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The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 12, 1999 - 3
.CRIME
Unattended
purse stolen
from Kresge
A purse was reported stolen from the
resge Medical Research Building on
'Monday afternoon, according to
Department of Public Safety reports.
The owner had left her purse unattend-
cd in the building. When she returned,
she discovered that it was missing.
DPS reports state that the purse was
found abandoned at a later time in a
stairwell at Kresge. The cash and cred-
it cards had been taken.
Student trips,
Wovunds chin
A resident gashed his chin on a door
hapdle Tuesday evening in West Quad
R,eidence Hall, according to DPS
reports. The student apparently had
tripped and fallen on to the door han-
dIe, causing the injury.
Pressure was applied to the bleeding
wound, but the student and his resi-
ence hall adviser thought he may need
tures. He was escorted to University
Hospitals' emergency room.
DPS breaks up
fight at Markley
'DPS officers stopped a potential
fight between a Mary Markley
Residence Hall residents and a pizza
,driver at the Markley front door
Tuesday night, according to DPS
reports.
*The argument was still ensuing
when DPS officers arrived on the
scene and broke up the confronta-
tion. The residents left the scene
without any further problems.
Officers catch
carport vandals
IPS caught two subjects in an act of
ndalism in the stairwell of the Thayer
reet Carport on Monday night,
according to DPS officials. The sub-
jects were spray painting various graf-
fiti messages on the walls of the park-
ing structure.
DPS apprehended and identified the
vandals, DPS reports state. DPS offi-
cials are waiting for a pending warrant
authorization.
Bike stolen from
denderson House
A bicycle was discovered stolen
from a location near Mary Henderson
House on Wednesday morning, accord-
ing to DPS reports.
The mountain bike, described as a
purple men's GT Talera, was left
unlocked in the basement of the build-
ing-when it was taken, DPS reports
l: The bike is estimated to be worth
atu $300.
Cellular phone
heisted from MLB
A, cellular phone was stolen from
the Modern Languages Building on
Tuesday afternoon, DPS reports
state.,
The phone was reported to have been
taken from the owner's bag in auditorium
of the MLB. According to DPS reports,
phone is estimated to be worth $125;
It has not been recovered.
Wrniit found on
Sbuth Quad stairs
bPS officers were alerted to the dis-
covery of vomit and other debris in a
stairwell at South Quad Residence Hall
on Wednesday evening. The material
s found on the stairwell between the
irst and second floors of the Fredrick
and Taylor houses.
ML.B custodian
finds trespasser
A custodian in the MLB called DPS
officials Wednesday evening to tell them
about his suspicion that a non-student
was sleeping in the building, according
to DPS officials.
OThe non-student was seen in a room
in the 2100 corridor. DPS officials state
that the custodian was alerted to the
presence of the trespasser by another
custodian.
-Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Marta Brill.
I
Organization
creates forum
about sanctions
DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily
Beverly Ulrich, director of Kinesiology gives her keynote speech on movement and motor behavior yesterday at the
Michigan League Ballroom during Kinesiology Day.
'iDay' showcases studies
By Tushar Sheth
For the Daily
Kinesiology students and faculty members set aside yes-
terday to recognize work they have done within the field.
They came together for the annual Kinesiology Day in
the Michigan League Ballroom, where many faculty and
students presented more than 30 research projects during
the course of the day.
Beverly Ulrich, professor and director of Kinesiology,
gave the keynote address titled "From Heart to Gait
Patterns: Understanding Behavior as a Dynamic System."
"Understanding motor behavior means looking at move-
ment as a complex system. People from all fields have come
to understand that all movement is complex," Ulrich said.
Her research was based on the study of the emergence of
walking in normal babies and babies with Down's
Syndrome.
Ulrich said the point of her research was to show that
movement cannot be understood just by looking at individ-
ual pieces. "From bio-diversity to genetics, we must look at
behavior as a complex system," Ulrich said.
Both faculty and students worked together on many of
the studies. "These types of research experiences allows us
as students to put what we are learning to use," Kinesiology
junior Alecia Willie said. Willie worked on a project called
"An Interactive Model of Enablement Versus Disablement,"
which examined the pressure that crouching and standing
puts on people's legs.
"Predictors of Seventh Grade Smoking Behaviors
Among 2,071 High Risk Youth" was another of the many
projects on display. The study tracked the smoking rates of
2,071 students as they passed from the fifth to the seventh
grades.
