The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 8, 1992- Page 7 U-M Dearborn program builds mentor network by Johnny Su The U-M Dearborn has been selected as one of two universities nationwide as a test site for a program intended to improve the role of women on campus. The Campus Initiative for Equity is hosting its first meeting at the Henry Ford Estate Fair Lane at U-M Dearborn today. The pilot project, co-sponsored by U-M Dearborn wand the American Association for University Women (AAUW) Legal Advocacy Fund, is an initiative to es- tablish a program offering mentoring networks to women students, faculty and staff. "Our hope is that we will be able to create a more supportive environment for the women faculty, staff and students by creating mentoring networks to deal with issues dealing with women on campus," said Lynne Aldrich, vice chancellor for institutional advancement at U-M Dearborn. "For example, a junior faculty member working to- ward a tenure will be paired with a senior faculty mem- ber with tenure who can provide services and support - it's kind of like an internship where someone shows them the ropes and how to achieve their goals," said Britta Roan, a program coordinator and staff counselor at U-M Dearborn. The goals of the program are: M To reduce the isolation of women on campus; To help women in higher education achieve *equity in their educational and professional lives; To assist women maximize their opportunities and cope with roadblocks; and, To raise awareness of equity issues. Mentoring networks will be established with target groups focusing on issues such as problems facing women students, achieving tenure for women faculty, affirmative action and campus safety. "Different people on campus are already working on these issues. We are hoping the program will serve as an umbrella to bring these people together," Roan said. In the past, the AAUW has been involved with liti- gations involving women and equity issues. The Campus Initiative for Equity is an attempt by the AAUW to deal with or eliminate equity issues in a more pro-active way. Austin Peay University in Clarksville, Tenn. was also chosen as a site for the program. As a pilot project, the program is only scheduled to run for one academic year. After that time, a report will be submitted by U-M Dearborn to the AAUW for evaluation, and a decision will be made on whether or not the program will be expanded and replicated at other sites nationwide. The U-M Ann Arbor did not submit a proposal to AAUW for implementing the pilot program. But Carol Hollenshead, the AAUW representative for Ann Arbor, said, "If (AAUW representatives) con- tinue to expand the program and provide the funding, it is certainly something that the Ann Arbor campus would consider applying for. I think something like that is always possible." Roan added, "We've sent quite a bit of information to members of the Ann Arbor campus such as Women's Studies students and the Center for the Education of Women." The keynote speaker for today's kickoff will be Jacquelynne Eccles, the director of combined program in education and psychology at U-M Ann Arbor. Her talk will address why women are less likely to take math and science classes due to the attitudes they learn from their parents, teachers and peers. The program will also include presentations by Susan Reddy-Butler, the president of the AAUW Legal Adivocacy Fund, Aldrich and Josephine Altstetter, the Dearborn AAUW representative. High school senior, to turn 18.Nov. 4, obtains right to vote KALAMAZOO (AP) - Chris Petzold's birth certificate says he won't turn 18 until Nov. 4. But come Nov. 3, he's planning to step into a voting booth and help choose a president. At first, Petzold was rejected by the Kalamazoo city clerk, who said he couldn't vote unless he turned 18 before or on the day of the election. But then Petzold learned in gov- ernment class about a little-known state attorney general's ruling that might make him eligible. The lesson came during a segment last month on the constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. His teacher, Chuck Ocvirek, told of how his wife used the ruling in 1960 to win the right to vote. Lana Ocvirek turned 21, then the voting age, the day after the Nov. 8 election. "I thought it was kind of unfair that by one day I would have to wait four more years until I got a chance to vote for the president," said Petzold, a senior at Loy Norrix High School in Kalamazoo. "When (Ocvirek) told us about his wife, I thought 'that applies to me."' The 1956 ruling, written by then- Michigan Attorney General Thomas Kavanagh, reads: "A person is (18) at the beginning of the day preceding his anniversary. ... The Constitution does not provide that a person shall be above the age of (18) in order to be qualified to vote." According to that ruling, Petzold is eligible to vote, Bradley Wittman, director of information and voter registration for the Secretary of State's office, said last week. Kalamazoo City Clerk Nancy Collins got a copy of the ruling Friday and made arrangements for Petzold to vote. He says Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton will get his vote. "It's interesting that history re- peats itself and that a student of mine was rejected just like my wife was rejected," Ocvirek said. "I've been mentioning it every year," Ocvirek said. "(Petzold) is the type of student who would want to vote and he has every right to." - Fruit off the loom Ann Arbor resident Rita Stankwitz and 13-month old son Carl frolic at the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market in Kerrytown yesterday. 