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1,ollowing Detroit's well-worn path to incompe-
.5' tence, the University wants to build a taller
smokestack and a more powerful incinerator on
the medical campus.
There are two incinerators on campus already
-on the medical campus (Med Sci I) and on North
Campus (Med Sci II). The University, beset by
complaints from North Campus staff and residents,
wants to shift its burnt offerings to the medical
campus and eventually close the North Campus
facility down. University officials have proposed
enlarging Med Sci I from its current nine-foot
smoke stack to a 17-foot whopper. This stroke of
genius will spew radioactive fumes 210 feet into
the air, where the fumes will mix with clean air.
This will diffuse the wretched stench, but will
pollute a new air stream in the process.
And that new pollution is the problem. Never
truly ecologically conscious, the University is ig-
noring its already strained relationship with the
environment - again. While data on the perfor-
mance and cleanliness of incinerators is relatively
scarce, what little of it there is doesn't sound too
good, as Coleman Young will attest.
Although the Environmental ProtectionAgency
(EPA) has stated that the filtration system being
proposed for Med Sci I will be quite effective at
catching almost all radioactive particles, the real-
ity is that the particles which the system won't

catch make up most of the University's radioactive
waste.
Tritium, carbon-14, and various radioactive
forms of iodine comprise more than half of the
low-level radioactive waste burned by the Uni-
versity in its incinerators. An EPA study has con-
cluded that there currently exists no method of
controlling these emissions.
Many citizen groups have tried to get infor-
mation out of the University about the project. But
the University is keeping quiet about the whole
matter.
Although the Washtenaw County Right to Know
Act mandates public access to information con-
cerning where and how hazardous materials are
being used and stored, the University declared
itself exempt from this local law - leaving the
community of which it is a part in complete ig-
norance about matters directly pertaining to its
long-term health.
The University should not undertake such an
environmentally risky project without the support
of the local community and student body. Moreover,
the University should be putting money into finding
environmentally sound ways to dispose of its ra-
dioactive waste, rather than building bigger fa-
cilities to carry the horrid smell into surrounding
communities while simultaneously polluting the
air.

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'U police
To the Daily:
It has always been my
understanding that police offices
are armed with hand guns for th
sole purpose of protecting the
citizenry and themselves from
deadly threats.
I have always been told that
police officers receive training
that makes it perfectly clear that
they must only draw their
weapons under the most extrem
circumstances; specifically, whe
they or a member of the commu
nity are threatened by criminal
deadly force.
I have always taken for
granted that officers understand
the supreme responsibilities
associated with their weapons -
they understand that these deadl
weapons are not to be used
merely as an aid in apprehendin

