News: 76-DAILY Advertising: 764-0554 An raq, A Tfhe Washington Post The agre BAGHDAD, Iraq Against a backdrop of Security Cou -threatened United States airstrikes, U.N. reserved the cretary General Kofi Annan reached an what the oth agreement with senior Iraqi officials last night after speakin that he believes could end the crisis over from the five weapons inspections, his spokesperson said. including S After meeting for three hours yesterday Albright -A afternoon with President Saddam Hussein, accept the de Annan and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz Annan, w agreed on a deal that would open presidential deal this mo compounds to inspection by U.N. teams New York th searching for evidence of nuclear, chemical document biological weapons, Annan's spokesper- Security Coui n, Fred Eckhard, told reporters. No details decide whet of the deal were made available. In Washir 'U' holds in ad rankings y Peter Meyers IDaily Staff Reporter Although the University did well in the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings released Friday, many deans feel uneasy about letting a ranking indicate the quality of an institution's graduate program. "We're always proud to see our institution recognized," said Provost Nancy Cantor, adding that factors such as "Curriculum, innovation and quality of teaching" aren't taken into account by the study, which she said makes it s useful as a ranking system. The College of Engineering rose in the rankings U.S News and this year from sev- World Report's enth to fourth. - o .r Engineering kni Dean Stephen graduate programs: Director said the program has 8ustness 10 improved during L aw last year, but Engineering 4 vearned against Education 6 reading too much Medicine 9 into the change of Pubic Affairs 8 rankings. "Schools don't change dramatically from one year to the next," Director said. Many deans admit the rankings are important, especially for attracting applicants, but disagree with the way U.S. News measures program quality. The day before the rankings were released, deans from 164 law schools across the coun- *, including the University's Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman, publicly announced their dissatisfaction with the U.S. News ranking system. "It was an open letter to all law school applicants to help them understand the rankings," Lehman said. The letter said the rankings could be misleading and that "it would potentially be a self destructive mistake" to use them, Lehman said. Lehman said factors in the rankings process that specifi- cally hurt public universities were among his main reasons for opposing the ranking system. Lehman said that since the jriversity uses state funding without actually billing the Wte, the expenditure per faculty member at the University - which is one of the variables U.S. News uses to calculate rank - is recorded as being much lower than it actually is. Director pointed out that every year, U.S. News changes its ranking formula, and that this alone is responsible for much of the shifting in the ranks. The College of Engineering was tied for fourth with three other schools. Director said that if he were ranking the pro- grams, U.S. News' top seven schools would also be his top seven schools, but not necessarily in the same order. "Th.. top seven are the top seven," Director said. But See RATINGS, Page 7A Former 'U' prof. arrested aflterIi- police standoff By Reilly Brennan Daily Staff Reporter A former University English professor, who fled the coun- try more than 14 years ago with her boyfriend after police tried to arrest him on a weapon charge in Ann Arbor, was arrested and taken into custody Friday after a three-hour standoff with police in Lexington, Ky. Bob and Gayl Jones shut themselves in her family's house @1 eluded police for three hours Friday before officers stormed the doorway to present Jones with the 14-year-old war- rant. Bob Jones slit his own throat when officers entered the house. He later died at the University of Kentucky Hospital. Gayl Jones attempted suicide, but officers restrained and arrested her. e41 i One hundred seven years of editori1 freedom Monday February 23, 1998 .::.-.: - : ....-:. >:' .:>', .: :>... .... ', ., ACC.:, :.:. \ '. t.. .. _Y u - ' i n . \ " _.:. .. _.. _.... _.. .:.. .:_.,__. ,.......v.......,......>..:v. ::x, .\ .,v., : ....c :,c., : yt...:. ...:>v.S... ... « s « . ::w :....<.: 5... , ac.. c3.<,f .:\ nan erment is still subject to U.N. ncil approval, and Washington has right to bomb Iraq regardless of er council members decide. But g yesterday with senior officials permanent council members - ecretary of State Madeleine nrnan was confident that all would al, according to his spokesperson. ho is scheduled to announce the ruing with Aziz, is to leave for is afternoon and will present the tomorrow afternoon to the uncil. Council members will then her to accept it. ngton, U.S. offici Is, who were agree briefed only on the broad outlines of the agreement, reacted cautiously. White House spokesperson Mike McCurry said preliminary accounts had been received from Baghdad, but he refused to assess them. "We've got a lot of serious questions. It's a very serious matter at a serious time, and we want to get some questions answered," he said. President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke twice yesterday and agreed that Iraq would be given "no con- cessions," a Blair spokesperson said. Albright, during a television interview yes- terday morning, insisted Saddam "has to back down. ... He has to reverse course." On grounds of national sovereignty, Iraq has on inspections refused to open eight sites to the inspectors on the U.N. weapons commission, known by the initials UNSCOM. Iraq's refusal to cooperate with the