2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 25, 1994 Slavic dept. to receive $35,000 in new funding 3y LARA TAYLOR 'ILY STAFF REPORTER The Slavic department will now e able to offer students a variety of ectures and mini-courses due to a '35,000 grant from the Polish Na- ional Alliance (PNA). The Slavic department, headed by 3ogdana Carpenter, requested this ;rant five years ago to replenish its U18,000 grant from the Barbara ?iasecha Johnson Foundation, which 'an out last year. "We asked for the grant five years .go, but did not actively begin work- ng for it until two years ago," Car- )enter said. "The PNA sent representatives to he University, talked with faculty and students in both the Slavic de- artment and in LSA, and decided to und our projects," she said. The grant will fund several lec- ures and a variety of mini-courses ocusing on Polish Studies. The mini- ;ourses are three weeks long and are mne credit each. Professors from round the world will be brought in to each the courses. "The professors are not all lan- ;uage professors," Carpenter said. 'They are involved with a variety of opics: political science, art history, iterature, history." She said the grant will pay for the rofessors' compensation, accommo- 'Jations and transportation. Lectures by these professors will also be scheduled at various times " uring the year. The next lecture will "e in April, in honor of Prof. Pawlowski, who helped begin the aerospace engineering program at the "University. Although geared towards students studying in the Slavic department, the courses and lectures will be open to all University students. The first course, called "Church, ,State and Society in Democratic Po- :and," is already filled. "The Slavic department here is one of the strongest in the country," said David Wartowski, co-president of the Polish Club. "It offers courses taught by top notch professors from around the world, language courses and Polish literature." Wartowski added that the grant is needed because of the popularity of the courses "There's not that much demand for Slavic courses, though; that's why the department looks for funding other than from the University," Wartowski said. Carpenter added, "The department may be small, but the research inter- est in Slavic countries, especially Poland, is causing it to grow." I'LL TUMBLE FOR YOU MSA meetings to be shown on residence hall cable TV 0 By RONNIE GLASSBERG DAILY STAFF REPORTER A new television program has en- tered the busy cables in University housing. The Michigan Student Assembly will broadcast its weekly Tuesday night meeting every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7 and 11 p.m. on one of the University's commu- nity access channels, availableon Co- lumbia Cable in all residence halls. "We wanted to heighten the aware- ness among the student body about what MSA does," said MSA Presi- dent Craig Greenberg. The University has five commu- nity access channels, said Randall Root, director of office information systems for the University Housing Division. Channel 8 serves as an informa- tion bulletin board, which all Univer- sity organizations can use to post events. On Channel 59, students can view movies broadcast by the Hous- ing Division. This month, film con- noisseurs can also screen "Backdraft," "Dead Poets Society," "Sea of Love" and "JFK" on the station. The other three channels -60,70 and 71- serve as community-access channels to which aspiring student producers can submit programs. "Student Affairs has video cam- eras that we'd like students to use to tape events," Root said. The idea to create these programs is new and organizers said they are concerned about how to let students know about the opportunity. "The problem we're having is most people don't know we're doing it," Root said. Greenberg said he wants MSA to be one of the leaders for the new channels. "I'd like MSA to be a resource to help other student organizations make use of it," he said. Besides airing the weekly meet- ings, Greenberg also said he envi- sions beginning a forum to discuss campus issues on one of the channels. "Either have it in a forum like 'The McLaughlin Group', where there's a moderator, or in the form of a debate," he said. Greenberg said discussion could focus on University issues such as the SARHWIIN/'' "i"" l" Theater instructor Erik Fredrickson shows his stage combat class how to fall gracefully and not get hurt yesterday afternoon. Washington adopts tougher crime policy ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington state voters brushed aside concerns about costs and eld- erly inmates last November when they embraced a law that will put three- time violent criminals in prison for life with no parole. Now "three strikes, you're out" is in. Similar laws are proposed in at least 10 other states, and this latest attempt to stop violence is expected to get its biggest plug yet from Presi- dent Clinton in his State of the Union speech tonight. Despite an avid public and enthu- siastic prosecutors, criminal experts say it's a bad idea. "People love simple solutions to complex problems," said James Aus- tin, executive director of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a non-profit research institute in San Francisco. "Basically, we've got a baseball slogan driving a complex social prob- lem, violent crime." Others interviewed yesterday also warned of draining away good money that would be better spent eradicating the root causes of crime, like poverty and drug addiction. They also pointed out that that an aged criminal is most likely a harmless one. Prof. Todd Clear, who teaches criminal justice at Rutgers University in New Jersey, estimated it costs $1 million to lock up a 30-year-old crimi- nal for life. It's not about money alone, Clear said. Ninety in every 100,000 Ameri- cans were incarcerated in 1973. Now that number is 360 per 100,000. The nation's prison population has swelled from 200,000 to 900,000 in the last 20 years. Today's violent offenders have served three times the prison time their predecessors did in 1975. "We have tried toughness for 20 years and we seem not to be getting the lesson," Clear said, "that spitting out offenders does nothing for the communities that spit them out." Earlier this month, Ladenburg's office trumpeted the arrest of an al- leged three-time felon with a news release announcing that rape suspect Cecil Davis had "struck out." Davis's case comes less than a month after the Washington law went into effect. After doing time once for robbery and a second time for attack- ing two people with an ice pick, he was arrested Dec. 26, 1993, in a brutal attack on a 24-year-old woman who prosecutors say was repeatedly raped, beaten, knifed and left for dead. Un- able to speak because of stab wounds in her throat, the victim drew a map that led police to Davis. Ladenburg said the trial was put off until Oct. 9 to allow the defense to prepare in light of the new law. CODE Continued from page 