LOCAL/S TATE Roadshow inspires 'U' community By Sam Stavis Daily Staff Reporter The Big Wild Roadshow, a cross-country, grass- roots movement to defend the United States' last great wildlands, came to Ann Arbor last night, spreading its inspirational message like wildfire among members -of the University community. The message of the two main speakers, environ- mental activists Joshua Burnim and Martin Stephan, was clear: The country's wilderness areas are being destroyed, and something needs to be done to end the unrestricted logging responsible for this devastation. "We need to take action," Stephan said. "We need to end public logging right now." Singing, guitar playing, a slide show and an eye- opening video were all part of the lively, hour-and-a- half presentation. While Burnim spoke of the danger the country's forests are facing, Stephan inflated a bal- loon painted to represent Earth, released it, and sent it careening around the room as it deflated. "How long can the Earth sustain this unrestricted population growth and pollution?" Burnim asked. "The answer is, not long." The speakers criticized the National Forest Service for allowing publicly owned lands to be stripped of their natural resources, when the vast amount of pri- vately owned American forest land should be able to cover the country's timber needs. The public suffers in three different ways from this process, Burnim said. It funds the logging with its own tax dollars, destroys natural habitats of wildlife, caus- es the extinction of indigenous species and ends up The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 18, 1998 - 5 Metro airport to install secunty video cameras DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit Metropolitan Airport will spend $500,000 to install video cameras and other equipment to catch people trying to evade its security checkpoints - as two people did last month. As part of the move, announced Monday, the Romulus airport also will bolster police patrols of its three termi- nals while warning of swift prosecution of those trying to breach the enhanced security. Reported shortcomings in the airport's security surfaced last month, when two travelers bolted from the X-ray machines and metal detectors leading to Northwest and United airlines gates. Two such incidents also happened last year. Each time, the breaches forced secu- rity to seal terminals, delay flights and move thousands of passengers - both in the buildings and aboard planes - through the checkpoints again. After last month's breaches, Northwest - the airport's largest carri- er - said it planned no changes because it was satisfied with its securi- ty contractor, Argenbright Security of Atlanta. On Monday, Northwest spokesper- son Jim Faulkner said the airline was satisfied with Argenbright but endorses new cameras, which will shoot color video in allowing security agents to pan and zoom into different areas. "We never said security didn't need improvement," Faulkner told the Detroit Free Press for a story in yester- day's editions. "... If someone decided to run through security, these are things that will help us catch that person bet- ter." Northwest approved spending the $500,000 from the airport's budget for the latest security measures. An operat- ing budget comes from landing fees, gate rents, terminal concession rents and other fees. Airlines - not the airport - are responsible for security at checkpoints and in concourses. Katz asked the air- lines to boost the number of security employees at checkpoints and to pay them better. Firms such as Argenbright often pay their workers minimum wage. With the enhanced security, "The hope is that when we do have a prob- lem, we can respond quicker and incon- venience less people," Dave Katz, the acting Wayne County Airports Director, told the Free Press. An American Airlines spokesperson declined to comment on a security issue. A United Airlines counterpart declined to comment because he had not seen the airport's recommendations. "These are the kinds of things they are supposed to be doing," said Mary Schiavo, a former U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general now living near Toledo, Ohio. LOUIS BROWN/Daily Environmental activist Martin Stephan spoke and sang at the Big Wild Roadshow, which was held last night in Angell Hall as part of the Environmental Theme Semester. buying back wood that it owned in the first place. Burnim also berated the National Forest Service for leaving the public out of the decision-making loop. "The Forest Service still refuses to let the public back in the process," Burnim said. A video played at the roadshow depicted the struggle to protect