2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 27, 1994 LABOR Continued from page 1 contractors to pay prevailing wages - the U.S. Department of Labor's bench- mark for union labor. A city law re- quires that contractors pay prevailing wages for public projects. While a city lawyer has determined the inn is not a public project, a member of the City Council wants First Cen- trum to add protections for the workers. Tobi Hanna-Davies (D-Ist Ward), a councilmember on the Ann Arbor Inn Negotiating Committee, saidFirst Cen- trum should make a "good faith effort" to hire local contractors at fair wages. But she did not insist that First Cen- trum adhere to the city's prevailing- wage law, which company officials have said would make the project too expen- sive to administer. First Centrum Treasurer Nicholas Faber called the Labor Department's definition of prevailing wages "mis- leading." Following prevailing-wage guidelines would add as much as $1.5 million to project costs, he said. While the issue of prevailing wages has been discussed in negotiations be- tween the city and First Centrum, offi- cials said it doesn't appear to be a sticking point. "It will becouncil'sdecision whether this becomes an issue of contention," said City Administrator Alfred Gatta. "I'm not sure if it is or in fact whether it will be." JaneLumm (R-2nd Ward), the other council representative on the negotiat- ing committee, said her Democratic colleagues may raise the issue of pre- vailing wages in deliberations on the inn's future. "It is one of those philo- sophical issues that we don't always M M - VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR COLD SORE TREATMENT STUDY The University Health Service seeks volunteers to participate in a medical study evaluating an experimental antiviral cream as a treatment for cold sores (herpes labialis). To be considered for this study, candidates must: - be 18 years of age or older and in good health -have a history of recurrent cold sores - be willing to receive treatment and participate in evaluations Involvement in the study will require an initial screening exam and clinic evaluations on days 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 of the participant's next cold sore outbreak. Treatment will continue for five days. There is no cost to patients accepted into the study. All examinations, laboratory tests and study treatment drug will be free of charge. A stipend of $100 will be paid to individuals who complete the study. For more information, please call Sally Siano at 763-6880. agree on," she said. First Centrum and the city also have yet to reach an agreement on costs for parking spaces. The developer has asked the Downtown Development Author- ity (DDA) to halve the price of leasing 60 nearby parking spaces. "We hope the DDA will help First Centrum to obtain whatever nearby parking is needed - but not at the expense of losing short-time parking spaces in any structures which are vital to the success of downtown business," advisory council members wrote in a memo to the DDA. In aconcession to the advisory coun- cil, First Centrum has tentatively agreed to set aside two housing units on the 11th floor for a solarium where the building's predominantly elderly ten- ants would gather. "It appears that (First Centrum offi- cials) are trying to do the best that they can, given the major restrictions on their budget," said Citizens Advisory Council Chair Raymond Detter. "Un- fortunately, there's only so much they can do with the money they have bud- geted." 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The case summary, which is a pub- lic record, reports that at least one of the fraternity members involved got away in a car parked outside of the residence hall. The taped fraternity member told Mary Lou Antieau, the judicial advisor of the code, that the incident was not hazing. He said the incident was"'in no way related to our fraternity, other than that (he) was a pledge and (another man) was a brother."' He continued,'"(I) was notrequired to do this for any reason, such as ad- vancement or continuing in good stand- ing." The case was mediated by Pamela Horne, the head of orientation. The fraternity members involved agreed to write a letter to Joe Foster, the Interfra- ternity Council advisor, recommend- ing an instructional program for frater- nity pledge trainers. Mediation is one of three ways to resolve cases under the code. In another alleged kidnapping, this one in South Quad, the designated kidnapee admitted to a Department of Public Safety officer that the action was part of a pledge program. In the case summary, the officer quoted the designated kidnapee as say- ing, "'his fraternity is currently in the process of accepting new pledges into their fraternity' and 'that a part of the ritual for pledges is to "kidnap" a frater- nity member."' The fraternity member told the of- ficer he was taken to an unknown room and "'told the pledges some stories, while consuming large amounts of al- cohol."' Seven fraternity members were in- volved in this incident - six were first- year students and one was a sopho- more; five were LSA students and two easing access to records of code proceedings. The final amendmentrepeatsMSA's stance againstthe code and calls foritto be amended out of existence. Brian Kight, MSA vice president, disagreed with the premise of some portions of the Alpha Proposal. "Individuals being sanctioned for