LoCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 6, 1997 - 5A BABY ON BOARD Stork spaces added 'at Busch's *Store chain adds parking spots for expectant mothers By Meg Exley Daily Staff Reporter Shoppers at Busch's Valu Land gro- cery stores now have eight fewer spaces in which they can park. Unless they're pregnant. "I think it's a good idea," said Engineering junior Michelle Hahn, an employee at Busch's. "Our biggest emphasis is on customer service - this is just another thing we can do to accomodate shoppers and keep them Coming back to Busch's." Three hospitals in Washtenaw and Livingston counties have teamed up with eight local Busch's grocery stores to set aside special parking spaces for expectant moms near the store entrances. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Superior Township led the effort to secure the spaces at the two Ann Arbor Busch's stores on South Main Street and on Green Road. The hospital is part of the Mission Health Group, a Engler to crack down on liquor sales in state ,r LANSING (AP)- The state will get more money to run sting operations to catch teens who try to buy alcohol and retailers who illegally sell to them under a proposal by Gov. John Engler. The governor's fiscal 1997-98 bud- get - to be unveiled today - will reflect his desire to put an additional $200,000 into such enforcement efforts, state Management and Budget spokesperson Maureen McNulty said yesterday. The 38-percent increase in funds would be used to expand a program begun last November to hire Liquor Control Commission agents who can organize and run the sting operations, rather than just respond to com- plaints. Illegal alcohol sales are "a far more serious violation than tobacco sales (to minors), terrible as that is," Liquor Control Commission Chair Phil Arthurhultz said. "Alcohol in a minor's hands can end up being deadly, both to the kid and to the other people on the road. We want to make it clear to the licensees that they have blood on their hands" if they sell to anyone under 21. A 0 The $729,500 Engler is proposing- for the LCC program in the budget that takes effect Oct. 1 would be used to hire more agents and support personnel; such as the assistant attorney genera4 and staff needed to handle hearings for those charged with violations. In its first-ever sting operation late last fall, the LCC sent out four state police cadet trainees as decoys to try to buy alcohol at 69 location's statewide. - 2 The effort resulted in liquor licensees being charged with 33 violattons, Arthurhultz said. "It has so far proven effective, and we knew it would," he said. The sting operations will not be tar- geted to any particular area of the state. Arthurhultz said he expects" some violations in nearly every con-k munity. He plans to coordinate efforts with the state police and local law, enforcement officers to make the stings even more effective. JEANNIE SERVAA S/Daily Jaylne Presley straps her child into a car seat in the expectant mother parking space at Busch's Valu Land on Ann Arbor Saline Road. Busch's is the first grocery store chain in the area to offer this service. health care provider. The hospital funded the signs with hopes of expanding their program to other retailers in the future. "So far the response has been really positive - from both preg- nant and non-pregnant customers," said Busch's spokesperson Peggy Conlin. "Many women said they would have liked to have seen the spaces a few years ago." Conlin said that while offering the special spaces for expectant women is not an original idea, Busch's has received national publicity. "I think we've received so much attention for the spaces since we have teamed with the hospitals,' Conlin said. "As far as we know, this kind of partnership is the first of its kind." Hahn said she was surprised at all of the initial attention. "I didn't realize how far the news. would travel,' Hahn said. "I think (it) was on Jay Leno the other night." Conlin said the idea came from a nurse at St. Joseph's who saw an arti- cle about a similar program in the Chicago area. "We were totally supportive of the idea when St. Joseph's approached us," Conlin said. "As a community based chain, we thought this would give us another chance to best serve our cus- tomers. "We like to think that we're more of a customer-service-oriented store than some of the bigger national chains, she said. Conlin said that Busch's doesn't plan to police the spaces and will rely on the honor system. "We're optimistic that peer pressure will prevail," Conlin said. "The last couple of days have been kind of hilar- ious - we've had expectant moms come up and ask if they were pregnant enough to park in the spaces!" National Public Radio to air live at 'U' today SUAREZ Continued from Page 1A Today's program, airing live from 2 to 4 p.m., is held in conjunction with ,the University's Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium and with National Public Radio's Initiative on Audience Development. Harriet Teller, promotion director for Michigan Radio, said one of the major ;goals of University public radio is to diveiaify its audience. Teller hopes the attention given to "Talk of the Nation" will help to reach that goal, especially in its appeal to students. "The conventional wisdom has been NWROC Continued from Page 1A to the Dental School to meet Isabell and Mitchell and then continued their protest. NWROC member Shanta Driver told spectators that this was just the begin- ning of the protest movement on cam- pus. "We need to find other students on this campus and teach them how to s4build a social movement on this cam- pus," Driver said. Inside the Dental School, students watching the protest said they have dif- RAPE Continued from Page 1A "I question the reported rapes," Kelterborn said. "It doesn't mean rape itself has fallen. As far as the U of M community, it's still a problem that needs to be addressed.: Wright said the cause, of high inci- dent reports relates to either available survivor information or a strong sup- port program. She said many of the vic- tims who come to SAPAC don't neces- sarily go to the police. "We have more survivors coming forward than ever before;' Wright said. "The type of cases we see coming to SAPAC can be from before they came Oto campus." While Ann Arbor Police Department Sgt. Larry Jerue said he also questions the numbers, he said that the drop in reported rapes might be a reflection of state legislation made in favor of vic- tims. "(The) Criminal Sexual Conduct Act deals severely with the way the defend- ing attorney can cross examine the wit- less," Jerue said. "Under this law, the defense can no longer bring up the vic- tims' past or infer things that can hurt the victim." "The victim became more of the sus- pect than the victim," Jerue said, adding that he believes victims do not av to fear going to trial anvmore and 'why don't college students listen to public radio?"' Teller said. "Our student interns, in fact, have done a.lot of the to participate in the event. "I think it's terrific," she said. "The topic is relevant; it's appropriate." work . on campus, and that's really excit- ing. We have had students working on it for a cou- ple of weeks." L S A senior Kathy Rivkin, It can only be national conversation if all kinds of people are in on it." - Ray Suarez NPR host Rivkin added that she thinks today's broadcast not only will be worth - while to attend, but that it will also be educa - hope people show up, if for no other rea- son than to hear others speak," Rivkin said. As Suarez described his reasons for hosting "Talk of the Nation," he echoed Rivkin's sentiments. "Americans are constantly chewing over a lot of different issues that face them as individuals and face us all as a country" Suarez said. "'Talk of the Nation' is always trying to be a spur in the side of those conversations, to push them to the next level, to get people talking about the hard things and to get them to shy away from the simplistic solutions. "It can only be national conversation if all kinds of people are in-on it." who works at the stu- tional . "I think it's a great opportunity, and I dent-run station WCBN, said she plans fering views about the verdict. Dental School second-year student Matt Styles said he believes the workers were justifiably fired and should not have filed suit against the University or DeMarco. "From what I understand and from what I've heard around (the Dental School), they were fired because of incompetence," Styles said. "I mean if everybody gets fired and (sues) because they don't like it, then what?" Other students who watched the protest said they were concerned about University race relations. Kinesiology senior Kris Dowe said the University has a racially divided atmosphere. "The University preaches diversity on the surface when really the races are kept quite separate," Dowe said. The trial posed another problem for LSA first-year student Talia Mitchell, the niece of plaintiff Dawn Mitchell. "I feel I'm in a catch-22 because I'm a student here," Talia said. "Then again, I have an aunt who I love very much" NWROC also marched to the University Hospital. University officials still contend the University did not discriminate against the three former employees. Announcing the 1996-1997 a Is Get the low down on the who's who of the salary charts... Check. out the. 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