NEWS The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 3, 2005 - 3A ON CAMPUS Dance company and jazz ensemble present Jazzin' The University Dance Company and Jazz Ensemble present "Jazzin'," an eve- ning of modern dance set to jazz music, tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Power Cen- ter for the Performing Arts. The night will feature choreography by Univer- sity alum Alexandra Beller. Tickets are available from the Michigan League Ticket Office for $15 to 20 or $9 with a student ID. Multicultural show raises money for centers in Ghana To raise funds for the construction of educational and residential centers in Ghana, the World Service Team is holding a multicultural dance and music show tonight from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the ballroom of the Michigan Union. The show will include performances from Amazin' Blue, Dance2XS and the Ghanaian Drummers. Proceeds of the event will assist 2005 WST participants in construction. Tickets are $8 before the show and $10 at the door. Film and Video Studies Dept. to show classic film The Department of Film and Video Studies will screen the film noir classic "The, Big Heat" in rare 16 mm form tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in lecture room 2 of the Modern Lan- guages Building. The Big Heat, directed by Fritz Lang, stars Glenn Ford as a dedicat- ed sergeant who encounters a violent and secretive world while investigat- ing the death of a corrupt cop. The film will be introduced by Mark Kligerman, a guest lecturer in ,the department. Admission is free. CRIME NOTES Trespasser who escaped from officers not found Early Tuesday morning, a subject was reported trespassing in Stockwell Resi- 4ence Hall but was gone before officers arrived. There are currently no suspects, according to the Department of Public Safety. Trespasser given verbal warning A subject was trespassing in the Sha- piro Undergraduate Library on Tuesday night. The individual was escorted off of University property and given a ver- bal warning, according to DPS. Upset patient damages property A patient damaged University Hos- pital property on Tuesday night. The incident is still being investigated, DPS THIs DAY In Daily History LGMPO under fire because of 'U' homophobia Feb. 3, 1993 - Changes is person- nel and programming have placed the Lesbian Gay Male Programming Office - a counseling, information- al, and support organization for the lesbian, gay male and bisexual com- munity - under fire with its constit- uents, who wonder if the office still plays a part in their lives. "Because there is a great deal of °homophobia from (University Presi- -dent James) Duderstadt and the regents, LGMPO needs to be more assertive and stand up for our needs," said Paul Verner, a Business School iudent and memher of the Gav Les- Students create anti-Coke coalition By Talia Selitsky For the Daily Students Organizing for Labor and Eco- nomic Equality will continue their Cam- paign to Stop Killer Coke with a rally on the Diag next Wednesday. The worldwide effort to pressure The Coca-Cola Company to reform its business practices is gaining speed at the University, as the Killer Coke Coalition, a partnership of student organizations from around cam- pus, intensifies its campaign. The coali- tion is a branch of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, a national group organizing against Coke. The coalition's goal is to convince the Uni- versity administration to break off econom- ic ties with Coke and educate students about the allegations against the company. The groups involved with the coalition include Amnesty International, Environmental Jus- tice and Tzedek - the Hillel committee for Social Justice. Canniri "When people find out that Coke assassi- SOLE camp nated union leaders in Colombia and are sell- 0 Feb. 9 - ing poisonous fertilizers Diag at noon, to farmers in India, they teach-In and E are generally outraged movie in Have that the university would do business with such N Feb. 19 - a company," said Ryan speakers talk Bates, RC junior, and unethical busi SOLE member. Luis Adolfo C He added that "(Uni- union leader I versity's Purchasing Ser- seeking asylu vices) has been really Dan Kovallk responsive." representing The University is just SINALTRAIN/ beginning its process to against Coke review the allegations Amit $rivast brought before them by Resource Cer the coalition. "At the present time, both Purchasing Servic- es and the Vendor Code of Conduct Dispute Review Board have received a formal request to look into the situation. The next step is for Purchasing Services to summarize its findings and make a recommendation to the 141 DRB for discussion" said David Poszywak, assistant director of Contract Management and Socially Responsible Purchasing. The campaign to ban Coke from institu- tions of higher education has become inter- national. Six universities in the United States - including Bard College, Salem State Col- lege, Carleton College and Oberlin College - and international colleges such as Trin- ity College and University College Dublin, have banned Coke. According