2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 14, 2000 NATION/WORLD Shelter may open on Huron Street HOMELESS Continued from Page 1. to finding feces on their porches. But some neighbors of the current shelter expressed support for it and backed the proposal for the new shelter. "In 13 years I've never had a problem with the folks next door' said Michael Steer, who works next to the current homeless shelter. "From my perspective I support the shelter, and I think it's what the city needs." Ziegler, who lives within two blocks of the shelter, is con- cerned that the proposed shelter would make what he describes as Ann Arbor's homeless problem worse by expanding the size and number of shelters in the downtown area. "A neighborhood should be able to take on some of the burden;' Ziegler said. "But if you establish too many of these facilities in a small area you can negatively impact the eco- nomic viability, safety and livability of the area, and that's what I'm scared of here:' The council and the county commissioners have been debating the proposal for the last two and a half years, but the council plans to vote on the proposal within two to three weeks. More than 100 residents attended the council's public hearing Monday. Thirty-two residents spoke in favor of the shelter, while 27 spoke against it, including Ziegler and Brewster. "We wanted to make sure that the city got adequate input from the public," councilmember Chris Kolb (D-Ward V) said. Among those who spoke at the hearing, a handful of resi- dents, including former Downtown Development Authority Chair Ed Shaffran, called for the University to take a greater role in the issue. "I ask the people who talk the talk to walk the walk," Shaffran said. "I ask where are they. I ask the University of Michigan to step forward." University Director of Community Relations Jim Kosteva said the University has not expressed a formal opinion on the proposal. But he added that the University's faculty and staff have been involved with the Homeless Shelter Task Force on an individual basis, primarily on advisory com- mittees. "That's not a role the University would take in terms of an endorsement," Kosteva said. "This is an issue that is being addressed, in our view, by the most appropriate lead repre- sentatives - the council and Washtenaw County commis- sioners." ENCOMPASS Continued from Page 1. with others," Kim said. Encompass also includes several multimedia presentations that attempt to educate students on issues of diversity. "It exposes the audience to infor- mation that maybe they haven't pre- viously had access to," Kulkarni said. The presentations address issues that the performances do not, such as apartheid and global violence against women. Kim said the ultimate goal for next year's program is to increase the interaction between groups and encourage more collaboration in creating acts. This year, groups were encour- aged to come to one another's rehearsals and to cheer each other on. As of yesterday afternoon, 930 tickets have been sold. KNO w OF At, THE NATION ...... ... . .... AIDS cases higher among gay minorities WASHINGTON - For the first time since the AIDS epidemic began nearly two decades ago, the number of cases among minority gay men has climbed high- er than those among white gay men, federal health officials announced yesterday. The data also indicate that black and Latino gay men are being infected at younger ages than white men, suggesting the need for earlier preventive interv - tions, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "We believe this will surprise many in the nation," Helene Gayle said, who heads the CDC's center for sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis and AIDS. "While gay men consistently have accounted for the largest single category of AIDS cases, we still think of the gay epidemic as being a white one,' she said. "The epidemic is by no means over in white gay men but we are clearly seeing a reversal in the trends." Los Angeles has emerged as a dramatic example of the latest trends. Los Angeles had the highest number of cases among Latino gay and bisexual men, followed by New York and Miami. Los Angeles had the highest total of cases among gay Asian/Pacific Islanders and Native American/Alaska Natives, even though these groups represent less than 2 percent of overall cases among gay and bisexual men, the CDC reported. In this category, Phoenix was second. Among black gay and bisexual men, New York had the highest number of can, followed by Washington and Atlanta. Attention All U of M Students! It's a New Year and a New Century. Start a New Beginning with the Student Organization of Your Choice at... 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The seven-page document outlining areas of agreement and dispute - at least as perceived by the United States - was presented to Syrian and Israeli negotiating teams by President Clinton during their landmark talks last week in Shepherdstown, W.Va. A copy of the supposedly secret text, which U.S. offi- cials have described as a potential first draft of a peace treaty, was reprinted yesterday in the Israeli newspaper Haa'retz. The document makes clear that the two sides still have not resolved many key issues, including access to water, security arrangements and the important question of a future border. Clinton to propose new $10 tax credit WASHINGTON - Put away those postage stamps. President Clinton wants to givec ta- payers a credit of up to $10 if they file their income tax returns electronically instead of using old-fashioned snail n$ The idea, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said yesterday, is to simultaneously encourage more people to file returns via either te Internet or the telephone and improve efficiency at the much-maligted Internal Revenue Service. "It's good for them. It's good for the IRS. It's good for the system;" Summers said. S T 75 CALL B Et A FRIDAY- 26 Taps! Full Menu! BOTTLE&IMAG Only 75 - g SATURDAY 30MAYNARD "-995.0100 21 & OVER WITH PROPER ID AROUND THE WORLD k 'I " Rescuers reach 9 entombed miners JOH ANNLSBURG, South Africa Rescuers, clawing with shovels and their bare hands, broke through a wall of rock last night to reach nine miners entombed for four days below more than a mile of earth and rock. Doctors were examining the first of the rescued miners in an underground area before bringing him to the surface, mine officials said. All were expected to reach the surface last night and would be taken to a hospital, mine spokesperson Merle Gouws said. A short crawl away from where the miners had awaited rescue, four com- rades lay dead from Monday's rock fall at the African Rainbow Minerals gold mine in Orkney, about 110 miles south- west of Johannesburg. -Hopes were fading that two severely injured miners were still alive. Rescuers were moving toward them, Gouws said. The rescue effort, progressing inch by agonizing inch, captured national attention in a country built on mining, where hundreds die every year deep in the earth's recesses. Gold accounts for one-fifth of So th Africa's export earnings. Pulling iti the nation's shafts remains grueling and deadly work for the mainly black employ- ees despite safety improvements since thc end of white minority rule in 1994. Japan names possible sites for capital ove TOKYO - The Japanese govern- ment has been vowing for a decd move the nation's capital out of o- crowded, overpriced, earthquake-prone Tokyo - but will it? The relocation is dismissed as prey posterous by most of the political ehie here, including lawmakers who voted for it in 1990 and 1992. Nevertheless, the scheme inched a step closer to reality last month wheD-a. commission named two sites in the Japanese hinterlands as candidate sites. - Compiled from Daily wire repot. SALOMONSMITHBARNEY A memberof citigroupt Salomon Smith Barney is an international investment banking firm that makes markets in securities and provides a broad range of underwriting, financial advisory and research services to governments, corporations, individuals and institutional investors. 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