The Michigan Daily -Thursday, November 17, 1994 - 5 17,st - Write an By DANIELLE BELKIN Daily Staff Reporter Dorothy had to kill the Wicked Witch for the ruby slippers that got her home. All University students have to do is write an essay of 500 words or less and they may win a "charming" A -frame house in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. "It's a great opportunity for col- lege students. I don't know why I didn't think of contacting (a student newspaper) before," said Trudy Adams, a Marquette resident who has decided to give her home away in an essay contest. The essay should tell how winning this home would affect your life. Stu- dents who want a home and cannot afford one or want to get away from "the pressures of urban life" are encour- aged to apply. There is a $25 entry fee. essay, nel Adams has received 1,300 entries so far and the contest will close when she receives 2,500. Afraid of being accused of bias, Adams took herself out of the judging process. "I wanted the contest to be clean," she said. She will read all the entries, but will have no influence in determining the winner. The essays will be judged by an independent panel of two men and two women. Adams chose represen- tatives she considered open-minded because entries may come in from all different areas of the country. The four panelists are residents of Marquette and are well known in the community. Their visibility is impor- tant to Adams, so people know the contest is legitimate and not another "too-good-to-be-true"-type scam. The panel is looking for what they a home in the U.P. feel is the most sincerely expressed sentiment. The winner could have a great need for a home or just be wild about the Upper Peninsula. The main concern is to get the point across. The house, situated on 5.9 wooded acres on a main road, is 10 minutes from Marquette. There are three bed- rooms, a large loft master bedroom, one bathroom, an expansive main room with a 30-foot ceiling and an- other room Adams uses as an office. Originally, Adams tried to sell her house the conventional way by put- ting an ad in the paper. After four weeks, she found it impossible to co- ordinate her schedule with people who were interested in seeing the house. The idea for the contest came to her on her way to work one morning. "I wanted to do something origi- nal, something unique," Adams said. "I needed to find a new owner, maybe someone who had always wanted to get up to the Upper Peninsula and never could." As business manager of the Woman's Center in Marquette, a non- profit organization, Adams is con- stantly involved with fundraising. Because she is always in an environ- ment that is continually trying to find innovative ways to generate money, Adams wanted to do the same thing for herself. "Probably because I am involved in a social services organization I wanted to give something back. Tis seemed like a great way to do that" she said. To enter the contest, write Io HOME, P.O. Box 669, Marquette, I 49855. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for an entry form. AP FILE PHOTO Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide strikes a reflective pose in this 1988 photo. A id *o resign priesthood PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) in 1948. - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Aristide's withdrawal fr the slum priest whose fiery champi- priesthood is not likely to b onship of the poor often pitted him support among Haiti's poor, against dictators and his Roman whom associated the church Catholic superiors, is leaving the chy with the old military reg priesthood. Aristide spokesman Yvo The Vatican, long at odds with the tune acknowledged there had iopulist priest, pressured Aristide to been friction with the church resign, a church source said yester- "The Catholic hierarchy day. Two government officials, who uncomfortable with the presi also spoke on condition of anonym- ing a lay authority and at th ity, confirmed Aristide would leave time a priest who should be the priesthood. for the Holy See," Neptune s There was no immediate comment The Salesian order ex by Aristide or specific reason given Aristide in 1988, saying his lib for his departure. theology teachings were inciti He spent the day meeting with war. The Vatican never f 4aitian business leaders and Oscar defrocked him, but sourc Arias Sanchez, the former president Aristide is now being pressu of Costa Rica who won the Nobel Rome to relinquish his collar Peace Prize in 1987. Aristide, who swept U.N At a news conference, Arias urged vised elections four years a Haitians to follow his country's model turned to Haiti on Oct. 15 aft and abolish the army, which has been years in exile following a Sep blamed for condoning thousands of 1991 military coup. Thousands political killings in the last three years. soldiers came to the Caribbean "I believe that the abolition of the to help restore his governmen ' aitian army is an idea whose time The church official, who