The Michigan Daily- Friday, April16, 1993- Page 3
Environmental fair
foiled by wet weather
March will show
support network
among women
by Scot Woods
Daily Staff Reporter
For the second year in a row, na-
ture interfered with the Earth Week
Information Fair.
Morning rains yesterday caused
organizers to call off the event, sched-
uled to run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
the Diag. Last year, cold weather sent
the fair indoors and organizers said
student turnout was low.
Payal Parekh, an SNRE sopho-
more and member of the MSA Envi-
ronmental Issues Commission (EIC),
said the rain caused several problems.
The fair format called for local
environmental organizations to setup
informational tables on the Diag, but
Parekh said, "People don't want to sit
three hours in the rain, and (students)
won't stop in the rain."
Organizers also arranged for The
Impatients, a local band, to play dur-
ing the event, but feared wet condi-
tions would make using electrical
sound equipment dangerous.
SNRE junior Linda Stalker, also
an EIC member, said the cancellation
is a setback.
"It's really unfortunate for all the
groups who wanted to participate,"
she said, adding that 15 organiza-
tions were to be represented.
Because the event comes so late
in the year, it cannot be rescheduled.
Stalker said the Diag policy re-
quires three business days advance
notice to get electricity, but the Diag
was already reserved for next Tues-
day, the first day power would be
available. Tuesday is alsothe lastday
the Diag can be reserved this term,
since the policy prohibits its use dur-
ing exams.
However, the weather has not
dampened organizers' optimism.
Former EIC Chair Stuart Kaplan
said, "We're already planning a fair
for early September."
Parekh added that after two years
of weather problems, organizers have
learned their lesson.
"Next year, we'll plan it for the
first day (of Earth Week), so we can
reschedule for later in the week," she
said.
KRISTOFFER GILLETTE/Daily
by Jon DiMascio
Daily Gender Issues Reporter
Despite a snowy weather forecast,
thousands of Ann Arbor women will
march through the streets of Ann Arbor
tomorrow for the 14th annual Take Back
theNightto show the world thatwomen
supporteach other, organizers predicted.
LSA sophomoreNeg Mahmood said
Take Back the Night is, "a symbol of
women's right to walk around safely at
night. Everyone will notice."
Take Back the Night activities begin
at 7 p.m. with a rally at City Hall.
Speakers will address rape in the former
Yugoslavia, women in prison, survivor
space and rape reform laws. A women-
only march around the city will follow
the rally.
After the procession, participants
will conclude the evening with a dance.
Marchers can sway to the tunes of fa-
mous female artists such as Suzanne
Vega, Queen Latifah, PatBenetar, Gloria
Estefan and the University's own Ma-
donna - until the authorities ask them
to leave.
Also presented at the rally will be
the winners of SAPAC's "Sexism in
Advertising" contest.
'This isn't an exclusionary event.
To have women feel they can look to
other women for support - it's a safe
space for women," Mahmood said.
Preeti Garg, an LSA sophomore,
said men and women address rape dif-
ferently and they deserve equal impor-
tance.
The group said no specific theme
was slated for the march, but Mahmood
said it wanted to stress the international
aspect of rape.
That is why they attracted Natalie
Menadic as a speaker, Mahmood said.
Richard Salsman speaks last night
Nenadic is a University law researcher
who is currently working with media
starandUniversity Law Prof.Catharine
MacKinnon in a case against Bosnian
war crimes.
The group described the severity of
violence against women in Bosnia.
"It's a genocidal act. They're using
the penis as a weapon - as a gun,"
Mahmood said.
Although the march is primarily di-
rected to the safety of women, organiz-
ers said the event should be
nonexclusionary.Men will conduct their
own rally as the women parade the
streets of Ann Arbor.
The men's rally begins with an in-
troduction of all the men in attendance.
University students Ryan Bradley
andPolkWagner will speakatthemen' s
rally, and Homeless Action Committee
member Corey Dolgon will sing.
Organizers of themen'srally agreed
that rape is partially caused by socially
constructed values, but men need to
discuss ways to stop the construction's,
continuance.
Aaron Ahlstrom, an RC sophomore
said, "We as men can think about how
we can stop rape - how we've been
constructed - how sexism is dehu-
maizing for both women and men."
"In our culture men learn alot about
sex that's not a shared experience that's
consensual - 'you're going to fuck
her,"' he said.
Ann Arbor resident Gaia Kale said,
'We come from different perspectives.
As boys, we grew up with a lot of
essentially misinformation fed to us by
a patriarchal society."
The group said more than 1,000
women marched in the event last year.
Panelists dispute merits of environmentalism
by Andrew Taylor
Environmentalists of the world
were the subject of harsh criticism
last night at Rackham Auditorium.
Richard Sanford, president of the
Society for Objective Science, said
the goal of environmentalism is "to
destroy industry and civilized man."
