A Pae 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 2, 1989 Hopwood awards encourage writers by Amy Quick Before Scott Lasser, a graduate student and creative writing teaching assistant, won a major fiction-short story Hopwood award in 1988, he was discouraged about his writing. After receiving rejection after rejection, he was beginning to wonder if his efforts were really worth it. Winning the Hopwood award, Lasser said, was his first real encouragement. The Hopwood Prizes are literary awards presented three times a year to the best student writers in the categories of fiction, essay, poetry, and drama. Each award winner receives a cash reward ranging anywhere from $150 to $3,000. Even without the money, the Hopwood is a prestigious award, one of the only nationally recognized college-level writing awards. Writers have decided to attend Michigan in hopes of winning a Hopwood. In the past, agents have been sent to the awards ceremony to scout for new writers. Some former Hopwood winners include Arthur Miller, Robert Hayden, Lawrence Kasdan, Marge Piercy, Frank O'Hara, John Ciardi, and Edmund White. Graduate student Michael Barrett, a major fiction-short story winner, said the award "was a real confirmation that I am a writer." "Ninety percent of writing is done because you just know you want to do it; you have something to say. But for the other 10 percent... it really helps to have support like that." The Hopwood contest, first held in the 1930-1931 academic year, was created by 1905 University graduate Avery Hopwood. Hopwood, a successful Broadway playwright during the 1920s and 1930s, decided in 1922 to leave one-fifth of his estate to the University. In his will, he created the rules for the Hopwood Contests. Last year the Hopwoods awarded more than one million dollars. To ensure that the Hopwood estate money goes mainly toward awards, Prof. Nicholas Delblanco, the Hopwood chair, organizes numerous fundraisers to fund the Hopwood speakers, advertising, and administration. To be eligible to submit work, students must be enrolled in a writing course of at least two credits in the English or communications departments. Students in Residential College writing courses also are eligible. Literature courses, however, do not qualify students. Undergrads must be registered for at least six credits each term and maintain a C average for the previous full term, while graduate students must maintain a B average. All students entering the Hopwood Contests must mail an unofficial fall 1989 transcript to the Hopwood Room at 1006 Angell, along with their manuscripts by Feb. 13, 1990 at 12:00 noon. To ensure that transcripts arrive on time, the last day to order them is Feb. 5, 1990. Foresters loan World Bank some advice by Mike Fitzgibbon Third World foresters, during an international seminar last week at the University's School of Natural Resources, discussed the effects of International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies on their coun- tries. If tlhe U.S. decides to add money to the IMF and the World Bank funds, the foresters said, their gov- ernments will be able to continue Hall k Af tei Coi programs that are crucial to their countries and the world's environ- ment. The foresters - from Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nicaragua, and other Third World countries - were taking part in the Sixth International Seminar on Forest Administration and Management, sponsored by the University's natu- ral resources school and the U.S. Forest Service last Wednesday. IOff I "Whether you are from an afflu- ent country, or not, the environment affects everybody," said Narendre Shrestha, Nepal's chief of commu- nity forestry. "'Global warming/global warn- ing,' is a slogan around the world now," he said, referring to recent warming of the Earth, which scien- tists attribute, in part, to massive cutting of tropical rain forests. Shrestha said he expects that this year the World Bank will be much more environmentally concerned with regard to its loans to less de- veloped countries. The foresters did not focus on the Washington, D.C. meeting, but did express concern for its possible ef- fects on natural resource programs in their countries. Shrestha said reduced lending by banks, increasing debt service, falling commodity prices, inflation, and tightening fiscal situations of donor countries have reduced the economic prospects of less developed countries. He said, "Environmental programs are seen as luxuries against the welfare of the people." Jean-Jaques Rey, a member of the Belgian IMF delegation, commented after the meeting, "Many sharehold- ers of the World Bank now insist that great care should be held in the incidence of development projects on the environment." However, Rey said the IMF tradi- tionally abjures responsibility for such matters. "It's the overall sum total of these policies that concern the IMF," said Rey, who was visit- ing Ann Arbor on Friday. But, he noted, "The U.S. Congress asked the U.S. delegate to the