2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 27, 2000 NATION/WORLD GRANGER Continued from Page 1A make." McKinley said admissions offi- cers take all factors regarding appli- cants into account before making a decision about their admission sta- tus. "if we are aware of some behav- ioral problem that occurred here or some place else, we'll look at that during the admissions process." she said. But McKinley added that any vio- lations students commit will not necessarily prevent there from attending the University's Dearborn campus. "We can admit the student on dis- ciplinary probation, placing restric- tions on what the student could and could not do," she said. "We look at it in light of all the circumstances: what the student has done between the time they were suspended, whether they had any rehabilitated." Drake said Granger is suing the Grosse Pointe Board of Education, superintendent Suzanne Klein and Grosse Pointe North High School administrators. "We are suing the school for vio- lating his constitutional rights. It has nothing to do with the criminal case." Drake said. "It's just what these administrators did to all these kids." The sexual misconduct scandal began during the 1997-98 academic year, when the Grosse Pointe North High School yearbook staff ran a picture of Granger's genitalia. Mark Mcinerney, attorney for the Grosse Pointe Public School System, said Granger and several of his friends had purchased the page, and the pic- ture was removed before the year- books had been distributed to all students. "The school system and its employees believe they have acted properly and responsibly throughout this matter. They intend to aggres- sively and successfully defend them- selves in this litigation." McInerney said. Drake said Granger "is a kid" who has been punished for what he has done. The real perpetrators, he said, are the Grosse Pointe school admin- istrators. "The bigger picture is the real adults who destroyed seven kids' lives to protect themselves from get- ting fired," Drake said. PANEL Continued from Page IA higher education in an attempt to make it available to a broader audience. Hurtado opened the discussion with the question, "What have we learned in the last 40 years in terms of race rela- tions?"' Trent, the first speaker, is considered an expert on the issue of school deseg- regation. "We are facing a situation where African Americans are as segregated as they were in 1977" Trent said. "We can't afford to limit the use of race in admissions." Trent presented information showing that minorities, especially black Americans, are facing as many educa- tional limitations as they did during the years of formal segregation. There is a requirement "of continued commitment to using race in an informed way in admissions," Trent said. Levin focused on the psychological aspect of using race in admissions processes. "White Americans overwhelmingly endorse racial equality," Levin said. But "racism is still very much a part of U.S. culture," she said. Levin cited research showing that "opposition to affirmative action is highest when blacks are the targeted group instead of the elderly or the hand- icapped." "Ignoring race in merit-based selec- tions unfairly disadvantages minority groups," she said. Milem concluded the program by discussing the educational benefits of diversity. After praising the work of the University of Michigan in its affirmative action program, Milem presented evidence on how diversity positively affects educational estab- lishments. "Diversity has a transformative influ- ence on institutions," Milem said. He discussed the benefits of having a diverse faculty as well. "Students are more likely to be exposed to faculty which is student- and teacher-oriented," Milem said. Following the presentations, the audience engaged in a question-and- answer session with the panelists. "It seems the media is more interest- ed in the political rhetoric surrounding affirmative action, not the empirical rhetoric," Milem said in response to one question. Members of the audience expressed a positive reaction to the discussion. "It was really interesting." LSA sophomore Akosua Mireku said. "A lot I'd heard before, and a lot I agree with." But Mireku expressed concerns about the effectiveness of such a pre- sentation. "We're a self-selected sample." she said. "We came here because we want- ed to. What about the general public? They need to hear this information rather then the media-represented infor- mation. The research needs to get to the general public, not just those getting a higher education" ACROSS T HE NATION Clinton's final address free of scandal WASHINGTON - When President Clinton strides into the Capitol tonight to deliver the final State of the Union speech of his presidency, gone will be the dra- mas of his past addresses, the impeachment trials, the exploding sex scandals, sense of drift and disarray. Without the melodrama or political intrigue of the past, this year's speech will offer an ambitious legislative agenda for Clinton's final year in office that not even his top aides believe will pass on his watch. "He'll be laying out an agenda for the decade," said Sidney Blumenthal, a senior White House aide, "an agenda that understands the new realities, that's visionary and practical. They may not all be reached this year, but they will be reached." For much of his tenure in office, Clinton has been a master of this venue, a rambling yet eloquent orator who used his epic State of the Union addresses to re-energizehis presidency. Each year, the image of Clinton evoking cheers from a joint session of Congress has lent his presidency a stateliness it otherwise did not always convey. Last year, as an extraordinary Senate impeachment court stood in judgment him. Clinton used the address to try to prove that an expected acquittal would n in effect, end his tenure in office. This year, no less an authority than Clinton himself says lie is simply trying, in the waning months of his presidency, to stave off nostalgia for past triumphs. MICHIGANDAILY OM Next semester, study abroad without leaving the country. A college semester you'll never forget. Live in a multi-cultural community. UH offers an unparalleled array of courses on Asia, Hawaii, and the