2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 1, 1999 NATION/WORLD STD Continued from Page 1 students are taught about STDs at a young age, they are prob- ably not paying close attention to the information. "The best place to educate students is in school, but some- times kids do not listen to and respect the person that is teach- ing," she said. On its Website, CDC states that adolescents, 10- to 19- year-olds and young adults, 20- to 24-year-olds, are at higher risk for acquiring STDs for a number of reasons: higher like- lihood of having multiple sexual partners, engaging in unpro- tected intercourse and choosing partners at higher risk. CDC also notes that premarital sexual intercourse has increased due to the fact that young adults are having sex at an earlier age and getting married at a later age. According to the Michigan Department of Community Health Website, 912 cases of chlamydia were reported in Washtenaw County in1998. In addition, 288 cases of gonor- rhea and three cases of primary and secondary syphilis were reported last year. Miller said that well-known synmptoms are discharge and burning unation in men and a change in discharge in women. Gonorrhea and syphilis, both bacterial STDs that can be cured by antibiotics, are most prevalent among young adults. Among men, 20- to 24-year-olds have the highest rate of gon- orrhea and third highest rate of primary and secondary syphilis, according to CDC. Among women, 15- to 19-year- olds had the highest rate of gonorrhea and 20- to 24-year-olds had the highest rate of primary and secondary syphilis. STDs do not only affect men and women but their off- spring as well. Death of the fetus or infant occurs in up to 40 percent of women with untreated syphilis. Adam Callen, a salesperson at the Safe Sex Store on South University Avenue, said that young adults are more sexually aware, but there are still myths circulating. "I've heard guys say that they can tell if a girl has a disease by looking at her"'Callen said. "Guys sometimes figure that if a girl is on the pill, he doesn't need a condom," Miller said that more education and early detection is the key to combating the diseases. "Everybody thinks it's never going to happen to them," he said. "We must educate early and often." REGISTRAR'S BULLETIN BOARD TERM GRADE REPORTS Effective, Fall Term 1999, term grade reports will no longer be mailed to students. Students may hear their grades on touch-tone (998-1645), view their grades on Wolverine Access, or order a transcript or academic report. Any student, who needs a copy of their term grades, with their name on it, may request one at a Student Service Site (Student Services Site G255 Angell Hall or 1212 Pierpont Commons). A picture ID is needed at a Student Services Site. 9 We also offer Bindin etate & vinyl covers for a sma ll a dditionoaliage Dollar Dill1 611 Church Sireot Ann Arbor, Ml 48104 (134) 665-9200* (fox) 930.2800 Pixie Anne Pennwright Spokescritic - Closet Headbanger - Dirty Dancer ENROLLMENT Continued from Page 1 The number of Asian American and white students increased slightly from 1998 to this year, with Asian American enrollment up 2.9 percent and white enrollment up 0.8 percent. White students comprise the major- ity of the student body with 22,235 students - almost 59 percent of the total student population. The figures were gathered from official student counts taken after the third week of fall semester classes. But some figures may not be as pre- cise since 2,240 students - about six percent of the total student population - fall into the "unknown" category. This category is comprised of students who are multi-racial or those who chose notto identify themselves with a specific ethnicity. Many on campus believe there is a correlation between the drop of under- represented minorities on campus with the two lawsuits challenging the University's use of race as a factor in admissions. The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Individual Rights filed the suits in 1997 on behalf of three white applicants who believe they were unfairly evaluated under the University's College of Literature, Science and the Arts and Law School admissions policies. Friday marks the second anniver- sary of the filing of the Law School suit. "The decrease of minority enroll- ment is directly connected to the attack on affirmative action," said Dowdell, who is an intervening defen- dant in the Law School case. Lester Monts, associate provost for academic affairs, said he believes the lawsuits and other factors contribute to the decreasing numbers of minori- ties on campus. "Students may not want to come to a .university that is under threat," Monts said.' The lower amount of available financial aid, plus the fact that Michigan is a difficult school to be accepted to, Monts said, are other con- tributing factors to falling underrepre- sented minority numbers on campus. Monts said the University needs to continue its efforts to reach out to underrepresented minorities on cam- pus. "Our task to expand our outreach," Monts said. Some students on campus believe the University isn't doing enough to attract students from underrepresented minority groups. "If the University would do more outreach, then we would see a lot more students from minority commu- nities apply," Dowdell said. LSA junior Jacqueline Pilette, co- chair of the Native American Student Association, said while the University concentrates its outreach in some communities others are ignored. "We don't see the University recruiting enough from Native American communities," Pilette said. But Monts said numbers often cre- ate certain perceptions and the quality of the student body is often forgotten. "We also need to take a look at the quality of the class," Monts said. "We have a group of highly qualified, high- ly motivated young scholars," SURVEY ContInued from Page 1 LSA first-year student Dan Barrera said he received the e-mail inviting him to participate in the survey and plans to complete it soon. B~arrera said the opportunity to voice his opinion