LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 14, 1999 - 3 HIGHER PGotestors gather for Gore visit to U. of Wisconsin More than a hundred people gath- d to protest NATO's military action l nithe Balkans during Vice President Al Gore's visit to the University of ,Wisconsin at Madison on Saturday. V"Gore visited the campus as part of his campaign for the 2000 presidential . election. The Coalition Against NATO iTYugoslavia began its protest with a rally and then proceeded to march to where Gore was campaigning. Students and other protesters said the irilitary action in Yugoslavia is an q~ntse of power and they did not think the United States and NATO have the right to drop bombs on any location. Study: college 0ducation pays off .A study at Clemson University in . kmson, S.C. has found the price of a caflege education does indeed pay off. AThe study titled, "The Market for College Graduates in South Carolina," regards a college education as a finan- cial investment. The returns from a col- 3ege education are similar to the returns from investing in the stock market. ,According to the study, four-year -graduates earn an average of 60 to 65 percent more than high school gradu- Tates. Two-year graduates earn an aver- age of 29 to 33 percent more than high school graduates. *"The results of the study, which were Aeiived from data taken only in South .Carolina, did deviate in comparison to '.iher states and the United States as a 4hole. But participants in the study said the most important result of the study was to prove how valuable a col- 1ege education actually is. berkeley Sigma *his investigated for hate crime police at the University of California at erkeley are investigating members of Sigma Chi fraternity for possible involvement in hate crime. Police have .stated that the fight took place around 2 a.m. on March 13. Octavio Castro, a UC Berkeley "senior said the fight started after he and Some of his friend were called racial epithets, including "Foreigners suck" va "Go America" by members of the °fl-ternity. The fight left one student with a bro- ken jaw that has to be wired shut for more than a month. Members of Sigma Chi claim racial sluis did not instigate the brawl. Berkeley police have yet to arrest or rge anyone in the incident. orida students arrested at party ,;Police at the University of Florida raded a house party Saturday night 'aftr receiving information that more than $16,000 worth of illegal drugs ituld be present. Three of the 14 people arrested at the 'pity were university students. Six cups of a Ketamine mixture oiling on the kitchen stove; about 83 gIns of marijuana; 14) hits of LSD; 144 Valium pills; 81 pills and 39 grams ifxpowder Ecstasy and plastic pill cas- ; and a hand grenade simulator, ,which is used in military training were alound in the raid. Conference targets Jnternet addiction The third annual Networking Conference at Northwestern University on Friday focused on how the 90s have o brught about a new addiction for col- students - the Internet. Kimberly Young, who has titled her- self as a "cyberpsychologist," com- pares Internet addiction to alcoholism. She said the students abuse the benefits gf-the Internet to the point where it becomes a self-destructive habit. The problems with the Internet in college students stem from the over- - elming access they have to it when they arrive on campus, Young said. 4Students tend to use the Internet as a substitute for socialization and inter- fTsonal relationships. Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Lauren Gibbs. What -.!VENTS MSA plans to lobby state representatives By Jewel Gopwani Daily Staff Reporter At its meeting last night, the Michigan Student Assembly passed a resolution to oppose a bill currently in the state House of Representatives that would allow Michigan residents to vote only in the city in which they have a valid drivers license. The resolution also called for MSA members to travel to Lansing tomorrow to lobby repre- sentatives and convince them not to pass the bill. In addition, MSA is sending representatives on tomorrow's trip to lobby members of the state Senate for an increase in state funding for the University from the 1.5 percent proposed in Gov. John Engler's plan to 3.3 percent. Also passed at last night's MSA meeting was a resolution to support improvements to the University's Wolverine Access Website. Titled the "Wolverine Advantage Project," the improvements would allow students the option of using diagrams of weekly schedules to assist them in the process of registering for classes. The Wolverine Advantage program would also allow students to "save money through online purchas- ing of text books." Law School Rep. Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, who argued against the resolution, said most textbooks for Law School students are only available in local bookstores and the online service would ultimate- ly cause a price hike in textbooks at local stores due to the loss of business. But MSA passed the resolution to support the project. According to the proposal, the assembly will consider future funding for Wolverine Advantage and form a group of students to work with the Office of the Registrar, which is current- ly spearheading the project. MSA also allotted $2,500 to Students for Responsible Business to hold a three-day national conference for 600 of its members in November. Business first-year student Jeff Merkowitz, who spoke about the conference, said it will cost about $120,000. He explained that the group is inviting Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Al Gore and a panel of chief executive officers from interna- tional businesses to take part in the confer- ence. Merkowitz's request faced opposition from LSA Rep. Peter Handler who said the group should have applied for the funding from the Budget Priorities Committee earlier this semester. But newly elected Business Rep. Tom Panoff assured the assembly that funding the cvcnt would be a sound investment because the visa- tors it might attract could be "beneficial to fhe University." "It's a group that is working very hard and is facing an enormous task," Panoff said. The newly-elected assembly spent most of its first meeting electing new officers for its 20 com- mittees, commissions and task forces. LSA Rep. Glen Roe was elected chair of de Budget Priorities Committee, the group that accepts applications for student funding and makes recommendations to the assembly for fund- ing allocations each semester. Roe, who was a member of BPC last semester, said he wants niote student groups to know about the funds available through MSA. Oil spill on the Diag Woman files sult against fen-phen pmanufacturers DANA ULNNANE/Daily Exactly 10 years after the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska, the environmental group EnAct set up a display on the Diag made of stuffed animals covered in chocolate in remembrance of the event yesterday. Court demands riot footage WEST BRANCH, Mich. (AP) - Attorneys for a woman say her case is a textbook example of what's wrong with the diet pill combination fen-phen. Judy Zettle had tried all the diets, from soup to grapefruit - exercise included - to help lose 30 pounds. Finally, her doctor gave her a prescrip- tion for fen-phen. She lost 25 pounds in five months of intermittent fen-phen use. But after three months on the diet pills - in February 1996 - Zettle started feeling her chest tighten and her breath shorten on her daily walks. Specialists found that the West Branch woman had heart valve damage and primary pulmonary hypertension. In July 1996, she had open-heart surgery. Doctors replaced the bad heart valve with a synthetic one. Nearly three years later, Zettle is suing fen-phen maker Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. Researchers have found that fen- phen takers suffer disproportionately from rare heart valve damage and pul- monary hypertension. Primary pulmonary hypertension is an often fatal type of high blood pres- sure. It strikes one or two people per million, primarily women in their 30s and 40s. The disease causes dangerously high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, which connects the heart and the lungs. fenfluramine Fenfluramine is sant. Combined mild stimulant,i new weight lossc and phentermine. an appetite suppres- with phentermine, a it became a powerful drug. EAST LANSING (AP) - A judge ruled yesterday that Anthony Dav two newspapers and eight television stations must hand over charged with unpublished photographs and video of a campus riot to ary device. He Ingham County prosecutors. . "The contil East Lansing District Judge David Jordan's ruling was sim- with the law c ilar to one he made last week involving the Lansing State said. He said I Journal. Yesterday's ruling affected the Detroit Free Press and as he can bef The State News - Michigan State's student newspaper- as May 7. well as television stations WJBK, WKBD and WXYZ in James Stew Detroit, WJRT in Flint, WILX in Onondaga outside Lansing, Dunnings has WLNS in Lansing, WWMT in Kalamazoo and WZZM in which the ne% Grand Rapids. But he argu All of the news organizations plan to appeal in Ingham poena unpubli County Circuit Court. They are hoping to join a previous been publicly1 appeal filed by the Lansing State Journal. "I think eitt Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III is seeking media has a v hundreds of unpublished photographs and video footage Free Press taken the night of March 27-28, when more