Weather Today Sunny. High 63. Low 35. TOmorrow: Cloudy. High 51. tc One hundred eiht years of editorar freedon *rnor Wednesday April 14, 1999 olfts the 'U' By Kelly O'Connor and Jalmie Winkler Daily Staff Reporters laws A motion filed Friday by the Center for Individual Rights asked Judge Patrick Duggan for a summary judg- t in the class-action lawsuit challenging the College o iterature, Science and the Arts' use of race as a fac- tor in its admissions process. The lawsuit, filed in Oct. 1997 by two white students denied admission to the University, became a class- action suit earlier this semester. The new status could include up to 6,000 denied applicants. Lawyers have recently ended the discovery phase -- the time during which each side examines documents Regents to hear life science report By Jamle Winkler Daily Staff Reporter After nearly three months of adjourn- ing early, the University Board of Regents meeting scheduled for tomorrow and Friday is expected to take the entire timet allotted due to an in-depth presentation ont the proposed life sciences institution. "I'm heading towards a major propos- al" Bollinger said recently, speculating tithe proposal would be ready for pub-y lic announcement at the May meeting. The life sciences project, headed by Bollinger, would fuse many disciplines already in place at the University with some new programs, creating an institu- tion that could compete with top research Four Albanian universities in the field of life sciences. forces and Alb The presentation this week will focsadAb include "extensive background" on the life sciences commission and the cur status of the commission, igrsaid. Recently, Bollinger and University Provost Nancy Cantor have met with University departments to discuss the life sciences program. The faculty has been receptive but expressed many concerns regarding the effect the life The Washington sciences center will have on current Yugoslav f programs and faculty. in northern A *ollinger has said he expects the hour-long sk venture to cost the University between troops yester $200 million and $300 million with the Kosovo c supplemental funding from the state of neighboringE Michigan -- approximately $50 mil- drawing ster lion a year. United States Also, Cantor is expected to recom- The inciden mend "with great enthusiasm" Shirley volatile regioi Neuman for dean of the College of turmoil by t Literature, Science and the Arts. bombing aga Neuman has spent three years as a dean about to esca at the University of British Columbia. crackdown b ,*he regents must approve this rec- forces in Ko ommendation before Neuman can take hundreds oft office Aug. 1. into Macedon The regents also have been requested More reful to approve the academic calendar for Kosovo y the year 2001-2002. Classes would Yugoslav tro begin Sept. 5, 2001, with 69 class days rebellious St in the fall semester. Winter semester after a brief would begin Jan. 7, 2002 and continue efforts to pur for 67 class days. the ethnic Al Lits may and depositions --- and is preparing for the anticipated 1 trial in early fall.1 CIR filed for a summary judg- ment because it believes many of the crucial facts of the case are undis- puted and negate the need for a trial, ADM IS CIR Senior Legal Counsel Terry Pell ON 3R1AL said. The judge must then interpret+ them under the current law - in this case Bakke v. the University of California Regents.+ "A summary judgment says, 'these facts are undisput- ed and on the basis of these facts, we should be entitled to a judgment in our favor,"' Pell said. An example of an undisputed fact comes from the avoid jury point-based admissions system. The system awards 20 admissions to achiev points to underrepresented minorities. Pell said CIR CIR also claims th interprets this as surpassing the late Justice Lewis dence showing its us Powell's ruling in Bakke, which supports the use of race dards based on race; in admissions to a degree if it achieves "intellectual for minorities. CIR s diversity." The University uses Powell's ruling to justify putting only white s its practices, said Liz Barry, a member of the University minority students aut General Counsel. But Barry said then "The University is absolutely dedicated to admitting a "Any characterizati diverse student body so that all its students can receive sions system is d the benefits of being educated with racially diverse University evaluates peers," Barry said. "CIR's arguments fly in the face of against a single set{ the Supreme Court's holding in the Bakke case that CIR refuses to recog explicitly permits the consideration of race in University trial e those benefits." e University has not disputed evi- e of two separate admissions stan- and the practice of reserving seats aid the University openly admits to tudents on wait lists, which gives omatic admission. se claims are untrue. ion of our program as a dual admis- ead wrong," Barry said. "The all applicants, regardless of race, of criteria. As Bakke permits and gnize, race may be a factor in that See LAWSUIT, Page 2 Former Phi Delts face sentencing AP PHOTO women In the northern Albanian town of Tropoje sit in an underground bomb shelter yesterday as Serb anlan army troops clashed on the northern border. i 0 d on [age raises tensions By Jewel Gopwanl Daily Staff Reporter LSA sophomores Jeremy Bier and Simeon Maleh, former members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, are scheduled to be sentenced May 13 for two of three counts they were originally charged with. The two pleaded guilty to furnishing minors with alcohol and violating the host law - allowing minors to drink - at the 15th District Court on Monday. But as a part of the plea bargain, which was reached with the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office, Bier and Maleh will not face sentencing on the charge of using fraudulent identification. Bier and Maleh could receive a maximum of 12 months probation and up to 100 hours of community service, The Ann Arbor News reported yester- day. The two could also face mandato- ry drug and alcohol abuse counseling and court fines totaling more than $2,100. Washtenaw County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Joe Burke said the Holmes Youthful Trainees Act will be applied to the case, explaining that the act is applicable to people under 21 years of age. According to the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, the charges will be cleared from Bier and Maleh's permanent records if the two complete their entire sentence. The charges facing Bier, Maleh and eight other former members of Phi Delta Theta stem from a party held at the fraternity house Oct. 15, where LSA first-year student Courtney Cantor was seen drinking alcohol. Cantor died early the next morning after falling from her sixth- floor window in Mary Markley Residence Hall. In March, two other former Phi Delta Theta members, LSA sopho- more Adam Feldheim and Music sophomore Jordan Schmidt, were sentenced to 12 months of probation and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to the three charges currently facing Bier and See CHARGES, Page 2 Post orces raided a village Llbania and fought an irmish with Albanian day, stoking fears that onflict could spill into Balkan countries and -n warnings from the 3. - nt added to tensions in a n already thrown into hree weeks of NATO inst Yugoslavia that is late again, a relentless by Yugoslav security sovo and the flight of thousands of refugees ia and Albania. gees streamed out of esterday, indicating ops and police in the erbian province have, hiatus, resumed their ge the area of many of banians who form the population base for the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. Talks in Oslo, Norway between Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, meanwhile, failed to produce agreement on how to work toward a diplomatic settle- ment to the conflict. In a sign the scope of the conflict is growing - and with it the costs -- U.S. and European officials said yes- terday the United States will be send- ing up to 50 AH-64A Apache attack helicopters to Albania, double the number previously reported. It also is likely that several thousand addition- al troops, beyond the 2,800 the Pentagon has announced, will accom- pany the helicopters. The Pentagon spokesperson, Kenneth Bacon, put the first price tag on the 21-day-old air war, saying it would be in the "$3 billion to $4 bil- lion range, money that will have to be approved by Congress. Since U.S. and NATO officials have refused to predict how long the conflict will go on, it was unclear where Bacon derived his upper limit projection for the current fiscal year. Yugoslavia denied that its forces had entered Albania, but the. State Department and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has observers in the border area, confirmed the incursion. "The U.S. is extremely concerned by these actions by Serb forces, which constitute a violation of Albanian territorial integrity," State Department spokesperson James Foley said. "Such actions will not be tolerated." No injuries were reported during the clash. Most residents of the region - which is thick with KLA guerrillas and serves as a supply base and rear staging area for them - fled See BALKANS, Page 7 Ups and downs onference focuses on welfare law, economic disparit, violence )! By Kelly O'Connor Daily Staff Reporter esearchers, activists and policy makers from around the country will gather fora reseat weekend to find out how a 1996 change in federal welfare law has affected women confined to lives of both economic dispar- ity and domestic violence. "Tapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse" is the sec- ond annual conference sponsored by the Taylor Situte policy group and the School of Social ork's Center on Poverty, Risk and Mental Health. Participants will have opportunities to learn about new research findings and discover how public policy will be affected. U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) and author Jill Neslon are scheduled to speak to the nearly 200 con- # ri- mr;ineate and seealnanels on research redpartiispantsinclude Nchers. activists, author in situations of domestic violence. Abusers may be threatened by the thought of their partner having finan- cial independence and because of this, he said, DANA INNANE/Daily LSA junior Amanda Eis pauses to stretch as she seesaws at the annual seesaw marathon on the Diag yesterday. Dialogue looks at national labor COde w low Domestic violence is "an issue that he's done a lot of legislative work on," Farrell said. "The sen- ator feels that we need tough laws to reduce domestic violence." The idea of a connection between domestic vio- lence, poverty and welfare came to the forefront of national attention after federal law regarding wel- fare changed in 1996, Social Work associate Prof. Richard Tolman said. "It changed from entitlement ... to something the states had the option of providing," Tolman said, adding that new stipulations were added to the law. such as a limit on the length of time a per- may not allow their partners to go to work. Under the 1996 law, the victims will lose their welfare benefits if they do not work, he said. In response to the law, Wellstone, together with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), co-sponsored the Family Violence Option amendment. The amendment, which allows states to prolong bene- fits to recipients whose economic independence is affected by domestic violence without being penalized by the federal government, has been adopted by more than 30 states and will be the subject of Wellsonte's speech. Taylor Institute Deputy Director Rebekah Levin By Michael Grass Daily Staff Reporter As national labor officials plan to gather at the University tomorrow in an open dialogue on apparel labor standards, members of the Nike Corp. spoke during a teleconference yesterday about the changes the footwear giant has made to improve working conditions in its factories of corporate responsibility, said Nike has taken great strides in the past year to improve the labor standards of their workers. Kidd said Nike recently has adopted higher minimum age requirements. Nike workers under the age of 16 are not allowed to produce apparel or equipment and those under 18 cannot manufacture footwear.