kc + __ATE The Michigan Day - Tuesday, March 27, 2001- 3 ' "' yF x . j G. .. ., Ios Student reports prof. for assault after sneezing A University student claimed that he was assaulted by a professor in the .G. Brown Building on Thursday, cording to Department of Public Safety reports. The student reported that he sneezed on the professor and then the professor grabbed him by the shoulder and threatened to kick him out of the University for spitting. Money stolen from snack bar DPS was notified Thursday after- on that $185 was stolen from a cash gister at the snack bar in South "Quad. The theft occurred sometime between March 16 and March 19. Minors cited for alcohol possession A DPS unit responding to a noise complaint at Mary Markley Residence all early Friday morning discovered ~ht underage subjects drinking, DPS reports state. The subjects were arrest- ed for being minors in possession of alcohol and issued court dates. DPS also issued a citation to a minor in pos- session at East Quad Residence Hall on Friday morning. Brick thrown through window DPS officers arrested a subject for rowing a brick through the front window of Couzens Residence Hall early Friday morning, reports state. The subject, who was intoxicated, also smashed two car windows. Pizza sign stolen from delivery man A driver from Pizza House restau- *nt notified DPS early Saturday morning that his delivery sign was stolen from the top of his vehicle. Reports said the driver stated the sus- pect, who was a white male wearing a white t-shirt and tan pants, stole the sign and then ran into West Quad Resi- dence Hall. Bag of clothes tolen at library DPS reports state a female's bag of clothing was stolen from the Shapiro Undergraduate Library early Saturday morning. The subject told DPS she had a suspect in view who was holding a bag full of things other than books. Officers made contact with the sus- pect, but the stolen items were not located. By Louie Meizlish Daily Staff Reporter Prof. Stefan SzaCol- lege Management Shool in London presented evidence yesterday of a correlaion beteen race and income of players m the Euish hot- ball League and the National ockey League Szymanski began his lecure. tled "Market Tests for Discriminatin: Edence from Eng lish Soccer and the NHUiL" by decribing the composition of the Eng-lish Foobal Leae. The league contains 92 teams diided equaly among four divisions. The top division is known as the Premier I.eage, the second- most prominent division is known as the hirst Division.The top three ra""cams in any division move up to the next sion bile the three lowest ranked teams move down a divi- sion. The data released from these teams, Szyrnan- ski sid, shows that the more money a team speids the higher its performance is. "Ninety perr.ent of performance can be explamed by expenditures," he said. f tene compares a team's performance - determned by its ranking - and its total expens es, compared to the average expenses of all teams, teams spending more generally do better. Teams that are above the regression line on the giaph get better performance per dollar. The beauty of his study, Szymanski said, was that he does not "need earnings information e craer" to support his claims. It can be inf-rred, he said, that teams having high proportions of black players that do better than their expenditures would suggest the team may have discriminatory practices. But studying discrimination in North Ameri- carn sports can be different, Szymanski said. "Ninety percent of performance can be explained by - Stefan Szymanski Professor, Imperial College Management School "Wage expenditures in North American sports do not indicate success as much as in Great Britain," he said. Szymanski said he hopes to study discrimination in Italian soccer, where racism towards minority players runs rampant in stadiums, he said, with blacks the frequent targets of racial epithets. The state of tolerance in Italy, he said, was as low as that of Great Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, which he said has considerably improved since then. Szymanski said studies of discrimination in industries other than sports can be done although in industries such as the automotive, "success" is harder to define. Szymanski's lecture was part of the School of Kinesiology's Seminar Series. He is a candidate for the scol's sport finance faculty position. The next seminar is scheduled for April 9. Coe Colege Economics Prof. David J. Berri will present "Are the Sports Media Color- Blind?" at 2:30 p.m. All presentations are open to the public and will take place at Bickner Auditorium in the Kinesiology Building. I- - , Senate up-date n~ ,ua s".ay r# a ses « ; By Whitney Elliott Daily Staff Reporter University General Counsel Marvin Krislov and Deputy General Counsel Liz Barry met with the Senate Assembly yesterday to discuss the affirma- tive action lawsuits against the University, com- mending their team of researchers and the student interveners. Krislov told the assembly thatthe University is still waiting for U.S. District Judge Bernard Fried- man's decision in the lawsuit against the University Law School's race conscious admissions policy. During the trial, Krislov said, the defense used "valuable research" regarding diversity in higher education, much of which was compiled by Univer- sity professors. He said that out of the four cases currently in American courts regarding "race permissible poli- cy" - the Smith case affecting the University of Washington Law School, the Hopwood case affect- ing the University of Texas Law School, the case at the University of Georgia and the case at the Uni- versity of Michigan - the University's case uses the research done on