oa 4,*1 1£ IrranT *rnP Weather Tonight: Snow likely, low around 50. Tomorrow: Snow showers like ly, high around 120. - One hundred six years of editonialfredom Thursday January 16, 1997 ' x k'Y ':. ^" T CVII, No. SS, Michigan , , vaity Israeli cabinet agrees to begin Hebron pullout The Washington Post JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced down cabinet opponents into the early-morning hours today, securing an 11-to-7 endorsement of his new accord with the Palestinians to withdraw troops from most of the West Bank city of Hebron and some rural parts of the occu- pied territory. The approval set the stage for a vote today in parliament, where support for the pact from Netanyahu's Labor Party opponents guarantees a large majority. Israel's army is expected to begin evac- uating most of Hebron as early as tonight, although religious parties sought a delay until after Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. In the cabinet, a ferocious and some- times confused debate lasted nearly 13 hours, with voices raised loud enough to be heard through heavy wooden doors. Netanyahu had to cancel a tlanyahu broadcast news conference yesterday evening, and Foreign Minister David Levy - who had a helicopter standing by to whisk him to the northern city of Afula - wound up missing his son's wed- ding as the stormy session lasted into the night. As long expected,, the Hebron deal brought a decisive break between Netanyahu and the heirs to his party's claim to all of the West Bank as part of the biblical Land of Israel. Science Minister Zeev Benjamin Begin, Netanyahu's one- time rival for Likud party leadership and the party's purest ideological voice, led the assault on the new pact and r 'ned from the government after casting his vote. W e prime minister committed himself to give away por- tions of the Jewish homeland. He gets zero from (Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat," said Begin, the son of former prime minister Menachem Begin, on Israel army radio before the meeting. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who gave Netanyahu his two previous government jobs, declared yes- terday: "I don't trust Benjamin Netanyahu anymore. He and his companions betrayed the idea of the Land of Israel. We have to find a new candidate for the national camp." In the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip, Arafat had an easier t in a three-hour meeting of the PLO executive committee and the Palestinian Authority's cabinet. He secured an endorse- ment for the Hebron accord without significant dissent. See MIDEAST, Page 2A rI Ex-prof. files suit against 'U' Landefeld alleges racism By Heather Kamins Daily Staff Reporter Former Prof. Thomas Landefeld has filed suit against the University, claiming retaliation for publicly speaking out against a "racist envi- ronment" in the Medical School. "The complaint really is relative to the retaliation that I feel I have received about speaking out about the lack of recognition that minority students were receiving," Landefeld said. "The main action is to make it visible (to the Medical School) that changes have to be made." Elsa Cole, general counsel for the University, con- firmed that a suit had been filed and said that her office received it yesterday after- noon. "We are confi- dent that we took Landefeld the appropriate action in this matter," said Associate Vice President for University Relations Lisa Baker. "He left (the University) for another position. We believe the charges in this suit are unfounded" Cole said she could not comment further until she read the suit thorough- ly today. Landefeld, who resigned from the Medical School on Aug. 15, 1996, cur- rently works as an assistant dean for faculty affairs and as.a biology profes- sor at California State University- Dominguez Hills. Before leaving the University, Landefeld was removed from the job of recruiting minority students, he said. Landefeld cited the results of a cul- tural diversity study conducted in March 1996 by Nichols and Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm. The report found that the Medical School had a larger percentage of minority students than the national average. However, a majority of minority students in the study felt that other students and professors believed they were admitted for their minority sta- tus rather than for their qualifica- tions. "The University ranks high in num- bers if you look solely at numbers, but it varies greatly if you look at daily activity," Landefeld said. "The students are really having to put up with a lot of crap because of their eth- nicity." During his 20 years at the University, Landefeld was a tenured associate professor in the pharmacolo- gy department, an assistant dean for minority student affairs and an assis- tant dean for research and graduate affairs. Landefeld continually raised issues about the racial environment in the entire University, as well as