40 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 19, 1989 NASA enlists 'U' to inspire youth by Diane Cook Dairy Research Reporter The National Aeronautic and Space Association has enlisted the University's help to inspire more students to prepare for science and math-related careers. During the next five years, NASA will give the University and three other state colleges more than $1 million to set up workshops, fel- lowships, and a space information center throughout the state. The program will focus on stu- dents enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade. University Engineering Prof. Joe Eisley will coordinate the NASA funds for the entire Space Grant con- sortium, which includes Wayne State University, Michigan Technological University, and Saginaw Valley State University. "Part of the effort will be to in- terest (the students) and encourage them to take the classes which will prepare them to go to college and take science and engineering classes," Eisley said. The program will receive $75,000 for fiscal year 1989 and up to $225,000 annually for the four subsequent years. The grants are conditional on matching funds from engineering and science-related indus- try and other private sources. Each university in the Michigan consortium will also receive $100,000 per year to support gradu- ate and undergraduate fellowships. Eighty-one schools nationwide, under 17 consortiums, are participat- ing in the program. Cornell, Penn State and the universities of Alabama and Arizona are among other colleges receiving NASA grants. The consortium aims at increas- ing the involvement of women and underrepresented minorities in the program. "The potential pool (of science and engineering college students) is three boys to every girl. We'd like to raise that to two and two," said Eisley. "The motivation behind it, I be- lieve, is that NASA is concerned about the background of its employ- ees in science and engineering," he said. The money largely went to re- search institutions, but "it's not for research in the traditional sense. It's for outreach," he said. "What we get out of it is support to extend and ex- pand outside activities that were al- ready in progress." Rep. : Voters should decide on execution WARREN (AP) - State lawmakers should let voters-decide if first-degree murderers should be executed, a Michigan legislator said yesterday at a public hearing on the emotional issue. "People have tried many times to get a peti- tion and it just doesn't work," said Rep. John Maynard (D-St. Clair Shores). "The legislature is a quicker method." Maynard's comments drew raves and criti- cisms from about 80 people at the house Oversight Committee's first public hearing on the death penalty resolution, sponsored by Maynard. A subcommittee plans to hold two more hear- ings this fall and up to three more next year, said Rep. Pat Gagliardi (D-Drummond Island) and chair of the committee. If the committee recommends putting the is- sue on the ballot, approval would be needed from the House and the Senate before it would go be- fore voters, possibly in November 1990 or 1992, Maynard said. Sen. Jack Welborn (R-Kalamazoo) also has proposed the death penalty for first-degree murder convictions. The latest push is renewing heated debate over whether killers should meet the same fate as their victims. 'I think it would be a deterrent to people who commit these crimes," said Nancy Bates of Utica in Macomb County, who attended the hearing. State Rep. Maxine Berman (D-Southfield) said she would need a guarantee of equal justice in order to support the death penalty. She said poor people and minorities would end up on Death Row mainly because they couldn't afford attorneys to appeal. Her comment drew some applause. "It's not a black and white issue," said state Rep. David Jaye (R-Utica). "It's an issue of law and order. I think there's such a thing as being scared straight." Patrick Thompson, coordinator of the Michigan Coalition Against the Death Penalty, said there have been cases of innocent people convicted of murder. "The point is, mistakes are made," he said. "We have in place a sane public policy issue and I don't think it should be voted on." Capital punishment was abolished in Michigan in 1846 and prohibited in the state constitution adopted in 1963. Bush discusses Soviets, other issues, with press HELENA, Mont. (AP) - President Bush defended the slow pace of arms negotiations with the Soviet Union yesterday, and said "it's not time for normalcy" in rela- tions with China, despite a gradual increase in contacts since last sum- mer's bloody crackdown on student dissent in Beijing. In a wide-ranging session with reporters in the ornate Senate cham- ber of the Montana legislature, Bush said reforms in Hungary had made it possible to extend new economic privileges to the Communist nation. The president was emphasizing environmental issues in a three-state swing to South Dakota, Montana and Washington, defending his deci- sion not to travel to Alaska to view the oil spill damage in Prince SWilliam Sound. He said he was hopeful that "winter will be kind" in restoring environmental conditions in Alaskan waters. He said he'd sent his "environmental vice president" to in- spect the clean-up efforts and pre- DIVERSITY Continued from Page 1 are disadvantaged compared to others because "they are forced to work 20 to 30 hours a week on work-study," she continued. "Retention is not that good," agreed Michigan Student Assembly President Aaron Williams, an engi- dicted that Exxon would "come back" next spring if further clean-up was necessary. neerir:g senior. He added that recent studIies are showing a drop in the universityenrollment of Black stu- dents across the country. Williams speculated that financial problems and inhospitable environ- ments may be reasons for the drop in numbers at the University and na- tionwide. