ati The Michigan Daily-Monday, April 1, 1991 - Page 3 Abortion activists face off at clinics *on Good Friday 'by Purvi Shah "Rescues are important because Daily Staff Reporter on a particular day at a particular DETROIT, Mich. -- In an annual site particular babies are given a Good Friday ritual, more than 100 chance to live," she added. "This is groups representing Operation just a small effort, but it's an effort Rescue demonstrated against abor- to help." tion clinics nationwide. Despite the showdown outside Pro-lifers successfully pre- the clinic, a yellow sign proclaim- vented patients from entering an ing "Clinic Open. Escorts Americore Center in Novi, Mich. Available. Defend Abortion after picketing a Women Center in Rights" indicated to patients that Farmington Hills. the center would not be shut down. Approximately 175 pro-lifers Pro-choice advocates wore yel- clashed with 100 pro-choice advo- low-green armbands in contrast to cates at the Women Center. the red "Jesus Saves" material worn Police arrived at-the scene before by pro-lifers. the groups arrived and helped to In the vocal volley, pro-choicers keep the clinic open. Patients had to chanted, "It's my body and I'll do pass through a police checkpoint be- what I want to/do what I want ~fore being allowed into the clinic to/You'd want to too if it happened parking lot. to you" and "We got to beat back "As far as we know, all the pa- the abortion attack/We've got to tients got in," said Ann Arbor beat beat back the abortion attack" Committee to Defend Abortion and while pro-lifers carried rosaries and Reproductive Rights (AACDRR) sang hymns: "Praise Him in the member Dawne Morano. morning/Praise Him in the noon- An estimated 35 people had at- time." tended a Clinic Defense Training University of Toledo first-year Session in East Quad Tuesday in student Katie Booth drove to preparation of the third annual Detroit to help pro-choicers in the Good Friday clinic attack, clinic defense. In addition to the presence of po- "First of all,, the clinic just lice, pro-choice advocates attributed needs to be open for abortion pa- other factors to their success in pre- tients and also because Operation venting Operation Rescue members Rescue is a huge lie and needs to be from closing down the Farmington told," she said. "It's just to be here Hillsclinic. to come to show them we will be 'Basically, the presence of the wherever they go - in that way it's police and the fact that Operation successful." Rescue can only mobilize the same Also on Friday, Kalamazoo ;people every time - their forces are County Circuit Judge Philip dwindling," said Eastern Michigan Schaefer refused to block a new University student and AACDRR Michigan law requiring teens to member Michael Cooper. have parental consent for abortions. "Now we've cut them down to Vanderwalker argued the two (clinic attacks) a year. But at parental consent law gives an op- the same time, women are being ha- portunity for parents to fulfill the rassed getting in," he added. responsibility for their children's Pro-life activist Virginia lives. Vanderwalker said the purpose of Two abortion rights groups filed their demonstration was "to pre- appeals Friday after the decision. vent the abortionists from entering The new law allows teens to get ju- the building if possible and to give dicial permission in lieu of parental the girl the opportunity of receiving consent, however. One teen has al- information... that there are people ready been granted judicial consent who will help her. to obtain an abortion. Native Americans celebrate cultural * unity at Pow Wow# by Jami Blaauw formed complicated, almost acro- Daily Staff Reporter batic movements. Native Americans from all over North America converged at Crisler Arena this weekend to re- new cultural, political, and spiri- tual identity at the 19th annual Pow Wow. The corridor surrounding the arena was filled with endless tables of crafts, jewelry, artwork, and clothing made by Native Americans. Among other crafts, one could find items such as mink jaw neck- laces, onyx claw necklaces, and even buckskin fashions for Barbie dolls. One ceremonial piece used by Navajo Indians was the jaw of a deer painted with the seal of the four winds for power and the medicine wheel for health. The craft tables were crowded as visitors clustered around to look at the displays. One merchant ex- claimed he had sold everything but six pieces of pottery. Some of the craftspeople were self-taught or had learned their skills from a parent or grandparent. "I learned beadwork from my mother and have been doing it for three years. I use the money to get through college," said Dora Winter, a 19 year-old Ojibwa and Cherokee woman who attends Central Michigan