Page 2-The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 12,1990 Greyhound expands small city service DALLAS (AP) - Gunshots fired at a bus run by strike-beset Greyhound Lines Inc. in Florida injured eight people %yesterday, a company spokesperson said. Two people were seriously hurt and six others, possibly hit by flying glass, suffered less serious injuries, said George Gravlev, spokeperson at Greyhound's Dallas headquarters. Greyhound Lines Inc. said buses were again running yesterday to 120 communities that hadn't been served since drivers walked off their jobs at the only nationwide bus line. The company was able to add routes to spots in the Southeast and Southwest yesterday after a new class of drivers graduated from train- ing courses, said Greyhound spokesperson Elizabeth Hale. On Saturday, Greyhound carried 38 percent of the number of passen- gers it did on the same Saturday a year ago and operated one-third of the number of departing buses, Hale said. Figures for yesterday would re- flect the larger number of routes, but were unavailable until today, she said. The 120 communities had been without service since the Amalga- mated Council of Greyhound Local Unions - which represents 6,300 drivers and more than 3,000 office and maintenance workers - went on strike March 2. Officials at the union's headquar- ters in Phoenix, and at offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C. didn't respond to telephone calls yesterday. Big cities have been served by Greyhound virtually since the strike began. The additions yesterday in- cluded smaller cities and small towns along routes between metropolitan areas, Ms. Hale said. AP Photo Ed Scribner, president of the Metro Detroit AFL-CIO, addresses a group of Greyhound strikers outside a Greyhound terminal on W. Lafayette in Detroit. I Sperm ba NEW YORK (AP) - The sperm bank accused in an alleged racial mix-up faces a separate lawsuit by a couple alleging it threw away the sperm from a man about to undergo treatment for testicular cancer, ac- cording to a published report. Idant Laboratories was sued by Gasper and Catherine Mastrobuoni last year after the sperm was thrown out because of a billing mix-up, the Daily News reported in yesterday's editions. "I was devastated when I found RANKS Continued from Page 1 ness, medical and engineering schools question the reliability of the poll, saying it is subjective and is not based on scientific data. "There are some different ones (schools) ahead of us whom we think we're better than," said Gilbert Whitaker, Dean of Business Admin- istration. "The ratings are not very scientific." Joseph Johnson, dean of the Med- ical School, said "We're happy to be number 13," but also agreed that "(T)hese ratings are full of variables and even if we were number one, it'd have to be taken with a grain of salt." Johnson added that the Medical Schools' evaluation was "less valid" than the business, law, or engineer- ing schools because the Association of American Medical Colleges voted down participation in the poll. "Many medical school deans across the country did not partici- pate," Johnson said. "There is some question about its reliability," Johnson added. "It is not an official poll." For this year's poll, Market Facts Inc. of Washington, D.C. consulted "thousands of academic and profes- sional authorities to determine how the experts on and off campus per- ceive a given institution" in the win- ter of 1989-90, the magazine said. The survey also ranks individual departments within colleges. The Univeristy 's nuclear engi- neering department receives the highest ranking of any of the Uni- versity's departments, at number two in the nation. The Industrial engi- neering department places third and the aerospace, electrical, and envi- ronmental engineering departments are all ranked fifth. nk faces an additional lawsuit out they destroyed my husband's sperm," Mrs. Mastrobuoni told the News. "It was our only chance for having a child." Idant is accused in another law- suit filed last week of providing the wrong semen to a white woman who later bore a Black child. The woman's husband, also white, had his sperm stored before undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. Idant has denied fault in that case. The News said it was unable to reach company officials for comment on the Mastrobuoni claim. A call placed by The Associated Press to Idant's answering service Saturday night wasn't returned. When Mastrobuoni's cancer was discovered, a Veteran's Administra- tion hospital referred him to Idant, the News said. He agreed to pay the bank $200 and it stored some of his semen in January 1985, before he started radiation treatment. When the couple didn't hear from Idant, they called and learned the husband's sperm had been discarded because the lab had only received a $20 payment from the Veterans Ad- ministration. "We never received any type of billing," Mrs. Mastrobuoni told the News. The newspaper said it could not reach Veterans Administration officials for comment. Mastrobuoni's cancer has been cured but an attorney for the couple, Joseph Filiardi, said "it's very un- likely his sperm count is high enough to effectuate conception." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Israel may demand war damages of united Germany WEST BERLIN - Israel is entitled to and may demand reparations for the Holocaust from a united Germany, the Israeli ambassador to West Germany said in an interview released yesterday. "I can't rule out that Israel will demand reparations at some point," Benjamin Navon, a Holocaust survivors, told the mass-circulation daily Bild in an interview to be published today. A 1950's reparations agreement with West Germany "spells out ex- plicitly that we are entitled to do so in the case of German unity," the ambassador said. The interview was released in advance of publication to other media. West Germany has paid $44 billion in reparations to Israel and Jewish Holocaust survivors around the world under the agreement. By the end of this decade, payments are expected to reach $55.5 billion. Study finds flaws with Mich. tuition pre-payment program LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's pre-paid college tuition guarantee program rests on questionable economic assumptions and pro- vides a flawed answer to the rising cost of higher education, a new study says. However, State Treasurer Robert Bowman blasted the Mackinac Center report due to be released today, describing it as "so fallacious it has to be deliberate." The study said the Michigan Education Trust (MET) is too optimistic about the average annual tuition increase - 7.3 percent - and will need to more than double its return on its investments to meet its commitments. Bowman said the MET investments have to earn an after-tax return of about eight percent and need a nine percent pre-tax return to do that. In his study, college professor Peter Boettke said that from 1978 to 1987 tuition at Michigan's 15 public universities increased at an average annual rate of 8.9 percent and went up 10.2 percent in 1988 and 9.1 per- cent last year. Gov't reviews espionage laws WASHINGTON - A panel of Washington insiders armed with top-secret security clearances is conducting a major, unannounced review of the nation's espionage laws in a search for better ways to catch and convict spies. Recruited from the private sector by the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the panel members have visited the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and National Security Agency, among others, over the last nine months. CIA Director William Webster, FBI Director William sessions and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh all have met with members of the group, according to executive branch sources. FBI and CIA spokespersons confirm their agencies have offered information and suggestions, but won't describe them. A Justice source says the department has yet to offer either formal or informal advice. Many of the panel members already had security clearances from service in past administrations. But sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said others received new or updated clearances especially for this project. Robbers plague Columbus COLUMBUS, Ohio - Brash and sometimes bumbling criminals have staged a rash of bank robberies in Ohio's capital city and its suburbs. The Columbus area, with a population of about 1.2 million has had 42 bank robberies this year, more than Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland combined. Authorities suspect many of the robbers are down-and-out drug addicts looking for quick cash. That theory was borne out with the arrest Friday of a man who admit- ted to robbing eight banks since Feb. 7, claiming he used the money to support a $900-a-day crack habit. There have been 21 arrests in the 42 robberies. All of the defendants are awaitiig trial. One man was arrested while counting his booty in his getaway vehicle - a city bus - March 5 after he allegedly robbed the same Bank One branch for the third time in a week. Police charged him in six bank heists. Smokers lose sense of smell PHILADELPHIA - A smoker's sense of smell recedes with every passing puff, according to researchers at the University of Pennsyl- vania who conducted scratch and sniff tests. "The majority still have a sense of smell, but not as acute as if they weren't smoking," said Richard Doty, director of the university's Smell and Taste Center. Both current and former smokers lose their ability to smell all kinds of odors in proportion to the amount of cigarettes and length of time they had smoked, the researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Current smokers are nearly twice as likely to show a loss of smell than those who never smoked, according to researchers. 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