than 5,000 peo- have ruled th ple rioted on the Michigan State University campus and in methods of ge downtown East Lansing. said that usin The request is part of the prosecution's case against great risk to r Kevorkian receives *5 i XV o 5 ears ln This can destroy the heart. "For a long time I just told my hus- band I'm happy to be alive," Zettle, a local school cafeteria worker and moth- er of three, told The Bay City Times. "But I started to get angry. I saw reports that the drug companies knew the health risks but ignored them." Fen-phen. is named for two drugs vid Pastor, 21, of Kalamazoo, who has been a felony of possession of an explosive-incendi- e is a Western Michigan University student. nued delay by the news media in compliance could further jeopardize our efforts;' Dunnings he is trying to prosecute as many alleged rioters fore Michigan State's summer vacation begins iart, an attorney for Detroit's WXYZ-TV said s the right to ask for published photographs, ws organizations have complied with. ued that Dunnings doesn't have the right to sub- shed material unless the information has already reported or the reporter is the subject of the case. her one loves the media or hates the media, the ery special status in the society, he said. attorney Herschel Fink said previous judges at the media should be used only if all other etting information have been exhausted. He also g the media in such circumstances can cause eporters. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved fenflu- ramine and phentermine individually - but not in combination. Still, doc- tors prescribed the pills in tandem widely. In September 1997 - nearly two years after Zettle started taking fez- phen - the FDA asked drug makers to withdraw fenfluramine and the related dexfenfluramine - popularly called "Redux"-- from the market. Mayo Clinic and other researchers were reporting dozens of rare valvular heart disease cases in female fen-phen users. "The evidence is clear that the manu- facturers had warning that their drug's were causing problems, and they chose to tell no one about it," said Zoe Littlepage, a Texas lawyer, who, along with West Branch attorney William Engemann, is representing Zettle. TAKING CLASSES THIS SUMMER? SKIP THEM AND WRITE FOR It a [JWUU BfSUMMER WEEKLY. STOP BY 420 MAYNARD ST. OR CAL 76-DALY 't 'a M -_ i PONTIAC (AP) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian's nine-year crusade for assist- ed suicide - capped by a nationally televised lethal injection - imploded yesterday as a judge sentenced Kevorkian to 10 to 25 years in prison and told him: "Consider yourself stopped." Kevorkian, who had dared prosecu- tors to charge him and jurors to convict him, grinned as he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs after Judge Jessica Cooper lectured and sentenced him. The judge denied bond, saying she couldn't trust his promise not to assist in any more suicides. "That is what he believes his life mis- sion is;" she said. Cooper also sentenced Kevorkian, who turns 71 next month, to three to seven years for delivery of a controlled substance. The sentences will run con- currently. Kevorkian will be eligible for parole, but exactly when was unclear yesterday. The prosecutor said it would be after he serves two-thirds of 10 years - six years and eight months; Corrections Department spokesperson Matt Davis said parole eligibility would come after eight years. Kevorkian could have been sen- tenced to life in prison. The widow and brother of 52-year-old Lou Gehrig's disease patient Thomas Youk, whose death was shown on CBS' "60 Minutes," pleaded for leniency. But Kevorkian declined the opportunity to speak, and Cooper was adamant as she told him he is not above the law." This trial was not about the political or moral correctness of euthanasia," the judge said. "It was about you, sir. It was about lawlessness. It was about disre- spect for a society that exists and flour- ishes because of the strength of the legal system." "No one, sir, is above the law. No one." "You had the audacity to go on nation- al television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well, sir, consider yourself stopped." Still, she predicted the debate about issues that Kevorkian brought to the forefront will continue "long after this trial and your activities fade from pub- lic memory." Kevorkian, subdued and quiet, changed into jail coveralls at the Oakland County Jail, where paperwork was com- pleted before he was taken by van to the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson, Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. LAzLL1QL AlL 's happening in Ann Arbor today Building, Room 2609, 12 p.m.1:30 Wo p.m. ..Lobb Id Wide Web. Valk, 763-WALK, Bursley v. 8 _.m.- 1:30 a.m.