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Game Lansing State Journal Sunday, October 26, 1997 5A Prison: State system I faces overpopulation Loss puts end to high spirits I "The guidelines in I their current form are fraudulent." Rep. Nick Ciaramitaro D-Roseville I Continued FROM 1A dearly audible. 3 "You can't turn the ball over that many times and expect to win," said leach, an East Lansing resident who attended MSU. MSU quarterback Todd Schultz threw five interceptions Saturday, and the team had six total. The turnovers stalled the Spartan offense nd gave the Wolverines opportunities to put the game out of reach.

MSU led for most of the first half, thanks to a trick play on a field goal. Holder Bill Burke threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to running back Sedrick Irvin to give MSU a 7-3 lead. It deteriorated from there, with Michigan taking a 10-7 halftime lead. The Wolverine defense dominated in the second half. "It's hard to know what to expect when these two teams play.

It's such in emotional game," said Tom Freese, a Michigan fan from South-field. "They just made a lot more Jnistakes than we did." The MSU loss took the steam out of a crowd that, before the game at least, was rowdy well before noon. ESPN aired its pregame show live fon campus just northwest of Spartan Stadium. Chris Fowler, the show's host, fired up the crowd just a few minutes before going on air. i "Please don't throw beer cans," he said, after urging the crowd to move back from a security fence tiear the ESPN stage.

5 1 Moments after Fowler took his seat for the show, a beer can sailed through the air, falling well short of the ESPN stage. Hundreds of fans were caught in V. Maize and blue day: The scoreboard and Michigan fans tell it all clock winds down on the Wolverines' 23-7 victory over Michigan ROBERT KILLIPSLansing State Journal Saturday as the Spartan Stadium State. money will come from," she said, "But it will have to come from children and families." State Sen. William VanRegenmorter, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, supported the recommendations.

"It establishes long sentences in secure facilities for violent criminals and provides alternative sanctions for those who are not violent," said VanRegenmorter. VanRegenmorter said he expects the commission's recommendations to come through the Senate Judiciary Committee and then to the full Senate. Even if they're approved there however, they stand little chance in the House. Baird, who was recently appointed to the sentencing commission, said that Republican and Democratic House members alike urged the commission to hold off on its recommendations until changes were made to make, it acceptable to them. "From an outside perspective, it looks like a waste of time, money and effort to arrive where the report isn't going to be the family; MSU President Peter McPherson paused alone near midfield after the game to savor the the Spartan Marching Band's performance of "Shadows," the school's alma mater.

"After a game like this, you remember we have another game next week," McPherson said. "I'll be right here cheering. We have a good group of young men." Staff writer Dee Drummond contributed to this report. At about midnight, East Lansing streets were packed but under control, as fans continued celebrating the Wolverine's win or recovering from the Spartan's loss. Increased patrols made police presence evident.

"We're very proactive and we beefed up the manpower for the weekend," VanderWoude said. And fans didn't forget that, win or lose, the Michigan-Michigan State game is always special. Small loans build VOllueS to warm bridges for poor Jacobson's is headquarters outerwear Continued FROM 1A make changes so that prison cells are filled with the people who are most dangerous to society. Lawmakers also passed a truth-in-sentencing law, which would require all prisoners to serve their minimum terms. That law won't take effect unless the Legislature approves some version of the guidelines.

Chances of that happening look remote. "The guidelines in their current form are fraudulent because they promise the people of the state of Michigan we're going to do something we don't have the resources to do," said Rep. Nick Ciaramitaro, D-Roseville. Ciaramitaro was one of the three commission members who voted against the recommendations. A House Fiscal Agency analysis said that if the state has to expand its prison system as projected, the state Correction Department budget would soar from $1.4 billion to $2.5 billion over the next decade.

"We're sticking a lot more people in for a lot longer, and we're not letting anyone out," said Beth Arnovitz of the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency. Arnovitz said the commission should have taken into account truth-in-sentencing, which will add nearly 5,700 to the prison population in 10 years. "I haven't a clue where the Belted crop jacket. your for fiK if Laotian women win credit program run "by Quaker Service Laos By Linda Ehrichs Associated Press BAN DONKEO, Laos Little loans are delivering big returns for pne of the most needy groups in impoverished Laos women. Four years ago, Seng Bounnalath was eking out a living in Ban Don-keo, a village of 745 people, raising a few animals and selling hand-woven cloth.

Her husband sent what he could from his salary as a policeman in the capital, Vientiane, for her and their five children. "We just had enough to eat," says said. i Then her loom broke. But rather than worsening the family's plight, it proved a turning point. Seng took advantage of a small-cale local credit program run by an independent aid agency, Quaker Service Laos, and borrowed the equivalent of $50 to repair and upgrade her loom.

She devoted more time to weaving and started selling more cloth. It Seng, 45, reinvested the profits and began setting up what has become a string of small-scale businesses at her home brewing rice whiskey, increasing her number of chicken and pigs, setting up a rice-threshing service. She got enough money together to buy a television and videotape player and set up eight wooden benches on the cool ground floor to show Chinese movies. Entrance to her cinema: 100 kip, the equivalent of 10 cents. )Z Igniting such entrepreneurial spirit is the aim of "microcredit" deposit-and-loan services in amounts of up to $100 that can make a difference in parts of the world where a business doesn't have to be big to improve lives.

Such programs run by small agencies have been around a while Come Tuesday, 555 East a human traffic jam after the ESPN show, which continued right up to the 12:30 p.m. kickoff. Those same fans had no trouble leaving the stadium, though. The -crowd began thinning midway through the fourth quarter. Though streets were busy, police said traffic flowed, with few problems.

"It's just like a normal football game," said East Lansing police Sgt. Tom VanderWoude. and are increasingly viewed as a success in the world of development aid, where mammoth projects like dams often produce little but frustration and cost overruns. The United Nations Development Program is trying to make microcredit available on a wider scale in Laos, launching a $7 million program to set up loan funds in 800 Laotian villages over the next five years. They won't be banks of a traditional sort no tellers, no checkbooks.

Instead, the U.N. agency will help train small boards of village leaders in the rudiments of running a credit program, such as taking deposits and assessing loan risks. The key to success is taking the particulars of the local community into account. Typically, those seeking loans do not need collateral just a good reputation among people who know them. In successful loan programs, recipients often are clumped together, say in groups of five, and provide assurances for each other.

Recovery rates in Laos and elsewhere where such systems have been tried are near 100 percent, although some operations have gotten into trouble by charging interest too low to keep up with the rate of inflation. If the programs foster enough business, they improve the lives of villages and the people who live in them, especially women, who usually run household finances. Most of those receiving microcredit from current operations in Laos are women. In Laos, as elsewhere, women are generally poorer and less educated and have few opportunities. Because work like child care is non-paid, women are often overlooked by the few formal banking institutions that do exist.

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