The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 23, 1992 - Page 7 Duderstadt chooses recipients of Initiative Women's political caucus holds inaugural meeting Group calls on women to become politiaiy involved 4 4I Fund grant money by Melissa Peerless Beth Adler, an organizational Daily Administration Reporter consultant at the Student University President James Organization Development Center Duderstadt has chosen thirteen stu- and a member of the committee dent proposals to receive University which helped oversee the program, funding through the Presidential said organizers were pleased with Initiative Fund for the Michigan the proposals. Mandate Leadership and Learning "I think that 75 applicants is !Student Competition. good for the first year. There were The Presidential Initiative Fund amazing ideas. They were ingenious. is Duderstadt's $100,000 yearly al- I wanted to fund all of them," she lowance - donated by alumni - said. "Some programs involved which he can use for University working with similar groups, or causes at his discretion. groups working together who Duderstadt designated this year's would not usually work together. fund for the competition. Student The ideas were really cool." proposals on how the University Adler said she hopes the could further complete the goals of University will sponsor another the Michigan Mandate were so- student contest and a faculty con- icited during the summer and fall. test next year. The Mandate is the University's However, Director of commitment to increase minority Presidential Communications enrollment and retention. Shirley Clarkson said the University administrators said they University hasn't made a decision hoped the competition would in- yet. crease student interest in achieving it$ goals. "The key to the success of the Mandate is involving people, not ust a few people at the top or scat- tered groups, but everyone. We have to get people involved in the pro- gram, to bring in the intellectual community on these key social is- sues," Duderstadt said. A team of 12 students, faculty and staff members chose the 13 pro- posals from 75 submitted propos- als. The proposals were selected '*ased on their ability to bring about social and cultural diversity and de- velop inter- and intra-cultural un- derstanding and awareness. "We are coming to the end of the fund which made this program pos- sible, so we don't know if it's going to be possible to have another next year or a faculty staff competition," she said. The following programs re- ceived funding: De Colores: A Collection of Writing from People ofAll Colors, a collection of family stories written by students; i Salsa Explosion!!, a program designed to address issues in the Latino community; Parallel Motion, a diverse singing group; Pi Lambda Epsilon Fraternity Outreach Groups, a series of pro- Duderstadt grams which benefit local youth and international students; U-M Greens' Detroit Summer, a speaker series; Student National Medical Association Community Service Program, a local chapter of a na- tional organization dedicated to mi- nority needs; Michigan Journal of Political Science 's Perspectives on Diversity at the University of Michigan, a publication of up to 20 essays and papers; A Forum for Campus Leaders in a Multicultural Community, a program to promote a comfortable environment for the exchange of ideas on campus; Race, Poverty and the Environment, a seminar series; Women of Color at the U-M, a project to address the needs of women of color on campus; Projects of Unification 92-93, a conference that will foster cul- tural understanding on campus; Institutionalized Racism: A Multimedia Presentation, a piece that will explore the concept of in- stitutionalized racism, and; Dewey Community Center Club, an enrichment program at a K- 8 magnet school in Detroit. by Joshua Meckler Daily Staff Reporter Speakers at last night's meeting of the Ann Arbor Women's Political Caucus (AAWPC) called on women to become involved in politics and bring women's issues - such as reproductive choice - to the forefront of today's political agenda. About 50 people attended the in- augural meeting in the Rackham East Lecture Room, where several woman politicians from around the state spoke. State Representative Jan Dolan (R-Farmington Hills), said women are underrepresented in the state government. Women hold only two senate positions and 19 representa- tive spots, she said. "We do not represent the break- down of women in Michigan. I think it's meetings like this that can encourage more women to be in- volved," Dolan said. Carol Miller, acting chair of the AAWPC and a graduate student in the School of Public Health, said, "We're looking forward to being an active group in the state of Michigan - to get women into of- fice and let the political leaders of Michigan know what's important to us." The Ann Arbor organization, the state's only local women's caucus, is a branch of the Michigan Women's Political Caucus (MWPC), which is in turn a branch of the National Women's Political Caucus, Miller said. Rosemary Wells, treasurer of the MWPC, said, "The main pur- pose of the caucus at the state and national level is to elect women to office." However, Wells added, this is difficult because women do not have the same access to money that men traditionally have had. "Money talks, and that is the key to every election." She said the formation of the AAWPC was a positive step. "A caucus at the local level can really do more intense work than a state- wide caucus that is spread really thin." Marcella Stein, co-chair of the MWPC, said, "I know here in Ann Arbor you're going to do well be- cause you have such a wonderful his- tory of doing things so well when it comes to protesting and doing things political." Because the meeting fell on the 19th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, much of last night's talk centered on the topic of abortion. Miller said reproductive rights will be an important issue for the organization. She added that all the Women's Political Caucus groups support only pro-choice candidates. LSA first-year student Julie Ballin said after coming to the meeting that she was ready to join the group. She said she was im- pressed that reproductive rights were given a high priority by the or- ganization. "I think it has to be because it's more than abortion - it's the gov- ernment telling women what they can and can't do," she said. Ann Arbor resident Christian Arandel was the sole male attendee. "I think it's important for men to see what women have to say. Only women raise the issues because they pay the consequences. So men aren't attracted to this kind of meet- ing because they don't feel it con- cerns them, but it should," he said. The next AAWPC meeting will be Wednesday, Feb 19, at 6:45 p.m. in the auditorium of the School of Public Health's building one. International summit discusses alternatives to speed up Soviet aid The Daily encourages its readers to voice their opinions. 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