I LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 17, 1999-- 3 EJGUCATION L a Baseball Hall of Famer boycotts .C-Berkeley ;,Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan saidhe refuses to set foot on the campus of ,the University of California at Berkeley. His action, he said, is a protest of the UC system's ban on affirmative action. . Morgan was scheduled to speak in a joiMalism class Thursday about per- sonal experiences and how he had dealt xyith racial perceptions. Ile canceled his arance after he learned about the amatic decrease of blacks and other minorities admitted to the university. The decision to boycott the campus, Morgan said, was not meant to hurt the students nor the university, but was a statement against state politics and for- r*r Califomia Gov. Pete Wilson. Arizona hopefuls Sn apply on-line Students applying to the University of Arizona can now fill out an applica- tion online. Admission officials at Arizoha said more than 700 students havealready used the online application p-ted6s. The online application process became partially functional for students applying for the 1997-98 academic year became fully functional for this kr's incoming first-year students. Although some schools offer stu- dgnt§' the opportunity to download the application from a Website, Arizona is the first school to allow applicants to actually send it over the Internet. While most students still use the typ- ieal, paper application, Arizona Admissions Director Lori Goldman said, the online application will soon be *standard in the Arizona system. Harvard prof. pleads guilty to embezzlement Former Harvard Medical School Prof Donald Kirks plead guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $70,000. Kirks took a great deal of the ey from the Children's Hospital iology Foundation, where he served ,as president and chair. The most serious of the several charges the U.S. Attorney's Office brought up against Kirk include "dou- bledipping" - billing the same exwnses to twb different organizations and being reimbursed for both. Kirks' sentencing is scheduled to take pL% e. June 7. He could receive up to ;an years in jail and $250,000 in fines. But a spokesperson from the attorney's offices said the office will recommend just one year in prison and $30,000 in fines. Phi Delts lose Stanford charter 7 anford University Dean of Students Marp Wais decided Monday to revoke * university's chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity . Closing Stanford's oldest fraternity followed two alcohol-related house trdies in the past year. -:41-ective immediately, for the next fiveyears Phi Delta Theta will not be aoTicially recognized by the university and cannot exist or operate as a student' organization on campus. The dean's decision came after a animous recommendation from Stanford s Greek Judicial Board. students able to order food online Students at 10 U.S. colleges no longer have to leave the serenity of their com- puters to satisfy grumbling stomachs. Cybermeals, an online take-out and elvery service based in San Francisco, 8 Iows students to order meals from a large number of local restaurants. The service began marketing to uni- versities last month and now services 10 colleges nationwide. .- Compiled by Daily StaffReporter Lauren Gibbs. Competition begins with Mr. Greek Week By Cori McAfee For the Daily With loud cheering from groups of fraterni- ty and sorority members in support of their teams, the annual Mr. Greek Week competi- tion kicked off Greek Week last night at the Power Center. Sponsored by the Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, the Mr. Greek Week competition raised money for the Ronald McDonald House and the PU.S.H. -- an orga- nization that makes playground equipment for handicapped children. Alpha Delta Pi Philanthropy Chair Katie Hamilton, an LSA sophomore, said the event raised more than $4,000 last year and sponsors hope to reach the same total this year. Members of the enthusiastic competing teams showed their spirit with banners, match- ing T-shirts and catchy cheers. Engineering sophomore Danielle Hitchin, the event's MC, started out the night by shout- ing, "There must be absolutely no .silence! Because spirit counts from now on." The crowd obeyed this command the entire three hours as individual candidates performed in a short skit, a talent portion and finally a question-and-answer series, Between the performances, a Greek a cap- pella group entertained the crowd with tunes and the University's dance team showed the crowd a few of their moves. But the people on stage weren't the only ones having fun. "This is the first time I've been to an event like this and its really exciting," said LSA first- year student and Kappa Alpha Theta member Dara Frank, who turned out to watch the event. "It's also great that we are raising money for kids that need it." The Mr. Greek Week event included candi- date impersonations of Wonder Woman, the Dancing Baby, Kramer and other comical char- acters. Some sang, played the guitar or played the piano. "It's hard to be nervous when you're having so much tun," said Business senior and Mr. Greek Week candidate Sam Swartz, as he await- ed the decision to see who made the cuts to the final round. "It's really all about the kids who we're helping." The show ended when Engineering sopho- more and Sigma Phi Epsilon member Mike Sbihli was named the winner. In the question-and-answer section of com- petition, Sbihli said his advice to incoming stu- dents is to join the Greek system. His prize for the victory? Two plane tickets to anywhere in the continental United States and the Mr. Greek Week title. "It feels great," Sbihli said. "I never expect- ed to win." Kinesiology first-year student Dionne Westfall said she had a great time being a spec- tator. "The whole event was really fun and it feels good to have fun and help people at the same time," West fall said. Andrew Waldman, a Kappa Sigma fraternity member, does an imitation of M.C. Hammer during the hero portion of last night's Mr. Greek Week competition at the Power Center. