LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 8, 1999 - 3A CAMPUS U' remembers award-winning sychologist Psychology and psychiatry Prof. Neil Kalter passed away in his Ann Arbor home Oct. 23. A University alum, Kalter taught courses in advanced statistics, research methods, child psychopathology, fami- -y therapy and parent losses at the University. He was named Teacher of the Year in 1994-95, and has had much of his work blished in a variety of scientific jour- 4ls and books. A memorial service was held in the Rackham Amphitheater last night. The family requests that instead of flowers, donations be made in his name to the Ann Arbor Hospice. I Lawmakers respond to city employees, farmers Poland honors *xperts at 'U' 5 The Poland Gold Cross of Merit was given by President Aleksander Kwasniewski to five University experts. Slavic languages and literature Prof. Bogdana Carpenter, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Prof. Michael Kennedy, Near Eastern studies Prof. Piotr Michalowski, and Center for Russian and East European Studies ogram associate Marysia Ostafin were the recipients of the awards. .University alum Jozef Blass received the Knight's Cross of Merit, the highest eivilian honor presented by Poland. They received these honors for their efforts to promote Polish culture and affairs at the University. urvival Flight amed best air ambulance group The University Health System's Survival Flight was given an award as the best air medical program in the nation this week at the annual conven- tion of the Association of Air Medical Services in Nashville. The award recognized Survival Oght's excellence in patient care, lead- ership, safety, innovation and commu- 'nity service. The 16-year-old program makes more than 1,300 flights each year, transporting nearly 20,000 patients. Survival Flight surpassed more than °!5O other air ambulance programs in the United States to be named the best. 4CC plans benefit children's auction The Washtenaw County Jewish Community Center plans to hold a silent and live auction fundraiser Saturday at the JCC on Birch Hollow Drive in Ann Arbor. The auction, held every other year, will benefit the JCC Early Childhood 'Center scholarship fund, add play- around equipment for the center, *pand senior programming and devel- op an intergenerational program for children and seniors. Items up for bid include a Bill Bradley autographed basketball, lMichigan vs. Ohio State football Gtkets, jewelry, a weekend apart- m:rnent in Manhattan, a week apart- rnent in California wine county and lunch with U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers -Ann Arbor). ,Tickets are $18 and are available at the door, or by calling the JCC at 971- 0990 for reservations. Stress-reduction forum for women A workshop designed to help women reduce the stress and conflict that results from a hectic schedule d busy lifestyle is scheduled for aturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Career Center of the Alumni Association. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Lindsey Alpert. Michael Steinberg, a lawyer and legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union in Detroit, addresses students on the use of racial profiling yesterday in the Michigan Union. The issue has recently come into the national spotlight. Racial profiling an LANSING (AP) - Political arm- twisting over a city's right to tell its ' I vi workers where to live will continue this week in the state House. farming I On one side are fire-fighters, police and other public workers and their unions, insisting that requiring them to live in the city in which they work is a violation of their rights and can will push the full divide families who work in different the language that cities. complete ban. On the other side are about 80 "Our resolve is t Michigan cities that want to keep idency requirem emergency workers and administra- Republican said o tors living in the community they public television's serve. "People can live A bill that would ban residency live in America, a requirements passed the Senate in governmental rul May. But it was one vote short of the them to live whe four needed to pass the House to." Employment Relations Committee, so The Senate, mea a deal was cut to get the bill on the turn its attention b floor. Michigan farmers. The compromise bill passed by the the recommendat committee Wednesday would limit the Senate Agricultura ban to those who are married to some- Force. one who works for a different city The Senate alrea with residency restrictions. designed to protect Employment Relations Committee ordinances which Chair Rep. Robert Gosselin said he their livelihood a MUSEUM Continued from Page 1 There were several performances and pieces of art available for public viewing. The Heinzman School of Irish Dance. presented Irish step dancing which consisted of young girls in colorful Irish dresses. The dancers lined up in single file with the smaller children in the middle. They danced with their arms rigid- ly at their sides while their feet swiftly taped away on the wooden floor. "We displayed all of our steps from the beginner steps to the Ad Horn Pipe at the end, which is one of the more advanced steps," said Heinzman School co-Founder Liz Heinzman. "We tried to encourage the culture with the music, the talking, the language and the dance." The Irish step dancing accompanied the Irish painting exhibit that opened on Sept. 24. The exhibit includes 65 works by 35 Irish artists ranging from portraits of the Irish Revolution in the early 20s, like Sein Keating's "Men of the South" to more recent works like Rita Duffy's "Segregation." There was also a double portrait of a young female Irish dancer by Alice Mahler. The side panel explained the painting as two different identities of Mahler's Irishness. The lighter side, where the dress was larger than the girl, was the "nurturing" side of Mahler's House to return to t would require a to do away with res- nents," the Troy n an appearance on "Off the Record." e where they want to and no residency or es should require re they. don't want anwhile, is slated to back to the plight of , taking up some of tions issued by a l Preservation Task ady has passed bills A farmers from local threaten to restrict and to restrict tax increases when property is trans- ferred. This week, the Senate is scheduled to open debate on a bill designed to make it easier to take part in the state's Farmland and Open Space Preservation Act - and thus encour- age more farmers to remain in agri- culture. "It is vital we preserve Michigan's farming heritage," said Majority Floor Leader Mike Rogers, (R-Brighton), sponsor of the bill. "Farming is in a crisis." The bill would reduce the thresh- old to participate in the farmland preservation law, under which "a farmer can claim an income tax cred- it if property taxes on the land and structures used in farming exceeds .7 percent of a farmer's household, income. 