what's rightly a concern of the groups - that's going to put a lot of groups on campus in an awfully bad position," Kight said. Amendments may be proposed to the panel by the Senate Advisory Com- mitteeonUniversity Affairs (SACUA) any executive officer of the University or panel members as well as through MSA or a petition. Roman Hryciw, the chair of SACUA's Student Relations Advisory Commission, said although SACUA is concerned about the code, the commis- sion will not be submitting any amend- ments. He said the commission's last meet- ing was in December - before th amendmentproceedure wasannounced. were Engineering students. An administrative hearing, held in mid-April last year, found five of the students responsible for alcohol viola- tions. These hazing cases illustrate astick- ing point in the code. The code regu- lates the behavior of individuals rather than groups. In these fraternity hazing cases, the fraternity itself cannot be punished. In a dropped case involving alleged cocainepossession, anLSA seniorrailed against the adminstration for its han- dling of the code. Sean White said in the Daily last March, "Thecodejust sucks." DPS did not find cocaine in White's home. "They were like, 'We're going tc get you kicked out of schoool and call your landlord and get you evicted' - which happened," White, who has since graduated, said. "And all of this without ever getting charged with anything by the police because there wasn't suffi- cient reason." Antieau dropped the case because of insufficient evidence. A Cupid Draw Back Your Bo Lfd Let Your Arrow Straight To IW Qo TOY Continued from page 1 with his friends. His job at LGMPO is particularly time-consuming now as well, since he is the only co-coordi- nator. But Toy feels the his effort is well worth it. "I try to take a long term view," Toy explained, speaking of the gay rights movement. "When I think of the hundreds of years of struggle people of color have done in this country, when I think of the hundreds of years of work that women have done to free themselves from the domi- nation of men, then I think that the 25 years of les-bi-gay liberation ... is not a long time. But it certainly has been intense." Toy knows about the 25-year struggle from personal experience; he has been in the forefront since the beginning. His first encounter with the gay movement was in 1969, when he was working in a radical church in Detroit. He read about a gay meeting in the Sunday bulletin he was typing up, but he wasn't sure what it was. "There had not been - in the state of Michigan - until that time, an 'open gay meeting,"' he explained. But he decided to attend the meeting and eventually helped begin the De- troit Gay Liberation Movement. After hitch-hiking into Detroit a few times a week from the Univer- sity, where he was in graduate school, he decided to begin a movement here in Ann Arbor. In April 1970, the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front was for- mally recognized as a student group by the University's student govern- ment. When the group asked to hold a state-wide conference about homo- sexuality at the University, though, the administration refused. At the time, University President Robben Fleming justified his posi- tion by citing the law. Yet the conference was held de- spite the administration's decision. "We got a key to the SAB (Student Activities Building) and we held the conference," Toy said. Around that same time, students began asking for a lesbian and gay male office. Toy explained that th* idea originated from a secretary at the University. "She said, 'you know, there's an office here for Black stu- dents and one for women students, don't you think there ought to be an office for you all?"' So in September 1971, the Uni- versity supplied one room and two temporary positions for a Human Sexuality Office. "They refused to use the words lesbian or gay," Toy4 said. It took over 20 years for the positions to become full-time. Despite all the obstacles, Toy felt there was more hope and idealism in the '60s and '70s than now. "It was a far more radical time than this, conse- quently a far more comfortable time for many of us," he exaplained. He added that perhaps now with a Democrat in the White House, the. future will bring change for the better. However, Toy's future here at the University is up in the air. The admin- istration, in restructuring LGMPO, has decided to hire one coordinator instead of maintaining the tradition of gender-parity through two co-coordi- nators. Toy feels this move is a mis- take, since the office serves a con- stituency made up of two genders and three orientations. "If they are going to move away from gender-parity," Toy added, "I have said they should hire a lesbian or bisexual woman of color." Since he does not fit his own crite- ria, Toy is not applying for the posi- tion and is unaware of the administration's plans concerning the rest of the office. 4M ANNOUNCING: CUPID -GRAMS JAML goo A in The Michigan Daily on Valentine's Day February 14 Show your main squeeze, secret crush, buddies, or family just how much they mean to you for only $5!! Just fill out the form located on the Classified Page., Forms are due February 9 by 4:00 p.m. N *Executive positions are available for the motivated and creative. *Become an instrumental leader in UAC, U of M's 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. 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