European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday january 3, 1992bias Holdover to be erased at colleges Birmingham Ala. Apr Alabama has been ordered to spend $20 million at two historically Black colleges to erase any remaining traces of segregation in the states University system. . District judge Harold Murphy this week ordered $10 million in building improvements Over three years at each of the states two mostly Black Public universities Alabama a amp a at Huntsville and Alabama state at Montgomery. He also directed several mostly White schools to do More to attract Black students faculty members and administrators and told Alabama state to draft a plan to recruit More White students. Gov. Guy Hunt said it is too soon to say whether the state will Appeal the decision in the 1981 lawsuit. The . Supreme court is considering a similar Case involving Mississippi. That state is appealing a court order to upgrade its mostly Black institutions arguing it has done enough to ensure that Blacks and Whites can freely choose among schools. Similar cases arc pending in several other Southern states. Court documents show that in 1990, All but about 1,125 of Alabama a amp a s 4,890 students were Black. At Alabama state All but approximately 115 of the 4,590 students were Black. That same year about 850 of Auburn University s 21,535 students were Black and 1,760 of the University of Alabama a 19,795 students were  what Dogg onit map Magoo a 4-year-old Golden retriever seems unconcerned by the stares of other Drivers zipping along Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe Calif. Truth is Job safety hazards widely i Magoo a who is far too Young for a Drivers License a is standing on the rear seat of of the car and looking Over the shoulder of Brent Dana of Tahoe City. Washington apr states Are failing to take the simplest Steps to prevent on the Job hazards that kill up to 80, my american workers a year a study says. California ranked first in responsiveness to safety concerns and Arkansas last in the study by the National Safe workplace Institute a private group based in Chicago. T he study also gave poor Marks to the Federal government s Job safety program. California was described As having the Best safety Laws enforcement and workers compensation systems followed by new Jersey Illinois new York and Massachusetts. The Institute said those with the worst safety climates were Arkansas Wyoming new Mexico Kansas and North Dakota. As Many As 11,000 americans die each year As a result of on the Job injuries the study estimated. An additional 70,000 die from diseases they contracted in the workplace such As cancer it said. A it really is an indictment. Looking at some of the states it was so treble a said Joseph Kinney of Chicago who founded the group in 1987 after his brother was killed in a work related Accident. The states were ranked according to a formula based on the generosity of their workers compensation systems and an array of other factors. States were Given Points for having Laws requiring doctors to report occupational diseases and limiting toxins used in manufacturing. The study also said the Federal occupational safety and health administration lacked sufficient staff to do the Job. It said the nation has six times As Many fish and game inspectors As it does Job safety regulators. Osha director Gerard Scannell conceded that a enough Hasni to been  rather than spending More Money on enforcement he said the government needs to find a Way to make employers More responsible. Comparing Osha inspectors with fish and game of study says probes Clear . Police As gym toll climbs to 9 filers is not a valid comparison Scannell said. Quot there a no employer out there to protect the wild Lite a he said. A we have employers who should be doing the Job of protecting  Mark Cowan a former Osha official who is a corporate consultant on Job safety said it was unfair to blame the states for not having tougher Job safety Laws. The institutes Survey was based on a review of Osha documents some of which were obtained through the Freedom of information act. Congress a continues to stall in providing Osha with the tools necessary to protect workers a the study said. It pointed to the reluctance of lawmakers to increase criminal penalties for employers violating Job safety Laws. A manager can face 15 years in Federal prison for polluting water but Only six months for wilful violations of Federal Law that result in the death of a worker a a the study said. / new York apr As the death loll from the Stampede at a rap celebrity basketball game climbed to nine a new York City investigator said that he found no evidence that police acted improperly in not immediately entering the gymnasium. Deputy mayor Milton molten who Heads a task Force investigating saturdays tragedy said in fridays edition of the new York times that police were unaware of the unfolding crisis in the gymnasium. Quot where you have a private institution a especially an event where police presence might be considered provocative and Lead to violence a police Are reluctant to enter unless it is clearly indicated a he said. Quot Here it was not. There was no problem in the gym that we could see. And there was no violence or crime on the  Mollen said the College Quot had a responsibility a if not Legal then certainly As Heads of a Public institution a to see that Security was appropriate. These purity was not appropriate a nine Young people were fatally injured when a crowd trying to get in to see rap stars play basketball pushed its Way Down a stairwell and piled up against the doors of a below ground gym in Harlem. Dozens of people were injured in the Stampede. The ninth victim Dawn Mccain 20, died wednesday evening after being removed from life support equipment. The gyms Legal capacity is 2,730, but authorities say that As Many As 5,000 people showed up for the game which featured rap stars such As heavy d and big daddy Kane and was billed As an aids Benefit. On wednesday a lawyer for the events promoter the rapper puff daddy said he sent Mollen a Check for $24,581, lawyer Martin Garbus said that was the take for the fewer than 2,000 tickets his client said were printed. For a few Days after the tragedy the receipts from the game had been unaccounted for. Job programs for prisoners reduce recidivism study finds by the Washington Post Washington a prison factories and apprenticeship programs significantly reduce recidivism a major . Bureau of prisons study says. The four year study involving More than 7,000 Federal inmates suggests that such programs could lower the number of inmates sent Back to prison by As much As 35 percent but its researchers acknowledge there was one Factor they could not control motivation. William g. Saylor and Gerald g Gaes who conducted the study for the Bureau selected a group of Federal inmates who signed up for either Job training or a prison industries program and followed them for a year after their release. They compared their recidivism rate to that of a control group of inmates who shared similar prior work educational and criminal histories but did not Volunteer for the Job Grams. Within a year of release pro 10.1 percent of the control group were rearrested or sent Back to prison for parole violations compared with 6.6 percent of the inmates who participated in the Job programs. After a year about 72 percent of the inmates who participated in the Job programs were employed compared with 63 percent of the inmates in the control group the study found. Those in charge of the system use the study to defend a program called Unicorn in which inmates make goods for Sale to the Federal government. Pressured by Union and business groups House members tried unsuccessfully in 1990 to limit the Type of items inmates can make on the theory that they take jobs from other citizens. About 32 percent of the nearly 65,000 Federal inmates participate in Unicorn making such products As combat boots signs eyeglasses blankets transmission parts Ana clocks. Only a handful of studies have tried to measure the effectiveness of prison Job programs Saylor and Gaes said