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The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 3A
e ON CAMPUS
Holocaust conf
looks at Rwandan
genocide
The University's Conference on the
. Holocaust presents "Working Together:
Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide Sur-
vivors," a discussion featuring David
Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Mureka-
tete, tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in the
Michigan Union.
Gewirtzman, a Holocaust survi-
vor, and Murekatete, a survivor of
the Rwandan genocide, have touched
audiences across the country since
they began touring three years ago.
The pair will share their individual
stories as well as their experiences
speaking together.
Sexuality, identity
issues topics of
lunch series
Nourish YourSELF, a lunch series
for women of Color, sponsored in part
by the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student
Affairs, will be held tomorrow from 1
to 2:30 p.m. in the MSA Chambers of
the Michigan Union.
The lunch series will incorporate dis-
cussion of many issues, such as sexual-
ity, identity and finances. The free series
is open to all women of color at the
University. For more information, visit
http://www.umich.edu/-mesamss.
Comedy show
hosts various TV
comics
Two entertainment comedians will
perform at the University Unions Arts
and Programs spotlight on Stand-up
Comedy tonight from 8:30 to 10:30
p.m. in the underground of the Michi-
gan League.
The free show will feature John
Heffron, winner of "Last Comic
Standing 2," and Jesse Poppfrom of
Comedy Central's "Premium Blend."
The night will also include a 30-min-
ute open mic session.
s CRIME
NOTES
Money stolen from
patient's mother
On tuesday, the mother of a patient
being treated at the University Hospital
reporter to the Department of Public
Safety that $6.00 was stolen from her
jacket coat pocket.
The mother reported that theft
occured between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
when the jacket was left unattended in
a patient's unlocked room.
Subject receives
electrical burns
DPS reported that a subject received
third-degree electrical burns on his neck
and arms Tuesday afternoon. The sub-
ject was immediately transported to the
University Hospital Emergency Room.
Worker lodges
her hand under
* dish rack
DPS reported a University employ-
ee got her hand pinned under a dish
rack. The subject was later able to free
her hand.
THIS DAY
In Daily History
* New super collider
may displace
nearby homes
March 17, 1987 - Construction of
the world's largest particle accelera-
tor could uproot 100 to 200 homes in
Michigan out of the community if it is
built in the state,ssaid Lawrence Jones,
University physics department chair.
On March 13, Gov. James Blanchard
announced that Michigan would com-
pete for the $4.4 billion contract to build
Ten Commandments
tour stops in Michg
Those
historical
buildings
supporting display of
document in ubliC
gather in state capitol
LANSING (AP) - Several dozen people yes-
terday stepped on the back of a flatbed truck
parked in front of the Capitol to get a close look
at a large granite Ten Commandments monument
that once stood in the Alabama judicial build-
ing.
State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, (R-Kalamazoo), orga-
nized the Capitol stop as part of his statewide tour
with the 5,300-pound display.
"These commandments are the foundation of our
society," Hoogendyk said during an afternoon rally
on the Capitol steps. "It is the foundation for the free-
doms we hold dear."
Other speakers at the rally praised former Ala-
bama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, who lost
his job as Alabama's chief justice in November 2003
after defying a federal order to remove the monument
he installed in the state judicial building.
"He knew what he was doing," said Jim Cabaniss,
one of the people taking the monument across the
country.
A handful of protesters who watched yesterday's
rally in Lansing said putting the monument on public
land is unconstitutional because it violates the sepa-
ration of church and state. Some booed the speak-
ers and held up signs that said "Keep religion out of
government."
Lansing resident Davee Franz, a 55-year-old care-
giver, said people are free to put up the Ten Com-
mandments in their homes, but they should not be
placed on public property.
"I have a serious problem with religious items in
public areas," she said after the rally.
George Shiffer, assistant state director of the
Michigan Atheists, said putting a large display
on public property blurs the line between church
and state.
"This is a foot in the door for the Christian reli-
gion," Shiffer said. "They can't force it on people
who don't believe it and that's what they are trying
to do."
But several people who saw the monument and
attended the brief rally said seeing the Ten Com-
mandments on public property is their right under
the First Amendment.
"Our laws reflect the Ten Commandments,
whether we want to admit it or not," said Sue
Ashcraft, who works for the state Department of
Environmental Quality and visited the monument
during her lunch break.
Cabaniss said nearly all those who have seen
the Ten Commandments at 150 stops in 21 states
are supportive of it. The tour is a project of the
American Veterans in Domestic Defense.
The monument is scheduled to stop in Grand
Rapids today, where it will be in Calder Plaza all
day.
It will be at Cadillac City Park from 9 a.m.
to noon tomorrow and then stop at the Saginaw
County Courthouse later that day.
The state tour ends Saturday at Troy City Hall, but
the schedule hasn't been set.
The monument is touring the state as lawmak-
ers are considering legislation that would allow
the Ten Commandments to be shown-on prop-
erty leased or owned by the state, school dis-
tricts or local governments. The commandments
would have to. be shown with other historical
documents.
A state House committee is expected to vote on
the bill in the coming weeks.
Warden fights to keep juvenile prison open
BALDWIN, Mich. (AP) - The outgoing
warden of the Michigan Youth Correctional
Facility says it would be a crime for the state to
stop using the prison.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed 2006 state
budget, announced last month, would trim $50
million from the Department of Corrections. More
than one-third of that savings - $18.8 million -
would result from canceling the state's contracts
sometime this summer with The Geo Group Inc., a
Boca Raton, Fla.-based prison-management com-
pany that owns and operates the maximum-secu-
rity juvenile prison in south-central Lake County.
The inmates would be tra'nsferred to a state-
run adult prison - the Thumb Correctional
Facility in Lapeer - where they would be
housed in a separate dormitory.
Her plan. also calls for closing four state-run
prison facilities - Camp Sauble in Mason Coun-
ty's Freesoil, Camp Tuscola in Tuscola County's
Caro, the Southwestern Michigan Community
Corrections Center in Benton Harbor and the
Buena Vista Corrections Center in Saginaw - for
additional annual savings of $6.1 million. All four
are to close June 30.
Granholm is dealing with an estimated $772
million shortfall in the $8.9 billion general fund
budget that takes effect Oct. 1. Without the prison
closings, the governor would have to find other
ways to cut the $24.9 million now being spent on
the targeted prisons.
Until the current fiscal year, however, the state
paid only a small portion of the cost of operating
the juvenile prison, which opened in July 1999.
Michigan received a five-year federal grant
that covered $f7 million of the expense each year
"We have vocational education teachers here. We
have social workers and psychologists on staff."
- Frank Elo
Outgoing warden of the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility
through the budget year that ended Sept. 30, Russ
Marlan, a spokesman for the Michigan Depart-
ment of Corrections, said yesterday. The Violent
Offender Incarceration/Truth in Sentencing grant
required a 10 percent match from the state.
Frank Elo, the warden of the juvenile prison,
said his inmates get counseling and educational
training that they wouldn't receive at an adult
facility. Without it, many would spend the rest of
their lives going in and out of prison, he said.
"We have all kinds of therapy and counseling
programs," said Elo, who will step down sometime
before beginning his new job this fall as a criminal
justice instructor at Ferris State University. "We
have a high school GED program. We have special
ed teachers here. We have pre-GED teachers here.
We have vocational education teachers here. We
have social workers and psychologists on staff.
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