Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Monday, September 30, 1991 Seintists examine ACT-UP G. ..! i j . U Z .J' I.L d m RS . l r.- Great Lakes dams ACME, Mich. (AP) - Consumers Power Co.'s dam reli- censing research is doing what you might expect: building a case to keep 66 hydroelectric dams in Michigan. But the scientists are also are finding that where there are no dams, Great Lakes toxins are harm- ing inland animals. The Consumers Power research, which includes work from some of the region's most credible eagle, fish and cormorant experts, sug- gests the hydroelectric dams have protected some 20 watersheds from Great Lakes toxins. The power com- pany says that covers about two- thirds of the bald eagle nesting ter- ritory in Michigan. Some of the most dramatic find- ings were presented by Michigan State University eagle researcher Bill Bowerman at a Great Lakes sci- ence symposium in Acme this week- end. Bowerman looked at eagle pairs nesting within two miles of one an- other on the Manistee River on the Lake Michigan side of northern Michigan. Blood taken from eaglets on the nest below Consumers Power's Tippe Dam had more than twice the amount of PCBs and metabolized DDT as eaglets above the dam. The difference between the nests is that the below-dam eaglets ate Great Lakes fish. Bowerman cited the same com- parisons elsewhere on Lake Michigan. He saw high levels of PCBs on the undammed Whitefish River in the Upper Peninsula and in- land lakes connected to the lake, and dramatically lower levels on wa- terways that were blocked off from the Great Lakes. Consumers Power has turned the research over to federal and state agencies for comment. It all goes to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is charged with relicensing the dams. Consumers Power has a Dec. 31 deadline to turn in the reports. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has responded with a staff recommendation that fish not be al- lowed to spawn past the dams until lake toxins are cut to the point they do not effect eagles and other sensi- tive species. Biologist Tim Kubiak, one of the authors of the Fish and Wildlife Service report, said there is pressure from the charter boat lobby to build fish ladders around the dams. Consumers Power biologist Gary Dawson said allowing even small numbers of fish past the dams is "playing Russian roulette" with the environment. "We've got near-pristine water- sheds here," he said Saturday. Continued from page 1 on the average, 30 days after con- tracting AIDS, as opposed to 18 months to three years for a white man above the poverty line. "The privilege of a place like the University rests on top of a pyramid which on the bottom is killing peo- plc through neglect," she said. Among the other lectures was "Sexism Awareness," given by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. It focused on sexism's effect on both men and women, and its detrimental impact on the availability of AIDS treat- ment for women. "AIDS 101" was presented jointly by ACT-UP and University Health Services. It dealt with the political aspect of AIDS, as well as practical information on AIDS pre- vention, testing, and treatment. Members of the Homeless Ac- tion Committee spoke on "Campus and Community," a discussion of the effect of the University's stu- dent population on the city of Ann Arbor. The final discussion was on "Gay Life in Ann Arbor," and focused on problems between the gay and straight community, as well as is- sues within the gay community. About 15 people attended each session, Maurer said. "One would always like significantly higher at- tendance, but it's difficult to moti- vate people to come out for purely educational events," she added. 0 Rear window Vandals broke the window of this car on S. University this weekend. LASERS Continued from page 1 a malignancy, the better the chances of survival. The spatial resolution with x-rays is about a centimeter. So you can only detect a tumor one cen- timeter in size. "Using short-pulse lasers, we expect to get much higher spatial resolution, down to one millimeter. Thus we can avoid the use of x-rays, and get much better resolution." Another potential medical appli- cation is the ability to develop im- ages of living tissue. Previously, the only way to get an image of a cell would be to kill it first, and then examine it under a microscope. But sending a laser 'There are as many femtoseconds in one second as there are seconds in 30 million years' - Gerard Mourou USL Director . pulse through a living cell captures. an image of the cell before it's dead. And by combining that image with laser holography developed by holography pioneer and University electrical engineering Prof. Emmett Leith, scientists can get a truer rep- resentation of what a live cell is ac- tually like. "We're using his classic holog- raphy that he developed along with the latest in ultrafast optics" to im- prove tissue imaging, Mourou said. These new applications will not be available immediately, however. "The idea is that it would be a diagnostic that could potentially be in every doctor's office and could be done right then and there," Valdma- nis said. But, he added, it will be "five to 10 years before there is a clinical application." The electronic applications are potentially stunning as well. A problem in electronics over recent years has been that, as faster and faster transistors are developed, there is no way to measure their speed electronically. But with ul- trafast optical pulses, they can be measured. "You are using these short pulses to time things, tosee ... how fast transistors turn on and off. The only way to measure it is to use femtosecond technology, developed in this laboratory," Valdmanis said. But don't count on Mourou or the USL stopping at femtoseconds. As technology improves, they hope to develop even faster pulses. "That's why the lab