2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 8, 1999 N ATION/W ORLD Dlag Scream n drawS CrOW d SCREAM IN Continued from Page 1 services; Trailblazers Club, a psy- cho-social rehabilitation group; University Counseling and Psychological Services; the Sexual Awareness and Prevention Center; University Psychological Clinic; and the Undergraduate Psychological Society made information readily available through pamphlets and fly- ers, and by answering the questions of passersby. Along with passing out pamphlets, screaming and reading related litera- ture, one student read from a long list of well-known people who suffered or suf- fer from a mental illness. The list included artists from Vincent Van Gogh to Beethoven to Earnest Hemingway, and some people, such as Abraham Lincoln and J.C. Penny, whose illnesses were not as publicized. The participants' message was clear: people with mental illness live through- out our communities. "I missed out on childhood. I missed out on being an adolescent. I wouldn't wish that on anyone," said Betsy Davies, a Mentality member. "Everyone has a mental health; it's something that people need to take care of It would make me really happy if(the Scream In) could help mental illness become a more discussible issue in our culture." Davies, along with other Mentality members and a few Ann Arbor resi- dents, read materials ranging from per- sonal poetry and essays to a Newsweek article in hopes of grabbing the atten- tion of stpdents walking by. It worked. Heads turned to look and listen to the stories dealing with clinical depression, bi-polar disorder, schizo- phrenia and suicide. One self-proclaimed preacher, vying for students' attention on the Diag, announced his opinions on mental illness while preaching his interpretation of the Christian faith during the Scream In. "Your so-called mental illnesses are a direct product of your habits of mastur- bation," said the preacher. Students participating in the Scream In commented on the preacher's demonstration, saying the ambiguities surrounding mental illness in society have to be eradicated through height- ened awareness of the issue. AROUND THE NATION House votes to expand health coverage WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled House approved a package of tax breaks Wednesday to help the uninsured afford health care coverage, overrid- ing complaints from Democrats that the plan would be financed out of surplus Social Security funds. The vote, 227-205 and largely along party lines, served as prelude to a clash yesterday over a White House-backed bill to strengthen patients' hands in dealin with their insurance companies. "The American people are concerned about th fact that they can't gain access to affordable health care," said Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.). He argued on behalf of a measure that GOP leadership said was essen- tial to help the estimated 44 million Americans who lack insurance. But Democrats contended the GOP bill would do little to solve that problem. "This bill does nothing except to help the insurance companies and the well-to-do and the healthy," said Rep. John Dingell of Michigan. He and other Democrats added it would rely on funds in the Social Security surplus to finance the tax breaks, a step that Republicans have promised not to take and that is the subject of a GOP advertising campaign. "There's nothing in this bill that invades the Social Security trust fund," and that was certified by the Congressional Budget Office, retorted Rep. Bill Archer ( Texas) chair of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. RELIGION Continued from Page 1 Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, Alter's father, who works at the Chabad House with his son, said students do not have to follow a traditional route to spiritual leader- ship. "A number of-our (University) alumni are rabbis," Aharon Goldstein said, referring to the fact that many students do not enter college planning to become rabbis but discover this path later. In some religions, students do not have many for- mal opportunities for religious leadership. Anthony King, member of the Jewel Heart Tibetan Cultural and Buddhist Center, said Buddhism does not offer any large scale centers for professional preparation. "As a career goal, there is no infrastructure for spir- itual leadership in America today," King said, adding, however, that he anticipates an increase in Buddhist spiritual leaders from the United States during the next 15 to 20 years. Buddhist leadership teaching programs, although there are relatively few, are available for students looking to grow in their spiritual expertise. Haju Murray, resident priest of Zen Buddhist Temple, located on 1214 Packard Rd., said the temple offers a seminary for those interested in becoming teachers of the faith. Haju said the program takes three to five years to complete. She said students in the past have decided not to finish their studies, but the "effect" on their "lives will go on forever." For some students, it is a circle of support that has eased their