LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 17, 2003 - 3 CAMP S Prof's power to deny data access contested Rep. Dingell to lead affirmative action rally today U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Ann Arbor) will lead a contingent of student groups in a rally today to confront Bush's opposition of University admis- sion policies. College Democrats and minority student leaders will join Din- gell in leading the rally. It will begin at noon on the steps of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. Saxophone player to perform at Bird of Paradise tonight A former member of Dizzy Gille- spie's big band and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Benny Golson has com- posed many lasting jazz pieces, includ- ing "Killer Joe" and "Stablemates." He performs tonight at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Bird of Paradise, located at 306 S. Main Street. Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for students with ID. Dinosaur tours on display at the University Museum Visitors to the University Exhibit Museum will receive guided tours of the museum's dinosaur exhibits. The free tour is available on a first-come, first-serve basis - only the first 15 visitors will be granted admittance. The tour will commence both Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Anti-war groups to rally for peace There will be an anti-war rally on Saturday at noon at the Federal Build- ing. Sponsored by a coalition of local peace and anti-war groups, demonstra- tors will gather to support activists for the national rally against the war in Washington. The Washington rally is expected to be the largest since rallies held during the Vietnam War. One stu- dent group plans to march down Liber- ty Street to the rally site from campus. Music School faculty, students perform for MLK Music students and faculty will per- form a "musical celebration of the philosophies and ideas of Martin Luther King, jr." The fee vet shws ' Monday at 2 p.m. at the Power Center. The University Concert Band will per- form Copland's "Fanfare for the Com- mon Man," Prof. David Jackson's trombone quartet will perform brass selections and other faculty members and students will perform arias, spiritu- als and read King's speeches. Local stand-up comics perform at the Heidelberg On tuesday from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. local and regional stand-up comics will perform short sets. The show is open to newcomers - call emcee Timmy P at 369-2381 at least 5 days in advance if you would like to perform. The show is $5 at the door at the Heidelberg, which is located at 215 North Main Street. Paris-based group comes to the Ark Paris-based ensemble "Les Yeux Noirs" will perform at the Ark at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Ark is billing the show as the "jump-out-of-your-seat dance-music concert of the year. The group features a pair of deuling violin- ist brothers, and songs in Yiddish, Romanian and French, among other languages. Tickets are $12.50 in advance at Borders, the MUTO, all other Ticketmaster outlets and at the door. The Ark is located at 316 South Main Street. Writer gives free readings at 'U' Lorrie Moore's award-winning, sharply humorous novels and short stories have received praise from The New York Times for their "deepening emotional ... wise and beguiling work." Her fiction focus- es on people whose problems have broken them, and frames their prob- lems with a bitingly sarcastic wit. She will give a free reading Thurs- day at 5 p.m. in D1276 Davidson Hall. Movie based on Dickens novel continues run Based on the Charles Dicken's Rackham student sues the University for right to access research materials By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter The question of when and how the University can deny students access to educational and research data maintained by the institution was considered yesterday in Washtenaw County Cir- cuit Court. Judge Timothy Connors heard the motion by the University to dismiss Weingrad v. Lampert. The case involves Rackham student and doctoral candidate Peri Weingrad, who filed a lawsuit alleging that Education Prof. Magdalene Lam- pert improperly kept important research infor- mation from her while she was working to complete her dissertation. "In essence, it is not a complicated case," David Nacht, Weingrad's attorney, told Connors while in court, describing the events that led up to the lawsuit. According to the brief filed by Nacht, Wein- grad has been a student at the University since 1984. After completing her undergraduate stud- ies, she chose to do her graduate work with the University's linguistics and educational studies programs. As part of her dissertation, Weingrad began working closely with Lampert, who also served as her academic advisor. Weingrad's disserta- tion, which studied what words teachers should use to best communicate with their students, focused on videotapes showing Lampert teach- ing a class of fifth graders. Weingrad spent five years working with the tapes before Lampert denied her access to the office that held them. According to