0%e'Elan *rni News: 76-DAILY Display Ads: 7640554 Classified Ads: 764-0557 One hundred eight years ofeditorialfreedom October 6, 1998 M1i r " .3.; " fx t Ann Arbot - - ---- - - --- - ------ - --- - -- ----------- - - , 'ollege apparel production jiuestioned By Mike Spahn Daily Staff Reporter Representatives from colleges and runiversities nationwide will meet with members of the clothing industry and government labor officials today to dis- cuss the use of sweat shops in college thletics apparel production. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman announced yesterday the beginning of a forum examining the $2.5-billion indus- try that will kick off with a forum today in Washington, D.C. that is sponsored in part by the University. Implementing a code of conduct for companies making college apparel, Herman said, is essential for maintaining high working standards at home and abroad. "College apparel should not be made a sweat shop," Herman said in a national teleconference yesterday. "Students have an integral role in the process. It can be sujmmed up by three words: educate, organize and mobilize." In recent months, the University has drawn fire from campus activists who oppose the University's contract with Nike, which some activists contend allows workers to perform in poor working con- itions in the production of their apparel. Keith Molin, the retired senior associ- ate athletic director now serving as the department's consultant on this matter, said the issue is one in which all people should take interest. "This is an issue more complex than we thought it was," Molin said. "All See APPAREL, Page 7 Clinton inquiry approved Committee votes to consider impeachment DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily Steve and Barry's University Sportswear sells a wide variety of Michigan apparel. Barry Prevor, co-owner of Steve and Barry's, said his store does not sell clothing produced in sweatshops. I Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -A sharply divid- ed House Judiciary Committee voted last night to recommend the start of a formal inquiry into whether President Clinton should be impeached for obstructing justice and lying about his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky. As anticipated, the vote followed party lines, with the panel's 21 Republicans supporting the motion while its 16 Democrats opposed it. The vote followed an often-heated, all-day session during which the Republicans made their case for proceeding with the inquiry while the Democrats argued Clinton's offenses did not rise to the level of such an investigation. The committee's action sets the stage for all 435 members of the House of Representatives to vote Thursday on whether they believe there is enough evidence to warrant a full-scale impeachment investiga- tion. It is expected the GOP-con- trolled House will approve the inquiry; what will be- closely watched is how many Democrats also support it. House passage will mark the third impeachment inquiry of a president in U.S. history. Wi Under the inquiry pro- ac posal the committee adopt- ed yesterday, the panel will review the Lewinsky matter but also can broaden its scope if other allega- tions of presidential misconduct are sent to Congress by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Democrats strongly opposed such an open-ended approach. The inquiry, patterned after the one launched for the Watergate scandal, also will not have a timetable for completion. However, Chairperson Henry Hyde (R-1ll.) has said he would like the commit- tee to complete an impeachment inquiry by the new year. If the panel approved articles of impeachment against Clinton, the full House would then vote on whether to adopt them, with a simple majority required for passage. If that occurred, the case would then go to the Senate for trial, where a two-thirds majority would be required to remove Clinton from office. "The 20th Century has been referred to often as the American Century," Hyde said at the start of yesterday's meeting. "It is imperative we be able to look back at this episode with dignity and pride. ... In this difficult moment in our history lies the potential for our finest achievement - proof that democracy work" But the senior Democrat on the panel, Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) complained that House Republicans are simply trying to elevate Clinton's morals into a national scandal. "This is not Watergate," he said. "It is an extramarital affair." But reflecting the Democratic strate- gy of shifting the focus from Clinton's actions to the relentless pursuit of the case by Starr and his aides, Conyers said: "I suggest to you in every ounce of friendship that I can muster that even worse than an extramarital relationship is the use of ° federal prosecutors and fed- eral agents to expose an b fa extramarital relationship." Before voting to recom- mend the impeachment inquiry, the panel defeated several Democratic amendments - each time on strict party-line votes of 21-16 - that would have limited the time and scope of the impeachment review. During yesterday's debate, Republicans insisted that an impeach- ment inquiry was necessary to deter- mine the extent of Clinton's misbehav- ior. Rep. Bill McCullom (R-Fla.) noted that there are 115 people serving time in federal prisons for committing