The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 8, 1992 - Page 3
Scientist shifts
science with
*discoveries
by David Wartowski
Daily Research Reporter
A University scientist says he has set the textbooks
straight.
Chemistry Prof. Raoul Kopelman said he does not
want to take credit for an incredible revolution but his
discovery may change a fundamental chemical concept.
Kopelman gave a presentation last month to the
American Physical Society that explained molecules do
not react in tight spaces. Kopelman found that after be-
ing mixed, chemicals will pull away from each other in
small areas such as cell membranes.
Kopelman said the discovery proves a hypothesis
chemists have previously considered but disregarded
because chemistry textbooks have assumed reactions
will always follow a chemical equation.
The phenomenon is like Darwin's "survival of the
fittest," he said, because wherever there is an abundance
*of one kind of molecule, its sheer number will enable it
to dominate that section of the membrane.
Chemistry Ph.D. graduate student Yong-Eun Lee
Koo finished the experiment a year ago.
Kopelman will present an unrelated discovery today
to the American Chemical Society in Los Angeles.
Chemistry Ph.D. graduate student Zhong-You Shi
worked with Kopelman to send energy, in the form of
excitons, through a strand of polymers as tiny as a
nanometer in diameter.
Although this is the first time excitons have been
transmitted this way in the laboratory, the process has
been used in nature for millions of years, Kopelman
said.
Photosynthesis in green plants follows the same
concept, Kopelman said. Plants turn photons from the
sun into excitons that branch through the plant.
Group tries to
finalize social
events policy
by Purvi Shah
Daily Administration Reporter
A coalition of student groups is
supposed to finalize a University-
wide Social Events Policy today, but
there is speculation about whether
all the loose ends will be tied by the
close of this afternoon's meeting be-
tween coalition members and
University administrators.
An alliance of student groups,
including the Michigan Student As-
sembly and the Black Greek Asso-
ciation, have been meeting for a
month to revise the current Union
Access and Social Events policies
and to create a new University
policy on social events.
Members of the coalition have
previously voiced concerns about
the lack of student input and alleged
discrimination against minority
groups in the original Union Access
Policy.
Black Student Union member
David Marable said the coalition has
made progress slowly. He added that
everyone has had an opportunity to
voice concerns, even if the final
agreement does not reflect those
concerns.
Marable said the group is at-
tempting to encompass safety and
comfort considerations, in addition
to erasing the Union Access Policy
from the final policy.
"A policy that doesn't eliminate
the currentAccess Policy will be
unacceptable," Marable said. "(The
goal) is to ultimately eliminate the
Union Access Policy that keeps
guards at the doors checking IDs,
which is uncomfortable for students
- especially African American
students."
Frank Cianciola, Union building
director, said if the group does not
'A policy that doesn't
eliminate the current
Access Policy will be
unacceptable.'
- David Marable
Black Student Union
member
establish a coherent policy today,
then he and Associate Vice President
for Student Affairs Royster Harper
would compile a policy in light of
discussed issues.
"We established that right at the
beginning of the session," Cianciola
said. "That was a situation accepted
by all the members present at the
start of these discussions."
But Marable said that the group
may have to extend the policy
deadline.
"It'll probably have to go a little
longer than (today), but we're not
for sure now," he said. "It was an
understanding, but I think that was
depending on what progress we
made. I guess we'll find out tomor-
row, but that's not my exact
understanding."
Banging the drums
"The bongo man" plays the drums with Tequila Mocking Bird during the Battle of the Bands
yesterday on the Diag. This performance will be a part of tonight's UAC's Michigras.
Tsongas' N.Y. count fuels re-entry speculation
.....
AbyAndrew Levy
Daily Campaign Issues Reporter
Though Democratic presidential
hopeful Bill Clinton walked away
with victories in last night's New
York, Wisconsin and Kansas pri-
maries, Paul Tsongas was the center
of attention.
In yet another surprise in the
1992 campaign season, Tsongas -
who suspended his campaign March
*20 - captured 30 percent of the
New York primary vote. Tsongas'
second-place finish in New York,
combined with a 22 percent showing
in the Wisconsin balloting and a
second-place finish in Kansas, has
fueled speculation that he will an-
nounce his re-entry into the cam-
paign in a press conference sched-
uled for 3 p.m. today.