IMF for greater concern on the environment, also." Kayondo Matthias, the senior See IMF, page 5 r 100 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Fumes fill Metro radar room ROMULUS, Mich. - Noxious fumes forced Detroit Metropolitan Airport's traffic controllers to evacuate their radar room Sunday, turning their duties over to an Ohio radar station. Fumes from a roofing compound began wafting into the radar room about 3:50 p.m., causing light-headedness and making it difficult to breathe, said Al Russell, assistant manager for plans and procedures at the airport Some flights were delayed because of the evacuation, Russell said. Flights were being guided here by controllers at Oberlin, Ohio, where the airport's regular radar backup is located, he said. Oberlin is about 130 miles southeast of Detroit. The smelly compound was being applied to a roof on a two-story building next to the control tower when fumes got into the ventilation system for the radar room, located on the tower's third floor. Thousands of East Germans continue stunning exodus HOF, West Germany - Thousand of East Germans arrived to a triumphal welcome in West Germany yesterday after their government agreed to let them flee to the West, the latest chapter in a historic exodus from an increasingly splintered Soviet bloc. "We had no future there," said Uwe Kuester of Cottbus. About 6,000 refugees either arrived or were on their way from Czechoslovakia, border police said, and another 800 arrived from Poland. The refugees had stayed for weeks in West German embassies in Warsaw and Prague after they were unable to reach Hungary, a liberal Warsaw pact nation that had opened its border to the East German refugees. The new arrivals follow more than 24,000 East Germans who have fled though Hungary since September 10, when the reform minded Communist government in Budapest decided to open its border. Namibians vote for freedom WINDHOEK, Nambia - After 74 years under South African rule, Namibians are engaged in an electroral free-for-all for the right to lead the; territory into independence. In voting set for Nov. 7-11, Nambia had the opportunity to transform itself from Africa's last colony into one of the continent's most politically diverse and democratic nations. The campaign had been marked by violence and intimidation, but it also is a rarity in Africa: a multiparty competition where the outcome is in doubt. There are 10 parties that include leftists, rightists, all-white parties, all-black parties and multiracial parties. The front-runner is the South-West Africa People's Organization, the Black-dominated independence movement that waged a 23-year war against South African rule. Lebanese debate Syrian force TAIF, Saudi Arabia - Lebanese lawmakers clashed yesterday over the presence of Syrian troops in their country and Christian leader Gen. Michel Aoun demanded a timetable for their pullout before agreeing to peace. In Beirut, where Aoun made his comments, Christian forces and Syrian-backed Druse militiamen battled for 15 minutes around the moun- tain garrison of Souk al-Gharb, testing a fragile cease-fire. No casualties were reported. Reporters are barred from the Parliament.sessions in Taif, a Saudi Arabian resort, and from direct access to the lawmakers. But sources at the meeting reported a stormy session yesterday as the 63 members of Parliament - 33 Christians and 30.Moslems - gathered for a second day in their bid to end the 14-year-old civil war and address an Arab League peace plan. The session was dominated by disagreements between Christians and Moslems over what Syria's role in Lebanon should be, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. EXTRAS Psychic fails to stop train MOSCOW -E. Frenkel, one of the Soviet Unions's growing number of psychic healers and mentalists, claimed he used his powers to stop bicycles, automobiles and streetcars. He thought he was ready for something bigger, so he stepped in front of a freight train. It didn't work. The engineer of the train that killed Frenkel said the psychic stepped onto the tracks with his arms raised, his head lowered and his body tensed. The daily Sovietskaya Rossiya yesterday said investigators looking into Frenkel's fatal decision found the answer in the briefcase he left by the side of the track. "First I stopped a bicycle, cars, and a streetcar, " Frenkel wrote in notes that the investigators found. "Now I'm going to stop a train." Afe ou ist10cpieslsheorga. After your first 100 copies of a single sheet original. the rest are Half Price! kinko' thie copy center OPEN 24 HOURS OPEN 7 DAYS OPEN 24 HOURS 1220 S. University Michigan Union 540 E. Liberty 747-9070 662-1222 761-4539 BLACK STUDENT PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Annual Distinguished Lecture Series Presents. ADOLESCENT FATHERHOOD: PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSEQUENCES IN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SAMPLE A Lecture by DR. 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