threaten
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be used merel
aid in apprehi
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A recent event has
to question these belie
reported in the Daily (
draw weapons during
chase," 9/18/91) that s
- officers drew their we
y shouted, "Stop or we']
while chasing a suspe<
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student safety
In so doing these officers
taken endangered the lives of several
at of- students and demonstrated a
and... complete misunderstanding of the
proper use of hand guns in law
idly enforcement.
ndt toIf the above statements are in
not to fact true, then I can only assume
ly as an that the terrible breach of profes-
ending sional conduct perpetrated by
these officers will be dealt with
most severely.
If the above statements are not
true, and the University police
caused me have some other, less strict code
fs. It was controlling the use of deadly
"'U' police force, then we, as responsible
on-campus members of the University
several community, must surely bring this
apons and policy under closer scrutiny.
11 shoot!" Bradford Bruno
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Church and state
Reviewing Lemon will restrict First Amendment rights
hanks to the Bush administration, an obscure graduation prayers would be found
graduation prayer case is setting the stage for tional under this test as well.
a serious challenge to First Amendment doctrine. True to character, the Bush admin
This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear agreed. Through the Solicitor Genera
arguments in the case of Lee v. Weisman, which unusual step of filing a brief urging t
could decide the constitutionality of incorporating only to review Weisman, but to revie
non-denominational prayers into public school eye toward reconsidering Lemon itse
graduations. The case grew out of a 1989 middle The Bush Administration has su
school graduation in Providence, Rhode Island at placing Lemon with a requirementdem
which a rabbi delivered an ecumenical prayer in that one has been compelled to par
honor of the graduates as well as their families and religious exercise. Implicitly, the adm
friends. asserting that only overly fastidious n
In the 1987 ceremony at the same school, a would be harmed by graduation pray
minister had given an invocation urging the at- With a U.S. Supreme Court that isi
tendees to stand and pay homage to Jesus. Daniel hostile to the rights of numerical mi
Weisman, whose older daughter was graduating, likely that Lemon will be weakened
was troubled that as Jews, he and his family were where "moments of silence" and p
asked to praise Jesus at a public event. spoken prayers will again be the no'
In 1989, when Weisman's younger daughter school classrooms.
was to graduate from the same school, he voiced Such developments may initially
his concerns to the school principal. He was told positive step toward the full practice
not to worry; there would be a rabbi this time. exercise clause of the First Amendn
But Weisman was not satisfied. A rabbi giving protects all Americans'right to worshi
an invocation would just make someone else un- in practice, it will alienate millions o
comfortable. Weisman felt that prayers at a public who have no religion, whose faith isno
school graduation were not only unnecessary, but expressed in a spoken prayer, or whos
j a violation of the First Amendment's establish- is so personal that it will be trivial
ment clause, which prohibits the state from using public attempt to appeal to it.
its auspices and powers to further the advance of In other words, rolling back Lem4
any religion. tually limit the freedom of worship t
When the school board ignored him, Weisman tion is designed to protect. There s]
went to court. Invoking the 1971 U.S. Supreme ambiguity here. A clear separation bet
Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman, both a U.S. district and state achieves a balance betwe
and appeals court found the prayer to be a violation from religious encroachment and fre
wof the establishment clause. ercise one's faith as one feels most co
fLemon's significance is reflected in the number The Lemon standard has admirat
of times it has been cited: it appears in146 Supreme this structure for twenty years. It is i
Court decisions, 804 lower federal court decisions, and reactionary to tamperwith this deli
142 state court decisions, and in 84 law review for the sake of timely political expe
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Lemon has been used to prohibit prayer at Americans. Once gone, every citize
public high school football games, band practices those seeking to weaken Lemon, will b
and other functions. It seemed only logical that to the whims of the majority.
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Errors apparent in
'Helping Hands' piece
To the Daily:
This letter is in response to last
Friday's article on service.
organizations on campus ("Help-
ing Hands: Students give back
through volunteerism," 9/20/91).
My first complaint is the huge
error that was in the portion of the
article that reported on Alpha Phi
Omega (ADQ). I am an active
member of this service fraternity.
We do 20 hours of service a term
and not a week. This is an
incredible difference in the time
commitment that we require of
active members.
Anyone who read this article
and wanted to get involved with
A092 would be turned off by a
requirement of 20 hours per week.
Thus, they would look elsewhere
to volunteer.
That is very upsetting. We
had more than 200 people express
interest in our organization at
Festifall and at the Service Fair on
September 19. If even one of
these 200 people left our table
without a firm grasp of the
requirements of the fraternity and
then read the September 20 issue
of the Daily, they may decide not
to join ADU

My other complaint is with the
last sentence of the article.
Contrary to what the author
believes, we do not volunteer in
this community to seek "the
gleaming silver bucket at the end
of the rainbow." The author
begins and ends the article with
what is probably a representation
of a bucket drive.
However, DePompolo does
not clearly state her topic.
Someone, not familiar with this
type of service, reading this
article would be very confused by
this representation and would be
led to believe that volunteers are
after monetary reward. This
article was clearly directed
toward those on the campus that
are not involved with community
service.
Why not clearly explain what
is meant by this type of service
then? Instead, the end of the
article implies that the volunteers
are interested in finding a bucket
of gold at the end of the rainbow.
This is simply not the case.
We do not seek nor receive
monetary rewards for the service
projects that we do.
We volunteer because that is
what we like to do.
Amy McCaffrey
AP12 Recording Secretary

