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Bard celebrated
in art exhibit,
panel discussion
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
Special Collections will sponsor a
panel discussion entitled "The Look
,,of Shakespeare's History Plays,"
tomorrow at 8 p.m.
The panel will include regional the-
ater design experts on designing pro-
ductions of Shakespeare's plays.
The experts include Wisconsin State
University Theater Dept. Chair Blake
Anderson, University Theater Prof.
Nephelie Andonyadis, Stratford Festival
designer Dany Lyne and Jeannette Lam-
bermont, who has directed at Stratford.
The free discussion is in conjunc-
tion with the library's current exhibit
on Shakespeare's plays.
Library dean to
discuss letters of
Geddes family
The Washtenaw County Historical
Society will hold a discussion titled,
, "he John Geddes Papers, 1825-
1844: Ann Arbor Pioneer and Local
Historian," Sunday at 2 p.m.
University Library Science Dean
Emeritus Russell Bidlack will discuss a
cache of letters he recently purchased
ithat were written by John Geddes and
other members of the Geddes family.
This free event is at the University
Bentley Historical Library at 1150
Beal Ave. on North Campus.
* Biochem prof. to
cover discovery
through research
Biological Chemistry Prof. Gary
Glick will speak on "Research and Dis-
covery at the Interface of Chemistry,
Biology and Medicine" tomorrow at
4:10 p.m.
This free event is in the fourth floor
of Rackham Amphitheater.
Biblical lineage
topic of lecture
The University Center for Judaic
Studies will hold a lecture entitled
"Understanding Biblical Genealogies"
Wednesday at noon.
Bar Ilan University (Israel) Jewish
history professor Aaron Demsky will
speak.
Demsky will also discuss "What is
Holy about the Holy Land? Jewish
and Christian Perspectives." at 4 p.m.
Both events are free and will be in
3040 Frieze.
Trio of writers to
visit Shaman
*Drum Bookshop
American writers Ron Padgett,
Eliot Weinberger and Clayton Eshle-
man will read Sunday at Shaman
Drum Bookshop at 8 p.m.
Padgett, known for his intellectual
vigor and daring, is a member of the
so-called New York School that
includes John Ashberry and Kenneth
Koch. Padgett recently released his
"New and Selected Poems."
Weinberger, who translates Octavio
Paz's poetry and Jorge Luis Borges's
4ssays, is known as a literary and cul-

tiiral essayist who has given nonfic-
tion prose with density,
suggestiveness and freedom usually
found in purely imaginative literature.
Weinberger's new book, "Karmic
Traces' is a collection of essays about
the transmission of culture through
time and space.
* Eshleman, the editor of the literary
journal, Sulfur, is an Eastern Michigan
dJjiversity English professor who uses
.a language that Weinberger says is
"dense, gluey, wildly veering from the
oracular to the burlesque, strewn with
neologisms and weird bits of American
speech."
The poems in Eshleman's latest col-
lection, "From Scratch," range from
explorations of the Paleolithic imagina-
tion revealed in cave art to imaginary
dialogues with twentieth century artists
to poems about contemporary topics.
Padgett and Weinberger will also
read at Eastern Michigan University
next Monday night.
At this free event, there will be
signings.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Whitney Elliott.

Monkey business

Attorney continues to
spar with federal judge

By Jon Fish
Daily Staff Reporter

DETROIT - Friday's proceedings in the trial challenging
the Law School admission policies became heated when U.S.
District Judge Bernard Friedman expressed reservations
about one of the intervening defendant witnesses.
Friedman asked whether David White could be consid-
ered as an expert in testing bias because he has no formal
training in areas Friedman considered to be related to test-
ing bias, such as psychology and education.
Miranda Massie, lead counsel for the intervenors, objected
to what she construed as Friedman not taking her witness
seriously.

"You're being completely
unfair," she told the judge.
Friedman took exception,
telling Massie, "Please don't
yell at me. Throughout this trial
you've treated me as the enemy.
I'm doing everything I possibly
can for all sides. I have a duty

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and that duty is to follow the rules. It's not personal to your
case or to you. And if you believe that my rulings are person-
al, you're absolutely wrong."
As the rest of the courtroom fell silent, Massie apolo-
gized to Friedman but reiterated that White's testimony was
crucial to the intervenors' case. White was allowed to testi-
fy and admitted as an expert on testing bias only.
White is the director of Testing for the Public, a California
company that helps prepare minority students for the LSAT,
GRE and GMAT. White testified students of different ethnici-
ties with similar grade point averages still had a large gap
between test scores. Specifically, he reported that black stu-
dents score about nine points lower than the white students
when they both have the same grade point averages.
The following day, the Center for Individual Rights
worked to bolster its case by recalling statistician Kinley
Larntz to rebut criticism of his analysis on the extent to
which race is a factor in admissions.
The court held a special Saturday session to accommo-
date Larntz, a professor at the University of Minnesota.
Larntz had sought to quantify the role race plays in
admissions decisions by comparing applicants with similar
undergraduate grade point averages and Law School
Admissions Test scores.

