The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 4, 1999 - 7A Saint's bones visit E I JEREMY MENCIK/Daily Gurus Colvin, a junior at Eastern Michigan University, speaks about environmental issues in Angell Hall last night as part of Islamic Awareness Week. ISLAM Continued from Page 1A Stockwell Residence Hall from 2 to 3 p.m. Students also can visit MSA's Jeopardy board near the Fishbowl in Angell Hall through tomorrow. The purpose of the board is to edu- cate students about Islam and Muslims. Also morrow, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Angell Hall ud. C, Rami Nashashibi, a community activist from Chicago, will be speaking at an event titled "Confronting Poverty: An Islamic Perspective." "We want to gain exposure on campus," Bengali said. "We want people to see what we do in prayer." LSA first-year student Sameer Hossain attended last night's presentation with expecta- tions that the event would also "improve non- i4uslims' understanding of what we do through- out the year" "We want others to be aware of what we do, which includes praying five times each day," Hossain said. Efforts to increase awareness extend beyond this week's events. Colvin said that Islam is a religion that is available to all people, not only Muslims. "Islam is a social religion that facili- tates a social purpose," he said. The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services has also been active in cre- ating awareness of environmental issues throughout the local Muslim community. Public Health student Monazzah Akbar said, "We want to inform communities of Muslims of what's happening to the environment in the world." The students' efforts have focused on assist- ing Muslim communities in the Dearborn area by educating families about environmental haz- ards, Akbar said. The goal of Islam Awareness Week is "to inform people of what we believe and hope that they become more interested," Bengali said. ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) - Thousands Italy, Brazi gathered yesterday here to view the sacred YesterdaN bones of a French Carmelite nun called "the tures outsi saint for the next millennium" by Pope John for the cho Paul 11. plexiglasss The relics of St. Therese of Lisieux were on "When's display for 16 hours at a parish named in her channels o honor - the National Shrine of the Little Monsignor Flower. Shrine. The relics, encased in a box of jacaranda Busloads wood and gilded silver, are on a world tour that Canada, Pe included a Kent County stop Tuesday at a Shrine, wh Carmelite monastery in Parnell. the nation' The relics are scheduled to visit the memory of Carmelite Monastery in Terre Haute, Ind., sis in 1897 today. Tom Ry; St. Therese's relics, which are traveling parish. His across the country through Jan. 28, already opened afte have drawn huge crowds in Russia, Austria, "What sI Rep. warns of need to reform SocialeCurit WASHINGTON (AP) - A Michigan representative warned yesterday that Social Security must be fixed now or Americans will need to pay another S120 trillion in the next 75 years to maintain the troubled retirement system. "We need to make up S120 trillion more ... to pay benefits over the next 75 years ... if we don't step up and change this program," Rep. Nick Smith (R-Addison) said at a Capitol Hill news conference with several other House lawmakers to introduce his bill to overhaul Social Security. Congress and President Clinton have been unable to agree on how to overhaul the politically sensitive program. And with the presidential and congressional elections only a year away, there have been dwindling signs of progress on any initiative to fix Social Security. Republican House leaders said they viewed Smith's bill as a way to help galvanize discussion about the issue during the election year and start the debate about how to best fix the program. "We can't do it in Congress alone, we understand that. But we can make a beginning. We can introduce the ideas," said Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas) the House Majority Leader. In the past five years, Smith has introduced several bills to keep Social Security solvent, one of his top legislative pri- orities. He recently was chair of a House legislative task force on the issue. This time in refining his proposal further, he picked up support from seven cosponsors who include a Democrat, Rep. Charles Stenholm of Texas. Trustees predict that without changes, the fund will pay out more than it takes in by 2012 and go broke in 2029. The Social Security Administration says Smith's proposal will keep the retirement system solvent for at least 75 years. Smith's bill would allow workers to channel some of their payroll tax into worker retirement accounts invested in the stock market. Employees would have the option of having a personal retirement savings account to invest roughly half of the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax they pay on their salaries. Social Security was designed in 1935 as a pay-as-you-go system. In 1950, there were 17 workers per retiree to support it; today, there are only three. And the ratio will get worse as the Baby Boom generation starts to retire in 2010. The stock market traditionally has generated a much higher rate of return on long-term investment - about 7 percent. STUDY JAPANESE IN ToKYO!, The Waseda/Oregon Transnational Program, January 11- June 23, 2000, is a comparative US-Japan Societies study program that offers three levels of Japanese language instruction and thematic humanities/social science courses that mix US-based and regular Waseda students together in the classroom at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Scholarships up to $1,000 are available. For more information, contact: Waseda/Oregon Programs at (800) 82397938, info@opie.org, or www.opie.org. i and Argentina. y, people stood in freezing tempera- de the church for more than an hour ance to step inside and touch the surrounding the relics. the last time a saint was on all the of the I1 o'clock news?" asked William Easton, pastor of the s of Roman Catholics came from nnsylvania, Ohio and Illinois to the ich was founded in 1926 as one of 's first parishes dedicated to the fSt. Therese, who died oftuberculo- at age 24. an has been a lifelong part of the parents were members when it re- er a firein 1936. he did was bring inspiration and the iamesake evidence of that is how the public relates to her 100 vcar after her death;' Ryan said. St. Therese, also known as "the Little Flower of Jesus" because of her love of flowers, became known worldwide for her autobiogra- phy "Story of a Soul," that described her devo- tion to God. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1925. The late Mother Teresa of Calcutta took her name and said that she was inspired by her to serve the poor in India. At a morning Mass, a standing-room only crowd of more than 3,000 packed the Shrine. which was decorated with photographs of St. Therese in various stages of her life. Eight members of the Knights of Columbus carried the relics around the center of the sanc- tuary while people frantically reached out to touch the glass. ONLINE Continued from Page 1A community colleges throughout the state. Deborah White, MVU director of communi- cation and public relations, said students e olled in one of the colleges are eligible to t the whatever courses each of the 17 schools offers online. "This is just another way to help students learn," Hudson said. Derby said the flexibility of the courses is con- venient for her schedule. "Before the online cours- es were available, it was very difficult to take cusses, Derby said. But Derek Wallace, an EMU senior living in Kansas City, Mo. taking online classes, said the Itersity's online courses are not tailored for working students. "The assignments that they were asking for were too long and way to much for me to do," Wallace said. "I'll probably never do this again." Students interested in furthering their academic pursuits via the Internet can go the way of LSA senior Jennifer Ellison: She is taking African American Theater and Introduction to Women's Studies online through EMU. Sally Lindsley, the University's assistant direc- tor of undergraduate admissions in the College of Literature, Science and Arts, said online course credits from other schools transfer to the University like any other class may transfer. As long as the course is taught officially at a university, and the University offers an equiva- lent, a student can receive credit for an online course. 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