Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, December 3,1992 BILLS Continued from page 1 wait until the next legislative session to find out the fate of a related bill. Originally conceived by MCC and introduced by Rep. Lynn Jondahl (D-Okemos) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing), the Work Study amendment passed the House in April and is now in the Senate Education Committee. Sen. Michael Bouchard (R- Birmingham), chair of the Education Committee, said he supports the bill and expects it will return to his committee next year. "I have had a pretty full plate since I came to the Education Committee ... The bill has not been buried - it is a time constraint," he said. The proposed bill would amend the Michigan Work Study Program to allow non-profit community ser- vice agenciesto employ students with work study funds. The program would pay 100 per- cent of the students' wages instead of the current 80 percent, in order to assist struggling community service agencies and broaden employment options for students. SAFETY Continued from page 1 quickly," saidColleen McGinnis, legislative associate for the Sub- committee on Post-Secondary Edu- cation. The Safe Campuses for Women section of the Higher Education Reauthorization Act authorizes $10 million for college campus rape education and prevention systems and victim support services. The bill also insures accessibility of campus security crime reports to the public and requires that campuses have sexual assault policies that respect the rights of rape survivors. Congress has not authorized funding for this act because of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 which caps domestic spending, said USSA Legislative Director Pronita Gupta. Gupta said she was optimistic about funding because of the reallocation of defense spending. "It must get funded. It's not something that you can just hang on to," Gupta said. Although the Violence Against Women Act died in committee and was never heard by the full Ilouse or Senate, the bill will be introduced in the 103rd Congress by theinitial sponsors - including Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich.) - Gupta said. "It's time for ourmnation to address the needs of women who are victims of domestic violence," Riegle said. She said the bill faces some challenges in the House. Some members have expressed concern that new evidentiary rules which exclude descriptions of a woman's clothing and her sexual history will make it difficult to "judge the moral character" of a woman. "We don't know who those people are," Gupta said. "We've heard this." The Violence Against Women Act makes domestic violence a federal crime. Some conservative judges have spoken against this aspect of the bill because they fear it will clog the judicial system, Gupta said. She added that this bill protects all people facing bias on the basis of gender, although women.more often experience this kind of discrimination. "What we want to show (Congress) is that it's not just a small coalition that's worried about it, but many, many people from all walks of life," Gupta said. International conference debates morality of doctor-assisted suicide BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) - Key players in landmark court decisions about whether there is a right to die are expected to gather at a three-day international confer- ence about stopping medical treatment and euthanasia. The conference also will at- tempt to see if there is a consensus on assisted-suicide legislation, said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Biomedical Ethics, the confer- ence's sponsor. Parents of Nancy Cruzan, Karen Ann Quinlan and Christine Busalacchi are scheduled to tell their stories. All three women were said to be in persistent vege- tative states, and court rulings al- lowed their life support to be re- moved. Also expected are the parents of two brain-damaged boys, Ryan Amerman of Detroit and Marc Kerness of Los Angeles, who grew from toddlers to teen-agers hooked to life-support machines before their parents negotiated out of court for permission to let their sons die. "Never before has there been a conference that emphasizes the human drama of the players them- selves," said Ronald Cranford, a Minneapolis neurologist and a supporter of the national "right-to- die" movement. "We're going to hear the story from the families themselves." The conference, which begins today, is expected to draw more than 500 doctors, lawyers, health- care and social workers. FINK Continued from page 1 are citing does not in any way stand in the way of the voters approving a change," he said. "(It) wasn't in- tended for this. The language is very old. It doesn't say elected officials, it says public officials. That is much broader." Weider added that the voters still have the power to decide when elec- tions are held, regardless of the law. "The statute was not intended to restrict the power of the voters to al- ter the charter," he said. "It is a mis- understanding, a misreading, a mis- application of the statute." Peter Nicolas (D-4th Ward), whose term is also affected by VINE, continues