2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 25, 1998 TURKEY Continued from Page 1. expects to visit extended family in New York over the break. He mentioned a widely celebrated November holiday in England called Guy Faux Day occurring on Nov. 5. Broadbridge, also an England native, said people in his homeland :MSA Continued from Page 1 Your Rights" Party Poster listing the rights students have when hosting a party. University Chief Financial Officer Robert Kasdin also addressed the assembly last night about several issues, including tobacco stock divest- ment. Kasdin said the issue involves acknowledging that the University is neither a political nor an environmental f , Friendly 6 Helpful * Affordable Available Anytime (at fur campus boksttre) www.witpowr.com celebrate the death of Guy Faux who was affiliated with the Roman Catholic church and almost succeeded in blowing up Parliament in 1605. "It's a crazy festival," Broadbridge said. In England, people set off fireworks and burn bonfires in celebration. It's not anything like Thanksgiving, he added. advocacy group. "We're here to expand and dissemi- nate knowledge," Kasdin said. "What we have at stake is nothing more than our academic freedom." Tobacco investments make up only a fraction of the University's portfolio, Kasdin said, and divestment would not negatively affect investment returns. But divestment would not necessarily impact tobacco corporations either, he added. Kasdin said the University's next step will be to access the local community opinion on divestment. "We want to know there are sus- tained and widespread and deeply held views on this issue," Kasdin said. NATIOiN ALABAMA Continued from Page 1 Mississippi," UAB associate Prof. Virginia Smith said. Smith, who was appointed director of African American Studies at UAB in 1994, said that year she and a nine-mem- ber committee began investigating the possibility of offering a degree in African American studies, which had to first be approved by the two schools that fund the program. "It was stalled two years at this level," Smith said. "It passed approval of the Undergraduate Council last June, and the Faculty Senate in August. Now it has gone to the Board of Trustees, and after that, it will have to be approved by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education." Many are left confused, asking why the process is taking so long. "The state is rooted in tradition," Smith said. "It is hard to change ideas. Ironically, a major in Asian Studies was passed in a year's time with no opposition." Student demand and the influence of newly elected Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman, Smith said, prompted UAB to consider an African American studies major. Political climate was also a factor in the University of Michigan's decision to establish a program. The University's Center for Afroamerican and African Studies department was a result of African American students' demand for the pro- gram in the late '60s, which led to its establishment in 1970. "The whole effort behind African American studies is to bring a greater understanding to all people about African Americans," said University the- ater and drama Prof. OyamO, who teaches a black theater course that includes black history. "It's really American studies," OyamO said. "African American people and experiences have been left out of history." He said important student movements of the late 60's prompted protests on /VWORLD No place fun Shop to shop in town? online at "A \ * boas tiaras rhinestones * * faux fur purses " evening gloves " campuses across the nation "to institute what they called black studies pro- grams." He said Alabama and other states in the South have to get rid of their narrow view of African Americans, and imple- menting these majors at colleges is a good start. "The South has been behind because they have been unwilling to let go of their perception of black people as slaves," OyamO said. "Some try to maintain that perception even to this day. But African American studies obviously proves that to be wrong - it shatters the mythological perception of the South." Greene County, home of UAB, is one of the poorest counties in the nation, but it was key in voting the previous conser- vative governor out of office, "who did not value education," Smith said. "That is the kind of mentality that has kept the African American studies major from being valued. With its passage, it promises hope for the future of Alabama that it can move into the 21st Century." Ohio State University Prof. William Nelson, who teaches African American studies and political science, agreed Alabama's conservative political climate has kept it "behind the times" and "is finally beginning to catch up." Smith said more than 200 colleges nationwide offer degrees in African American studies, but very few of the schools are in the South. Nine of the 11 schools in the Big Ten offer an under- graduate degree in the program. "Alabama has been slow to recognize the need to examine the black history ... that has been ignored in the state," Nelson said. "They will finally be able to provide realistic information in the state instead of the distorted information they have provided in the past." Like many southern schools, Florida State University offers a minor, but not a major in African American studies. Phyllis Walker, interim director of the black studies program at FSU, said she hopes her school will have an African American studies major in the future. "It's almost always political and eco- nomical," Walker said of UAB's thrust for the program, but she also acknowl- edged student demand as motivation. "There would probably have to be a big push by the students," she said. "There's more complacency now with 'We've integrated the universities,' but with the threat of losing affirmative action programs, the motivation has resurfaced." She said many protests in the late '60s led to