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Work-Study may
0 be redesigned
EVANSTON, Ill. - Research by
Medill School of Journalism graduate
students on the federal work-study pro-
gram has shown that some universities
are neglecting to follow part of the
Higher Education Act of 1965.
Although many college students
think of work-study as an opportunity
to earn easy money, the act establishing
the program aimed to encourage stu-
dents to engage in community outreach
work. By law, 7 percent of work-study
students must hold positions that quali-
f~y as community service, or else 'the
school will not receive work-study
funds from the government.
The research findings show that
many of the nation's top schols,
including Princeton University and the
University of Notre Dame, have fallen
below the off-campus requirement.
The fact that some schools have dis-
regarded the 7 percent provision of the
1965 act was noticed by lawmakers
after the study was completed, but the
Department of Education has not yet
acted to ensure compliance to the law
from the schools that have fallen below
the 7 percent requirement.
Under a new law proposed by Sen.
'John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Evan
Bayh (D-Ind.), 25 percent of work-
study students would be required to
have community service jobs by 2010.
"Currently, only a small fraction of
college work-study funds are devoted to
community service, far less than what
Congress originally intended when it
passed the Higher Education Act in
1965," McCain wrote in an article for
Washington Monthly.
Wisconsin sex
discrimination
suit settled
MADISON, Wis. - After a three-
year legal battle, University of Wiscon-
sin-Madison English professor Kelly
Cherry won a federal sexual discimi-
nation lawsuit against the university.
Cherry taught creative writing at
UW for 22 years and said she was paid
less than her male counterparts, despite
the fact she had published more works.
~~ The university denied her claims and'
said its pay practices would have been
defended had the suit gone to trial.
The attorney for UW John Dowling,
said Cherry's salary had nothing to do
!with gender. "We have a system of
merit salary' he said. "Professors are
judged by peers and given salary based
on their accomplishments.'
With help from lawyer Houston Par-
rish, Cherry and the UW Board of
Regents reached an out-of-court settle-
ment of $127,500. Parrish said Cherry
was satisfied with the settlement,
though she originally sought $153,099.
The initial suit sought the difference
in salary between herself and what
male professors of equal position
earned.
187 GT students
face charges for
Scollaboration
ATLANTA - When Georgia Tech
students received their final grades over
the winter break, most assumed the fall'
semester was behind them. However,
for almost 200 Tech students now under
investigation by the Dean of Students
office, that wasn't the case.

On Jan. 15, the Dean of Students
office reported that 187 individuals
were under investigation for honor code
violations. According to Associate
Dean Karen Boyd, the students are
accused of cheating on projects in two
introductory computer science classes.
The issue was brought forward after
programs developed by Tech CS pro-
fessors to detect cheating found many
similarities among the works completed
by different students.
The Tech Honor Code states that stu-
dents are prohibited from collaborating
on projects without prior authorization,
and the College of Computing makes it
clear that students must work individu-
ally on all programming projects or
homework assignments.
The students have yet to be formally
charged. If they are found guilty they
could receive a failing grade in the class
and be placed on disciplinary proba-
tion. Boyd said Tech does not usually
suspend students for first offenses.
- Compiled from U-Wire reports by
Daily StaffReporter Maria Sprow.

Acclaimed 'U' humanities
prof. dies of brain cancer

Frosted panes

By Rob Goodspeed
Daily Staff Reporter

After holding prominent national
and University positions in the human-
ities, John Haughton D'Arms died at
the age of 67 of brain cancer yesterday
in New York City.
D'Arms served as president of the
American Council
of Learned Soci-
eties, a scholarly
organization dedi-
cated to the
advancement of
the study of
humanities.
A leader in the
academic commu-
nity, D'Arms had D
led the effort to D'Arms
strengthen the ACLS' fellowship pro-
gram for scholars of all levels.
Colleagues remember him as a
leader and spokesman in the field of
humanities.
"He was a very remarkable leader,"
said Patricia Spacks, an English pro-
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fessor at the University of Virginia
who worked with D'Arms as the
chairman of the board of the ACLS.
D'Arms had been fighting brain
cancer and had brain surgery last fall.
Despite his illness, D'Arms attend-
ed the October 2001 board meeting of
the ACLS with his head half-shaved
from the surgery.
"Aside from the way his head
looked, there was no way to tell that
anything was wrong," said Spacks.
"He was as lively and astute as ever
right to the end."
Prior to serving as the president of
the ACLS, D'Arms served as a faculty
member and administrator at the Uni-
versity for 32 years.
D'Arms held many positions at the
University, including professor of
classical studies, chair of the depart-
ment of classical studies, dean of
Rackham Graduate School, professor
of history and Else professor of the
humanities.
D'Arms also served as vice provost
for academic affairs from 1990 to
1995.

D'Arms was appointed by President
Clinton to serve on the council of the
National Endowment for the Humani-
ties.
He also served as director of the
American Academy in Rome while
acting as a professor at the Academy
from 1977 to 1980.
When D'Arms was selected in 1997
as president of the ACLS, he told The
Michigan Daily it was difficult to
leave.
"Psychologically, it's hard for me to
leave U of M," D'Arms said. "I'm
devoted to this University and I love it
here."
In his lifetime, D'Arms had pub-
lished two books on ancient Rome and
over 60 scholarly reviews and articles.
D'Arms wed Maria Teresa Waugh,
daughter of novelist Evelyn Waugh, in
1961 in Somerset, England.
D'Arms is survived by his son
Justin, daughter Helena and two
grandchildren.
D'Arms received his Ph.D. in classi-
cal philology from Harvard University
in 1959.

