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The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 25, 1996 - 3A
Buckeyes take one more in Blood Battle rivalry
ld care
center gains
#ccreditation
The National Association for the
Education of Young Children, the
largest national organization of child-
hood education, granted accreditation
to the University's Family Housing
Child Development Center.
Only 5 percent of early childhood
programs gain recognition from
NAEYC.
The Child Development Center pro-
Wes programs and activities for chil-
dren of students who attend the
University.
NAEYC evaluators were impressed
with the interaction between children
and teachers and said the students were
comfortable at the center.
Group supports
lesbian victims
I'f violence
The Domestic Violence
Project/SAFE House, a shelter for bat-
tered women, announced it will hold a
support group for lesbian survivors of
domestic violence.
The group meets from 6:30-8 p.m.
every Tuesday at 4100 Clark Rd.
The group is led by lesbian staff
niembers of SAFE House.
SAFE House also has a 24-hour cri-
sis line for survivors at 995-5444.
For more information about the
group, contact Ann Humphry at 973-
0-42, extension 226.
Comm. studies
honors journalists
The communication studies depart-
*ent awarded its annual Morgan
O'Leary Award for Excellence in
Pitical Reporting to Richard Willing,
Washington correspondent for The
Detroit News, and former Detroit News
reporters Eric Freedman and Jim
Mitzelfeld.
Willing is the author of "Coleman
Young: The Unauthorized Biography."
Freedman and Mitzelfeld received a
Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for a series on
' misuse of more than $1.8 million
qy members of the Michigan
Legislature.
O'Leary, a former Detroit News
reporter, died in a 1971 plane accident.
Rackham funds
to be awarded
Rackham students may apply for the
arbour Scholarship for 1997-98.
The scholarship trains female stu-
dents in math and science for the devel-
opment of their native lands.
To become a candidate, students
must be nominated by their graduate
departments and programs.
Education students may obtain an
application and eligibility guidelines at
the Office of Student Services, 1033
School of Education Building.
The deadline for applications is Dec.
agplications due
16r fellowships
Applications for the Rackham
'Prgdoctoral Fellowship are available at
the Office of Student Services, 1033
4SEB.
Sixty fellowships are expected to be
warded this year. The fellowships pro-
de tuition, a $14,400 stipend and
heglth insurance.
Applicants must be doctoral students
_who will complete their dissertations
fuxing the 1997-98 school year and
their doctorate within six years of the
beginning of their programs.
The first draft of the application is
due in the dean's office at 1110 SEB by
Wednesday.
*For more information contact
Patricia Natalie at 764-8408.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Jeffrey Kosseff
By Jeffrey Kosseff
Daily Staff Reporter
The Buckeyes defeated the Wolverines this year
with a score of 2,160 to 1,751.
This competition was not for points scored on
the gridiron - it was for pints of blood collected
in the 15th annual Blood Battle between the Ohio
State University and University of Michigan chap-
ters of the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega and
the American Red Cross.
For the past two weeks, students donated blood
in various residence halls and the Michigan Union.
"Regardless of who won the competition, we
could always use more blood," said APO member
Jeff Firestone, an LSA sophomore. "The turnout
was reassuring."
However, some APO members noticed a
decrease in blood donors from previous years.
"This year I saw a little bit less student activity."
said Education junior Angela Bolden, who volun-
teered during this year's col-
lection drive.i
APO members cited a vari-T
ety of reasons for the lower
number of student donors. reallygle
"I think there wasn't as
much publicity as last year," tonW l L
said Eugene Paik, an LSA
Ito
wi
better"
Osterholt said approximately 500 more students
donated blood in 1995's
Blood Battle than this year.
Despite the low turnout,
many were pleased with the
s thisefforts of the volunteers.
"From the volunteering
. side, the response was very
good," Firestone said. "It
- Tammy O'Nill made it possible to do a
J Cross Central drive this large."
ervices Region Students from other
groups also participated in
the blood drive.
"This year we had many more student volunteers
from the Red Cross and Project Community," said
APO member Michelle Lehan, an Education senior.
At OSU, many students got involved in the com-
petition.
"We've gotten great support on campus," said
Tammy O'Nill, the communications manager for
American Red Cross Central Ohio Blood Services
Region. "A marketing class helped us in executing
our campaign."
