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. The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 3
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'U' offered money
0 by National Security
Education Program
The University of Michigan's Ara-
bic language department is reportedly
considering accepting resources and
money from the National Security
Education Program.
The program offers scholarships at
universities throughout the country in
the hopes of attracting Arabic lan-
guage speakers to governmental jobs.
Alexander Knysh. chair of the Near
Eastern Studies Department, said that
if the department decides to work
with the NSEP, the money would go
toward hiring additional instructors.
However, Knysh added that there
are "some strings attached" to the
money and said the department is cur-
rently debating the pros and cons of
the NSEP offer. He added that he is
.worried about whether the program
goals, for students to learn Arabic and
then use the language for work in the
Federal Bureau of Investigation or
other governmental agencies, clashes
with the mission of the department.
A meeting is scheduled with
Richard Brecht, a representative of
NSEP. in November.
The government is making several
other attempts to attract Arabic speak-.
ers to jobs involving national security.
Since Sept. 11, the FBI has received
more than 15,000 applications from
Arabic speakers who are interested
and willing to translate documents.
Texas A&M may
end ESPN show
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -
Texas A&M University officials are
considering ending cooperation with
I* ESPN camera crews filming the reali-
ty show "Sidelines" unless the show
focuses more on Aggie football and
less on the indiscretions of students.
"We have the option to cancel our
participation in future taping," A&M
President Dr. Ray M. Bowen told the
Dallas Morning News at Saturday's
A&M-Kansas State game in Manhat-
tan, Kan.
A&M University officials have
asked ESPN executives to reconsider
the subject matter of the show "Side-
lines", which was intended to show
A&M football from the perspective of
its fans and players.
ESPN director of communications
Rob Tobias could not be reached for
comment.
Med schools to
include alternative
medicine classes
BALTIMORE - Students attend-
ing medical schools such as Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine can
expect lectures on acupuncture,
meditation and herbal medicine
beyond the traditional studies of
sicknesses, labs on cadavers and
bodily functions.
The new addition to the Jhns Hop-
kins curriculum is a wide array of
practices known as Complementary
and Alternative Medicine, or CAM.
Since the probability of the
patient's use of the new practices is
rising, medical schools have in
recent years moved to add informa-
tion on CAM to their required and
elective coursework. Both the Johns
Hopkins University and the Univer-
sity of Maryland schools of medi-
cine now include at least some basic
CAM lectures in their curricula.
The action is in response to a grow-
ing embrace of CAM both by health
care consumers and by the medical
establishment.
In 1992 Congress established the
Office of Alternative Medicine -
now called the National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Med-
icine - at the National Institutes of
Health. The American Medical Asso-
ciation charter likewise encourages
members to "become better informed
regarding alternative medicine and to
participate in appropriate studies of
it."
In the May 2000 issue of Con-
sumer Reports, a poll showed that 35
percent of respondents had used
alternative treatments during the past
two years.
- Compiled from staff and wire
reports from Daily Staff'Reporter
Maria Sprow.
MSA allocates thousands to student groups
Budget gives out more than
$80,000 to groups, $38,000 to
community service organizations
By Kara Wenzel
Daily StaffReporter
The Michigan Student Assembly approved
fall budget recommendations for student
groups, projects, and community service at
last night's meeting.
The Budget Priorities Committee and the
Community Service Commission review each
group's application and recommend alloca-
tions to the assembly for approval.
One of the assembly's primary functions is
the allocation of their funds to student
groups.
The money comes from a $5.69 student fee
charged to each student's tuition.
The assembly will be asking for a $ 1
increase in the student fee on their November
election ballot.
Budget Priorities Commission Chair Javier
Restrepo said student groups must complete
an application to receive funding from MSA.
"The importance of the group in the com-
munity, whether or not they are an umbrella
group for other student groups and the
group's revenue help us decide which groups
get funding." Restrepo said.
The Budget Priorities Committee is given
more than $80,000 to allocate to student
groups. and the Community Service Commit-
tee has a budget of S38,000.
MSA allocated s2,000 to Dance Marathon,
the most given to any student group. Some
representatives complained that the money
should be distributed more evenly, but the
assembly voted not to change the committee's
recommendations for any group, including
Da'nce Marathon."
Student groups must first be registered with
MSA before they can apply. Groups are
required to provide detailed explanations of
how their allocations would be spent and pro-
vide receipts of their past purchases so the
committee can determine a fair amount of
funding.
Restrepo said the groups are not always
happy with the funds the committee recom-
mends, so they are allowed to appeal their
allocation before the budget is brought to the
assembly.
To receive the funds the assembly allo-
cates, group members must first sign a grant
agreement.
Later in the meeting, resolutions to support
the -implementation of a fall study break and
to support a student presence at a Dec. 6 hear-
ing on the University's affirmative action law-
suits before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
in Cincinnati were introduced.
The fall study break is a proposal drafted
by an MSA and LSA Student Government
joint committee that if approved next week.
will be sent to administrators for review.
The assembly passed a similar resolution
last month in support of student presence at
the appeals trial. The hearing was originally
scheduled for yesterday.
