LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 31, 2000 -3 R I M Mosher-Jordan resident reports groom intrusion A resident of Mosher-Jordan Resi- dence Hall reported that an unknown person climbed through her window and into her room early Tuesday morning, Department of Public Safety reports state. The victim did not find any items from her room missing and DPS did not report having any suspects in the incident. MVlan steals food, runs toward MLB A male subject was seen stealing food from a buffet table at the Michi- gan League Tuesday morning, then fleeing in the direction of the Modern Languages Building, DPS reports state. The subject was described as Wround 50 years-old, with gray curly hair, a gray and brown shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. Union ATM user assaulted while removing money A man was assaulted while remov- ing money from an ATM in the base- nt of the Michigan Union late uesday afternoon, DPS reports state. The man was hit on the back of the head by another man wearing a black suit. The victim was not injured and did not report anything having been stolen. He provided the name of a possible 17-year-old male suspect to DPS officials. A warrant check on the suspect yielded negative results. J.eaves catch fire near Newberry A pile of leaves caught fire outside Helen Newberry Residence Hall Tuesday night, DPS reports state. Although the Ann Arbor Fire Department was dispatched to the scene, their assistance was not need- ed. The fire was extinguished by resi- dents with several glasses of water. IVan trespasses in Union eatery A 17-year-old male was stopped by officers after trespassing in the back area of the Y&S sandwich shop locat- ed on the ground floor of the Michi- gan Union, DPS reports state. The trespasser is a repeat offender although a warrant check yielded neg- Stive results. Food stolen from Rackham room Food was stolen from the refrigera- tor in room 102 of the Horace Rack- ham School of Graduate Studies Building on Monday afternoon, DPS reports state. DPS did report having a suspect in e incident. Toast starts fire in wolverine Tower A fire alarm was set off early Wednesday morning in Wolverine Tower located on South State Street, DPS reports state. The alarm was apparently caused y someone who burned a piece of toast. There were no further problems reported. - Conpiled bi' Daily StaffReporter Caitlin Nish. Wolverines win majority of LSASG seats By Josie Gingrich Daily Staff Reporter After a three-day delay, results from the LSA Student Government elections were released last night following a completed investigation by the Information Technology Division and election officials. Results were delayed after the discovery of illegal voting coercion by Wolverine party member Chip Englander, an LSA freshman. Students who felt their vote was coerced had until 2 p.m. Tuesday to revote. "There was revoting and it was completed on Tuesday," Elections Director Heidi Lubin said. "I got the results from ITD and they were okayed by our judges so I could release the results." Of the nine available seats on LSA-SG, five will be taken by Wolverine candidates and four were won by Blue Party candidates. The four candidates with the most votes were all Wolverine candidates. The top vote-getter was LSA freshman John Alexander, who won 1,353 votes. "It was an amazing experience getting in touch with so many students," Alexander said. "I give the entire Wolverine party a lot of credit." Alexander said he believed his victory came from getting in contact with students. "I attribute it to door-to-door and meeting people face-to-face," Alexander said. "I didn't stress chalking or poster- ing as much as talking to people." Blue Party victor Rob Shereda said he was not surprised by the overwhelming support for the Wolverine Party. "I thought the Wolverine Party was far more visible then the Blue Party," he said. But he said he doesn't think the split between the parties will prevent the LSA-SG from achiev- ing its goals. "We're not going to be a divided gov- ernment," Shereda said. "We're just going to pick up the pieces. I think we'll have a good, cohesive government." Wolverine candidates expressed disappointment over the removal of their party from the Michigan Student Assembly race. "It's a bittersweet victory because of the MSA candidates," said Mike Panetta, a newly elected freshman representative from the Wolverine Party. Wolverine candidates were not removed from the LSA-SG race as election officials ruled Englan- der's activities did not extend to the LSA-SG