Drinking Citations Getting More Expensive for Youths Student

• IM I P Minority Business — Education is main in gredient for meal called success, (page 3) Commitments — A young man with a dream brings soul music to Dublin, (page 9) Soccer — UWM takes the 1991 Miller Lite Panther Invitational Sunday in a big way, winning the finale 4-2 against Dartmouth. (Page 13) Monday, September 16, 1991 In The Public Interest Since 1956 Volume 36, Number 4 Drinking citations getting more expensive for youths by Christopher Hosken • All 88 party-goers were cited Ave. which also involved huge for underage drinking and re fines and an even greater number quired to pay a $145 fine, police of participants and UWM students. Police Beat Reporter said. In addition, those with pre This gathering had five spon vious citations had their driving sors instead of one, eight half- Milwaukee man has just licenses suspended for one year. barrels instead of four, 22 re been ordered to pay the Police responded that Friday sponding officers instead of five, highest fine in Milwaukee A evening at 9:30 p.m. after receiv and involved not just one apart history for citations related to a ing numerous telephone com ment but three. party. plaints. The investigating officers The five sponsors of the party Michael E. Schroeder, 21, was indicated that as they were pull told to pay a $2,500 forfeiture were issued citations for selling ing up to the scene they ob beer to 212 individuals under the after being found guilty last week served party-goers leaving the in Milwaukee Municipal Court of legal drinking age. residence through open win Police were dispatched to the 89 municipal citations—one for dows. There was even one indi operating an illegal tavern, the vidual, police said, who had de Please see Police page 6 other 88 for serving alcohol to cided to make her exit by jump minors. ing from a second-story window. Schroeder's citations originally Once the situation was stabi carried a fine of more than lized, UWM campus police were Student worried about kin at home $10,000; Schroeder pleaded no called in to help verify the iden is a junior studying architecture cause when I was there, every contest. tities of students being cited. Po by Chad C. Krueger at UWM. thing was fine," he said. The citations resulted from a lice said that four nearly empty Rajic said that even though his After World War II, President party thrown by Schroeder on half-barrels were recovered from he possible cival war in Yu immediate family left a number Tito (Josip Broz) led the country Feb. 8, 1991 at 3431 N. Oakland the apartment goslavia is directly affecting of years ago from Serbia, he still until his death in 1980. Ave. Police arrested 88 people However, this Oakland party T a University of Wisconsin- knows many people there. "Everything was working out. that evening, most all of whom was certainly not the biggest, Milwaukee student "About 90 percent of my fami Everything was great," Rajic said. were University of Wisconsin- only one of the more recent. Dejan Rajic's family moved to ly is still there," he said. "I feel Tito was a Croatian who was Milwaukee students. Sixty-three Racine four years ago after living sorry for all my friends. Here [in accused of taking advantage of were living in the university There was another party held last winter at 1902 E. Linnwood in the Yugoslavian republic of the United States], you don't the Serbs and favoring his own dorms at that time. Serbia. Rajic, who is 20 years old, have to go into the army, only if ethnic group, according to Raiic. you want to. But there you have to go for about 14 months. "My friends are in the army "It's killing for nothing, and right now," he continued. "They it's just stupid" are out there fighting, and if I was there, I'd be fighting too. I don't —Dejan Rajic like that at all. I saw a couple of friends on the news on CNN, and After his death, a new presidency it hit me, 'Oh my god, anything was established, with the presi could happen to them. They dent coming from a different re could even die.'" public each one-year term. The Yugoslavia consists of six re move was made to avert possible publics, with an ethnic group in ethnic clashes. each republic: Serbia, Croatia, "It wasn't really a big deal," Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rajic said about the presidential Macedonia and Montenegro. Al selection process. "For those 10 though deep divisions between years, things were okay, but real these ethnic groups are threaten ly tense." ing to tear the country apart, Rajic says that those divisions The newest president was have not changed his views on Croatian, but he was taken out of his former people and