One hundred nzne years ofeditorialfreedom NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 wwmlchigandaily com Thursday April 13, 2000 i I~ iiiii , 'U' alum donates $22M for grants By Josie Gingrich Daily Staff Reporter The University may be able to attract more top-notch out-of-state stu- dents with a $22 million donation given by Alumni Association Presi- dent Richard Rogel and his wife, Susan, which will be used for out-of- ate financial aid. The donation comes in increments of $500,000 per year for 14 years, after which the University will receive a $15 million lump sum. "It's important for us to be able to attract the best and brightest and be able to compete with other schools," said Rogel, who graduated from the School of Business Administration in 1970 and is now a private investor. "When I went 9 school, I was able to work my way girough. Today that's impossible." The donation comes after a two-year pilot program instituted by Rogel called the Rogel Award of Excellence. The scholarship provides money to financially assist out-of-state students who demonstrate financial need. "The Rogels are true University citi- zens," University President Lee Bollinger said in a written statement. [f we are going to attract the best stu- dents, we have to provide more scholar- ships, and to do that we need the generous support of alumni and friends ... Rich and Susan care deeply about this issue, and their gift will make a sig- nificant difference." Al Hermsen, associate director of the Office of Financial Aid, said this year's average cost for non-resident undergraduates is $19,514, but even r students who display full financial eed, financial aid usually falls short by as much as $10,000, for which Rogel's donation compensates. "It allows us, in combination with other aid, to meet all demonstrated financial need, which we can't usually do with non-residents," Hermsen said. "We will package (students) with a- standard financial aid package which typically leaves them with unmet need. *fter grants, loans and work we still don't have the funds to meet demon- strated need." The Rogel Award of Excellence, which was awarded for the first time this year, currently fulfills financial need of 33 out-of-state students. The award comes in a form of a scholar- ship that meets all of the recipient's financial needs for four years. "It allows us to continue this pro- ram in some format in future years," ermsen said. "Our goal next year is to have 79 additional scholars." Although the donation will not affect present University students, Hermsen said all future out-of-state applicants will be considered for the Rogel Award of Excellence. "I'm absolutely thrilled it allows us to continue a program that has been successful," Hermsen said. "Our goal to use this to help attract other gifts." The $22 million is the largest amount of money given to the University since former Sotheby's Chairman A. Alfred Taubman donated $30 million to the School of Architecture and Urban Plan- ning, which was later renamed for him. "This is the largest gift the Universi- ty has ever gotten for financial aid," Associate Vice President for Develop- ment Judy Malcolm said. But Rogel said he hopes his gift will the first of many. "It was to help ickstart a campaign," he said. Rogel, who is a member of an advi- sory group to Bollinger, has made many gifts to the University in the past, and his last campaign gave $2 million for minority scholarships at the Business School. "Diversity is absolutely critical to life and education," Rogel said. "If you go to school with people who look like you, t like you and who were raised like you, how are you going to be prepared for the world? Michigan is the uncom- mon education for the common man." Rogel was a resident of New Jersey and Maryland when he decided to attend the University. m ar 19 t 0 c S Applicant files to b",,e released. By Jon Fish Daily Staff Reporter A ruling by a federal judge will force the University to hand over admissions files of minority law stu- dents, as requested from the Wash- ington, D.C.-based Center for Individual Rights, which contends that the admissions practices of the Law School are unconstitutional. "The mag In a standing- room only court- the case room, U.S. District Judge interests Bernard Friedman said that the far outwe release of the files, would not violate priVacy IS the students' rights to privacy.- "I think the magnitude of the case and its interests to society far outweigh the privacy issue,"he said. The decision, while mostly proce- dural, signifies the opening shot in a trial that could decide the fate of affirmative action in the Law School and if the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps in all of higher education. The lawsuit was filed in December 1997 by CIR on behalf of Barbara Grutter, a white applicant who was denied admission to the Law School. It is similar to an earlier suit filed by CIR challenging the admissions practices in the University's College of Literature, Science and the Arts. At issue yesterday was a request by CIR's legal team for the application files of 50 rejected white applicants to the University and 50 accepted under- represented minorities. Underrepresented minorities are classified as black, Hispanic or mitude of and its to society igh the ;sue." Bernard Friedman U.S. district judge Native American. CIR's lawyers filed. a similar motion in the undergraduate case two weeks ago and were granted access to the files with some restrictions to ensure the stu- dents' privacy. As a stipulation of the Federal PETER CORNUE/Qaily Wayne State University law student and coordinator for the National Union for Equality and Affirmative Action Shanta Driver speaks to a group of University community members and other protesters outside the Fleming Administration