re as come," Arias said. Costa Rica, the anonymity, said Aristide will most stable country in Central letter of resignation to the V America, disbanded its armed forces but he did not say when. Schools test bus drivers for dry DETROIT (AP) - School dis- have joined to cover the ex tricts statewide have until Jan. 1 to $35,000 price tag for the pro begin randomly testing school bus first year, said David Ogg, a drivers for drug and alcohol use. superintendent for Macomb Ir * The federal requirement affects diate District Schools. A sim most of Michigan's 12,500 public and fort is under way in Oakland private school bus drivers. By acting as a group, the "I think it's great, because now hope to get lower bids from you don't know who is driving your nies that provide the tests an kids home from school," said Brenda tain the data for the school Biazza, a bus driver for Warren Con- district will pay the share of solidated Schools. "They should have costs for its drivers. started it a long time ago." The law requires districts t A 1991 federal law requires dis- least half of their drivers rands cts and cities to start testing Jan. 1 the first two years. 4If they have 50 or more drivers. The requirement also affects commercial drivers for cities, including snow plow and dump truck drivers. Those districts and cities with fewer than 50 drivers have until Janu- ary 1996 to start testing. The districts and cities will have to pay for their E n t( tests. In Macomb County, six districts More than idn*nka yharmful DALLAS (AP) - Doctors have some sobering news for those who think a little alcohol is good for their health: Anything more than a drink a day may be too much of a good thing. Men who had two to four drinks a week had the lowest rate of death from all causes during an 11-year study, the researchers said yesterday.. Many studies over the past 20 years have shown that people who drink moderately reduce their risk of dying from heart disease by about 40 per- cent. The evidence has become so convincing that some heart special- ists have cautiously recommended moderate drinking for good health. But while heart disease is the nation's No. 1 killer, it is not the only one. Some fear that alcohol's cardiac benefits could be offset by its other hazards, such as cancer and accidents. Researchers from Harvard Medi- cal School examined the effects of drinking on all causes of death, not Derins of Spirits A study of drinking and health by Harvard Medical School researchers found: K Men who have 2 to 4 drinks a week havelowest death rate. N Men who drink daily have same death rate as nondrinkers. 3 Men who drink twice or more daily have 63% higher death rate than nondrinkers. just heart disease, in 22,071 male doc- tors. In 11 years, they compared the risk of death in the drinkers with that of people who seldom or never drank. They found that men who had two to four drinks a week had the lowest death rate - about 22 percent lower than those who shunned alcohol. Men who had up to six drinks a week also ran a lower risk than the nondrinkers. But by the time the men averaged one drink a day, the benefits of alcohol were wiped out. Their death risk was the same as those who never drank. Beyond a drink a day, the risk went up sharply. Those who averaged two or more drinks a day had a death rate that was 63 percent higher than that of the nondrinkers. The researchers found that thelower risk of dying from heart disease was offset by an increase in cancer in those who had more than a drink a day. WASHINGTON (AP) - Doctors say asthma sufferers are dying because they improperly use the nation's new- est and longest-acting asthma drug, prompting a pharmaceutical giant to warn doctors and patients. The drug, Serevent, is very effec- tive at preventing asthma attacks and its effects last longer than other drugs, experts agree. It doesn't treat actual asthma at- tacks - because it takes at least 30 minutes to begin working. Yet, doctors report 20 deaths since Serevent hit the market in April, many believed caused by patients inhaling the drug during an attack and waiting in vain for it tohep. "It's very, very important tlat people understand Serevent is not for acute asthma," RamonaJonesofmang- facturerGlaxo Inc. said yesterday."It's so important for people to have that short-acting bronchodilator in case they get in trouble." Glaxo is warning doctors about the problems and last week began meeting with the Food and Drug Administra- tion about strengthening Serevent's patient warning label. The FDA emphasizes that it can't yet prove a connection with the 20 deaths. Asthma drug fatal if misused om the hurt his many of hierar- ime. Dn Nep- recently 1. ... was dent be- he same working aid. xpelled beration ng class ormally ces say ured by r. .-super- ago, re- er three ptember s of U.S. in nation nt. quested send a Vatican, tigs xpected ogram's ssistant nterme- nilar ef- County. districts compa- d main- s. 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