'Elran 471 atili wA#%6"L... Today: Partly cloudy. High 61. Low 33. Tomorrow: Rain. High 66. One hundred eight years of editorialfreedom Wednesday April 7, 1999 Inteflex future remains unclear By Jalmle Winkler Daily Staff Reporter Students considering themselves "pre-health career" may find solace in the report of the Committee to Review Undergraduate Premedical Education, which outlines a new pt ram to consolidate and enhance resources a ]able to undergraduates pursuing careers in a variety of health-related fields. The committee, which began meeting in March of last year, decided to focus not only on students considering themselves pre-medical undergraduates - although there is no specific pre-med concentration - but also students interested in dentistry, nursing, public health, social work and pharmacy. Committee members representing LSA faculty thought they would be questioning the continua- tion of Inteflex - the University's small, concen- trated pre-med program - but Medical School representatives said the school had decided to end its participation in Inteflex all together. "The students in the pipeline will have the same support they have always had, but the future of Inteflex is unsure," said Inteflex Director and biology Prof. Alice Reinarz, adding that students currently in the program should not worry about their positions with Inteflex - these are secure. Committee member and pediatrics Prof. Janet Gilsdorf said the Medical School has supported Inteflex since its founding, but the programs' mission has changed and some students recently have not seemed as prepared for medical school as former students had been. "The whole committee has agreed we have learned a lot of things from Inteflex," Gilsdorf said, adding that it is now time to apply those things to a broader number of students. The report calls for a new interdisciplinary Program in Health Sciences and Society to coor- dinate existing and new courses promoting the integration of scientific and social aspects of health education. The report also stresses the necessity for more pre-health advisers with increased training and organization, publicity of resources available to pre-health students, the recruitment of talented non-traditional and under represented pre-health students, the improvement of undergraduate pre- health communities and the examination of a system for early admission to heath professional schools. "The report's just a report," Reinarz said. "It's lengthy and it asks for a lot of stuff." Reinarz said this report has conclusions simi- lar 4o those of other reports evaluating Inteflex and pre-medical programs. "The report suggests the Med School and LSA want to have a conversation about the future of Inteflex," Reinarz said. The new programs recommended by the com- mittee should be considered "intellectual heirs" of Inteflex, according to the report. "We never voted, never really discussed, never debated, the continuation of Inteflex," said Medical fourth-year student and committee member Patrick Javid. The committee started from scratch on a new program that would ben- See INTEFLEX, Page 2 Prooks yet to respond to warrant Daily Staff Reporter Police expected that a warrant issued for the arrest of former Michigan foot- ball player Jason Brooks would ensure his surrender to the Ann Arbor Police Department early this week - but they have yet to hear from him. "We expect him to come in, we don't expect a problem," AAPD Sgt. Michael ghe said. AAPD officials issued the warrant for charges brought against Brooks fol- lowing an incident with Sigma Chi fra- ternity house Jan. 8., where fraternity members caught Brooks allegedly try- ing to steal a laptop and other items. There have been no warrants issued for others involved in the incident, includ- ing ex-fullback Ray Jackson. "It's a two count warrant for larce- and assault," Logghe said. Both a misdemeanors with larceny car- rying a possible one-year jail sen- tence and $2,000 fine and assault carrying a possible 90-day jail sen- tence and $500 fine. Nick Roumel of Student Legal Services has represented Brooks in the past, but said he has not seen any offi- cial documentation for this particular warrant. haven't been retained in this case," oumel said. Brooks could not be reached for comment. LSA sophomore Kyle Bunting, a member of Sigma Chi, said the frater- nity has no animosity toward Michigan's football players.- "We have absolutely nothing against the football team," Bunting said, adding that football players have always frequented the house and have good relations with fraternity Bunting was one of the fraternity members who allegedly found Brooks outside in a "comical situation," Bgunting said, comparing the moment to one in a cartoon or kids' movie. "Tons of stolen property justfell out of his coat," Bunting said. The fight that followed, Bunting sad, was not the result of racial com- 4ts made from either side. As far as Brooks' potential fines and jail time, Bunting said he's not one to question the law, and added that he believes Brooks threw the first punch - making him the responsible party. "Jason Brooks without question deserves to be arrested," Bunting said. See BROOKS, Page 2 A stroke of genius NATO, U.S. reject Milosevic ceasefire offer The Washington Post President Slobodan Milosevic declared a unilat- eral ceasefire in Kosovo yesterday but the United States and its NATO allies dismissed the gesture as meaningless and pressed on with the full fury of their two-week-old bombing campaign against Yugoslav targets in and around the rebellious Serbian province. President Clinton, speaking during a White House ceremony on hate crimes, vowed yet again to keep up the aerial onslaught until Milosevic orders his troops and police to halt the deportation of ethnic Albanians, withdraw from Kosovo and allow all its inhabitants who have fled to neigh- boring countries to return home under NATO pro- tection. Matching actions to words, NATO aircraft launched new air raids around the Yugoslav capi- tal and a number of other sites soon after the ceasefire took effect at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT). Reports from Belgrade said at least six explosions were heard near the Batajnica military airport, just north of the city, and tracer rounds from anti-air- craft batteries arced into the night sky. Yugoslav television reported more attacks near Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, and at the two Serbian industrial towns of Pancevo and Cacak, which have been hit several times since allied war- planes started flying March 24. Several missiles also struck near Podrogica, capital of the small republic of Montenegro that is Serbia's junior