8A -- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 19, 1996 NATION/WORLD FRAUD Continued from Page 1A (v nation)."' 1 Special Agent Greg Stajkal, who works in the department's Ann Arbor office, said he is "aware of the case in the registrar's office,' but he,would not confirm whether the FBI is inves- tigating the case. Lowenstein said the case probably involved multiple state and federal violations of criminal and mail fraud. ,."There are specific kinds of violations depending on how much money is involved," Lowenstein said. "They're really stealing money, but they used fraud to do that. Texas man executed quickly "Someone who did that and got caught would be looking at many years of prison," she said. Associate Vice President for University Relations Lisa Baker refused to comment last night on the investigation or the University's policies on student records. Lowenstein said the University is responsible for protecting student academic records and can be held liable under FERPA if it acted negli- gently. "The main purpose of FERPA is to make the University protect records," Lowenstein said. "If that is violated, federal money can be taken away from the University." McElvain said the registrar's office inter- views its employees and checks their references before hiring anyone. "All University students have background checks done on them" McElvain said, adding that the checks are performed by the University's personnel office. "There are very, very few students ever employed in the registrar's office,"he said. "The same things would be asked of a student as of anyone." Resolution Coordinator Mary Lou Antieau, who oversees the acministration of the Code, said the fraudulent behavior "would fall under the Code." "We've never had a case like that under the Statement (of Student Rights and Responsibilities) or the Code," Antieau said. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man con- victed 10 months ago of killing his former boss was executed by injection yesterday in the nation's speediest death sentence since Gary Gilmore in 1977. Joe Gonzales, 36, waived all appeals as he waited to die, cutting short a process that in Texas averages about eight years. He died at at 6:19 p.m., seven minutes after the lethal drugs were administered. "There are people all over the world who face things worse than death on a daily basis, and in that sense I consider myself lucky," he said in a final, handwritten statement. "I cannot find th words to express the sadness I feel for bringing this hurt and pain on my loved ones.... God bless you all." Gonzales, a roofer, was convicted in November in the 1992 slaying of William Veader, 50, a building contractor. Gonzales, claiming Veader owed him $200, shot him in the head and robbed him. "I am a man who has no regard for the law. 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