NEWS 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. WRITE FOR THE MICHIGAN DAILY! 0 ORTUNI H St. ratrick's Day Free Green Egg and Ham!! (while'they last) Green 0eer alcl d4a long! Commemorative T-Shirts Available! There's sti l time ! Application deadline EXTENDED to MARCH 18TH Freshmen, Sophomores & Juniors: ATTENTION:Internship Opportunity Right on Campus!!! 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