2A -- The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 30, 1998 NATION/WORLD I PORTFOLIOS Continued from Page 1A adviser, also questioned how many stu- dents will place themselves into a practicum. "Most students will not self-place into a practicum," Leverich predicted. Leverich added, however, that the sig- nificance of the change may be overstat- ed. "I don't see it in the long run making a big difference," Leverich said. Amy Kullenberg, a member of the Graduate Employee Organization, said she was not aware of the change and was not in a position to comment on how the change would affect GSIs or say whether the group would support the change. LSA first-year student David Victor questioned whether the change would be good for students. "I thought the ECB was a pretty good plan," Victor said, adding that as long as the ECB evaluated portfolios, he believed students would end up in the right class. LSA first-year student Theodore Velie said he wondered whether students would be good judges of their work. "I think stu- dents probably wouldn't be as objective as the University would," Velie said. FRATERNITY Continued from Page 1A the fraternity - have an option to re- rush other chapters. "I would assume that they would wait at least three or four years - until this dies down, until these members leave," so alumni members will not be on campus when the chapter is restart- ing, Holcman said. Engineering first-year student Mike Delaney said he thinks Phi Delta Theta is being unfairly singled out. "It's not to say they're any more guilty than anyone else," Delaney said. "They crossed the line, but they are being made an example of." Engineering senior Melissa Patek said the actions against Phi Delta Theta should serve as a wake-up call to other fraternities. "It's something that they really can't control, but I think they need to set an example," Patek said. "The fraternity is definitely getting the bad end of the deal." - Daily Staff Reporter Sarah Lewis contributed to this report. JOIN THE MOST PROMISING PROFESSION OF THE 21ST CENTURY 2JEDO1UF1R A 'J% FAOV]MREI& Prospective Teacher Education Meeting Wednesday, December 2, 1998 6:00 p.m. Schorling Auditorium Room 1202 School of Education Building Call 764-7563 for more information. DRINKING Continued from Page 1A curb underage drinking. "The police should keep doing it, but, by itself, it is not going to do any- thing;' Benet-Martinez said. Benet-Martinez added that in order for minors to understand the risks of alcohol, society must stress education rather than glamorize alcohol. "Alcohol should not be glorified the way this culture glorifies it," Benet- Martinez said. "Something is wrong when people feel the only way they can be expressive is when they drink" Kathy Klykylo, a coordinator with the Drinkwise program, said it is nec- essary to use both education and enforcement to prevent future alcohol tragedies. "The two go hand in hand," Klykylo said. "One without the other won't work" Klykylo added that society talks about alcohol, but fails to promote "low-risk usage," noting that anything outside of the recommended guidelines is high-risk drinking. "A can of beer has the same amount of alcohol as a shot of hard liquor," she said. Twelve drinks for a man and nine drinks for a woman is the maximum amount men and a woman respectively should drink, Klykylo said. Within one day, a woman should not have more than two or three drinks and a man should not go beyond three or four. Klykylo said that although Drinkwise is a counseling program, "we don't preach, but we teach that alcohol is a strong substance." A four-year University study con- ducted two years ago by the Institute for Social Research found that out of a 9,945 sample of 18-to 24-year-olds, 7 percent of those studied became binge drinkers between high school gradua- tion and their early 20s. Binge drinking is defined as con- suming four or more drinks in a single sitting, depending on the person's sex. For the study, researchers inter- viewed the 18- to 24-year-olds four times during the four years. According to the study, 14 percent of the men and 7 percent of the women binge drank more frequently over the four years. Through such programs as the Substance Abuse Education Network and the Binge Drinking Task Force, the University tries to combat binge drink- ing each year. Marsha Benz, a University Health Services educator and chair of the Binge Drinking Task Force, said the University focuses on binge drinking because it results in more accidents and sexual assaults than occasional drink- ing. "We are focusing on students in the residence halls because they are the students with the highest risks for prob- lems," Benz said. Benz added the task force tries to correct the images students enter the University with about alcohol. "We want students to make better choices and shift culture in places where drinking is the really cool thing to do," University spokesperson Julie Peterson said. AROUND THE NATION Regulators to speak on emergency care WASHINGTON - Hospitals can't delay or deny emergency room care just because a patient's health insurance plan requires