Page 4-The Michigan Daily- Friday, April 12,1991 £W~4juLr 0 ' xk - CPS', 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Edited and Managed by Students at the University of Michigan ANDREW K. GOTTESMAN Editor in Chief STEPHEN HENDERSON DANIEL POUX Opinion Editors Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. Floundering Brater should place people before her political career DRiding the crest of an anti-Jerry Jernigan back- Ilash, new Ann Arbor Mayor Liz Brater was rarely challenged throughout the mayoral cam- paign to offer a comprehensive vision of her own. But as the afterglow of last week's Democratic Party landslide begins to fade, Brater will need to produce more than the carefully-crafted politician's rhetoric that catapulted her to power. With a solid 8-3 Democratic majority- repre- senting the largest turnaround in an Ann Arbor election since 1969 - Brater cannot hide behind catchy Republican-bashing soundbites. Instead, she will have to demonstrate the leadership abili- ties that were so glaringly absent during her three years on City Council, during which she rarely pushed ideas of her own and almost never demon- strated the courage to take a strong, consistent stand on a controversial issue. Rather than stating a clear opposition to the Kline's parking lot boondoggle, Brater has said that she wants to take "another look at the issue." Rather than maintaining a principled stand on Jemigan's proposal to privatize Ann Arbor trash collection - which would hurt city workers as well as the quality of city sanitation services -. Brater has watered down her opposition by prom- ising to explore Jemigan's proposal and "gather more information." How many more "looks - and how much more "information" - does Brater need? Such statements demonstrate that she is either com- pletely out of touch with debates raging for years or, alternately, that she is more interested in stalling for time than in making a decision. Neither prospect is very comforting. If Brater truly doesn't know the score on either of these issues, she isn'tknowledgeable enough tobemayor. If she can't make up her mind on either issue, she isn't competent to be mayor. Brater's recent statements on Ann Arbor's hu- man services budget suggest that she may not be compassionate enough to be mayor either. Though Democratic council members ranging from Nelson Meade (D-Third Ward) to Ann Marie Coleman (D- First Ward) support beefing up this budget to compensate for cuts made by Lansing, Brater has already signalled her reluctance to compensate for Governor Engler's war on the poor. Such sentiments are typical among the Third Ward residents who form Brater's base. But these sentiments are a disgrace from a mayor with an overwhelming mandate to undo the damage perpe- trated during the Jernigan years againstAnnArbor's poor, unemployed and homeless. Libertarian mayoral candidate David Raaflaub tagged Jernigan and Brater as the "tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee" leaders of "one party with two branches." While the Daily certainly doesn't en- dorse the libertarian alternative, Raaflaub's appar- ently accurate assessment suggests that some al- ternative might be necessary. The Kline's project should be axed. Sanitation services should remain under city control. Human services for the city's poor should be increased. The first two issues have been debated for long enough; the third is plain common sense. It is time to act. We don't need a mayor who will continue to fiddle - and play politics - while her city goes up in flames. ".v,.evr:*". :M:K":M7 A". 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Despite the compro- rendered ineffective due to "creative" interpreta- mises, it was the most sweeping piece of environ- tions of the laws which benefited privileged com- mental legislation in U.S. history. panies and gutted the legislation's original intent. Or at least it could be if the White House would Recent environmental studies demonstrate that discontinue its efforts to subvert the new law - the price America is paying for its leader's cavalier' which Bush supported to beef up his pretensions of habit of winking and nodding at both corporations being the "environmental president." and the law. Because of the increasing volume of Spearheading Bush's efforts is a presidential toxins pumped into the air by major corporations, task force organized with the express intent of 20,000 more people are expected to contract skin assisting companies in their efforts to bypass the cancer during the next decade. Merely breathing legislation's more stringent requirements. Making the air in cities such as Los Angeles and Denver is matters even worse, the new task force is being now equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle, who hasn't a day. been especially compassionate towards environ- In this ever-more frightening context, we can- mental legislation. not afford to allow this country's elite to continue Such developments are disturbing for a variety the practice of flagrantly ignoring the law when it ofreasons-not the least ofwhichis theirstunning becomes inconvenient to obey it. If major compa- confirmation of Bush's hypocrisy. The Quayle nies with legislative and financial clout can inter- commission will grant big and powerful compa- pret or ignore legislation at will, then our system of nies even more leeway than they already have to law -pledged to protecting equality-becomes, pollute the environment. instead, a law of the jungle in which might makes Bush's duplicity has a long history and numer- right. The well is dry! To the Daily: The money budgeted for the LSA student government fund allocation for the winter term 1991 has long been depleted. For this reason, we are no longer accepting allocation requests. In addition, those groups who have already submitted requests but have not been interviewed will not receive funding this term. LSA student government will welcome requests again next fall. Stephen M. Kelke LSA Student Government Fund Allocator Adios to Dooder State! To the Daily: I-have noticed that in the past few issues of the Daily, the comic strip "Dooder State College" has not appeared. I am hoping that the Daily had enough sense to drop the strip entirely. Frankly, I never realized why it appeared in the first place. It not only degraded the Univer- sity of Michigan and its adminis- tration; it also degraded the Daily. After reading the first "Dooder State College" strip, I realized how poor it was. Not only was the point behind the comic ridiculous, but the drawings were terrible and it was not funny at all. I read the Daily almost every day, and I. don't always agree with the somewhat liberal attitude the Daily expresses, but this comic