O'Nill attributed much of the student participa-
tion to the competition between the universities.
"The rivalry really gets this town going," O'Nill
said. "We did not do as well on the field, though:'
Justin Busch, a local APO member, agreed the
rivalry is a factor in student donations.
"It seems like that is one of the things that
inspires people to do it," said Busch, an
Engineering senior.
Ohio State's victory places them ahead with
eight victories compared to the University's seven.
senior.
Dawn Osterholt, an APO
member who coordinated the
American Red
Ohio Blood S
event last year and volun-
teered this year, said there
may be other reasons for the slightly lower turnout.
"One factor is the weather," said Osterholt, an
LSA senior. "Two years ago the weather was much
Bio Station offers
writers closeness,
outdoor learning
JONATHAN SUMMER/Daily
Elizabeth Mustard, a member of the University's Folkdancing Club, dances to the music of The Ethnic Connection in the barn
at Gretchen's House on Saturday. Mustard is a club organizer and a University librarian.
Folk dancers celebrate traditions
with international flair, un
By Carrie Luria
For the Daily
The Folkdancing Club draws a little
culture from almost every ethnicity
imaginable - anything from the
Macerena to Balkan line dances.
"I go just to dance and have a good
time" said Elizabeth Mustard, club
organizer and a University librarian.
Club members experiment with a
variety of international dances. The
core dances tend to be European and
Middle Eastern, and range from simple
steps to more complex combinations.
"We seem to have dances that are
our favorites, but we are willing to try
anything," Mustard said. "If someone
comes in and wants to do a dance that
we don't know, we learn it."
The club attracts most of the atten-
tion at Leonardo's in Pierpont
Commons, and caught LSA senior
Mitza Simpson's ears last Wednesday
night as she was studying.
"I immediately noticed and recog-
nized the traditional Serbian music (the
Folkdancing club) was dancing to," she
said. "When I was younger, I had
learned the dance they were doing in
my Serbian Orthodox church."
The club, which is comprised mostly
of University faculty, graduate students
and Ann Arbor residents, often lures
onlookers at Leonardo's into participat-
ing.
"People come in and recognize
their cultural dances all the time,"
Mustard said. "They usually then get
up, show us some new steps and
dance with us."
Simpson said she would come back
and do some dancing with the club.
"I like learning these dances because
it gives me a chance to learn other peo-
ple's culture, while enhancing my own
identity," she said.
Members said the club's popularity
has declined in past years. Linguistics
Prof. Andrew Carnie, who started
teaching this year, recalled a huge inter-
est in folkdancing when he was in col-
lege less than five years ago.
"This group, at one time, numbered
in the hundreds and was mostly stu-
dents," he said. "Children of the '60s
seem to be more interested in folkdanc-
ing than (those from the) '70s genera-
tion."
Simpson expects interest in folk-
dancing to come around again.
"Now, the children in my church love
to do these dances. When I was their
age, I used to hate it, and now, I have
interest in it again." Simpson said.
Those who participate in the club
appreciate it for its musical and mul-
ticultural aspects, members said.
There is hope tha' the club will
become more organized and more
well-known.
"Having a beginners' night and start-
ing a performance group are some of
our goals,' Carnie said.
The dancers meet at Leonardo's in
Pierpont Commons at 8 p.m. on the
first and third Wednesdays and the sec-
ond and fourth Tuesdays of every
month.
Students connect with
nature during
innovative program
By Maria Hackett
For the Daily
Canoeing, backpacking, writing
about the wind and gathering berries
for dinner may sound more like a week-
end camping trip than a day in a
University student's life.
But 11 students experience such
events every day as part of the "Natural
History Writer's Project"- a semester-
long living-learning program at the
BioStation in the northern tip of
Michigan's lower peninsula.
"Our focus is on examining how
society, and especially ourselves, inter-
act with the environment," said
Engineering sophomore Ryan
O'Connor, a participant in the program.
The BioStation
program is a var-
ation of the This f
Residential
College's com- me devel
munity living-
learning atmos- own valu
phere - what /l
organizers call an life
"intentional com-
munity"E i
"Intentional Enginec
communities are
groups of people that choose to live
together to achieve certain goals," said
Catherine Badgley, creator and director
of NHWP
Badgley said many of the program's
goals are met through making group
decisions as equals on such aspects of
daily life as work, events and holidays.