Jerry Brown, the former
SCalifornia governor who just two
weeks ago won a surprise victory in
Connecticut, came out of the New
York campaign with only 25 per-
cent. Brown invested a great deal of
time and money in the state, and had
said he hoped to use a victory there
as a springboard toward the nomina-
tion.
In the day's three Republican
contests, President George Bush
came away with sizable victories,
and moved ever closer to clinching
the GOP nomination. Challenger Pat
Buchanan was not able to pull 20
percent of the vote in any of those
primaries, and the New York GOP
primary was canceled because
Buchanan could not get on the bal-
lot.
"This was a huge victory for Paul
Tsongas," said Republican National
Committee chair Rich Bond. Bond,
who appeared with Democratic
National Committee chair Ron
Brown on CNN's Larry King Livee
last night, said Clinton's campaign
was "fatally flawed."
"When 60 percent are against you
and 40 percent are for you, you have
a problem on your hands," Bond
said.
Indeed, Clinton may have a prob-
lem. Thirty-seven percent of
Democratic voters indicated in exit
polls they thought Clinton was not
honest enough and did not have the
integrity to be president.
But Ron Brown, who called
Tsongas' showing the night's
"biggest surprise" called Clinton the
night's "biggest winner."
"I think (Clinton's) performance
tonight is a major step in his quest
for the nomination," Brown said.
"To win in three states and to win
substantially - that's impressive."
Both Bond and Ron Brown
agreed the former California gover-
nor's campaign hit a roadblock last
night.
Regardless of who voters chose,
exit polls seemed to indicate they
were not happy with the slate of
candidates. This was the case partic-
ularly in New York, where bitter ex-
changes between candidates Brown
and Clinton and intense media cov-
erage left a sour taste in many vot-
ers' mouths.
At press time, it was not clear
how the delegate count would look
by the end of the night. However, it
appeared Clinton would come out of
the night with nearly 1,300 delegates
- more than half of the 2,145
needed to win the Democratic nomi-
nation on the first ballot.
Lecturer champions
absolutist interpretation
of First Amendment
Correction
These are the correct results for City Council 5th Ward: Thais Peterson (D),
1,821; Jeff Muir (R), 1,292; David Raaflaub (L), 140. These figures were
incorrectly reported in yesterday's Daily. Bill Lome's name was misspelled
in Monday's Daily.
THE LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Grad. student found dead
by Lauren Dermer
Daily Crime Reporter
University police found a 26-
year-old graduate student dead from
a gunshot wound to the head early
yesterday in a rarely-used office of
the University Exhibit Museum.
The body of James Doubles was
discovered in room 107 Exhibit An-
nex by a custodian at 8 a.m.
University Department of Public
Safety officers said a handgun was
found on the floor next to his body.
Police said they believe Doubles
most likely committed suicide.
Although Double's body was
found yesterday, police said he may
have been dead for up to three days.
His mother - who lives in Lake
Elmo, Minn. - had been trying to
contact him by phone since Friday.
Doubles was a teaching assistant
in the biology department and a
Ph.D. candidate in entomology.
Thomas Moore, a biology profes-
sor who worked closely with
Doubles, said he was, "a great guy,
very nice person."
Moore also said Doubles was
well-liked by the students he taught.
Police are continuing
investigations.
by Chastity Wilson
Daily Staff Reporter
Lyle Denniston, an expert on
First Amendment issues, supported
an absolutist interpretation of the
amendment in the I1th annual Ken-
neth Murray lecture yesterday at
Rackham.
Absolutism, he said, asks for a
simple, undiluted form of the First
Amendment.
Denniston covered the Supreme
Court for the Wall Street Journal and
the Washington Star before taking
his current position as legal affairs
reporter for the Baltimore Sun.
Denniston said the "ugly con-
frontations" surrounding the First
Amendment will not end until there
is a deeper understanding of the
"core value of the freedom of
expression."
