2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 9, 1996 NATION/WORLD - I Prop. 209 throws a wrench into UC admissions AP PHOTO Students carrying signs and flags march through Belgrade while protesting Saturday against the ruling presidential regime of Slobodan Milosevic. More than 80,000 people protested for the 19th consecutive day against the government's policies. BALKANS Continued from Page 1A in his party whose titles seem impor- tant but who really have little power, and he has tried to use the courts for cover. Although the courts are widely con- sidered to be under Milosevic's control, some diplomats and Serbian analysts had thought the appeals procedure would provide Milosevic with a face- saving way out of the crisis. In recent days, five Supreme Court justices and a number of lower court judges have voiced support for the opposition, giving rise to speculation that Milosevic's annulment of the Nov. 17 elections might be overturned. Both Zajedno and the Belgrade Electoral Commission filed appeals; both have now apparently been reject- ed. "This doesn't make sense unless he has another legal option (in mind) or he has decided to hunker down and try to wait it out and not give an inch," said a Western diplomat. "This demonstrates his desire'to not compro- mile and to play it tough. It demon- strates he is more interested in power than the rule of law." People who have met with Milosevic in recent days said he seems surrealistically cavalier about events in his country. A meeting on Saturday with an American media-rights advo- cate took place only after he delayed plans to go duck-hunting. Kati Marton, the American who chairs the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said Milosevic tore up a declaration she presented him on respecting press freedoms. She then scribbled another, terse statement, which he signed. Marton, who is married to Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. peace envoy to the Balkans, came to Serbia to show support for independent media shut down by Milosevic. She said she told Milosevic that he should try to salvage a reputation that had improved dramatically with the sign- ing of the Bosnian peace accord a year ago but that was now "as bad as could be." Radomir Lazarevic, president of the Belgrade Electoral Commission, told a late-night news conference yesterday that with the appeals rejected, he will pursue other legal remedies, including a new appeal to the Yugoslav, or feder- al, judiciary. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is made up of dominant Serbia and smaller Montenegro. Almost all power rests at the Serbian level, but courts at the federal level can review other courts' decisions. By Melinda Marks The Daily Californian BERKELEY, Calif - A top univer- sity official, in the wake of a temporary restraining order against Proposition 209, said at last Wednesday night's ASUC meeting that pending legal bat- tles place undergraduate admissions policies in limbo. "We have an awkward set of circum- stances," said Bob Laird, director of undergraduate admissions. "No matter what happens (with Proposition 209), we will be rejecting 18,000 people - many of whom will still feel entitled to a place at UCB because generations of their fam- ily have paid California taxes." "The degree of TheA competition will not change," Laird eXpecta added. "The level of expectancy will change. change." Henderson is set to decide today Directort whether to extend admission, the temporary restraining order to the university. At a scheduled Dec. 16 hearing, Henderson is expected to take the next step and rule on a preliminary injunction against Proposition 209. The possibility of an injunction and an appeal leaves unclear whether weight will be given to the applications of underrepresented minority students. "We have been advised by general council to wait," Laird said. "The diffi- culty for us is that we have to evaluate students for their academic and personal achievements. It's a huge, labor-inten- m of is sive process. We probably can't start until Dec. 16, when we know the policy." Currently, 50 percent of all new stu- dents are admitted solely on the basis of grades and test scores. For the remain- ing 50 percent, the admissions office takes into account applicants' extracur- ricular activities, adverse circumstances and disabilities, in addition to race. Proposition 209 prohibits admission policies that take race into account. While the university's own affirmative action ban is set to take effect for spring 1998 applicants, Proposition 209 moves its implementation forward by one year. A campus study projected minority students in the UC system velof would decrease if cy will race prefer- ences were removed from ,BLi the current - Bob Laird system, with undergraduate the enrollment at UC Berkeley of black first- year students dropping 54 percent, Latino/a first-year students by 51 percent and Native American students by 60 percent. Laird added that there would be an 8- percent increase in the enrollment of white students at the university and a 22-percent increase in Asian under- graduates. "It makes a huge difference for under- graduate admissions this coming year," said Northern California ACLU attorney Ed Chen. "Without 209, these affirma- tive action policies would continue." - Distributed by University Wire P I U.S. to dispose of 50 tons of plutomu WASHINGTON -The Clinton administration will announce today a two-track plan to get rid of 50 tons of highly radioactive surplus plutonium from the nation's dwindling stockpile of nuclear weapons. Some of the toxic material will be "immobilized" - encased in glass or ceram- ic blocks and consigned to a permanent underground repository. The rest is to be combined with conventional nuclear power plant fuel and burned in commercg electricity-generating plants under the plan. Both disposition methods in the $2 billion program involve immense technical, economic and political uncertainties. But the Energy