Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 9, 1990 Women L - - - - - -- - --- IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports i athletes honored by Diane Cook Daily Women's Issues Reporter The University's intercollegiate sports programs will be celebrating Girls and Women in Sports Day with half-time ceremonies at the Michigan and Ohio State women's basketball game on Sunday. Gov. James Blanchard, Senator Lana Pollack and University officials will present awards to female student athletes for their outstanding aca- demic and athletic performances. "The purpose is to raise people's consciousness of the increasing part of women in all levels of sport and sport activities," said Phyllis Ocker, associate director of women's athlet- ics and associate professor of sports management and communication. This is the fourth year the holi- day, which takes place on Feb. 8, has been recognized nation-wide. FORUM Continued from page 1 series of lectures called "Multi-tal- ented Chicanos: Will We Integrate with the Onslaught of Our Coming Power?" In December Castillo's commis- sion completed "Civil Rights in Higher Education in Michigan" and will publish it next week. The report encourages universities to develop anti-discriminatory policies, create a system to record and publish dis- crimination incidents and develop af- firmative action policies and classes on cultural pluralism. Castillo also addressed the com- mission's difficulty in maintaining adequate state funding. "When there's little growth the state spends its money on education and law en- forcement," he said. "We have re- ceived an increase each year, but with inflation its actually a de- crease." Jane Garcia, a Detroit Census Community Awareness Specialist, rAFNAI :.bTOi Spring in the middle of winter? Lars Fonberg and Magnus Warn and Ann Mace, all second-year students in the Business School, bask in yesterday's unseasonably warm weather. opened last night's lecture series with a discussion of the national census and prospects for Hispanic political power. She emphasized the importance of the census for Hispanics who want to turn their numbers into real political power, saying that under- representation in the Census means under-representation in the State House. Students can help insure that the Census counts everyone, Garcia said, asking Spanish-speaking students to "help in communities that need it, like Detroit and Adrian." "Please support the census. It will bring about some changes. You can make a difference," she asked. At the end of the evening, Mary Lou Mason, Executive Director of the Commission on Spanish-Speak- ing Affairs, presented a resolution on behalf of the Commission. The reso- lution honored the organizers of Chicano History Week for "promoting and exposing Chicano culture during Chicano History Week." ZONING Continued from page 1 with the court decision. The pro- posal is expected to be ready in a few weeks. Last month's proposal included a safety valve, which allowed for those landlords in violation of the ordi- nance with exceptional circum- stances to appeal to the city's hous- ing department. Although some city coun- cilmembers have favored leaving the ordinance unchanged and letting the courts decide, Ann Arbor Mayor Gerald Jernigan said yesterday the city would have to change the ord- nance to bring it into agreement with state law. Jernigan said the problem in drafting a new ordinance was making sure there was adequate housing for students while at the same time pro- tecting neighborhoods. "We're very sensitive to the CORRECTIONS An article in yesterday's Daily incorrectly reported a statistic. Women gain an average of 4 and one-half pounds their first year at the University. neighborhoods, but at the same time we don't want to force students to live out on the edge of town," he said. Student Legal Services spokesperson Mike Appel claimed the zoning ordinances intentionally created a student ghetto by restricting where students could afford to rent housing in Ann Arbor. "It's almost like an invisible fence around student neighborhoods keeping students bottled up," Appel explained. Most areas where students live are zoned for apartment use, limiting the number of unrelated persons liv- ing in a unit to six. The zoning ordinances are only enforced based on complaints by lo- cal residents, Appel said. City Housing Department spokesperson Wendy Rampson said zoning restrictions are needed to reg- ulate the side effects - like popula- tion density and parking scarcity - that result from unrelated persons living together. But, Appel said this shouldn't be the focus of zoning ordinances. "If the city's concerned about parking, they should legislate on parking. If they're concerned about noise they would legislate on noise." More patients were infected 4 by Detroit hospital bacteria DETROIT (AP) - State officials yesterday were preparing to release a report showing 24 to 40 more patients at