slate. But Wolverine Party members say the scandal will not get them down. "The Wolverine Party is here to stay,' Alexander said. "The real test of our party will be our ability to come back strong" Wolverine candidates B.J. Orandi and Erin Reese won the top executive positions in LSA-SG. Playing the hand you're dealt Program would give WCC students admission to LSA i DANNY KALICK/ay LSA freshman Matt Nolan's hand is revealed as he and Engineering freshman Ryan Mcclarren play euchre at the Michigan Union last night. Agreement would allow WCC classes to fulfill LSA requirements By Robert Gold Daily Staff Reporter Washtenaw Community College students could soon commit to a two-year program that would guar- antee their admission into the Uni- versity's College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Beginning this fall, the agreement between the two schools would allow honors students to complete a series of advanced classes at WCC to fulfill basic LSA requirements such as race and ethnicity and quan- titative reasoning. LSA Associate Dean for Under- graduate Education Robert Owen said the University has not made the agreement with any other communi- ty college. "Historically, we've had a closer collaboration (with WCC) because they're right in the same county," Owen said, adding that University graduate students often teach at WCC. "We are probably more famil- iar with the curriculum." The two schools have had a simi- lar transfer agreement between their nursing programs since 1997. The program allows WCC students to take two years of approved classes at WCC and be guaranteed admission to the University's School of Nurs- ing. WCC Vice President for Instruc- tions and Student Services Guy Altieri said the college pursued the agreement with LSA because of the success of the nursing school collab- oration. About 50 students will be accept- ed into the WCC project for the first year and the total could rise to 150 in the future, Owen said. WCC stu- dents would need to meet LSA's standard admissions requirements and maintain a 3.25 grade point average at the community college to be given a spot at the University. Altieri said the community col- lege is recruiting interested students and people who were not accepted to LSA. Owen said the project lets LSA attract non-traditional students such as those who have been out of' school for a number of years. "It's a way of allowing us to capture some of these very talented students," he said. The agreement was proposed to the WCC Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The board is scheduled to vote on the proposal late next month. Board of Trustees Chair Robert Bailey, an English professor at the University, said the plan should pass easily. LSA usually loses about 500 stu- dents per year, who transfer to the University's professional schools like the School of Business and the School of Natural Resources. Owen said these spots are filled by transfer students that mostly come from other universities. WCC transfer stu- dents will be guaranteed some of these spots. Owen said these spots are filled by transfer students that mostly come from other universities. WCC transfer students will be guaranteed some of these spots. . Altieri said the project gives stu- dents who could not normally afford University tuition to spend two years at the less expensive WCC. WCC Dean of Enrollment Ser- vices Linda Blakey said school research shows 24 percent of the 10,000 WCC students who were enrolled last fall attended solely for transfer credits. "They will receive advising while at Washtenaw from (University) advisers," Owen said. "It's not like they are out of the loop." Owen said the number of classes that WCC students can take in the program needs to be increased in the future. "There's certainly not a lot of lati- tude," Owen said. Bailey said WCC has a tradition of cooperation with University col- leges like the School of Engineering and School of Architecture. Stu- dents can transfer to these schools with junior status but admission is not guaranteed, Bailey said. Luipus Fox sponsors By Lindsey Alpert Daily StaffReporter Emphasizing lupus' ability to fool the patients it strikes, the Lupus Foun- dation of America will sponsor an Alert Day tomorrow to increase awareness about the disease. "We like the Alert Day because it falls on April Fools' Day," Michigan Lupus Foundation Director Tom Roberts said. "Lupus fools people that have it and we thought the day would really fit the disease." Lupus is a genetic, chronic, autoim- mune disease that causes