Swain welcomes
University's 150th
first-year class
To the Daily,
I would like to take this
opportunity to congratulate the
students of the Class of 1995.
150 years ago, on September
25,1841, the first group of first-
year students began their under-
graduate experience at the
University of Michigan here in
Ann Arbor.
Prior to that time the Univer-
sity had been located in Detroit.
This year, our first-year students
have the distinction of being the
150th class to study on campus.
We have come a long way in 150
years.
The first class consisted of
seven students! They were all
male; it was not until 1870 that a
woman entered the University.
This year's class numbers about
4700 students, of whom approxi-
mately 2200 are women.
I wish all of the Class of
1995, the 150th entering class at
the University the very best of
luck!
Mary Ann Swain
Interim Vice President for
Student Services

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AATU is a valuable resource

just when it looked like George Bush would
J sleepwalk his way into a second term, the
Democrats are starting to get pesky. With credible
candidates such as Virginia Governor Douglas
Wilder and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin joining
longshots like former California Governor Jerry
Brown and -if the rumors prove true -consumer
activist Ralph Nader, the Democratic primaries
might even be interesting.
Not only will we now be spared a Paul Tsongas-

much appeal as soggy cornflakes - b
get a real debate come Fall on Amer
Rarely does the country face such
disjuncture between its myriad of p
the stunningly unimaginative soluti
being served up by the Oval Office.
So before resigning yourself to fou
of supreme mediocrity, check out the
new options. A lot of their ideas arer
none of them is big on the "vision thin
again, neither is George Bush.

by Jonathan Rose
The Ann Arbor Tenants'
Union (AATU), one of the
country's oldest and most
respected tenants' unions, may be
little known to you. It is, however,
known to your landlord.
The landmark Michigan case
of Rome v. Walker gave tenants
the right to withhold rent to get
landlords to either repair or get
rent reductions for failure to
repair. This was originally an
AATU case, run on a shoestring
budget at three court levels using
volunteer attorneys.
The same Tenants' Union
sponsored "How to Evict Your
Landlord," a primer used for 15
years by local tenants. The AATU
also sponsored the Michigan
"lockout" law against illegal
eviction, both the state and local
"truth-in-renting" laws, the
weatherization ordinance -
which saves heat-paying tenants
millions of dollars annually -
and many other important tenant
measures.
Landlords, local Republicans
and the University administration
have had numerous moments as
political bedfellows. Former Ann

kangaroo court trials, were
promoted and debated by speech
professor Bill Colburn in the early
1980s. Colburn would later head
the University's Alumni Associa-
tion.
In the mid 1970s the same Bill
Colburn was a Republican city
councilmember and a candidate
for mayor. As a councilmember,
Colburn represented the Republi-
cans' position (which is the
landlords' position) opposing the
very mention of the AATU in the
city-published "Tenants' Rights
Book." Exercising their majority
on council, the Republicans made
sure that even as various legal

another multiplier effect: the
landlords, on their own, avoid the
most egregious violations because
the AATU has run some of the
worst ones out with massive and
continuing rent strikes.
The anti-AATU people on the
Michigan Student Assembly
(MSA) want to reduce its budget,
control its books, and impose an
"advisor." It is not in the interest
of students for any of these things
to happen. "Advisors" become
controllers, or at the very least,
meddlers.
The AATU, to be effective,
must be singularin its goal of
tenant activism. It cannot retain

Exercising their majority on council, the
Republicans made sure that even as various
legal services programs were mentioned (in
the Tenants' Rights Book), the AATU was not.

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services programs were men-
tioned, the AATU was not.
Working on a budget which is
puny even when compared to a
single small management com-
pany, the AATU has, since 1968,
heen a tnuh little force to

even the energy to do so if its
work is watered down by deci-
sion-sharing imposed by anti-
tenant people.
This is not to say that MSA
has no rights vis-a-vis the AATU.
The MSA navs a substantial

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