motivates him to participate in the survey. "I want to make sure it stays and the only way to make sure it will is to speak up," Barrera said. The survey is being sponsored by the department of communication studies, a School of Business Research Grant and the Institute for Social Research. Bagozzi said funding is also being requested from the Division of Research. Bagozzi said once the staff from the Institute of Social Research stops col- lecting the data, preliminary results will be ready within weeks. Bagozzi hopes to have them released by February. ORANGE Continued from Page 1 "Michigan brings a tremendous foot- ball tradition to our game," Keith Tribble, executive director of the Orange Bowl Committee, said in a released statement. Michigan received a BCS at-large berth to qualify for the Orange Bowl, one of four BCS bowl games. Michigan's only other Orange Bowl appearance was in 1976, the first year Big Ten teams went to bowls besides the Rose Bowl. The Wolverines lost to Oklahoma. 14-6. basal ganglia. Oil giants move to complete merger WASHINGTON - Exxon and Mobil moved swiftly yesterday to con- clude their $8I billion merger after fed- eral regulators cleared the way - with conditions -- for the deal creating the world's largest privately held oil com- pany. The merger reunites two of the biggest remnants of the 1911 govern- ment breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire. Company officials said they would comply with government requirements. that the new oil giant sell 2,431 of its nearly 16,000 gas stations, specifically those in the Northeast, Texas and California, as well as a refinery and other assets. "This settlament should preserve competition and protect consumers from inappropriate and anticompeti- tive price increases," said Federal Trade Commission Chair Robert Pitofsky. "Exxon and Mobil have accepted terms and conditions specified by the FTC and will comply fully and in a timely manner," Exxon Chair Lee Raymond said in a statement .only hours after the FTC gave its condition- al approval to the deal, concluding yearlong review. Clinton to skip canal hand-over ceremony WASHINGTON - President Clinton expressed confidence yester- day that the government of Panama will keep the Panama Canal open to all shipping when it assumes control of the waterway at the end of the month. 8 he decided to skip the formal hand-ov ceremony, sending former President Carter in his place. Talking to reporters before embark- ing on a trip to California, Clinton sought to finesse the end of U.S. own- ership of a canal that American engi- neers built 88 years ago. He said he supports the hand-over but emphasized that Carter's administration negotiated the deal in 1977. AROUND THE NATiON Gulf War illness linked to brain damage CHICAGO - Brain scans of soldiers who believe they suffer from Gulf War ill- ness suggest they have brain damage, possibly from chemicals they were exposed to during the conflict, researchers reported yesterday. The researchers said veterans who report symptoms of the illness had lower levels of a certain brain chemical than healthy veterans of the 19 conflict. "This is the first time ever we have proof of brain damage in sick Gulf War vet- erans," said the lead researcher, James Fleckenstein, professor of radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "They can be believed -they're not malingering, they're not depressed, they're not stressed. There's a hope for treatment and there's hope for being able to moni- tor the progress of the disease," A Pentagon spokesperson, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, said he looked forward to examining the research. "I hope he's right" that chemical exposure is the answer, Quigley said, "We need to take a look at it." The researchers reported that magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which measures body chemistry, revealed that veterans who believe they have the illness haO lower-than-normal levels of a chemical, N-acetyl-aspartate, in the brain stem an AROUND THE WORLD t\. 0 Mexican mass graves could hold 300 MEXICO CITY - Police and sol- diers are preparing to exhume 100 to 300 bodies from two mass graves near the Mexican border city of Juarez believed to contain -the remains of victims of a -notorious drug cartel, law enforcement offi- cials said Monday. At least a dozen U.S. citizens are believed to be among the victims, who include former' informants for the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, said U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. If the mass graves do yield so many victims, it would be by far the most dramatic evidence yet of the heights to which the drug-trafficking violence that has ravaged cities and towns across Mexico in recent years has soared. The grave sites, on two remote ranches south of Juarez across the U.S. border from El Paso, were brought to the attention of U.S. law enforcement officials just three days ago. Since then, an FBI task force of forensic experts who helped exhui mass graves in Bosnia-Herzcgovi has been working with Mexican armor officials to plan the recovery of the bodies. Russians charge U.S. diplomat with spying MOSCOW - Russian security offi- cials said yesterday they had caught U.S. diplomat red-handed trying to obta military secrets, hours after the Pentagon announced charges against an American accused of passing secrets to Russia. The FSB, Russia's internal security service, released a black-and-white photograph of Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary at the U.S. Embassy, here, and showed pictures of the high- tech espionage gadgets she allegedly had with her when she was caught Monday night. - Compiled fior Daily wire reports. Tamper-proof tunes shatter like eggshells in the blazing glow of the turquoise dew... A The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term. starting in September, via U.S, mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105. yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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