part- ner in the remnant Yugoslav federation. Milosevic's announcement was seen by some analysts in Belgrade as a sign he has accomplished his main goal in Kosovo despite the NATO bomb- ing campaign, disarticulating the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army and driving away hundreds of thousands of the ethnic Albanians who made up 90 percent of the province's 1.8 million inhabitants. Some U.S. officials, however, saw the cease-fire ploy in a different light -- they said Serb forces are beginning to wilt under the bombs and Milosevic hoped with his declaration to protect them from further assaults. "He's altered the demographics as much as he needs to, and now he thinks he can try to split the (NATO) alliance," said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the United States was pleased with the prompt, unanimous rejection of the offer by other NATO members, a sign that Milosevic's actions have hardened allied resolve In any case, the cease-fire declaration seemed to mark a turning point in the conflict. Secretary of Defense William Cohen left for Brussels with a delegation of members of Congress seeking to review the campaign so far and lay groundwork for participating in administration decisions on the coming phases. The group included Sens. Tim Hutchinson (R- Ark.), Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Reps. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) and Ike Skelton (D-Mo). Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) plans to join the group this weekend. Skelton, the top Democrat on the House National Security Committee, confirmed that the delegation plans to gauge the advisability of send- ing ground troops to Kosovo, which the Clinton administration thus far has rejected. But he described the trip as "bigger than whether we're going to use ground troops ... It's a question of where do we go from here, what constitutes victo- ry, what do you do with the refugees?" In announcing the cease-fire, Milosevic said his government will honor the Orthodox Easter in a "gesture of good will" by halting attacks on Kosovo Albanians, including the Kosovo See KOSOVO, Page 10 Inside: Full coverage of the crisis in Kosovo. Page 10. LOUIS BROWN/Daily Six-year-old Rossteen Salehzadeh painstakingly concentrates while painting a mug yesterday at Feat of Clay located in the Ann Arbor Art Center. Clinton pushes to target hate crimes By Yael Kohen Daily Staff Reporter President Bill Clinton announced yesterday his plan to urge Congress to pass the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999. To drive his effort, Clinton has embarked on a public-private effort to educate middle school students and gather infor- mation about hate crimes in schools and universi- ties, according to White House officials. Clinton's goal is to broaden the current hate crimes law and attempt to eliminate its weakness- es, said White House Special Council for Civil Rights Edward Correia. Currently, the law "prohibits acts of violence that are based on a person's race, color, religion or national origin and that are intended to interfere with certain specified federally protected activi- ties," according to a White House press release. One of the existing weaknesses is that discrimi- nation based on sexual orientation, gender and dis- abilities is not included in the statute, Correia said. "Any federal or state law ... would be remiss if it did not include sexual orientation" gender or dis- See HATE CRIMES, Page 7 MS patient to face drg use chares By Nick Bundey Daily Staff Reporter Ann Arbor resident Renee Emry Wolfe suf- fers from multiple sclerosis, a treatable but incurable affliction that sometimes makes her hands shake and her legs uncontrollable. But use of the treatment Wolfe says helps her the most has earned her a date in the District of Columbia Superior Court, where she will face misdemeanor drug charges. Wolfe uses marijuana to help control her spasms, although only several western states have passed ballot measures allowing medical use of the drug. On Sept. 15, Wolfe went to the office of Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.) to express support for legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. McCollum was not in the office, and when Wolfe lit up a joint to ward off a spasm, aides called Capitol Hill police to arrest her. Judge Anita Josey-Herring plans to hold a sta- tus hearing April 26 to determine when Wolfe will go to trial for the charges, which carry a maxi- mum of 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Wolfe said six months without being able to use marijuana would be detrimental to her health. "I don't even want to contemplate it," she said. Some staff members in McCollum's office said Wolfe's use of mariiuana in his office was not nec- ally to assess affirmative action attitudes The Michigan Daily will conduct the first comprehensive survey of student opinions on affirmative action and admissions policies at the University. The survey, designed in conjunction with the Department of Communications Studies and the Institute for Social Research, will be a probability sample of 1,600 ~.t iUniversity students, selected at random from all current- ly enrolled University students. Students selected to take the survey will receive an e-mail with the subject heading, "Michigan Daily Student Survey." To ensure all University students are represented, a high level of participation is required. If you receive an e-mail with this subject line, please respond as affi mative soon as possible. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete. The results of the survey will be reported in a series of ar . .ac nter y lprnmin. a urple Ellen to 'speak fe ohonestly'tHl By Yasl Kohen_ Daily StaffRporter Ellen DeGeneres, a renowned Hollywood comedian, is "Speaking Honestly" when she visits the University tomorrow. While many peo- ple know DeGeneres for her comedy, a her talk on campus will not include a stand-up routine. The University is the last stop on DeGeneres' four-campus lecture tour. DeGeneres Tsc i qthe firttime Deenerw e has n ar- LOUIS BROWN/Daily Renee Emry Wolfe wears her marijuana leaf necklace yesterday while spending time with her two and-a-half-year-old son Timothy. accompanied by a reporter and news cameras. Wolfe said it's up to those who are affected by medical bans on marijuana to lobby for a change. "Medical patients are the ones that are going to have to get it legalized," she said. "Doctors won't do it. Legislators won't do it." On the day of Wolfe's arrest, McCollum had introduced a resolution opposing marijuana legalization, which later passed through the House "by an overwhelming margin" Gravitte I I I