Nacht, Weingrad has been unable to graduate from the University because of Lampert's decision. The reasons why Lampert decided to keep the videotapes from Weingard are still in question. Weingrad alleges that Lampert made the deci- sion on a retaliatory basis for telling police offi- cers about a sexual harassment incident involving a former University professor. On Nov. 29, 1998, Weingrad called police alleging that a former Music professor who had been sexually harassing her, Dickran Atamian, assaulted her while she was in the School of Education building working on her dissertation. Lampert's attorney, Timothy Howlett, wrote in his brief that Lampert decided to deny Weingrad access to the tapes after Atamian called her and threatened to tear apart the room holding the tapes, believing Weingrad had personal property of his stored there. Lampert had not been told about the sexual harassment incident at that time, the brief states. Weingrad's brief says Lampert overstepped her boundaries and the University's limitations when she decided not to continue sharing the research material with Weingrad. "At its heart, Lampert's explanation as to why she needed to remove Weingrad from the video- tapes on December 1, 1998 is not credible," the brief says. The brief also states that Lampert lied during a formal University hearing concerning the issue and failed to follow University policy for denying Weingrad access to the videotapes. "This case is replete with facts demonstrating bad faith - including outright lies at a formal University hearing by the Dean of the School of Education; failures of the University to adhere to normal academic standards or to follow its own policies in significant respects, such as fail- ing to investigate alleged sexual harassment," the plaintiff's brief states. But Lampert's brief says neither Lampert nor the University did anything wrong. "Mr. Atamian at the time of this incident was not an employee of the University," he told Con- nors, referring to the sexual harassment incident on Nov. 29, 1998, when Weingrad called police to the School of Education after Atamian attempted to physically assault her and threat- ened to kill her. "(The University's) public safe- ty department addressed the issue." Howlett's brief also states that several attempts to give the resources to Weingrad through other methods were made, which Wein- grad is denying. No decision regarding the motion to dismiss was made yesterday. Regents discuss Bush speech, new building for North Campus By Jeremy Berkowitz Daily Staff Reporter Usually a venue for local newspapers only, yesterday's University Board of Regents meeting attracted several television reporters and camera crews. In the aftermath of President Bush's speech Wednesday asserting that the University's admissions policies are unconstitutional, University Pres- ident Mary Sue Coleman's opening remarks of the meeting reaffirmed her commitment to diversity and defended the University's use of race in admissions. "We strive for a student body that is richly diverse in many ways because it enriches each student," Coleman said to the regents. "We do not have nor have we ever had quotas or numerical targets." She also responded to the alternatives to racial preferences Bush spoke about in his speech, such as the Texas Ten Percent Plan. This plan allows any Texas high school student who graduates in the top 10 percent of his high school a spot in a Texas state university. Cole- man said such a proposal would be terrible for the University because it is based solely on class rank and does not look at the "whole student." "(These plans) are not a panacea," Coleman added. "In the end, we believe the (U.S.) Supreme Court will find our practices to be fair and legal." At his first board meeting since being sworn in Jan. 1, Regent Andrew Richner (R-Grosse Pointe Park) said he is committed to defending the University's policies, even if he wasn't on the board when the policies were formulated. He did agree with Bush's contention that there are mul- tiple ways to achieve diversity without taking race into consideration. "There's a divergence of opinion;" Richner saidaling that he is confi- dent the Supreme Court will resolve the issue. Regents also reopened dis- cussions on plans regarding new building projects on North Campus. University Planner Susan Gott and Hank Baier, associate vice president for operations and facilities, presented tentative ideas for these buildings, including a map of North Campus that featured a spot north of Pierpont Commons for the new Walgreen Drama Center, which will include the Arthur Miller Theater. Former President Lee Bollinger first proposed the idea for the new center in 1997. Bollinger expressed a desire to build a world-class per- forming arts institution, and said he wanted to honor Miller, a playwright and University alum. The University originally budgeted $20 million for the project and planned to build it adjacent to the Power Center, but post- poned the project after the cost of the building increased to $67 million. University officials also discovered the area near the Power Center is