Taking the march back home: 'I hope it reverberates' ,f ?i0i3, ' ' ;f19 The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 18, 1995 - 7 WASHINGTON (AP)-Black men energized by the huge rally in the nation's capital began spreading the spirit yesterday, making plans to clean up inner-city neighborhoods back home, register voters and simply help each other survive. As Washington got back to normal, meanwhile, both black and white mem- bers of Congress urged President Clinton to create a commission to study America's racial divisions. Organizers of the "Million Man March" celebrated their success and accused the government of a racist undercount - the 400,000 men esti- mated by the U.S. Park Service. g After Monday's long day of prayer, songs and speeches, many men trav- eled all night by bus, car or train to return home in time for work yesterday, tired but still inspired by the brother- hood they felt on the national Mall. Even others who only saw the event on TV said they were uplifted. "I hope it reverberates around the country in energizingpeople right where they are," Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told ABC-TV. Some men said they already are vol- unteers in their communities but left Washington determined to take on more responsibilities. Frederick Heard, a Detroit postman whohelps out with an after-school sports league, said he wants to plan a local march with the same themes of self- help and self-respect. "We should get to all the inner-cit- ies," he said. Alvertis Simmons of Denver prom- ised to encourage black fathers to pay the child support they owe. , "Brothers, make this commitment," he said. "If you know a brother who is not paying child support, cut him off because he should be taking care of his kids." James Bolden caught some of the event on television from his home in Topeka, Kan. The speeches were in- spiring, Bolden said. But he hopes the talk leads to action on issues such as job discrimination. "The march is general," he said. "We need to break it down and make it more specific to the problems at hand." Several members of Congress sent Clinton a letter urging him to appoint a commission on race relations "to issue a report on the progress and failures that our nation has made on race since 1968." That was the year the Kerner Com- mission, appointed by President Johnson, issued its famous study that concluded "our nation is moving to- ward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal." There have been several calls in the past for another Kerner-type study. But Schumer said the rally and reaction to the 0.J. Simpson trial underscored the need for it. At apacked news conference, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and other march organizers said they would sue the U.S. Park Service overits crowd estimate. There were more than 1 million people spread across the Mall, Farrakhan insisted. He also predicted the event would increase black voting strength. More than 100,000 voters were registered at the rally, organizers said, and they have set a goal of registering all 8 million eligible, unregistered blacks before the 1996 presidential election. Market for trash opens nChicago CHICAGO (AP) - Forget junk bonds. Now they're trading junk. A national marketplace for buying and selling recyclable trash opened yes- terday at the Chicago Board of Trade. The first transaction: Weyerhaeuser Co. bought 100 tons ofold newspapers from Oswego County, N.Y. The venture promises to boost recy- cling by setting quality standards and publicizing prices for used paper, glass and plastics. It can help small towns with curbside collection programs find big buyers of reusable materials. "This is the biggest shot in the arm for recycling in this country since mu. nicipal recycling efforts began in the 1970s," said Mark Lichtenstein, Os. wego County's trash manager andpresi- dent of the National Recycling Coali. tion, which includes both buyers and sellers of recyclables. Eventually, the Board of Trade may launch futures and options contracts for recyclables, turning old beerbottles and milk jugs into investment vehicles. The computerized system already has 60 subscribers who paid $1,000 each for access to its electronic bulletin board. Users can offer or bid for materials or just check the prices at which recyclables are trading. "With these transactions, America will take its recycling efforts from the current state, which are really not un- like having a national yard sale, to an electronic marketplace for recycled goods," said David Gardiner, an assis- tant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, big companies buy most of their recyclable materials from bro- kers and commercial trash collectors with whom they have contracts. But small local governments have often been at the mercy of local dealers because they didn't know the going rate. AP PHOTO Donald Bronson of Washington, D.C., cries during the Rev. Jesse Jackson's speech in Washington Monday during the Million Man March. NAACP searching for exec. director BALTIMORE (AP) - WANTED: Skilled manager with unquestioned in- tegrity and ability to be national