Their community has decided to
emphasize the ideas of "living deliber-
ately" and bioregionalism, a way of life
emphasizing survival on only the sur-
rounding habitat - including food from
local farms and a simple lifestyle.
"A lot of (our) decisions are made
about food because we have total con-
trol of that," Badgley said.
LSA junior Matthew Pierle said group
members cook all of their own meals
and bake their own breads and pastries.
"Furthermore, as we become more
familiar with local fruits, berries,
nuts, herbs and mushrooms, we've
been gathering a fair deal of food
products from the grounds on and
around the BioStation," Pierle said.
"We'll be slaughtering our own
turkeys for Thanksgiving and that
may make further vegetarians out of
some of the seven or eight omnivo-
m
14
rous members."
Beyond sharing their daily cooking,
cleaning and bread-baking duties, the
students have classes six days a week.
"Overall, the atmosphere is the most
conducive to learning I have ever expe-
rienced, and is much, much better than
nearly any standard University class,"
O'Connor said.
The classes - field ecology, culture
and the environment, and creative writ-
ing - are all interdisciplinary.
"Our assignments and projects are
inclusive of all the topics - the goal is
to understand them as interconnected.
This is the extreme opposite of the typi-
cal U-M chemistry or anthropology lec-
ture, which is as esoteric and lacking of
any connection to the real world as pos-
sible," said LSA junior Angie
Migliaccio. She added that students in
the program do not take tests or quizzes.
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connections to
31l heied the real world,
despite the out-
opnmy doorsy setting
and emphasis
eS in on closeness to
nature, the
group main-
R y an O'Connor tains much
pComore contact with
ing sophomore "the outside"
-I
er
through e-mail,
letters, radio and visitors.
"We have guest faculty and
researchers from the University visit
and share with our community, as well
as environmental writers, friends and
family," Pierle said.
Students said the program has proved
to be a life-changing experience.
"I think I have learned more here in
three months than I think I would learn
in four years at U-M's main campus,
O'Connor said.
"This fall helped me develop my own
values in life, and opened my eyes to
many different paths my life might
take!' he said.
The NHWP, which was originally
slated to run twice - once in 1994 and
once this year, may or may not contin-
ue. Badgley said plans for the future of
the program have not been discussed,
but students said the effects of the pro-
gram will stay with them for years.
"These people are thinking, synthe-
sizing and stand-up individuals," Pierle
said. "I have no doubt that what we
learned and shared with one another
here will benefit a great deal of people
in direct and indirect ways for some
time to come."
HIV testing may soon be mandatory
for pregnant women in Michigan
LANSING (AP) - Some
Michigan lawmakers want to follow
New York's lead and require mandato-
ry HIV testing of pregnant women
and newborns.
"There will be a civil libertarian
argument against it," said state Sen. Joe
Schwarz (R-Battle Creek), a doctor.
"But from the standpoint of proper epi-
demiology and public health policy, it
should be required:"
Dozens of Michigan babies are
born each year with the virus that
causes AIDS. Medical experts say 25
percent to 33 percent of all babies
born to HIV-infected moms will
develop the virus.
Dr. Hassan Amirikia of Hutzel
Hospital in Detroit, who is treating
eight pregnant HIV-positive women
through a federal grant, said the tests
for moms and infants should be
required.
"It's important we treat both mother
and child for this disease as soon as
possible," he said.
Michigan law currently requires only
that physicians offer HIV tests to preg-
nant women, The Detroit News report-
ed.
Randall Pope, the state Depart-
ment of Community Health's HIV/
AIDS coordinator, said that law is
enough.
He said HIV testing would cost the
state millions and that pediatric AIDS
isn't as rampant in Michigan as it is in
New York.
"And it really makes no sense to test
newborns because by then the horse is
already out the barn" he said.
Dr. Theodore Jones, a high-risk preg-
nancy specialist at Hutzel, said forcing
women to get a test would erode the
relationship between doctors and their
patients.
"The consensus is that mandatory
counseling of women about their risks
for HIV infection, and what we can do
to reduce those risks, is the best way,"
he told The News.
Nobody prepares you like
Correction
LSA junior Shawn Ohl said, "Making people go out and smoke in the cold - that's cruel." This was misattributed in
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