LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 21, 2000 - 3 ~RIME Unruly students cause ruckus in residence hal *wo male students were reported to have caused a disturbance in the lobby of Mary Markley Residence Hall on Saturday evening, Department of Public Safety reports state. A member of the front desk staff who believed the students "caused some damage to a door in the lobby" made the call. R othpick in lock events entry A toothpick was jammed into a lock in Bursley Residence Hall on Sunday, DPS reports state. The toothpick prevented residents from using their keys to access the lock. University maintenance was con- tacted and the core was changed. laptop computer reported stolen A laptop computer was stolen from the North Ingalls Building on the morning of Jan. 1.1, DPS reports state. DPS did not report having any suspects in the incident. Man requests ambulance service br injured child A man requesting ambulance ser- vices needed assistance for his son because his son's legs were "not work- ing at all." An ambulance was dis- patched on Saturday to McIntyre Drive, DPS reports state. Coat taken from R1B locker room A coat was stolen from the men's locker room of the Central Campus Recreation Building on Saturday, DPS reports state. DPS did not report having any sus- pects in the incident. Keys not returned to proper owner set of keys were reported missing ffm the Building of Art and Architecture on Jan. 13, DPS reports state. The caller allowed a student to use her keys and when she returned to the spot where the keys were to be left - they were gone. DPS did not report having any suspects in the incident. Food items stolen fm East Quad vending machine Items were reported stolen from an East Quad Residence Hall vending machine Jan. 14, DPS reports state. The vending machine was located on the main floor near the entrance to Greene House. DPS did not report hav- ing any suspects in the incident. Caller reports 1hoke in Markley laundry facility S~moke was reported seen coming out- f the first floor laundry room of Mary Markley Residence Hall on Jan. 14, DPS reports state. The caller was advised to pull the fire alarm and to evacuate the area. No one reported see- iany flames. Ptient escapes local institution A patient walked out of Arbor Heights Center near Mary Markley Residence Hall. on Washington Heights on the evening of Jan. 14, DPS reports state. Someone from the center made a call for assistance about five to 10 minutes after the.person escaped. 'ols stolen from parked vehicle A vehicle parked in the carport on Church Street was broken into on Jan. 14; DPS reports state. A toolbox in the pickup bed was bro- ken into by force and an unknown amount of sockets and ratchets were reported missing. PS did not report having any sus- pe is in the incident. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Caitlin Nish. Service planned in memory of student By David Enders Daily Staff Reporter Memorial services are scheduled tomorrow for Patrick Maxeiner, a Rackham first-year student who died after an acute allergic reaction nearly three weeks ago. The events that triggered the allergic reaction and anaphylactic shock that killed Maxeiner remain mysterious to his parents. No autopsy was performed on the body because Maxeiner's organs were donated for transplant. Maxeiner, who was conducting research in bio- medical sciences, was strongly allergic to peanuts. "But that was his only allergy," said his moth- er Terri Maxeiner from her home in Frankfort, Ill. Maxeiner called 911 from his Packard Street apartment early in the evening Jan. 3, requesting help for an allergic reaction. By the time paramedics arrived, Maxeiner's throat had swollen shut and he was not breath- ing. Paramedics were able to unblock the airway by inserting a plastic tube before transporting him to University Hospitals. He was placed on life support there but was pro- nounced dead shortly after midnight three days later. A King's Hawaiian Chicken Fried Rice Bowl frozen dinner, found in Maxeiner's apartment, was apparently the last meal he ate. According to the ingredients listed on the box, the dinner contained no peanuts. "There will be an investigation," Terri Maxeiner said. "Whatever was in it mimicked the effect peanuts would have had." Shelby Weeda, a spokesperson for King's Hawaiian, said the dinner did not contain any peanuts or peanut oil.. "We do not fry our food," Weeda said. Patrick Maxeiner completed his undergraduate work at the University of Arizona in May, graduat- ing with degrees in biochemistry and pharmacolo- gy. Associate chemistry and biophysics Prof. Richard Goldstein, who served as Maxeiner's research adviser, described4he graduate student as cheerful, deeply religious and one of the most helpful people he had ever met. "The number of people he affected during such a short time is very striking," Goldstein said. He explained that Maxeiner had been conduct- ing research on protein structure prediction since September. "He was definitely interested in working on something with direct medical application," Goldstein said. Maxeiner was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, the University's Bass Fishing Team and a big brother in the One-on-One mentorship program. He also was an avid golfer, Goldstein said. The memorial service is scheduled to take place at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in St. Mary's Student Parish, located at 331 Thompson St. Donations may be made to the Patrick J. Maxeiner Memorial Fund care of the Bank of Homewood, 2034 Ridge Rd., Homewood, Ill., 60430. Surveying the damage Archer asks for'rgh to select city school board DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Dennis Archer said Wednesday that the Legislature should either grant him the right to select members of the city's school board and the chief executive or remove the veto power of Gov. John Engler's