worries about devoting themselves to their faith. Engineering senior Alem Yacob said he is thinking about studying at a seminary and his involvement with Campus Crusade for Christ has helped ease the anxiety involved with this life- altering decision. "Going into something like this is not exactly the cultural norm and it's encouraging to have people doing it or thinking about it," Yacob said. NIKE Continued from Page 1 labor groups, he said. Now that Nike has disclosed the fac- tory information for factories that man- ufacture apparel for some schools, Wheatley said other colleges and uni- versities should demand the same. "This opens things up for other uni- versities," he said. Nike critic Charles Kernaghan, exec- utive director of the National Labor Committee, said other companies should follow Nike's lead. "This is a good first step for Nike and if they can do it, why not Wal-Mart, Kathie Lee (Gifford), Liz Claiborne, Disney and the Gap ... what are they trying to hide?" Kernaghan asked. According to the disclosed informa- tion, Nike uses 38 factories in the United States and abroad to produce University apparel. Twenty-two of those factories are locat- ed in Bangladesh, China, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The remaining 16 factories are locat- ed in the United States in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina and Virginia. Pestridge said a common misconcep- tion is that a large number of its facto- ries are located in the United States, \p e adding that about 45 percent of goods for Nike's domestic market are manu- factured in the United States. "But we must realize that Nike is only one company" Ballinger said, adding that there is a lot of work ahead to have all apparel companies release their factory information. $3 billion offered to Holocaust survivors WASHINGTON - Germany offered yesterday to pay S3.3 billion to former slave laborers and other victims of the Nazi regime, calling the figure "a considerable amount" given the country's budget problems. Survivors said they'd fight for more. "It's an insult,' Rudy Kennedy of London, whose mother, sister and father were killed in the Holocaust, said outside the State Department. "The world will judge the morality of this offer and ... will condemn it," said Mel Weiss, an attorney for some survivors. Yesterday's offer came on the closing day of a multinational meeting aimed at working out compensation for an esti- mated I million to 2.4 million people who worked in forced or slave labor camps to the benefit of Adolf Hitler's war machine - as well as a number of other types of victims of the Nazi period. It is the first time in months of talks, that a compensation figure has been put on the table. German envoy Otto Lambsdorff, who presented Germany's joint govern- ment and industry offer, said a founda- tion would be set up to administer the funds. About a third of.the money is from government and two-thirds from German industry, negotiators said. Real estate tycoon to run for president WASHINGTON -- Real estate tycoon Donald Trump announced yester- day that he was forming an exploratory committee to help him determine if he could win a presidential race as a Reform Party candidate. He said his first choice for vice pres- ident would be Oprah Winfrey. 19 "The only thing that could interest me is if I could win. I'm not talking about the nomination, I'm talking about the whole megillah," he said in a telephone interview from New York, where he plans to build the world's tallest residential building and where he lives in a marbled penthouse in a Fifth Avenue tower bearing his name. AROUND THE WORLD ! ryMY :gib Gandhi's party loses Indian election NEW DELHI, India - India's ruling coalition handed Sonia Gandhi's party its worst defeat yes- terday, winning election on promis- es to widen economic reforms and revive peace efforts with Pakistan. The comfortable majority of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 22- party alliance will give him more con- trol over the coalition and may allow him to govern for a full five-year term, which the last four governments failed to do. His last government collapsed in April when he lost a confidence motion in parliament by a single vote when one party defected. Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he hoped Vajpayee would move quickly to solve ten- sions between the two countries, which have fought three wars and now have nuclear-weapons capabili- ty. With winners declared for 523 of the 543 elected seats, Vajpayce's alliance had won 288, while Congress and its allies trailed at 130. "We accept unhesitatingly the ver- dict of the people," Mrs. Gandhi said a statement. "The result calls for intro- spection, frank assessment and deter- mined action." Japan worries about nuclear spill effects TOKYO - As the investigation con- tinues into Japan's worst nuclear acci- dent the government and environme@ tal activists are increasingly concerned that it may have been more serious and affected more people than initially reported. 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