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Ann Arbor. Authors offler views on race By Sarah Lewis Daily Staff Reporter Many people argue that the issue of race is more than black and white, but three authors with differing views dis- cussed the subject in that context last night in Rackham Auditorium in a dia- logue sponsored by the Diversity Theme Semester. "Race in Black and White: Different Perspectives from Recent Research" fea- tured authors Abigail Thernstrom, Tamar Jacoby and James Jackson on the signif- icance of race in the United States and its place in the public sphere. Thernstrom, co-author of 'America in Black and White,' argued that people who say they support race preferences because they create "the backbone of the black middle class" are wrong. "The impact on black America is a matter of evidence, a matter of data," Thernstrom said. "This is not a question of feelings." She added that she doesn't believe in race preferences because they "are morally wrong and they don't work." Thernstrom cited statistics on black citizens in the United States from the 1940s and compared them to black fam- ilies' situations today, claiming the evi- dence overwhelmingly shows a great amount of progress. She also said statistics on race-neutral admissions in California show that with- out racial preferences "more black stu- dents will actually graduate," and the steep percentage drop of minorities in the University of California system was sim- ply a redistribution of students. "There is a school in the United States for every student who wants to go to col- lege, and it's more important to graduate than it is to start and drop out," Thernstrom said. "Judging citizens by the color of their skin is indeed as American as apple pie;' she said. "But the civil rights leaders wouldn't have put their lives on the line to perpetuate such a racial policy.' Jacoby, who wrote the book 'Someone Else's House,' said the United States is in a racial stalemate right now because of continuing segregation. "'Black and white, we've never gotten over that 'us versus them' thing;' Jacoby said, adding that integration is "more Student regent fight ends By Jewel Gopwanl Daily Staff Reporter A majority of Michigan Student Assembly representatives voted last night to cease funding for the quest to put a student on the University's Board of Regents. "The fight for a student regent is offi- cially over tonight," Communications Chair Joe Bernstein said. A resolution presented by LSA Rep. Rory Diamond asked MSA to allocate $1,030 to David Cahill - the attorney who the assembly has been consulting regarding the student regent effort. About $430 of that allocation would have paid for time Cahill already spent working on the project and $600 would have been directed towards future stu- dent regent efforts. Citing the fact that the assembly has been trying to get a student regent for about 30 years, said Andrew Wright, a University student who has been assist- ing assembly members in obtaining a student regent, urged the assembly to pass Diamond's resolution. "Every time you stop (the quest for a student regent), you have to spend all these years retooling and rebuilding a coalition," Wright said. After the assembly approved an amendment to the resolution by LSA Rep. Elise Erikson, it approved a motion to pay Cahill only the $430 it owes him. Erikson, who voted to stop filtering funds for student regent efforts, said rep- resentatives had done minimal work on the issue. Erikson, who chaired the Student Regent Task Force, said there are plans in the works for a student liaison organization "unlike a voting member that would accomplish the actual concept behind a student regent, providing stu- dent input to the board of regents." MSA also approved last night a motion by Rackham Rep. Jessica Curtin to give its Peace and Justice Committee $485 for a trip to Lansing to protest Sen. David Jaye (R-Macomb). Worried this might implicate the assembly into taking a stance on Jaye's ballot, Erikson questioned the intent of the trip, explaining it is illegal for MSA to lobby on an initiative. But the assem- bly decided to allot the sum to transport, interested students to Lansing. "These are people that want to take an active stance,"Vice President Sarah Chopp said. "I can't understand why we're so reticent about it." Before the vote, LSA Rep. Kym Stewart called it "a fight against a racist."I don't think we should be think- ing twice about it," Stewart said. Chair -of the Academic Affairs Commission Vikram Sarma announced last night that the group will make printed copies of online LSA course guides available on reserve at the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Pierpoint Commons, Michigan Union and all rys idence halls five days after the course: guide appears online. "The course guide online is great, butt not every student has access to the* Internet," Sarma said. DARBY FRIEDLIS/Daily Author Tamar Jacoby speaks yesterday at Rackham Auditorium on race issues. than just physical mingling." It means the inclusion of minorities in mainstream society, she said, but more importantly, it's "achieving a a sense of a single shared American community where both blacks and whites feel at home." The failure of integration has led to a mistrustful, "peaceful co-existence" in which black citizens have made progress, Jacoby said, but a sense of community between black and white peoples is non-existent. "Most blacks don't feel they belong in white America, while whites don't feel responsible" for those feelings, Jacoby said. Challenges for both groups are to develop poor and isolated black commu- nities and to "cut those cynical self-ful- filling prophecies that poison race in America today," she said. Jackson, director of the Center for African and African-American Studies and the author of 'New Directions in Thinking about Race in America,' focused on the multiracial and multieth- nic composition of the United States in the future. "It is not a primarily black/white coun- try" Jackson said, mentioning the range of differences within ethnic groups and that the Latino/a population will replace the black population as the largest non- white racial group within a few years. "But informal discrimination and seg- regation have not disappeared," Jackson said, explaining that despite progress made with affirmative action, there still is "a magnitude of racial disparities.' Kinesiology senior Mikerra Bostic said the diverse range of opinions offered by the panel members allows unique individual perspectives to "come togeth- er collectively to identify the problem and propose solutions. "It's impossible for one person to dic- tate or define a problem from one per- spective; Bostic said. - IIY N 1O PANIS1T TKE YAR 3Tz :... 4 E Y 5 y £ y9 Ng .Fr F."g . tvENrrs U Campus Information Centers, 763 INFO, info@umich.edu, and www.umich.edu/~info on the ,ang+a nn thtm Flnincaust! cr ;>, a;r.Y; .