2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 21, 2000 NATION/WORLD TAX CUT Continued from Page 1 Although enrollment to higher education institutions continues to rise, "there is still a problem of too many people dropping out," Furman said. Clinton's announcement yesterday is very similar to legislation that Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) intro- duced last year. Schumer and Snowe sponsored a bill that would provide tuition tax cuts but died in a conference com- mittee, said Dave Lackey, Snowe's BOOSTERS Continued from Page 1 not delay the implementation of any new policy for next season. "A new policy will be implemented by next fall. We're just working on opera- tional issues," he said. Gragg, who serves on the committee formed last May by Provost Nancy Cantor to review the policies of the communications director. But with the support of the president, the sen- ators will try to advance the new pro- posal as much as they can, he added. "We believe there is bipartisan support to make education more affordable," Furman said, adding that initial reaction has been posi- tive. University officials said they wanted to review the proposal before making any specific programs. "These are simply additional steps to make college more affordable," Vice President for Government Relations Cynthia Wilbanks said. Michigan men's basketball team, also presented a draft of a revised gambling policy at the meeting. The revisions provide 'for stricter regulations and punishments for stu- dent-athletes and Athletic Department employees with any involvement in illegal gambling, which includes point shaving, plac- ing bets and providing inside infor- mation. ELKHOJA Continued from Page 1 Ernst said background checks are a common request in criminal trials. "It's extremely relevant information," he said. "There are laws in this state that have held that a lawyer is incompetent for fail- ure to ask for these,." he said. The city contested the ruling on the grounds that it would provide individuals with criminal record information. Under the Law Enforcement Information Network, information garnered from background checks can only be made available to criminal jus- tice officials. At the Jan. 31 hearing, Shelton will presumably set a trial date. "We just need more time to talk," Washtenaw County Chief Assistant prosecuting attorney Joe Burke said. Elkhoja faces charges of felony murder and open possession of a firearm. If convicted, he could receive a max- imum sentence of life in prison. REGENTS Continued from Page 1 "We want to focus on the 'create' aspect," Ferrara said. "We want to bring new insight into this field." Ferrara said the goals of the program include maintaining superior quality in clinical care as well as basic education and research. But Ferrara emphasized the impor- tance of focusing on translational research. "We want to be better in (translation- al research) than anything else. We want to bring insight and innovation to clinical traits," he said. Ferrara, who joined the University faculty in 1998, said it is one of the best places in the nation for this type of pro- gram. "Where I think Michigan really has an edge is in the collaborative aspects," he said. "I'm extraordinari- ly impressed with the enthusiasms and momentum." During the public comments portion of the meeting, SuperFan Reza Breakstone presented his thoughts on the University's involvement in sweat- shop labor disputes. Sporting only maize and blue para- phernalia, including a cape and mask, Breakstone said while he supports the University in all other aspects "with zeal," he can't support the University's sweatshop involvement. "Sweatshop labor is the worst of Michigan," said Breakstone, an LSA sophomore. He also said that because the block 'M' "is the most recognized logo in the world," the University is in a position to set a precedent. Breakstone said he and activists from Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality are working on creating a union-made SuperFan outfit. "I am not a member of SOLE, but I am a member of the 'Decent Human Being Club,"' Breakstone said after his presentation. "And while I'm basically a walking Michigan advertisement, it doesn't mean I don't support the values that go into fighting sweatshop labor," he said. ACRO-SS T14E NATION Scientists find Cause of stunned' hearts WASH INGTON - They call it a "stunned" heart. Just about everyone who undergoes open-heart surgery, even if the surgery wenf great, is at risk for sudden heart failure in the hours after the operation - and there is little doctors can do to help. Now scientists have discovered that a small molecular glitch leaves some hearts@ unable to squeeze out a proper beat, a finding that could help develop medicines to get patients out of intensive care faster or even prevent this so-called "cardiac stunning." "This is a problem that's seen on a daily