Pollack urges students to alleviate hunger problem The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 20, 1990 - Page 3 Faculty elects new executive representatiydves by Donna Woodwell I By Debbie Herz "There's absolutely no reason to, tolerate poverty in this country," said State Senator Lana Pollack (D-Ann Arbor), to students in the Union l1allroom yesterday. Pollack's speech commemorated the beginning of Students Working AgainstToday's qunger Week. "Just because other countries have become wealthier than the U.S. doesn't mean we are poor. What we do with the wealth we have deter- mines how many homeless, hungry, and poor people there are," Pollack, siid. "Michigan residents spend $8 bil- lion on K-12 education. The same state residents send $10 billion to tie federal government for militaryI splending," Pollack said, adding that1 thte money could be better spent on{ education.1 Pollack said one-fifth of the country's children are growing up in poverty. "These children are at risk 'What we do with the wealth we have deter- mines how many homeless, hungry, and poor people there are - Lana Pollack State Senator for poor health and poor achieve- ment. They won't be able to hold down jobs," she said. While children have been largely ignored, poverty among older people has decreased in the last decade; so- cial security, Medicare and effective political organizing have helped im- prove their situation, Pollack added. Economically, she said, women and Blacks suffer disproportionately in the U.S. When women get jobs, they often average $6,000 a year at the minimum wage, Pollack said. "It's not enough to have a job if the pay doesn't put a roof over your head and feed your children." Pollack sup- ports an increase in the minimum wage. Last week, Pollack introduced a bill to make family planning a basic service for the poor. "One million dollars spent on family planning saves the government $18 million spent later on welfare and health care costs. It's a good investment," she said after the speech. Pollack urged students to work within the system to solve the press- ing issues of hunger and poverty. Pollack "Run for office" and "Vote" were her two most persistent messages. SWAT Hunger is also providing information tables which will re- main in the MUG today. Also, they will hold a service day Saturday to clean at two local churches and de- liver Meals on Wheels in Ypsilanti. Sunday night there will be a benefit concert at Rick's Cafe featuring the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band. Daily Faculty Reporter The faculty's legislative assem- bly yesterday elected three new members to its nine-member execu- tive committee - History Prof. Thomas Tentler, Health Services Prof. Roy Penchansky, and English Prof. Ejner Jensen. They will as- sume their duties on the executive board May 7. Tentler is currently a member of the Religious Studies Executive Committee and Interim Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Col- legium. He has also served on LSA's English Composition Board. "I'm very honored, but it is a lot of work and I have some misgiv- ings. I'm horrified at the thought," said Tentler about his new position. Penchansky is the chair of the Senate Assembly's Committee on the economic status of the faculty. He also serves on the School of Public Health's executive committee and has been chair of the Committee on the University's Health Care Costs. Jensen serves on the Senate Assembly's Budget Priorities Com- mittee, the Library Council and the English Language and Literature Ex- ecutive Committee. Tentler, Penchansky, and Jensen are replacing Internal Medicine Prof. William Dobbins, English Prof. Thomas Lenaghan, and Music The- ory Prof. Edward Chudacoff on the assembly's executive branch, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, whose three-year terms have expired. Lenaghan said the new members "will do just fine. I think they'll be very good." However, he said he doubted their appointment would herald any changes in the Commit- tee's decision-making. The Committee - which meets once a week - advises the President and the Executive Officers, enforces actions of the assembly, and coordi- nates the faculty government com- mittees. The 72-member assembly meets monthly to discuss central or con- troversial university issues. Its seats are allocated to each school or col- lege according to the number of fac- ulty in the unit. CORRECTIONS A l Daily was in error in identifying the socialist organization the Work- ers League, as the National Workers Leiague. In addition, the Daily misidentified Helen Halyard, she is tho Assistant National Secretary of the League. Members of the League have not spoken at meetings of the Uidergraduate Political Science As- sociation. The Association said no proof exists connecting any individ- uao to the letter sent to David North. Judge