VI you believe that my
rulings are personal, you are
absolutely wrong."
- Bernard Friedman
U.S. district judge
In his testimony, Larntz repeated his earlier testimony
that "there's a tremendously large allowance given to race"
and his analysis is sound.
On cross examination University lawyers challenged
Larntz's methodology, saying he had excluded a large
amount of data in his analysis.
Larntz replied that he had excluded this data because it
"provided no comparative data.'
But University lawyers continued to assert that Larntz's
findings do not accurately reflect the way admissions deci-
sions are made.
University Deputy General Counsel Liz Barry called
Larntz's analysis "egregiously misleading."
"He made a deliberate choice to base his analysis on
something that is clearly not the way we make admissions
decisions," she said after his testimony on Saturday.
In other developments Friday, Eugene Garcia, education
dean at the University of California's Berkeley campus, tes-
tified on the effects of the elimination of affirmative action
in public schools in California.
Garcia, who is also on the admissions board at Berkeley,
said he and his colleagues "do everything we can" but have
not been able to raise minority enrollment rates to the levels
they were before Prop. 209, the voter initiative that ended
affirmative action in California.
But lawyers from the Center for Individual Rights.
attempted to demonstrate that Prop. 209 has had positive.
effects for some of the schools in the University of Califor-
nia system, such as the Riverside campus.
Garcia answered that increased diversity at one or twdc
campuses was not worth such a loss of diversity at the othet
schools. Furthermore, he said, what this does is create
two-tiered University of California system, where minoriy
ties are the majority at the "lower tier" schools but not ai
UC-Berkeley or UCLA, the two premier institutions in the
system.

By Maria Sprow
Daily Staff Reporter

Since he was born, John Decker, a
student at Monroe County Community
College, has suffered from Wiskott-
Aldrich Syndrome, a rare genetic dis-
ease which attacks the immune system
and causes a low white blood cell count.
The syndrome requires a bone marrow
transplant, and after contracting another
illness two years ago, Decker's need for
a transplant became immediate.
As part of Decker's search for a
donor, a bone marrow drive is being
held in the Michigan Union on Thurs-
day from 11- 6 p.m. '
While most bone marrow donations
come from family members, Decker's
family has been unable to provide a
match. However, his brother Josh, also
diagnosed with the disease, received a
successful bone marrow transplant in
1999. The success prompted his family
to start "Take a Test, Save a Life," in the
attempt to find John a match.
According to the National Bone Mar-
row Program, the chances of finding a
match from a stranger are one in
20,000, but the family is determined not
to give up hope.
However, Decker's unique genetic
make-up has made the search next to
impossible. Out of over 4 million people
registered with the National Bone Mar-
row Program, not one is a match. The
phenotype - the physical expression of
the genes he inherited from his parents
- of his HLA genes is extremely rare.
The HLA gene is similar to one's blood
type because in order for a bone mar-
row transplant to be successful, the
donor and the recipient must have the
same HLA gene
His mother, Donna, remains opti-
mistic despite his unique gene type. "He
can't be the only person out there walk-
ing around with it," she said.
A bone marrow drive consists of test-
ing and analyzing someone's blood. If
there is a match, a small sample of the
donor's bone marrow is removed with a
needle from the top of the hip bone. The
process takes only a couple of minutes

and is painless, and donors are released
after a day.
According to the Bone Marrow
Foundation, more than 50,000 blood
and bone marrow transplants are done
each year.
The bone marrow drive isn't the only,
way the University is reaching out to
surrounding communities this coming
week.
Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service
fraternity, and Blood Drives United, are
organizing a series of spring blood dri-
ves around campus. The drives act as a
sequel to the fall Blood Battle, which
the two groups also sponsored.
Sean Meyers, co-chair of Blood Dri-
ves United, said the blood supply in
Southeastern Michigan is at "record
lows."
"There's been an emergency appeal
for the last month," said American Red
Cross spokeswoman Amy Neale. Neale
said that while this year's Martin Luther
King Day blood rally generated a lot of
blood, the supply has been used up.
Southeastern Michigan uses about 700
pints of blood every day.
Fear is often a reason people hesitate
to donate blood.
"A lot of people have never tried, so
they are just scared of doing it. Once
they've tried, they find it's not so bad,"
said Meyers, an Engineering sopho-
more.
For each student who does give
blood, Neale said it can go a long way.
"A pint of blood can save three per-
son's lives. It's really pretty remarkable
if you think about it," she said.
Not everyone who wants to can give
blood. Tattoos, fevers and low blood
iron levels are the top reasons students
are turned away.
The blood drives are being held at
residence halls throughout the week.
The first drive is today at Stockwell
Residence Hall from noon to 6 p.m.
Students giving blood should
expect the process to take an hour.
Students hoping to get in and get
out quickly can set up an appoint-
ment on the Internet by going to
www.redcross.org.

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Granhoim
LANSING (AP) -- For several
years, Jennifer Granholm watched,
frustrated, as Internet coipanies
secretly gathered personal information
from unsuspecting web surfers.
There were simply no state or federal
laws to hinder what Granholm, Michi-
gan's state attorney general, considered
objectionable commercial behavior.
Now, she is one of a growing number
of attorneys general taking on Internet

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targets onli
companies directly. Their mission is to
curb the surreptitious use of Internet
cookies - files that collect information,
usually for advertisers, after being
uploaded to a user's computer.
Over the past year, Granholm has
threatened lawsuits against Dou-
bleclick.com, a major Internet ad
firm, and 13. companies that she said
were collecting information without
telling users - among them Stock-

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ne privay
point Inc., Intimate Friends Networ,
Ortho Biotech Products anti
Esurance.
"The problem for us is that people
have not been informed," saiI
Granholm, a 41-year-old Democrat
whose first act after her 1998 election
was to form a high-tech crime unit.
"Most people are opposed to regulating
the Internet. But people have the right to
their own personal information."

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