31 we preserve Michigan's eritage" - State Sen. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) Majority floor leader ssue for U 'students PROFILING Continued from Page :A people of color don't believe the police because they get stopped for these bullshit reasons and humiliat- ed," he said. Steinberg explained how racial profiling began largely as an offshoot of the war against drugs in the 1980s. "Seventy-five percent of drug users sent to prison (in the 1980s) were black," Steinberg said. He also noted statistics from the last 20 years that show minorities, despite making up a small demographic of drug users, made up the majority of those convicted of drug use. As a result, officers became more likely to stop black and Latino/a drivers, essentially because statistics suggested that they are more likely to be criminals, Steinberg said. He defined racial profiling as "Stopping people and questioning them and thinking that they are crim- inals because of their race.' Mark Watkins, an LSA junior, said he knows race can be a motivator in traffic stops. While driving his 1981 Monte Carlo in Redford, Mich. two years ago, Watkins said he was pulled over. Watkins alleges the Redford police officer asked him if the car was stolen, and although Watkins asserted it wasn't and produced his license and proof of insurance, the officer persist- ed, he said. "He said 'you can drive with me to the station or we can take the car,"' Watkins said. Watkins said the officer told him that a check of the car would only take a few hours, so he agreed. When he got to the station, the officer informed him they would keep the car for two days. Watkins said when he asked why he hadn't been told how long the check would really take, the officer allegedly told him, "'You never would have agreed to come down here with us."' In the end, the Redford police kept Watkin's car for five days, despite the fact he didn't receive a ticket. He also said he had been stopped a handful of other times, only to receive no ticket for any kind of offense. The Redford Police Department records department could not be reached for comment on the inci- dent. ACLU has filed cases against racial profiling in eight different states including Illinois, Pennsylvania and Maryland. "We're working to develop a case in Michigan," he said, but pointed out that collecting evidence of profiling is difficult. Most police departments do not record the race of the driver in a traffic stop, and many of the stops associated with profiling don't even result in a ticket. But ACLU is col- lecting data on similar traffic stops and urges anyone who feels they are a victim of profiling report the incident to them. AAPD officers do not keep track of race in traffic stops, but staff Sgt. Greg O'Dell, who is part of the inter- nal affairs department, is adamant on the subject. "Our policy is that we will not tol- erate racial profiling," O'Dell said. "If someone felt they were stopped because of their race, we would investigate and if it was found to be true then the officer would be disci- plined by the chief of police. "We are very aware (of the prob- lem) - if anyone feels they have been a victim, we encourage them to make a complaint," O'Dell said. But AAPD officials have no plans to begin recording the race of sub- jects in traffic stops. "The humiliation and embarrass- ment is profound. It's sort of being treated as less than a citizen," said U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit). Conyers has been trying to pass a bill requiring police departments nationwide to log the race of a sus- pect when making traffic stops. The bill passed the U.S. Senate last year, but hearings on the bill have not been held in the House of Representatives. "For generations now, people have been stopped because of their race," Conyers said. "In the past, it was always the motorists' word against the police officer, and in the past the court was willing to take the officer at his word," he said. Conyers said the bill would require officers to record "race and disposi- tion, of a driver. "It's a simple solu- tion to a long-standing problem," he said. Conyers, who is black, recalled his own run-in with racial profiling when he was a law student at Wayne State University. The officer was "very well known for stopping African-American citi- zens - he gave me a ticket for the bulb illuminating my license plate being out, and he made it clear that if it wasn't that, it would have been something else. "I think we've made progress before getting to the law," Conyers said, pointing out that some police departments in the country have already begun logging race in traffic stops. Irishness. While the darker side of the portrait, where the dress was to small for the dancer, showed her' Irishness' "confining" nature. "I was very happy because I saw a lot of people look- ing at the paintings upstairs," Slavin said. Also in the upstairs gallery was a man playing the. Uilleann pipes, commonly known as Irish Pipe. Uilleann means elbow in Irish Gaelic and refers to the, musician's elbow that forces the air throup-h the instru ment which resembles Scottish bagpipes. To conclude the day English Prof. emeritus Lea McNamara gave a short lecture on Jack Yeats in front of several of Yeats portraits. McNamara also read Yeats' one- act play, "The Green Wave." "His paintings have attracted me ever since I can remember looking at paintings," McNamara said. "Then when I discovered that Jack also wrote I began reading and was very captivated." McNamara also taught Irish history for 25 years. His presentation was the conclusion of a day that kept patrons in the museum for hours Slavin said. "I thought it was very successful," Slavin said. "Most people seemed really happy and trying a lot of things. Something I noticed compared to other family days is that people came and stayed for a long time. I had so many people who came at 1 p.m. and didn't leave until 4 p.m." LIKE To WRITE? SKIP CLASS? DON'T SLEEP MUCH? 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