overrules mistrial motion in Poindexter case WASHINGTON (AP) - A fed- eral judge yesterday denied a mistrial motion by John Poindexter that was triggered by a reference in open court to testimony Poindexter had given Congress under a grant of immunity. The information in the reference was "not new at all," said the judge in Poindexter's Iran-Contra trial. With Rep. Lee Hamilton on the witness stand, prosecutor Dan Webb THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Meetings LaGROC - The Lesbian and Gay Mens' Rights Organizing Com- mittee meets at 7:30 p.m. in Union 3100; 7 p.m. to set agenda Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry - weekly meeting at 6:30 p.m. in Hillel Women's Club Lacrosse - practice 4-6 p.m. at the Sports Coliseum (5th and Hill) UM Cycling --- team meeting and rollers riding 6 p.m. in the Sports, Coliseum Arab-American Anti- discrimination Committee --- meeting at 7 p.m. in the Union (check board for room) Asian American Women's Journal --- meeting at 5 p.m. in South Quad's Afro-American Lounge Ann Arbor Committee to Defend Abortion and Reproductive -Rights (A2CDAR2) --- new members meeting at 5:15 p.m., general body meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Union Women's Issues Commission of MSA --- meeting at 6:30 p.m. in 3909 Union Iranian Student Cultural Club - - meeting at 7:45 p.m.. in the Michigan League TARDAA (Time and Relative Dimensions in Ann Arbor) --- Dr. Who/BBC event at 8 p.m. in 2413 Mason Hall Students Concerned About 'Animal Rights (SCAR) --- meeting at 7 p.m. in the Union 'Wolverine Room Indian And Pakistani ;American Students' Council-- ,general body meeting from 6:30-8 :p.m. in the South Quad Ambatana Lounge 'Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) --- membership meeting at 8 p.m. in ,the Union Kuenzel Room :Society of Minority Engineering Students (SMES) --- membership meeting and speaker Anne Monterio on "Engineering: The Flexible :Degree" from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in 1500 EECS Speakers "Membranes in Analytical :Chemistry: A Personal Tour" - -- Purnendu K. Dasgupta speaks at 4 p.m. in Room 1640 Chemistry "In Praise of Fragments: History in the Comic Mode" -- - Caroline Bynam speaks at noon in 1524 Rackham Renaldo Adenas --- will lecture in Spanish about the role of the writer in Latin America at 3:30 p.m. in CAB 138 at UM Dearborn "Collaboration Between Practioners and Researchers: Focus on Gerontology" - Donna L. Algase speaks at 7 p.m. at Weber's Inn; admission is $6 "Soviet Jewry in the Age of Perestroika" --- Professor Gittelman speaks at 4 p.m. in 3050 Frieze Bldg. Jazz Guitar Lecture Series --- Judy Adams of WDET speaks at 7 p.m. in the Trotter House (1443 Washtenaw) "Central American Update" -- - Don Coleman speaks at noon in the International Center (603 E. Madison) "The Home and Women in Jewry" --- Shlomo Deshen speaks at 5 p.m. in 3058 LS&A "The Purine Path to Chemotherapy" --- Gertrude B. Elion speaks at 2:30 p.m. in 1800 Dow Chemistry Bldg. Furthermore ECB Peer Writing Tutors - available for help from 7-11 p.m. at the Angell and 611 Church St. computing centers Safewalk - the night-time safety walking service runs form 8 p.m.- 1:30 a.m. in Rm. 102 UGLi or call 936-1000 Northwalk - the north-campus night-time walking service runs from 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m. in Bursley 2333, or call 763-WALK SPARK Revolutionary History Series --- "Sit Down! US Strike Wave of the 1930's" theme of discussionfrom 7-8 p.m. in B122 of the MLB Career Planning and Placement --- resumes: when you think you have no experience 4:10-5 p.m. CP&P Conference Room Because of That War --- as part of the 11th Annual Conference on the Holocaust this documentary will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. at Hillel Dave Crossland --- UM graduate performs this evening at The Ark SWAT Hunger --- educational asked about a document, signed by then-President Reagan, indicating missiles had been sent to Iran in 1985 to try to win the release of Americans held in Lebanon. Had Poindexter ever reported de- stroying the document? Webb asked. "He did," Hamilton said in front of the jury. The legislator, co-chair of a spe- cial congressional committee that investigated the Iran-Contra affair, was referring to Poindexter's July 1987 testimony to the committee, during which he said he tore up the document. No part of the case against Rea- gan's national security adviser may be derived from his testimony to Congress, given under a grant of immunity from prosecution. As soon as Hamilton answered the question yesterday, another pros- ecutor, Howard Pearl, stood up and Webb quickly said "I see the prob- lem." Webb rephrased the question, but Poindexter lawyer Richard Beckler later asked for a mistrial, saying that Hamilton had specifically been in- structed not to refer to Poindexter's