The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 28, 1993 - 3
MSA to meet at E. Quad
.to increase student input
DIRECTING COLOMBIAN STYLE
By KAREN TALASKI
DAILY STAFF REPORTER
Before entering East Quad's snack
bar, the Halfway Inn, first-year Engi-
neering student Jason Miller paused
to read a poster advertising the Michi-
gan Student Assembly meeting to be
held there tonight.
"Is that the student government
here?" he asked. "I have no idea."
Reactions such as this one are not
rare as East Quad residents try to
figure out why MSA is traveling from
its normal chambers on the third floor
of the Michigan Union to pay them a
visit.
"The purpose of having it any-
where other than the chambers is so
e we become more accessible to the
students," saidDave Pava, MSA Com-
munications chair. "Instead of having
them come to us, we go to them."
East Quad is the first residence
hall to host an MSAmeeting this year.
Fair will
* provide
students
volunteer
" options
By WILL WADE
FOR THE DAILY
Project SERVE's Volunteer Fair,
to be held from lla.m.-3 p.m. today,
should provide guidance for students
who are interested in getting involved
in and around the University.
Community agencies and social
* change organizations will have tables
out on the Diag with representatives
to answer questions, provide infor-
mation and hopefully recruit new
members.
"This is an opportunity to intro-
duce students to all that's out there to
do," said Brian Dunn, an RC sopho-
more.
"The Volunteer Fair is there to
create a link between the students and
the community."
Organizations such as the Ann
Arbor Hunger Coalition, the Red
Cross, Ozone House and more than
30 other service groups will be present.
Dunn said the purpose of the fair
is, "mostly to recruit people."
However, he said the fair is also
designed to give information to stu-
dents who want to volunteer their time.
Dunn said he also hopes the volun-
teer fair will serve to help students
who might need to take advantage of
the services provided by the local
groups.
Project SERVE is a volunteer stu-
dent group that tries to organize local
events and raise awareness of issues
such as homeless rights and women's
issues.
It also organizes the Alternative
Spring Break, a program that allows
students to travel to different sites
around the country and do volunteer
work during spring break.
In case of rain, the Volunteer Fair
will be held Thursday.
MSA President Craig Greenberg said
he also wants to have meetings at the
Hill dorms and North Campus in the
upcoming months.
"It's a great opportunity for people
to see what their student government
is about and to meet the people,"
Greenberg said.
Some of the topics on tonight's
MSA agenda will be:
a motion to adopt a resolution
commemorating the 25th anniversary
of the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union;
a discussion about the amend-
ment to Bylaw 14.06, which recently
added "sexual orientation" to the
University's anti-discrimination
policy; and,
a proposal that the assembly
join the University Activities Center
in sponsoring homecoming celebra-
tions.
Pava said he thinks MS A is "trying
to make ourselves kind of cool right
now" by holding the meeting at the
Halfway Inn.
"The Halfway Inn is way cool
also," Pava added.
Halfway Inn manager Brenda
Flaugher said she hopes the meeting
will encourage other groups to use the
snack bar as a place to gather.
"Approximately 100 people can
sit here comfortably," Flaugher said.
"The meeting will be good for our
business."
Due to last week's controversial
budget debate, recent MSA meetings
have been highly attended - some-
thing Pava and Greenberg said they
would like to see continue.
Besides promising free pop and
snacks to people if they come to
tonight's meeting, both confirmed a
running MSA joke that if 200 students
show up at any one of MSA's meet-
ings, two of its members - Pava and
LSA Rep. Brian Clune - will mud
wrestle.
ANTHONY M. CR d/DalT
Colombian director Jaime Osorio speaks to a film production class about his recently screened film "Confession To Laura."
HOLY LINOLEUM!
New Dean Samuels
hopes to lead art
school into the '90s
ANTHONY M. CROLL/Daily
LSA first-year student Suzanne Ackerman churns out a print from a linoleum cut in an RC printmaking class.
Judge gives officers chance to
appeal coniction in King case
By LARA TAYLOR
FOR THE DAILY
Although it receives consistent
praise and high ratings, the
University's School of Art has been
criticized for not progressing and ad-
vancing into the '90s. Both students
and faculty attribute this to a lack of
leadership during the past few years.
However, the appointment of
Allen Samuels as dean of the School
of Art may be something to cheer
about.
Beginning July 1, Samuels, a pro-
fessor of industrial design, will take
over the helm after two years of in-
terim deans.