University. One of the tables also served as a political activism booth for Native. American issues. An active group of Mohawk Indians distributed infor- mation protesting the loss of sacred land as the result of a broken treaty with the U.S. government. The main performance at the Pow Wow was a dance contest where Native Americans in tradi- tional and "fancy" costume paraded the floor of Crisler to the drum beats and cries of Native American music groups. Traditional dancers wore natural colors and moved slowly to the drumbeat. The fancy dancers, how- ever, were dressed in impressive and often flourescent fantails and per- Prizes were awarded to dancers based on the authenticity of their dress and their dancing ability. For some dancers, Pow Wows and dancing have been a part of life for a long time. "My family' ias always been doming to Pow Wows, and I've been dancing since I' was two years old," said Sophie Pheasant, a 15 year-old Ojibwa Indian from Ontario. 'The reason we do. this is to gain unity, and togetherness' - Jose Marcos Pueblo Indian Maurice Fresina - or Eagle 1oy, as his adopted Lakota family calls him - participated in the Pov Wow for the first time this year; .le said he enjoyed getting back tofra- ditions and spirituality. Last year, Fresina was adopted by a Lakota medicine man's family in South Dakota. To do this, he partici- pated in a ritual "sweat lodg4" with them to empower family members and bring them closer t9- gether. He plans to travel to South Dakota again this summer to prepare for a "vision quest." "When you do a vision quest, you stay upon a mountain for one to fo ir days with no food and search for di- rection and insight for your life," said Fresina. When he is not dancing or spending time with his Indian family, Fresina is a psychologist in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Most of the Native Americans said the Pow Wow was important for unifying their people. Jose Marcus, an elderly Pueblo Indian from New Mexico said, "The reason we do this is to gain unity and to- getherness. My father was the same way because he loved the people-and that is why I like it. When we are brought together, our culture is stronger." Flower power Jeff Anderson, from Meier's greenhouse in Brighton, sells daffodils to a customer Saturday morning at the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market Iraqis clash with rebel Kurds NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Kurdish rebels said Iraqi forces backed by helicopter gunships, warplanes and artillery pounded two provincial capitals yesterday but had not managed to capture the cities. Iraq, however, claimed it had chased the rebels out of the north- ern cities of Dohuk and Erbil, and said government troops were wel- comed by cheering residents. It was impossible to verify ei- ther side's claims. The Kurdish rebellion flared in northeastern Iraq five weeks ago when the Persian Gulf War ended with a rout of Saddam's forces by the U.S.-led allied coalition. At the same time, Shiite Moslems re- volted in the south. Forces loyal to Saddam launched a major offensive last week against the Kurdish insur- gents, who had captured nearly all of their historic homeland. A week ago, Kurdish rebels talked of setting up a provisional government in what they called liberated Kurdistan. Now they paint a picture of savage bom- bardment by Iraqi forces, deterio- rating living conditions and mass flight by frightened civilians. Democrat On affordable housing: "There's not really money in the city budget to really make a dent in that problem. The most funds for housing have traditionally come from the federal government and in the last decade, under the Reagan-Bush administration, the fed- eral subsidies for housing have been cut back by 75 percent. It leaves the city in a very bad posi- tion, and the only thing we can do is try to estab- lish some alternative revenue streams, such as trying to set up a housing trust fund." On the downtown: "I have been concerned that it's been irresponsi- ble to add to the existing infrastructure, in other words, building another parking structure somewhat premature when we haven't shown that we can maintain and operate our existing structures in an efficient manner and a compe- tent manner. I think that we should get our house in order before we start adding on to it." On the Kline's parking structure: "Well, I think there's several problems with it. First of all, the economics of the situation have Republican On affordable housing: "We need affordable rental housing and we need affordable single-family housing. I'm not sure the downtown is the place to put that because it's so expensive to build down there and the land is so expensive. You have to go up vertical as opposed