1. the man denied the charges. Mary Lou Antieau, the judicial advisor of the code of non-academic conduct, decided there was enough evidence to continue the proceedings after looking at reports from Housing and the Department of Public Safety. The students involved chose me- diation and Thomas Morson, senior counselor at Counseling Services, agreed to act as mediator. To make amends, the man wrote letters of apology to people involved, paid to repair a door and submitted a report to the woman about alcohol and drug education. He also partici- pated in an educational program. The code provides the opportu- nity for non-students to file cases against students. Robert Megginson, associate pro- fessor of mathematics, filed a charge ABORTION Continued from page 1 zations legislation, called RICO. The court last year ruled abortion clinic operators cannot invoke the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 in suing those who block women's access to abor- tion clinics. That ruling led to an effort in Con- gress to provide more federal protec- tion for women seeking abortions. The House and Senat have passed separate versions of the Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, and the legisla- tion will be before a conference com- mittee when Congress reconvenes. The court's new decision falls far short of resolving all legal issues sur- rounding anti-abortion activities. Just last Friday, the justices agreed to clarify how far courts and local gov- ernments may go in restricting pro- testers outside clinics. That case, to be decided by July, pits the free-speech rights of protest- ers against the rights of women seek- ing abortions and of abortion clinic employees to be free from harass- ment, intimidation or other illegal conduct. Anti-abortion leaders such as Terry call themselves civil rights ac- tivists and distance themselves from those responsible for such violent acts as the killing of Dr. David Gunn out- side a Pensacola, Fla., clinic last year. Yesterday's decision was hardly surprising. The court consistently has refused to narrow how the broadly worded RICO law is applied. Enacted in 1970, RICO was aimed at organized crime. But increasingly it is used in lawsuits involving just about any business dispute. of "intentionally and significantly in- terfering with teaching" against a first- year student in early April 1993. The student allegedly refused to sign into a math lab, disrupted the study of students using the lab and refused to leave the lab when asked. The student neither admitted nor denied responsibility for the incident. According to the case summary, "In his response, he referred to the other persons involved as 'bullies' and alleged that worrying about the incident was inappropriate when 'thousands of people everyday are being killed in Yugoslavia," and stated that '[i]f the University of Michigan actually chooses to pursue some for- mal charges against me, I will prob- ably choose to leave permanently."' The professor and the student dis- agreed on the details of the incident and the number of people in the lab at the time. The student consulted with his father, a dispute mediation attorney, DEFENSE Continued from page I Republican as well as Democratic senators were quick to praise the nomi- nee. "A great choice ... a real profes- sional with depth of experience," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Armed Ser- vices Committee. "I have worked well with Dr. Perry in the past and he has done a good job," said Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, the ranking Republi- can on the committee. Clinton said he made the choice "based on his lifetime of accomplish- ments and his solid leadership at the Pentagon." "He has the right skills and man- agement experience for the job. He has the right vision for the job," said Clinton, who credited Perry with be- ing on the "cutting edge of defense Statement of Students Rights and Re- sponsibilities and MSA issues. He said this televised forum show could begin in a month. But MSA is not the only organiza tion that can produce television shows. "Right now, it's just open to any- thing," Root said. "We're not censor- ing anything." It is unclear how the television production will ultimately be run, Root said. "It may be run by a student orga- nization with an advisory staff," he said. LSA Rep. Bea Gonzalez said, "* think that's going to be very interest- ing to see how that works and who watches it. It will show the public, for those who watch, what MSA's all about." But, Gonzalez said she does not think people will watch it. MSA Communications Chair Dave Pava thought the coverage was a good idea. "I think they should run the tape through one of those special effects machines," he said, hoping MSA's program will gain cult following. and then chose to have the charge mediated. Morson mediated on April 29, 1993. The student acknowledged during mediation that his behavior "had negative impact on the academic ef- forts of several students." He is still completing his sanction that includes apologizing to the complainant in writing, working as a volunteer tutor with the Inter-Peace Neighborhood Community Service and taking a class on social interaction. This was the only case of "inten- tionally and significantly interferin. with teaching" that had been brought under the code before Oct. 8. Megginson said he originally brought the case against his student to LSA Assistant Dean Eugene Nissen. "I just knew the student had done something obviously wrong," Megginson said. "I'm very satisfied with the result. I think the University has a fine group of arbitrators." issues." Clinton predicted Perry would re- form Pentagon spending procedures, keep a tight reign on the shrinking defense budget and maintain the nation's strong military force. He said many people have told him, "Bill Perry is real pro- you can depend on him." In contrast to Inman, who said he needed to reach a "comfort level" with Clinton, Perry quickly endorsed his commander-in-chief. "I have a great respect for the way you have been guiding national security," he told the president. Perry said the end of the Cold War offers "a window of opportunity" t reform the way the Pentagon spends its money, especially the rules under which it purchases goods. "This is a time of great change, great challenge and great opportu- nity," Perry said. User's Guide Live classes with expert teachers Diagnostic Testing - including the April 1991 MCAT 5-volume set of indexed and illustrated MCAT Home Study Books The Training Library: over :3.500 act ual MCAT and MCAT-style questions - all witi detailed analyses Big Picture Videos The more ways you're tan orht, the better you learn. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $90. Winter term (January through April) is $95, year-long (September through April) is $160. On-campus subscrip- tions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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