One hundred nine yeas ofednoafreedm 4* tit! NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 7640557 www.michigandailycom Frida y March 31, 2000 Engneering, Nursingschools rank fourth By Robert Gold Daily Staff Reporter U.S. News & World Report rankings released today rated four University gradu- ate schools among the nation's top ten in *eir respective fields. According to the rankings, which are to be published Sunday in a special edition of the magazine, the University's School of Nursing is fourth and the School of Engineering tied for fourth place with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The University's Law School and School of Education were both ranked seventh, the Business School ranked ninth and the Medical School shared 12th place *th the Baylor College of Medicine.. Harvard University's business, education, and medical schools all received first-place rankings. While reactions from the deans of the five ranked University of Michigan graduate schools varied, they all agreed that the mag- azines measurement methods are not per- fect. "It's always difficult to know how serious to take the rankings," Nursing Dean Ada Sue Hinshaw said. Hinshaw said the University has been among the top five nursing schools for the past decade, although the magazine has not rated nursing schools since 1997. Hinshaw said credit for the lofty ranking should go to the dedicated staff. "I can brag because I am the dean. The faculty are the ones that make it," Hinshaw said. Hinshaw added that the school does not base its self-evaluation on the magazine scores. She said internal curricula reviews and critiques from the American Associa- tion of Colleges of Nursing are two indica- tors the school uses. Although the School of Engineering still remained in the top five this year, it dropped from the third-place position that it shared with the Georgia Institute of Technology last year. Engineering Dean Stephen Director said the rankings add prestige and self-esteem to faculty and students but added that the cal- culations have some flaws because criteria change somewhat each year.. According to a U.S. News press release, .40 percent of the scores for engineering schools are based on reputation, with selec- tivity, faculty resources and research activi- ties serving as other primary factors. Director said the school can be consid- ered among the nation's best for a number of reasons. "We have a very large research program. We are near the top in terms of research (money) per faculty member," Director said. Education Dean Karen Wixson said she was pleased the school remained in the top ten, moving up from eighth to seventh. See RANKINGS, Page 2 Leaders of the best Nursing: 4th US.N Engineering: 4th (tie) W Law: 7thRePor BeE Education: 7th Gradu Business: 9th Scho4 Medical: 12th (tie) late 1Is IT'S NOT FASY BEING GREEN Students work to boycott 'dirty'jobs U forced to release information By Charles Chen Daily Staff Reporter Perhaps the best way to alert major corporations of threats they pose to the environment is to hit them where it hurts the most - the job market. Encouraging students not to work for BP Amoco and the Coca-Cola Company after graduation because of threats they may pose to the envi- ronment, groups including Environ- pmental Action and the Michigan Student Assembly's Environmental Issues Commission sponsored the Dirty Jobs Boycott yesterday on the Diag. "If you can educate people, then there will be more to fight the fight. Everyone should take an invested interest in the environment," said Brianne Haven, president of EnAct and chairwoman of EIC. "I want the companies to know that students are aware of these issues." The groups claim that BP Amoco, a major oil company, has been lobbying Congress to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska for oil drilling.. Environmentalists fear drilling in the Arctic could impact herds of caribou that migrate there each spring to give birth. EnAct member Sarah Walker said the drilling would also affect the Gwich'in, a Native American tribe that lives near the refuge. The cari- bou has religious significance for the tribe and also serves as a food source. The student groups identify Coca-Cola as a threat to the envi- ronment because of the materials they use to produce their soda bot- tles. Coca-Cola produces more than See BOYCOTT, Page 2 By Jeannie Baumann and Jen Fish Daily Staff Reporters Intervenors in the lawsuits challeng- ing the use of race as a factor in the University's College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts admissions gained ground Wednesday when U.S. District Magistrate Judge Thomas Carlson ordered the Univer-_ sity to turn over the names and phone W 'r r hi numbers of all undergraduate prove a a black and hispanic black an students as well as its classifications of students. high schools. Godfrey Dillard, lead counsel for the Lead counsel for intervening under- graduate defen- dants, said he hopes to use the code information to prove that the University is using discriminatory practices in their admissions process. Dillard said he wants to examine whether the Uni- versity gives unfair advantages to white suburban schools - slighting predomi- nantly minority, urban schools. Dillard said he requested the tele- eI th phone numbers to speak with minority students at the University to see whether or not they perceive that they are being discriminated against. The lawsuits were filed against the University in 1997 by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Individual Rights, on behalf of two white appli- cants who claim they were denied admission to the College of LSA although less-qual- ified minorities re to were accepted. A similar complaint ise for against the Law Latino School was filed later that year. Last August a ruling by the 6th - Godfrey Dillard Circuit Court of e LSA intervenors Appeals allowed a coalition of 58 stu- dents of various ethnicites, in addition to national groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, to join the case as intervening defendants. The decision allows the intervening students and groups the same status as the Universi- ty and CIR. Because the University is under the See LAWSUITS, Page 2 DAVID ROCKHIND/Dary LSA sophomore Deborah Bass explains the Dirty Jobs boycott to ISA sophomore Henry Rosenbaum on the Diag as he signs a petition not to work for Coca-Cola or BP Amoco until the companies become more environmentally friendly. Earth Day lives.30 years, maraks atv spirit in A2 By Jacquelyn Nixon Daily Staff Reporter Thirty years ago, 20 million people demonstrated nationwide in streets, parks and auditoriums on April 22 demanding a healthier environment. That day marked the first Earth Day, which took place during a time when anti-Vietnam protests were prevalent and had spread to college campuses across the nation. Founded by former Wisconsin sena- tor Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day received support from organizations and politi- cians of all parties and backgrounds. "The objective of Earth Day was to organize a national demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda," Nelson said in a written statement. "It was a gamble, but it worked." More than 35,000 people attended the first Earth Day festival in Ann Arbor, which was largest national gath- ering in the country for the first Earth Day celebration. Nelson spoke in front of a capacity crowd at Crisler Arena. Before starting Earth Day, Nelson had begun preserving land for wildlife and recreation areas through funding from a penny-a-pack tax on cigarettes, which was one of the first programs of its type in the nation. "The reason Earth Day worked is that it organized itself. The idea was out there and everybody grabbed it. I wanted a demonstration by so many people that politicians would say that people really care about this and that's just what Earth Day did," Nel- son said in the statement. See EARTH DAY, Page 2 Get by with a little help from our friends Hopes set high for 29th Hash Bash By David Enders Daily Staff Reporter DANNY KAICK/Daily Music school sophomore Jim Leija displays the first issue of the G-Spot magazine during a poetry reading at the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Affairs last night. Gay and Proud kicks o first G-Sot issue Adam Brook thinks he has the answer to an often-heard campus debate: When lighting a joint, is a person smoking up, down or out? "It's slang, whatever gets you going. I guess it depends on what kind of weed you're smoking," said Brook, an Ann Arbor business-. man who has organized the annual Hash Bash festival, a celebration of hemp, on the Diag for the past nine A years. More neonle may find an answer By Karolyn Kokko Daily Staff Reporter G-Spot magazine, the newest publi- cation on campus, kicked off its first issue last night with a reading from the magazine. "There's going to be a second print- ing since it's so popular," said Burns, an LSA junior. "I think it's imperative to have a vis- ible and tangible queer voice on cam- pus. G-Spot does exactly that," said Music junior Molly Bain Frounfelter, a - * - - x: