The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 16,1992 - Page 3 'U,' city plan for move-out recycling by Gwen Shaffer Daily Staff Reporter Instead of throwing out all the things they don't want to lug home at the end of the year, students can now donate their used items to the homeless. For the first time, the University and the City of Ann Arbor have teamed up to provide recycling sites to collect items when students move out in two weeks. Items including spiral notebooks and coursepacks, carpet, clothing and small appliances S will be donated to Purple Heart, a non-profit organization providing aid to combat-wounded veterans and their families. "A lot of students have expressed concern about the homeless problem, and 33 percent of homeless are Vietnam veterans," said Jenny Cotner, administrative assistant for the Grounds Waste and Management Department. "We saw this as a chance to really do something." Proceeds from deposit bottles and cans collected during move-out week will benefit Prospect Place, a homeless shelter in Ypsilanti. Last year, $965 was raised for the shelter through bottle collections. In addition, students collected 20,000 pounds of clothing. "It's nice to think someone is going to be get- ting those when they otherwise may have been thrown out," Cotner said. Cotner said students were coop- erative last year, but that the University wants to reach even more students before the move-out begins. "We collected 400 carpets, which may sound like a lot, but there are probably 5,000 rooms in the residence halls," she said. Furniture has also been added to * the items the University is accepting at recycling sites. "We're hoping that furniture will really bring the landfill space down," Cotner said. Students who live off campus can bring their recyclable and re-usable items to drop-off locations in the LSA Building and Rackham. Rebecca Kanner, recycling pro- motion coordinator for the Ecology Center, said it is encouraging off- campus students to leave their used, notebooks and other recyclables at the South Industrial drop-off station. "If students have questions about how to get rid of furniture or other items for re-use, the Ecology Center can refer them to the appropriate place," Kanner said. New MSA's first A t resolution praises basketball team b On the run A driver drops off his tax forms at the Liberty Street post office to meet yesterday's deadline . SNR uses PIRGIM funds for Port Huron schools by Karen Talaski Daily Staff Reporter Members of the School of Natural Resources (SNR) are work- ing on a project in the Port Huron Schools to teach students about wa- ter quality, using funds won in a suit brought by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) against the Mueller Brass Company. PIRGIM won $2 million in penalties and payments from Mueller Brass Company Feb. 26. Of that amount, $131,365 will be allo- cated to SNR to be used in a cooper- ative environmental education project. University faculty and students will be working with the Port Huron school system to teach students how to monitor and analyze pollutants in the Black and St. Claire Rivers. The environmental lawsuit was filed against the brass company for discharging toxins into the Black River. According to the consent de- cree, Mueller Brass was placing their process, cooling, and noncontact cooling wastewater into the river. PIRGIM attorney Andy Buchsbaum said Mueller Brass did not have dumping permits. "They were putting in one-half million gal- lons of contaminated wastewater, primarily heavy metal," Buchsbaum said. Buchsbaum said he was opti- mistic about the Port Huron schools project. "We are training students to become environmental watchdogs," he said. "We are maximizing the oppor- tunities we have," said William Stapp, SNR professor. "It is going to be good-sense education - what the citizens need to know." The two-year environmental edu- cation project will be administered by Stapp and the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network. Nine schools - from elementary to adult education - will be involved in the Port Huron River Project. The students will be given a his- tory of the area as the first part of the project. The past and present of the watershed will be studied through pictures from space, oral interviews with historians and early settlers and maps. Next, the students will monitor the water quality of the rivers. Studies will be done on bottom- dwelling organisms, heavy metals, and nine other tests including the water's pH factor. "Each school will do the tests in various parts and both sides of the river," Stapp said. "The greater the diversity, the better water quality you have." Another part of the project is ex- changing students' results through a proj ect computer network. Stapp said every school is linked to Eco-net, a San Francisco based system which has accounts all around the state, country, and world. Action-Taking, as Stapp called it, will conclude the program. "Along with learning about social studies and the laws, the students survey what hazardous wastes are in