'Hellish' Serb shelling continues SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Serb fighters were reported cleaning out the last pockets of resistance in a northern strategic city yesterday, and they widened their offensive with intensified shelling throughout the region. The lightning capture of Bosanski Brod on the Croatian border was a major victory for the Serbs, who are seeking to set up their own republic within Bosnia possibly as a prelude to linking up with Serbia. The Serbian advances mean they have taken control of 70 percent of Bosnia in the 7- month-old civil war, and their offensive seeks to gain further territory before winter. More than 14,000 people have been killed in Bosnia since Bosnian Serbs rebelled against a vote in February by majority Muslims and Croats to secede from Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The fall of Bosanski Brod apparently was part of a Serbian offensive aimed at occupy- ing more Bosnian territory before winter sets in. There was major shelling in Sarajevo in what the city's radio called a "hellish" morn- ing. There was major fighting in the north, ac- cording to Croatian radio reports: heavy Serb artillery blasted the region around Zupanja, 35 miles east of Slavonski Brod; the city of Gradacac was hit by hundreds of missiles and cluster bombs; Serb forces 12 miles north of Gradacac were caught in a Muslim-Croat pin- cer, forcing them to retreat and leave 10 artillery pieces behind. Serb missiles targeted Bihac, a Bosnian border town just 40 miles south of Zagreb, Croatia's capital. Maglaj, 60 miles north of Sarajevo, was bombed by Serb warplanes. Mostar, 100 miles southwest of the Bosnian capital, was rocked by artillery barrages. Officials in Slavonski Brod, a Croatian city across the Sava River, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity, said small-arms fire and the boom of artillery continued to sound from the neighboring Bosnian town late yesterday. They said Serb troops apparently were moving from house to house, firing machine gun bursts inside and throwing in hand grenades to clean up last pockets of suspected resistance. AP photographer Zoran Bozicevic said dozens of houses set on fire by the Serb in- vaders blazed in Bosanski Brod. A high-rise apartment building still burned yesterday morning. The bridge across the Sava River was blown up before dawn yesterday, destroying what for months had been a path to relative safety for tens of thousands of refugees. Just hours before its destruction, at least 5,000 refugees and Muslim-Croat forces used the bridge to flee the Serb advance. The Serb offensive appeared aimed at eliminating the entire Bosnian enclave along the river border. The enclave threatened the supply routes running from Serbia proper to areas held by Serb rebels in western Bosnia and central Croatia. A Croatian army spokesman in Zagreb told The Associated Press yesterday that Croat-Muslim defenders, under constant air and artillery attack for six days, were withdrawn to save lives. ArruIu Ivan Pivac, a soldier from northern Bosnia, cleans his tank yesterday - with his mascot baby doll on the tank - in Slavonski Brod, Croatia after withdrawing from the Bosnian town of Bosanski Brod. Abortion drug also a morning-after pill, study finds BOSTON (AP) - A controversial French- made abortion drug is also a highly effective morning-after pill, preventing all pregnancies in women who have unprotected sex, a study found. The drug, RU486, has not been approved for use in the United States. A study conducted in Scotland and pub- lished in today's New England Journal of Medicine concluded that making the drug * available for use after intercourse could reduce the need for abortions. However, one anti-abortion group said it would fight this use of the drug, arguing that a morning-after pill is just another form of abor- tion. The drug is available only in France, where it was introduced in 1988, and in Britain, Sweden and China. The drug acts on the hormonal system to trigger abortions early in pregnancy. It causes the embryo or fetus to become separated from 'People are trying to find a highly effective form of post-coital contraceptive that is easy to use and free from side effects. It would seem that RU486 meets those requirements.' -Anna Glasier study director the uterine wall and be expelled. When used as a morning-after pill, RU486 is believed to prevent implantation of the fertil- ized egg in the wall of the uterus. In the study, doctors from the University of Edinburgh compared RU486 to high doses of the birth-control pill, now the standard morn- ing-after approach, but one that frequently causes nausea and doesn't always work. "People are trying to find a highly effective form of post-coital contraceptive that is easy to use and free from side effects," said Anna Glasier, who directed the study. "It would seem that RU486 meets those requirements." The research was conducted on 800 women who sought emergency contraception within three days of having unprotected intercourse. Half the women were given RU486 and half got birth control pills. None of the women taking RU486 got pregnant, compared with four pregnancies among those receiving birth control pills. RU486 was also less likely to cause nausea. Glasier said the World Health Organization will soon start a study to see if a lower dose of RU486 than the one they tried will be as effec- tive in preventing pregnancy. David Grimes of the University of Southern California said the drug is a contraceptive, not an abortive agent, because pregnancy does not begin until an embryo is implanted in the uterus. "I think this will change the political land- scape for this medicine," he said. "It is a use that may prevent abortion rather than cause abortion." But Richard Glasow of the National Right to Life Committee called the study "a blatant attempt to improve the public image of a dan- gerous abortion technique." He said that proponents of the drug "are just playing word games to try to change the debate" when they argue that life begins at im- plantation, not fertilization. The main drawback of RU486 was that it delayed the start of menstrual periods by a few days in about 40 percent of women, re- searchers said. 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