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across the country.
John Thielbahr, director of conferences
and institutes at Washington State
University, said last month that the col-
lege has organized a national teleconfer-
ence scheduled for Nov 13 that will
involve representatives from universities
and address collegiate drinking.
Underage drinking at the University of
Michigan fell under scrutiny following
the death of LSA first-year student
Courtney Cantor.
The death of Cantor, who fell from her

Mary Markley Residence Hall window,
prompted alcohol awareness although her
death never was attributed to alcohol.
But Phi Delta Theta fraternity, 'where
Cantor had been drinking the night before
her death, was kicked off campus for
serving alcohol. Cantor had a blood-alco-
hol level of 0.059;
Hartford said she hopes it is impos-
sible to escape the reality of alcohol
abuse, because students share a feeling
that administrators are overreacting
when dealing with the issue of binge
drinking.
-The Associated Press contributed to
this report.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Newt
Gingrich leaves an indelible mark on the
House. On his first day presiding over a
chamber long dominated by Democrats,
Gingrich increased the power of the
speaker even as he pushed through term
limits for his office and for committee
chairpersons.
He also can claim a major share of the
credit for a balanced federal budget and
lower taxes. On foreign policy, Gingrich
was an ally of President Clinton on Ude,
a strong supporter of Israel and of tough
U.S. military action.
The former history professor led a
political revolution that gave the
Republicans a House majority for the
first time in 40 years. His tart-tongued
criticism of the president and the
Democratic party made him a lightning
rod. At the same time, he often proved a
willing negotiator with Clinton, a role
that infuriated GOP conservatives.
His positions on issues often were
overshadowed by his style. The two
House Republicans currently vying to

succeed Gingrich indicated said yester-
day they would follow a far less con-
frontational approach.
Rep. Bob Livingston of Louisiana,
chairperson of the House Appropriations
Committee, and Rep. Chris Cox of
California, chairperson of the House
Republican Policy Committee, indicated
in separate television interviews they
would concentrate more on moving leg-
islation through the House and less on
the grand ideological pronouncements
characteristic of Gingrich.
Whoever is the next speaker will occu-
py an office reshaped by the Georgian.
Gingrich reclaimed powers taken
from the office early this century
when the House revolted against the
iron-handed rule of Speaker Joe
Cannon of Illinois.
Rather than let seniority determine
committee chairmanships, Gingrich
made the choices. It was under that
change that he passed over more senior
members of the appropriations commit-
tee and gave the chairship to Livingston.

Gore, Bush presidential front-runners
WASHINGTON -The midterm election results that led to the surprise resig-
nation of House Speaker Newt Gingrich also bolstered the status of each party's
early front-runners for the 2000 presidential campaign: Republican George W
Bush and Democrat Al Gore.
Bush gained ground not only as a result of the size of his more than 2-to-1 r
election margin of victory as Texas governor but also because of its scope. He
took half the Latino/a vote and more than a quarter of the black vote, both nor-
mally parts of the Democratic support base.
"Winning nonstandard constituencies helps, especially when the Republican
Party in general did not have a good day," said Keith Fortmann, executive direc-
tor of the Republican Party in Iowa.
As for Gore, the vice president earned chits and respect within his party
by stumping on behalf of fellow Democrats around the country, filling the
role that would ordinarily have been played by scandal-ridden President
Clinton.
More than that, argues one Democrat consultant, the favorable results for
Democrats dispelled the notion that Clinton, because of his tarnished person*
reputation, "would be a millstone around Gore's neck" when he launches his
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ENROLLMENT
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Total enrollment for the fall is 37,197
- an increase of 0.5 percent that rep-
resents only 202 more students than last
year. The number represents graduate
and professional students in addition to
undergraduates..
In 1997, the University's total
enrollment numbers reflected an
increase of 1.3 percent from the pre-
vious year.
"The numbers depend on the pool;
there is no magic target," Peterson said.
Minority enrollment - totaling
8,243 students, or 25.3 percent of
the student body - reflected a
minor fluctuation from previous
years, but Peterson said this trend of
ups and downs is common at an
institution the size of the University,
"Numbers change here or there, but
there's nothing that really jumps out at
me," Peterson said.
Minority enrollment numbers
showed changes of only 0.1 percent
across two groups. The percentage of
black students dropped slightly from

