2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 22, 1998 NATION/WORLD HUERTA Continued from Page 1A celebrations honoring King. "On MLK day it's important to remember the point is we've struggled to come to a certain point, but we're still struggling," said L SA senior Farrah Wilder. "We have to give respect to and learn about all different struggles." Carmen Guerrero and David Rocha, two berry-farm workers from Watsonville, Califjoined Huerta on stage and spoke in Spanish with the aid of a translator. "We are requesting the same rights as everyone else has," Guerrero said. These rights include working in a pesticide-free environment, Guerrero said as she described the rashes and headaches she and her fellow workers experience while they work in the fields. Guerrero said she demands to be paid at least the federal minimum wage, have clean and accessible bath- rooms and be able to work withodt sexual harassment. "In 1996, the (agriculture) business of California was up $1 billion in prof- its and the wages of the workers dropped 23 percen," Huerta said. The union has successfully brought medical care to the workers, built qual- ity housing and convinced hundreds of supermarkets to sign pledges to support farm workers rights, Huerta said. Encouraging local activism to sup- port the workers, Huerta introduced Todd Mireles, publication manager of the United Farm Workers in Michigan. He invited people interested in learn- ing more about the issue to meet outside the Ann Arbor Whole Foods Market on Saturday from 11l a.m.-l p.m. I I The Princeton Review's national average MCAT score improvement is 8 points... clearly the most comprehensive way to prepare. 68% of all med school applicants don't get accepted anywhere. w7 W w ci Make the logical decision... I4 8 points from a 1997 ICR independent study. We encourage you to compare our course to other courses and see why our results are superior. 68% from the MCAT test-makers, (AMCAS), 1996. ENGINEERING Continued from Page 1A there. Engineers are some of the high- est-compensated individuals when they graduate." Engineering senior Tristan Barcelon, who has "always been fascinated by computers" was looking for a job for only a short while before he was offered a position with a very competi- tive starting salary. "I've got a job offer already," Barcelon said. "The salary is certainly higher than I expected." Barcelon's salary offer corresponds to the national average of approximately $41,000. The University's "engineering school is the best in Michigan," Barcelon said. "The curriculum in itself is very diffi- cult and there are classes here and there that you'll encounter that are really tough. But I don't regret going into engi- neering school." Engineering Dean Stephen Director said the University and its engineers are bucking the national trend of awarding fewer engineering degrees. "I'm not so sure that the number of Engineering graduates is dropping, Director said. "Here at the University there are normal fluctuations, but we have more students in Engineering this year than we've ever had. We're at a high and we haven't seen this in a long time." Between 1996 and 1997, the University awarded 974 bacholor's degrees in engineering, -more than any other university in the state. "We are living in a very technologi- cally oriented world," Director said. "Technology is so pervasive that engi- neers, because of their knowledge of technology, are and will continue to be in great demand." Schuckman speculated that one of the reasons the University's number of bachelor's degrees has not dropped is because of its national reputation. "The University of Michigan has a reputation for being a top engineering school in the country," Schuckman said. "It's only natural it's going to attract more students, and higher cal- iber students as well" Schuckman also said the University's close proximity to the heart of the auto- motive industry helps in it's high num- bers of engineering graduates. "The Big Three demand more savvy in engineering competitiveness in terms of determining the safest and most cost-effective technology," Schuckman said. "The synergy from being so close to the Big Three is cer- tainly a factor in (the University's) engineering competitiveness." Linda Wilder, interim director at the Engineering Resource Center, said the demand for engineers this year is "through the roof." "Here at Michigan, we've had a 16 percent increase in the number of com- panies recruiting on campus, and a 39 percent increase in the number of on- campus interview schedules, or oppor- tunities," Wilder said. "Everyone needs technical skills, computer skills, analyt- ical skills. Engineers have these skills. Engineering first-year student Daniel Cook said that although high salaries were not his sole reason for wanting to be an engineer, they cer- tainily are an added incentive. "I don't need to be rich, but I defi- nitely want a job that pays a comfort- able salary," Cook said. "As an engi- neer, that kind of assures me that I will get a decent job." followed Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Marijuana