LOCAL/STATE . The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 3 HIGHER ED '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. If you live in a Residence Hall, pick one up in your lobby. One per room, please. Other students can get a Directory at the following locations: ' . r _ . r .. .. ,..... ,. " % . _ r t ' &x ° e K- ' ,'' : - r ;a . _ 'i 4 ; a . a " ' '' ° , .. Yw FL ;iC.. t + d Wednesday, 10/24, at the corner of South U & East U, 10am-2pm Thursday, 10/25, on the Diag, 10am-2pm Friday, 10/26, in the lower level of Michigan Union, 10am-2pm One per student, please present Mcard. I GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE That's what you'll find at New England School of Law. Our international law courses continue to expand in areas such as human rights, international organizations, environmental law and international business transactions. We offer the unique War Crimes Prosecution Project, an international law clinic, and conferences through our Center for International Law and Policy. We've even pioneered a program incorporating international law components into domestic law courses. 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