The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 30, 1990 - Page 5 I ----I Judge throws out hate crime charge ANN ARBOR (AP)- The state lawmaker who authored hate crime legislation in 1988 said yesterday he's puzzled over its interpretation by a Washtenaw County Judge. District Judge Thomas Shea on Wednesday dropped an ethnic intim- idation charge against a white man accused of setting fire to a Black family's home. Shea said the law, which took ef- fect on April 1, 1989, "is constitu- tignally overly broad and in violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution." The Michigan law authored by State Rep. David Honigman makes it Oa crime to harm someone because of race or ethnic background. "The judge has clearly made an eror, he seems to have misunder- stood the statute," said Honigman (R-West Bloomfield). "I don't know how, it's crystal clear." Christopher Justice, 21, is charged with setting fire Nov. 9 to the Superior Township home of Sherwin and Tracey McDonnald, who are Black. Shea ordered Justice to stand trial on an arson charge in Washtenaw hounty Circuit Court but threw out the ethnic intimidation count. Witnesses said Justice called the McDonalds "a bunch of niggers." Shea said the ethnic intimidation law was being used to prosecute lan- guage protected by the First Amendment. "Under that ruling, every single civil rights law in the U.S. would be unconstitutional," Honigman said. He said the law doesn't cover racial epithets, but "requires very serious conduct," such as assault or arson. He said it also would apply to language supplying indication of a 4motive. AIDS Week focuses on women with virus Ha bias Espanol? El Club de Espanol, a Spanish conversation club, holds its weekly meeting in the fourth floor MLB Commons. by Purvi Shah Daily Staff Reporter AIDS Awareness Week, which began Tuesday and ends Dec. 5, will be commemo-- rated on campus with guest lecturers, demon- strations and a display of the Names Quilt. Included among the events will be celebra- tions marking both World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), an international demonstration against AIDS, and National HIV and AIDS Awareness Day (Dec. 3). This year's theme, "Women and AIDS," highlights problems the virus poses for women, including the roles women play as educators, caretakers, health workers, and mothers. World AIDS Day is designed to demonstrate the necessity of involving more women globally to work against AIDS. The World Health Organization (WHO) es- timates that, out of a total nine to 11 million people infected worldwide with the HIV virus, three million are women. WHO predicts AIDS among women will increase dramati- cally over the next 10 years, with three out of four AIDS virus infections resulting from heterosexual contact. Three million women and children will die from AIDS in the 1990's, according to WHO estimates. Rosalind Carter, one of the planners for the AIDS Awareness Week Activities at the University, stressed the importance of focus- ing on women. "They've (women) been ignored in the past," Carter said, "AIDS was first noticed among the gay population. Slowly but surely it has been creeping into the population of women." Scientists say women who have sex with AIDS-infected men are much more likely to catch the virus than men who have sex with infected women. One recent finding suggested women were 14 times more likely than men to catch the virus that way. World AIDS Day will also explore anxi- eties related to HIV/AIDS and pregnacy, childbirth, and raising children. There is a 30 percent transmission rate of the HIV virus from pregnant women to the child Carter said: "Children who are born with HIV infec- tions tend to die pretty quickly and we don't have a lot of drug treatments available for children like we do for adults," Carter said. In addition to the focus on women's is- sues, World AIDS Day 1990's general goals are to raise awareness about the risk of HIV, infection, strenghten the worldwide effort to stop AIDS, support AIDS prevention and control activities, promote support and care for people with the HIV virus, and help com- bat discrimination against victims of AIDS of the HIV virus. AIDS Awareness Week is sponsored by the Public Health Student Association (PHSA) and Michigan Student Assembly (MSA). -The Associated Press contributed to this report. Senate passes r LANSING (AP) - The Michigan Senate approved yesterday a compromise right-to-die measure that would let adults designate some- one to make decisions about their medical treatment if they are unable to do so them- selves. The measure, sent back to the House on a 29-2 vote, breaks 16 years of stalemate be- tween the two chambers on the issue of with- drawing medical treatment from the termi- nally ill. Sen. 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