LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 3A CAMPUS Speaker urges students to take initiative for change Negev professor to present on Cultural Critique Shachar Pinsker, a professor of Modern Hebrew at Ben-Gurion Uni- versity in the Negev will present a talk on "Intertextuality, Cultural Critique and the Making of Hebrew Mod- ernism" Thursday in the Frieze Build- ing at 4 p.m. California Prof to host reading of Japanese book The University Center for Japan- ese Studies is hosting Daniel O'Neill who will be reading Sose- ki's "Shumi No Iden" Thursday in the International Institute building at noon. O'Neill is a professor of East Asian languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Classic book to be discussed as part of MLK events Patricia Coleman-Burns, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the School of Nursing, will be leading an informal discus- sion of the classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. There will be a dialogue on the book's les- sons about society and human nature today in the School of Nurs- ing building at noon. Multicultural fair held tomorrow For students looking for careers after college, a multicultural career fair will be held tomorrow in the Michigan Union Ballroom at noon. The fair is sponsored by The Career Center and the Borders Group. Lecture on diversity in the classroom Sylvia Hurtado, chair of the School of Education's Center for Higher and Post-Secondary Educa- tion, will be discussing how diversity affects classroom and student devel- opment tomorrow in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Building on North Campus at noon. Author to examine future of economy, community balance A panel will examine the trade-off between commercial and community development in a discussion called, "Can we find a balance?: Challenges in Find- ing Equilibrium Between Community and Economic Development" tomorrow in the Art and Architecture lecture Hall at 5:30 p.m. The panel will feature Prof. June Manning Thomas, author of many books including, "Detroit: Race and Uneven Development." A subsequent discussion will address the future of our urban areas. Native American author will address homophobia The Native American Student Asso- ciation is sponsoring Oklahoma Creek- Cherokee Craig Womack to give a lecture titled, "Continuing Homopho- bia in Native Literature: Lynn Riggs, A Case Study" tomorrow in the Michigan Union at 6 p.m. Womack is the author of "Red on Red" and novel "Drowning in Fire." Domestic violence to be discussed in East Hall tomorrow A half-day event, "Multicultural Issues in Domestic Violence: Clinical Implications," will discuss multicul- tural perspectives on domestic vio- lence and give attention to the implications of clinical intervention tomorrow in East Hall at 8:30 a.m. Lecture will feature diversity of the engineering field A program to discuss how to remedy the difficult national phenomenon of the few women and underrepresented minorities choosing an education in engineering will be held Thursday in the Lurie Engineering Center at noon. The "5th Annual MLK Lucheon and Discussion Series: Attracting and Retaining a Diverse Engineering Facul- ty" will address the issues surrounding this problem. A .e~kI'mns li ic .. By Nida Dada and Daniel Kim For the Daily Grace Lee Boggs - an 87-year-old Chi- nese-American social activist who has devot- ed over a half century of her life to the revitalization of Detroit - addressed more than 1,100 people at Rackham Auditorium yesterday as the keynote speaker for the 16th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Echoing the theme of this year's sympo- sium, Boggs challenged students to "be the change that you want to see." "Become part of new movements because this is your opportunity to be a pio- neer," Boggs said in an interview with The Michigan Daily after the speech. Some students said that Boggs's message of social change and philosophy was in line with that of King and other advocates for social change. "I learned that, as students, you have to be the one who initiates changes instead of expecting things to change by themselves. If you don't do this, this world will just be stagnant," LSA junior Venkat Polavarapu said. "You can look back at Ghandi and MLK and other social activists including Grace Lee Boggs, and this is the philosophy that they held." Boggs, who has a doctorate in philoso- phy, said she became involved with social activism after her own encounter with racism in finding a job as a university pro- fessor. She said that she had been told repeatedly, "We don't hire Orientals." "When I found the power of (the) African-American community, I decided to join,' said Boggs, whose late husband was a black labor activist in Detroit. Since coming to Detroit in the 1950s, she said her work has focused on labor and civil rights, gender equality and African-Ameri- can and Asian-American rights. "Her ideas are more timely than ever," said American culture Prof. Scott Kurashige in his introduction of Boggs. Boggs com- menced her address by referring to the Uni- versity's pending cases concerning race in- admissions. "The University has been courageous in maintaining race among all other factors in admissions," Boggs said."I passionately believe in the power of ideas," adding that it is important to combine physical activism with the theories and ideas of urban trans- formation. This was the concept underlying The Boggs Center, which she founded in 1995, as both a community center and a think tank. "I am saddened by (the city's) short- sightedness," Boggs said, referring to the recent building of more casinos and sports stadiums. Boggs said that a "post-industri- al" city such as Detroit must focus not only upon economic and technological developments, but also on "human and community developments." "What we need to do now is to engage ... our children," Boggs said. She added that an essential way to revitalize Detroit is to involve its youth and students in community projects like Detroit Summer. Detroit Summer encourages local youth to transform vacant lots into parks and gardens and to paint murals over graffitied walls. The goal is for the "com- munity gardening programs to reconnect city youth with the earth and the mural painting program to connect youth with the city space," Boggs said. The Chinatown Workgroup is another initiative by The Boggs Center that tries to increase cultural diversity in Detroit, Boggs said. By encouraging Asian-Amer- ican youth and college students to be part of the revitalization of the city, Boggs said she wishes to create cultural diversi- ty that is "more than just black and white." "We are building on the legacy of Gand- hi and King," Boggs said about her center.