immunized testimony. U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene denied the motion, saying that Oliver North testified last week that he watched Poindexter tear up the finding. Greene said Hamilton's testi- mony was "cumulative rather than harmful." Beckler suggested the jury might not find North's testimony credible. But Greene also noted that "both the government and the defense referred to tearing up the finding" in their opening statements to the jury. "And you have great credibility," Greene told Beckler. The information about tearing up the finding "is not new at all," Greene concluded. In November 1986, Hamilton had been chair of the House Intelligence Committee that met with Poindexter to discuss U.S. arms sales to Iran. Hamilton said the national secu- rity adviser made no mention of a U.S. role in the November 1985 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran. The CIA-assisted delivery was autho- rized by the Reagan "finding" that Poindexter destroyed hours after tes- tifying before the committees. Webb asked Hamilton, "Do you recall whether Admiral Poindexter said he could reveal all the facts?" "Admiral Poindexter said ... Pres- ident Reagan wanted to tell the full story," replied Hamilton. The finding that Poindexter de- stroyed depicted the U.S. role in Iran arms sales as a straight arms-for- hostages deal, the kind of arrange- ment the Reagan administration de- clared it would never allow. WARSAW (AP) - Prime Min- ister Tadeusz Mazowiecki is coming to the United States to seek support for the Solidarty-led government's demand that a treaty guaranteeing Poland's western border be signed before Germany unifies. The former Solidarity editor and political prisoner leaves Warsaw to- day for a six-day visit to the United States, with a one-day stop in Canada. It will be Mazowiecki's longest trip abroad since he was elected in August to lead the first non-Communist government in the East bloc. "I don't need to stress the signifi- cance of the visit for Poland to a country which is the world's No. 1 superpower," government spokesper- son Malgorzata Niezabitowska said Polish leader visits U.S. to petition for border guarantees recently, outlining the goals of the visit. Mazowiecki achieved one aim of his trip when the four victorious World War II allies and the two Germanies last week decided to allow Poland to take part in sessions of "two-plus-four" talks that concern Poland's security. Now, Mazowiecki will be push- ing for U.S. backing of his govern- ment's demand that a treaty guaran- teeing Poland's western border be initialed by East Germany and West Germany before unification and then ratified by a unified Germany. Treaties commit the Germanies to respect the Oder and Neisse rivers as Poland's western border, but a unified Germany is not bound by those terms. Michigan House committee report encourages 'shock sentencing,' wiretapping drug dealers LANSING, Mich. (AP) - "Shock sentences" or a lengthy prison term intended to scare straight a prisoner before it is shortened, is among the recommendations ex- pected to be released today by a House committee. The report also likely will rec- ommend non-jail sentences which focus on treatment for some drunken drivers, appointment of the Depart- ment of Corrections director by the governor rather than by the Michi- gan Corrections Commission, and assignment of paid prison jobs only to inmates who have the equivalent of a high school diploma. As expected, the report included controversial moves such as allow- ing police to wiretap and enter unan- nounced the homes of suspected drug dealers. The 18-member Ad Hoc Com- mittee on Criminal Justice has stud- ied the corrections system since Sept. 19, and its numerous recom- mendations are expected to carry sig- nificant weight because it is sup- ported by House Speaker Lewis Do- dak, D-Birch Run. Many of its suggestions already are in the form of legislation. The committee met for the final time yesterday, but declined to re- lease the final draft. . A copy obtained by The Associ- ated Press shows about 60 recom- mendations, many of them focused on broad, long-term goals and pre- vention methods. The "shock sentencing" program would allow judges to sentence an offender to prison for a long period, but then modify the sentence at the conclusion of a shorter time. Such programs primarily are geared toward the young offender. The draft said such sentences would be limited to a specific list of offenses, but did not list them. The committee plans recommend the development and implementation of non-jail alternatives for drunken driving offenses. Many lawmakers have pushed for this since the suicide of former state Rep. Dennis Dutko (D-Warren), who had served seven months in jail on a drunken driving conviction just before his death. 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