2A - The Michigan Daily --Thursday, April 15, 1999 NATION/WORLD Student in serious condition a ter fall EMU Continued from Page 1A EMU spokesperson Pamela Young said students living in residence halls who are of legal drinking age are allowed to have alcoholic beverages in their rooms but are not allowed to have kegs or serve alcohol to minors. Wilber, 22, had purchased two ,.kegs for the residence hall party, which was attended by several _minors. Students who attended the ,,party said Wilber had been seen drinking. Wilber's fall comes at the close of an academic year in which alcohol related deaths have plagued campuses statewide. In October, LSA first-year student Courtney Cantor died after falling from her sixth-floor Mary Markley Residence Hall window, hours after she was seen drinking at a frater- nity party. -Two Ferris State University stu- dents and one Michigan State University student have also died in alcohol related incidents this school year. Mounayyer said Wilber suddenly departed from the party when EMU police pounded on the door and asked for Wilber by name. Mounayyer said the party was "controlled" and had been going on for about two and a half hours when the police arrived at the scene. Mounayyer said the police issued minor in possession tickets,. to minors at the party who had been drinking. Mounayyer said no one thought about where Wilber had gone because they thought he .had locked himself in his room until a first-floor resident informed them that Wilber had fallen out of the window. First-year student Scott Stadtmiller said he was shocked to see his friend sitting in "some kids" dorm room. "He was complaining of his legs hurting," Stadtmiller said. "I was mad at him. I couldn't understand why he did it." Wilber has been listed at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in serious condition since he was admitted Tuesday. A patient in serious condition is con- sidered acutely ill with a questionable prognosis. Vital signs of the patient may be unstable but there is a chance for improved prognosis. Although Young said the university is still investigating the case, a determina- tion on possible sanctions has not been made. "Based on the information in the police report, disciplinary action could be appropriate"Young said. Young added that if disciplinary action is taken it would be handled by the EMU student judicial office, which would determine if sanctions were appropriate. Sanctions, Young said, could range from anything from a ver- bal warning to expulsion. AROUND THE NATION Starr blasts Independent Counsel law WASHINGTON - The man who touched off a national controversy over the Independent Counsel Act illustrated yesterday why reforming the institution has become such a maze of contradictions and blind alleys. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr, testifying before a Senate committee c sidering whether to revise the law or scrap it altogether, blasted the statute for 1dw ing to investigations that are too open-ended, too costly to run and subject to harsh political attack. "No matter what the Congress decides, no matter what microsurgical precision is applied to fine-tune the statute, these problems will endure," Starr testified. Yet Starr made clear he still intends to continue his broad-ranging, five-year Whitewater investigation, pursue possible criminal prosecution of President Clinton after he leaves the White House and take whatever political heat it generates. Critical Democrats blamed Starr, more than the law, for what they said was his mistreatment of convicted Whitewater conspirator Susan McDougal as well as for- mer White House intern Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with Clinton led to the president's impeachment. Sen. 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The IRS expects to receive 126 million individual income tax returns this year, with total income taxes projected at $828.6 billion. That's just under half the $1.7 tril- lion in overall federal tax collecti9 used to pay for everything from cruise missiles to highway bridges to food stamps. House OKs review of census results WASHINGTON - Plans for the 2000 census sank further into a par- tisan quagmire yesterday as a sharply divided House Of Representatives approved a mea- sure allowing local governments to review and challenge whatever fig- ures emerge from the decennial population count. The bill is the Republican answer to Democratic efforts to use a method known as statistical sam- pling to correct chronic errors in the traditional door-to-door he count. ELI I F5F i [IL[IITLIL LIIIILIL ACROSS: 5.Common wedding gifts ,. Just say r" r9: Type of dorm room 10. Local street 11 Not socially acceptable ) 43. Poetic initials 16. Decrease .18. Classic Warren Beatty film 21. 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What broke out in Lansing after MSU lost 17. www.recycle. .edu 18. Central campus dorm 19. Opposite of P.M. 20. Morning juice 24. "____ Mr. Bill!" 27. Jim 28. On deck in baseball 29. Center for stuff that can be reused 30. Environmental hue 31. North Campus dorm 32. Food still in the package 34. ___ Pinafore 35. Morning half 36. Place for hot wings 37. lalfcahill dorm 40. " MTV Raps" 44. Other half of 26 Down 45. What tree huggers hug 49. German "No" 50. "That's __ Mama!" 54. Tree hugger's shoes 56. "Married to the ___ 57. Mining substance 59. Site for a ring 60. "X-Files" vehicle 61. Student statistic created by Jenny Goldsmith Sdmummr Troupe Office of New Student Programs o you like your voice to be heard? Do you love performing in ont of crowds? Would like to get paid for making people augh, think, learn? Res Rep Theatre troupe (AKA Summer roupe) is holding auditions for this summer's orientation 'eatre program. This program performs to over 8000 incomir rst-year students. For the last three years, it has been the AROUND THE WORLD Move Out Thinking Green! ChecK Out: www.recycie.umich.edu Mala sian deputy jaile for six years KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The landmark verdict against former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim could energize opposition politics in this Southeast Asian nation. The one- time heir-apparent received six years in prison yesterday. The term bars Anwar from politics for at least five years after his release from prison. He had repeatedly declared his innocence, saying he was the victim of a political conspiracy to eliminate his challenger. There were gasps in the courtroom and protests in the streets at the sentence, although Anwar seemed unmoved. "My body may be incarcerated," he said, "but my soul is free." Azizah Ismail, Anwar's wife and now the leader of his political reform movement, fought tears as she spoke to reporters outside the courthouse. "Our family is sad. My children are deprived of their father," she said. "But we don't regret it. We feel proud with my husband's stand and the principle we all fight for.' Azizah, who has tried to keep her husband's crusade for political cha@ alive since he was jailed last September, pressed ahead yesterday in attempts to forge consensus, meeting with leaders of the Islamic and centrist parties. Fro disappear due to ilobal warning An abrupt climate shift associa@ with global warming appears to have caused the mysterious disappearance of 20 frog species in Costa Rica, researchers reported yesterday. The frog declines, which included the infamous extinction of the Golden Toad, coincided with a sudden reduc- tion in moisture levels on the continen- tal divide atop Monteverde in Costa Rica's central highlands, according to J. Alan Pounds, of the University f Miami, and his colleagues. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 1 I . . . .. .. . :_. ... ..................... s ::::::::::::::.::..::::<::::::::::.:..:::::::::. 9: students at the University of Michigan. 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