The Michigan Daily- Thursday, March 12, 1992 - Page 3
Non-profit groups
receive limited funds
" from meal sacrifices !
Survivor speaks
on concentration
camp traumas
by Sarah McCarthy
Members of non-profit organiza-
tions say the residence hall meal
sacrifice program, which allows stu-
dents to donate skipped meals to
charitable organizations, serves as a
valuable source of income for their
groups.
However, students who had par-
ticipated in a meal sacrifice in the
past were surprised to learn of the
gap between the amount they were
being charged and the sum that actu-
ally benefited the organization.
According to the 1991-92 stan-
dard meal plan, students in tradi-
tional residence halls are charged
$5.22 for dinner; from that fixed
rate, however, only the budgeted raw
food cost is contributed to the orga-
nization - $1.66 per meal.
The remaining $3.56 compen-
sates both union payroll and main-
taining the safety and sanitation
standard.
"They made it seem to me like all
of the money was going to benefit
the handicapped," first-year engi-
neering student Monish Kundra said.
"I figured 'all of the money' meant
the $6 I'm charged for every meal."
Despite the meal sacrifice's suc-
cess for organizations like
Volunteers for Hillel and People
Understanding the Severely
Handicapped, organizers said they
did not realize only a portion of the
amount charged would be donated.
"To me it sounded like an awful
lot to go for whatever it goes for,"
said LSA sophomore Jenny Beck,
one of the organizers for Volunteers
for Hillel. "But I didn't want to jump
the gun and start questioning one of
the best fundraisers we have."
David Wahr, administrative assis-
tant for Residence Operations and
Student Residences, said the Dining
Services department operates under
a fixed cost. The only way to deduct
from the fixed rate without jeopar-
dizing the overall budget for ex-
penditures was to focus on and iso-
late the raw food cost.
"Even with the sacrifice we have
to pay additional costs," Wahr
explained.
"The program goes back several
years," Residence Operations
Business Manager Larry Durst said.
"It's concept is to ask students to
contribute something they can afford
to give up. We don't want a good
program to penalize the employees."
When the meal sacrifice program
was organized by students in the late
1960s, they originally decided to do-
nate only the cost of the raw food
value to charity to avoid penalizing
labor in any way.
Although only raw food costs are
donated to the meal sacrifice pro-
gram, students who elect to use their
meal credit at dormitory snack bars
receive more than that amount at
Residence Hall snack bars.
Although Durst justified the dif-
ference in cost by attributing it to la-
bor, it still costs Dining Services
more when students participate in a
meal sacrifice than if they used meal
credit at a snack bar.
Dining Services also said there is
usually a 20 to 33 percent absentee
rate for each meal, not permitting the
department a great deal of flexibility
in adjusting payroll for the meal
sacrifice program.
"Students on any 13 meal plan
miss about 20 percent of all meals,"
Durst said, pointing out that students
don't pay for that percentage. "If,
somehow, (the percentage) could be
spread evenly, and usually it isn't,
students could sign up and not give
anything up.
"They charge so much for meals,
you can't even relate it to money,"
engineering first-year student Amy
Simpson said. "For the number of
Despite skepticism about the din-
ing hall policy, students said they
would still participate in program.
"I'd still do it, but I would be
very irate," first-year LSA student
Chris McCleary said. "The whole
money and credit thing is a sham so
they can avoid telling you where
your money is really going. The
meal plan is inherently flawed."
by Karen Talaski
Daily Staff Reporter
Last night, University students
heard the story about the horrors of
the Holocaust - first hand.
Robert Clary, a survivor of
German Concentration Camp num-
ber A5714, spoke before a full house
at Hillel as part of the 13th Annual
Conference on the Holocaust. Clary
- one of the leading actors on the
television show "Days of Our
Lives" and "Hogan's Heroes" - de-
scribed his experiences and his feel-
ings about Holocaust Revisionism.
"I spent 31 months in hell. Every
time I speak about it I relive those
months and I hate it," Clary said. "I
barely escaped what hatred does."
Born in Paris, Clary was 16 when
he was taken prisoner by German
soldiers and sent to Auschwitz-
Buchenwald. Clary, the youngest of
14 children, was the only one in his
immediate family to survive.
"I didn't speak about my experi-
ences for 36 years until I saw a doc-
umentary where a woman talked
about the camps and described the
smell of the burning bodies. I could
still see and smell those things,"
Clary said.
"(The Holocaust survivor) said
that she decided to tell her story so
that people would not forget. I de-
cided then that I too had a duty. I
had to leave a legacy," Clary added.
"And it's not for my sake. It is for
history's sake. The world demands
that I tell the truth about the
Holocaust."
Clary said he travels the UnitedR
States and Canada telling his story.
He has been talking since 1980 to
schools and other groups.
"As survivors, we tell them the
truth. We don't lie. We don't exag
gerate," Clary said. "The Nazi tried
to get rid of 'Jewish vermin' and
they almost did it! Six million peo-
ple were killed."
Clary also addressed Holocaust,
Revisionism - a theory contending
that the numbers of casualties and
stories about the Holocaust were fal-
sified and debatable.
"What's'to debate? I spent 31
months in a concentration camp so,
you could debate? My mother and,
father were baked in an oven so you
could debate?" Clary said.
"Show the number on my arm to
Bradley Smith (a believer in
Revisionism). I did not go to a tattoo
shop to get this. I don't want it on
my arm," Clary said.
