*I Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 25, 1991 FACULTY Continued from page 1 Whether it be difficulty reading and comprehending or needing extra time to complete an exam, learning disabilities don't necessarily have to hinder a student's education. With the proper faculty understanding and help, many LD students succeed at the top universities at the top of their class. Tim Sheehy, an LSA junior, said he usually concentrates on working with his TAs instead of his profes- sors. He said his LD is "a lot of frustration. I have problems orga- nizing my thoughts as far as sen- tence structure, and I read awful slow." Still, Sheehy maintains a 3.2 grade point average. "I can't think of anybody who hasn't been really helpful," he said of his University instructors. "My History 161 TA, Cara Shelly, is very understanding as far as test-taking outside of class." Dana Green, a first-year graduate student in the School of Public Health, said she has had some diffi- culties getting instructors to under- stand about her LD. Several instruc- tors are, however, trying to make it easier for Green to succeed. Green suffers from visual per- ceptual processing disorder, making it almost impossible for her to un- derstand graphs, multiple choice tests and maps, and information processing delays. Having completed her under- graduate education at the University of California-Davis, Green said she misses the understanding of the Dis- ability Resource Center there. "You appreciate what you've got when you don't have it," she said. Still, Green chose the University because she "was impressed with the way the department... handled my LD." Although she has fewer prob- lems each day, Green said it is still a struggle to teach instructors about LDs. "They didn't understand what they needed to do for me, and I didn't understand how to let them know what I needed," she added. School tax sharing approved by state LANSING (AP) - Major leg- islation to share some property tax money among school districts statewide won final approval yesterday despite bitter opposition from lawmakers representing wealthier districts. The measure now goes to Gov. John Engler for his signature. It is designed to narrow the spending gap between richer districts and poorer ones that has been a growing problem in school finance for years. "We've got a bill that over a decade will make a difference," said Sen. Dan DeGrow, (R-Port Huron) and a leading backer of the plan. "We have a real problem in this state with per-pupil spending," he said. "This is a step forward in dealing with that. This is a fair approach to a real problem." He said currently, the gap in spending ranges from $2,300 per pupil per year to about $9,000 per pupil per year. He said over a decade, the legislation will shift $350 million to $400 million from affluent to poorer districts. It would require wealthier school districts to give up half of the yearly valuation growth of commercial and industrial property.' But opponents attacked the measure as unfair to more affluent districts, which will lose some of their growing tax base. "This tax-base sharing legislation is a tragic mistake," said Senate Minority Leader Arthur Miller, (D-Warren). "You cannot commit highway robbery in one part of the state and hide the crime behind a fancy name like tax-base sharing." Other senators warned it will force some districts to increase local property tax rates in an attempt to replace the lost money. But Sen. Virgil Smith, (D- Detroit), defended the bill. "We have to share the resources of the state with all the children, not just a privileged few," he said. The measure passed the Senate on a vote of 22-16. 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He said Mann was set free "to facilitate Perez de Cuellar's mis- sion. The other side is required to fa- cilitate his mission too." He apparently referred to the kidnappers' demands that Israel re- lease 20 more Arab prisoners, or possibly Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid, the Hezbollah leader seized by Is- raeli commandos in 1989. Yossi Olmert, an Israeli gov- ernment spokesperson, said Mann's release was a "a positive and wel- MSA Continued from page 1 week. They will attempt to address our concerns. I felt that was a gen- uine offer." Other assembly members voiced concern that students seem to be limited to an advisory role in cam- pus policy making and said they wanted students included in the process in the future. "(The Union policy) was ill- planned and poorly implemented and the University ought to be bend- ing over backwards to accommodate student concerns and student sug- gestions," said Rackham Rep. Max Ochoa."We just have no say at all to what happens on campus. We have a solely advisory capacity, not a pol- icy-making capacity." come development." He noted that Israel still seeks word on five miss- ing soldiers and added: "If more in- formation comes our way, we will reciprocate." Mann was freed at 8:40 p.m. at west Beirut's Beau Rivage hotel and turned over to the Syrian army, Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said. He was then taken to Damascus. Mann's wife, Sunnie, left Cyprus for Damascus to meet her husband of more than 50 years. "I'm very, very happy," she said. At least nine Westerners are still missing in Lebanon. GATES Continued from page 1 House aide Oliver North, Allen said. Allen said Gates told him he had always admired North but that "this was going too far" if indeed a diversion was under way. 'I had what I call an analytic judgment. Mr. Gates may call it speculation. That's fair. But I call it an analytic judgment' - Charles Allen senior CIA official Pressed by Sen. Sam Nunn, (D- Ga.), Allen said, "It was clear that I implied the chain went from North to Adm. Poindexter," President Reagan's national security adviser. Allen also differed with Gates IRAQ Continued from page 1 Security Council's president, French Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee. At a news conference in Baghdad, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz accused the leader of the U.N. team of being "an officer of the U.S. intellience service," the official Iraqi News Agency reported. He contended the inspectors gathered material yesterday to use against individual Iraqis and were not looking at documents related to Iraq's nuclear program. On Monday, the same U.N. team was detained for 12 hours in a Baghdad building after finding what . they said was evidence that Iraq has been trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iraqi troops seized the pa- pers and returned some early yester- day. U.N. officials said key docu- ments appeared to be missing. The officials said the documents found yesterday gave a fuller pic- ture of Iraq's secret nuclear pro- gram. Iraqi troops surrounded the U.N. team yesterday and refused to let it take away papers and photographs of documents gathered in an unan- nounced search at the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission. Iraqi officials said the inspectors would not be al- lowed to leave unless they surren- dered the material. David Kay, the American head of the U.N. nuclear team in Baghdad, reported that the inspectors were holed up in six cars and a bus outside the commission, refusing to surren- der their evidence. He said they were blocked from leaving by 60 armed Iraqi security men at midday and were still surrounded more than 12 hours later. Kay said the team had "no inten- tion of giving up that film," and was prepared for a long standoff. The inspection teams routinely on the amount of information he had conveyed to him about the suspected diversion during the Oct. 1 meeting. Gates has testified that Allen's re- marks amounted to a brief reference at the end of a lengthy conversation on other issues, and called it "extraordinarily flimsy" specula-' n tion. "I had what I call an analytic judgment," testified Allen, who at the time was the top CIA counter- terrorism official. "Mr. Gates may call it speculation. That's fair. But I call it an analytic judgment." len bsaid that at te tieh Ale adta ttetm efeared, but had no proof, the trail would lead to the Oval Office. But now "I have absolutely no knowl- edge" that Reagan was involved in the diversion, he added. Gates "has a faulty memory when it comes to the involvement of the NSC" - the National Security Council - said panel' member Bill Bradley (D-N.J.). videotape and photograph the docu- ments they examine. Kay spoke in several live inter- views with Cable News Network from Baghdad, using a portable satellite telephone. "It's essential for the interna- tional community's long-term sta- bility that inspectors have the right to freely inspect, to collect data, to. remove it for analysis," Kay said. Asked about Aziz's charge that he is an American spy, Kay said: "It's completely ridiculous and un- true." Iraqi officials claimed the team took routine personnel records un- related to Iraq's nuclear research program. Kay said, "We were taking in- formation on the top personnel in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program and clandestine uranium enrichment program as well as the financial data on their procurement abroad of items for their clandestine pro- gram." He said the team also found doc- uments on long-range missile pro- duction. JSbe 3tdctian BaiIy The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students atthe University of Michigan. 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