The'Michigoan Ddly--Tueadby, Jun6 2, 1981 ,Pae 8- " Student running for board End of high school marked byelection bid By MARK GINDIN Most people do not run for a seat on the city Board of Education before graduating from high school. But most people are not like Pioneer High School senior David Wolfe. "The top" is where he says his political ambitions will take him. Ann Arbor Rep. Perry Bullard's state legislature seat may be on the horizon, said Wolfe, adding that he was im- pressed by Bullard's ability to co-exist with others from the opposite end of the political spectrum. "I WOULD like to run for city council in three years," Wolfe said. But he stressed he will concentrate on each political step as he comes to it. With the student council presidency and several committee positions on high school and local organizations un- der his belt, Wolfe is not a newcomer to the world of politics. He was eighth grade class vice-president and president for half the year during ninth grade, he said. The student council presidency was his for the entire 11th grade. However, the six years on the Student Advocate School Board (SASB) gave Wolfe the most political experience, he said. The SASB - composed of students city-wide - advises the Ann Arbor School Board on various policies from a student point of view. DRAFT LEGISLATION, school stan- dardization, and attendance policy were among the issues Wolfe tackled in his high school years. While student council president at Pioneer, Wolfe organized a "late-in" to protest the newly tightened attendance policy. Students went to class late after hearing various speakers during the protest. Policies didn't change, "but it (the late-in) made a point," Wolfe said, A trustee's casual remark during a school board meeting triggered Wolfe's interest in running for office. A trustee said to him, "You have my vote," Wolfe said, adding that his decision to run was finalized after reading about another high school student on a school board. THE WOLFE family is Quaker, which has influenced David since he was a child, he said. The Quaker philosophy is to "act on your beliefs," said Wolfe, adding that his candidacy fulfills that tenet. Public officials should strive to educate the public, then let it make up its own mind, said Wolfe. "I understand the time commitment involved in the job and I am confident I will have enough time," said Wolfe, who will be entering the University as an LSA freshman next fall. "I KNOW what is going on in the issues before the board because I have See STUDENT, Page 11 DAVID WOLFE TALKS to students in Burns Park Elementary School while campaigning for a school board seat yesterday. Wolfe, a high school senior, plans to attend the University next year as an LSA freshman. Heavy shelling rocks war-torn Beruit (Continued from Page 1) Christian-Syrian fighting. Police said Syrian troops opened up with mortars, cannons, tank fire and rockets on four Christian neigh- borhoods in east Beirut. Christian militiamen fired back with artillery, focusing on areas in mostly Moslem West Beirut, where Syrian troops and the Lebanese leftist Moslem positions were set up. About 22,000 Syrian troops are in Lebanon to police the truce following the civil war between Lebanese Christians and Moslems and Palestinians who are based in Lebanon. Lebanese Christians, backed by Israel, charge the Syrians have become an oc- cupation army. ISRAELI PRIME Minister Menachem Begin, meanwhile, said in an interview broadcast yesterday' on Israel Radio, "We don't want war with I Syria.' We won't attack Syria. But if Syria attacks, we will give back much more." Israel has demanded Syria remove the missiles and threatened to move against them if Syria does not. Syria has refused and - with the backing of other Arab countries - threatened war against Israel if it attacks the missiles. Late yesterday, the Christian military command issued a statement vowing it will "continue to severely respond to the attacks from the op- posite military positions." MEANWHILE, IN Belgium, a top emissary for the Palestine Liberation Organization was assassinated on his way to work yesterday by a gunman who fired six bullets into him at close range. One police officer called it "the job of a professional." The assailant's target, 41-year-old Naim Khader, was dead when he arrived at a hospital. The PLO office in Brussels, open sin- ce 1973 and amounting to an unofficial embassy, issued a statement saying: "This shooting, whose authors are un- doubtedly none other than Israeli secret services, adds to the long list of the numerous Palestinian victims of Zionist aggression." A SPOKESMAN for the Israeli Em- bassy in Belgium responded: "The fact that they blame us is a routine thing." The spokesman said Khader had an image in the Arab world as a moderate, adding: "This image of moderation has apparently cost him his life." Gaston Thorn, president of the Com- mon Market Commission, said he was grieved by Khader's death "because I benefitted from his kind of help to carry out the mission of the European Council of Venice last year to make a European contribution to a peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict." At the Venice meeting, the Common Market called for the PLO to be in- volved in Mideast peace talks but stop- ped short of recognizing it as the sole, legitimate representative of Palestinians. Target practice This small person peers cautiously from her booth at the Burns Park Elementary Ice Cream Social held yesterday at the elementary school.