permission before treatment, government regulators are ready to announce this week. A 1986 law bars hospital emergency rooms from refusing to examine and stab lize patients who can't pay. Now, federal officials will use the "patient dumpin prohibition to ensure immediate care whether or not insurance pays. "Despite the terms of any managed care agreements ... federal law requires that stabilization medical treatment be provided in an emergency," said Health and Human Services Department Inspector General June Gibbs Brown. The 1986 law was intended mainly to protect people without health insurance. However, delays while emergency room staff consult with health plans to see if insurance will pay are on the rise, regulators say. In some cases, federal officials say, patients with potentially serious health conditions have left emergency roons after being questioned about their insurance. To deter such incidents, the U.S. government will begin applying to correct delays regulators say may have been caused by attempts to ensure health paym American Hospital Association spokesperson Rick Wade said clarification in t T law is welcome. But, he said, "It's not going to solve the problem of some plans deciding that they'll use pre-authorization rules as a way not to pay hospitals." U.S. Navy considers antimissle shield WASHINGTON - After spending more than $1 billion conceiving a plan for shooting down ballistic missiles from ships, the Navy is about to for- mally enter the multibillion-dollar sweepstakes to construct the first reli- able medium-range antimissile shield, a contest dominated until now by the Army. A high-level Pentagon panel that authorizes major defense acquisition programs is due soon to approve the Navy's concept for turning its fleet of Aegis cruisers and destroyers into mobile platforms for launching high- altitude interceptors, a legacy of former President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" dream. With the Army's $14 billion effort faltering badly amid a host of quality- control problems and five consecu- tive intercept test failures, the Navy program has emerged in the eyes of many missile defense advocates as the nation's best hope for fielding an effective medium-range antimissile system. But the project is less tested than the Army option. Intercept flight tests will not begin until 2000. And senior Pentagon officials are skeptical t* the Navy can meet its aim of devel- oping a modest initial capability by 2005. Former Mouseketeer charged wi4th fraud LOS ANGELES -TV fans first got to know Darlene Gillespie as a freckle- faced Mouseketeer, described by Disney publicity as having "more bounce to t ounce than a bottle of a soda pop. She was one of the nine original Mouseketeers who appeared in the first season of the "Mickey Mouse Club" and stayed for the duration of the show's 1955-1959 run. Now the 56-year-old Gillespie is back in the public eye, with jury selec- tion beginning Monday for her trial on stock fraud charges. Her fiance has pleaded guilty in the case and been se tenced to prison. AROUND THE WORLD ONE% U.S. cautions Israel on military actions JERUSALEM - The United States cautioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday about carrying out military action against Lebanon as politi- cians here called for reprisal air strikes to avenge the deaths of Israeli soldiers there. The American message was conveyed by U.S. Ambassador Edward Walker, who met with Netanyahu before Israel's top security ministers convened for a special cabinet meeting on Lebanon. The meeting yielded no public deci- sions on southern Lebanon, where Israeli troops have fought a low-intensity war of attrition with guerrillas of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement since 1985. Washington is worried that the combat deaths of seven Israeli soldiers in the last two weeks will prompt Netanyahu to order harsh retaliatory raids. Following guerrilla attacks in 1996, Israel launched major air and artillery attacks on Lebanon, killing nearly 200 people, most of them civilians. Yesterday, Netanyahu sided with his top army and intelligence officials in rejecting growing public calls for a uni- lateral Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. But he did pledge to take the fight to Hezbollah. "As long as we have no way to leaf Lebanon in a way that ensures the securi- ty of the north, we will stay with the main goal of defending our soldiers, reducing harm to them and increasing damage to Hezbollah' the prime minister said. Questions surround Congo cease-fire NAIROBI, Kenya - Among to many questions surrounding Saturday's announcement of a cease- fire in the Congo war, the biggest remains the rebels who. started the fighting. Left out of the Paris meetings that produced the tentative agreement - at a session restricted to heads of state - rebel leaders yesterday nei- ther embraced nor rejected the accord, described as an agreement in principle. Rather, the insurgents si9 ply issued a pointed reminder of their significance. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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