Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, November 21, 1991 STRESS Continued from page 1 without being home for a while. "For others, it is a longer time to maintain an intense effort with- out a break -kind of like running a marathon without out a break where one usually comes," he said. LSA sophomore Jeff Ellenbogen said he hasn't noticed the extra week of classes before vacation, but said he will feel its effect after Thanksgiving. "What it's going to do is make it hard after the break because I tend to study for finals after Thanksgiving," Ellenbogen said. Economics professor John Laitner said he had to adjust the tim- ing of his last quiz to accommodate the late holiday. "I'm going to end up giving it the Thursday after Thanksgiving - which is awfully late," he said. Not everyone said they were feeling pressured. LSA senior Joann Brown said, "I have a lot of things that are coming up, but I have it un- der control." Some students said they thought there should be a fall break before Thanksgiving. POLITICS Continued from page 1 expected, causing many of the House Democrats to panic and give in to the Republicans. Now the Democrats say they are even more upset because they still oppose the GA cuts. They thought the final budget would include a supplement that would enable them to reinstall some GA, Dettloff said. The re- sulting chaos has caused disagree- ment within both parties' caucuses. "This town (Lansing) is very divided ... there is very little com- promising here," Dettloff said. But John Truscott, Engler's press secretary, does not acknowl- edge any mention of a supplement. "Speaker Dodak agreed to elimi- nate General Assistance," Truscott said. "Nothing was mentioned about supplements.,, While preparing for the budget, Detroit City Councilman and Engler supporter Keith Butler ex- plained, the state Senate offered $43 million to fund GA. Democrats in the House, however, wished to restore all $240 million of GA funding from last year. "Rather than compromise, the House asked for even more money and made Engler look as mean as possible at the price of these people in the cold," Butler said. Dodak, Butler said, is responsi- ble for not compromising with the Republicans and the governor be- cause the House leader initiated a total cutoff of GA. On the other hand, Dodak spokesperson Dettloff said the governor wanted to eliminate GA from the beginning. "The Department of Social Services bud- get we passed is the one he wanted in March," she said. Both Democrats and Republicans. have been proposing work or training programs. The House has passed a bill proposed by Democrats called the State Work Development Program (SWAP), which would give assistance pay- ment if former GA recipients en- roll in training or education programs. Dettloff said Senate Republicans have no interest in SWAP, which would cost the state approximately $160 million. "If you look at it ... with 5 percent of those (formerly) on GA, in prison or homeless shelters, it would be much more cost effective ... but the governor feels they should look in the employment pages." Currently, Truscott says, there are 15 education and work training programs that people can apply for at organizations such as the Michigan Employment Security Commission and local school districts. The House and Senate have formed a conference committee to create a bill to restore cuts, partic- ularly Emergency Needs, which paid for utilities and was cut by 65 percent. CUTS Continued from page 1 other social service recipients. "We had limited resources, so we focused on assistance for the most vulnerable," Truscott said. The state expects to save $240 million by terminating the program. Detroit City Councilman Keith Butler, an Engler supporter, said he believes the state is just doing its duty. "When he (Engler) took over, we had a $1.3 billion shortfall. He didn't create that," he said. Butler said he opposes cuts geared toward the handicapped, aged, and "clearly unable," but feels able-bodied adults do not need the state assistance. "They should be getting out and doing something for themselves," Butler said. "There are places for them to go." There is plenty of shelter space available in Wayne County, he said. But representatives from shel- ters say they are having difficulty accommodating the recent influx of people who are no longer able to pay their rent and need a place to stay. Donald Montgomery, a case planner for the Coalition On Tem- porary Shelter (COTS), said as many as 170 people have wandered into his Detroit shelter nightly, looking for a place to sleep among the shelter's 140 beds. COTS is the largest shelter in Detroit, he said. Last year at this time, he said, only 130 people required provi- sions on an average night. He at- tributes the difference mainly to the elimination of GA. "Most people were not doing fine before," Montgomery said. "But they were able to have some kind of income. Now they have nothing." The shelter's directors plan to keep their doors open, help as many people as possible and use the re- sources they can find, Montgomery said. But the shelters have less to work with because the state Emer- gency Needs Program, which pro- vides for shelters, suffered a 65 percent cut under the budgetary knife. The Emergency Needs Program also appropriates funds to those 'I've seen my friends go from having places of their own and a sense of self- worth to seeing them living in the gutters' - Joel former GA recipient needing critical medical coverage and helps recently re-housed people pay rent and utility bills. "The Engler cuts increased the number of people who are going to be homeless and decreased the re- sources available to shelter them or re-settle them," said Jean Sum- merfield, executive director of the Shelter Association of Ann Arbor. The association, which lost $40,000 in state aid this year, has also been struggling to deal with a heavy case increase this fall. Summerfield does not predict the situation will improve. "There's going to be a disaster," she said. "All we can hope for is the legislature develops enough calcium in their spines to figure out there has to be a bottom line where people just can't find jobs." Summerfield also expects to see more people needing assistance this week because many apartment owners were waiting on a ruling that came down from the Michigan Court of Appeals Nov. 8 before making evictions. csPP SHAPING A NEW GENERATION OF BUSINESS LEADERS "I had a psychology degree from California State University, Northridge and had worked in mortgage banking. This program combined my interests in psychology and business in a very applied manner." Steve Blackman facilitates organiational change, mergers and restructuring in his position as an Organiational Consultant at Hughes Aircraft. His work as both a research assistant at CSPP-Los Angeles' Organization Development Center and as athird year intern at