appointee to the board. But the governor's spokesperson said the legislation would not be changed. Archer's comments came a day after Engler's appointee - state Treasurer Mark Murray - blocked the appointment of a candidate for chief executive favored by five of the seven school board members. A law enacted in March replacing the elected Detroit Board of Education with an appointed board gave the governor's representative veto power over the choice of a chief executive for the troubled 167,000-student system. Murray used that veto to block selection of Tulsa, Okla., schools superintendent John Thompson. Five members voted in favor of Thompson. Murray voted for Jerome Harris, a school consultant and former superintendent in Atlanta, Compton, Calif., and Brooklyn, N.Y. Board member Glenda Price abstained. The law requires at least five votes for the winner, one of which must come from the governor's appointee. "The quick fix is to remove the wording in the legisla- tion that gives Mark Murray a veto," Archer said. Archer said Engler and the Legislature should make the Detroit schools situation a top priority during the current legislative session. "I just hope he appreciates the potential volatility" of the situation, Archer said. Engler spokesperson John Truscott said the governor won't suggest any changes to the law. "We're not involved in the board's politics here or how the chairman made this a political issue, but the legisla- tion will not be changed," Truscott said. Engler focused on education in his State of the State address Wednesday night, calling for mandatory sum- mer school for fourth-graders who cannot read, extra money for elementary schools that do well or make big improvements in test scores, and an increase in charter schools. It was in his address one year ago that he first pro- posed enacting reform board legislation. DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily Ann Arbor resident Jack Weatherford examines his automobile yesterday after a collision with a University bus. The accident happened at the intersection of South Division Avenue and Packard Street. Abr1,aham ad-mits to earlier crix~xm-.e PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Convicted mur- derer Nathaniel Abraham pleaded guilty yes- terday to a 1997 break-in he committed just one month before he fatally shot an 18-year- old man. Nathaniel, who turned 14 Wednesday, admitted to the charge in the same Oakland County court where he was convicted of sec- ond-degree murder and sentenced to juvenile custody until he turns 21. "I broke into a garage and I stole a go-cart," Nathaniel told Probate Judge Eugene Moore, barely audible. Moore could not add any more time to the sentence he handed down last week. Prosecutors, however, say additional convic- tions would have an effect on sentencing if Nathaniel ever is convicted of a crime as an adult. "It's something to be considered as he builds a record in juvenile court," Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Halushka said. "Because he's doing a juve- nile sentence, all juvenile cases need to be brought into his record. That could affect him as an adult." Nathaniel broke into a garage Sept. 23, 1997 and stole a bike, Halushka said. He was set to appear at a pretrial hearing when he was arrested and charged with killing Ronnie Greene Jr. out- side a Pontiac convenience store Oct. 29, 1997. Nathaniel, II at the time, was one of the youngest people in the nation charged as an adult with murder. If he had been convicted of first-degree murder, he would have faced life in prison without chance of parole. Attorneys for Nathaniel argued the shooting was accidental, but prosecutors said he bragged about it afterward. A jury in November convicted him of sec- ond-degree murder, and Moore sentenced him last week to the W.J. Maxey Boys Training School in Whitmore Lake until his 21st birth- day. Nathaniel's lawyer, Daniel Bagdade, said he expected a quick resolution to the charge once the murder trial had ended. "Nathaniel and I have been talking about this breaking and entering case for many months now," Bagdade said in court yester- day. "He's indicated to me he wants to go ahead and be honest with the court and plead guilty to the breaking and entering charge," he said. MSU Greek leaders vote to reverse ban on fraternity parties EAST LANSING, (AP) - Fraternity leaders at Michigan State University have voted to overturn a ban on parties at fraternity houses, but with some limitations. Instead of being able to invite an unlimited number of guests to each party, fraternity and sorority mem- bers will each be able to invite two guests in an attempt to keep parties smaller. Forty-five fraternity and sorority leaders met in a closed session Wednesday, and the decision to per- mit parties came down to a single vote, Interfraternity Council President Paul Mitchell told the Lansing State Journal for a story yesterday. Fraternities and sororities had outlawed fraternity house parties about four months ago in an attempt to shed a party image and rebuild membership, which has plunged by about half in the 1990s. Fraternity members 21 and older were allowed to drink at fraternity houses, but no parties were permit- ted under the ban. Sorority house parties have Fraternity and . sorority members will be permitted to invite two guests to parties. always been alcohol-free. The change came after some fra- ternity members said it was too expensive to hold parties at outside sites. And they said the party ban could hurt recruiting. Fraternity and soror- ity recruiting for the spring semester begins Sunday. Panhellenic Council President Tiffany Findlan said allowing par- ties back into frat houses may help in recruitment. At the start of the decade, Michigan State had an estimated 6,000 fraternity and sorority mem- bers. There were just 3,100 Greeks in the system last fall, officials said.