ews: 76-DAILY isplay Ads: 764-0554 lassified Ads: 764-0557 ItC Sp ; M : } ?' ,_ p . One hundred eight years of editor'l freedom Wednesday January 20, 1999 ill A F". fwwq I ddress Clinton talks aboz ebacco, social se WASHINGTON (AP) - President sy." linton, standing before a Congress Several Repu orn over his fate, proposed yesterday to 77-minute spe rotect Social Security with the huge William Rehnq udget surpluses that Republicans are Clinton's trial, al yeing for tax cuts. He also announced Republicans, i he government will sue the tobacco president's spee n ry for smokers' health costs. business would n ha day of high drama that shifted of the outcome o om his daytime trial in the Senate to "Our country is prime-time State of the Union Rep. Jennifer Du peech, Clinton made no mention of the ter what the outc ex-and-lies case that led to his situation, life in A 'mpeachment and imperils his presi- Clinton opened ency. ing the admon But with the economy booming and Speaker Den he budget balanced, Clinton said Republicans and America's achievements are sometimes a spirit of biparti verlooked "in the clash of controver- let's do exactly tb SA debat AAPD actii O OeiGopwani dropped and "1 DailyStaff Reporter police persecutio A Michigan Student Assembly resolu- members" to end tion to oppose the University's and the The resolution Ann Arbor Police Department's investi- handed, unreason gations of LSA first-year student states the actions Courtney Cantor's death and resulting cials had "noth actions, provoked hours of debate among addressing the pro MSA members and University students This resoluti who attended the assembly's meeting last University stude night. opinions on drink ote on the resolution - to "oppose "This resolutio scagoating and police persecution"- underage drinkin was postponed until next week, which and former Ir appeased some assembly members and President Brad H frustrated others. Suggesting tha Rackham Rep. Jessica Curtin pro- be altered, MSA posed the lengthy resolution, which motioned to table includes seven recommendations and have to make this states the University administration gent if we want and the Ann Arbor city government motion was passe res onded inappropriately to Cantor's The assembly d*. night supporting Cantor died after falling from her by an MSA sp sixth-floor Mary Markley Residence University's Code Hall room window. Cantor had been The MSA rev seen drinking at the Phi Delta Theta ted a review re Fraternity on Oct. 15 shortly before Board of Regents she died. Last week, 10 Phi Delta In support o Theta members were charged for fur- Students Rights nishing alcohol to minors. Five also Savic, a Rackha were charged with using fraudulent other members o identification to purchase alcohol and at the regents' me knowingly allowing a minor to drink. SRC members e resolution proposed to MSA last and the committ nit asked for those charges to be goals for the Coc hits ises - not scandal Ut curity blicans boycotted the ech; Chief Justice uist, presiding over so stayed away. n their response to the ch, said the nation's not be hurt regardless f Clinton's trial. is not in crisis," said nn, (R-Wash.) "No mat- come of the president's America will go on." d his address by recall- ition of new House nis Hastert for Democrats to work in sanship. "Mr. Speaker, hat," the president said. vs Students tune in to Clinton speech By Nick Bunkley Daily Staff Reporter Nearly one year after news of the Clinton sex scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky unfolded before the public, President Clinton gave his annu- al State of the Union address to the nation last night. But Clinton didn't focus on all of the issues in the nation- al spotlight. He focused on the economy, education and social security - not Lewinsky or impeachment. White House officials last week erased any doubts as to whether the speech would proceed despite the Senate impeachment trial, and as Clinton's words "The state of our union is strong" echoed through the House chamber, the state of his presidency was in doubt. Communication studies assistant Prof. Jill Edy said some viewers may have watched Clinton's address out of interest in what he may have said about the impeachment. Others may not have watched because they are annoyed by excessive cov- erage of the scandal, Edy said. See CAMPUS, Page 7 President Bill Clinton addresses the nation in his State of the Union address last night. In the ornate House chamber where he was impeached one month ago on a party-line vote, the president was received with respect and interrupted by applause 95 times. Democrats were most enthusiastic. Two of his harshest Republican critics - House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas - See CLINTON, Page 7 LOUIS BROWN/Dadi Students watch the State of the Union address yesterday at the Michigan Union. I )ns the scapegoating and on of Phi Delta Theta . called AAPD "heavy- able and cynical." It also taken by AAPD offi- ing in common with oblems of alcoholism." on compelled some nts to express strong king. on is not going to help g,' Kinesiology senior nterfraternity Council olcman said. at the original resolution Treasurer Bram Elias it until next week. "We resolution more intelli- things to change" The ,ed. passed a resolution last