Forum
addresses
Israell
statehood
by Jody Weinberg
Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig, direc-
tor of the Holocaust Memorial in
West Bloomfield, Mich., told an au-
dience of over 40 people at Hillel
last night that "anti-Zionism pro-
ceeded and succeeded anti-semitism
and is much more dangerous."
Rosenzweig said anti-semites tell
Jews to go back to Palestine, while
anti-Zionists leave the Jews no
home at all. "Anti-Zionism is sort
of putting Jews in a no-man's land,"
Rosenzweig said.
Jamal El-Hindi, third year law
student, said Rosenzweig "attempted
to clarify the distinction between
anti-semitism and anti-Zionism but
unfortunately he backed down. "
"I was disappointed because much
of the problem that exists on this
campus is rooted in the fact that pro-
Israeli groops too quickly label any-
thing that is anti-Israel as anti-
semitic," El-Hindi said.
A member of the audience asked
Rosenzweig about the idea of a bi-
national state where Jews and Arabs
would live together. Rosenzweig ex-
pressed a great deal of doubt about
such a state's success.
Dan DeRuyter, an LSA senior
The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 26, 1990 - Page 5
'U' art junior takes first
in college comedy contest
by Ruth Littmann
Tom Franck, Art School junior
and regular host at the University
Activity Center's Laughtrack, won
the second annual U.S. College
Comedy Competition Wednesday
night.
A video tape of Franck's perfor-
mance will be sent to a regional
competition, from which winners
will compete nationally for a chance
to appear on MTV.
The event, sponsored by Certs
and the University Activities Cen-
ter's Laughtrack, attracted hundreds
of comedy-goers.
Ten student comedians, on stage
for three to five minutes each, com-
peted for the comedy title, poking
fun at first dates, juggling machetes
and cracking condom jokes.
Backstage, nervous contestants
craned their necks, searching for
friends in the audience. "My stomach
feels like mayonnaise," said contes-
tant and LSA first-year student Jen-
nifer Balaban. "But if I wasn't
funny, I wouldn't be here."
The contestants were required to
use "clean humor." Ray Steinman,
an organizer of Certs' promotions,
said, "If you're like Richard Pryor,
you're going to be expelled from the
competition."
"The competition's great because
there are rules that go along with it,"
said the show's host, Pat McGreal, a
professional New York City come-
dian. "The comedy has to be clean,
original, clever. It's so easy to make
people laugh with cheap shots."
"We considered stage presence,
humor content, originality, flow,
and audience response," said one of
.the competition's judges, Kerry
Birmingham, an LSA senior and
Laughtrack chair.
"As usual, the crowd at Laugh-
track was in a great mood," Birm-
ingham said at the end of the
evening.
McGreal added, "The University
of Michigan audience was one of the
best audiences yet. I'm exhausted."
Auto plant closing stirs protest
Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig spoke about Zionism last night to more than
40 people at Hillel.
and co-chair of TAGAR said of the
global issue of Zionism, "To peo-
ple, like my grandfather, who were
in the Resistance, the anti-Zionist
propaganda sounds exactly the same
as the Nazi propaganda and the Eu-
ropean Resistance veterans are one
hundred percent behind Israel as I've
seen it."
Laura Cibul, LSA senior and co-
chair of TAGAR- the student orga-
nization which sponsored the
event- said she viewed the rabbi's
visit as a chance to "try to educate"
people. TAGAR means"the spirit of
the challenge."
DeRuyter said that "one of the
unique things about TAGAR is that
we have both Jews and Christians
who are pro-Israeli."
by Mark Buchan and
Greg Rowe
Braving high winds and freezing
rain, about 400 auto workers gath-
ered yesterday outside the Detroit
Chrysler Assembly Plant on Jeffer-
son Avenue to protest the latest
plant closings and layoffs.
The protestors chanted slogans
such as "You hurt one of us; you
hurt all of us" and "Chrysler says
'cut back'; we say 'fight back,' " and
carried banners asking, "What about
our kids?"
UAW Local 2500 President
Sally Bier spoke to the crowd about
the ten-year history of workers' con-
cessions and cooperation with
Chrysler. Bier said Chrysler has
raked in record profits, yet closed its
plants and cut half a million jobs.
"It is our years of labor that have
built these products; we have made
the millions of dollars for Chrysler.
This rally is only the beginning,"
she added.
Jesse Hooper, a member of New
Directions, a large reform group
within the UAW which supported
the rally, said progress could only be
made through a union movement
which truly represented the will of
the workforce. "The problem is not
with the Fords and Chryslers, it is
not with the Roger Smiths (CEO of
GM), it is not with Iacocca, it is
with the UAW," he said.
Pete Kelly, president of UAW
Local 160, said labor comprises only
15% of manufacturing costs, and ad-
vised lowering car prices as an alter-
native to reducing the workforce.
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Car factory workers and members
of Community Against Plant Clo-
sures, an ad hoc group formed to
protest the closing of the Jefferson
plant, organized the demonstration
with support from New Directions.
Chrysler will close the Jefferson
plant, the last assembly plant re-
maining in central Detroit, on
February 2. Jefferson was the first
plant to negotiate wage concessions
at the beginning of the 1980s
General Motors and Chrysler
claim the closings are necessary due
to sales slumps.
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