Building yesterday afternoon. Protestersa take on trial Education Rights to Privacy Act, upon which the University based its argument, the University must notify students whose admissions files are going to be released. But those students have the option of stopping the transferal. CIR attorney Kirk Kobel urged Friedman to follow the precedent set in the undergraduate case. "It's cru- cial here to have a representative sample of the files the defendants look at in admissions," Kobel said. See HEARING, Page 9A By Anna Clark and Yael Kohen Daily Staff Reporters The protesters barely noticed the white truck honking repeatedly as it tried to get through the crowd. Instead they chanted and clutched their homemade signs and posters close to their bodies as they focused on getting to the court- room on time. They marched yesterday afternoon through the streets of Ann Arbor before the start of a scheduled hear- ing in U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman's courtroom - where he heard two motions in the lawsuit challenging the University Law School's admissions practices. The protesters came from a vari- ety of backgrounds and places in their efforts to defend the very thing they say would bring diversi- ty to campus. They were black, white, Hispanic and Asian, young and old and many weren't even University students. And the protests lasted for hours. Before the protest even moved to the courthouse, affirmative action supporters, bundled in warm coats in the frigid April afternoon air, -,chanted "Blacks, Latinos and Asians and whites: United for equality, we will fight." Protesters crowded outside the Fleming Administration Building to meet with University President Lee Bollinger and Provost Nancy Cantor to present a petition demanding that the University "reverse the drop in minority enrollment." "Match your deeds with your words," LSA sophomore Erika Dowdell said as she took the thick stack of loose papers out of a card- board box to present the signed peti- tion. Cheers swelled as Bollinger See PROTESTERS, Page 8A Studen ts to Outcome By Michael Grass Daily News Editor The visitor's gallery in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dis- trict of Michigan in Ann Arbor rarely fills to capacity. With the eight audience benches packed with stu- dents waiting to listen to a hearing for the lawsuit challenging the admissions process of the University Law School, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman made more room - in the jury box. See STUDENTS, Page 8A DAVID) KATZ/Daily David Herr and Terry Morgan, attorneys representing the Center for Individual Rights in Its suit against the University, walk into the Ann Arbor Federal Building yesterday. Holistic treatment offers alternatives ZBT may soon face additional hazing charges By Caitlin Nish Daily Staff Reporter By Shabnamt Daneshvar Daily Staff Reporter Building the bridge between tradi- tional medicine and alternative or holistic therapy is quickly becoming a level of understanding that many health care prac- titioners are racing to reach. Christa Glaza, coor- dinator of the Alternative Alternative F' -Third part se popula CO h ver mnedico Health Care the Ann Arbor area, said the relation- ship between medical physicians and holistic therapists has been one of mutual interest and respect. "Both have a lot to Medicine learn from each other," Glaza said. "Each takes in a three- a different approach to ries about problems - alternative r and non- therapy takes a more ntional holistic and preventa- d techniques tive look at the body while Western medicine has a more symptomatic way of treat- Alliance, an organization comprised of 18 alternative health care providers in ment and each has their own bene- See MEDICINE, Page 2A Leonardo Stoute, owner of Natural Healing on Maynard Street, prepares a mixture for aromatherapy. TEC passes first student hazing policy The Greek Activities Review Panel, the judicial branch of the Interfraternity Council, is continuing its investigation into an alleged hazing incident within the University chap- ter of the now-suspended Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. ZBT was suspended after three independent informants, none of whom knew each other, contacted IFC officials with information about the hazing incident. "Upon evaluating the information from the individual sources, we determined there were grounds for issuing an immediate temporary suspension of the chapter, pending completion of a formalGARP investigation," IFC Execu- tive Vice President Marc Hustvedt said. Two anonymous sources from within the Greek commu- nity said last night that the hazing incident involves an active ZBT member who allegedly sprayed cleaning sup- plies, including bleach, on two of the chapter's winter pledge class members at the end of last month. The sources said the two pledges were ordered to the active member's room in Mary Markley Residence Hall, where they were told to clean the bathroom of the active member's room. By Caitlin Nish Daily Staff Reporter Following the lead of the Panhellenic Asso- ciation, the lnterfraternity Council ratified one of the nation's first-ever student-written and student-enacted anti-hazing policies last night. Panhel unanimously ratified the policy Tuesday night. "Although the majority of the community feels it doesn't mean a lot to Panhel, I know we obviously support the policy 100 percent and we were very pleased with the effort put into the policy and plan to stand by it next of different places throughout the University," IFC Adviser John Mountz said during discus- sion by chapter presidents. "Certainly the most serious and most publicized events occurred within IFC organizations in the last months. We are the first to deal with this dramatically" The policy was ratified after the addition of