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Soviet Central Committee debates ethnic tensions MOSCOW - Communist Party leaders converged on Moscow yester- day for a Central Committee meeting on the ethnic problems that have left more than 200 people dead, one republic virtually blockaded and mass movements calling for secession. In the past 18 months, ethnic tensions in this country of more than 100 nationalities have caused violence to break out in several regions. The ethnic problems have combined with severe shortages of consumer goods, food rationing and unsettling political changes, all of which threaten Gorbachev's programs of economic and social restructuring. Gorbachev said last week on national television that discordant voices are speculating openly about the possibility of a coup, imminent chaos, and even civil war. The Communist Party says it hopes to create a situation where all Soviet citizens can "feel at home in any part of the country." Hold-up stalls plans for Israeli=Palestinian dialogue CAIRO, Egypt - Israel's defense minister told President Hosni Mubarak yesterday that Israel would accept an Egyptian-sponsored dia- logue with Palestinians, but the two leaders disagreed on the composition of the Arab delegation. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Mubarak aired their disagreement publicly after meeting in Cairo for more than three hours. At a news conference, Rabin said Israel advocated negotiations only with Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel since 1967. At a separate news conference, Mubarak insisted that Palestinians from outside the territories be included as well. But both leaders voiced cautious optimism about the current Israeli- Egyptian exchanges on a scenario for overall settlement of the Palestinian problem, which has kept the Middle East in turmoil for four decades. Schuette to run for Senate LANSING - U.S. Representative Bill Schuette announced yesterday that he will give up his safe congressional seat next year to run for the nomination by the Republicans to run for the seat held by Democratic incumbent Carl Levin. "Life isn't risk free, but if I wasn't convinced that I could win, I wouldn't run," the Sanford Republican said. Schuette, a conservative three-term representative re-elected last year with 73 percent of the vote, joins Detroit lawyer Clark Durant in the GOP field. In Lansing, Schuette declined to compare himself to Durant saying, "He's a fine man. My focus is on Carl Levin," citing former President's Reagan's 11th Commandment that Republicans shouldn't crit- icize each other. So far, Schuette has raised more than $1.1 million for his campaign. Ford recalls half a million cars WASHINGTON - Ford Motor Co. said Monday it is recalling nearly 493,000 Escorts and Mercury Lynxes to fix faulty emission-control sys- tems, and 67,156 Tracers because of an apparent seat-belt defect. Repairs of either problem will be made at no charge regardless of a ve- hicle's age or mileage. The vehicles recalled for emission-system improvements include the 1985 Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx and the 1986 Escort, Lynx and Ford EXP. Tests for excess emissions were conducted at EPA laboratories in northern Virginia and Ann Arbor. The Tracers being recalled were made in the 1988 model year. There are 66,314 in the U.S. and 842 in Canada, Ford said. In some cases, it has become difficult to extend the front-seat lap- shoulder belts for buckling unless they are pulled very slowly, the com- pany said. A few of the belts may lock and be impossible to pull out. EXT R AS Junior goes 1,600 for 1,600 on SATs, says 'no secret' ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Don Cruse doesn't quite understand what all the excitement is about - all he did was score a perfect 1,600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. "There really is no secret," said Cruse, a junior at Martin High School. "The test includes material that's covered in class. And I have to study just like other students. I'm just not used to all this attention." But test administrators and Arlington school officials said the 16- year-old is too modest. Cruse was on of only 14 students in the nation who achieved a per- fect score on the SAT during the 1988-89 school year. The national av- erage score was 903. And while most students wait until their senior year to take the col- lege entrance exam, Cruse did it as a sophomore. Cruse's class schedule this semester includes Latin II, pre-calculus, physics, English, history and biology. All but Latin II are advance classes. 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