Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 30, 1990 IFC, by Tim Gammons 'U' Pres. discuss stereotypes I The common stereotype of drunken, rowdy fraternity activity is a misconception, said members of the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) to University President James Duderstadt, interim Vice-President Mary Ann Swain and Shirley Clarkson, special assistant to Duderstadt, in a meeting Wednesday. The greek system has been criticized by the administration in the past for alcohol abuse and littering the campus with promotional leaflets for greek events. Eric Reicin, IFC Vice President and an LSA junior, said Duderstadt was "fantastically receptive. I was very pleased with the President, Dr. Swain and Shirley. They encouraged our activities." In their meeting, the IFC also informed administrators about the educational activities which they sponsor. "The fraternity system has increased its support on campus in the past year," said Reicin, adding that greeks have been responsible for a number of campus oriented events this year. "We ran an Alcohol Awareness event. This is a national event, but not for greeks," Reicin said. "As far as I know, we're the only Big Ten school to have greek participation." "President Duderstadt was very glad to hear what they were doing." Clarkson said. "The fraternity system houses 20 percent of University students, and he was very encouraged to hear about dry rush and the educational programs they are involved with." "I was very pleased with the President, Dr. Swain and Shirley. They encouraged our activities," -Eric Reicin lFC Vice President Reicin also said the IFC sponsored a sexual awareness program with University Health Services. The event was designed to educate students about sexual assault, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. Polly Paulson, University Health Services counselor, said four peer counselors from the University Health Services visited the Phi Gamma Delta house for the program. Their sister sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, also attended the event. "It went very well. They had over a hundred people," said Paulson. "That's the largest program we've ever had." The IFC also organized a post- rush clean-up. "The Saturday after (rush), members of each fraternity mct in the diag to take down the rush flyers and posters that had been posted around campus. We clean up our own mess," said Reicin. MEALS Continued from page 1 Plus" system. Under present Univer- sity policies, all students living in the residence halls are billed for thir- teen meals a week, whether or not they eat them. "What we're pushing for is spreading those meals out. You get 400 meals for the year, and you can budget your meals however you want." The two CC members are also pushing for smaller 100- and 200- meals-a-year plans for off-campus students. This may all be feasible, Kysia said, but these policies would have ruinous consequences on the Univer- sity Food Services (UFS), and could result in the closing of many cafete- rias. "Currently, UFS is operating on a break-even system," Kysia said, explaining that the cafeterias must make estimates on the number of students they will have to serve. "If we move to an all 'Entree Plus' system, cafeterias that are inef- ficient, that don't serve enough peo- ple to pay their bills, will be shut down, and students from several dorms will have to share one cafete- ria," he said. Associate Housing Director Dave Foulke confirmed Kysia's asses- ment. "Everyone wants increased flexi- bility in the meal credit program," Foulke said. "But they must under- stand the costs involved." "Everyone agrees that we can make improvements to the univer- sity's meal credit policies - even the people in the housing office," said Kolasa. "But you can't change multi-million dollar operations overnight." "CC has said that they're picking up the ball; well, picking up the ball is not throwing it at some-ones head," Kolasa said. "Housing is not out to screw people here - they're working hard to find a system with greater flexi- bility, that would still allow the cafeterias to break even," Kysia said. Other Universities bring in pri- vate for-profit corporations to man- age their meal service, the RHA members explained. These corpora- tions can afford to give students greater flexibility in meal payment, because they are not concerned with breaking even. Both Rielly and Sciarotta stressed they were not demanding anything from the Housing Office, and only want to suggest some ideas. "We just want to push for change, and so far our ideas have been fairly well-received by the Meal Credit Reform Board," said Rielly. ETHICS Continued from Page 1 Kysia also said the CC campaign implies that if students vote for them, the meal credit reform will be instituted immediately. That is not the case, said RHA members, who pointed out that any policy changes accepted by the Housing Office would not take effect for up to three years. "The leases for next year have al- ready been signed," Kysia said. "No changes will be made for next year. People voting for the CC now may not be living in the residence halls when the policies change several years down the line." RHA leaders also say their offers of cooperation with the CC were re- jected, because the CC is using the issue for political gain. "I approached Aaron on March 14, and asked him if the CC would be interested in joining forces with RHA and he laughed at me," Kolasa said. "Williams said that RHA was too non-confrontational and was not doing anything on the issue, and be- sides, it was one of CC's campaign promises." However, Williams says he did not have this conversation with Ko- lasa. James Blickensdorf, another RHA member who a approached Williams was told the assembly as a whole was not working on the issue, but "there might be some individuals on MSA that might be working on it." Housing Office administrators are confused at the proceedings, and say that Rielly and Sciarotta have not made it clear who they are represent- ing in their reform efforts. "My understanding is that they are independent students acting on a CC campaign pledge," said Associ- ate Housing Director David Foulke. RHA members say Rielly and Sciarotta have told different parties different stories, in an effort to con- ceal ties to the CC and the MSA. But Sciarotta denied any misrep- resentation. "We have done nothing wrong or misrepresented