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Olint program creates new degree
The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 20, 1999 - 5A
Solemn streets
By Risa Berrin
Daily Staff Reporter
The College of Engineering and the College of
Pharmacy formally introduced their latest collab-
oration to a room filled with presidents of the
nation's largest pharmaceutical companies Friday
at the Michigan League.
The collaboration is a new master's degree pro-
ram - the Master of Engineering in
Pharmaceutical Engineering.
Nair Rodriguez, associate pharmaceutics pro-
fessor, said the timing of this jointly-administered
program was impacted by the University's new
partnership with Pharmaceutical company Parke-
Davis, which is moving its product development
group from New Jersey to Ann Arbor.
"Parke-Davis coming to town triggered us get-
ting together. The needs of Parke-Davis and other
pharmaceutical companies led to this opportuni-
s," he said. "Parke-Davis will be helping with
minding and research and with internship posi-
tions for students in this program."
Chemical engineering students interested in the
program will apply beginning the second semes-
ter of their junior year and pharmacy students
during the first semester of their first year in the
College of Pharmacy. Courses offered in the pro-
gram include process engineering in drug discov-
ery, novel gene and drug delivery systems and
"This joint program looks like it's going to fit
nicely both locally and nationally."
P - Roger Brummel
Parke-Davis Vice President
receptor biology and chemical signaling.
Parke-Davis Vice President of Pharmaceutical
Delivery David Pope said he plans to help
Rodriguez and chemical and biomedical engi-
neering Prof. Henry Wang with development of
the course.
"I need trained people in chemical and all
aspects of manufacturing," Pope said. "Most stu-
dents in pharmaceutics only have a doctorate in
the clinical area. What I need is people also
trained in the development of the forms and
processes of pharmaceutics."
Pope said the new Parke-Davis building is cur-
rently being built on the corner of Plymouth Road
and Huron Parkway, near North Campus, and
should be completed in 2001. He said 200 phar-
maceutical scientists will be relocating from New
Jersey to Ann Arbor.
Representatives from other pharmaceutical
companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb and
Pharmacia and Upjohn participated in the two-
day symposium of lectures and panel discussions.
Rodriguez said the reason for the symposium is to
bridge the gap between pharmaceutics and engineering.
"We want to discuss with academic representa-
tives and industry about where we start, what are
the needs out there," she said. "Then we can start
integrating both the academic and industrial per-
spective and bring that earlier to our students."
Parke-Davis Vice President Roger Brummel said he
thinks the new master's program is a fantastic move.
"We depend on good, solid training from acad-
emia," he said. "No one school ever trains a per-
son completely. We have to be better prepared.
This joint program looks like it's going to fit nice-
ly both locally and nationally."
Founded in 1876, the University's College of
Pharmacy was the first established at an U.S. pub-
lic university. The University first offered engi-
neering courses in 1853 and established the
nation's first program in chemical engineering in
1898.
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LANSING (AP) -- Michigan's
"bottle bill," which requires deposits
for beer and soft drink containers, can
be summed up with a series of cliches.
Leave well enough alone, say bot-
tlers and grocers who bristle at the idea
expanding the law to cover other
verages.
Make a good thing even better, say
backers who want to increase the
deposit and include water bottles and
fruit-juice containers among the return-
ables.
No news is good news, say a lot of
defenders who are wary about
changing the law, which everybody
agrees has cleaned up Michigan
roadsides.
Add to those feelings a Republican
administration and Legislature which
many environmentalists feel are cool to
expanding the law, and there's a recipe
for the status quo.
"-But a Boston consulting firm is
studying the issue and expected to
~release a report in January. They won't
discuss their work, but they are expect-
ed to evaluate the size of the deposit,
.whether to include other containers and
#ether to call for centralized recv-
cling centers as opposed to having
retailers handle the returnables.
"The hopes (of expanding the law)
are pretty slim," said David Dempsey
of the Michigan Environmental
Council, which supports including
other beverages under the deposit
requirement.
"We're not in a climate where envi-
ronmental laws have an easy time get-
g through the Legislature," he said.
very time you ask people if it makes
sense to cover soft drinks and not bot-
tled water, they say no. But there is no
clamor.'
Michigan voters adopted the bottle
bill, following a petition drive led by
the Michigan United Conservation
Clubs, in 1976. It requires a dime
deposit on beer and soft drink contain-
ers - and any carbonated beverage -
.da nickel if the container is refill-
Ie. It was later expanded to cover
wine coolers.
Michigan is one of 10 states with a
bottle deposit law.
With environmentalists making little
,headway in beefing up the law, the only
action now is a new $44,811 study
Michigan has funded with the Tellus
Institute of Boston to review the bottle
bill.
bif"Michigan's bottle bill is 23 years old
d it's a good time to look at it," said
'ark Coscarelli, an environmental spe-
cialist in the state Office of the Great
.Lakes, which awarded the contract. "1'd
guess this would inform the debate:'
Both sides have hopes for the study
-- environmentalists would like to
cover bottled water, fruit juices and
other containers and maybe raise the
deposit, while grocers generally sup-
port community recycling centers to
et the job off their backs.
