LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 22, 1999 - 7A atinued from Page 1A Smith said the GEO membership will have full power to decide which issues are most germane in the contract nego- tiations at the Wednesday meeting. "We're not going to speculate for the membership," Smith said. "They are going to make their own decisions about which issues they're willing to walk out on, the issues that they need to 9e in the contract to be happy." Odier-Fink said the membership will also have to make a difficult decision at the upcoming meeting - whether they Waht to take a job action and when. '"They will have to decide if they're willing to do something very bad in the short run - a walkout does not feel gdod - to make sure the undergradu- ates at the University are properly edu- cated in the long run," Odier-Fink said. Odier-Fink added that after the mem- bership determines its most important issues and its job-action status, the GEO stewards will prepare a new package after the meeting and present it to the University at Thursday's negotiations. GEO will give the University a deadline to satisfy their requests, Odier-Fink said. If the University does not comply with GEO's desires, Odier- Fink said the membership will take job action if they vote to do so at Wednesday's meeting. Gamble said he looks forward to see- ing GEO drop some of its issues and altering its contract for Thursday's negotiation session. But he said he feels mediation might be necessary if the negotiations continue to drag along at the current pace. "Things have been moving along very slowly and it doesn't look like either side is making movement," Gamble said. "We might have reached the time to get a third party in the nego- tiations - a state mediator." But Odier-Fink said GEO is not at all interested in mediation with the University, claiming a mediator has been detrimental to GEO during the past two contract negotiations. "In the past, the mediator has pretty much forced us to take the University's offer," Odier-Fink said. "In 1993 and 1996, he screwed us over and we're not going to let that happen again." GEO's membership meeting, which is open to the public, is scheduled to take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Michigan League Ballroom. ALCOHOL * ntinued from Page 1A Nate Smith-Tyge, chair of MSU's student government, said the council has asked students on the assembly to participate on the council. "It shows the need for restauranteurs and bar owners to put together responsible hospitality" Smith-Tyge said. "People are sort of learning their lesson from what happened at Rick's with Bradley McCue." Lasher said "the majority of bars and restaurants do handle this responsibly" and added that East Lansing liquor licensees who did not support the council would appear conspicuous. *"I think the community would look at the ones who say they won't join in and ask what their priorities are," Lasher said. Reducing drink specials would not cause a decline in busi- ness, Lasher said, comparing the idea to anti-smoking ordi- nances placed on California bars last year. "In a lot of those places their business actually went up," Lasher said. Scott Stanton, a manager at Touchdown Cafe in Ann Arbor, said the problem of binge drinking lies not in the price of alco- hol but in people's mindset when they go to bars. "I don't think that it's necessarily the drink specials that cause people to come out and drink," he said. Raising prices "would change people's bar habits but it wouldn't curb drinking." Jim Paron, an owner of the Brown Jug Restaurant, said the burden is on restaurant and bar owners to properly educate their staff. "The essence of the problem doesn't have to do with the cost of the alcohol," Paron said. "The problem has to do with the need for responsible service." But each individual makes the choice to get drunk and drink prices do not factor into that decision, Paron said. "Making a rule that would prohibit those kinds of deals will not correct the situation.," Paron said. "If somebody's inten- tions are to get drunk ... they can go to a convenience store and get cheap beer there." JESSICA JOHNSON/Daily LSA sophomores Deborah and Catherine Org and LSA junior Yee Wei Chal wave to their parents in Singapore on Friday night from the Chrysler Center. They were able to see their parents through use of video teleconferencing. celebrate newyear SL E Continued from Page 1A Duke administrators agreed to sever con- cts with companies that will not agree to blic disclosure in the next year. - Almieda said if the University decides to take similar action, universities nation- wide may be more likely to follow actions of Duke, Georgetown and Wisconsin. "The addition of Michigan would create a great snowball effect," Almieda said. Bollinger told the group that sweatshop labor in the collegiate apparel industry is an issue he wants to address. The iversity currently has a multi-million liar apparel contract with Nike. "I care deeply about this issue," Bollinger said. "We are at the right stage to talk seriously about this" Members of SOLE plan to meet with University General Counsel Marvin Krislov tomorrow to present their proposal for public disclosure and the living wage. "We are not very far apart at all, we just need to talk more," Bollinger said. SOLE members said Bollinger plans to make a statement on the issue next week. LSA junior Mara Luna told Bollinger at the meeting about her visit with factory workers in El Salvador last August. As part of a group of students from Cleveland, Luna and 12 other high school and college students met with unionized women who produce clothing for JC Penny, GAP and Liz Claiborne. Luna said the women told her that applying corporate pressure in the United States is a better way to take action than boycotting the products they produce. "They really rely on us to help," Luna said. "We have a lot more strength." SOLE members were pleased with Bollinger's response to their ultimatum. "I was very impressed in the way he lis- tened to us" Luna said. SOLE members said the University needs make the labor issue a priority. "I know he is committed to this, but he is administration and it's all a matter of timing," said LSA senior and SOLE mem- ber Trevor Gardner, adding that "it's our responsibility to make sure he makes this a priority." MICHIGRAS Continued from Page 1A January to plan Michigras. E-mail messages and fliers attract- ed many students to Michigras. Even some students who were quietly studying in the Union's lounges put their books aside to join the festivi- ties. UAC gave organizers a budget of $5,000 to finance Michigras, Brillhart said. Other businesses were also contacted to help sponsor the . event. Contacting businesses for dona- tions was "hard to do in such a short time," Brillhart said. Brillhart said that, overall, she was pleased the event's results, although she would have hoped for more fund- ing. The Mardi Gras celebration, which culminates on Fat Tuesday, officially ended last week, the day before the Christian season of Lent began. By Adam Corndorf For the Daily Exuberance and jubilation filled the air Friday night at the Chrysler Center where more than 60 Singaporean students gathered to celebrate the Chinese New Year with their friends and family back home through the use of video tele- conferencing. The event, sponsored by Contact Singapore, an organiza- tion devoted to providing services for Singaporeans working and learning abroad, gave members of the Singaporean Student's Association the opportunity to see and speak with their friends and family with a video link-up. Wai-Hoong Fock, an LSA junior and president of the SSA, said the event was significant to each of its participants. "We are the first University to do this with Singapore. Getting to meet with our families through the use of technology is a wonderful opportuni- ty," Fock said. The affair began with the Singaporean families, who were standing by at the National University of Singapore, viewing a video montage displaying a number of the experiences had by their children abroad. Shortly thereafter, Singapore's Minister of State for Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee expressed words of praise and confidence to the stu- dents in Ann Arbor. "Stay together. Encourage each other," Kee said. "Make your par- ents proud. Make Singapore proud." Following the guest speaker, stu- dents had the opportunity to visit individually with their parents. Chair of the event's organizing com- mittee and LSA junior Chai Yee Wei talked about what the Chinese New Year, as well as this opportunity, meant to him. "The Chinese New Year is a festi- val of reunion, where families and friends get together. It is similar to Thanksgiving for Americans," Wei said. "Thanks to the technology and Contact Singapore, we are able to cel- ebrate with our families back home." 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