the immune system to attack the body's cells and organs because it can't tell the differ- ence between foreign substances called antigens and its own cells and tissues. There are three types of lupus - dis- coid, which only affects the skin, sys- temic, which affects internal organs, and drug-induced, which is similar to systemic but occurs with the use of cer- tain prescription drugs. "There are about 1.4 million Ameri- cans with lupus," said Duane Peters, vice president of Advocacy of the Lupus Foundation of America. "It is estimated that one in every 185 people have lupus, and nine out of 10 are females." Lupus can affect women and men of all ages, but it typically strikes women in the child-bearing years of 15 to 45. Lupus is also two to three times more common among blacks, Asians, His- panics and Native Americans. Diagnosis of lupus is difficult because symptoms disappear and reoc- cur unpredictably and are similar to the symptoms of other illnesses. "Symptoms mimic what might be considered a minor illness, such as the flu or the stress of daily living," Peters said. "Symptoms come and go and andation Mlert Day there are no tests if a person does or does not have lupus." Signs can include achy, painful and swollen joints, unexplained fever for several days, persistent fatigue even after a full night's sleep, skin rashes, sensitivity to sunlight and pain in the chest when breathing deeply. "I was diagnosed in 1977, but it took about a year and a half to diagnose the disease as lupus," said Lupus Founda- tion volunteer Monica Gilliam, who suf- fers from the disease. "By the time I would get to the doc- tor, the symptoms would disappear and new ones would come," Gilliam said. "The only one that really persisted was the tiredness. The best way to explain the fatigue is that I felt as if I was walk- ing against the wind." There is no cure for lupus, but patients are given steroids to combat the disease. "From my observation, I've seen the people who were diagnosed early and aggressively, and they are doing much better," Gilliam said. "I believe that peo- ple need to listen to their bodies and not ignore the symptoms and signs. It's bet- ter to go to the doctor and be told it's OK than not to go and be told it's too late." "I suggest to people that they write things down," Gilliam said. "Write down what symptoms you're having and take that in with you to the doctor's." The Lupus Foundation plans to dis- tribute informational packets on Alert Day tomorrow and a brief quiz to make people aware of the disease and its symptoms. "The whole aim is to alert people and to increase public awareness," Gilliam said. "So many people are walking around with lupus and do not even know it. Those people might look well, but internally they're being damaged" U I THE CALENDAR What's happening in Ann Arbor this weekend FRIDAY American Heritage Month, 9:15 Helen Zia, Part of Asian Pacific a.m., School of Education, SUNDAY America Heritage Month, Zia, a Korean Cultural Show, a night of U "Healing Ourselves ... Healing Our journalist and editor of Ms. mag- student performance in tradition- World," Sponsored by Michigan azine to speak, Yuri Kochiyama al and contemporary Korean cul- Animal Ri hts Society and the Loune, South Quad, noon, 763- ture, Mendelsohn, 7 p.m. People's ood Coop, John Rob- 904 ' Faces of the Future, 4th Annual bins to speak, Michigan Union, Michigan Romanian League, Free Conference on the Mixed Experi- Wolverine Room, 2 p.m. movie and Spring Meeting, Michi- ence, Michigan Union Pendleton EAn Arboretum Hike with Hillel, aUno 2nflo,7pm. * Room, 9:30 a.m. Sponsored by Hillel, meet at Hil- an-Union, 2nd floor,p.m.'O Planet Environmental Service Day, lns. 1Hpmm. Latino Talent Showcase, Sponsored meeting, grassy knoll outside mArchiglas: concert of Russian Folk Latino/a Task Force and Dennison, 10a.m. and Church Music, Sponsored by ichigan League Programming, U Human Genetics: The Human the Residential College, RC Audi- Michigan League Underground, 8 Genome Project, Evolution and torium, 7 p.m., 936-1998 p.m.Health, lecture by Prof. David Evorhang aufl (Raise the Curtain), 0 Shabbat Experience, Sponsored by Burke, 170 Dennison, 10:30 a.m. Sponsored by Residential Col- Hillet, home cooked Shabbat din- The Paradox of Liberal Feminism: iege, RC Auditorium, 1 p.m., ner, Hillel, 7:30 p.m. Preference, Rationality & Oppres- 647-4378 Informational Session on the Pro- sion, Sponsored by the Philoso- U Athena Women's Music Festival anei a few QI~c.fe+.iflI Einhuare.- phy Departrnent,Michigan 2000. Amer's. 1 p.m. I .: