univer- sity's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center are working to collect money for the drive. "I want to help people to become aware of the situation of rape on campus," said Charise Edwards, a first-year LSA student and a member of SAPAC, who was collecting for the bucket drive. "I hope I'm doing my part by participating in SAPAC and the bucket drive, to help bring about that awareness." Lynne Whitney, a member of the bucket drive committee, said the fundraising drive went better than she expected, but that the group needs more volunteers to enable the drive to collect from as many areas as possible. Clare said the name "Take Back the Night" comes from the fear women have had to walk the streets alone at night. FDA tells grocers to remove Chilean fruit _ . _ ,. ___ ... _ . _ .,.r. BY STACEY GRAY Ann Arbor produce sellers were advised to re- move all Chilean fruit from their shelves yester- day after the Food and Drug Administration an- nounced that traces of cyanide were found in two 'ted seedless grapes in Philadelphia. "As far as we know the problem is limited to Philadelphia but the warning is to everyone," said Joe Impellizzeri, acting consumer affairs of- ficer at the FDA in Detroit. Ann Arbor fruit marketers, however, said the FDA instruction had little effect on their stocks. "We just had to pull our grapes. Everything else we had isn't from Chile," said Lynda Carey, a. cashier at the White Market grocery store on William St. "At this point we've just pulled all the Chilean fruit and are holding it," said Larry Re- ichenbaugh, store manager at the Kroger on Broadway. "We've gotten all kinds of returns at this point and there is no problem with that." Kroger stores usually stock Chilean grapes, nectarines, plums and peaches at this time of the year, said Gunther Urban, manager of the Jackson Rd.-store. FDA officials said there is no need for concern about recently-eaten fruit because cyanide poisoning shows its effects immediately. How- ever, they suggested that people who have bought any -Chilean fruit return it or throw it away. Impellizzeri said the fruit shipments from Chile were closely scrutinized after the U.S. ing the fruit was poisoned. "When the fruit was examined they noticed a couple of grapes in Philadelphia were discolored and there appeared to be a ring where a puncture was," said Impellizzeri. . Chile imports much of the fruit eaten at this time of the year, including peaches, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, seedless watermelons, cantaloupes, Juan Canary and honeydew melons, nectarines, quince, cactus pears, plums, and Granny Smith green apples. Grapes constitute two-thirds of the Chilean fruit imported to the United States, according to the FDA. "What we are doing is working closely with the American Produce Association who in turn are notifying the individual chains," said Impel- lizzeri. Embassy received an anonymous phone call say- J J..n..":.. Jla Va !.fl 1f. ": :": f " ": a ' :. :J ' t{% .'": .y.. -. .. aa .. . . . Health & Fitness, HEALTH CARE CLINIC ANNOUNCEMENT MSA .Continued from Page I constructive planning could take place without one group feeling dominated by a majority. Kavnatsky, a Rackham represen- tative, in introducing the resolution, said he appreciated the constituents' comments, but said the issue was not "whether or not the conference should have occurred," but "whether or not a law has been violated." Specifically, he criticized the conference for inviting Arab stu- dents, while not inviting Jewish students "of the same Semitic race." Mistele said his intent was not to derecognize UCAR, but to bring at- tention to the current law. "The constitution states MSA will not ' allow discrimination from any group," he said, "However, I believe that discrimination' must exist in ' order for minority groups to remain minority groups." ' UCAR member Barbara Ransby told the four who drafted the resolu- tion, that they "don't know the meaning of excluded" and that she ' was "shocked at the audacity" of those who, called the conference re- verse racism. INBRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Discovery mission may land early SPACE CENTER, Houston - A problem with a hydrogen tank aboard the space shuttle Discovery forced its astronauts to conserve energy yesterday, and threatened to shorten the mission, but Mission Control said there was no threat to the crew. The problem was an erratic pressure reading on one of three liquid hydrogen tanks. Hydrogen is combined with oxygen in fuel cells to produce electricity for the shuttle systems. "There are no safety problems associated with it and no electrical problems," ground control capsule communicator Mike Baker told the as- tronauts. If the problem can't be resolved and the Discovery has to continue to use only two hydrogen tanks, the shuttle may land Friday instead of Sat- urday, flight director Branvil Pennington said. Pennington said NASA could wait as late as Thursday before deciding to end the mission a day early. Emotions flare in North trial WASHINGTON - Former National Security Adviser Robert McFar- lane, his face red and his eyes filling with tears, lashed out at the prosecutor in the Oliver North trial yesterday when asked about a letter he wrote Congress on the day before he tried to commit suicide. In the letter, McFarlane told Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), then chair of the House Intelligence Committee, that a foreigner had offered to con- tribute $5 million to the Nicaraguan Contras in a May 1984 meeting. The first openly emotional moment at the North trial, now in its sec- and month, was triggered by chief prosecutor John Reker who suggested to McFarlane that his Feb. 8, 1987 letter to Hamilton , was "just com- plete nonsense." McFarlane had known for two years that the offer came from the gov- ernment of Saudi Arabia through its ambassador and that the country do- nated $32 million to the Contras starting in 1984. $10.7 billion