Nite Owl offers safe haven to students by Jason Carter To most people, the late night appearances of the white "Nite Owl" vans provide just another fleeting glimpse of the many generic University-owned vehicles. * But the inconspicuous vans are a sanctuary for those who fear travers- ing the University campus by them- selves during the late hours. Without the Nite Owl, "it wouldn't stop me from going to the library, but it does make me feel safer," said junior Kathi Halloran, Who rides the bus about three times a week.. LSA junior and Nite Owl driver Courtney Hallowell said he used the service for two years before he started driving the buses this year. "Late at night my freshman year, when I was at the library, the first thing I turned to was the Nite Owl service," he said. A driving force behind the Nite Owl service is manager and LSA fifth-year student John Wood, who has driven the buses for three years. "It's an important part of the safety program," Wood said. "It does make a difference." Wood said that between the two routes spanning campus, the Nite Owl serves up to 250 people a night. About 75 percent of the riders are female, he said. Wood said the service has planned several improvements, including a small extension in the route and more feedback from the riders. The Night Owl began in 1977, when violent crimes were surging on campus, Wood said. The staff and equipment are funded by the University. The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 25, 1989 - Page 3 Colombian judges threaten strike BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's 4,600 judges, facing persistent death threats from drug traffickers, threatened yesterday to strike if the government doesn't give them better protection. Residents of Bogota endured an- other night of bombings Saturday as bombs exploded in a theater, a city bus company's garage, and at a neighborhood headquarters of the rul- ing Liberal party. The three bombs injured two people, national police said. In the last month, 103 bombs have killed six people and wounded 130. Colombia's judges, fearing for their lives, said in a statement issued through their labor union, the National Association of Judicial Workers, that they will go on strike if immediate action is not taken to address the dangers they face. Since 1981, about 50 judges and 170 judicial employees have been killed. Antonio Morales, president of' the Association of Judicial Employees, has said at least 1,600 of Colombia's 5,000 judges have been threatened with death in the last 12 months. Union officials are to meet today with acting Justice Minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds. "We don't see any will on the part of the government to increase security for our lives," said Antonio Suarez Nino, the president of the judges' union. The judges, who earn about $400 a.month, repeated previous demands for bulletproof cars and vests, guards with metal detectors at their offices, and other security measures. Monica de Greiff, who resigned as justice minister last week after be- ing threatened by drug traffickers, said she was promised $19 million in U.S. aid earlier this month for the purpose of protecting judges. But the union said it has heard nothing since about the aid. The anti-drug crusading newspa- per El Espectador, in a column by its editor, Juan Guillermo Cano, ac- cused Colombia's congress yesterday of being cowardly and corrupt. "It is not a very admirable congress. Better yet, it is cow- ardly...," Cano said in a signed col- umn in the Bogota daily. His father, Guillermo Cano, was killed by drug traffickers in 1987 after the newspaper called on the government to crack down on the traffickers. "We have finally hit the bottom," the column said yesterday, in the harshest criticism ever published in the newspaper. Associated Press Blueberry checkers Inspectors at the Maine Wild Blueberry, conveyor belt to their final destination. Co. ensure that only mature, unbroken blueberries pass beyond the Michigan HUD undergoes audit on performance DETROIT (AP) - Auditors for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, itself rocked by charges of mismanagement, have raised simi- lar allegations against the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. A five-month HUD audit ending in August 1988 ex- amined the Michigan housing authority's performance from Oct. 1, 1984 to June 30, 1988. The MSHDA ad- ministers some federal programs on behalf of HUD. Michigan housing officials have been accused of a variety of wrongdoings, including misuse of tax dollars on renovations for families earning more than $50,000 annually, the Detroit Free Press said in its Sunday edi- tions. "We're working with HUD in responding to the au- dit findings," said Terrence Duvernay, executive direc- tory of MSHDA. The renovation of the 128-unit Walnut Creek Apartments in Flat Rock, south of Detroit, was cited in the HUD report. The complex, built in 1972, was located near two Ford Motor Co. plants. With a boom under way in the auto industry, the vacancy rate was near zero when Cleveland-based TransCon Builders Inc. bought Walnut Creek from HUD in August 1979. Just 16 months later, however, the vacancy rate be- gan growing to 45 percent and maintenance of the build- ings fell behind after Ford announced cuts eliminating 20,000 jobs in Detroit's southern suburbs. In 1983, TransCon asked the MSHDA to accept Walnut Creek under HUD's moderate rehabilitation pro- gram so a TransCon subsidiary could perform more than $559,000 in renovations. Under the program, developers can receive thousands of dollars per apartment for limited repairs, but only units occupied by low-income families are eligible. But at Walnut Creek, the MSHDA accepted some apartments occupied by families earning up to $50,000 annually, more than double the maximum allowed HUD regulations. r Y x t I Taubmain rogram in American Institutions Summer Internships Business, Government, Non-Profit Organizations MASS MEETING Open to all Students Monday, September 25 Summer research project participants display work *by Shara Smiley About 75 students, selected last March to participate in the University's Summer Research Qpportunity Program, had their work displayed at Rackham Graduate School during a symposium yester- day. The students, who were selected from a pool of 150 applicants, earned $5,000 for their research dur- * ing the eight-week summer program. Students were allowed to carry their work through the fall semester if necessary. Yesterday, they had a chance to display their projects, including stud- ies on the Herpes virus, "Rap Music as an Educational Tool," objectivity in journalism, and "Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles Trapped in Stable Matter." The 3-year-old program is de- signed to provide American minority college undergraduates with the op- portunity to gain experience in their field. In the program, they work with professors affiliated with the program. Applicants apply in February and, if selected, go through another selection process in March. Marilyn Gordon, coordinator of the program and the Rackham Graduate School minority office, said, "We don't necessarily look for the student with the highest GPA; we search for applicants who exhibit a sense of creativity and genuine de- sire to research a subject". One participant, Tony Yang, said, "It was a good experience and will be a great stepping stone to- wards a job in research." 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