2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 11, 1998 NATION/WORLD I Lawsuit accuses WSU of racial bias DETROIT (AP) - A suburban Detroit man has sued Wayne State University's School of Medicineaiming it violates state civil rights law by offering an admissions program that unfairly favors black students. Nicolas Lorenzini, a United States citizen whose parents were born in Argentina, argues that the medical school's Post Baccalaureate Program dis- criminates against minority applicants who are not black. The program is designed to extend medical school admissions to disadvantaged students whose grades or test scores, as determined by the university, may not State should either open the program to all minorities, regardless of their income, or let all disadvantaged students apply regardless of their race. "I just think there's this secret quota they have to have," Lorenzini told the Detroit Free Press in a report yesterday "When you apply to med school, you hear it all the time - if you're a white male, you have a much harder time getting in." Lorenzini's father is a retired plastic surgeon. The family lives on a gated street in Grosse Pointe Farms where homes cost up to $1 million. Lorenzini argues, however, that Wayne State should consider him disadvantaged because he is Hispanic and English is not his first language. "You have to look a little bit deeper than skin color or financial status;" he told the newspaper. After graduating in 1991 from Grosse Pointe South High School, Lorenzini received a bache- lor's degree in management and economics from Rice University in Houston. He completed a mas- ter's degree this summer in biochemistry, with an emphasis on biotechnology, at Georgetown University in Washington. In January, Wayne State denied Lorenzini admis- sion to the medical school. He then asked to be select- ed for the Post Baccalaureate Program but the univer- sity rejected him again, saying he didn't qualify as dis- advantaged. Ten of the 16 students selected for the program this year were black, university attorney Louis Lessem said. f1 AROUND THE NATION( Washington turmoil drives stocks down NEW YORK - Blue-chip stocks fell sharply yesterday as buyers avoided secu- rities markets increasingly shaken by growing economic turmoil overseas and President's Clinton's precarious political situation. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 249.48 points, or 3.2 percent, to 7,613.73, eliminating the last of Tuesday's historic 380-point advance in a second day steep declines. There were sharp sell-offs in markets around the globe, most om- imously in Brazil, considered by analysts and U.S. policymakers to be the key to stabilizing world financial markets. "There are values there," said Larry Auriana, co-manager of the $4.5-billion Kaufmann Fund. "But there's no rush to jump in" he said, adding "the psycholo- gy is very bad and it could test a new low." "The landscape is pock-marked with danger, whether it be political problems in the U.S. or turmoil in emerging markets," said Michael Clark, head of U.S. Trading for Credit Suisse First Boston. "I don't blame anybody for stepping back" That uncertainty was underscored by unsettling news throughout the trading day. As investors grappled to understand the significance of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton - in news beamed all day on ser monitors onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Brazil's stock market apart. accurately reflect their abilities. In his lawsuit filed Aug. 14, Lorenzini Michigan! U Easy Money. for your group "Profit by Associa- tion" with the Co-op Your members save money while your organization or business raises easy residual revenues. 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Washington also welcomed the nomination, even though Primakov has been criticized in the West for his hard foreign policy line, includ- ing a willingness to compromise with Iraq and other regimes at odds with the West. Primakov could be confirmed in par- liament as early as today. He will need to quickly assemble a Cabinet to deal with the most severe economic crisis since the 1991 Soviet collapse. "I think he will get (parliament's) support. Common sense has pre- vailed," said Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who spearhead- ed the opposition to Yeltsin's previ- ous candidate for premier, Viktor Chernomyrdin. In a nationally televised address, Chernomyrdin said parliament's refusal to confirm him was part of a Communist plot to force Yeltsin to resign and seize power. "It's a creeping coup," he said. Drug ma help fighting epression WASHINGTON --An experimental drug appears to alleviate depression by blocking a mysterious brain chemical - one that until now, doctors didn't even know was at work in mental disorders. The finding by Merck & Co., pub- lished in today's edition of the journal Science, could give doctors the first entirely new way to treat depression in decades, offering hope to patients who get no help from today's therapies such as Paxil and Prozac. "This is really very important," said Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the gov- ernment's National Institute on Mental Health, who is familiar with the find- ings. "To everybody's surprise, it (the new drug) was robustly effective for depression." The drug still needs more extensive testing in humans, however, before it would be eligible to receive govern- ment approval to be sold. Depression is the nation's most prevalent mental health problem, afflicting about 15 million Americans at some point in their lives. 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Ulster Unionist Party leader Davi Trimble, the designated first minister o Northern Ireland, held more than 3 minutes of private talks with Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, in landmark encounter that Trimble co "civilized and workmanlike.' - Compiled from Daily wirereports. 11c4an, t~j am The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through Aprl) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. Oncampos scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 481094327. 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