withdrawal from S&L's breaks record. WASHINGTON - The January controversy turned around a Bush administration proposal to levy a fee on deposits causing depositors to withdraw a record $10.7 billion from savings and loans yesterday. Four out of the nation's five S&L's experienced net withdrawal in January, which exceeded net withdrawals for all of 1988. James Barth, chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, attributed the bulk of these withdrawals to the failure of S&L's to keep up with rising interest rates. He added that another portion of the withdrawals occurred because of a deliberate strategy by regulators to shrink ailing institutions. However, Barth also acknowledged that some of the outflows were caused by confi- dence problems as publicity mounted about the condition of the industry. A preliminary estimate shows withdrawals easing only slightly in February to between $8 billion and $9 billion. Bush's min. wage proposal rejected WASHINGTON - Ignoring a veto threat by the administration, a House committee rejected President Bush's minimum wage proposal yes- terday and instead joined a Senate panel in backing legislation calling for a bigger increase. The Democrat-controlled House Education and Labor Committee voted 22-13 along party lines to reject Bush's call to raise the minimum from $3.35 an hour to $4.25 by 1992 while allowing employers to pay new workers $3.35 an hour for their first six months on the job. Then, by the same vote, the committee sent to the full'House legisla- tion to increase the minimum wage to $4.65 an hour through three an- nual increases. The legislation, without the "training wage" that Bush says must be included, is almost identical to a bill the Senate Labor Committee passed last week. EXTRAS 80-year-olds rekindle the flame DUMAS, Texas - Pauline Hobgood and Raymond Smith married more than 60 years ago and were divorced 35 years later. Smith, 81, re- married once and Hobgood, 80, remarried twice. However, they remained friends and on Saturday they were married again in a ceremony before dozens of relatives and friends in the Dumas Nursing Center. Hobgood said they never lost touch. "One time I even kept his money for him while he was in the hospi- tal." "They're making my brother and I very happy by remarrying," said Norma Jean Stewart, the couple's daughter. "The family has always hoped they would get back together." The ring used in 1928, which Hobgood continued to wear on her right hand, was used again in their wedding on Saturday. Several days before the wedding, residents and staff members gave Ms. Hobgood a bridal shower, while the male residents, not to be outdone, treated Smith to a bachelor party. 4 t]: t!xttu aittl The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: for fall and winter (2 semesters) $25.00 in-town and $35 out-of-town, for fall only $15.00 in-town and $20.00 out-of-town. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the Student News Service. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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During the demonstration, protesters displayed the Palestinian BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR NINNER N Y FILM CRITICS AWAROS 'A Clockwork Orange' is one of me few perfect movies i have seen In my Ilfettme. -Rog RNd, N Y SunC"y Aft" ~LEY XUDRICK': e No. ao . Thur. & Fri., March 16 & 17 7pm & 9:30pm MLB .Aud. 4 Admission $3.00 Refreshments will be available - coupon i NO JOINER FEE I I 1 with this ad expires 3/31/89 1 Open 7 days a week (Corner of Fifth and William) J Ann Arbor «Y~ 350 S. Fifth 663-0536 national flag and played the Pales- tinian national anthem, "Beladi-Be- ladi" - "My Homeland." "As long as the Israeli govern- ment allows its culture to flourish, ours should too," said LSA sopho- more Dina Khouri, one of the protesters. "All we're asking for is equity and parity." Zubin Mehta, the Music Director and Conductor of the Israeli Phil- harmonic was aware of the protest and said he had read their flier. "This is a college campus; those things are to be expected. But I would hope that if an Egyptian or Ethiopian or- chestra played here, that Jewish stu- dents wouldn't protest that." While several concert-goers re- fused the fliers, others acknowledged the protestors' right to demonstrate outside the concert. "They have a right to be here, but I don't really agree with them," said John-Paul Belinger, an engineering first-year student. "I just ignored it." Gayle Liber, an Israeli citizen who attended the concert, said, "I don't think they know the facts. They've never had it so good. It cer- tainly wasn't as good when they were under Arab control." But Residential College first-year student Jodi Abramson said she wasn't at all offended by the demon- stration. "I think it's great that they're protesting. Their point is well-taken," she added. Daily Arts Staffer Tony Silber contributed to this story. Coalition Continued from Page i Conservative Coalition members say one possible way of getting money for such a scholarship would be to lobby the private sector. In re- turn for donating money for tuition, companies could come to the Uni- versity to recruit graduating students with the help of MS A. Although Williams supports re- cruiting more minorities to the Uni- versity, he said some students may be deterred from coming if a required class on racism is instituted. People who support the class "are setting standards and viewpoints for people who aren't here yet," he said. rip_ _ _l S xl.> ' Y- 665:. k Mr. k Yc.. k nr. 1 M rnT Y :. i l iP !I P r- . i s NATIONAL The'National organization for *omen invites U-M students to join us on APRIL 9 in Washington D.C. for the ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN MARCH for EDITORIAL STAFF: Editor in Chief News Editors Opinion Page Editors Associate Opinion Editors Photo Editors Weekend Editor Associate Weekend Editor List Editor Adam Schrager. 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