The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 22, 1990 - Page 5 Confronting ethnic biases Courses offer students chance to learn Demonstrating for elections During protests in Taiwan demanding direct presidential elections yesterday, demonstrators surround the car of Nationalist Assemblyperson Luo Wen-tang as he arrives to cast his ballot for president. Shortly after, the protestors smashed the car. 'Right to die' discussed in lecture at Medical School by Cherie Curry First in a two-part series The courses offered in the Inter- group Relations and Conflict pro- gram are designed to help student overcome fears or biases they harbor towards other ethnic groups. The courses are part of Alice Lloyd's Pilot Program and Program on Conflict Management Alterna- tives. They provide students with the opportunity to confront interpersonal conflicts as well as learn about other ethnic groups. "One of the specific goals of the program is to advance students' un- derstanding of and respect for diver- sity, and to increase their skills in responding to iP'ergroup conflict through the courr es and dialogues of- fered," program coordinator X imena Zuniga said. "The program focuses particularly on relations between groups that have had a history of con flict or po- tential for conflict - Blacks and whites, men and women, heterosex- uals and homosexuals etc.," Zuniga said. In the past, Intergroup Relations has offered upper-level courses such as "Ethnic Identity" and "Intergroup Relations." This semester the program of- fered "Asian American Ethnic Iden- tity", a minicourse which examined personal and theoretical views on Asian Americans, and "Black/White Relations", another one credit mini- course. Although the courses are open to all students, the majority of students who take them live in Alice Lloyd. "This is because the courses are of- fered in Alice Lloyd ," said Zuniga. "We have two rationales for do- ing this. The first is to combine liv- ing and learning," Zuniga said. "It's much more real to study about eth- nic issues when people are living and learning together. They can bring in their own experiences to try and understand the tensions." The second rationale is that Pilot Program courses often break from conventional topics. "Because of its history of innovation, we have tried to teach topics that are traditionally difficult to handle," Zuniga said. Intergroup Relations coordinators try to create a personal atmosphere in each class by minimizing the numbers of students and meeting in about each other the residence halls. In addition to the upper-level courses and minicourses, the pro- gram provides "Dialogue Groups", face-to-face meetings of one or more ethnic groups which explore com- monalties and differences. Last semester's dialogue groups were Latinos in the U.S., Blacks and Jews, and Women of Color and White Women. "They help to establish a closer link between issues brought up in class and one's personal experi- ences," explained Zuniga. Zuniga attributed the success 'of the Intergroup Relations courses to the multicultural composition. "Sometimes it takes active recruit- ment to make sure we have a nice balance. The composition of the class really shapes the direction it takes." Tomorrow the Daily will discuds the reactions of course participants and instructors to the program. by Ruth Littmann Daily Staff Writer University philosophy Professor Carl Cohen discussed a patient's right to die yesterday at the Medical School's 42nd lecture in a series on medical ethics. Cohen specifically addressed "The Case of Nancy Cruzan and Her Right to Die" which was argued before the United States Supreme Court in De- 'cember 1989. It was the first right to die case tried on a federal level, and the court has not yet issued its deci- sion. Nancy Cruzan was in an automo- 'bile accident seven years ago which left her in a "permanently vegetative state." Though Cruzan's body will likely function for many years with the help of a gastronomy tube,her family and physicians agree that there is no hope for her "return to any cognitive awareness,' Cohen said. Cruzan's parents want to remove the tube and withhold food and water ,from their daughter, Cohen explained to an audience of over 75 doctors, students and faculty at the Medical f °School's South Lecture Hall. He outlined the arguments Cruzan's parents presented before the *courts, and said the Cruzans believe their daughter has the constitutional right to die. They argued that their daughter would not have wanted to live in a permanent vegetative state, and they, as her parental guardians, have the right to fulfill her wishes, Cohen said. 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