{ "I hope you will respond to what we are; doing in Detroit." Grace Lee Boggs speaks to more than 1,000 people in Rackham auditorium yesterday. Boggs has fought for social justice and equality in Detroit for 50 years. Scholars relate King's dream to present day By Soojung Chang Daily Staff Reporter While the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is often thought of only in terms of the civil rights movement, a panel at the Law School attempted yesterday to expand the discussion of King's teachings to other ethnicities, as well as to issues of class and gender. The panel, titled "A Dream Deferred: The Intersection of Race, Class and Gender in Amer- ican Society," consisted of Law Prof. Deborah Malamud, University of Iowa College of Law Prof. Adrien Wing, and Howard University School of Law Prof. Frank Wu - noted researchers and scholars in their field. Malamud opened the panel with an overview of the Bush administration's policy on the University's use of race in admissions, saying the policy is factually inconsistent, as well as legally problematic. She was espe- cially critical of Texas's "Ten Percent Plan" which guarantees admission to a state college to all high school students in the state who graduate in the top 10 percent of their gradu- ating class. "None of the schools have caught up with the proportion of minorities when they were using race-conscious admissions," Malamud said. Malamud said proposed percentage plans are flawed because they fail to look at individual applicants holistically and admit people based only on the single criterion of their high school ranking. Wing spoke about the status of women of color under the law and ways in which the law ignores gender and race. She focused on the cur- rent societal status of black women who "are already the bulk of the population of black Americans." She also noted that black women were not often given credit during the civil rights move- ment. "There are so many faceless and nameless women who were in the civil rights struggle," she said. While Wing mainly discussed the role of gen- der in achieving social equality, Wu spoke about extending the discussion of race to include other groups besides whites and blacks, such as Lati- nos, Asian Americans and the racially mixed. "How can we understand race in terms that are all inclusive?" he posed to the audience, not- ing that although the American population has always included many ethnic groups, some have often been excluded in discussions of race. Wu addressed some of the complexities of the race debate, such as tensions within minority groups. "The challenge for all of us is to ask, 'What will we do as individuals and institu- tions?"' Wu said about the effort toward greater racial equality. Rackham student Mary Ziskin said she thinks Malamud would have talked more about class if she had not commented on the litigation of the University instead. "Professor Malamud's comments on the affir- mative action cases were really astute and well- timed," Ziskin said. Nn . ocal A2 raly follows nia .r. - oesaginarra By Sara Eber and Carmen Johnson Daily Staff Reporters Last Weekend's cold weather did not stop an estimat- ed 1,200 people from drumming and marching through Ann Arbor holding signs bearing such slogans as, "No blood for oil." Residents held their own rally on the steps of the Federal Building to support and show solidarity for the anti-war protests in Washington and San Francisco. Along with other anti-war rallies held across the country during Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, rally organizer and University alum Phil Carroll said the rallies had a relevant interconnection because it was MLK weekend. "The real purpose is to stop the war before it starts," Carroll added. Carroll also said Saturday's rally was the largest rally in Ann Arbor since the Vietnam era. The rally attracted participants of various age groups, including many families with young children. Ann Arbor residents expressed their enthusiasm for the cause, even dressing small dogs in anti-war apparel. Carroll listed the many different reasons why Ann Arbor residents had anti-war sentiments. "Some are anti-war because of moral reasons con- scious reasons. Some consider themselves humanitarians, and are concerned about the pending death and poverty," Carroll said. Student speaker Max Sussman, a member of Anti-War Action! addressed the crowd and stressed the importance of not only considering the effects of the U.S. govern- ment's actions abroad, but also on U.S. domestic policies, such as those regarding civil liberties, oppression and the reduction of social services. "(It is important to remember that) there are hun- dreds of thousands of people across the country who are rallying against the war, and have power," Sussman said. Kathy Linderman, member of the Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace, was pleasantly surprised by the high turnout. This course of action with Iraq has made more mainstream Americans anti-war, Linderman said. Numerous organizations, such as the Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace, Ann Arbor Coalition Against the War, People's Progressive Network, Solidarity, Street Wall Jour- nal, Wooden Spoon Co-op and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom came together to protest the war and listen to speeches. SETH LOWER/Daily And Anti-war activists march in downtown Ann Arbor Saturday protesting President Bush's aggressive foreign policy attitude toward Iraq. Coed Service. There's nothing we don't do. Rush APO Coed Service Fraternity Mass Meeting, Jan. 21 8pm Pendleton Rm. Emai l:apo.info@umich.edu THE 2003 U N D E R C L HOPWOOD S S MEN AWARDS will be announced Tuesday, January 21, 2003 0 330 pm SRackham Auditorium (main floor of the Rackham Building) Academy of American Poets Prize Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry * Jeffrey L. Weisberg Poetry Prize . Theodore Roethke Prize Roy WCowden Memorial Fellowship READING BY Join us for a meeting where you will learn I