2 - The Michigan Daily --- Tuesday, March 14, 2000 NATION/WORLD SACUA Continued from Page 1 "The enforcement is very, very lax," Kossoudji said. Kleinsmith said he thinks the infor- mation should be sent to parking offi- cials. "It is very interesting and important data, that we should forward to park- ing officials," Kleinsmith said. The fact parking lots are not being monitored is a breakdown in commu- nication. University Provost Nancy Cantor and President Lee Bollinger have said there are parking monitors but Kleinsmith said they are not pre- sent. The only data that the University has is that of SACUA's, Kleinsmith said. Another concern about the parking stemmed from faculty interest. SACUA member Barbara MacAdam said "with the addition of the Life Science Programs, more visi- tors and guests will need parking. For visitors to come and take a look at the parking situation is a very negative reflection for the University." SACUA members discussed their next step and decided to continue holding their casual parking sur- veys biweekly. The survey will only be held at the Church Street and School of Business Administration parking structures, since most cars without blue passes and tickets have been found there, Kossoudji said. "One reason to do it, is-if we per- sonally collect data, all we say is 'Lee we want you to stop illegal parking,"' Kossoudji said. Cantor visited yesterday's meeting and updated the committee on the Life Science Initiative. "We have made parallels in a sense to the undergraduate curriculum, espe- cially Engineering and LSA - we want to make sure to integrate courses across campus," Cantor said. Deans from LSA, College of Engi- neering, School of Public Health and the School of Natural Resources and Environment have been brainstorming ways to integrate course sequences and are getting faculty and student feedback, Cantor said. "We are moving forward, and are very excited about that," Cantor said. Programs associated with the Life Sciences Initiative should be in effect by the fall of 2001, regardless of phys- ical structure of the new buildings, Cantor said. SEAT BELT Continued from Page 1 patrols out to enforce" the new law, said Capt. Mike McCabe of the sheriff's office. Although they do not yet have official records, McCabe said pre- liminary reports seem to show that seat belt violations were down. Because the implementation of the law was so highly publicized, McCabe said, "we're finding offi- cers are writing less tickets." Even though Oakland County did not take special action for the first weekend of the law's implementa- tion, McCabe said the law will "save lives." Brown is actually less optimistic about the law because "people who don't wear their safety belts are creatures of habit and they'll have to be told more than once." He said if there is an increase in the existing 70 percent compliance rate - it will be small. "If it's in the '80s or mid-'70s then we'd be doing well," he said. Brown said he feels a $25 fine is not enough. "The government is going to have to do more educa- tion," he said. "Something on the educational level will really have an impact." Responding to accusations that the law is an example of the gov- ernment overstepping its bounds, Logghe said, "sometimes you have to save people from themselves." Brown said that after 20 years working.for the traffic division and seeing people die because they did not wear a seat belt, he believes "it's a good law and I don't think the government is out of line." ACROSS THE NATION .... L.A. Times agrees to Tribune merger LOS ANGELES - Times Mirror Co., parent company of the Los Angeles Times, has agreed to be taken over by Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tri- bune and more than two dozen other media properties . The $6.38 billion transaction would create the nation's third-largest newspaper company and end more than 100 years of local ownership of The Times by the Otis and Chandler families. It would leave The Times - long the dominant news medium in California -as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago-based Tribune Co. and make Los Ange- les the largest city in the country without a locally owned metropolitan daily. The deal would also effectively mark the demise of Times Mirror at a time of increasing, large-scale media consolidation, marked most dramatically by the pending $163 bil- lion merger announced two months ago by Time Warner and America Online. The loss of Times Mirror would leave Atlantic Richfield Co. as the only remaining Fortune 500 company based in downtown Los Angeles, and Arco won't be an independent company if it is acquired by BP Amoco under a pro- posed deal awaiting antitrust approval. Under the terms of the Times Mirror-Tribune deal, Times Mirror shareholders will have a choice of taking $95 per share from Tribune Co. or exchanging ea@ of their Times Mirror shares for 2.5 shares of Tribune Co. stock (Which repre- sents about $93). VOTE FOR THE BEST OFx ANN ARBOR AT T'ilE DAILY'S WEBSITE. WWWJ4ICHIGANDAILY. COM Dartmouth drops all cheating charges HANOVER, N.H. - After the Committee on Standards heard only 27 of the 63 cases of alleged Comput- er Science 4 cheating, the College announced today that it is withdraw- ing all charges brought against stu- dents by former visiting professor Rex Dwyer. Dean of the College James Lari- more, who served as non-voting chair of the COS said, it became clear after more than 34 hours of hearings and deliberation that the body would be unable to distinguish with certainty between those who cheated and those who received the solutions to the homework from legitimate sources. "The committee concluded that some cheating did occur," Lari- more wrote in a letter to the Dart- mouth community. "But ... the nature and the quali- ty of the evidence, combined with the circumstances under which the course was conducted, made it impossible to distinguish between those responsible and those not responsible for violations of the Academic Honor Principle," he wrote. The letter will be distributed to stu- dents via Hinman Mail in the comic days. Study questions role of estrogen on heart ANAHEIM, Calif. - Challenging a medical doctrine that has stood for two decades, a study found no evi- dence that estrogen supplements pro- tect older women from heart disease. The findings are likely to confu doctors and patients alike about t already complicated decision of whether to take estrogen for many years after menopause. Estrogen has both benefits and risks, including an increased chance of breast cancer. The latest research, released yester- day, is the second major study to question the doctrine that hormone replacement is a powerful way to ward off heart disease. UNDERGRADUATE STUDY ABROAD GREAT BRITAIN AUSTRALIA I RELAND NEW ZEALAND ARGENTINA CHILE COSTA RICA Fall, Spring or Full Year. Scholarships Available. Study Abroad Information Session: Representative: Brad Lauman AROUND THE WORLD Date: Location: Wed. March 15 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Info Table in Union Lobby 3:00 - 5:00 pm International Center Room Cohen faces Vietnam veteran challenges HANOI - A U.S. defense secre- tary flew into Vietnam yesterday for the first time since 1971 in hopes of building relations with the armed forces that once humbled the world's most powerful military. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the war's end, Defense Secretary William Cohen was received by Viet- namese Minister of Defense Gen. Pham Van Tra. Cohen expressed his hope for development of military ties that would mark a final stage of nor- malization. Side by side in front of a graceful French colonial government guest- house, Cohen and Tra stood at atten- tion as a Vietnamese army band played a spirited "Star Spangled Ban- ner." The single-starred red banner of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam flut- tered lazily overhead as the defense chiefs followed a goosestepping offi- cer on a red carpet around the court- yard in a review of Vietnamese army and navy units. Although Cohen insisted he was not going to dwell on a past that has "scarred both our countries," powerful symbols of the war w at hand. The three-day visit comes just as the Vietnamese are beginning a seven- week official celebration of their country's victory in the war. 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