Detroit Receiving Hospital were infected with a bacteria that forced the closing of an intensive care ward. Dr. William Hall of the Michigan Department of Public Health's dis- ease surveillance division declined to comment on the report, which was scheduled to be released today. He said the acinetobacter bacteria posed no: danger to patients now at the hospital. "Since the hospital has instituted certain steps to prevent spread of in-: fection, there are no unusual risks at the facility," Hall said. Last month, state officials launched an investigation after the hospital disclosed that 24 patients were infected with the hospital-spawned bacteria. Eight of those patients died, but a health department preliminary report ruled out the bacteria as a cause in four of them. Young's tax appeal rejected LANSING, Mich. - Detroit Mayor Coleman Young emerged empty- handed yesterday after lobbying legislative leaders to reinstate a utility tax that could cost the city $102 million in refunds. Young said after more than two hours of closed-door meetings that he had secured no agreements on restoring the tax, which he himself had voted against as a state senator in 1970. The tax was thrown out by a Wayne County Circuit Court judge who ruled Monday that the city has been improperly collecting the tax because it expired June 30, 1988. The city plans to appeal, but Young said lawmakers should still rein-. state the tax in order to head off a potential downgrading of the city's bond, rating by Standard and Poor's Corporation. Young initially told reporters he had no recollection of voting against the utility tax. "That's when I was a state senator. I'm mayor now," he said. Justice Dept. to sue General Dynamics over tank prices DETROIT - General Dynamics Corp., accused of overcharges on 800 tanks sold to the Army, said yesterday it thought a probe into costs of the tanks was completed a year ago. General Dynamics Land Systems Division sen 21 people to testify be- fore a federal grand jury and submitted 300,000 pages of documents in an investigation dating back to 1986, spokesman Don Gilleland said. Gilleland said the company was told a year ago that criminal charges wouldn't be pursued. "Late last year, they came back to us and said they were going to file civil charges. We don't know why," Gilleland said. The Justice Department said Wednesday it is charging in a civil law- suit that General Dynamics defrauded the Army on 800 M1 tanks. The suit does not specify damages sought, but the government told the com- pany before filing the suit in U.S. District Court in Detroit that it would ask for about $8.6 million. Bush defends military tour WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday President Bush defended his tour of military bases and tough talk on defense issues at a time of dramatic change in Moscow, saying "the timing happened to be fortuitous." The president, speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One as he re turned from a three-day trip that focused on military readiness, said he did not believe his message would be seen as running counter to this week's developments in the Soviet Union. Bush said the message he was seeking to send the Soviet Union was "one of stability, of reasonableness." Broadcasting form an underground command bunker at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, the president told the nation's nuclear- bearing forces to take some credit for the movement toward more democ: racy within the Soviet Union. EXTRASa Be happy, but still worry... NEW YORK - Getting a promotion or finding a sweetheart may make you happy now, but it could make you feel sick later on, a re- searcher says. The problem may be that sudden good fortune can be stressful for peo- ple with low self-esteem, said researcher Jonathon Brown. "If you think of yourself as basically a loser, and all of a sudden you're accepted in the best sorority in town, and you're doing really well in school - you're forced to rethink some key aspects of who you are," he said. Researchers measured students' self-esteem and asked them which "major life events" from a list had occurred to them over the previous 12 months. Students were asked four months later about illnesses they developed since completing the survey. For students with low self-esteem, the more positive events they had recorded, the more colds, sore throats, sinus in- fections, ear infections, and laryngitis they tended to report during the fol- low-up period. ~be £idbiiwn fluilg 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) $28.00 in-town and $39 out-of-town, for fall only $18.00 in-town and $22.00 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. PHONE NUMBERS: News (313)764-0552, Opinion 747-2814, Arts 763-0379, Sports 747-3336, Cir- culation 764-0558, Classified advertising 764-0557, Display advertising 764-0554, Billing 764-0550 THE;. ERS 1 & 2 "5TH AVE. 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