Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 10, 1990 Ecotopia Second year law student Ken Rudofski checks out the "Ecotopia" constructed by landscape architecture students outside the Natural Resources building. The display explains ways to conserve energy and preserve the environment. VAN VALEY Continued from page 1 "The current MSA president did not enforce meeting attendance all year," she said. "Assembly reps have to be responsible and responsibly represent their constituency, no mat- ter what that constituency is." Van Valey and other Action Party leaders have also pledged to change the atmosphere of the assembly and the attitude of the weekly MSA meetings. , Business : - I "We want the MSA chambers to be a nice place," said Corey Dolgon, Rackham representative and one of the Action Party organizers. "The hostile atmosphere will be gone, and groups that come in will not be con- fronted with the male arrogance that has plagued the assembly for a year. Students and student groups will be treated with courtesy, which has not been the case in the past." Dolgon said he thought the large number of women elected in last week's elections will help to rid MSA of the hostility and chauvin- ism that has upset assembly mem- bers and enraged student groups. "With a significant female mem- bership on the assembly, the tal- ented, intelligent students and repre- sentatives we have elected will chal- lenge the arrogance that members on the assembly have displayed in the past," he said. Van Valey agreed with Dolgon, but wanted to dispel any rumors that the number of new female represen- tatives will mean a biased assembly. "Some have said we're going to focus unfairly on womens' and mi- norities' concerns, but that's not the SCINEMA BRCUY "THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS IN APPLYING TO LAW SCHOOL AND HOW TO AVOID THEM" A Seminar on the Law School Admission Process and the Successful Student's Approach Featured Topics Include: " How Law Schools Evaluate Applicants " How to Select Law Schools " Strategy and Timetable for Admission + Free Comparative Guide to Low Schools Presented by EXCEL Test Preparation WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11th 7:30 P.M. MICHIGAN UNION - ANDERSON ROOMS ALL STUDENTS WELCOME - NO CHARGE h4h case," she said. "Why do people get concerned when a number of women get elected, but don't care when a group of men get elected?" "I don't care what my gender is," Van Valey stressed. "I've got a job to do, and I'm going to do it." The new assembly president said her principle goal would be to put a stop to the partisan bickering that paralyzed MSA for the last year. She and Dolgan stressed that the Action Party no longer exists, now that the elections are over, and she hopes her opposition will do the same. "I hope we can be adults, and have constructive debate on pressing issues," she said. "I think we have enough people with similar opinions and ideaologies, that we can get a lot accomplished." LSA representative Melissa Burke, the only CC member to win an LSA seat, said the CC would continue as it has in the past, and the LSA junior expressed hope that Van Valey could do her job. "It all depends on whether Jen- nifer is serious about promoting assembly unity," Burke said. "That will decide how the assembly func- tions in the upcoming year." SPRAY Continued from page 1 ticides that were much worse." He added "I'm not convinced that it is safe or isn't safe. I don't have infor- mation into what form of Dursban they're using and how they're apply- ing it." "What I'm hearing students say is let's look at all options so that ev- eryone is better informed before we make a decision; that makes sense to me," Witter added. Michigan Daily ARTS 763-0379 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Court rules Detroit police union not liable for layoffs CINCINNATI - The city of Detroit and the Detroit police union are protected from liability for the 1979-80 layoffs of 900 Black police officers because the layoffs were done under a legitimate seniority plan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the liability claim filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Guardians, an organization of Black police officers. Defendants in the federal suit filed in September 1980 included the city of Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young and city police officials and the Detroit Police Officers Association, the city police union. Young ordered the layoffs because of a city budget deficit. Discovery to launch today CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA said there was only a 40 per- cent chance that weather would delay today's launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its mission to place a telescope in orbit to look toward the edge of the universe. Launch of the 35th shuttle mission from Kennedy Space Center was set for 8:47 EDT. There was a chance that low clouds could push that time back. Once in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope, 42 feet long, 14 feet in di- ameter and weighing 245,250 pounds, will be lifted out of Discovery's cargo bay with the ship's mechanical arm, given an exacting checkout, and will be dropped overboard this afternoon if all goes well. The telescope, being launched seven years late because of the 1986 Challenger accident and technical problems, represents an investment of more than $2 billion - $1.5 billion for the telescope itself and $600 mil- lion a year to operate and maintain. Native American fishing rights to be decided in court TRAVERSE CITY - The state of Michigan and three Native Ameri- can tribes are headed back to federal court over treaty fishing rights in Lake Huron. A 1985 federal consent agreement with Michigan set a January 1990 deadline for the tribes to stop using gill nets in Hammond Bay. Michigan Department of Natural resource officials have promised to enforce the deadline. But the tribes claim Michigan has failed to live up to its end of the bargain; help in marketing and finding new fishing methods. The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and the Bay Mills Indian Commu- nity voted last month to allow 32 tribal fishers to continue using gill nets in Hammond Bay when fishing resumes May 1. U.S. District Judge Richard Enslen in Kalamazoo is accepting propos- als to change the Hammond Bay rules for this season. The deadline is to- day. Polish workers face lay-offs SANOK, Poland - Poland's fast shift to a market economy has, shocked the 6,300 workers and managers of the Autosan Bus Factory, long wrapped in the warm cocoon of central planning. With unsold buses gathering dust on the factory's parking lot, most of the plant is on "work holiday" and at least several hundred people are to be laid off permanently. It is an example of how, for the first time in decades in this formerly Communist country, economic failure packs a painful punch. To make things harder for Sanok, a remote community on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains in the southeast corner of Poland, there are al- ready 1,500 registered job-seekers and no employees large enough to ab- sorb them. In housing short Poland, relocating is seldom an option. "People are depressed by the situation, really depressed," said Jan So- lar, foreman in charge of the tooling department. "Everyone is wondering, If I am fired, who will employ me?"' EXTRAS IRS chief finds taxes taxing DETROIT - Fred Goldberg said yesterday that tax forms and regula- tions are too confusing for him - and he's the commissioner of the In- ternal Revenue Service. "The law is terribly complicated... it is too complicated for the Ameri- can public," Golderg, 41, IRS commissioner since July 1989, said at a news conference before addressing the Economic Club of Detroit. "They deserve an easier system, and I deserve as easier system, too," said Goldberg, who estimated he spent three hours gathering information for his 1990 return to present to a tax preparer. Goldberg received a degree in economics from Yale University and was a partner in a Washington D.C., law firm before joining the IRS in 1981. With the tax filing deadline a week away, Goldberg said, the IRS is re- ceiving more returns earlier and processing them faster. 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