per- jury - one of the offenses Clinton is accused of in his attempts to conceal his sexual liaisons with Lewinsky. "That's enough for us to impeach and See CLINTON, Page 7 Op ex By Paul Berg Daily Staff Reporter At a meeting of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs yesterday, Provost Nancy Cantor addressed the faculty's executive governing body on ure concerns. antor said she is a strong advocate of tenure. "The benefits of tenure revolve around research," Cantor said. "It is the right to sort of prosper in this community." SACUA Chair William Ensminger said he is con- cerned non-tenured faculty are receiving the same benefits as tenured professors. "Some say tenure is like American citizenship," said Ensminger, a professor of pharmacology. "I can speak my peace without being shot." Cantor and SACUA members attempted to define u tre, facing growing concern that the lines between rent levels of University faculty are becoming blurred. "I have been upset by the pitting of tenured faculty ecs update SACUA Cantor a ddresses group on tenure, tobacco stocks and diverse faculty elements against each other' Cantor said. She pointed to the performance arts departments as an example of a "need for flexibility," because it is often beneficial for students to learn from both pro- fessionals and academics. "An institution this complex depends on a diversity of roles," Cantor said. As an example of how faculty diversity has been achieved, Cantor cited the Medical School's policy of limiting the number of non-tenured faculty to 10 per- cent of the school's total, although she said this is not a "hard and fast rule." SACUA members also discussed the Academic Freedom Fund lecture series. The Senate Assembly sponsors the lectures, and next March's lecture will mark the first year the cen- tral administration supports it. The significance of the lectures to the faculty's governing body involves three faculty members from 1954 who were suspended by the University in, as University President Lee Bollinger said last week, "an era of rabid intolerance by this University." Ensminger said the Chandler Davis, Clement Markert and Mark Nickerson lectures are named after and honor these three former University professors, whom he said were victims of the anti-communist trend of McCarthyism. Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs Gilbert Omenn addressed the committee's concern on the possible revitalization of the University's health See SACUA, Page 7 Open wide Police say heroin use on the rise By Jennifer Yachnin Daily Staff Reporter With toxicology reports in the. suspected drug- related death of a University student still incom- plete and a suspected deadly heroin overdose in Ann Arbor this weekend, Ann Arbor Police Department officials said heroin use may be on the rise in Ann Arbor. "There seems to be a revival - especially in the area of snorting it," said AAPD Lieutenant Jim Tieman. "Our narcotics officers are looking for it." After more than two weeks, toxicology reports regarding the death of LSA sophomore Chris Giacherio remain unfinished, Tieman said. "We talked with Dr. (Bader) Cassin, the medical examiner, who said he hasn't had a chance to look at the toxicology reports," Tieman said. Giacherio was found unresponsive in the bath- room of a friend's home at 909 Packard St. earlier this month. Preliminary autopsy reports indicate heroin and cocaine may have contributed to Giacherio's death. Tieman said the reports should be finished in about a week, at which time the medical examiner Study finds depression hard to detect By Gerard Coben-Vr lfaud Daily Staff Reporter Conservative estimates say 5 percent of the population is affected. More inclusive surveys put it at around 20 percent. But whatever the prevalence, psychologists and social work- ers agree that major depression is an important problem on campus and across the nation. National Mental Illness Awareness Week kicked off yes- terday just as a newly released University study suggested that identifying clinical depression in patients is a complex process. As part of the national focus on depression, the annual "Scream-In" is scheduled to be held tomorrow on the Diag at noon to publicize mental illnesses such as depression and anorexia. The study, published in the September issue of the Archives of Family Medicine and directed by family medi- cine Prof. Michael Klinkman, classified people in three cat- egories - depressed, nondepressed and those who fall in between. A new conception of depression, Klinkman said, must be created. Psychiatrists, he said, often label patients as either depressed or nondepressed, with no middle ground, and fail WARREN ZINN/Daily Models of three forms of heroin are displayed by the Ann Arbor Police Department. AAPD officials said there may be an increase in the use of heroin in Ann Arbor. 'There are no ties at this time," between the two cases, Tieman said. The victim was not a University student, he added. Although AAPD officers have not linked the two deaths, Tieman said he is concerned about the possi- bility that someone is dealing tainted batches of the drug. "Is there bad heroin out there?" Tieman asked. "We'd like to get some answers" Deb Kraus, a clinical psychologist at the University's Counseling and Psychological Services, said heroin is a "career drug" because it is expensive lea