basis in every major medical center," said Eduardo Marban of Johns Hopkins University, a co-author of the study pub- lished in an edition of the journal Science. "It would be nice to have something else to do other than wring our hands and hope for the best. Perhaps more importantly, the discovery "adds an awful lot to our understanding ... of how heart muscle contracts and doesn't contract," information that could help other heart ailments as well, said Lynn Smaha, president of the American Heart Association. Cardiac stunning is the name for a temporary type of heart failure, where the heart cannot beat forcefully enough. It's unpredictable. Some patients have a mild case, eased by drugs that help strengthen heartbeat. More severe patients require days of expensive care, even winding up on life support. Some die. E I r I Do you have questions about Sexuality Sexual Health Join us for " an online hosted chat . featuring our guest Sharla Smith, Health Education coordinator for University Health Services * Tuesday, Jan. 25 from 8:00-9:30 pm " at www.campuschapel.org See you onlinel This event is co-sponsored by Campus Chapel Ministries and University Health Services Don't get (arried with copying (OStS. 1 1 1 1 1B&W Copies Service; 8.5 x1104;l hpires05/31/00 Dollar Bill1 Cc~PYI"G 611 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (734) 665-9200 *9(fax) 930-2800 Kennedy nephew charged wi murder BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A nephew of Robert Kennedy was charged Wednesday with bludgeoning a girl to death with a golf club in 1975 when he was 15, providing the long-awaited break in a case that frustrated police in wealthy Greenwich and raised suspi- cions of a Kennedy cover-up. Michael Skakel flew to Connecticut from his home in Florida and surren- dered at Greenwich police headquar- ters after a warrant was issued for his arrest in the slaying of Martha Moxley. Because of Skakel's age at the time of the crime, the case will be handled, at least initially, in juvenile court. "Michael has stated all along he did not do this," said Skakel's lawyer, Michael Sherman. "He had no knowl- edge of it. He had no part in it. He is not guilty." Because Skakel was a juvenile at the time of the crime, it was not immedi- ately clear Wednesday what penalty he could face. Moxley was beaten with a 6-iron and stabbed in the throat with a piece of the club's shattered shaft. The club was quickly matched to a set owned by the Skakel family, who lived across the street in Belle Haven an exclusive gated community in thee New York suburb of Greenwich. KKK highwa could get Rosa Parks' name JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A black lawmaker embarrassed by the Ku Klux Klan's participation in Missouri's Adopt- A-Highway program fired back yester- day with a bill that would rename the mile-long stretch after civil rights icon Rosa Parks. The Klan last November won the right to officially help the state's high- way litter control program. Signs on both ends of a portion of Interstate 55 south of downtown in St. Louis read, "Next mile adopted by Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Missouri." The signs were stolen a day after they were put up, and a billboard that chasY tised the Klan and the thieves was put up* ........... RUSH RUSH PsTU PSI PSILON FRATER! 1000 HL STREET OPEN RUfl:;Sunda y? anuary 23, 2000 through 76140~$ hursday, January 27, 2000 6410 pm. PSIuI RUSH PSI U IITY RUSH PSI U ._ War crimes suspect, Arka, lad to rest BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - With three volleys of rifle fire, and a small choir's lament asking God's forgiveness for the sins of the dead, several thou- sand mourners buried the dreaded paramilitary leader and gangster known as Arkan. Arkan, whose real name was Zeljko Raznatovic, was shot to death in a Belgrade hotel lobby Saturday. Police have yet to say anything offi- cial about their investigation, but sever- al local reports identified a suspected accomplice as a police officer who had fought in the separatist Serbian province of Kosovo. Another report in a state-run daily said the man who helped kill Arkan was a member of Arkan's Tigers, a paramilitary force that fought in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and, war crimes investigators believe, in Kosovo too. The news reports, many of which seem based more on rumor than on hard evidence, fueled speculation that Arkan - who had been indicted by the international war crimes tri- bunal at The Hague - may have bee# assassinated on orders from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's regime, which has denied involve- ment. Future of House of Lords to be debated LONDON - A commission yester- day recommended that the House Lords, the weaker house of Parliament, should be retained, with some members elected and some appointed. 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