2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 2, 1996 NATION/WORLD High court to rule on right to die case . .. . . . I WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed -yesterday to decide whether states may ban doctor- assisted suicides, setting the stage for a momentous ruling on the "right to die." Six years after recognizing a con- stitutional right to refuse lifesaving treatment, the court said it will decide by July whether doctors can be barred from actually giving life-ending drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients who no longer want to live. Most states have such laws, but lower courts this year struck down assisted- suicide bans imposed by New York and Washington state. By reviewing those two rulings, the justices are expected to set national guidelines. "This is one of those watershed legal issues that will be out there until the nation's highest court makes a deci- sion," Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire said after learning of the court's action. Susan Dunshee, president of the Seattle-based Compassion in Dying group that successfully challenged the Washington law, said the court now has "an opportunity to benefit patients throughout the country." Assuming the right to die exists, the justices said then that a terminally ill person may refuse life-sustaining med- ical treatment. Just last year, however, the justices rejected a challenge by Dr. Jack Kevorkian to Michigan's ban on assisted suicide. Kevorkian's lawyer and a prosecutor who twice tried unsuccessfully to have him convicted of helping someone commit suicide said the lower court rul- ings will be overturned. "They took the two cases that sup- ported Kevorkian's view so they could overturn them," Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Fieger said. "It is my prediction that the court will reverse (the New York and Washington) decisions and allow individual states to make political decisions based on poli- cy rather than the Constitution," Oakland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson said. The generally conservative high court may choose to overturn the appeals courts' rulings, said Howard Simon of the American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan. "There is just as much danger that they're going to do violence to the rights of Americans as they are likely to protect the rights of Americans," Simon said. Clinton refuses congressional subpoena WASHINGTON - Invoking principles of executive privi- lege and confidentiality, President Clinton's lawyer refused yesterday to provide a congressional panel with subpoenaed documents that were expected to disclose embarrassing aspects of Clinton's anti-drug and immigrant naturalization programs. Clinton's refusal to comply with the congressional subpoe- naes was immediately criticized by a spokesperson for GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole. "Bill Clinton should be ashamed of hiding behind the shield of executive privilege," said Christina Martin. "It's wrong, it's secretive and it reeks Clinton of guilt." The documents were being sought by Republican members of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, who for the past year have also battled with the White House over documents related to White House supervision of the travel office and FBI files. Democrats called the subpoenaes politically motivated. Dole and other Republicans have frequently criticized Clinton's policies toward immigration an drug abuse. BPC Continued from Page 1 members, submit an application for funding and then attend a hearing before BPC's 10 committee members. During the hearing, group leaders are expected to outline what the requested money will be used for and to show they are seeking funding from groups other than MSA. "Our biggest problem is groups don't look for money elsewhere," Morgan said. "We want to make sure they are looking for other funding outside of MSA." Individual schools and colleges and their governments are other potential funding sources. Last year BPC gave 30 student groups more than $1,000 each. Ringing in as the three highest-funded groups were the Queer Unity Project, which got $5,700, the Cycling Club at $3,500 and the Women's Law Students Association at $3,000. Cycling Club President Matt Curin said the process for receiving funding from BPC was relatively painless. "You come in a maximum of three times to get funding," Curin said. "I think for the amount of money we received, the process was pretty easy." Curin said the Cycling Club used BPC's allocated funds to pay for trav- eling fees as well as uniform and clothing costs. "These funds helped us out a ton and eased the burden on our mem- bers" he said. "It made life easier and increased participation in the club." But not all student groups receive the amount of funding they request. H I :CD u~J -Aft SR f mm, 217 F " !!TICCLORLSPCILIT 3 " ARTIST ON STAFF " RUSH ORDERS " NEAR U OF M CAMPUS ROSPECT, ANN ARBOR 665-1771 1FF with this ad. The Gentlemen, a men's a cappella singing group, requested almost $7,000 from BPC last year but only received $1,320. "The Gentlemen requested a lot of money to buy tuxedos for all of their members," Morgan said. "Because they were a new group, we wanted them to establish themselves on cam- pus before we gave them money to buy very expensive suits." This year BPC has revised its hear- ing system to benefit student groups that apply early. Groups that complete applications before the Oct. 7 deadline will be guar- anteed a funding hearing in the fall. Groups that do not meet the deadline will have to wait for funding "Basically, we are rewarding groups that do their homework," Lopez said. "If groups hand in the application after the deadline they may not be guaranteed a hearing and they might not get as much money as they want." MSA President Fiona Rose said providing funding for student groups through BPC is important, but is not the only service the assembly pro- vides to students. "I think it's fantastic more money is going to student groups," she said. "But BPC is just one of our many committees - it is just one of the ways the government works to serve students." Morgan said that although $90,000 is the most money BPC has ever had available for student groups, it will not be enough. "When it comes to funding