- -The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, November 28, 1990 - Page 3
SEMEOMA may change name
by Shalini Patel
Daily Staff Reporter
The Office of Minority Affairs
(OMA) may soon have a new title
omitting the word "minority."
OMA director John Matlock said
the change would be made because of
the "negative connotations" of the
word.
Matlock said they want to change
the name to make it more reflective
of the office's aims.
OMA, which was created as the
result of one of 12 demands issued
by the United Coalition Against
Racism (UCAR) to the administra-
tion in 1987, was designed "to repre-
sent minority interests to the admin-
istration and University commu-
nity."
"Whenever you have 'minor' or
major,' it connotes someone is at.
the top," said Matlock, who has held
his position for a little more than a
year. "If we want true pluralism, we
have to get off of using words such
as minority and majority."
The Oxford English Dictionary
defines minority as "a small group
of persons differing from others in
race, religion, language, opinion on
a topic, etc."
"People of color are not world
minorities," Matlock said.
Although members of the OMA
Advisory Board have yet to choose a
new title, words like multi-cultural
and multi-ethnic are being considered
as replacements for minority.
"We want a word that is more re-
flective of what we're trying to do as
an office," Matlock said. "We're
changing the institutional climate
and institutionalizing the changes,"
he added.
'Whenever you have
"minor" or "major," it
connotes someone is
at the top'
AN ITHUNY M. CHOLL/DaIly
Holiday ribbons
Concerned about drunk driving during the holiday season, LSA junior Geoffrey Jones hands out red ribbons for
Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD). Students are wearing the ribbons on their backpacks and bicycles,
showing their support for SADD.
MSA mem bers take olice
*New representatives optimistic about term
ew rersnae
- John
OMA
Matlock
Director
Although he would like other
campus offices and organizations to
follow suit, Barbara Robinson, the
director of Minority Student Ser-
vices, is "concerned about being rec-
by Christine Kloostra
Daily MSA Reporter
New representatives on the
Michigan Student Assembly (MSA)
taking their seats last night were op-
timistic about the assembly's future.
"I am hopeful that people can put
their differences aside and work as a
group," Kim Watson, an LSA repre-
sentative, said, adding that she hoped
in the coming year "everyone can be
civil and we can actually be an effec-
tive assembly."
Other new representatives echoed
Watson's hopes for limited political
battling.
"I hope to be able to avoid a lot
of the fireworks," said Brian Kight,
an engineering representative.
"It looks like we're off to a pretty
*good start," said Engineering Rep.
Jennifer Starrman. "There was no
political fighting tonight."
Others agreed that tonight's meet-
ing pointed towards a positive fu-
ture.
"If it can continue in the same
way it went tonight, people will be
civil to each other," said LSA Rep.
Greg Morrison. "That's a better cli-
mate to work in."
0 New representatives also ex-
pressed hope for the assembly's pro-
ductivity in the coming year.
"I'm optimistic that we can have
constructive debate about issues and
that positive conclusions can be
drawn," said Jonathan Naatjes, a
School of Music representative.
'I'm optimistic that we
can have constructive
debate about issues
and that positive
conclusions can be
drawn'
- Jonathan Naatjes
School of Music
representative
"Hopefully we can all be open-
minded and vote in the interests of
the student body," Naatjes said.
There are more issues besides
deputization and the code of non-aca-
demic conduct for the assembly to
focus on, Starrman said, adding that
she hopes to direct efforts toward es-
tablishing Nite Owl service on
North Campus.
Morrison said he plans to work
toward automatic MSA recognition
for all student groups.
"I'd like to see if we can lay the
groundwork for that, whether it
passes or fails," he said. "Then we
can move on to other stuff."
Automatic student group recogni-
tion would require an amendment to
MSA's constitution.
Students elected 24 assembly
members on Nov. 14 and 15. Old as-
sembly members also met last night
to finish old business, and following
their meeting, the new assembly
convened.
The new assembly passed the
only item of business on their
agenda, a resolution declaring Nov.
26 through Dec. 3 as AIDS Aware-
ness Week.
School of Public Health Rep.
Paul Oppedisano, the sponsor of the
resolution, said he hoped the resolu-
tion would encourage members of
the University community to attend
events planned for the week.
The focus of the week is
"Women and AIDS." Several events,
including a panel discussion with
HIV-positive women, are planned
through Dec. 5.
ognized by those Minority Student
Services is there to serve."
"What name will you use to be
visible in society?" she asked.
"Everybody falls under the category
multi-cultural or multi-ethnic. Peo-
ple of color are minorities in this
country."
Robinson said she would like in-
put from students of color before a
decision is made.
"I think its a good idea," said
LSA senior William Gibbons.
"When you say minority, it means
less. Maybe they should call it the
Students of Color Center."
