2 -- The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 26, 1994 ALCOHOL Continued from page 1 Skowron said DPS charges 10 to 15 people per week for public intoxi- cation, although this number varies with the events of the week. "Football Saturdays, we arrest easily 50 or 60 people in one day, about 100 for the whole weekend." Those charged with public intoxi- cation could face a 10 day stay in jail and a small fine. If students do make it to their house or apartment, they are generally home free. This is not true for the students who live in the resi- dence halls, however. "If a resident is obviously drunk, we confront them," said Nung Bui, a Newberry resident adviser. "We write up an incident report, which goes to the resident director and goes through a judicial hearing." Thisjudicial process is outlined in the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities, known as the code. The hearing consists of six student jurors and a faculty chair. As there are no set punishments for alcohol viola- tions, sanctions vary for case to case. "There is always a possible lease termination on the first offense, but it usually takes two or three violations," Bui said. Bui added that the same pro- cedure is followed if students are caught drinking in their rooms, but must pour out the alcohol immediately. Several students said that there is basically no threat of punishment from their RAs. "They don't see it, they don't care," Bobick said. "They won't go looking for it." More severe than the threat of Uni- versity or police punishment is the health risk. According to the Department of Public Health, three or four students are taken to the emergency room every weekend for alcohol poisoning. "There's not much you can do for alcohol poisoning because it's already in the blood," said an official at Poi- son Control. "You just flush the per- son with fluids and wait for the blood to metabolize." Although statistics on the number of deaths due to alcohol poisoning on campus were not immediately avail- able, Public Health workers said they believe deaths due to alcohol abuse are definitely on the rise. Despite the risk of criminal record and even death, underage drinking is still on the rise. "Alcohol consump- tion is becoming more and more a problem," Skowron said. "There's a lot of use and abuse." SIMPSON Continued from page 1 assembly room on the 11th floor where they will begin the first round of a search for 12 jurors and eight alter- nates. They'll be culled from a pool of 1,000 people who have been sum- moned so far for The People versus Orenthal James Simpson, one of the most talked-about, highly publicized cases in history. Today's screening will be forhard- ship, to weed out jurors who can't serve because of personal or job-re- lated commitments. The next step is the voir dire, or the questioning of jurors for suitability to serve. They'll be asked if they can set aside what they've heard and read about the case and reach a verdict based solely on the evidence presented in court. The jurors also will fill out a lengthy questionnaire, 40to 50 pages, devised by trial judge Lance Ito. His version is the result of separate ques- tionnaires crafted by jury consultants hired by both sides to uncover feelings on issues crucial to the Simpson case, such as family violence, racial bias, interracial marriage, celebrity, wealth. Neither side would give an indica- tion of what it's looking for in jurors. Once a jury is impaneled, pros- ecutor Marcia Clark wants them se- questered throughout the trial. The defense has filed papers in opposi- tion. But Clark says it's imperative, arguing that it's cheaper to sequester - $3,446 a day - than to retry the case at $9,459 a day. Although jury selection begins today, it's not clear when the actual trial will begin because Ito first has to Prosecutor Marcia Clark says 0 sequestering the jury Is imperative, arguing that it's cheaper than retrying the case. hold hearings on whether the DNA evidence can be admitted at trial. Dimitrius said she didn't expect open- ing arguments before late November Prospectivejurors were told they need to be available through February, 1995. Sources in the courthouse said Friday about700jurors had responded to the summons. . _ Stand Out In YOUR Next Presentation. Use Color: It Stands Out! MICHIGAN 10.99 MWHRCP SACO Y S AL W& R 4 $,rygi SCHEDULED R S A A AL t o g % MWHR 6 iy) '16 --------- -- ------------... %Nib, 0 - ____________ ________________ p7 It d Soug (a6o t doc Mn Aflw 12044 &MIP. t41&W SAL* "S 44 a a t0 LAWSUIT Continued from page 1 chair Frank Beaver first offered Friendly the department position in 1988. "This letter formally offers you the position of Executive Editor of the Masters of Arts Program in Jour- nalism, Department of Communica- tion, University of Michigan. The appointment, which begins Sept. 1, 1988, is for three years with the pos- sibility of renewal at the end of this period," Beaver said in his letter. In a letter dated Sept. 26, 1990, Beaver offered Friendly a second three- year contract, which ended June 30. But the University broke that pat- tern in April, offering Friendly a one- year contract. In a letter, Huesmann offered Friendly an appointment for one year, from July 1, 1994 to June 30, 1995. The new contract also adds addi- tional responsibilities for Friendly, with only a standard pay increase. Under his old contract, Friendly conducted the Journalism Workshop, taught a communication course in the winter term and supervised summer internships. The new contract will require Friendly to teach an additional com- munication course, arrange intern- ships, head two programs on the envi- ronment - one for journalists and one for high schoolteachers, and teach an additional half course the follow- ing year. Documents obtained by the Daily under the Freedom of Information Act show that Friendly has been probing the misuse of the endowment funds since 1992. Friendly claims in his suit that this role cost him another three-year contract. In a March 5, 1992 letter to Neil Malamuth, then-chair of the commu- nication department, Friendly dis- cussed his review of inappropriate spending. "Slightly more than half of the money seems to have gone forpurposes not identified as appropriate in the origi- nal bequest and in our recent letter to Dean Goldenberg reporting on the fund," Friendly said in his letter. In a Dec. 31, 1992 letter to Regent Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor), Friendly provided a detailed account of mis- spent funds. The Howard R. Marsh Center, one ofthe misspent endowments, was to be used to support faculty research related to long-range factors that affect the ability of news media to perform their functions in a democratic society. According to Friendly's letter, the most frequent user of this account was Malamuth. In this 1992 letter to Power, Friendly claims that Malamuth used the following funds: $686 "to do research in Los Angeles" - where his parents live 'U' blames Friendl for. media blitz, The story about the misuse of endowment funds in the commu- nication department first appeared in an article in The Detroit News. In June, President James J. Duderstadt asserted that Friendly's position as an assistant city editor at The Detroit News brought the issue to the lead position in the paper. But Friendly said a University press release prompted the story, and he was not involved with de- ciding the story's placement or its content. "I thought what he said was totally unfounded and an attack on the ethics of the paper and on my ethics. I think he did it with no factual basis," Friendly said yes- terday. Julie Peterson, director of the University's News and Informa- tion Services, yesterday confirmed that her office sent a press release to The Detroit News the day be- fore the story appeared in the pa- per. But she added the story had additional information that had not been released by her office. Documents obtained by the Daily shows that Friendly had been questioning the endowments' use since 1992. and he owns a house - during the 1991-92 holiday break; $525 to fly to Washington tc address the National Women's Demo- cratic Club; $296 for a Jan. 23, 1992 trip to Chicago with his fiancee to recruit Huesmann; $292 for another Chicago trip a month later to discuss research and possible recruitment to the Univer- sity with Huesmann; $124 for a dinner party for eight people at Malamuth's home; $105 for a staff Christmas party in his house; and, $87 for "miscellaneous busi- ness luncheons with U of M faculty." One of the endowment abuses was to partially fund Friendly's own salary. In an Oct. 1, 1993 letter to Huesmann, Friendly questioned the use of the Weber endowment to sup- port Friendly's salary. 4 "If more than half of the Weber: income - $25,000 of $45,000 - is allocated to my salary and only 10 percent of my time is devoted to in- ternships, we can no longer say that. three quarters of the money is going to the specific purpose for which the. Weber was given," Friendly said in his letter. If te Beckei The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $90. Winter term (January through April) Is $95, year-long (September through April) is $160. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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