Wednesday, May 27, 1992- The Michigan Daiy Summ Week -5
Student chosen to attend Rio Earth Summit
by Rachel Katz
Daily Staff Reporter
Natural Resources senior Michael Dorsey is
ready to get down to business as a member of the
U.S. delegation to the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janiero this June.
Officially called the "United Nations Confer-
ence on Environment and Development"
(UNCED), the conference hopes to address some
of the problems stemming from industrial devel-
opment.
The Earth Summit will bring together more
than 25,000 people, including 100 heads of state.
Dorseywill bea"Non-gdvernmentObserver"
(NGO), representing the Student Environmental
Action Coalition, a coalition of student environ- the world, and we blew it."
mental organizations. Dorsey said his nomination Dorsey saidhisconsequentfrustration strength-
came as a surprise following his participation in ened his determination to go to the Earth Summit.
the March U.N. Prep Conference, where he said As an NGO, Dorsey will be able to participate
he earned the reputation as the "voice of dissent" in several discussion levels at the Earth Summit,
in the U.S. delegation. but will not have voting rights.
"The Prep Conference scared me," Dorsey Dorsey said, "Decisions are tough to come by
said, describing the alleged willingness of the because the positions of the U.S. and the industri-
"Big Ten" of environmental organizations to fol- alized world are polarized against those of devel-
low the U.S. delegation's line. oping countries."
Theseorganizations showed"alack of aware- The major project to be considered at the
ness of the synthesis of environmental develop- Summitis"Agenda21,"amanifestoencouraging
ment problems they have," Dorsey said. "At the economic growth without future ecological dam-
Prep Conference they had the opportunity to age.
affectenvironmentaland development policies of Dorsey said he believes the proposals do not
go far enough. "'e Summit is called 'UNCED'
(pronounced "unsaid"), but we really should be
talking about the 'unsaid' realm, those develop-
mental issues that have been mysteriously leftout
of the agenda."
He said such silent issues include how pro-
grams will be financed, the role of transnational
corporations in environmental destruction, and
the impact of the military on the environment.
Above all, Dorsey said he hopes to bring
awareness to the generation gap apparent in the
delegation, as a delegate's average age is 50.
Dorsey said, "These delegates don't have a
vision of the future comparable to what's out
there, what vision the younger generation has."
Digest
foundation
*gives $54K
grant to 'U,
by Maureen Little
TheUniversityhasreceivedathree-
year grant from the Reader's Digest
Foundation to support the Communi-
cations Department. The department
hasdecidedtousethe$54,500grantfor
scholarships to advance students in the
field of print media.
The grant is awarded to students
who have achieved academic excel-
lence and who seek a career in print
journalism, and are either entering or
continuing in the University's master's
program.
The foundation awarded grants to
the University along with 15 other uni-
versities.Throughprivateresearchcon-
ducted by the foundation, the Univer-
sity was found to be "one of the top
(graduate) journalism schools," said
Mary Terry,the assistant to the director
of the foundation.
"We are grateful for these grants,
which help enormously in our effort to
recruit and support particularly out-
standing students," Communication
Department Chair Neil Malamuth said
in a press release.
The award recipients for the 1992-
93 academic year are Nadine Leavitt
and Terrence Rudd.
Leavitt is a second-year student in
the University's journalism program.
Shecompletedherundergraduatework
in the Writing Program of Johns
Hopkins University in 1987. She is
working this summer as an intern at the
China Post in Taipei, Taiwan.
Rudd will enter the University's
master's program this fall. He gradu-
ated from the University of Chicago
with an associate's degree in biology in
1989 and is currently completing
coursework in international relations at
Michigan State University.
The grant is a renewal of an earlier
program - Excellence in Journalism
- begun in 1986. The first program,
which ended with the 1991-92 school
year, sought to help minority graduate
students prepare for reporting careers.
* "Now, the Rackham Mrtshlr
ships provide the support we need to
makesurediversity is the reality for our
graduate students," said Jonathan
Friendly, director of the University's
master's program in journalism.
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