strip just stepped over the boundaries of decent journalism. I realize the strip may have been trying to make a point, but come on, if this point cannot be addressed in a non-sarcastic way, it should not be addressed at all. I do sincerely hope that the Daily has dropped the "Dooder State College" strip from its pages. If it has not been dropped, the Daily should thoughtfully consider doing so. It would greatly improve the way I and others view the Daily. It would also show a great deal of respect To the Daily: I am writing in response to the 4/2/91 article titled "EMU Adds Anti-Discrimination Policy to Conduct Code." I feel EMU is taking an important step in fighting discrimination and I'm glad the Daily chose to write about it. Discrimination is virtually everywhere, including college campuses. Any way of fighting the problem of discrimination is worthwhile. I'm glad to see that EMU recognizeskthe problem and is willing to take decisive measures to try to rid its campus of discrimination. I am also pleased that the Daily wrote something that wasn't biased or totally false. Finally!!! I wish every article put in the Daily was as well written and objective as the article about EMU. I thank the Daily for the article, and keep them coming. Eugene Snowden Engineering first-year student No speech codes To the Daily: I am writing in response to the 4/2/91 article reporting on the addition of an anti-discrimi- natory amendment to EMU's Code of Student Conduct ("EMU adds anti-discrimination policy to conduct code"). I personally find the trend in America's universities toward the punishment of unpopular ideas very alarming. Such a trend threatens the very basis of free speech. A university is an institution where ideas are to be expressed and debated through reason, not oppressed and punished by the administration. If discriminatory ideas are oppressed, it will only result in resentment and increased hatred in the individual who harbors such an opinion. Such an oppressive policy is un- American and will only backlash in increased hatred and racism. By allowing individuals to express their offensive ideas, it will open the door for truth and reason to combat them. This is a job which can only be accom- plished through discussion or united expression condemning offensive ideas as wrong. Oppression and punishment cannot correct the problem of the expression of offensive or discriminatory ideas; it can only make it worse. Neil F. Byl LSA first-year student EMU curbs harassment 0 0 toward the University. Tobin Welch LSA first-year student Turkey like Iraq? To the Daily: Like the Iraqi army, the Turkish army has been an occupying force since 1974. Despite many U.N. resolutions demanding the immediate withdrawal of the Turkish troops from Cyprus, the Turkish army still occupies 37 percent of this island. Two'hundred thousand Cypriot refugees still await. justice, and the occupied areas are being colonized by 80,000 Turkish settlers and 35,000 Turkish soldiers. The looting and destruction of the Cypriot cultural heritage in these occupied areas is also a matter of record and continues. To be consistent, we assume our government will not allow Turkey to siphon off millions of American tax dollars while occupying another country despite U.N. condemnations - and against common standards of human decency. LauRianna Vande Vusse Rackham graduate student *I ous predecessors. During the early 1970s, Con- Aid for ra Americans must help preserve As television has made especially clear for American viewers, the Gulf War transformed Iraq from a civilized country into a wasteland. 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The American people need to reach into their fat wal- lets and help fund the International Red Cross and other international peace organizations so that substantive aid can be offered to the Iraqi people swiftly and efficiently. Even this, ultimately, will not be enough- and cannot adequately compensate for the complete devastation wrought in Iraq. As songwriter and activist Kirk Kelley has observed, Americans un- der the illusion that aid alone can solve a country's problems are "armchair philanthropists and dining room diplomats." Nonetheless, aiding the Iraqi people now - however limited its effects - represents a necessary stopgap measure. What Econ On Jan. 5 last year, six workers l fired for union organizing were leafletting the Ford Motor plant in Cuautitlan, Mexico where they had I once been employed. The police I I. 201 doesn't teach drove up, b e a t them, and dragged them away. Their families didn'tknow where they were. Nei- ther did their former co-workers at Ford. So those work- leaving behind a wife who was seven months pregnant. Welcome to free trade and the free market, Third World style. In the 1980s, more than half of the top U.S. manufacturing firms estab- lished plants in Mexico. General Motors (GM) is now the country's top employer. Ford and Chrysler have opened more than half a dozen plants there in the last two decades. And working conditions like those at Cuautitlan are the reason why. When workers at Cuautitlan asked for a pay raise - they cur- rently make $50 a week -Ford fired 700 union activists and slashed salaries for the rest by 50 percent. Hoping to cut costs even further, they installed urinals next to the assembly lines, prohibited workers from taking breaks, and reduced their quota of relief workers. If this sounds abit too remote- one of those "unfortunate" things done to "other people" because of an integrated world economy - take advantage of low-wage havens in the American South and the Third World. In the 1970s, nine of GM's 14 new plants were located in the South. In the 1980s - as Mexican trade regulations were relaxed un- der pressure from the World Bank -GM pursued a similar strategy in Mexico. The toppling of all trade barriers in North America would eliminate any reason U.S. corporatons might have to stay in cities like Detroit. Why pay wages of$10-plus an hour when you can pay workers $10 a day? Why go through the motions of respecting labor law when you can set up shop in a place where you are the law? Once upon a time, workers were shot in cities like Akron, Detroit and Pittsburgh with the same im- punity that they are now shot in places like Cuautitlan, Hermosillo, and Nogales. An unfettered market could bring those days back - pitting workers here against work- Mike Fischer S 0 0 ,. Nuts and Bolts I unsRoiesi f R CCLAGS . I (H? by Judd Winick WZ:NAD 2 ©N 'T $.4NER IZ A F.O~ck4 PsET ers did the logical thing: They sat down, refusing to work and refus- ing to budge. Later that day, the police released the kidnapped unionists. But that was just the beginning. When the plant's first shift returned I HrLJo.