to the campaign, the allega- tions against Coke include hiring paramili- taries to assassinate labor union leaders and bullying workers into stopping any union activity. The campaign contends that since 1989, nine union leaders have been killed and many more have been threatened and tortured. "The world of Coca-Cola is a world full of lies, deception, immorality, corruption and gross human rights abuses," said } Ray Rogers, director of the campaign. aig events "No campus that takes pride in being ally in the a center of ethics followed by a and morality should n informative be lending its name, n Hall logo and credibility to Coca-Cola - nor rhree should it allow it to about Coke's serve as a marketplace less practices: or venue for sales and ardona, advertising," Rogers om Colombia added. n in the U.S. Other accusations lawyer include massive envi- members of ronmental damage in L in a lawsuit India. "They have been na, India giving their waste er Director away as fertilizers to farmers in India, but not only is their waste not fertilizers, but it's full of lead and cadmium. In one case in India they have actually removed (a Coke bottling plant)," said United Steel Workers of America attorney David Koverlik, who is involved with a lawsuit against Coca-Cola. SHUBRA OHRI/C LSA sophomore Jory Hearst pours Faygo cola for LSA senior Lauren Heldpke while she signs a petition for the Killer Coke Campaign. SOLE wants to remove Coca-Cola products from the University because of the company's alleged human rights violations. Michigan company fires workers for LANSING (AP) - A Michigan company's decision to show the door to workers who smoke, even if it's on their own time, has alarmed privacy and work- ers' rights advocates and raised concerns about whether pizza boxes and six packs are the next to go. Okemos-based Weyco Inc., a medi- cal benefits administrator, said its offer of smoking cessation classes and support groups helped 18 to 20 of the company's nearly 200 workers quit smoking over the past 15 months. But the four who couldn't - or wouldn't - no longer had jobs on Jan. 1. "We had told them they had a choice, and they chose to leave basically before the policy took effect," said Weyco chief financial officer Gary Climes. "We're not saying you can't smoke in your home. We just say you can't smoke and work here." Such policies basically say employers can tell workers how to live their lives even in the privacy of their own homes, some- thing they have no business doing, said Lewis Maltby, president of The National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.., a part of the American Civil Liberties Union until 2000. "If a company said, 'We're going to cut down on our health care costs by forbid- ding anyone from eating at McDonald's,' they could do it," he said. "There are a thousand things about people's private lives that employers don't like for a thou- sand different reasons." Some companies, while not going as far as Weyco, are trying to lower their health care costs by refusing to hire any more smokers. Union Pacific Corp. began rejecting smokers' applications in Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, Arkansas, Washington state, Arizona and parts of Kansas and Nebras- ka last year and hopes to add more states. On July 1, it will make all Union Pacific property smoke-free, including trains, a policy that now applies only to its com- pany headquarters in Omaha, Neb. Public affairs director John Bromley said the company estimates it will save $922 annually for each position it fills with a nonsmoker over one who smokes. It hired 5,500 new workers last year and plans to hire 700 this year. About a quar- ter of the company's 48,000 employees now smoke, and Bromley said it's clear they cost the co "Looking a know that) pe have higher acc ers," he said." who smoke ha nonsmokers." On Jan.T, K nity College si full-time positi campuses. Par won't be hired 20 to 25 open among the co positions will g "Our No. 1g claims," said Sa for human res show that toba smoking at home mpany more money. from work. ... So many diseases can be t our safety records, (we headed off if people simply pay attention ople who smoke seem to to their health care." cident rates than nonsmok- Some states protect workers who "It's no secret that people smoke, saying they can't be discriminated ve more health issues than against for that reason. But Michigan is one of 22 states that doesn't have such a alamazoo Valley Commu- law, according to the Washington-based topped hiring smokers for Bureau of National Affairs. ons at both of its Michigan Michigan lawmakers passed a bill pro- t-time staffers who smoke tecting smokers about 10 years ago, but it for full-time jobs, and the was vetoed by then-Gov. John Engler, said ings that occur each year ACLU of Michigan spokeswoman Wendy llege's 365 full-time staff Wagenheim. go only to nonsmokers. Climes said many companies try to goal is to reduce our health hold down health care costs by increas- andy Bohnet, vice president ing copays and deductibles charged to ources. 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