specifically in the Medical School. "Basically the students were experi- encing racism," Landefeld said. "The perception was that black stu- dents, or minority students, probably got in on lower standards. The attitudes really create a difficult environment," Landefeld said. "If you have to face obstacles, where people think that you are not as good, it will affect your per- formance. There needs to be some sen- sitivity." See SUIT, Page 5A AP PHOTO Ready to roll Charlotte Baber of Dudley, Ill., affixes the snow chains onto her tires yesterday in Terre Haute, Ind. Winter storms swept across the country, dumping inches of snow and making travel treach- erous. The winter weather is expected to continue for the next few days. Court piles MSU search was illegal From Staff and Wire reports LANSING - The 1993 selection W ess that made M. Peter McPherson new president of Michigan State University violated the state's open meetings law, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled Tuesday. The Lansing State Journal and The Detroit News filed suit against the uni- versity during the process, which began after former President John DiBiaggio resigned in the summer of 1992. McPherson was selected president on . e7, 1993, by the MSU Board of ees. The newspapers had alleged the school violated the state's Open Meetings Act because its 13-member search committee met in private to inter- view candidates and select finalists. The MSU case was pending during the University of Michigan's recent presidential search that resulted in the selection of Dartmouth Provost and f er University Law School Dean Bollinger, who will officially take over Feb. 1. While the MSU ruling was made years after McPherson took over, the University of Michigan's search plan was questioned and then ordered to be revised by the court in the midst of the search -just hours before the finalists were to be released. The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and The Ann Arbor 'ws sued the Board of Regents in vember, alleging that all planned closed meetings with the finalists would have violated the Open Meetings Act. Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Melinda Morris ruled in favor of the newsnaners and al meetinu 011 CoNm1uATIONS Memorial to: be held for LSA student By Katie Plona Daily Staff Reporter Friends and other members of the University community will gather next week to remember and honor LSA senior Arati Sharangpani, whose life ended in tragedy when Comair Flight 3272 crashed last week. The memorial service will be held at noon Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the Michigan Union Ballroom. Sharangpani, who was a resident adviser in Mary Markley Residence Hall, was active in the Indian American Students Association and other University groups. "She affected the lives of so many people in so many ways," said T. Rose Roane, coordinator of residence edu- cation for Mary Markley Residence Hall. "In my mind, I really think (the service is) going to be large." Roane spoke at a memorial service for Sharangpani this past Sunday in Troy. The specific details of next week's memorial service have not yet been decided. Sharangpani "I believe some of the faculty mem- bers who taught her will speak," said Associate Dean of Students Delories Sloan. "It's going to be left up to the students." Roane said she will not speak at the memorial and prefers that Sharangpani's close friends - "the people who knew her the best" - guide the service. Rackham student Tait Sye, who works with the Indian American Students Association, is one of numerous people planning the event. "It will give anyone a chance to express their love for Arati," Sye said, adding that it will also give students who did not know her "an opportunity to learn about her contributions." Esrold Nurse, LSA assistant dean for student academic affairs, said the memorial will give the University communi- ty an opportunity to honor Sharangpani and to let her family know she will not be forgotten. "I expect that the turnout will be very good," Nurse said. "She represented the very ideal of the liberal arts education. We felt as a college we wanted to do something." AJA DEKEVA COHEN/Daily Psychology graduate student Incheol Choi buys medicine from Jean Burbank, an employee at Village Apothecary on South University Avenue. Many students have taken the antihistamine Seldane, which the FDA recently proposed to ban because of health problems. Sedn's sidfectsworry uer * FDA proposed earlier this week to ban the popular cold drug other medications. New antihistamines, such as Allegra, have proved to be as effective as Seldane without causing harmful side effects. Because of Allegra and other alternate drugs, the FDA has when mixed with certain drugs. "If you have a particular heart problem, and you take these antibiotics and antifungals, they will affect the metabolism of Seldane such that you'll be getting much more of the drug," I I