NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 8, 1997 - 7A Lovernment 1 pend $1M to ~tdymarijuai - WASHINGTON (AP) - One week California and after denouncing the medical use of advantage of th marijuana, the White House said yes- relaxed restriction terday the government will spend up to of some illegal d t! million gathering scientific evidence juana. on its effectiveness as a medical treat- Those same act ment. terday the credibil : Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey sored by the Whit gid the White Iouse drug icy office We're not going Wmmitted the funds last to get Into the imnth for a comprehensive emotional review by the Istitute of arguments" Medicine at the N-ational --Bob Weiner Academy of Drug policy office Sciences.spokesperson f'A lot of ople have said we're not interested in the facts on above politics. "I this - and I think this shows that we scientific study. M are," said Bob Weiner, a spokesperson into the emotiona for the drug policy office, which is The institute w headed by McCaffrey. months on its co The administration was criticized by medical and scien AIDS activists last week when officials health effects ofn threatened to sanction physicians in cacy as a medical to I na New law will change search procedures Arizona who take hose states' newly ns on the medical use rugs, including mari- ivists questioned yes- ity of any study spon- e House. 1 "P u t t i n g McCaffrey in charge of this research is like putting Nixon in charge of the Watergate files, said Steve AA 1 1 - 1 AP PHOTO Workers tug on the ropes of an oil fence to block the oil spilled from a wrecked Russian tanker carrying 5 million gallons of fuel oil off the coast of Mikuni. Oil slick hits Japan shore SEARCHES Continued from Page A Ed Petykiewicz, editor of The Ann Arbor News, said he was "not thrilled" with the changes, but could live with them. "There's still a large part of the process that has to be open to the pub- lic" he said yesterday. The two bills provide several key amendments to previous regulations dictated by the Michigan Open Meetings Act: Universities must now form search advisory committees that must include students, faculty, alumni and communi- ty members and may include regents. No group may form a majority of a search committee, nor may a quorum of regents serve on such a panel. All preliminary stages of the search may be kept secret until the field is narrowed to five final candidates. Interviews with the finalists and all deliberations must be conduct- b ed in public. Interv A president cannot be select- the five ed until 30 days after the names of will just the five finalists . applying for the University presidency for fear of jeopardizing their current positions. Both Rep. Mary Schroer (D-nn Arbor) and Rep. Liz Brater (D-Ann Arbor) voted against the bills, saying the legislation was incomplete and ill- considered. Shroer said the Open Meetings Act should have been examined "in totar" as it pertains to numerous other entities, such as community colleges. Brafer agreed, saying the legislation fell into the productive rush at the end of session and was done in a "rather slipshod" way. Schwarz said action was necessary to insure the quality of future university presidents in the state. "The first process was so contort a by the courts that we were getiing to.a line where no one would want to apply for a presidency because of the hodps you'd have to jump through," he said Wayne State University ieWS Of President David' Adam any FinalStS announced his resignation just, be a days after the new legislation' was passed. loan Lowenstein Wayne State must begin . n Arbor attorney search for the next president under the new- Michael, a spokesperson for Act Up, an AIDS activist group. Weiner said the Institute of Medicine was t's a totally objective, We're not going to get l arguments;' he said. as to report within 18 ampilation of clinical, ntific evidence on the marijuana and its effi- treatment. MIKUNI, Japan (AP) - A massive oil slick from a sunken Russian tanker fouled Japan's jagged western shoreline yesterday, threatening coastal fisheries as high winds and waves thwarted the cleanup. Thick brown sludge covered the rocky beach at Mikuni, about 110 miles west of Tokyo. Coast guard helicopters buzzed over- head dropping chemicals to clear up the 962,000-gallon slick. The 13,157-ton Nakhodka, bound for Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, was carrying 5 million gallons of fuel oil when it broke in two Thursday 90 miles WIUGGING Continued from Page 1A around to walk away. "Two seconds after that I heard someone run up'behind me," Freeman said. "As I glanced back, I saw someone throw a punch at me. "I tried to take person grabbed to me. I made to the corner ofSouth U. and C h u r c h ," Fteeman said. "When I got to the corner, the second person started punch- ing me, and I went down." Freem an Sid two of the men kicked his off running, but the "The m important to make th students a Good Ti gen yesterday that AAPD had not informed them about the attack. Tony Bonino, general manager of Good Time Charley's and president of the South University