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AGENDA is interested in receiving items from you for etcétera. Press clippings, press releases, summaries of local events and any other ideas or suggestions are welcome. Just mail them to: Etcétera Editor, AGENDA, 220 S. Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. 1 6th Annual Conference on the Holocaust From March 19-27, U-M Hillel will commemorate the 50-yearanniversary of the liberationof theconcentration camps. Nineteen events are scheduled during the week - including an aftemoon discussion seríes, a number of major speakers, films, an art exhibit, a tríp to the Holocaust Memorial Center, an evening with survi vors, a vigil on the Diag, a memorial service, an evening of creative expression, and a children of survivors program. On Thurs. March 25 at 7:30 pm at Hillel (1 429 Hill St.), Dr. Eva Fogelman will give the Michael Bemstein Memorial Lectureentitled "The Psychology of Moral Courage." Author of "Conscience and Courage,"social psychologist, psychotherapist, and filmmaker, Dr. Fogelman will talk about Christian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. For a complete list of events cali Hillel at 769-0500. MacNeil Lehrer Sells Out The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour, public television's flagship news program, is being bought out by a private, for-profit media conglomérate. Liberty Media, a subsidiary of TCI, the nation's largest cable system operator, is buying two-thirds of MacNeilLehrer Productions, the show's producer. The mere fact that the NewsHour can be absorbed by a corporate media conglomérate illustrates how little difference remains between so-called public and commercial media. MacNeilLehrer has long been funded by corporate giants like AT&T, Pepsico, New York üfe and ADM; now they're going to be owned by one. And TCI is not just your run-of-the-mill oligopoly. As reported in the Rocky Mountain News in Dec. 1 993, TCI has been called "the worst discriminator in the telecommunications industry" by the NAACP and the League of United Latín American Citizens. If you don't want the main news source on public televisión to be owned by a forprofit media conglomérate known for its ruthless and unethical business practices, write to PBS at 1 320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314 (fax: 703-739-0775) or to the MacNeilLehrer NewsHour at 356 W. 58th St, New York, NY 1 001 9 (fax: 21 2-560-31 1 7). - hom EXTRA! Update, the bimonthly newsletter of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), Feb., 1995. To subscribe ($30year) cali 800847-3993. Funds Needed for Guatemalan School Ann Arborites are being asked to chip in and help fund a second-room addition to a one-room schoolhouse in Los Encuentros, Guatemala. Los Encuentros is a rural, isolated community near the city of Zacapa. To get there you can take the bus to the nearest larger village, San Vincente, then hike five kilometers over rough terrain. The existing school was built by villagers under the direction of its first teacher, a young unversity student.Presently, 90 children attend the elementary school, which is staffed by one student teacher. Access International language school director Mike Milne has thus f ar raised $1 ,000 of the necessary $3,500 for the addition. The school will have a plaque on the walt with the names of all contributors to the project. To reserve your spot on this plaque and to assist in the education of the youngsters of Los Encuentros, contact Mike Milne at 994-1456. Gay Hip-Hop Author Coming to A2 James Eari Hardy, author of the first gay hip-hop love story, will read f rom his novel at Common Language Bookstore at 7 pm on March 1 5. "B-Boy Blues" is funny and sexy. It's about masculinity, self-image, and blackness. "B-Boy Blues vibrates with the sound of a brílliant, self-defining, hotly colorful voice. The ancestors are smiling," said Dr. Elias Farajaje-Jones of Howard University. For more inf ormation about the event cali Common Language at 663-0036. Ecology Center Names Award Recipients The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor recently awarded six area individuals and groups with special honors for their environmental achievements. Patti Benson, Demetrios Politis, and Roger Rayle were honored for their leadership of the Scio Township citizens' group which has worked for the clean-up of the Gelman Sciences contamination site on Ann Arbor's west side. Eunice Hendrix was acclaimed for several decades of promoting an environmental ethic among Ann Arbor and Michigan teachers. Sierra Club member Gwen Nystuen was honored for her work in promoting environmental activism in Ann Arbor and throughout Michigan. R.E.C.A.P. (Romulus Environmentalists Care About Peopfe) was lauded for its work in preventing an unnecessary and dangerous hazardous waste facility in Romulus. Gerry Rees was recognized for his ongoing efforts to promote bicycling n the Ann Arbor area. Jessie DeerlnWater received recognition for her work to decommission the Fermi II nuclear reactor in Monroe. The Ecology Center s a membershipbased, nonprofit community organization which develops and conducts education advocacy, information, and technical programs on a wide range of issues which encourage the development of sustainable communities. For more information, cali 761 - 3186.