Looking glass
The south wall of the Law Quad Reading Room looms high above criss-
crossing shadows on the sloping wall of the Law Library.
MSA criticizes 'U' as a 'corporation'
by Jennifer Silverberg
Daily MSA Reporter
The Michigan Student Assembly
condemned University President
James Duderstadt's "Corporate
Model" of the University Tuesday
night, by a vote of 24-3.
"The resolution says something
the administration should take a look
at. It says that undergraduate educa-
tion should be the first concern of
the administration," LSA Rep. Steve
Stark said of the resolution intro-
duced by Rackham Rep. Amy Polk.
The resolution calls on MSA to
establish links with the Faculty
Senate Assembly to analyze the
University budget and suggest re-
forms in the budget priorities that
would benefit student interests.
The resolution also asks the
Academic Affairs Commission to
conduct further research on the cor-
porate model's effects on students.
The assembly passed the resolu-
tion after an amendment was made
to the document eliminating factual
information pertaining to the
University's drop in national rank,
increased cost of tuition and in-
creased resources funded for re-
search as opposed to graduate and
undergraduate studies.
"What was cut was the rationale
for the resolution - undergraduates
are suffering because of the admin-
istration's conception of the
University as a corporation," said
LSA Rep. Todd Ochoa, who voted
for the resolution.
Rackham Rep. Leilani Nishime
placed another resolution on
Tuesday night's agenda asking the
assembly to support Students of
Color of Rackham-Graduate
Employee's Organization (SCOR-
GEO) proposal regarding teaching
assistants (TAs) of color.
The resolution asks MSA to en-
dorse a proposal to increase the
number of students of color in TA
positions and call on the University
administration and administrators of
the University's 17 schools and col-
leges to engage in negotiations with
the organizations.
"Basically we are asking to be
allowed to compete equally for TA
positions," Nishime said. "It's a very
touchy situation and I know the de-
partments are strapped for money, so
we are open to negotiations."
The resolution says that the only
70 of the 1,560 TAs from the fall
1991 term were U.S. citizens of
color.
"I believe it's important to have
more TAs of color, both as role
models and mentors, to be a visible
presence and to improve our stand-
ing on the job market," Nishime
said.
A third resolution on next week's
agenda asks MSA to call on the
University to provide for aniallow
the distribution of free political liter-
ature, including MIM Notes - the
Maoist Internationalist Movement.
LSA senior Philip Cohen said he.;
is introducing this resolution because
he has been denied the right to place
MIM Notes in the lobby of the
Graduate Library. Workers at the
Undergraduate Library, however, al-
lowed the newspaper to be placed in
its lobby.
"At first glance it doesn't seem
like a crucial issue, but it will have
long-term importance," Cohen told
the assembly. "We're in some dan-
ger where the administration looksat:
the University more as a private than
public institution."
U.S., Russia want to cut
world's nuclear weapons
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -
The United States and Russia said
yesterday they want to reduce
sharply their stockpiles of the
world's most dangerous nuclear
weapons, but differed on the pace of
those cuts.
A 4 1/2-hour meeting between
Secretary of State James Baker and
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei
K l d d anarantl n a n nnA
Baker said there would have to
be further meetings with Kozyrev on
both the timing and the mix of a new
accord.
He said, "There was a genuine
desire to move beyond the require-
ments of the START treaty," the
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
signed by Bush and former Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev last July.
RSG gives $1,050 in grants to four groups
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prospects for a successful summit in Kozyrev said at a joint news con-
Washington in mid-June. Left unre- ference at the Russian Embassy:
solved was Moscow's demand for a "We worked as friends and allies
compressed schedule that could cut standing on one side of the barricade
or even ban ocean-spanning multi- of all the problems that beset us on
ple-warhead missiles by the end of the other."
the century. For years at the flashpoint of
They left open the question of conflict, the United States and what
whether a new arms-reduction pact used to be the Soviet Union have
will be ready for signing when amassed enough nuclear weapons to
President Bush meets Russian destroy each other several times
President Boris Yeltsin in June. over.
THE LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
by Karen Pier
Daily Graduate Schools Reporter
The Rackham Student
Government (RSG) allocated $1,050
in grants last night to organizations
bringing speakers and conferences to
campus, and to print a campus
journal.
In addition, RSG also discussed
upcoming spring elections for
March 30 and 31.
Several slots are available, in-
cluding the vice presidential and
presidential positions and four
physcical sciences and engineering
slots, one in health and biological
sciences, two arts and humanities
slots and two social science slots.
In allocating the grants, RSG
gave away $150 to the Asian
American Women's Journal, $300 to
the United Nations Conference,
$400 to the International Observer
and $200 to the Arab American
Student Association.
Members reduced the amount of
money given to one organization and
denied two other requests. The Arab
American Student Association re-
ceived $200 instead of its requested
$500 to bring a speaker comparing
Zionism and apartheid.
Although some members ques-
tioned the need for the speaker spon-
sored by the Arab American Student
Association because he had previ-
ously spoken to a University audi-
ence, Rackham student Corey
Dolgon said, "It would make sense
as a group that's just starting to
bring in someone guaranteed to
bring in a large audience."
RSG unanimously voted to award
$150 to the Asian American
Women's Journal - its second grant;
from RSG.
RSG also allocated $400 to thy
International Observer to bring io
two journalists to speak at thy
University about their experiences;
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