The study concluded that "a zeal for risk-taking, suscep-
tibility to social pressure, weight consciousness and how
well they do in school would determine whether they would
experiment with smoking in the seventh grade."
Assistant Kinesiology Prof. C. Keith Harrison and
Michigan Journalism Fellow Marcelo Barreto presented
"The 'Be Like Mike' Paradigm: From Brooklyn to Brazil."
The study examined the phenomenon that pits professional
sports as the ticket out of poverty for many black and
Latino/a children growing up in inner-city areas. The study
also addressed a similar mentality among young children
who play soccer in the barrios of Brazil.
"We rarely see this phenomenon among middle-class
African-American or Brazilian kids. They're always from
the inner city, never from the suburbs," Harrison said.
Kinesiology classes were canceled so students and facul-
ty could attend "KinDay."
"It's nice to see the types of research being done," said
Kinesiology sophomore Andy Derr. "They're thinking of
things that I could never imagine."
Kinesiology Prof. Charles Kuntzleman said the day-long
event also gave students and faculty members from differ-
ent Kinesiology backgrounds the chance to learn about
what is developing in other fields.
"The field of Kinesiology is very broad and so today we
can come together and share our knowledge with each other
and the University and with other students,"Kuntzleman said.
Former UN chief relief
coordinator for Iraq to
speak on campus
By Yael Kohen
Daily Staff Reporter
A national movement is growing
across college campuses to put an end
to American sanctions on Iraq.
The recently founded Iraq Action
Coalition serves as a forum for student
activists on campuses nationwide who
oppose American policy toward Iraq.
The IAC provides students across the
nation with information on how to form
and organize campus groups to end the
sanctions.
Various national and campus groups
are sponsoring a national tour for
Dennis Halliday, a former United
Nations assistant secretary general who
served as chief UN relief coordinator
for Iraq.
Halliday will speak at the University
on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Auditorium A
of Angell Hall to discuss the Iraqi sanc-
tions in a speech titled "Why I
Resigned My UN Post in Protest of the
Sanctions in Iraq."
Earlier this semester, the Michigan
Student Assembly passed a resolution
to end sanctions on Iraq. Several other
universities followed MSA's lead and
passed their own resolutions.
"To a certain degree the University of
Michigan resolution ... helped spur on
more unity and more coordination
across campuses;' IAC co-founder Bon
Witanek said.
MSA's resolution supports lifting the
sanctions and aiding in an Iraqi recov-
ery. MSA members plan to educate stu-
dents about effects of the sanctions,
work with campus organizations con-
cerned with the issue, design and sub-
mit press releases nationally publiciz-
ing MSA's stance and sponsor a letter
writing campaign to policymakers.
The University of Texas at Austin
and the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee are among two of the uni-
versities that have passed resolutions
similar to MSA's as a result of the
assembly's initiative.
Other universities that have contact-
ed IAC about forming activist groups
on campus include New York
University, George Washington
University, the University of California
at Fresno and the University of
Maryland. Some of these schools are
pursuing a student government resolu-
tion to end sanctions in Iraq.
Stanford University also has contact-
ed IAC about forging an alliance with
other Northern California schools, said
LSA junior and IAC co-founder
William Youmans.
The University is central to the func-
tion of the national student movement,
partly because it was co-founded on
campus and because MSA was the first
student government to officially speak
out against the sanctions. "We expect
that this coalition will be very big and
be centered in the University of
Michigan,' Youmans said last month.
The IAC is "providing a conduit for
unification and orchestration" he said:
The first goal of the coalition is to
build up more support across college
campuses. Once they are able to build
enough support IAC plans to reach out
to their state and national representa-
tives in government.
But despite the national scale of the
movement there are "no real links" or
formal coordination among campuses,
said Gregory Hammond, a graduate
student representative for the UT stu
dent government.
Although the UT student govern-
ment is working independently, MSA
has influenced its stance, Hammond
said.
"Our chief interest is to bring more
attention to bear on this issue,"
Hammond said.
Youmans shared Hammond's point
of view. "It's primary and immediate
concern is to open a dialogue on this
issue campus by campus," he said.
To inform the public of its stance,
IAC sent a statement to several univer-
sity newspapers across the country stat-
ing the organization's purpose.
Nationwide supporters of the groups
position signed the statement.
