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Ford to host
. foreign policy
"conference at U'
Former U.S. President Gerald Ford
is scheduled to host a conference
April 7 at the University which will
examine how U.S. involvement in
Indochina changed this country, its
institutions of government, the mak-
ing of foreign policy and attitudes
toward the political process.
The conference coincides with the
25th anniversary of the end of the
:Uiited States involvement in Vietnam.
Ford is visiting the University in
conjunction with the Gerald Ford
Foundation, the Gerald Ford
Library and the Ford School of Pub-
l ic Policy.
a. c ord will begin his presentation at 9
a.m. by sharing his reflections on the
=events of April 1975.
A panel discussion will follow,
called "America and the World,"
which will be moderated by histori-
a-Douglas Brinkley. The panel will
include National Security Advisor
to Presidents Ford and Bush Brent
Snowcroft, Secretary of State to
President Bush Lawrence Eagle-
berger and assistant to President
Bush for National Security Affairs
Richard Haass.
The second panel, set for 11 a.m., is
"The Presidency," which will feature
Lou Cannon, who wrote a biography
about Ronald Reagan and Haynes
-Johnson, a former assistant managing
editor at the Washington Post.
The third panel, "Politics and the
Media," is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
I sill include Andrea Mitchell of
NBC News, former U.S. Senator
Eugene McCarthy and Ford biogra-
pher James Cannon.
Closing remarks will be given by
David Gergen, U.S. News and World
Report editor at large.
Tickets to the conference are com-
pIjmentary but must be reserved in
advance by calling the Ford Library at
(734) 741-2218.
---During Ford's visit the Ford Library
Js scheduled to release thousands of
pages of newly declassified docu-
ments related to American's involve-
:. ,.ent in the Vietnam War.
English dept.
invites writers to
read from works
The University Department of Eng-
lish and Office of the Provost have will
host two readings this week for the Vis-
4i6pg Writing Series.
Poet Steven Dunn will present his
wrk tomorrow at 5 p.M.
"Dunn has authored 10 poetry col-
lections. He is Trustee Fellow in the
,Arts and Professor of Creative Writ-
ing at Richard Stockton College of
New Jersey.
Novelist Alice Mattison will be read-
--ig from her work Thursday at 5 p.m.
vHer books have included Men
-Giving Money, Women Yelling
which was named Notable Book of
1997 by the New York Times Book
Review.
Mattison currently teaches fiction in
trgraduate writing program at Ben-
ainfton College in Vermont.
S All events will be at the Rackham
Amphitheater and are free to the
public.
Holocaust survivors
to deliver speeches
The 21st annual conference on the
-Holocaust, at the University titled
Memory and Education: Legacies
and Lessons of Survivors in Ameri-
ca," will be held Tuesday on Holo-
caust Remembrance Day at the
University Hillel.
The conference will feature two
Holocaust survivors; Renee Firestone
who was featured in Steven Spiel-
berg's movie The Last Days.
* She will discuss surviving the Holo-
caust and the making of the film. Daisy
5 Miller will also speak, describing
t growing up during the Holocaust and
her work at the Shoah Foundation.
For more information on this free
event, call Hillel at (734) 769-0500.
Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Jodie Kaufman.
Conference focuses on cildren,
violence
By Jacquelyn Nixon
For the Daily
Shot in a drive-by shooting at age 17, Eastern
Michigan University student Travar Pettway con-
firms that "no matter what you do or who you
are, violence will affect you sometime."
The shooting left Pettway paralyzed from the
waist down and also brought about respiratory
difficulties. In addition to mobility problems,
Pettway said he can't do the things other students
may take for granted, like going out for Chinese
food.
"Violence threatened my protection and tran-
quillity, but I don't need my legs to stand. My
will is bulletproof," Pettway said.
Pettway is an advocate for preventing injuries
and deaths caused by acts of violence and was
the first speaker Saturday at the eighth annual
Medstart Conference held at Hutchins Hall at the
Law School.
The conference, titled "Growing Up in a Vio-
lent World: Providing Hope For the Next Genera-
tion," focused on children and violence.
"We came up with the topic after the shootings
at Columbine High School," conference co-
Chairwoman Kim Candido said.
Medstart was founded in 1991 by health sci-
ence students interested in issues facing children
and families. Medstart aims to bring awareness
of the various aspects related to youth violence.
The more than 18 sessions held Saturday high-
lighted topics such as guns, homelessness, run-
aways, date rape and eating disorders.
Joe Clark, a former New Jersey high school
principal and reformer who was featured inmthe
film "Lean on Me," focused on violence in
schools.
"We need to come together as human beings
who have mutual respect for one another," Clark
said.
Clark said the major problem in schools is a
Fire
lack of concern by administrators. It is disturbing
that more action isn't being taken with high
school troublemakers, he said.
"It's about persistence," Clark said. "The
principals need to be ubiquitous. When my stu-
dents couldn't see me in the halls, they could
hear me."
When administrators see a problem, Clark
said they should look at the situation and
make a decision but not put the youth back on
the street.
"It's abominable to send them back to the same
environment," Clark said. "Our cities are like lit-
tle Beruits at happy hour."