"The last two deans we've had
have been interim deans," said Asso-
ciate Dean Eugene Pijamowski.
"Nothing really happens with an in-
terim dean. He's more of a keeper. We
did a national search for a permanent
dean, and Allen Samuels turned up in
our backyard."
Pijamowski added, "We chose him
for his strength of character, knowl-
edge, and enthusiasm. He's well-re-
spected and well-known."
After receiving his Bachelor of
Fine Arts from University of Illinois
in 1966, Samuels began teaching at
Carnegie-Mellon University. He
transferred to the University of Michi-
gan in 1975 - to the School of Engi-
neering, the School of Business Ad-
ministration, the School of Urban
Planning and Architecture, and fi-
nally to the School of Art.
"His extensive connections to
other schools will benefit the art
school," Pijamowski said. "He has
the ability to draw others into the art
school and to have the art school
benefit the whole University."
That's exactly what Allen Samuels
plans to do.
"Art encompasses everything -
images, space, objects. That makes
art pretty damn significant," Samuels
said.
By introducing dual degrees, such
'Design is everywhere In
science and technology,
yet they are not
generally connected. One
of my objectives as dean
is to bring the two
together.'
- Alien Samuels
dean of the University
School of Art
as industrial design and engineering;
Samuels said he plans to connect the
School of Art to other parts of the,
University, and ultimately integrate
technology and art.
"Design is everywhere in science
and technology, yet they are not gen-
erally connected. One of my objec-
tives as dean is to bring the two to-
gether," he added.
In addition to connecting art and
technology, Samuels said he has plans
to upgrade the research and graduate
programs. "Graduate study involves
taking risks and doing cutting edge
work. We plan to bring in mature,
experienced artists to do research
work. But instead of isolating them,
we want the undergraduate students
to use them as aresource and a model,"
he said.
"Upgrading the graduate program
and connecting it with the undergradu-
ate program will improve the art school
as a whole," Samuels added.
Students are optimistic about
Samuels' promotion.
"In class he was very professional.
His philosophy to design was very
holistic, very issue-oriented. Dean is
the perfect position for- him," said
James Carnes, a junior in industrial
design.
"His enthusiasm and knowledge
about art is unsurpassed," Pijamowski
said. "He will be a driving force in
improving not only the Art School,
but the whole University."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police
officer Laurence Powell had already
spent his first night in prison for the
Rodney King beating and Sgt. Stacey
Koon was just surrendering when a
judge suddenly allowed them to go
free yesterday.
U.S. District Judge John G. Davies
gave Powell and Koon about two
weeks to appeal to the U.S. Supreme
Court, setting Oct. 12 as the new date
for them to start serving their 2 1/2-
year sentences.
Both men had faced a deadline of
noon yesterday for checking into the
Dublin Federal Prison Camp, a con-
verted military barracks without bars
or fences 40 miles east of San Fran-
cisco.
Powell, described by his lawyer as
terrified, surrendered at the prison
Sunday afternoon; Koon arrived at
around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, around
the time Davies issued his ruling, and
hadn't been processed yet.
"If Powell and Koon elect to they
may walk out of the prison," said U.S.
Marshal Craig Meacham in Los An-
geles. "I expect they are going to
make a U-turn and get out of there as
fast as they can." It could not immedi-
ately be determined when they would
go free.
Attorney William Kopeny, repre-
senting the two, said he would file an
emergency request with U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
to allow the men to remain free on bail
while they appeal their convictions
and sentences to a federal appellate
court. O'Connor oversees California
matters.
Koon, Powell and two other white
policemen were charged in the March
1991 beating of King, a Black motor-
ist stopped after a chase. A shocking
videotape of the beating was broad-
cast repeatedly worldwide.
The officers' acquittals on state
charges in 1992 led to deadly rioting
in Los Angeles and other cities. The
officers were tried this year on federal
charges of violating King's civil rights.
Koon and Powell were convicted; of-
ficers Theodore Briseno and Timothy
Wind were aqcuitted.
In August, Davies gave Koon and
Powell surprisingly lenient 30-month
sentences that were criticized by pros-
ecutors and King. Davies said King
himself was to blame for many of the
blows he suffered in the beating.
The judge refused to let the offic-
ers go free on bail while they ap-
pealed, and last week the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals rejected their re-
quest for a bail hearing.
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