to going out horizontal. So I think that those things are better dealt with out a lit- tle ways, that on the center of the town. We ought to try to do that in concert with the pri- vate sector." On the downtown: "There was an organization called the mid-town authority that they tried to put together so that all of the merchants could work together in a unified effort. I think that makes sense. I think we need to increase some of the foot patrols downtown and we need to work on keeping it a lot cleaner. And, of course, we definitely need additional parking." On the Kline's parking structure: "We've had at least three studies done that indi- cate we need an additional 1,500 or 1,600 parking aaflaua Libertarian MAYOR Continued from page 1 up at the polls. "If any students are going to vote, they'll come out for Liz," said LSA junior Dana Miller, the stu- dent coordinator of Brater's cam- paign. Students not involved with any campaign are faced with a bigger dilemma: whether or not to vote. "If you are informed about each candidate, it is your obligation to vote," said Alan Taylor, an LSA se- nior. "Even though I am graduating in a month, I should still exercise the rights I have." In a few of their debates, Brater and Jernigan have made personal at- tacks on each other. Neither one, however, considers it to be a per- sonal debate. "We are professional colleagues. As leaders of our respective parties, we are called upon to articulate the issues," Brater said. "We can't let personal issues get involved with politics." Raaflaub maintains that there are few if any differences between Republicans and Democrats. "The Republicans and Democrats are reduced to bickering because there are not many differences be- tween them," he said. "It is fairly common in politics, especially when they are not different on the funda- mental issues. "We call them Republicrats - Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee," he added. All three candidates are pro- choice, even though Raaflaub be- lieves it is important to evaluate the position of the mother, father, and unborn child. "This is the first time where all the mayoral candidates agree on the issues," Raaflaub said, for which he takes much of the credit. "We raise the issue, define it, and make sure all candidates are informed." Brater believes women are un- derrepresented in national and state politics. "With 534 cities and villages in the state of Michigan, there are 45 women mayors," Brater cited. "There is only one municipality with a population over 100,000 that has a female mayor - there are... seven cities in Michigan with popu- lations over 100,000." Whatever the statistics may be, the time has come to make a decision in Ann Arbor - and .today, that's what the voters will do. On affordable housing: "I think we ought to lower the tax rate, reduce regulations, and make the planning process eas- ier, so that more housing is built. What happens when more housing is built is housing increases and taxes go down." On the downtown: "What happens is if we don't do what cities do best, and that is to develop extensively, people are going to move outside of the town into the townships and into the open spaces and start de- veloping there. But if we can get our taxes lower, all kinds of people can feel that the city is an attractive place to live and work... Ideally, if the cost of living and building were competi- tive with living and building outside of the city, you'd have a vital city. The whole planning ap- proach and high tax approach is really the wrong place to go." On the Kline's parking structure: "The government planning and building of the parking structure is really wrong. They ought to leave it to the private sector... I don't think the city should build that parking lot per se and I don't think they should subsidize any of that parking, but leave it to the free market." On privatization of city services: "I'm a strong advocate of privatization and I'rr in favor of implementing the Mackinac Center report, which strongly suggests that Ann Arbor, through privatizing several city func- urater changed drastically since the structure was first proposed. The projections for the DDA (Downtown Development Authority) are de- clining steadily at this point and it's not clear to me that it would be a sound economic policy to put $8 million into another parking structure right now." On privatization of city services: Jernigan spaces downtown and that that's one of the prime places to do that. With that kind of evi- dence in hand, I think it's reasonable to go ahead 1d do it. Once we get that done, we ought to tu.i our attention maybe to looking at some sort of housing downtown, provide another sta- ble base of people to use the downtown area."