Department, after a three- year study, concurred with the National Academy of Sciences that they are prefer- able to all 34 other known methods of plutonium disposition. In reaching the deci- sion, the administration followed the process prescribed by law for actions that have a major environmental impact. Scientists recommended pursuing more than one option because, according to the NAS report, "it is crucial that at least one of these options succeed ... and because the costs of pursuing both in parallel are modest in relation to the security stakes." In selecting two methods, the Energy Department discarded such options as launching the plutonium into space or sinking it in the ocean. The department also rejected Z too dangerous the "do-nothing" alternative, keeping the plutonium in secure storage. Dont P anic If you think you're pregnant.. call us-we listen, we care. PROBLEM PREGNANCY HELP 769-7283 Any time, any day, 24 hours. Fully confidential. Serving Students since 1970. MESSIAH Continued from Page 1A Huebner said. "People like to be invited (to the dinner) and they are very lucky." Current Martha Cook residents were also very proud of the traditional dinner. "The residents bring enthusiasm because it's a bridge between past and future traditions," said Martha Cook resident Katie Hart, a Music senior. Martha Cook resident Elizabeth Powers, co-chair of the dinner planning committee, said the residents of Martha Cook have been planning this year's dinner since September. "At least half of the women work on planning committees," Powers said. "It's been the tradition that the women plan it." The tradition that has both former and current residents boasting started in 1945 when the director of the Martha Cook building, Leona Diekma, invited the director of the University Musical Society to dinner after the concert at Hill Auditorium. The director, Charles Sink, said he could not accept the invitation because his wife planned to host a dinner for the soloists in the concert that night. Diekma invited the soloists to attend dinner that night at Martha Cook as well. Ever since then, the soloists have been the guests of honor at the dinner. Residents of Martha Cook entertained the guests during dinner by playing vari- ous classical works. Martha Cook resi- dent Ayako Kato also performed a dance she choreographed. Court to weigh law on sexual predators TOPEKA, Kan. - A 62-year old child molester who has been impris- oned for about 30 years is at the center of a closely watched constitutional bat- tle which the U.S. Supreme Court will take up tomorrow. The court will look at whether states may confine sexually violent predators after their prison terms are completed. Currently, Kansas law allows that, if a prisoner is diagnosed with a personality disorder or mental abnormality that makes them a threat to sexually prey on children. The justices will review a ruling that struck down Kansas' 1994 law as unconstitutional. Forty-five states and territories have filed documents supporting the Kansas appeal, includipg five states with sexu- al predator laws: Arizona, California, Minnesota, Washington and Wisconsin. The Kansas law is the first signifi- cant attempt to expand the types of peo- ple the state can confine, said Chris Hansen, an attorney for the American I Mother Teresa's condition worsens CALCUTTA, India - Mother Teresa appeared tired and her condi- tion deteriorated slightly yesterday, as doctors tried to cure her pneumonia so that they could concentrate on her heart ailment. "Mother is still not out of danger and physicians remained concerned," said a medical bulletin at the B.M. Birla Heart Research Center. "Today she appeared fatigued." But the 86-year-old Roman Catholic nun has remained attentive to her char- ity work, meeting with nuns to give them instructions concerning her Missionaries of Charity order. A hospital statement yesterday said her bronchial pneumonia was worsen- ing, despite "aggressive respiratory and antibiotic therapy." Her kidneys, however, were function- ing, doctors at the hospital said. Mother Teresa was hospitalized Nov. 22 after suffering a mild heart attack. She underwent an angioplasty on Nov. Civil Liberties Union in New York. Traditionally, he said, only people convicted of crimes or found insane can. be locked up. The Kansas law creates a third category - people likely to com- mit crimes based on past behavior. HalfW-iilion blacked out by heavy snow More than half a million customers had no electricity yesterday in New' England after a fast-moving storm piled nearly 2 feet of snow on the region. "I'll tell you right now, I'm not verb pleased," said Mary Tyler of West Dummerston, Vt., who had to make her morning coffee on a wood-burning str "It's getting cold in this house," O'Grady of Thompson, Conn., said; yesterday afternoon as she bundled up with several shirts, two pairs of sweat pants and big, fuzzy slippers. "We can't flush the toilets, the refriger- ator door remains closed ... I'm dying for a cup of coffee," said O'Grady, who was' told her local utility did not expect to restore power to her house until tonight. 29 to remove blockages intwo arteries; but her recovery has been hampered by" lung and kidney problems linked to the poor functioning of her heart. Sudan rebels free Red Cross workers NAIROBI, Kenya - Sudanese rebels released three Red Cross workers - including an American pilot - yes- terday after holding them captive for five weeks. The rebels continue to hold five Sudanese patients who were in the of the team when they were abducx said Nic Sommer, a spokesperson for. the International Committee of the Red Cross in Nairobi. The three captives -American pilot John Early of Albuquerque, N.M.' Australian nurse Maree Worthington,, and Kenyan pilot Mohsin Razam - were in good condition and safely i Khartoum, the Sudan capital, Sommer said. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reps Announcing the 1996-1997 1hi. 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