Merchants' Association, said he was not aware of the incident, but the manager who worked the night of the attack noticed an ambulance outside the restaurant at around 1 a.m. Monday. st "The most important thing is thing is to make the stu- dents aware;" Bonino said. M i l t o n ware." Rodriguez, the shift and week- - Tony Bonino end manager at ime Charley's Cava Java, said eral manager the attack was the first time he heard about rob- beries near that ATM. "You definitely have to be careful, especially late at night," said Rodriguez, a Social Work graduate stu- dent. "There's a lot of people just hang- ing around. That area over there gets kind of rowdy on the weekends." NBD Assistant Vice President of Public Relations Robert Darmaian said he was not aware of the incident but warned that students should not use ATMs at night. "We advise people to only use ATM machines during the daytime and with a friend," said Darmaian, who works in a Detroit NBD office. "if you see some- one lurking around, come back at another time." Two University students using an ATM yesterday evening said they try to be aware when using the machines. LSA first-year student Regina Frost said she usually feels safe getting money from the ATM because she "always looks around." LSA sophomore Laurie Piper said she usually goes with a friend to the ATM. "I don't feel safe if I'm alone," Piper said. - Daily Staff Reporter Katie Plona contributed to this report. off the coast. The still-sunken body of the ship is believed to hold much of the heavy fuel oil aboard. The drifting front part of the ship finally ran aground yesterday, just 650 yards from the beach. Two coast guard boats tried to tow the ship's front part further offshore to lessen the damage to the beach should more oil spill, but the rope snapped and the effort failed, coast guard spokesper- son Shinji Sato said. "It could take weeks - or months - to clean up this mess,' Michio Yoda of the Mikuni fire department said as he eyed the oil slick from the shore. FACULTY Continued from Page 1A Patterson attributes the number to both a high number of African Americans in Music and to successful Music graduates who have become professors and are "feeding their better students to their alma mater." Patterson said African American fac- ulty members have made an "aggres- sive effort" to perform in areas with a high concentration of African Americans, such as Detroit, and have made these communities "fairly well acquainted with African Americans in the School of Music" Engineering junior Brian Ebarvia, vice chair of the United American Asian Organization, said increasing the number of minorities in the faculty has a positive impact on all students, as long the minorities being hired are qualified. "As students, if we get to see teach- ers of different backgrounds, we get a different perspective on what's being taught," Ebarvia said. have been made public. Members of university gov- erning boards may examine confidential information that cannot be obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. A $500,000 civil fine will be imposed on universities that do not comply with the Open Meetings Act. During the recent University presi- dential search that ended with the selec- tion of Dartmouth Provost Lee Bollinger, regents were not allowed to participate in early stages of the search. Faculty members formed a majority of that search committee. Harrison said not all the changes will be beneficial for the University. He said the 30-day restriction will likely deter sitting university presidents from r t I J guidelines. Lowenstein said she is skepticgl about how the new laws will be put intp practice. "What probably will happen is tht regents (on the committee) will confer with other regents about who they want. to be the No. I candidate and talk ,a that individual before the final pubtie stage of the search," Lowenstein said. "Interviews of the five finalists will just be a charade." Schwarz said he does not foresee any problems. "I can't even begin to imag- ine a situation where anyone would want to go outside the parameters set up: by this law," Schwarz said. -J Ann charade. GRADUATES Continued from Page 1A Peponis. "I am definitely happy to be done:' However, Peponis said she was a lit- tle disappointed at the impersonal aspect of the commencement ceremony head and body several times during the attack, which lasted "no more than five minutes." Business officials in the area said Peponis, who already has a job, said: she planned to spend time with her family and friends before moving. "I'm ready for my new life,"she said. Many graduates said they would miss the friendships that they have made during the past four years. "I've made friends here that I think will last a lifetime," Torres said. "III definitely miss them most of itself. "I really just felt like a num- ber," said Peponis. "All of the Engineering graduates, LSA graduates - everyone - simply stood up in big groups." "I actually felt more 'graduat- ed' last May, when the "I've m aido friends here that I think will last a lifetime" - Claudia-Torres LSA graduate all." 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