Glenn almost
back to normal
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After
a shaky reintroduction to gravity, John
Glenn was "95 or 98 percent back to
normal" yesterday, walking briskly,
telling jokes and urging old folks to fol-
low their dreams.
"I feel very elated that things went
well. We got a lot of the data we were
looking to get and worked very hard up
there," NASA's 77-year-old geriatric
test subject said his first morning back
on Earth. "Obviously, we'd like to ... go
right back up again, but that's not to be.
And so a sense of accomplishment I
guess I feel and a little bit of letdown
that the whole thing is over, maybe, but
nothing serious."
In his first post-flight news confer-
ence, Glenn admitted he "didn't feel
too hot" when he stood and walked out
of space shuttle Discovery on Saturday.
He was determined, though, to join
his six crewmates for the traditional
walk around the shuttle.
"If I would have been on my hands

and knees I was going to do it"said
Glenn, who beat the oldest-spaceman
record by 16 years. "I wasn't quite to
that point, but obviously I was not
doing my best gait out there. I was not
disoriented, that would be too strong 10
word for it."
Nicotine found to
improve memory
LOS ANGELES - Nicotine-like
compounds can improve memory and
might one day be used in pills to treat dis-
orders like Alzheimer's disease, accord-
ing to research on laboratory animals.
But while the finding support
smokers' contention that cigarette
improve their mental alertness, scien-
tists warned that no one should ever
reach for a smoke.
"The relationship between lung can-
cer and smoking is clear and it's not the
way you want to prevent the onset of
Alzheimer's disease," said Esther
Sabban, a biochemistry and molecular
biology professor at New York Medical
College in Valhalla, N.Y.

8.6 percent in 1997 to 8.5 percent this
fall. Similarly, Hispanic enrollment
dropped from 4.5 percent to 4.4 per-I
cent.
Peterson said it is important to realize
that minority student enrollment per-
centages are calculated using an adjust-
ed total enrollment, which includes
only U.S. citizens and permanent resi-
dents.
The enrollment totals also reveal a
large number of students included in
the "unknown" category. Peterson
said this category is a new addition
to the student census, and gives stu-
dents the option of saying they
"don't know" their primary multira-
cial category.
The minimal changes, which come at
a time when the University is in the
midst of lawsuits over the use of race in
its Law School and College of
Literature, Science and the Arts admis-
sions policies, should be looked at in
terms of the total picture, Monts said.
"There are fluctuations in classes,"
Monts said. "To single out minorities as
a point of fluctuation is a bit inaccu-
rate."
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Bangladesh court
convicts assassins
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A judge
convicted and sentenced to death 15 for-
mer military commanders yesterday in
the 1975 assassination of the country's
first prime minister, bringing an end to a
trial delayed for years by Bangladesh's
bitter and often bloody politics.
Bangladeshis welcomed the convic-
tions, which marked a rare instance of
the nation resolving a violent episode in
its past though the orderly exercise of
justice.
Four other defendants, including a for-
mer junior minister for information,
were acquitted in the assassination of
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman due to insuffi-
cient evidence.
Rahman was the father of current
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. After tak-
ing office in 1996, Hasina used her
Dower to bring her father's killers to trial,
saying that ensuring justice would help
entrench democracy in this volatile
country.
Thousands of followers of Sheikh
Mujib, as he is popularly known in

Bangladesh, danced in the streets outside
the courtroom to celebrate the verdict by
Dhaka District Judge Kazi Golam Rasul.
Some shouted, "Justice has prevailed!"
Hasina later visited her former home
where her father was killed.
"Bangladesh will be free of a curse the
day the killers are executed," Hasina told
reporters.as she broke into tears.
German political
party plans future
BONN, Germany - The conser*
vative party that governed Germany
for 16 years made little progress
during a weekend congress to define
its role in opposition to the center-
left government of Gerhard
Schroeder.
Helmut Kohl, the former chancel-
lor who stepped down as chair of
the Christian Democrats after lead-
ing them to their worst defeat in
postwar German elections in
September, warned his party to stay
united. V
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