educational diversity most effectively. "Ours is the first case to really comprehensively present all the benefits of diversity," Krislov said. In December, U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan ruled that although the University's current system of admissions is legal, the "grid" admissions system used from 1995 to 1998 was unconstitutional. "We just felt incredibly gratified by the decision," Krislov said. He added that the presentations made by the stu- dent interveners in both the undergraduate admis- sions lawsuit and the Law School trial, as opposed to only hearing from those experts outside of the body of people the trial was affecting, were espe- cially meaningful. "We had the opportunity to actually hear from students," he said. Barry said the interveners made important contri- butions to the trials. "In the Law School trial, the interveners really presented the bulk of the trial. It was fascinating" she said. Barry said the lawsuits are especially important because of the educational value afforded by diversity. "We have to defend our policy based on why we have it. Why we have it is about education. It really is education because of the current state of segrega- tion that exists in society," she said. Barry said many of the students at the University have always gone to school, church and even the store with people who are ethnically and socio-eco- nomically similar to themselves, and the role of the University is in part of give a well rounded life experience to its students. "One of the historical purposes of the University has been to create citizens," she said. Krislov and Barry said they expect that whatever the outcome of the case against the University Law School, the case will be appealed along with the case against the University's undergraduate admis- sions policy in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. When asked if the cases challenging the University would go to the Supreme Court, Krislov only said that "the sense is that these are very significant cases." He added that a ruling on any of the other three university affirmative action trials would back up the lawsuits against the University. "If the Supreme Court rules before our cases go up, then we'll have to start over again," Krislov said. The Senate Assembly also voted three new mem- bers onto the Senate Advisory Committee on Uni- versity Affairs. Ann Arbor resident Norm Roller plays the chimes in y n a Rle a retired teacher, plays every Monday. fire extinguisherdi h g discharged A fire extinguisher was discharged I q by an unknown subject in Bursley kesidence Hall on Saturday morning, _ DPS reports state. The discharge caused minor damage. Man arrested for sleeping in Angell DPS officers found a man sleeping in one of the Angell Hall auditoriums Sunday morning, reports state. The sub- Kect was arrested for a parole violation. Vending machine glass removed DPS reports state the plexiglass was pushed out of the vending machine at gast Quad Residence Hall on Sunday ght. There are no suspects. Females cited for marijuana, alcohol Two females were found in posses- sion of suspected marijuana early Monday morning at Mary Markley Residence Hall, DPS reports state. Both females were also cited for minors in possession of alcohol. employee injured lifting corpse DPS reports state an -ndividual working at University Hospitals was injured while placing a deceased body on a table. -- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Kristen Beaumont. . emu ? _' ' r i . , ,6^' r T . , . ti By Chris White For the Daily Though heart attacks have been diagnosed for years, conlusion exist; as to which symptoms including chest pains, fatigue and dizziness - onist-- tute a heart attack. University Health System researchers -Icently presented a npor on the ef fects of a new set of sard for defining what a hear atc They found that the new defnition will mean a 26 percent increas nationw in the number of heart attack diag- noses. In September 2000, a joint commit- tee of the European Heart Society and the American College of Cardiology introduced these new standards, which are becoming widely accepted around the world. Under the new standards, it was determined that Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a heart attack in November ofL2000. The main change of the new stan- dards is that cardiac tropoiin, an enzyme found only in heart muscle ti- sue, is now used in determining whether a patient has suffered a heart attack.h "When a myocardial infarction occurs heart muscle dies and in the process. the miuscle leaks intracelu- ar componieiis stclh as CM Band tr opumn ito he surrouding tis- sues," Uiiverity H lospitals resident physician M.k Meier said in a writ- ten sttmen tr e tipae 70,00 fo a ota_ of1l.25tmillion cse rlie os I mt yar iOnof this prt iatthis poin, bt I;a'uc ell, sort-term medial c H wll icreae bcause She od for ore tsng and treatmnent. Howxver, researchers suggest that the number of lives saved by preventa- tive imeasures will most likely offset these costs. "We alrcady know that inadvertent missed diagnoses of heart attack nmay have grava consequences, inc u ding dea tl," said R aj end ra Mehtia, clincal assistant professor of cardiology in die U niversity's Car- dioxvasculaer ('ntr. "Using truponin levels allow s us to identify mnore ligb-isk patients and give them the p _ p car tymo E~aTi. lom i&.th ,,,4W THE. ST UDENTS WIT H CROH N'S OR ULCERATIVE COLITIS Plcase JOlfl Dr. Ellen Zimmermann Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology, U of M For an informal discussion of topics including: National Public Radio - m.~ A lk : ..... .. ..... . 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