to oppose the change. "I consider my term to end in ILL Continued from page 1 Reflecting its recent promi- nence as an issue in the public world, this year's revamped U-M medical school curriculum in- cludes the topic of death and dy- ing, said Dr. Andrew Zweifler, director of the Introduction to the Patient course and professor of Internal Medicine. "We don't have a whole ses- sion on physician-assisted sui- cide," he said. "The issue of how doctors confront the dying patient ... and try to develop a humane and reasoned approach is very important to us." U-M senior clinical social worker Erica Perry, who said she hopes the proposed legislation does not affect the work of doc- tors, argued that it is important to discuss the issues of death and dying in order to stop greater suffering. She added that there are two different perceptions of the issue of physician-assisted suicide. "I don't think there would even be a Kevorkian if we had been talking about death or dy- ing. Within the hospital we tiptoe or avoid death. Outside people are very anxious to be able to discuss death," she said. "There's a higher percentage of people out there who support Kevorkian than inside the hospital walls or the legislature. It points out a need and a direction where Western medicine needs to go." But Zweifler, who agrees that the locus of tension on this issue rests with the medical community and not the lay public, said that many physicians have trouble with the concept of physician-as- sisted suicide. "There's a big problem that physicians have - I'm an older one - with physicians participating in dying. I think there you'll find a lot of ambivalence in the medical com- munity," he said. "Most physicians have been trained to keep people alive. I think many doctors understand that there is a time to let go of patients, but there is a difference helping them along the way." The American Med l- Association's opposition to Kevorkian's methods reflects the. distaste felt by many physicians, spurred in part by a sense that. the Hippocratic Oath mandates doc- tors to save peoples lives. A future doctor, first-year School of Medicine student Indraneel Banerji, stressed that while a patient's wishes must be recognized, so must the doctor's rights. "Each individual has a life and different ideals," he said. "The important thing I was thinking was just because you become a physician, you don't have to cater to other people's values all the time. You can fol- low your moral values and your ideals and state what your ser- vices are and how far you can go. "This is a job and you have rights just like your patients do," he added. But social commentators such as Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman argue that Kevorkian is not serving patients but instead calling the shots to deliver deaths. "I called him then a serial mercy killer who had stepped outside the boundaries of this ethical debate about the right to die," Goodman wrote. "He was a freelancer in the death delivery business." Yet U-M Prof. of Internal Medicine Richard Swartz, who noted that he has one to two pa- tients die every month, claimed that providing assistance in death can comfort doctors. "Sometimes I know that if death is coming and I can help a family have a choice, I find that very satisfying," he said. "It's go- ing to be up to us - thi enera- tion of physicians - to Mal with the issues. Most of the people who go to Dr. Kevorkian do so out of desperation." In the same vein, Maurie Fer- riter, a 40 year-old chronically ill patient who has had renal insuffi- ciency since he was 7, asserted that the issue is patient control over the quality of life. "I want to say one thing about Kevorkian. I think the reason he is in the news is that society and medicine have not dealt with the issue of death for years. They have not faced up to the reality," he said. "The issue of death itself be- comes not the issue. The issue is whether things go the way I want them to. I do not have a fear of dying. I have a fear of not being able to control what happens ... that the courts, physicians or leg- islature will keep me breathing or things that I don't want done," Ferriter added. 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O'Neal added he was not sure he wanted to make the commitment re- quired by the office. "Working in Ann Arbor city government is a demanding under- taking. I'm thinking about it," he said. Councilmember Kurt Zimmer (D-4th Ward) said he had thought Dodge would run for mayor. "I am surprised that Kirk decided not to run, but he decided his family comes first," said Kurt Zimmer (D- 4th Ward). "I greatly respect him for that." Zimmer added that councilmem- bers with other full-time jobs have a tough time as part-time politicians. "It is very difficult ... to compete against the full time folk," he said. Peter Fink (R-2nd Ward) said he would have endorsed his colleague's candidacy. "I would have supported Kirk whole-heartedly," he said. "I wish he had run but I understand his posi- tion. We'll just have to rally behind whoever runs and give Brater a good fight." 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