RYAN LEVENTHAL/Daily
University alum and Ann Arbor resident Cathy Sanborn looks at ice-cream at
Stucchi's on South State Street yesterday.

[ospital evaluations lack accuracy

By April Effort
Daily Staff Reporter
Methods used to evaluate hospitals when
receiving state accreditation do not account
for many factors that play a part in the suc-
ce s of a medical facility, according to a
st dy conducted by two University
researchers.
University public health Profs. John Grif-
fith and Jeffrey Alexander compared hospital
evaluation scores submitted by Solucient
LLC, a health care information systems firm
and the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Hospitals in a study released last week.

Griffith said there are serious discrepan-
cies in hospital certification methods.
"There is no escaping the fact that the risk
of an unfortunate event is much higher in
some hospitals rather than others," Griffith
said.
Five out of seven suggested measurements
encompassing Griffith's and Alexander's
"balanced scorecard" theory correlate finan-
cial standing and the safety and quality of
care of the hospital.
Paul Schyve, JCAHO senior vice president,
said this linkage is difficult to assume
because of the health care market and it has
not been scientifically proven.
"The linkage between finances and quality
of product may be different in other indus-
tries," Schyve said. "I wouldn't challenge that
assertion in most other industries. There is a
unique aspect in health care that makes it

hard to extrapolate from other industries
because health care doesn't work in the same
market."
This strangeness of the market is due to the
fact that the consumer isn't the same as the
purchaser, said Schyve.
Darryl Horton, director for the division of
licensing and certification for the state
Department of Consumer and Industry Ser-
vices, said he has observed a direct link
between finances and quality of care.
"I think it should be weighed a little more
heavily because a sound financial basis for a
hospital will affect them," Horton said.
"For hospitals that become financially
strapped, quality of service could start to suf-
fer," he said.
Shon Dwyer, interim director of corporate
quality improvement for the University Hos-
pital, said the "balanced scorecard" theory is

a reliable way to view the overall health of a
hospital.
"It's a picture and you can't take your
finances out of the picture," she said. "What
the public can see in terms of the balanced
scorecard approach, I don't think we should
hide."
Griffith firmly believes that the financial
aspect is a critical factor to consider when
choosing a hospital.
"I think you would want to go tQ a hospital
that has enough money to buy new equip-
ment and train new people, that is not in dan-
ger of closing its doors because they ran out
of money," said Griffith.
While Schyve disputes the legitimacy of
including financial assessment of hospitals,
he did acknowledge they have an investiga-
tion underway that examines the use of
finances in the accreditation process.

Lansing laboratory
may begin an thrax
vaccine shipments


LANSING (AP) - In 1998, the
buyers of the only U.S. laboratory
making the anthrax vaccine thought
they had a can't-miss deal.
The aging state-owned lab in Michi-
gan needed millions in renovations on
top of the $24 million purchase price.
But the Pentagon already had
announced it would require all 2.4 mil-
lion American military.personnel to
take a series of six shots of the vac-
cine, and turning the lab into a prof-
itable enterprise seemed childishly
easy.
Four years later, Lansing-based Bio-
Port Corp. has yet to ship a single dose
of the vaccine to the Pentagon.
Unable to pass inspections by the
Food and Drug Administration, Bio-
Port has intermittently produced the
vaccine but has not been able to
release it.
Now, the company appears to be on
the verge of finally winning FDA
approval to begin shipments, possibly
as early as this month.
"It's clearly a very positive story for
the company," said BioPort spokes-
woman Kim Brennen Root.
A laboratory in Washington state
that puts the vaccine into vials still
needs FDA approval, and the vaccine
still must be tested for purity, potency
and sterility before any 200,000-dose
lots will be released by the FDA.
The vaccine was held up by contam-
ination, inadequate record-keeping and
unapproved procedures at the laborato-
ry.
"I'm glad it took four years. That
stuff needed to be done right," said
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) whose
district includes BioPort.
Pressure to get the lab approved has
grown since U.S. troops began heading
overseas in the war on terrorism and
since last fall's anthrax outbreak killed
five people on the East Coast. Because

of the standstill at BioPort, the Penta-
gon stockpile of the vaccine is dwin-
dling.
Although privatizing the lab didn't
turn out to be nearly as easy as the
new owners expected, it was largely
the federal government that sweated
- and paid - while the approval
process went on.
Over the past four years, BioPort
has received at least $16.8 million
from the Pentagon to renovate and
expand the lab. It also asked for more
money for the vaccine, complaining
that the state had never charged
enough.
The Pentagon agreed in 1999 to
'more than double the per-dose pay-
ment, from $4.36 to $10.36. Instead of
having to supply 8.7 million anthrax
vaccine doses for $29.4 million, Bio-
Port had to supply only 4.6 million
doses for $53.5 million, in part
because the company couldn't make
as many doses as it originally
promised.
Yet even with the extra money, Bio-
Port's problems continued. Consider-
ing who owns BioPort, it was
something of a surprise that the project
did not turn out to be as easy as the
new owners expected.
BioPort's chief executive officer and
major investor is Fuad El-Hibri, a Ger-
man-born businessman of Lebanese
descent who now is a U.S. citizen. El-
Hibri is a former director of the British
maker of a different anthrax vaccine.
His father, Ibrahim El-Hibri, also
invested in BioPort.
A major shareholder in BioPort is
retired Adm. William J. Crowe, former
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
who brought his experience dealing
with the Pentagon to the fledgling
company. The former director of the
state-owned lab, Robert Myers, is Bio-
Port's chief operating officer.

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