student groups, there will never be enough money," Morgan said. i~ .. news DALY X, OPEN-MINDED BIBLE STUDY all denominations welcome all faiths welcome all sexual orientations welcome all people welcome FRIDAYS 3:305:00 at Canterbury House Blue house past the Frieze Bldg. 721 E. Huron Oklahoma bombing prosecutors gear up DENVER - A year and a half after Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were arrested in the Oklahoma City bombing case, their chief nemesis - Prosecutor Joseph Hartzler and his band of government attorneys - will appear in U.S. District Court here yes- terday riding a wave of recent success- es. The government team quietly scored a series of victories this summer that will greatly aid their cases against McVeigh and Nichols. Today, the most crucial pre-trial test of all begins: prosecutors will ask the court to order McVeigh and Nichols to be tried together as co-conspirators, and the defense, arguing that the evidence against each defendant damages the other, will ask to have the ex-Army pals tried separately. Hartzler, in his first interview since becoming the lead prosecutor, said he is keenly aware of the pressure on his small team of lawyers. "It is a very serious crime," he said, speaking haltingly and carefully. "And you can be sure that everyone involved in law enforcement wants to make sure that the case is investigated thoroughly and prosecuted properly. "I expect to present our evidence in court, and for justice to prevail," he said. "But I am not going to engage in conversation about the consequences of this for America." Court rejects Perot plea to block debate WASHINGTON - A federal judge yesterday rejected a request by Ross Perot and another third-party candidate to block Sunday's nationally televise presidential debate unless they are allowed to participate. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan, after hearing more than two hours of legal arguments, said attorneys for Perot and Natural Law Party candidate John Hagelin failed to show they would be "irreparably harmed" by exclusion from the debates between President Clinton and Republican challenger Bob Dole. : :: ," y. .. .. .... ... .. .. .... .. . .... .. BOOK EARLY FOR THE HOLIDAYS & SAVE BIG' CAL OR STOP BY TODAY FOR THE LOWEST FARES AND BEST AVAILABILITY. --Travel: 1220 S. UNIVERSITY., STE. 208 - ABOVE MCDONALDS It t t p /1 w w w. c i e e . o r g / t r a v e I . hi Itm +' r fr ' f t r; a! g i 99Ts + w/ pispIGYntAdVu%,e U.S. p ledges flood relief to Cambodia PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Floods caused by seasonal monsoons have killed more than 80 people in four Southeast Asian countries, forced thou- sands from their homes and devastated rice crops. In Cambodia, where 14 people died and another 1.3 million people were affected by flooding, the U.S. Embassy donated $25,000 for emergency relief. Rice, sandbags and oil were rushed to northern provinces and the capital, Phnom Penh. More than 568,000 acres of flooded rice crops may be destroyed, Uy Sam- ath, director of the Cambodian Red Cross disaster management depart- ment, warned yesterday. "If the water level is reduced within the next week, we can expect to see 50 percent of the (flooded) rice crops destroyed," he said. "But if water still floods the land after 10 days, all the crops will be totally destroyed:" U.S. Ambassador Quinn said the $25,000 in American aid was requested by Cambodia's co-premiers. "The American people have recently experienced the terrible devastation of floods, including in my home state of Iowa. As a result, we understand the importance of friends helping eac other at such a time," he said. Deadly mushrooms kill 92 in Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine - Poisonous mush- *rooms have killed 92 people in Ukraine and left more than 1,100 hospitalized in the deadliest mushroom season in years. Doctors blame the surge in poisoI~ ings on economic hardships, which a forcing more and more Ukraines to search for wild mushrooms to eat. Poisonings frequently occur when people mistake a deadly white mush- room common in Ukraine for harmless champignons. Of the 1,186 people sickened from poisonous mushrooms this year, 298 were children. Last year 78 Ukrainians died and 1,000 were hospitalized from mushroom poisoning. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. I Alternate Modernities OOCTOBER 6 01996 l Assembly Hall Rackham Building, 4th Floor 915 E. Washington 12:30 p.m. Welcoming Speeches 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Opening Talk: William Connolly (John Hopkins University): Suffering, Justice, and the Politics of Becoming 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Panel 1: WHICH CRITIQUE OF REASON? Founders Room Alumni Center 200 Fletcher Street 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Panel 3: CRITICAL THEORY AND DEMOCRACY Kenneth Baynes (SUNY at Stony Brook): Substance and Procedure in Habermas' Democratic Theory Wendy Brown (University of California, Santa Cruz): Power Without Logic Without Marx 1:00 - 3:00p.m. Panel 4: MODERNITY AND THE AESTHETIC CRITIQUE Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University): Outwitting the Historical Dynamic: The Role of Mimesis in the Dialectic of Enlightenment Nirhlac n .irkj (I lnorci, of Wihin)m 9:00 -11:00 a.m. Panel 6: SOCIAL CRITICISM AND THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS: The Case of Germany Wolfgang Emmerich (University of Bremen): Geist und Macht: Images and Self-Perceptions of Literary Intellectuals in Germany since 1945 Antonia Grunenberg (University of Bremen): "Wer vom Faschismus reden will, darf vom. Kapitalismus nicht schweigen" (Max Horkheimer). Intellectual Anti-Liberalism before 1933 and after 1945 Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): German Intellectuls and the Double Burden of Memory Pendleton Room Michigan Union 530 State Street 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 $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus sub- scriptions 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. PHONE NUMBERS (All area code 313): News 76-DAILY; Arts 763-0379; Sports 747-3336; Opinion 764-0552; circulation 764-0558; classified advertising 764-0557; Display advertising 764-0554; Billing 764-0550. 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