According to the United Nations
Website, in August 1990, the UN secu
rity council imposed sanctions on Iraq.
"exempting food and medicine and
establishes the 661 Committee to over-
see the implementation of the sanc-
tions."
But, concerned with the humanitari-
an effects of these sanctions, the securi-
ty council in 1991 passed resolutions
706 and 712, which provided for the
"oil for food" program. This program
would "permit Iraq to sell limited quan-
tities of oil in return for humanitarian
supplies," according to information
posted on the UN Website.
Youmans said that during his speech
tomorrow, Halliday will be discussing
why he believes the "oil for food" pro-
gram has been ineffective and caused
him to resign from his position.
Halliday is on a national tour dis-
cussing the Iraqi sanctions and is spon-
sored by both national and local com-
mittees including the Arab-American
Anti-Discrimination Committee; the
American Friends Service Committee,
Prevent and many more.
Middle East Expert and Fellow
Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for
Policy Studies also will speak tomor-
row at the event.
NCAA
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Bahr said that, except in rare cases,
grades and test scores are good pre-
dictors of success. He said students
unable to meet NCAA requirements
would probably have a difficult time
handling the University courseload.
"Seldom do you have a kid with
decent grades and a low test score;"
Bahr said. "But before (NCAA eligibil-
ity requirements) went into effect (in
1986), we took some students with a
lower test score and they did graduate."
Proposition 16 has not had a signif-
icant effect on the softball team either,
said softball coach Carol Hutchins.
"We look for kids who fit into
Michigan standards anyway, but of
course the exceptions are the ones you
want to write about," Hutchins said.
FUNDING
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urban location, Reid said, and this
formula does not take that into
account.
Peter McPherson, president of
Michigan State, applauded Engler's
efforts to bring the university up to
the same funding level as its peers.
"I'm here to ask you to close the
$1,800 gap between us and the other
institutions in our research tier,"
McPherson said.
McPherson said Michigan State
has managed to keep costs to students
down and deserves to get more state
appropriations.
"I believe that we have been a
model on containing tuition increas-
es," McPherson said. "I think it's
good public policy to give Michigan
State more money."
Although his university is the only
top-tier school that would receive
funding this year under the proposal,
McPherson said all four would bene-
fit from being grouped with compara-
Bahr said there could be greater
problems with athletes meeting
Proposition 16 standards in revenue
sports, such as football and men's bas-
ketball, where athletes may be looking
for a career in athletics.
"My kids aren't looking to go pro or
anything," Bahr said. "They're here
for an education."
Athletic Director Tom Goss, foot-
ball coach Lloyd Carr and men's bas-
ketball coach Brian Ellerbe were
unavailable for comment.
NCAA research supports the
belief that standardized tests are
biased against blacks and prevent
some academically able athletes
from having the opportunity to win a
scholarship.
"Using an arbitrary cut off score to
deny eligibility to students places
twice as much weight on test scores as
ble institutions.
"I think there's some real value to
having this research university tier,"
McPherson said.
But in testimony delivered Feb. 24,
Western Michigan University
President Elson Floyd said the pro-
posal undervalues his university.
"With all due respect to Oakland
University and the University of
Michigan-Dearborn, these institu-
tions are not our peers," Floyd told
the committee. "When you compare
research and sponsored program-
ming, ... we look similar to the
University of Michigan, Michigan
State University and Wayne State
University."
But Floyd said he supports to the
fundamental idea behind the proposal.
"We are not opposed to a tier sys-
tem," Floyd said. "We support a fair
and equitable funding system for all
institutions. We will all better serve
our higher education mission if we
can spend less time in Lansing fight-
ing every year for our share of the
pie."
on grades," said Adele Kimmell, a
staff attorney for the Trial Lawyers for
Public Justice, which represented the
four black athletes who brought the
class action suit. "The court specifi-
cally found that the NCAA developed
and could put into place non-discrim-
inatory policies."
Kimmel said the plaintiffs are not
opposed to using test scores as a factor in
determining eligibility, but said an SAT
score cut-off of 820 is unfairly arbitrary.
Kimmell said one possible eligibili-
ty requirement is to completely elimi-
nate a cut-off score on the SAT and
implement a full sliding scale. In this
scenario, each grade point from 2.0 to
4.0 would have a minimum test score
at which the student would be eligible.
"This was promoted by NCAA
researchers as the most accurate alter-
native," she said.
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