their homes," Stapp said. "This project proves that there is something everybody can do," said LSA sophomore Dan Rabinovitch, president of the University's PIRGIM chapter. "As a student, I think this is a great example of how past mistakes can be turned into positive future change," Rabinovitch said. "It makes the industry around (the Port Huron area) more accountable." Along with the environmental education fund, Mueller is responsi- ble for stopping illegal discharges into the Black River and cleaning up the contaminated groundwater and soil at their facility. The company must purchase wilderness area and toxic waste cleanup equipment as well. "This case could be duplicated in other places," Buchsbaum said. "Other potential cases could come down the pike in new places which could benefit." by Jennifer Silverberg Daily MSA Reporter The newly-elected Michigan Student Assembly representatives unanimously passed the Resolution in Appreciation of the Michigan basketball team Tuesday night as their first official act of the year. The resolution's stated purpose was to express gratitude and con- gratulations to the 1992 Michigan Wolverine basketball team on behalf of University students. "I was really proud of our bas- ketball team and how they per- formed, and I wanted to show my appreciation and let the whole as- sembly show their appreciation as well," said resolution sponsor Rackham Rep. Roger DeRoo. The resolution praised the Wolverines for their second-place ranking in collegiate basketball, their trip to the NCAA Championship, a regular season record of 20-8, and in the words of Coach Steve Fisher, for being, "a team that did shock the world." Fox said the first meeting went well but that she expected future agendas to be more complicated. "I expect that it will get tougher soon because there is business to take care of," said MSA President Ede Fox. "I'm sure it will be a tremendous learning experience, and this time next year I'll be an entirely different person. I suppose I'll be more responsible and I guess a little wiser in the ways of the world." Tuesday night DeRoo was nomi- nated by Fox and approved by a majority of the assembly to be MSA's Student General Counsel. "I legally represent the assembly to student courts and for other legal affairs," DeRoo said. "I'll do a good job. I've been on the assembly for six months and I've had a crash course on how things work. I'll help Ede set the tone for meetings so business can be done fairly and effi- ciently." Fox also nominated Business Rep. Michael Oduro for MSA Treasurer. The nomination was ap- proved by a majority vote of the as- sembly. "He's been on student govern- ment at other schools that had bud- gets twice as big as ours for four or five years, so he's eminently quali- fied and I think he's a good person to work with," Fox said, explaining Oduro's nomination. Outgoing representatives met Tuesday night before the change of reign, and in their final act as an as- sembly, passed a resolution 17-12 with one abstention for a compiled code change to expand the MSA re- serve fund. The compiled code gov- erns internal assembly procedures. Rules and Elections Committee Chair Brian Kight said the reserve fund is a "rainy day" fund to be used in case of emergency or crisis, such as the $80,000 debt MSA incurred three years ago. The resolution changed MSA's reserve fund from 2 percent of the, internal budget, approximately. $2,000-$3,000, to 5 percent of the internal budget, Kight said. "We've had situations in the past where we've had financial emergencies. I think 5 percent of the 'I'm sure it will be a tremendous learning A experience, and this time next year I'll be an entirely different person.IsupposeI'll be more responsible and I guess a little wiser in the ways of the world.' - Ede Fox MSA president ;. .x I h' }I. overall budget would be a good amount that would give us money to set aside so if there was a major emergency or debt, this probably wouldn't cover it all, but it would prevent the magnitude of our prob-. lems in the past," Kight said. The compiled code change passed with an amendment prevent, ing allocation of money from the re- serve fund without prior consent of three-fifths of the assembly members then in office. The code change was not sup- ported by all representatives. "Combined with the fee cap, this slashes MSA's budget by transfer- ring money from a paralyzed budget to the reserve fund, and the amend- ment ties the assembly's hands to get to that money," LSA Rep. Todd Ochoa said. "It's simply ludicrous to attempt to limit or constrain the way money can be accessed to the point, that it can't be." Correction Charges of assault and battery were dropped against all of the students arrested during University deputization hearings. Also, the defense attorney in the case is Thomas Quarterman of Student Legal Services. This information was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Daily. GEO votes to support Kroger's strikers THE What's happeningi Meetings Undergrad Psych Society,. Anderson A-B, 5:00 p.m. ACT-UP Ann Arbor, meeting, Crofoot Rm, Michigan Union, 7:30 p.m. Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers (IEEE), 1311 EECS, weekly luncheon meeting, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, weekly group mtg, 1040 Dana Bldg, 7 p.m. Islamic Circle, weekly mtg, 3rd floor Michigan League 5:15. Pro-choice Action; weekly mtg, MLB Rm B118, 7:30 p.m. Pre -Med Club Meeting, Pendleton rm, 6:30 p.m. Korean Students Association, weekly meeting, Pendleton Rm, Michigan Union, 6 p.m. Amnesty Int'l, East Quad, Greene Lounge, 7-8 p.m. Hindi Discussion/Class, M L B B115, 8 p.m. Women of Color in Higher Education, Center for the Education of Women, 4th flr Rackham, 4th flr Rackham Speakers "Management Philosophy of LIST, in Ann Arbor today Carlo Studies of Clusters of Hydrogen Molecules," 1640 Chem 4:00 p.m. "Graphical Representation of Dynamic Linear Models," M4332 3:30 p.m. "Spring Fling at Catarpe: An Inca Site in Northern Chile," 2009 Nat Sci, 12-1 p.m. Furthermore Maundy Thursday Eucharist , Canterbury house, 5:30 p.m. Anthropology Club, 7 p.m. Dominick's Safewalk, night-time safety walk- ing service. Sun-Thurs 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Fri-Sat, 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Stop by 102 UGLi or call 936-1000. Also, extended hours: Sun-Thurs 1-3 a.m. Stop by Angell Hall Computing Center or call 763-4246. N o r t h w a lk, North Campus nighttime team walking service. Sun- Thur 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Stop by 2333 Bursley or call 763-WALK. ECB Peer Writing Tutors, Angell/Mason Hall Computing °Center, 7-11 p.m. Stress and Time Management, Consultations with peer counselors available, 3100 Michigan Union, 1- 3 p.m. Tidar.uaduute Psvchnnlov by Karen Pier Daily Graduate Schools Reporter Graduate Employees Organiza- tion (GEO) members voted unani- mously to support the the supermar- ket workers' strike against Kroger's at their meeting last night. GEO members will walk the picket line with the strikers on Saturday morning at the Kroger's store on Plymouth Road. If enough people participate, GEO Organizer Phillis Engelbert said, some people might fan out to another Kroger's as well. David Toland, GEO vice presi- dent, said he had no qualms about supporting the strikers during the recession. "I support the Kroger people.... The workers have made concessions for 11 years, and the economy hasn't done poorly for the last 11 years," he said. In other business, members dis- cussed their April 22 meeting with Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR). GEO hopes to work with SCOR to increase the number of U.S. minority teaching assistants (TAs). Second-year Rackham student Wendy Carty, a member of GEO's steering committee, said 7 percent of University TAs are U.S. minorities, which constitutes 115 out of a total number of approximately 1600 TAs. Chief Steward for the Washtenaw County Building Trades Council Stephen Jaynes also spoke briefly before the group, asking for their support in his bid for election to be- come a Public Safety Oversight Committee member in June. Jaynes said the deputized police force was "not a cost-effective mea- sure," and that he was suspicious of them. Jaynes garnered high marks from GEO members. Toland said, "I like what he had to say ... being skeptical and untrusting." GEO President Tom Oko concurred. "He looks like a very good candidate to do this job," he said. Oko also said there are fears that the deputized officers might be used as surveillance and as strike breakers. In addition, GEO announced the need for a new organizer because Engelbert will resign in May. Members also discussed the progress of grievances filed against the Mathematics, Sociology, and History of Art departments. -e.c.a D iyR- c- Do You? Elvis impersonators, salsa lighten tax day atmosphere Associated Press Frantic and facing a deadline, up to 20 million Americans who had not yet filed their federal tax made tracks yesterday to accountants and post offices. Some people enjoyed relief from the stress. The Springfield, Mass., post of- fice gave a 1950s-style party starring Elvis impersonators for people tot- ing their 1040s; elsewhere, taxpayers got the chance to vent their frus- trations by dunking Internal Rev- enue Service agents or enjoy a little salsa-flavored music. Levity about tax levies was leav- ened by anti-tax protests and ex- pressions of resentment, or simply instifications about nrocrastination. atmosphere of mail house rock in Springfield, Mass. A banner reading "Tax Celebra- tion" went up over the main door at noon and clerks switched from uni- forms to bobby sox and jeans as the first of seven bands, most composed of postal workers or their families, started playing. "Government has become such an impersonal thing that people have become nothing but a number," said. Postmaster Jon Steele. "But life isn't like that. Here you can pay your taxes and giggle and pretend to be a kid again." OH ND n!orA !oTHER SUMMER AT THE MALL! O -do ! I " 00 " i " i \ r :.:>:.~ ~~4i 24A j,4,y / /i U- .3 Ut - I. Ii I I IF ,orqk ww - 11 i a_.! I\i. V J /.