changes recommended onsored review of the e of Student Conduct. iew committee submit- port to the University s in December. of its findings, MSA Commission Chair Olga am representative, and f the SRC plan to speak eeting tomorrow will discuss their report ee's short and long-term de, Savic said. Drugs, alcohol may factor into Han death By Jason Stoffer Daily Staff Reporter Engineering sophomore Min Kang had alcohol in his system and may have taken drugs before he lost control of his car the morning of Dec. 29, causing the death of his passenger, who was also a University student. "There was alcohol, but we don't know how much," AAPD Detective Brian Zazadny said. "The lab is doing a full screen (for drugs). They'll pretty much test for every- thing." Zazadny said preliminary test results indicate that Kang had alco- hol in his body at the time of the accident that killed Engineering sophomore Kyu Jong Han. Sources have told police that Kang also may have consumed opi- ates before the crash, Zazadny said. Opiates are a class of controlled sub- stances consisting of opium and its derivatives. Police said in the early morning hours before the accident, Kang and [Han were at a party on the 2300 block of Lancashire Street in Ann Arbor with five or six friends when they left the party to purchase ciga- rettes. They were returning to the party when Kang's 1997 Audi, which investigators believe was exceeding the posted speed limit, jumped a curb on Huron Parkway and hit a tree. See ALCOHOL, Page 5 DANA LINNANE/Daily Friends embrace during a vigil held in South Quad Residence Hall dining room yesterday for LSA first-year students Sarah Metzger and Celia Zwerdling, who were killed in an automobile accident Monday. Sr S enS By Yaet Kohen Daily Staff Reporter As friends solemnly filed into the third floor Taylor House lounge in South Quad Residence Hall last night, it was apparent that the medium-sized lounge would not hold the more than 200 people who came to honor the memory of two University students who were killed in a car accident Monday afternoon. LSA first-year students Sarah Metzger and Celia Zwerdling were killed in an accident returning to Ann Arbor following a weekend ski trip. Alyssa Rosen and Kelson Smith, who were driving with Metzger and Zwerdling, also were injured in the crash. The four students were driving on the Old Mission peninsula, one mile north of Traverse City, when Smith lost control of his Jeep. Friends and family of the students were moved from the inadequate lounge to a room in South Quad's dining hall, where guests filled thelarge space. People gathered together, as friends tried to console each other "We need to be there for each other;" said Hillel Rabbi Richard Kirschen, encour- aging people to remain in the dining hall after the service. "Stay and talk, talk to each other," Kirschen said. "There is no correct way to mourn," Kirschen added, as tissues were passed out to those who were crying. The service was held in the Jewish tradition for both Metzger and Zwerdling. Prayers were sung to the music of a single guitar, in both Hebrew and English. In the Jewish tradition it is customary for mourners to See VIGIL, Page 7 Today, a fire damaged a second-floor room in the NIS building on Maynard Street. Fire damages NIS Minors offered across Big Ten By Jason Stoffer Dy Staff Reporter fire broke out in the News and I rmation Services Building at 412 Maynard St. at 2 a.m. today, leaving one room charred and three windows broken. "We don't know how it started," Department of Public Safety Officer Orlando Firestone said. "No one was insid ewhen we aot there." Officers said DPS officials arrived at the scene. Smoke enveloped the area and at least five firepersons headed into the building as the cloud of smoke traveled out toward the street. The firepersons brought hoses inside and placed a loud buzzing fan at the side entrance of NIS facing the Student Publications Building. By 2:25 a.m., the workers extinguished the fire. Five minutes later, lights were By Nika Schulte Daily Staff Reporter Although a task force of students and faculty members is planning to vote on the implementation of a minor pro- gram at the University as early as the end of the term, similiar programs are already available at other Big Ten schools. At Indiana University, one of the schools whose program the task force has examined, minors have been an option for students for more than 19 years. Steve Sanders, assistant dean and director of communi- cation for the College of Art and Sciences at Indiana, said minors are a "great way of exploring several areas of diverse. "For some there are no requirements other than (students take) five courses," Sanders said, adding that others require that three of those courses be at the 300 level or above. But other schools, such as the University of Iowa, whose program for specializing electives in the form of a minor has also been examined by the task force, do have set require- ments that all department minors must meet. Every opportunity to receive a minor at Iowa requires 15 hours of course work. "Of that we only permit that three hours be introductory course work," said Luke J. Flaherty, director of academic programs for the College of Liberal Arts at Iowa. i I 1 detdU n011 tft ega rg~1 ut II