On the other hand, Lily Chow,
an Engineering senior, is not dis-
turbed by the term. "Personally I
don't think there are negative conno-
tations associated with the word. If I
were to look for aid, I would look
under minority."
Matlock estimated the change
will occur in the next two or three
months, and said OMA will phase
out old brochures and pamphlets in
order to minimize any cost.
Detroit
youth
found in
Nevada
DETROIT (AP) - A teen who
was kidnapped at knifepoint was
found bound and gagged but urn-
harmed in a Las Vegas motel rooi
yesterday.
Jamie Lee, 18, of Detroit was
waitingeto be reunited with her
mother, who flew to Las Vegas yes-
terday, said FBI spokesperson John
Anthony. They were to return to
Michigan today, he said.
No arrests were made.
Two men allegedly forced thew
way into Lee's car Saturday night as
she and Rebecca Batten, 17, of
Mount Clemens and Angie Bas-
tianon, 16, of Warren sat in Lee's
parked car at a McDonald's in Ma-
comb County's Harrison Township~
One of the men forced Lee and
Batten into the back seat as he
pressed knives to their throats,
Batten said.
"I've never been so scared in my
life," Battens said yesterday.
Batten and Bastianon were re-
leased unharmed in Chicago about
1:30 a.m. EST Sunday.
FBI agents in Detroit obtained
federal warrants yesterday charging
David Allan House, 33, and Kenneth
Paul Studabaker, 26, with kidnap-
ping , punishable by up to life in
prison, Anthony said. The suspects
could face additional charges in sev-
eral states, he said.
The two suspects, who authori-
ties said are from Harrison Town-
ship, were believed to be headed to
California, Anthony said.
Telephone calls from the public,
generated by media coverage, pro-
vided tips that helped identify the
men, the FBI spokesperson said.
Lee was found early yesterday at
the Royal Oasis Motel, a 140-uni
lodge.
698 is enough AP Photo
Margaret Thatcher speaks from the dispatch box inside the House of
Commons yesterday during her 698th - and last - question time
session. Thatcher resigned as Britain's Prime Minister last Wednesday.
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DeConcini
to Keating
WASHINGTON (AP) - A for-
mer top federal regulator testified
yesterday that Sen. Dennis
DeConcini improperly offered him a
deal on behalf of savings and loan
owner Charles Keating and that three
other "Keating Five" senators ac-
quiesced in the proposal.
Edwin Gray, a star witness at the
Senate Ethics Committee's hearings
into the five senators' relationships
with Keating, said DeConcini's offer
at a 1987 meeting will be "etched in
my mind forever."
"I considered it improper," he
declared. "The whole setting was an
intimidating one."
He said DeConcini, apparently
speaking for the other three senators
as well, asked that regulators not ap-
ply to Keating's embattled Lincoln
Savings and Loan Association a rule
limiting risky investments.
DeConcini referred to Keating
during the meeting as "our friend
from Lincoln," said Gray, the for-
mer chair of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board.
Keating was the chair of the now-
failed Lincoln S&L when the
evening meeting took place in
DeConcini's office on April 2,
1987. The committee is trying to
decide whether the five senators in-
tervened improperly for Keating, a
political donor who along with asso-
ciates contributed $1 million to the
senators' campaigns and causes.
SEATTLE (AP) - Bad news for
brochure writers. The city touted by
many as among the world's most
livable has been living up to an
older nickname: Rain City.
Seattle already has had its third-
wettest month ever, and more rain is
expected later this week. The drench-
ing has caused tens of millions of
dollars in damage from flooding in
western Washington, killed one man
and knotted traffic after a floating
bridge filled with water and sank.
Gov. Booth Gardner declared
emergencies in all but three western
Washington counties. Assessment
crews began traipsing through sod-
den river drainages yesterday to tote
up damage from more flooding over
the weekend that ravaged homes and
farms along 20 rivers.
State officials call the latest
round some of the worst flooding in
Washington history, with four
rivers reaching 100-year flood-stage
levels.
"Seattle itself was hit with ex-
tremely heavy rains, but we have so
far suffered only minor damage in
the form of relatively few flooded
streets, wet basements and small
mudslides," Mayor Norm Rice said.
"Compared to many other areas
of the state, Seattle has been very,
very lucky, so far."
"All that rain and high water have
brought tons of silt into the Cedar
River, which is the major source of
fresh drinking water for much of our
region," he said. "Right now, the
Cedar River looks like chocolate
milk."
The old Lake Washington float-
ing bridge sank Sunday, damaging
anchoring cables on the adjacent,
year-old Interstate 90 floating bridge,
the major east-west route into the
city. The state Department of Trans-
portation shut the new bridge for re-
pairs, forcing tens of thousands of
commuters to find other ways of get-
ting to work Monday.
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