spokes- man and day-to-day leader of troubled national civil rights group. More than a year after Benjamin Chavis was fired for secretly using NAACP money to settle a sex discrimi- nation lawsuit against him, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is still looking for an executive director. The search committee that was sup- posed to submit one name to the board at a three-day meeting starting tomor- row in Baltimore was still interviewing candidates this week. And it may not come up with a choice in time. "We had an unusually large number of applicants. It's just taking a long time," Julian Bond, a member of the seven-person committee, saidyesterday. But some critics said there's another reason the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group - 86 years old, 500,000 members strong--is taking so long to pick a leader. "Nobody wants the job," said Michael Meyers, a former assistant NAACP national director who now heads the New York Civil Rights Coa- lition. "The NAACP is dead, and ev- erybody knows it." Even some board members agreed the NAACP has slipped from its lead- ing role in the struggle for civil rights. The NAACP refused to endorse Monday's Million Man March in Wash- ington, which Chavis helped organize with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. "We're a taillight," said Larry Carter, an Iowa banker who has been on the board for 6 1/2 years. "We've got to set the stage. It should be the NAACP putting together the Million Man March." The NAACP is as much as $4 million in debt and struggling to repair an im- age damaged first by Chavis' ouster in August 1994, and then by allegations of financial improprieties by former Chair- man William Gibson. Gibson was re- placed in February by Myrlie Evers- Williams, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. "I hope - I pray - that they will be able to bring a positive report to our board meeting. It is imperative, however, that we have the best possible person, astrong manager," said Evers-Williams. Web site created for, by students U The Kernel (U. of Kentucky) Tired of finding all the dead ends on the information super highway? Those days are over! Loci has arrived to sat- isfy all your Internet needs. Lociisan 800-page World Wide Web site on the Internet designed by college students forcollege students. While on- line at Loci, students can do a wide variety of activities ranging from get- ting travel advice to chatting on-line with Leonard Nimoy.. Loci is the brainchild of the College Division of Barnes & Noble, which provided the grant for Boston University's College of Communica- tionto create the site. Students working at Loci receive either work-study pay- ment or course credit. According to Promo magazine, there are an estimated 20 million people us- ing the Internet and 45 percent of those people are 18- to 26-years old. Although there are many sites on the web catering to college students, most are run by older adults. At Loci, any- thing that goes into it is by students. Maggie Battista, managing editor for Loci, said that a major goal of the site is to get college students around the globe to participate. "The goal of the site is to become a place where everyone from all over the world participates," Battista said. "We have writers in California, in Florida, and even one from Australia." Loci is divided into several major sections. In the entertainment area, stu- dents can read reviews of music, mov- ies and books. A subdivision called The Muse allows a student to submit poetry, short stories and plays in their own voice and attach a photo. The "GetaLife" section givescompre- hensive advice on how to get a job after college. Users can download templates for resumes and read tips on how to score big in the interview of a lifetime. More than $18,000 in cash and prizes will be offered in the fall 1995 semester in the games section. In "Hyper Trav- eler," you can solve questions using trivia skills, travel knowledge and Internet abilities. The news area of Loci covers every- thing from national news to links to campus papers. Students can submit reactions to stories and write articles. A special aspect of Loci is its chat section. Participants can chat with other students using Loci at the same time. The chat section also has the ability to create your own face for other people to see on-line. In the events area, Loci brings the' opportunity to talk to politicians, musi- cians, writers and athletes. Loci's main goal is to offer some- thing for everyone. "When a student goes into any site, if they don't see anything valuable or worthy of staying, they're going to leave," Battista said. "Loci has strived to have fresh content that changes al- most every day. ... There's something for everyone." There is no charge to use Loci. Stu- dents only need to access a web browser like Netscape and connect to http:// www.loci.com. - Distributed by University Wire SPIRIT OF DIVERSITY JOB FAIR November 16-18, 1995 The Atheneum Hotel, Greektown Detroit, Michigan ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A NEWSPAPER CAREER? 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