2A - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 19, 1999 NATION/WORLD FERRIS Continued from Page 1A 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. Y 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 q 9 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. U I a'., :5f' Afro n Herman E. Daly Renegade, Iconoclast, and Pioneer Economies of Ecological 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. On "Sustainable Economies" - Tuesday, January 19 at 6pm Hale Auditorium Named one of a hundred "visionaries who could change your life" by the Utne Reader. Winner of the Honorary Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. Recognized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for excellence in Environmental Science. Former Senior Economist at the World Bank. Co-founder and Editor of the Journal of Ecological Economics. Co- Author of For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, and author of the controversial Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs. ***Lecture Series Sponsored by: The University of Michigan's Erb Environmental Management Institute, Corporate Environmental Management Program, Business School, School of Natural Resources and Environment, College of Literature Science and the Arts, College of Engineering, and the Office of the Vice President for Research, with partial funding from the Dow Chemical Company. J0 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. 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