growers angered by lobbyists AUGUSTA, Maine - A well- heeled organization of outsiders from California has come to liber- ate Maine's marijuana laws a little bit. Its November ballot proposal would let people suffering from a narrow range of ailments possess snall amounts of pot for therapeutic purposes. But Don Christen - a Mainer who grows marijuana with a brazen disre- gard for the consequences-says he won't vote for it. In fact, he's cam- paigning to kill it. "This thing coming in here from outta state is not what I would call help. It's botanically unworkable," he said. "These outsiders have just come in here with their own agen- da." Indeed they have. The people who bankrolled the successful medicinal marijuana campaign in California have targeted a half-dozen additional electorates this year. They have learned much over the past two years and are pushing sanitized, highly spe- cific proposals aimed at winning the acceptance of Middle America - or in this case, the outer limits of America - and sending a message to the unyielding anti-drug warriors in Washington, D.C. McAuliffe may have killed casino project WASHINGTON -The chief promot- er of a controversial proposal to open an Indian gambling casino in Hudson, Wis. told a House committee yesterday that Terry McAuliffe, President Clinton's top fund-raiser, had bragged to him about using political influence to have the pro- ject killed by the Interior Department. Fred Havenick, who heads a Miami company that operates dog race tracksin' Florida, Texas and Wisconsin, made the- unexpected assertion for the first time as the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee resumed public hearings on the campaign financing abuses of the 1996 election cycle. A AouND TH E NA6 U.N. aide denied access to site by Iraq CAIRO, Egypt-The chief of U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq left Baghdad yes terday for New York after failing to persuade the Iraqi government to provide access to presidential palaces and other sites thought to harbor illegal weapons programs. Richard Butler, chair of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq, told reporters in the Iraqi capital that he had been asked by Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to postpone discussion of the issue until April. Butler said he told Aziz that the Iraqi request "flies in the face" of U.N. Security Council demands for unfettered access to suspect facilities, which Iraq considers sovereign territory. Given the importance that Washington has attached to Butler's two-day mission, Iraq's apparently unyielding response appeared to deepen the prospect of con- frontation with the United States and Britain, which continue to build up their mil-A itary forces in the Persian Gulf. Butler is scheduled to brief the Security Council on the results of his mission tomorrow. Aziz's proposal was the latest twist in the continuing standoff between Iraq and the United Nations regarding weapons inspections carried out under the authority of cease-fire resolutions that ended the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Under the resolu- tions, the inspectors must certify that Iraq is free from nuclear, chemical and bio- logical weapons before the Security Council can lift the economic sanctions that AROUD TH W0LD*:* * IOffice of Financial Aid Markets suffer due to potential successor JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's troubled currency plunged to a new all- time low yesterday amid anxiety regard- ing President Suharto's apparent choice for vice president - a technology minis- ter with a taste for expensive projects. After the markets closed, Suharto enacted a first wave of sweeping eco- nomic reforms to end the subsidies, monopolies and other privileges that had benefited a wealthy circle of his family and friends. At one point, the rupiah crashed to 11,950 against the U.S. dollar, well below its Tuesday close of 9,750. It closed yesterday at 11,550, down more than 80 percent since July. The plunge was largely fueled by speculation that Suharto might pick a longtime friend, controversial Research and Technology Minister Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, to be his next vice presi- dent. The 76-year-old Suharto decided Tuesday to stand for a seventh, con- secutive five-year term in March, when a 1,000-member assembly dom- inated by his supporters is to hold a presidential election that he is almost certain to win. Due to Suharto's age and concerns about his health, some analysts believe the next vice president will one day fil Suharto's shoes as leader of the world's fourth-most populous nation. 175,000 children get vaccine overdose PARIS - France's health minister acknowledged yesterday that 175,000 schoolchildren had been injected with too-strong dose of hepatitis vaccine i 1995 - but said only a few suffered side effects. At a hastily called news conference, Health Minister Bernard Kouchner sought to avert a potential scandal in France's health system. 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