that Yugo power and replaced with a Serb slavian nationalism still runs ian. After that, both Croatia and through him. Serbia sought out their inde pendence. According to Rajic, "I like Yugoslavia more than I -Post photo by Jim Slosiarek the other republics must approve like Serbia. I like Serbia because I such a move, but didn't UWM's senior midfielder (right) prepares to go around a defender in Sun am from there, but I like all the That led to the violence that day's Panther Invitational Tournament. The Panthers beat Dartmouth for republics and don't have any the title. See pages 13 and 15 for related stories. thing against those people be Please see Rajic page 7 Wisconsin's defense contracts Homecoming dance one of demonstrations topics set for Sept. 22 market," said Susan Greenfield, the communica by Kelly Roberts tions specialist for the Aspin Procurement Institute. by Kimberly Wilmot "I think he's encouraged bidding on military con obs With Peace, a non-profit organization, is tracts, so with more businesses involved we end up omecoming is returning to the University of Wisconsin- Mil planning a demonstration against Rep. Les paying less for military spending." waukee campus. After a year lapse, the men's soccer team Aspin, D-Wis., claiming the House Armed Serv In 1989, the federal government and the private Hwill play at Englemann Field on Sunday to kick-off the J festivities. ices Committee chairman has done little to provide sector provided matching funds to start the Aspin jobs or federal dollars for Wisconsin residents. Procurement Institute which holds seminars and The Panthers are still undefeated following the Sept. 14 victory Although the Aspin Procurement Institute asserts guides Wisconsin business into getting military against Wright State. Currently they're ranked 14th in the nation Wisconsin received $1 billion in direct defense and contracts. According to Greenfield, the Aspin for Division 1 schools, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel. civilian contracts, this figure doesn't reflect very Procurement Institute was able to get military and They will play the Drake Bulldogs at 2 p.m. with a Homecoming many major contracts, according to Roger Quindel, civilian contracts for the state of Wisconsin totaling Party, sponsored by UWM's Union Policy Board, to follow at 7 p.m. director of Jobs With Peace. $787.9 million for 108 companies. The party will be held in the Student Union Ballroom. It was initi "My god, Raytheon Corporation has more de "I think we're holding our own considering the ated by UPB Committee Chairman Craig Johnson. fense contracts than the entire state of Wisconsin," historic change we've all seen and I think we're "I'm trying to start a new tradition by bringing together people said Quindel. "I think it's obvious Aspin has done going to see changes in spending in defense with diverse backgrounds in a social setting," said Johnson. nearly nothing to bring any contracts to Wisconsin." procurement" said Greenfield. "Wisconsin's not Out of mutual concern for school spirit arose a co- sponsorship According to Quindel, much of the $1.billion dol losing ground, not yet anyway." with the Student Association. lars reaches Wisconsin in the form of minor con According to Quindel, Wisconsin has only 0.7 "I think it's great that UPB and SA worked to put this together," tracts that are often temporary. percent of the nation's military contracts, yet pro- said Acting Assistant Chancellor William Maryl. "Congressman Aspin has been a real cheerleader Please see Homecoming page 5 getting businesses in Wisconsin to take a look at the Please see Aspin page 5 I Page 2 The UWM Post Monday, September 16, 1991 Local Digest '.''.. Al's Run registration AIDS Awareness Week planned Registration for the 14th annu recently ranked Al's Run in 15th The Medical College of Wiscon According to MCW Cares Lafferty, MD will discuss the fi al Milwaukee Journal/Al's Run, place nationally among the 100 sin student group MCW Cares is President Phoebe Ashly, "AIDS nancial ramifications of the AIDS the nation's largest eight-K run largest road races of 1990. planning an AIDS Awareness Awareness Week means to edu epidemic. Both of the speakers ning event, will be held at the In the eight-kilometer cate Week that is free and open to the cate, inform, and enlighten medi are national experts on the topic V University of Wisconsin-Milwau gory, Al's Run ranks first in the public. The event will take place cal students, educators, health of AIDS from the Seattle, Wash kee Wednesday, Sept. 18. nation. from Sept. 18 to Sept 25. care professinals and the general ington area.

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