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the alcohol. In Michigan, it is a felony to
give alcohol to a minor if it results in
death, he said.
"If we can identify who it was that pro-
vided alcohol to her, they would poten-
tially face criminal charges," he said.
Ferris police officers try to keep par-
ties under control, Courtney said, but off-
campus housing is more difficult to reg-
ulate. Campus police do issue minor in
possession citations and "take a strong
stance' on what he called "kegger" par-
ties, where anyone who enters a party can
obtain alcohol from a common source.
Despite the fact that Allen died after
'drinking in her own home, Courtney said,
he still questions the effectiveness of
campaigns to reduce underage drinking.
"It makes us stop and re-evaluate
,whether we're doing enough,' he said.
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Allen's death comes on the heels of
other Michigan student deaths.
University of Michigan LSA first-year
student Courtney Cantor died Oct. 16
after falling from her sixth-floor Mary
Markley Residence Hall window. She
was seen drinking at a fraternity party the
night before. Michigan State University
student Bradley McCue died after drink-
ing 24 shots of alcohol on his birthday in
November.
Chad Schultz, a sophomore at Ferris,
said not many people on the campus have
been talking about Allen's death. "Not
too many people seem real shocked
about it,' Schultz said. "People seem to
blow it off ... in the long run, people, will
probably just forget about it."
Ferris sophomore Johnnie Jordan also
said he hasn't witnessed a very strong
reaction on campus. "Most people who
don't know her probably say 'she messed
up,'" Jordan said. "They figure it won't
happen to them."
Jordan said drinking is common on the
Ferris campus during weekends, includ-
ing underage drinking at house parties.
He said he doesn't think the police will
start breaking up parties. Schultz said
police don't usually break up parties
unless someone phones in a complaint.
The University of Michigan has expe-
rienced its share of police intervention at
campus parties recently, but Sgt. Andrew
Zazula of the Ann Arbor Police
Department said no MIPs were issued
this weekend. "It's hit or miss," Zazula
said. "There are weekends where none
are issued."
The slower weekends are because
"everything sort of trails off" after the
fall semester, which is "party patrol sea-
son" he said. Football season and frater-
nity rush increase the number of drink-
ing-related incidents and MIP citations,
Zazula said.
University spokesperson Julie
Peterson said the University already had
been concerned with excessive drinking
prior to this additional tragedy.
The University appointed a binge
drinking task force last fall, Peterson said,
and they likely will report their findings
in April to find solutions to the drinking
problem in the University community.
"Every time there's a drinking death on
campus, we grieve over that and think it's
one too many" Peterson said. "I think
we're all working to try to find solutions;'
but students also must be involved in the
process to get results, she said.
Engineering first-year student Kim
Jackson said personal responsibility is
more effective than law enforcement
when it comes to students and drinking.
"You can't always have someone telling
you what to do," Jackson said. "It makes
a bigger difference if you're responsible
for yourself'
AROUND THE NATION
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Clinton to propose welfare expansion
WASHINGTON - President Clinton will propose in his
State of the Union address tonight a $1 billion expansion of the
federal government's efforts to help the nation's most disad-
vantaged families move from welfare to work, White House
officials said yesterday.
The officials said the initiative will help about 200,000 wel-
fare families get jobs.
"Despite the enormous progress we have made in last few
years in moving people from welfare to work, we need to make
an extra effort for the people still on the rolls because they will
be the hardest to place;' said Bruce Reed, the president's chief Clinton
domestic policy adviser.
The initiative is particularly aimed at increasing employment of low income,
absent fathers of children on welfare, so they can pay child support and get
involved again in their children lives.
Many of these fathers have prison records and only 30 per cent have held a job
in the past year, according to a recent study. Only about 10 to 15 percent of chil-
dren on public assistance receive any formal child support from their absent p
ent.
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Sidewalk behavior
law sparks protest
PHILADELPHIA - Homeless
advocates lay down on the sidewalks
along a busy shopping district yester-
day to protest a new ordinance allowing
police to fine and in some cases
remove vagrants sitting or living on the
sidewalks.
The "sidewalk behavior" ordinance
also offers more shelter beds, mental-
health programs and substance-abuse
counseling. Advocates say it will help
the homeless by providing treatment
when needed.
But what has made the law so con-
tentious is a provision that outlaws
lying or sitting on sidewalks.
About 100 protesters bearing signs
reading "The City of Brotherly WHAT?"
and chanting "Stop the war on the poor"
staged a rally at City Hall then walked to
the posh Rittenhouse Square area, where
they lay down in the rain along a two-
block stretch of sidewalk.
The protesters planned to stay there
overnight until today, when the law
takes effect.
No arrests had been made by yes-
terday afternoon.
"This is a bill specifically targeting
the homeless, and that's fundamenolly
unfair" said William O'Brien of Project
H.O.M.E, a nonprofit group that helps
the homeless find housing and jobs.
Luxui cars sport
new blue headlights
WASHINGTON - Mercedes, Lexus
and other high-end cars have an eye-
catching feature that may soon be found
on everyday automobiles: bright, bluish
headlights.
High-intensity discharge lamps pro-
vide about twice the brightness of o4
nary headlights, closely approximating
daylight. At the same time, HID lights
use less power and can last for 100,000
miles of driving time.
Some experts believe the lights will
soon displace halogen headlights, the
current technology, just as other lighting
systems bettered the oil lamps first used
on cars.
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AROUND THE WORLD
Serb forces attack
near massacre site
MALOPOLJE, Yugoslavia - Defy-
ing global outrage over the massacre of
civilians, Serb forces pounded villages
yesterday with artillery.
The government also ordered the
American head of the Kosovo peace
mission to leave the country and barred
a U.N. investigator looking into the
massacre.
Fighting spread yesterday to north-
ern Kosovo, where ethnic Albanian
rebels attacked a Serb vehicle, wound-
ing five policemen in an ambush 25
miles northwest of the provincial capi-
tal, Pristina.
The defiant moves after last week's
massacre of 45 ethnic Albanian civil-
ians indicated President Slobodan
Milosevic was willing to risk further
international pressure in his campaign
against rebels seeking independence
from the main Yugoslav republic,
Serbia.
NATO's supreme commander, Gen.
Wesley Clark, and German Gen. Klaus
Naurnann, plan to fly to the Yugoslav
capital of Belgrade today to warn
Milosevic he is facing military action
unless he abides by the U.S.-negotiated
Oct. 12 deal that ended seven months
of fighting.
The generals were to have gone
Belgrade yesterday but delayed te
visit after Yugoslav authorities said
Milosevic was too busy to see them.
Brazilian officials
floats currency
BRASILIA, Brazil - Desperate to
heal its financial wounds, Brazil pf -
manently floated its beleaguered
rency yesterday and sought to assure
the rest of the world that it will drive
ahead with further tough reforms.
Global markets rallied after the
news.
Brazil's finance minister, Pedro
Malan was in Washington to explain
to the Clinton administration, the
International Monetary Fund and
investors how his government will
meet its reform promises.
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