The First Amendment in its undi-
luted form, he said, would entail "no
law of libel and no law of privacy
invasion." It would also mean no
binding regulations of obscene ex-
pression or of print and broadcast
media.
The undisputed freedom of
speech would tolerate radical indi-
vidualism, the same individualism
that is "dangerous even in a society
that entertains itself by thinking that
it is free," Denniston said.
However, he added, First
Amendment absolutism is specifi-
cally designed to encourage
"individual creative possibility."
Without adornment, the First
Amendment would grant the right to
be completely "irreverent, rebel-
lious, experimental, free, original
and revolutionary," he said.
To opponents of absolutism
Denniston said, "It is original sin to
think that a person given the free-
dom to do good or bad will always
do bad."
When absolute freedom of ex-
pression is practiced, Denniston
said, "some of us might be disgusted
or offended."
The possibility of being of-
fended, Denniston said, is "an ac-
ceptable cost of knowing no society
is risk-free when there's freedom of
expression."
Meetings
Ann Arbor Coalition to Unleash
Power, Michigan Union, Crofoot Rm,
7:30 p.m.
Hindu Students Weekly meeting
B115 MLB, 8 p.m.
Korean Students Association, weekly
mtg, Michigan Union, Anderson Rm, 5
p.m.
"International Observer Magazine"
General Meeting 8:00 p.m. Michigan
Union
Latin American Solidarity
Committee, weekly mtg, Michigan
Union, 2203 Rm, 8 p.m.
Rainforest Action Movement, weekly'
mtg, 1046 Dana (School of Natural
Resources), 7 p.m.
Students Concerned About Animal
Rights, weekly mtg, Dominick's, 7 p.m.
American Advertising Federation
(AAF) 3040 Frieze Bldg. 6:00 p.m.
U of M Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club,
weekly meeting, CCRB Martial Arts
rm, 8-9 p.m.
Discussion of Objectivism: The
philospohy of Ayn Rand" Chapter 4,
2212 MLB, 8:00 p.m.
Travel in America Workshop for.
Interntaional students, rm 9,
Interntaional Center, 4 p.m.
Speakers
"Resampling" 1443 Mason Hall, 4:00
p.m.
"Laser Assisted Investigations of
High Molecular Weight
Compunds," 1650 Chem, 4:00 p.m.
"The price of Japan-bashing: Who
killed Vincent Chin?" 250 Hutchins
Hall. 7 p.m.
Furthermore
Free Tax Help, VITA 9-5 p.m. 3909
Mich Union
Students, with a good piano
background who wish to learn to play
the Bells in Burton tower may call for
an audition, 4-2539
Environmental Beauty Seminar,
Pendleton Rm, Unmion, 10:30 a.m.-
4:00 p.m.
The Seven Deadly Sins in Applying
to Law School & How to avoid them,
Anderson Rm, Union, 7:30 p.m.
Yost Ice Arena, public ice skating 12-
12:50 p.m.
Safewalk, night-time safety walking
service. Sun-Thurs 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.,
Fri-Sat, 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. Stop by 102
UGLi or call 936-1000. Also, extended
hours: Sun-Thurs 1:30-3 a.m. Stop by
Angell Hall Computing Center or call
763-4246.
Northwalk, North Campus nighttime
team walking service. Sun-Thur 8
p.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri-Sat 8:00 p.m.- 11:30
p.m. Stop by 2333 Bursley or call 763-
WALK.
Undergraduate Psychology Peer
Advising, Undergraduate Psychology
Office, K-108 West Quad, 9:00 a.m.- 4:
00 p.m.
ECB Writing Tutors, Angell/Mason
Hall Computing Center, 7-11 p.m.
U-M Taekwondo Club, Monday
workout. CCRB Martial Arts Rm
2275, 6:30-8 p.m. Beginners welcome.
East Quad/RC Social Group for
Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals,
weekly mtg, 9 p.m.
U of M Ninjitsu Club, practice, I-M
Bldg, wrestling rm, 7-8:30 p.m
Cantebury House, Eurcharist, 4:10
p.m. Lord of Light Church
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