Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, November 14, 1991 Detroit breaks mold in education DETROIT (AP) - America's top education policy-maker called on Detroit yesterday to lead Presi- dent Bush's push for "break-the- mold" schools by setting higher standards and graduating prospective dropouts. "America will not succeed if Detroit does not succeed," U.S. Edu- cation Secretary Lamar Alexander told more than 2,000 cheering stu- dents and school officials at Cass Technical High School. Detroit was the nation's first major urban school district to adopt Bush's America 2000 education plan, aimed at improving the nation's public school system. "I don't know of another big- city school district that's headed more in the right direction than this district in Detroit," the former Tennessee governor said. Alexander's optimism, echoed by Gov. John Engler, drew a swift and cynical response from U.S. Rep. William D. Ford (D-Mich.). "President Bush and Gov. Engler each has refused to provide signifi- cant new funding for Michigan edu- cation," Ford said, adding yester- day's event was "more a public rela- tions ploy than an honest, real commitment to making things better for Detroit's school children." If the Bush administration really meant business on education, it I r I I I SI I I I '----m- - - - --- - - SALE ' - anSA LE - -- - --- - 215 S. State Ann Arbor 995-DEAD (upstairs) ~1 1 i 1 1 1 _ I I I I I _I would support a $700-million Neighborhood School Improvement Act, Ford said. The money would be shared by all neighborhood schools rather than a select few. Engler joined Alexander in an- nouncing what the governor said would be sweeping reforms in Michigan public schools. The state would provide grants to businesses that guarantee jobs to graduates, reward school districts whose students choose teaching ca- reers and pay for satellite hookups and other equipment designed to de- feat the limits of geography, Engler said. Students said they supported the call to educational excellence. But student musicians protested En- gler's visit with black arm bands and fliers to criticize the governor's cuts to the arts. "The students themselves need to set the challenge to have a better school," said Lawrence Foster, a Cass Tech senior. "No one is going to give you anything. You've got to go get it yourself." Detroit school officials said they adopted their own Detroit 2000 ini- tiative, aimed at reducing the city's 40-percent dropout rate to 10 per- cent by the next century. HARASSMENT Continued from page 1 said the department would turn any complaint over to University ad- ministrators to investigate. "The policy is to make a state- ment condemning sexual harass- ment," she said. The political science depart- ment's initiative has inspired other University departments to consider developing policies of their own, said other department chairs. Most departments, however, have used the 1 I{ L___-- 20% OFF all Grateful Dead Tour Shirts 'til Nov. 30, 1991 with this Ad Poetry in motion Paige Etter, a junior in Community High School, and Michael Woodberry, a Dance school sophomore, rehearse, for the Ann Arbor Ballet Theater's annual holiday production of The Nutcracker. Wwo J w \\ / } 4, . \, v'vw.. 3, ..r. \r'R _ T B L U E \' I University's most recent policy to make faculty and staff members more aware. Edwin Miller, associate dean of the School of Business Administra- tion, said sexual harassment "will not be tolerated." Miller said the Business School abides by the Uni- versity's policy. "We have to deal with each other in a way which enhances the quality of interpersonal relationships be- tween faculty and staff," he said. "We are moving forward to really deal with sexual harassment." Mary Winter, administrative as- sistant in the department of Indus- trial and Operations Engineering, 'Sexual harassment is difficult to define' - Kay Dawson said the department does not have a policy separate from the University. She said no one has filed a claim of sexual harassment since she came to the department in 1982. In the Communications depart- ment, Associate Chair Vincent Price said the executive committee has discussed devising a departmental policy. "Currently, we don't have one,"" Price said. "The committee is in the process of finding what other de- partments have in place." He expressed concern that stu- dents who are in situations of expe- riencing sexual harassment do not know where to go but that they should contact department or Uni- versity administrators with any@ concerns. Saturday November 16, 8pm rackham auuCitori u m FA L LCONCERT U of M's coed A CAPPELLA Singing Ensemble SPECIAL GUEST: Oberlin's Nothing But Treble TCKETTS $3 00 Available at Michigan Union Ticket I J Oie andAllicketMasterOuts 763-IK S University Activities Center 763-1107 PC Continued from page 1 sues and makes it difficult to open things up for debate," said Rackham graduate student Jeff Gauthier. "It's like in the 1950s when all kinds of ideas started being