More than 300people gathered to
hear similar assertions at "The Case
Against Environmentalism: Moral,
Economic, and Scientific," discus-
sion, sponsored by the U-M Students
of Objectiveness.
"Without exception the environ-
mental crisis you hear about every-
day is grossly exaggerated," Sanford
said."The ozone crisis is as full of holes
as the warming crisis is full of hot air."
Sanford proceeded to show a series
of statistics supporting his notion that
most environmental problems are
caused by nature, not humans.
"The Earth's temperature is going to
do what it's going to do no matter how
much (carbon dioxide) man pumps into
the atmosphere," Sanford said.
LSA Senior Sam McDonald coun-
tered, "I guess that just shows that you
can prove any argument with statistics.
You can't convince me that all of the
things mankind has done to the planet
have a negligible effect."
Richard Salsman, president of the
Association forObjectiveBusinessmen,
turned the discussion toward an eco-
nomical perspective.
"Man survives by transforming his
environment," Salsman said. "If man is
to survive manmust live under a system
of capitalism."
Salsman elaborated by describing
the environmental movement as amod-
ern version of socialism.
He said he feels the opponents of
capitalism have failed in their efforts to
prove that the system exploits workers
and the poor, so they now claim capital-
ism thrives at the expense of the envi-
ronment.
"If the depletion or extinction of a
species like the spotted owl best serves
the needs of man, that is entirely pref-
erable and acceptable," Salsman said.
He added, "Americans are not in-
terested in sacrificing their jobs for
plants, animals, rocks and the bio-
sphere."
Peter Schwartz, a board of direc-
tors member at the Ayn Rand Institute
spoke on a similar position.
"In all major environmental con-
flicts... the issue is whetherman's life
is subordinate to nature," he said.
;United Nations barred from evacuating Muslims in
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina(AP)
-Local commanders barred theUnited
Nations today from evacuating hundreds
nore Muslims from Serb-ringed
Srebrenica, and insisted that wounded
soldiers be flown out first.
Despite harsh criticism from U.N.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-
Ghali,BosnianSerbsrainedmoreshells
on the eastern Bosnian enclave where
dozens died Monday.
£ And Croat-Muslim clashes in
central Bosnia were reported raging
for a second day.
U.N. aid officials said a
humanitarian convoy of five trucks
brought aid into Srebrenica but left
with only five elderly women, who
wereplacedonboardatruckthatheaded
to Tuzla, 35 miles to the northwest.
Theoriginal plan, asinpastmissions,
had been to pluck hundreds of Muslim
civilians to safety from the government-
held town.
ButJohn McMilan, a representative
for the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees in the Bosnian capital
Sarajevo, said Srebrenica officials had
blocked the evacuation until 500
wounded Muslim soldiers could be
airlifted out.
"They wouldn't let us load,"
McMillan said.
McMillan said the agency would
sendnomore convoys to Srebrenica for
several days.
The town's Muslim-led defenders
have blocked evacuations before, saying
Very, very tough sanctions will come into effect
if Bosnian Serbs do not move to an agreement
soon.'
- Reginald Bartholomew
U.S. envoy to former Yugoslavia
Serb-ringed
Karadzic on Wednesday alleged the
shelling was done by Muslim forces
eager to increase world indignation at
his forces. Earlier, Karadzic said Serbs
had shelled after Muslim provocations.
Serbs, Muslims andCroats have been
warring for more than a year over
Bosnia's secession from Serb-
dominated Yugoslavia.
The arrival of several aid convoys
has given some relief recently to tens of
thousands of residents and refugees in
the town, but the situation remains
desperate.
McMillan said medical staff could
not cope and an average of five people
Srebrenica
were dying daily of infection.
Sources in Tuzla say the Serbs have
closed to within a mile of Srebrenica,
whose fall would be a devastating blow
to the government.
President Clinton's envoy to former
Yugoslavia, Reginald Bartholomew,
used the threat of stiffer sanctions to
press Serbs to sign a U.N. peace plan
partitioning Bosniainto 10autonomous
provinces.
'Very, very tough sanctions will
come into effect if Bosnian Serbs do not
move to an agreement soon,
Bartholomew warned in Zagreb,
Croatia.
theU.N. trucks were open to Serb attack
and that an exodus would weaken the
town's defense.
Srebrenica is one of three eastern
Bosnian enclaves still under the control
of the Muslim-led government, and its
fall would be a devastating blow to the
government cause.
Boutros-Ghali condemned a Serb
attack that killed 56 people Monday as
an "inexcusable assault on civilians."
"I urgently call upon the Bosnian
Serb forces in the area to halt their
unjustifiable attacks, which have
occurred despite explicit assurances to
the contrary from their military and
political leaders," Boutros-Ghali said
in a statement.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
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