inspection program, a legacy of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, has led to a tense con- frontation with the Security Council and threats of massive American airstrikes. "We have reached agreement," Eckhard told reporters camped outside the river-front guest house where Annan is staying. Annan "feels that this agreement fulfills the two principle objectives he had in coming here -respect for the Security Council resolutions governing the inspection regime in Iraq and the preservation of the integrity of UNSCOM's inspection process," Eckhard said. Mulch love Officials warn of inadequate funds for state schools By Peter Romer-Friedman Daily Staff Reporter Michigan's state legislators and pub- lie university officials agreed this past Friday that Gov. John Engler's budget proposal to increase higher education funding by 1.5 percent is inadequate. At a state Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Higher Education hearing in the Michigan League, University President Lee Bollinger warned the subcommittee that a 1.5- percent increase in funding would lead to a 5.6-percent increase in tuition costs next year. "The allocations as seen at this point seem to be squeezing on the University," Bollinger said. Sen. John Schwarz (R-Battle Creek), who chairs the subcommittee, and Sen. Jon Cisky (D-Saginaw) heard testimo- ny from Bollinger, the University's Flint campus Chancellor Charlie Nelms and James Renick, chancellor of the University's Dearborn campus, asking for continued support from the sub- committee. Following the hearing, Schwarz said he will propose a 3.5-percent increase in higher education funding, which would top Engler's proposed increases by $30 million for the year. A 3.5-percent increase would be simi- lar to.last year's appropriations process when the state Legislature added an addi- tional 2 percent to Engler's proposal, making it a 4.4-percent increase in fund- Ing. In an attempt to persuade the com- mittee to raise the University's funding, Bollinger informed the legislators of the growing costs that come with being a highly competitive institution. He also questioned Engler's budget, which boosts funding for corrections by 5 per- cent. "It's a curious time. It's curious and odd because, on the one hand, the econ- omy seems to be booming," Bollinger said. "But it is also difficult time for higher education and the University of Michigan particular because the costs of funding a great institution like this is increasing rapidly." Schwarz, who agreed with most of Bollinger's remarks, told Bollinger and other higher education representatives that he also has concerns with the exec- utive budget proposal. "As we start this budget today, I'm as surprised as yourself at some of the numbers in the executive budget," said Schwarz, who asked Bollinger to sug- gest a funding increase for the University. Bollinger responded by proposing a 3.7-percent boost, which he said would help the University continue to thrive as one of the top institutions in the nation. Rep. Liz Brater (D-Ann Arbor), who attended the hearing, applauded Bollinger's dedication to the Universit5 and expressed her objections to Engler's proposal. "I really appreciate your effort," Brater told Bollinger. "You try to weave together those aspects and serve the' state. It will be difficult to work with the governor's proposed budget," The panel of legislators and University representatives also See FUNDS, Page 2A JESsiCA JOHNSON/Daly Engineering senior Chris Pratt and Rackham student Tim Limpke convert invasive plants into mulch on Saturday to make paths in the Arb on Engineering Service Day. See Page 3A. '98 Winter Olympics end; Utah plans for 2002 By Jennifer Yachnin Daily Staff Reporter As the 1998 Winter Olympics drew to a close last night in Nagano, the University of Utah had already begun preparing for the 2002 games and University of Michigan student athletes are already looking forward to the sum- mer games of 2000. "We're very involved," said J. Bernard Machen, Utah president and former University of Michigan provost. "The opening and closing ceremonies will be held in the University of Utah football stadium." The 2002 Olympic Village will be located on Utah's campus, Machen said. Beginning this summer, the uni- versity and the Olympic committee will both fund the construction of new resi- dence halls where the Olympic athletes will live for about three weeks during the games. "We're building a new set of dormi- tories for the Olympic Village," Machen said. "They'll be used for the next 30 years (after the Olympics). "All the Olympians will be living on our campus," Machen said. Additional campus changes included the renovation of the Utah football sta- Salt Lake City officials are watching the current Olympic games to see how "things are working and how every- thing's going," Machen said. During the 2002 games, Utah students' classes will be disrupted, but will not affect addi- tional semesters. "We're going to have to suspend school for about a month around the time of the Olympics. Everyone agreed it's worth the disruption." Machen said. "We think the university will be right in the middle of all the stuff that's going on." Machen said the scheduled games were a contributing factor in his deci- sion to accept the Utah presidency this past October. "It was one of the factors that I was very much interested in when I came out here. I think it will be great fun," he said. Many University students said they watched just a small portion of this year's Olympic games. "It didn't seem very interesting when I was watching,' said Jeff Buis, an LSA first-year student. "I prefer the summer Olympics." Buis said the late-night coverage of events such as hockey kept him from " { d : . ... _s ..