Pacific. NASA Continued from Page IA get limited their options. That's when Gilchrist stepped in. Gilchrist recom- mended a space systems design class at the University. NASA budgeted S230,000 for the student assignment and various University departments contributed student assignment and various University departments contributed about 570,000. "I suggested to NASA we could provide cheap labor for" the project, Gilchrist said. Toiling in the University's Space Physics Research Laboratory and gar- nering expertise from many faculty members, students have spent as much as 30 hours per week each on the project. The 15-member class began designing the satellite on paper dur- ing the fall semester of 1998, and NASA accepted the group's proposal last January. While the satellite is a benefit to NASA, many students emphasized the project's impact on them. For complete information, connect to: 2hawaii.edulalmost or e-mail anitah@hawaii.edu On campus housing and meals available. niversity of Hawai'i at Moa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. "This has been one of the craziest but best experiences I've ever had," student program manager and Engineering graduate student lane Ohlweiler said, adding that about two- thirds of the participants have been volunteers. "These are much wiser people than a year ago." Gilchrist said, explaining that the students dealt with real work a year ago," Gilchrist said, explaining that the students dealt with "real work pressure and deadlines and prob- lems." Johnson said the kind of work experience students got by working on this project is rare to their field of interest. "It usually takes five to 10 years from inception to flight," Johnson said. The project team will hand over the finished project to the Marshall Space Flight Center on March 1. Currently, the project is in the "inte- gration stage," Gilchrist said. .Johnson said recent NASA failures have had an impact on the Icarus pro- ject - the students' name for the pro- gram. Marshall Space Flight Center Director Art Stephenson wrote the report detailing the failed landing of the Mars Polar Lander. Johnson said Stephenson has increased the regula- tions the students had to follow for their project. "NASA has constantly been watch- ing our design," Ohlweiler said. "We don't get any special treatments." The satellite is scheduled for launch on the Delta 11 rocket this fall at the NASA air station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Engineering senior Steven Lanzisera, who designed the mecha- nism's power distribution systems, said he won't be nervous on the day of the launch. "We know the system better than anyone else," Lanzisera said. Blizzard covers N.C., reminices Floyd RALEIGH, N.C. - Four months after Hurricane Floyd's devastating floodwaters. North Carolina struggled yesterday with the aftermath of a "white hurricane" - a record 2-foot snowfall in a part of the country that doesn't have much experience with blizzards. The snowstorm left thousands of people stuck in cold, dark homes and paralyzed Raleigh and other communi- ties. "I'm 45.years old and I've never seen it like this. Our fire trucks couldn't go anywhere. Our ambulances couldn't go anywhere," said Rick Harris, emer- gency management coordinator in rural Montgomery County, outside Charlotte. Raleigh Mayor Paul Coble, snow- bound yesterday like many of his constituents, described the storm in terms people in North Carolina are certain to understand: "a white hurri- cane." AROUND THE WORLD More than 140000 homes and busi- ness remained without electricity yes- terday in North and South Carolina. The storm was blamed for one traffic death in North Carolina and two South Carolina. Two people were found outside dead of exposure in South Carolina. Smokers sue for tobacco settlement PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lawyersfor smokers are planning to sue eight states seeking a share of the S206 billion national tobacco settlement. That settlement was reached in 1998 with 46 states seeking to recover money spent treating smoking-related illnesses of people on Medicaid. But many states plan to use the money for unrelated pro- jects, and that has angered some smok- ers with tobacco-related illnesses. The new lawsuits are being filed this week in Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, North Carolina, Sot Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia a Rhode Island, lawyers said. 4f f# Ethnic tensions in China still mounting BEIJING - Despite a police crack- down. unrest in China's northwestern territory of Xinjiang appears to have intensified, fomented by ethnic ten- sions, strong-arm Chinese tactics and the pull of Islamic fundamentalism. Armed Uighur militants and Chinese security forces clashed early this month in the isolated town of Aksu, sources said in Beijing. Several militants were killed in what sources here described as a dramat- ic shootout when Chinese security forces in helicopters clashed with militants who had kidnapped five police officers. The state-run Xinjiang Daily report- ed last week that five militants have been sentenced to death for separatism, murder, robbery and illegally dealing in weapons and ammunition in connection with a two-year spate of separatist activ- ities across the vast territory. Eight other separatists got long jail terms, said the paper, which was seen in Beijing Tuesday. One of those sentenced to death had killed a police officer. A classified circular issued in December by the Ministrv of S* Security. meanwhile, indicated strongly that China believes problems with Uighurs - mostly Muslims with a Turkic language and ethnically differ- ent from the majority Han Chinese - will not go away. Farmers fear spread of genetic pollioUtio MONTREAL -Small-scale farmers from around the world came to Montreal on yesterday to ask for regula- tions limiting what they call "genetic pollution"- genetically modified crops spreading their altered genes into the environment around them. Canadian farmer Hart Haiden said that in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, genes from genetically engineered canola plants have alre v spread to unaltered varieties - Conypiledfion Daily wire reports. 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