The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 26, 1990 - Page 3 1U Minority lounge is rededicated by Geri Alumit + Members of the Markley Minor- ity Affairs Council, and Markley minority peer advisors rededicated the Angela Davis Lounge - a minority student lounge in Markley - in 'honor of Black History Month and before planned renovations of the lounge. The Housing Division allocated 1$23,000 to refurbish the lounge, and the renovations should be completed 9:peaker by Gwen Shaffer Author and photojournalist Jean- Marie Simon pointed to Guatemala's widespread human rights violations, in contrast to the country's stunning beauty, in a lecture at Rackham Amphitheater Friday night. Simon is a consultant to Amnesty International and Americas :Watch, for whom she is writing a :report on Guatemala, and is author of Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny, a photographic es- in November. Several members of the Housing Division staff and Markley residents attended the event. Director of Hous- ing Information Leroy Williams - Markley Building Director when the lounge was first dedicated in 1974 - spoke at the rededication. "Not only was it appropriate in 1974 to name this lounge after An- gela Davis, but it is important today because she represents not only the history of the struggle of Black women, but of all third world peo- ple," Williams said. The lounge was created in 1974 due to the efforts of Black students who wanted a minority student lounge to house Markley's Minority Affairs Council. "This is an all purpose lounge, there are meetings here, but it is ba- sically used as a studying and recre- ational room," said Angela Rencher, president of the Markley Minority Affairs Council and LSA first-year student. Davis, born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham Alabama, was one of the foremost Black activists of the Civil Rights Movement. Today she is a published author and a declared Communist, and teaches Black Phi- losophy and Women's Studies at San Francisco State College in Cali- fornia. focuses on human rights say depicting the living conditions in Guatemala. Simon said tens of thousands of people have been killed in Guatemala in the last decade. She de- scribed a morgue she photographed in 1980 where "there were so many bodies on the floor there was no place to step." Simon said government-organized civil patrols attempt to cut off sup- port for the guerrillas. "Basically, any man capable of holding a gun is recruited," said Simon. "Controllers are told to turn in anyone suspected of collaborating with the guerrillas, pitting brother against brother," she explained. Although participation in the pa- trols is voluntary according to Gautemalan law, Simon said men are actually forced to serve. Simon said the guerrilla move- ment never really posed a threat to the Guatemalan government and Guatemalan men only join the guer- rillas when "their options are one of three things: death, living in exile, or joining the guerillas." Though some students said they wished Simon had spoken more on U.S. relations with Guatemala, Julie Kirchgatter, first-year LSA student, said, "Simon gave me a better under- standing of the problems in Guatemala." Women for Guatemala, a group which supports Guatemalan widows, was the primary sponsor of the lec- ture. Police blame blizzard for auto accidents Associated Press The coldest air since late Decem- ber swept across the state yesterday as cities and rural areas alike recov- ered from blizzard-like conditions blamed for hundreds of traffic acci- dents and at least one death the day before. The low was 3 degrees yesterday morning in Detroit and was expected to sink below the zero mark yester- day night, the National Weather Ser- vice said. It was the coldest day since Dec. 27 when the low was 9. "We've had the coldest single readings since the last part of De- cember," said rmeteorologist Bill Deedler of the weather service's De- troit office. "The normal low for this time of the year is in the 20s." The arctic chill followed blowing snow and icy road conditions Satur- day that were to blame for a flood of accidents and some freeway closings. A pileup on interstate 94 in Ber- rien County led to the death of a Grand Rapids woman. Dawn Warsaw was struck about 11 a.m. Saturday in the freeway's westbound lane, state police at the New Buffalo post said. In honor of... Nationally renowned poet Gwendolyn Brooks read her poetry Friday evening in the Rackham Auditorium as part of a celebration to honor Robert Hayden. Hayden, a native of Detroit, was a graduate and teaching assistant at the University of Michigan. The three-day conference honoring Hayden featured poetry readings by University professors and poets from across the country. More than 400 people attended the conference. Comprehensive Studies Program reaches to students by Julie Foster First in a four-part series LSA senior Selena Brown may -be from Detroit, Michigan, but she 'calls the Comprehensive Studies :Program, her home away from home. "You get to know everyone, :and we all work together just like a family," she said. CSP formed in 1983 to provide minority students with intensive class instruction, personal counsel- ing, tutorial services, a mentorship aprogram, and internships. As it was designed, the program became a ;composite of two earlier minority support organizations: The Opportu- nity Program and The Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills. While CSP is open to all stu- dents, 90 percent of its approxi- mately 1,400 participants are minor- ity students. The program focuses its outreach and recruiting toward minority stu- dents, said CSP counselor Gus Pap- pas. The admissions office counselors will place a student in CSP if they feel the student will benefit from CSP's programs, Pappas said. Any LSA student can apply for CSP ad- mission, but one does not have to apply to be placed in the program. To apply students fill out a ques- tionnaire and a personal data sheet; then, the student is assigned a coun- selor. No student has ever been denied acceptance to the program. But be- cause of it's growing popularity Pappas said: "We're pretay much at our limit now." CSP provides intensive courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, English, Spanish, and French. Stu- dents in CSP sections are required to spend an extra one to two hours in class each week. "CSP sections allow you to meet more times a week, which some- times can be tedious, but you spend more time, have more practice, and perform better," Brown said. CSP also offers individual and group tutorial services for over 200 students enrolled in a number of courses. Another feature of CSP is its counseling services. Each CSP stu- dent is assigned one counselor and ECHjGAN RECORDS* remains with that counselor throughout his or her college years, meeting several times during the year. Along with academic concerns, CSP counselors discuss personal concerns with the students ranging from family problems to roommate conflicts. Students do not have to take CSP courses to receive the counseling. "I'm Puerto Rican. I don't have my parents. I had never seen snow before I came here. So I feel the counseling program is very helpful. I just come for counseling," said Juan Arce, an LSA senior. Terrence Brown, associate director of CSP counseling, said he feels the personal approach is more beneficial to students than general LSA coun- seling, "If you know a student, you have a good sense of what their tal- ents are and can find the best way to assist them." If a student-counselor relationship doesn't work for some reason, the student is free to switch counselors. "We are really here to serve the stu- dents. So if one counselor works better (for the student) we will make the switch," said Brown. The CSP lounge is open throughout the day for students to sit over coffee and talk with other stu- dents, and counselors are available all day long. "I think the majority of the stu- dent population could benefit from our program if they're willing to put in the time and work a little bit harder than they would under a nor- mal situation," said Dr. Ralph Story, associate director for CSP administration. CSP has many students willing to put in the extra effort. Mitchell Adler, an LSA junior currently ap- plying for CSP, stated, "There's so many benefits that this program of- fers, why in the world doesn't ev- eryone take advantage of it?" CORRECTIONS Alpha Phi Alpha, the Angell Club and Alpha Phi Omega sponsored the Red Cross Blood Drive held earlier this month. The Daily incorrectly reported this information. WhTHE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today RECORDS 1140 SOUTH UNIVERSI -Directly above Good Time Chark PH: 663-5800 9:00 P.M.-1:00 A.M. TONIGHT ONLY TY STORE HOURS: ey'S MON-SAT: 9 AM-10 PM SUN: 11 AM-8 PM 599 "Just say ON COMPACT DISC ONLY! 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