Clark said a breakdown in family structure,
economic difficulties and lack of values are the
major causes for a decline in society. Families
aren't taking responsibility and children are
growing up without guidance, he said.
"There is a cultural war going on in our world
and the casualties are our children," Clark said.
The same view that progress will be achieved
through social unity was shared by Rueben War-
ren, associate administrator for urban affairs in
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices.
He attributes much of the violence in inner
cities to low education levels, racism, sexism,
domestic dysfunction, low income and locale.
"Among youth ages 15 to 24, homicide is the
leading rate. Children as young as 11 are being
committed to adult prisons," Warren said.
He said the solution to the problem of violence,
isn't more police and prisons.
"More is not necessarily better. I'm not °con-
vinced that violence can be prevented," he said.
Warren said the only way he believes vio-
lence can be obliterated is through an alliance-
between teachers, students and the community.
"Violence is among the greatest threats to soci-
ety. It is a social problem and the solution should
be social," he said.
guts E. Jefferson St.
hone; o injunes reported
By Jeremy W. Peters
Daily Staff Reporter
Residents of 300 E. Jefferson St.
received an unwelcome surprise
Friday afternoon as they were
forced to wait in the cold while the
Ann Arbor Fire Department extin-
guished a fire that gutted portions
of the first floor of their house.
No one was injured and those in
the house when the fire began
shortly before 4 p.m. were able to
escape safely.
"I feel blessed because I
could've been burned up in there,"
Charolyn Arrington said as she
recounted events prior to the fire
department arriving.
"What happened was our TV
blinked out, then about an hour
later Michelle (a housemate)
banged on our door yelling there
was a fire," Arrington added.
AAFD firefighter Bob Ruppel
said the fire started in a room
toward the rear of the first floor of
the residence. It gutted that room
"I feel blessed because I could've been
burned up there."
-_Charolyn Arrington
Ann Arbor residelt
and did not cause heavy damage
elsewhere.
Michelle Carter, a Washtenaw
Community College student who
lives upstairs in the home, said
none of the residents' bedrooms
were severely damaged.
"Our rooms are really smoky, but
that's about it," she said.
Kiyah Holman, another resident
of the charred house, said the
entire incident took her by sur-
prise.
"I walked up and heard that my
building was on fire and my main
concern was did my (possessions)
get burned up," she said.
Holman said she was also con-
cerned about what she would do
for the night.
Pamela Reading-Smith, director
of public support for the American
Red Cross in Ann Arbor, said the
AAFD notifies the Red Cross when
a fire occurs in which there are
victims involved.
"Tonight, the Red Cross will piit
them up in accommodations, give
them vouchers for food and cloth-
ing. We will continue to assgeks
their needs and do what is nectys-
sary to get them settled," Reading-
Smith said.
In addition to displacing the rs-
dents of the home, the fire also dis-
rupted rush hour traffic leavirlg
downtown Ann Arbor becaple
Fifth Avenue had to be blocked o'f
while the fire was brought under
control.
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LSA freshmen Erin Brosko (left) and Meghan Garstang race in the Bungee
Run on Saturday in the Michigan Union as one of the events at Michigras.
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Weekend festivities
brings in little siblings
from across the nation
By Charles Chen
Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly 400 siblings invaded
campus this weekend to visit
older brothers and sisters and get
a taste of college life.
"We want the siblings to get a
feel for what college life is like,"
Siblings Weekend Director
Damon Warren said. "We want
them to have a chance to visit
their brothers and sisters away
from home."
Siblings traveled from as far as
California and Massachusetts to
take part this weekend, Warren
said, in comparison to last year
when they only came from within
the state of Michigan.
While the majority of visitors
were teenagers, some little
Wolverines were as young as 4-
years-old, Warren said.
Judy Turnball, a high school
sophomore from Grosse Pointe
and the younger sister of Engi-
neering freshman Sandy Turnball,
said her visit allowed her to learn
about the University and Ann
Arbor.
"I think it's pretty nice. I like
how the campus mixes in with the
city," Judy Turnball said.
The festivities began Friday
evening with Michigras 2000 in
the Michigan Union, where stu-
dents and their younger siblings
took part in an array of games.
A blackjack table, a roulette
wheel and a slot machine filled
the Anderson room, where stu-
dents and siblings took part in
Casino Night.
Raffles were held every hour,
giving away free prizes including
t-shirts and gift certificates.
For siblings looking for more
physical activity, Michigras 2000
also offered inflatable games,
including Bouncy Boxing, Gladia-
tor Joust, a Bungee Run and a Vel-
cro Wall in the Union Ballroom.
Some siblings took advantage
of the arts and crafts activity
where participants could create
magnetic picture frames with a
photo of them and their older sib-
ling to remember their visit to
Ann Arbor.
The weekend also included two
movies showing in the Modern
Languages Building and a
women's gymnastic meet at Cliff
Keen Arena on Saturday.
But the weekend was not limit-
ed to siblings, as several other
relatives of students also made
the trip to campus.
Business School senior Tracey
Finlayson was visited by her
cousin, Kristen Barrett, a middle
school student.
"I hope she has a lot of fun and
gets a better idea of what's out
there with furthering their educa-
tion,"1Finlayson said.
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