MSA," Sciarotta stressed. "We made it clear on our petition that this was a CC campaign pledge from last semester. It made no mention that we were op- erating through MSA. I made it specifically clear that we were not working through MSA." Yet RHA representatives-say the tactics used by the CC may have jeopardized any chance at concrete policy reforms. "We're concerned that they've hurt the chances for any meal credit changes, by doing it the wrong way," Kolasa said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Bush proposes AIDS funding WASHINGTON - President Bush declared his administration "on a wartime footing" against AIDS yesterday and called for compassion, not discrimination, toward people infected with the virus. "Our goal is to turn irrational-fear into rational acts," he said in his first major presidential address on AIDS. Addressing the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, he said that education is the key to curbing the spread of the deadly disease. Bush presented no new policy initiatives; instead he spotlighted his unprecedented proposal for $3.5 billion in federal spending for AIDS re- search, treatment and education. AIDS activists dismissed the proposal as a small fraction of what is needed to find a cure and to treat victims. Michigan businesses to recycle waste paper LANSING - Corporations and environmental groups, often at odds over environmental concerns, proposed yesterday a plan to cut in half the amount of waste paper going into Michigan landfills within a decade. The proposal from the Great Lakes Regional Corporate Environmental Council calls on corporations to collect and recycle their office paper, buy recycled paper products, and use recycled newsprint and packaging mate- rial. Michigan residents toss out about 12 million tons of garbage annu- ally, including about 2 million tons of recyclable waste paper. The report encourages businesses to boost the market for recycled products with their own purchases, thus creating a demand for newspapers and other material that would otherwise go into landfills. Disease Center says Agent Orange not cancerous ATLANTA - A long-awaited government study of cancer among Vietnam veterans found no evidence linking the disease with exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange, officials said yesterday. The study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control did find veterans at increased risk of a relatively rare cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But researchers noted the risk was greater among veterans who served on ships than those who served on land, where the herbicide was used. In Washington, Veterans Secretary Edward Derwinski quickly said he would order the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay disability compen- sation to vets suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The study was immediately attacked by veterans groups, which com- plained it failed to sufficiently examine the cancer risks among the thou- sands of soldiers who actually worked with the dangerous herbicide during the war. Scientists: Greenhouse effect caused no global warming WASHINGTON - Ten years of weather satellite data show no evi- dence of global warming from the greenhouse effect, scientists said yester- day. But they added that it will take at least another decade of measure- ments to draw a firm conclusion. The data, collected from 1979 through 1988 by the TIROS-N series of weather satellites, proved that the Earth's temperature can be measured ac- curately by instruments probing the atmosphere from space, two scien- tists say in a paper to be published Friday in Science. "We found that the Earth's atmosphere goes through fairly large year- to-year changes in temperature and over that 10-year period we saw no long term warming or cooling trend," said Roy Spencer, of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Spencer's co-investigator, John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, said that there were temperature swings "that can be quite dramatic" during the decade, but, on a global basis, the thermal changes tended to even out. 0 a . 0 I . d, f S Religious Services AVAVAVAVA CAMPUS CHAPEL Pastor, Rev. Don Postema 1236 Washtenaw Ct. (668-7421,662-2402) Sunday, April 1- Celebrate April Fool's Day with Rev. Floyd Shaffer, clown minister 10 a.m. Worship: "The Clown and Other Fools for Christ's Sake" 12 noon-3 p.m.-a crazy lunch followed by an afternoon of intentional foolishness 6 p.m.: Clown Service-featuring Socataco, the Clown CANTERBURY HOUSE (Episcopal Church Chaplaincy) 218 N. 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LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY LORD OF LIGHT LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA 801 South Forest at Hill Street Sunday Worship at 10 a.m. Wednesday: Bible Study at 6:30 p.m. Worship at 7:30 p.m. ST. MARY'S STUDENT PARISH 331 Thompson Street Weekend liturgies: Sat. 5 p.m., Sun. 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 noon & 5 p.m. Confessions, Fri. 4 to 5 p.m. PENANCE SERVICE WED., April 4, 7:30 p.m. LENTEN STATIONS OF THE CROSS: FRI. NIGHTS, 7p.m. Graduate Student BYO Supper Nuts and Bolts LEVON, YOU CANNOT KEEP THAT DOG. TM CONGESTED ALL THE TIME. HE\M , , CM No CRAZ TiL.No CASE 0C t E'?A(- TGAT WIE5 T o T or e pAQtoNIO by Judd Winick T RE-ALLY CAN'T... y-z Z F'bl'V p I~TO BTTIE eim1 KIW N11 .uYlE~ A AS,/ e r KV 1o o n4 Ip (~oaoffad/fa,~c~3 . OK, ou D 8R IN& HIM AND HIS 'STU4lD T CKtN& Puce BAc.- H tU Calvin and Hobbes House votes on child-care bills WASHINGTON - The House ignored a White House veto threat yes- terday and tentatively approved an ambitious Democratic plan aimed at helping families find and afford day care for their children. The House approved the plan along a largely party line vote, 263-158, after voting more narrowly to reject a conservative alternative that Presi- dent Bush had endorsed. The House also turned back amendments aimed at limiting federal aid for church-run day care centers. The bill, which still must go to a conference to resolve differences with the Senate, would expand tax credits for working lower- class families to offset day care expenses. It would create a system of state-issued subsidy vouchers for parents who want to use religious day care centers, and would expand the Head Start program for poor children. 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