very dense, and no longer a feasible construction site option. The project was halted in December 2001 after University officials realized the cost was too high and started looking into the idea of placing the theater on North Campus. Coleman said a final plan should be brought to the regents in upcom- ing months. She added that departments are now measuring costs more realistically and focusing on what their students can benefit from, espe- cially due to the sensitive state of the University financial situation. "We need to be very conscious of cost because we're in a difficult budgetary situation," Coleman said. Also at the meeting, University Vice President Fawwaz Ulaby present- ed the annual research report, noting there was a 10.8 percent increase in research expenditures from 2001, bringing the total amount to $656 mil- lion. In addition, the University was ranked ninth in a study examining the impact of research at the nation's top Uiyersities, a "We are among the very best institutions," Ulaby said. AP PHOTO University President Mary Sue Coleman attends the Board of Regents meeting yesterday. Coleman spoke to defend the University's affirmative action policy. Report shows most students do not seek treatment for allergic reactions By Erin Saylor Daily Staff Reporter Preoccupied with the stresses of college life, too many college students ignore dangerous allergies, researchers worry. A report released in November indicates that most college students who experience a potentially life-threaten- ing allergic food reaction do not seek medical attention. "A lot of people are having symptoms where they have some shortness of breath or rash, anything we'd consider to be a systemic manifestation of the allergic response," Andrew Singer, a fellow in allergy and clinical immunology, said in a written statement. "But many weren't seeing a physician for it and that's pretty scary." According to the Asthma and Allergy Center, more than 50 million people in the United States are affected with allergies and about 100 die each year from food-related allergies. Foods such as dairy products, peanuts, wheat and seafood pose the greatest threat to those with food allergies, Singer said. While people can outgrow aller- gies to products such as milk and eggs, allergies to foods like peanuts and fish are usually lifelong. Singer said peanuts and tree nuts - such as cashews, almonds and walnuts - are the food products that cause the most problems among college students. "Being away from home for the first time, students aren't watching what they eat," said Singer. "They're busy with school and having fun, and tend to ignore health overall." University researchers issued a survey among students last Febuary concern- ing food allergies and treatment. Of the 130 people polled, 15 percent reportel STUDENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE prepare O ULCERATIVE COLITIS for cuts Please join Dr. Ellen Zimmermann LANSING Mich. (AP) - Michi- DrsoElle Prmferaf gan schools are considering cutting Associate Professor of everything from art supplies to Gastroenterology, teachers to make up for state budget U of M cuts that could take effect as early as March.For an informal as March. Yesterday, the day after Gov. Jen- discussion of nifer Granholm proposed cuts tot i n d deal with a $134 million deficit in topics including: this year's school aid fund, superin- tendents met with finance officials *Nutrition and others to consider their options. "It comes late in the year, so it *New Therapies makes it really difficult to arrange @Latest Research for those cuts," said Joseph Shulze, the superintendent of Muskegon schools, who will lose $469,472 - Next meeting will be: or $43.72 per student - if lawmak- Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003 ers approve Granholm's cuts. 7:00 nm to 8:30 nm "A lot of people are having symptoms where they have some shortness of breath or rash, anything we'd consider to be a systemic manifestation of the allergic response" - Andrew Singer Allergy and clinical immunology fellow having had an allergic reaction to food. Singer said his research, in part, responds to the past food-allergy related death of a University student. Some students said that busy schedules often limit their ability to find meals that cater to their diatary requirements. "We don't have too many options, even in the dorms," LSA sophomore Stephon Proctor said. "Fast food is meant to target the masses, not fufill our specific needs." According to the University Health System, symptoms to food allergies include swelling of the face or throat, vomiting, congestion and skin rash. "Our biggest concerns are for those students who are aware of their allergies and do not treat them and for those students that are unaware that they have allergies to certain foods and choose to ignore the symptoms," Singer said. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Ann Arbor Attention: Seniors! Want to receive a Master of Arts Degree and teaching certification in Elementary or Secondary Education...in just one year? Fellowships are available for both i n -ctat a nd nut-nf-statl e nent