2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 15, 1999 UC Continued from Page 1A posed a 4 percent plan that would allow the top 4 percent of California high school seniors to gain automatic admission to one of the UC branch schools. Davis, inaugurated in January, holds the power to appoint several members to the University of California System's Board of Regents -composed of 25 members - in the coming months. Nearly two weeks ago, the Associated Students of the University of California approved a bill that encourages Davis to fill open board seats with affir- mative action proponents. "We want to get him to follow through on paign promise in support of affirmative ASUC President Preston Taylor said. Students at the university said they feel the olution has deprived their campus of a diver tional environment. "The academic environment has lost bee campus is not representative of the state missing out on an integral part of education said. California Regent Ward Connerly, a v porter of the 1995 resolution and Proposi has been targeted by UC students for his Many claim Connerly used the resolutions & ical tool and did not consider the needs ofu SCAM, Continued from F 1 terfeit or stolen, NATION/WORLD his cam- students. action," "Ward Connerly ... tried to become reputable in the political arena. He was not looking out for education," 1995 res- Taylor said. se educa- Some UC students said they are pleased with Bagley for planning to bring affirmative action back to the fore- cause the front of the regents' agenda. We are "I am excited someone has spoke out and he has the n," Taylor courage to bring it to the table;' Taylor said. Although Bagley's proposal is solely a symbolic mea- ocal sup- sure, he said he is attempting to repair the reputation of tion 209, the university. actions. "In effect it is an outreach program. It says to the is a polit- world 'You are welcome, please consider our universi- iniversity ty,"' Bagley said. AROUND THE NATION 7 Native Americans likely victims of crime WASHINGTON - Native Americans are victims of violent crime at a rate more than double that of the rest of the population, according to the first nation- wide survey the federal government has done on the subject. The severity of the problem, reaching Native Americans of all ages, back- grounds and income levels, surprised even the Justice Department researchers who released the study yesterday. Native Americans said the numbers should prom redoubling of efforts to identify the root causes. "It's a double-edged sword. People don't want to be stereotyped as violent -that's not part of who we are - but statistics like this might also encourage people to take steps toward intervention," said Anna Pasqua, a Native American who coordinates a domestic violence program with the Inter-Tribal Council of California in Sacramento. Alcohol abuse, tensions with non-Native Americans, poor law enforcement ser- vices and other factors may all play a part in fueling the high rates of violent crime identified in the study, Native American leaders said. A wave of worsening crime and social ills on reservations in recent years has drawn stepped-up attention from federal policy-makers. But the study documents the range and extent of the problem, researchers said, and it details several particularly troubling twists, such as the frequency of assaults non-Native Americans and the extent of alcohol abuse by Native American offende. Page IA " Hall said. Many students shared similar opin- ions to Hall's, saying they most likely would not buy any type of ticket or pass from someone on the street because of the risk involved. "If you're going to buy them off the street you're most likely going to get scammed because people want to make money," said an LSA junior who asked not to be identified. Other students said that although they do not necessarily feel cheated, telephone companies and credit card companies may sometimes use misleading lan- guage. Lee, an Engineering senior who did not want to reveal her first name, com- plained of the hidden connection fees phone companies charge. She said that she thought the fees are usually poorly explained in the "small print in the let- ter" from the telephone company. Hall said that during the past few years, DPS has investigated several alleged scams on campus. One scam involved an attempt to bill the University for long distance calls, she said. The callers involved in the scam would dial the University and ask to be transferred to an outside line. After the transfer, the caller would make long distance calls on the University's line, Hall said. Another scam involved a letter that was circulating around several of the University's academic departments. Hall said the letter, originating in Nigeria, used fake credentials in an attempt to access account numbers for the University departments. Hall said DPS turned the case over to federal investigators. I -r F v ar.1.. . P':::::r::::".'....'." .':r"::::v.+':x "vG'.:1 . NC+. Y Hr "$435 Pilot sickouts prevent AA fights DALLAS - Hundreds ofAmerican Airlines pilots called in to say they were fit for work yesterday, one day after the union was threatened with millions of dollars in fines over a massive sickout at the nation's second-largest airline. Still, it wasn't enough to prevent 550 flights from being canceled. "We're just glad they are coming back and we hope by the end of the week to be in business as usual here;" American spokeperson Sonja Whitemon said. She said the airline could be 100 percent operational by tomorrow. The pilots were accused of calling in sick to protest salaries being paid to pilots at Reno Air, an airline that American recently bought. U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall ordered the job action to cease on Wednesday, and on Saturday accused union officials of not doing enough to encourage pilots to return to work. Kendall scheduled a Wednesday hearing to determine how much to fine the union and two union lead- ers, whom he found in contempt of court. He said the fine could be in the millions of dollars. Nearly 2,500 of the airline's 9,400 pilots remained out sick Friday. * Study: Biological basis for bulima CHICAGO - A new study adds to evidence that the eating disorder bulimia springs at least in part from a chemical malfunction in the brain and not merely from excessive desire to remain thin, researchers say. In the study, released yesterday women who had suffered from buli4 and recovered were more affected psy- chologically than other women by being deprived of tryptophan, which plays an indirect role in appetite regulation. Tryptophan, an amino acid that occurs naturally in many foods, is used by the body to make serotonin, a mood- and appetite-regulating chemical in the brain. 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Thursday; February 18th 12-5 p.m. Michigan Union U.S. brings Serbs, Albanians together PARIS - Despite a conclusion that "nothing has really been solved," the United States and five other nations gave rival Serbs and ethnic Albanians another week to consider their plan for ending the year-long conflict in Kosovo. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, intervening directly, brought the two sides together yesterday, face-to-face, for the first time. She reported afterward that the Albanians, at least, thought the plan that would give them self-rule but not independence was a "fair deal" But the Serbs resisted the prospect of a NATO peacekeeping force deployed in the Serbian province in the event of a settlement, and Albright said even the Albanians had not promised to sign the deal by the deadline of next Saturday at noon. That's when the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia said the talks extension will end. "I hope very much the Serbs will see it in their interest also to sign on," Albright said after talking jointly to four delegates from each side at the negotiations site, a 14th-Century chateau at Rambouillet, 40 miles southwest of Paris. If there is no settlement by the dead- line, French Foreign Minister Hul Vedrine said at a news conference, "e would, no doubt, undertake an assess- ment of what is next." Clinton, Zedillo may sign agreements MERIDA, Mexico - President Clinton basked in a warm recepti yesterday in the tropical capital of Yucatan, where even raucous pre-Lent carnival celebrations were quieted in honor of his arrival. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. greeted the president with a bearhug. . The two men are expected to sign one agreement liberalizing air travel and another providing $4 billion in credit for Mexican importers of U.S. products over two years. Mexico has emerged as the No. 2 importer of U.S. goods. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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