There's a lot of special interest oppo-
sition to expanding the law, said Pat
Franklin, executive director of the
Container Recycling Institute of
Arlington, Va. But she said their is a
- trend toward more deposits.
jackets to scraps of torn paper.
"You made such an impact on me
when I first saw you two years ago," a fan
said to Steve Turre. "I wouldn't have
missed you for anything. I just wanted to
say thank you:
Although it was only revived six years
ago, the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz
Festival manages to draw some of the
most respected musicians to the grassy
field in the back of Gallup Park each year.
"Our mission is to present blues and
jazz in an appropriate setting. Listening
to this music is all about having a good
time, said Joe Tiboni, member of the
festival's Board of Directors and host of a
blues show on WEMU, Eastern
Michigan University's radio station.
"I think people take it for granted. The
atmosphere of the show is like nothing
you could find in a club or concert hall,'
Tiboni said. "This is something special,
something thrilling," he added.
While the music festival first sashayed
into Ann Arbor in 1972, as one of the
first of its kind in the nation, it lasted only
two years before being forced to close.
Money troubles, combined with the
City of Ann Arbor not reissuing the
Gallup Park permit after the festival left
it in "a bad situation" sent the show to
Windsor, Canada in 1974 where, Tiboni
said, it "crashed and burned."
"But the early shows were unbelievable
- they featured every artist that was or
would be major figures in the music world,"
Tiboni said. Billings for the 1972 and 1973
festivals included Ray Charles, Miles
Davis, Count Basic and Muddy Waters.
Peter Andrews, a force in creating the
first Ann Arbor festivals, "never let go of
the idea of resurrecting" the show. And,
after 18 years, Andrews teamed up with a
University student group called Eclipse
Jazz Series to create a non-profit corpo-
ration with the mission of making the
festival happen again, Tiboni said.
Backed by the new Prism Productions,
the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival
took over Gallup Park once again in
1992, headlining Reba McIntyre and Al
Green. Tiboni said a hallmark of the fes-
tival is making memories.
"I remember meeting Count Basie
myself," he said. "I remember introduc-
ing Charles Brown in 1993, even though
I lost my voice before the show."
The 1999 musicians have ties to the
festival as well. In a rather appropriate
circle, Muddy Waters' son, Big Bill
Morganfield swept the stage at the 1999
festival. Muddy Waters helped christen
the inaugural Ann Arbor festival.
"Ann Arbor has a long tradition of
major musicians. They keep coming here
because of city support and the reputa-
tion of our music festival," said Tiboni.
Ann Arbor ends up with the "best mix of
what people want to see."
What's next for the show? According
to Tiboni, everything from making the
concerts free to expanding into the night
to indoor shows have been considered.
Despite possible changes, one constant
will be the musicians' dedication.
"I wasn't a blues fan at first" Davis
said. "I always thought of it as 'Mama's
music.' But then I started living life.
Once you start living life, you can appre-
ciate the blues."
Jimmy Dillon told about how he got
his first guitar when his mom matched
the money he made after a summer of
mowing lawns. Since then, he says, he's
had fun experimenting with songs. "I'm
a songwriter first and a blues artist sec-
ond," he said.
Turre said his philosophy on music is
one others of his kind can relate to.
"I'm a musician," he said. "This is my
life. I'm here. I've got to play."
LANSING (AP) - State lawmakers
are ready to jump right into controver-
sial issues when they return to Lansing
this week after a three-month summer
break, with debate planned on abortion
and school strike restrictions.
House and Senate leaders resisted the
urge to call the Legislature back earlier
this month when Detroit Schools chief
David Adamany refused to fine striking
teachers. But House Speaker Chuck
Perricone (R-Kalamazoo Township)
said requiring the penalties will be one
of the first priorities for majority House
Republicans.
"Teachers should not be paid for days
that they are on the picket line and there
is broad support for that in the caucus,"
Perricone said.Under a state law passed
in 1994, teachers can be fined one day's
pay for each day they are on the picket
line. But the school district must first
officially . notify the Michigan
Employment Relations Commission of
the strike, a requirement Perricone and
Senate Majority Leader Dan DeGrow
(R-Port Huron) want to end.
"It's self-evident have problems. We
need to correct them," DeGrow said.
"The trigger puts superintendents in an
untenable position."
Perricone would not say exactly how
fines would be imposed under the legis-
lation. But he said he hoped the plan
would be introduced and debated in com-
mittee as early as this week.
House Democratic Leader Mike
Hanley of Saginaw said he doubts the
proposal will get much support from
members of his party, since Democrats
opposed the law outlawing teacher
strikes when it was passed in 1994. "The
Republican mentality on this is to punish
teachers like they are little children,"
Hanley said. "It's important that teachers
are motivated and want to be in the class-
room. To force them in there just creates
more fighting."
Also expected to be debated in the
House this week is a package of bills that
would require abortion clinics perform-
ing 50 more abortions a year to be
licensed and report any complications to
the state.
State lawmakers ready to
address abortion, strikes
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