wasn't called the femtosecond lab, because it can run out," Mourou said. 9 Justice Dept. finds high number of Black inmates on Death Row WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid a congressional debate on how to impose the death penalty, the Justice Department reported yesterday that Blacks still make up a much larger share of the United States' 2,500 Death Row inmates than of the na- tion's population. The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said that as of Dec. 31, 1990, Blacks comprised 40 per- cent of prisoners awaiting death penalties. The 1990 census found the U.S. population is 12.1 percent Black. The study did not calculate what percentage of the overall U.S. fed- eral and state prison system popula- tion is comprised of Black people. In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled that statistical evidence of discrimination is insufficient to render death penalty statutes uncon- stitutional. That ruling came in the case of Warren McCloskey, a Black man who was executed last Wednesday in the Georgia electric chair for the killing of a white Atlanta police officer during a 1978 furniture store robbery. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved and sent to the House floor a bill allowing legal challenges to death sentences based on statistical showings of race dis- crimination. The Senate rejected a similar provision last summer. Under prodding from the Bush administration, both House and Senate crime bills would greatly expand the federal death penalty - to cover some 50 new crimes. The Justice Department study found 2,356 prisoners awaiting death penalties at year-end, up 5 per- cent from the previous year. Thirty- two of them were women, and the median age was 34. At the time of the study, 34 states and the federal government had death penalties on the books, but Colorado's has since been struck down by the state supreme court. Of those condemned to die, 1,375, or 58.4 percent, were white, 943 or 40 percent were Black, 24 or one per- cent were American Indian and 14 or 0.6 percent were Asian. Those of Hispanic ethnic origin totaled 172, or 7.3 percent, but they include in- mates of several races. UNION Continued from page 1 parent will enter the Union this time?" Some fear that security guards at tables discourage students from coming to the Union. "I certainly know in the Union in the last week, there's been a kind of siege mentality. It really did seem like there was a barrier," Green said about the security guards stationed at Union entrances. He plans to talk to Interim Vice Presi- dent of Student Services Mary Ann Swain about modifications "to make the policy a little less obtru- sive." "One of the reasons the tables are there is that's where you put the ID cards in all the books ... it was a service function. If anything, I think it was perceived as a barrier and that was a negative," Cianciola said. Alan Levy, University housing program director, added he would have liked to have had the meeting before the procedure was instituted to identify such glitches, but said the Union looked into the best in- terests of its patrons - students - in putting the policy into effect so rapidly. ''This is a University issue,"~ Levy said. "The Unionstook some steps within its domain to deal with what it viewed as safety and secu- rity issues within the Union" and should not be seen as a campus-wide security crackdown. Students and faculty who have concerns about the access policy may direct them to the Board, to Cianci- ola via MTS, or by calling 763-5750. " CHARITY Continued from page 1 tion the program, I get the equiva- lent of blank stares over the phone. Some local bodies may not make students quite as aware of it as oth- ers." "We're very pleased with the organization, it's gotten much stronger," said Terri Carnahan, re- cruiting coordinator at Ross, Dick- son and Masback in Washington, D.C. "They're making students more aware of the program, but a lot of students aren't aware and therefore don't participate. We in- vite 100 students back a year, and less than 25 percent participate." y If you wanted to get into the automobile industry in 1913 you went to see HOMELESS Continued from page 1 exposing students to the problem." Elise Jenkins, a junior in engi- neering, was aware of the problem and came out to give her support. "I'll probably be here all night and I think it's good that they are taking the homeless population into con- sideration. It also shows that frats really care and that they are not about partying." Richelle Rembert, an LSA first- year student, felt that the sleep-out was a great idea and that "it's about time the Black group did something positive on campus. Whenever I come through the Diag I always see other groups out here." Jenkins and Rembert, like many others, showed their support by bearing the cold and by donating food and money. Engineering senior Arnie Mo- rosky agreed with the Sigma's show of support for the homeless and felt that the problem should no longer exist. "The money we have should be put towards our own people, not everyone else overseas." Later that night Charles Harris Jr., an Ann Arbor street person who makesthis home at the Liberty Plaza, came to visit the Diag after hearing about the sleep-out. Harris thought the show of support was good, "but the homeless need more people." Harris said it is still too easy for people to ignore homelessness. "There ought to be a multiple of people here. When we can generate people, all will not refuse," he said. Henry Ford in his manufacturing plant in Highland Park, Michigan. There you'd find innovative techniques being applied like the moving assembly line-that would revolutionize the world of industry. You can still find that pioneering spirit today. Take Novell for example, the leader in network operating system software. 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