a "big push for students" who wanted African American studies pro- grams available on their campuses. ROSE Continued from Page 1. T-shirt - I asked the clerk if he had any suggestions for Thanksgiving dinner. "Aw, who cares, man?" he said. "You're in Maui, right?" At the time, I merely smiled and said "Mahalo" - Hawaiian for "Thank you" - but as I left, I start- ed to get a tiny bit worried. Now, I'm as much a fan of macadamia nuts and papaya juice as the next guy - though probably not as much as the next girl - but at some point, you have to draw the line. Like, dinnertime on Thursday. The rest of the world, no doubt, will be stuffing itself with turkey and pumpkin pie and the like - and I'll be eating my 74th pineapple of the week. And you can only eat so much pineapple. Now, if the waitresses are wearing those grass hula skirts, it's another thing entirely. I suppose I'll manage to deal with the pineapple. - Jim Rose can be reached via e- mail at jwrose@umich.edu. Corporate earnings see record drop. WASHINGTON - The government reported the worst drop in corporate profits in nearly nine years yesterday, even as stock prices hovered near record highs. Economists predict earnings could fall again next year and say they fear the market is vulnerable to another down- turn, perhaps worse than the Dow's 19 percent plummet between July 17 and Aug. 31. So why did the Dow Jones industrial average begin the week by shooting to a record high? Many attribute the market's startlingly swift recovery since early October to a shortsighted focus on recent interest-rate cuts and on a spate of corporate mergers, including yesterday's announcement that America Online will buy Netscape for $4.2 billion. "Investors have overdone it. They were overly pessimistic a few weeks ago and they're overly optimistic today," said economist Mark Zandi of Regional AROUND THE NATION Censure option introduced into House WASHINGTON - A Democratic member of the House r ti Judiciary Committee said yesterday that he intends to offer his colleagues an alternative to impeachment that would strongly condemn President Clinton for his conduct but not impose any sanctions against him. While the notion of censure has been discussed generally for months, Massachusetts Rep. William Delahunt is the first law- maker to offer a way out of the current controversy short of removing Clinton from office. "We are trying in the most constructive sense to get a ball rolling on this," said Steve Schwadron, Delahunt's press secre- Clinton tary. "It will either roll or it won't." Delahunt's proposal is unlikely to alter the outcome in the committee, whose hard-line Republican majority is expected to approve articles of impeachment in the coming weeks. At the helm of the process is Judiciary Chairperson Henry Hyde (R-Il1.) who says the panel's role is to impeach or not impeach. "Most Republican members have publicly rejected the idea of censure eit because it is not constitutionally proscribed or because it would be a bad preced given the seriousness of the allegations," a GOP committee aide noted. ""f Financial Associates in West Chester, Pa. "There's no reason to believe investor psychology won't switch back the other way at some point next year,"Zandi said. NAFTA may limit U.S. sprout farmers SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Pity the poor brussels sprout. The mini-cabbages smell bad, they're almost always over- cooked and kids hate them. Now, the lit- tle vegetable has emerged as one of the losers under NAFTA. Along California's central coast, where 93 percent of the nation's brussels sprouts are groxtn, the North American Free Trade Agreement gould spell t5 end of a tight-knit group of second-ani third generation farmers. Five years ago, before NAFTA, most brussels sprouts served on American tables were grown in foggy, oceanside fields in San Mateo, Santa Cruzand Monterey counties. Since the tade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States, an increasing number come from Mexico. AROUND THE WORLD t n: '' 'A w ~ ._ fff 4 M c r' a .c. m e I 7r As I i .;u. f d 51i" I I I 4 p : ". r- German arliament meets i Terlin BERLIN - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday convened the first Cabinet meeting here since Adolf Hitler was in power, symbolizing his impatience over the stalled move of the capital from Bonn, where the new chancellor still works in the shadow of Helmut Kohl. Schroeder, who succeeded Kohl only four weeks ago, has repeatedly pushed the army of builders and planners at work refitting this city to speed up con- struction of the new government quar- ters along the Spree River. The chancellor is Germany's first leader with no personal memories of World War II and the Nazi horrors, and he has made it clear he wants to govern a reunified state that has moved beyond a "postwar era" to a time defined by prosperity and peace. But Schroeder's eagerness to put his stamp on the country has already undercut his assurances to Western allies that the new leftist leadership will maintain continuity in its relations with other countries. Although the entire Cabinet traveled to Berlin for yesterday's meeting, it couldn't escape mounting criticism in Bonn and Washington over Foreif Minister Joschka Fischer's suggestio that NATO renounce its claimed right to "first-strike" use of nuclear weapons. Russian democratic leader buried ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -'TMe slain democracy pioneer Gali Starovoitova was buried yesterday in a grand and somber funeral, as Russia's embattled reformers spoke emotionally of how their achievements - and their own lives - now seem in grave danger. "They're killing our friends. They're killing our comrades," Anatoly Chubais, a leader of the reform move- ment who was ousted from government this summer, said in a eulogy, his voice rising in anger. "They want to frighten us. 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