Advocates of affirmative
action rally.i
CINCINNATI (AP) -- University of Michigan students
and other affirmative action supporters rallied in support of
affirmative action admissions policies yesterday, even though
the appeals court hearing on two lawsuits challenging the
University's race-conscious admissions were called off.
Hundreds of students marched from the University of
Cincinnati campus and swarmed downtown's Fountain
Square, joining other students and labor union representatives
from Detroit and Louisville, Ky., to pump fists into the air
and chant "Educate, don't segregate."
"If we cannot have affirmative action in this country, we
can never have justice," said the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, 79,
a Cincinnati clergyman who once marched with the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. during civil rights protests in Alaba-
ma. "We're in a war for freedom and equality" said Robert
Richardson, 22, president of the University of Cincinnati's
student body.
The activists focused on two parallel lawsuits pending
before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which challenge
n Cincinnati
the use of affirmative-action policies in admitting students to
the University of Michigan's Law School and the College of
Literature, Science and the Arts.
A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based appeals court
was to have heard the Michigan cases yesterday. The court
handles cases from Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio.
But the court granted a request last week to postpone the
hearing until Dec. 6 so'that the full, nine-judge court can hear
the case.
The pro-affirmative action rally went on as scheduled any-
way. Activists said they were collecting thousands of petition
signatures they hope to present to the appeals judges.
Shanta Driver, 47, of Detroit, an organizer of the rally and
member of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and
Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary,
urged students in the audience to put their energy into fight-
ing for affirmative action.
"You will lead us into the future, a future in which the
dream of integration in America is realized," Driver said.
2 missing after mail h o
DETROIT (AP) - A tugboat that
delivered mail and crew to Great Lakes
freighters rolled over and sank in the
Detroit River early yesterday, spilling
four people into the water. Two crew
members were missing.
The accident happened around 7 a.m.
as the tug, the J.W. Westcott II was tak-
ing two pilots to the Sidsel Knutsen, a
Norwegian tanker carrying gasoline.
Two Canadian freighter pilots were
rescued and taken to nearby Windsor,
Ontario, where they were treated and
released. The missing crew menbers
were a man and woman who worked for
J.W. Westcott Co., the Coast Guard said.
The Westcott was located on the river
bottom by the crew of an Army Corps
of Engineers sonar vessel. The search
for the missing was suspended last
at. capsizes
night, andtefforts to raise the ship were
to begin today.
The 45-foot Westcott, built in 1949, is
an official U.S. marine post office. It
was believed to be the only boat in the
world with its own zip code. It carried
mail, freight and pilots to freighters sail-
ing the Great Lakes, operating around
the clock and averaging 6,000 runs from
April through mid-December.
LAURIE BRESCOLL/Daily
Music sophomore Susan Chalmers studies in the Art Lounge of the Michigan
Union yesterday.
Genetics may play
argeraole in OCD
U researchers find
By Sarah Scott
Daily StaffReporter
University researchers recently
completed a study on Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder that shows
genetics may play a bigger role in
the disorder than previously
thought.
"(The research) has the potential
to identify etiological factors in
OCD. That may lead to improve-
rrients in the diagnosis and treat-
^ment of the disorder," said Gregory
Hanna, an OCD researcher and
director of the Child and Psychiatry
Division of the University Health
System.
- Research on OCD is important
because doctors are not yet certain
of a single cause although recent
studies indicate that the disorder
may be linked to previous strep
infections or other types of infec-
tions.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
is one of the most common mental
illnesses in the world.
"There are epidemiological stud-
ies from several countries
indicating that lifetime preva-
lence is two to three percent,"
Hanna said.
He added that those figures make
OCD more common than schizo-
phrenia, bipolar disorder or panic
disorder. The risk for developing
OCD increases primarily in females
during early adulthood, while males
are at greater risk for developing
the disorder during childhood and
adolescence, he added.
"It is a pattern of intrusive
thoughts that seem obsessive and
obtrusive," said Jim Etzkorn, the
clinical director of the University's
Counseling and Psychological Ser-
vices.
"It's very unpleasant and anxiety-
producing. People try to lower their
anxiety by engaging in compulsive
repetitive behaviors, for example,
constantly checking to see that the
stove is off or turning a doorknob X
number of times."
University Health Services inter-
im Director Robert Winfield.said
that in straightforward cases of
OCD, UIIS might make the diagno-
sis.
"We would get a psychiatrist
involved tvnicallv from the Anxiety
Disorders Program at the University
of Michigan Health Systems," Win-
field said.
Both Winfield and Etzkorn said it
is important for students to know
that there are effective treatments,
such as cognitive behavioral therapy
and medications.
Hanna, said that most adults with
OCD wait about seven years before
seeking treatment.
"Some wait until a cormorbid
depression motivates them to seek
help," he said.
Students who are concerned that
they may be exhibiting signs of
OCD are encouraged to be seen at
CAPS or the University Health Ser-
vice for a discussion about whether
the behaviors that are worrying
them appear to be typical of OCD.
For further research, Hanna is
also recruiting families in which
two or more individuals have a his-
tory of OCD. Prospective partici-
pants can reach him at 764-7174.
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pick one up in your lobby.
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