The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 29, 1987- Page 3 Michigan Peace March to begin this weekend By CATHY SHAP The Michigan Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament will kick off its 70-day march tomorrow in Sault Ste. Marie. Moving down the western side of the state, the march will cross the state and stop in 17 cities, including Ann Arbor, for one to two days. Themain goals of the march are a test ban treaty, a nuclear weapons freeze, an end to President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative - "Star Wars" - and economic conversion to support human needs. Locally, the Michigan Student Assembly, Greenpeace, SANE, the Inter-Faith Council for Peace, and several city and state government officials are working to coordinate the march's stop in Ann Arbor on July 31. "The whole idea of peace begins at home. We must look globally but act locally," said Jackie Victor, co-chair of MSA's Peace and Justice Committee and one of the march organizers. Organizers want the Michigan march to resemble the spirit of the National Peace March, which travelled across the country last year for nine months. "Non-violent, well organized, direct action such as the peace march forces people to sit back and think," said Cynthia Weinzel, an Ann Arbor organizer and canvasser for SANE. Community members and students are encouraged to join the march. "We desperately need people - this is a tremendously important project," said Justin Schwartz, a member of the Michigan Alliance for Disarmament. City council approves budget Doily Photo by JOHN MUNSON John Jones, director of University radiation control services, inspects a 55-gallon drum of radioactive waste yesterday on North Campus. Jones is responsible for all radioactive waste including waste from radioactive isotopes and x-ray machines. 'U' disposes of waste By REBECCA COX materials and disposal of radioactive Chernobyl and Three Mile wastes. Island - two examples of what "Our staff spends a fair amount many call the lack of adequate of time dealing with radioactive safety guidelines for nuclear power waste," said John Jones, Director of plants - have caused fear and Radiation Control Services. "We apprehension even at this Univer - pick up radioactive waste at least sity, which has had a nuclear reactor once or twice every working day." of its own for the past thirty years. There are three classes of radio - The Ford Nuclear Reactor on active waste - low, medium, and North Campus has never reported a high. Low-level wastes are con - serious accident, however. The sidered the least dangerous. Origi - small reactor has been the site of nating from many different areas, many protests in the past, but is these wastes come anywhere from tightly regulated by the University, contaminated University lab materi - state, and federal government. als, to the by-products of nuclear There are 600 labs at the Uni - plants. versity that utilize ionizing radia - At the University, the solid tion as radio isotopes and x-ray ma - waste is collected and separated into chines. Aside from strict federal and two major categories. The material state guidelines, two University with a short half-life - half of the committees and a special radiation time it takes a radioactive material control service regulate the use of to become non-radioactive - is ionizing radiation. stored at the Willow Run Airport. The University's Radiation Con - More dangerous wastes from the trol Services, located at the North University are placed in 55 gallon University Building, is responsible drums, and shipped to a landfill in for keeping record of radioactive the state of Washington. Program targets young By ELIZABETH ATKINS The Ann Arbor City Council ap - proved a bipartisan budget compro - mise last week that shifts less than one percent of the city's $45 mil - lion general operating fund into some special projects. This new budget provides 0.3 percent more funds for special pro - jects than last year's. City Administrator Godfrey Col - lins drafted the original budget, which councilmembers approved nearly unchanged. "I feel very satis - fied," Collins said about the budget changes. With seven democrats and four republicans on the council, includ - ing a republican mayor with ex - tensive veto power, DavidDeVarti (D-Fourth Ward) thinks a compro - mise was necessary to reach any a - greement. Highlights of the budget include three new staff positions in the ci - PIRGIM fee battle divides assembly (Continued fromPage> agree that a separate fee request would not be approved by the re - gents and would ultimately kill the environmental group. "There is a significant amount of opposition to PIRGIM out there," said PIRGIM attorney Andy Bux - baum. "The regents know they will get grief from student opponents to PIRGIM if they pass a separate fee. If PIRGIM goes within the MSA budget, everybody knows it's there, but the regents can take the stand: 'It's an MSA fee and MSA decides where the money goes."' Regent Thomas Roach (D- Saline) said that he would not ap - prove a separate fee proposal but would probably support a "reason - able" increase in the MSA fee. ty's human services department and additional allotments towards up- grading public housing. The new budget also provides $175,000 for five new police officers. Jerry Schleicher (R-Fourth Ward) said he thinks the addition of more police officers is one of the most important achievements of the bud - get. David DeVarti (D-Fourth Ward) said he wanted to see more money allocated to the Fire Department for handling hazardous waste and for enforcement in the human services department. The department was al - located $40,000. The compromise also included allocating $140,000 to the Ann Ar - bor Housing Commission to repair city public housing that violates the city housing code. Earlier this year, inspectors reported 90 percent of city housing to be below code standards. Also, $35,000 has been shifted within the Solid Waste Department to fund a free pick-up program, called "spring clean ups," for the disposal of furniture and large, heavy objects which regular garbage removal service will not pick up. City councilmember Jeff Epton (D-Third Ward) said the money gi - ven to the program is silly because "most people do not throw their furniture out every year." He said the money could have been used for something more important. Other expenditures included in the budget are $45,000 for a new "long-range" city planner, $40,000 for human services, $30,000 for a new Personnel Department employ - ee who will monitor contractors for compliance with the city's human rights ordinance, $20,000 for a full- time City Hall ombudsman, and $15,000 for a part-time clerical em - plovee for the Building Denartment. (Continued from Page 1) ' program. "The way minority populations are increasing in the United States, 20 to 30 percent of the population will be Black or Hispanic by the end of the century," he said. "It is in our country's best interest to go after the best and the brightest and get them to come to college." With the initiative, 62 Detroit junior high school principals will select two students to participate in the program each year. If the students sign a contract in which they agree to strive to maintain a 3.0 grade average throughout their high school career and score appropriately on the ACT, they will be guaranteed full tuition to one of the states' universities. The program targets the students who have academic potential - as well as a high risk of attrition. "We choose not necessarily the smartest kids, but the ones who have potential to be successful and who have environmental circumstances that bring them down," Bagale said. Though the program is not exclusive to black students, 85 percent of the participants are Black. COUPON 1/2OFF" Adult Evening Admissio" 'WORKING GIRLS" I or 2 '1 iets Goodthru 6/4187 COUPON "PRICK UP YOUR EARS"