called communist so it got to the point where you just could not discuss things like socialist economics without being called a communist." While Gauthier said he hopes this weekend's conference will dis- cuss the problems with the issues this stereoptype encompasses and dispel the "myths" of political cor- rectness, former MSA President Jennifer Van Valey feels that PC is more than a myth. "I think PC does exist," Van Valey said. "There's something chic about college liberalism. For many stu- dents it's their first time to pursue new ideas and that's great. But I think people are becoming hung up in things like language and never exploring the real issues. I know a lot of guys who are careful never to call a woman a girl but they practice sexist attitudes in every aspect of their lives," Van Valey said. HISPANIC Continued from page 1 cruitment nationally and at the University is good. "For a school Michigan's size the number of Latino students is good. Nationally, the numbers are also positive," he said. Raoul Medina, a first-year grad- uate student in Public Health and former president of the Puerto Ri- can Association, said quotas are not the answer. "Students should be accepted be- cause they are good students. The Senate is recognizing that schools with Hispanics can make it across the country if they are given the chance," he said. Magallan saidthe aid is geared toward low-income Hispanic students. "The focus is on low-income students. The fact that these stu- dents are Hispanic is not as impor- tant as the need to help these stu- dents pay for school," Magalla2 said. .. " " _ i JAM JAW a v-Ari--v NOW TWO LOCATIONS SERVING UofM G UE NS 1% 0* NI 66AM COMA 665-: /M / RTH 'PUS 1ONS 2 8 0 0 011990 little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. CHIGAN (NION (Lower Level) 65-2034 COMMERS Continued from page 1 lems that go on," he said. "And that's why I have this job." Commers cited a statistic that 75 percent of sexual assaults re- ported to the Sexual Assault Pre- vention and Awareness Center are alcohol related, and he also points toward several accidents that have occured in relation to the consump- tion of alcohol. "The environment (of the Greek system) is a lot different than it was even a few years ago," ex- plained IFC Advisor Joe Foster. "There are a lot of people upset with the Greek system and are con- cerned with what they should be doing." However, several members within the Greek community are upset with the IFC's recent push for a BYOB policy. "If a frat wants to assume its JOBS Continued from page 1 In St. Louis for a political fundraiser, Bush called the com- promise "good news" and "long overdue" and said he would sign the measure. "No doubt about the sig- nature if it stays the way this deal has been hammered out, abso- lutely," he said. "It looks like we now have at long last an unemployment com- pensation bill that will get money into the hands of those whose bene- fits have run out," Bush said. "I don't think we're in a recession" al- though "some places are and some people are hurting." "I think the deal you've been able to hammer out ... is a good one," Bush said by telephone to Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and House Minority Leader Robert Michel (R-Ill.). "I think it's some- thing I know I can enthusiastically support." However, Rep. William Thomas (R-Calif.) said, "If they'd continued own liability (for serving alco- hol), then that's its prerogative," said Chi Phi member and LSA ju- nior Jonah Seiger. "We are different people with different desires and different problems," said Sigma Phi Presi- dent Marko Spinar, an LSA senior. "The IFC has no right to tell me I can't give beer to my friends in my house... personally, my institution is sick of it." Commers, however, sees deep ethical and liability problems with fraternities supplying alcohol at parties. Unless Greek organizations cease to supply alcohol at parties, he said, they cannot, "with in- tegrity," step forward to help solve those problems stemming from its consumption. Commers and Kendall have formed a committee to formulate a new alcohol policy, which, Com- mers stressed, is the first opportu- The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students atthe University of Michigan. 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"I knew that people would be very upset," but, he added, "it is not a prohibition issue, it's a sup- ply issue." "BYOB has already survived the test of time and the test of the court system," Commers said. Many people have been concerned about the new policy, he said, thinking that parties would be cur- tailed. However, Commers assured that parties have gone even better than he had expected: "Without exception, BYOB parties this semester have gone phenome- nally." DINE-IN OR CARRY-OUT L 11 VALUABLE COUPON 1E 1 1m Or 1111 VALABLECOUP111111111 E VALUABLE COUPON U1---1 --111VALUABLE COUPON s m1 BABYTDOUBLE"SLICETwo SMALL a a. 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