the Cove-Mallard wilderness area in Idaho, the largest tract of unlogged native forest in the United States. When the Clean Water Act and other federal laws protecting endangered species failed to stop the logging companies in 1996, activists from across the country took direct action to protect the area. The video showed huge barricades and other obsta- cles that clogged logging roads, delaying the compa- nies for weeks before federal agents terminated the resistance. Both Stephan and Burnim were arrested for partic- ipating in the direct action movement, and they urged students to take action in whatever manner they could as soon as possible. "In two to three generations, there won't be any- thing to fight for," Stephan said. Mona Hanna, an SNRE senior and chair of the Environmental Theme Semester, praised the Big Wild Roadshow's effectiveness in delivering its message. "It was really inspirational," Hanna said. "I'm glad that the U of M had the opportunity to hear what was going on." MSA Continued from Page 1 MSA Vice President Olga Savic said community service includes both actu- al service and activism. "I think the definition we use for community service at the University of Michigan is broad. And it's broad for a good reason," Savic said. "Within the service committee there's a lot of doubt about how to define service. The consensus that they're able to come to is that it includes actual service, service through learning and activism." The assembly also discussed the upcoming MSA president, vice presi- dent and representative elections, which are scheduled to be held March 18 and 19. Education senior Rajeshri Gandhi was appointed election director. Election packets for candidates can be obtained in the MSA office and in the Administration Office of Pierpont Commons on North Campus. The packets are due by 5 p.m. on Feb. 27. Friday, February 20, 1998 3:30- 4:30 p.m Regstration ut chins Hall, Room 236 4:30 - 6:00 entation Student Notes Hutchins Hall, Room 236 Saturday, February 21, 1998 ' , E "8:00 -9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast HutchinsfHall, Room 236 Welcome Address Dean Jeffrey S. Lehman, University of Michigan Law School Hutchins Hall, Room 250 9:15 - 10:45 a.m. First Plenar: Immigration Hutchins flarl. Room 250 11:00a.m. - 12:45P.m. Secondary Plenary: Affirmative Action flutchins Halli, Room 250 y t 3:00 -4:45 p. Peay Gender andSexuality Hutchins Hall, Room 250 R5:00 - 6:30 Nondtable Discussion Asian American jurisprudence Hutchins Hall, KRoomll250 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Banquet Midi ~all Union, P:et(Jn Room Keynote S eaker Chair, National Council of Asian Pacific Americans AP PHOTO FrSyntf~ srna fies indk,, IT i ,ta fr(rmPot ft t A A- Aat(3!ft 637584 or vstus at ui~uducuaeiiiibefu President Clinton talks with Marine Corps Gen. Charles Krulak at the Pentagon yesterday after discussing a possible airstrike on Iraq. IRAQ Continued from Page 1. Clinton warned that Saddam person- ified the modern threat to nations in the post-Cold War era, when terror- ists, drug traffickers and organized criminals make up an "unholy axis" that can use weapons of mass destruction. "If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity," the president said. Clinton emphasized that Saddam had broken a promise, made under terms of the Gulf War cease-fire, to provide a complete accounting of his nation's nuclear, chemical and bio- logical weapons within 15 days. "That's what he promised to do." As for what happens after any campaign of allied airstrikes, Clinton said the U.S. would continue to monitor Iraq's weapons programs and would strike again any time Saddam tried to rebuild his arsenal. In a response to Clinton's speech, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarik Aziz said in a Cable News Network interview that the United States has no authority to attack Iraq. He said none of Iraq's neighbors favor an attack, while countries as far away as New Zealand, Australia and Britain are jumping to help the U.S. "It is not a coalition for peace. It is a belliger- ent coalition to destroy a nation," Aziz said. Public opinion polls have shown most Americans favor airstrikes if Saddam fails to comply with U.N. resolutions requiring open, unfet- tered inspection of sites believed used to produce 'weapons of mass destruction. But the surveys also suggest misgivings. A Gallup Poll conducted earlier this week for CNN/USA Today found that only 45 percent supported military action if the United States were forced to go it alone; the survey also suggested public discomfort with Iraqi civilian casualties. 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