a aruewvwwvrwwv wwavi ,.. 9 ,. Thursday February 13, 2003 @2003 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXIII, No. 94 One-hundred-twelve years ofeditorzl freedom TODAY: Snow showers during the day and into the evening with winds up to 20 mph from the west. H:24 'tomorrow: 2811 2 wwwmichigandailycom CIA: N. Korean missile could strike U.S. * The United Nations said it may impose sanctions for the nuclear violation WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea has an untested ballistic missile capable of reaching the western United States, top U.S. intelligence officials confirmed yesterday. In Vienna, the U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation for its nuclear pro- gram and reported the country to the Security Council. The U.N. move, which sends the dis- pute to the Security Council for con- sideration, could lead to punishing sanctions which North Korea has said it would consider an act of war. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, meanwhile, said in Vienna the agency would continue to press for a peaceful solution, but he said months of intran- sigence by North Korea's communist regime had left the U.N. nuclear watchdog no choice. "The current situation sets a danger- ous precedent," ElBaradei said. He said North Korea was only a "month or two" from producing "a significant amount of plutonium" that could be used to make weapons, now that IAEA inspectors no longer controlled the country's nuclear programs. In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials told Congress that North Korea has a ballistic missile capable of hitting the western United States and possibly targets farther inland. The weapon is an untested, three- stage version of its Taepo Dong 2 mis- sile, Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told reporters. CIA Director George Tenet, who joined Jacoby before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, acknowledged that North Korea has a missile that can at least reach the West Coast. Their statements seemed to be the strongest from U.S. officials saying that Pyongyang can strike the United States with a long-range nuclear mis- sile launched from the interior of North Korea. However, U.S. intelligence officials said later North Korea has demonstrat- ed no new missile capabilities in the last year. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Tenet and Jacoby's statements were based on the same information that led U.S. intelli- gence to conclude a few years ago that North Korea was close to being able to flight-test a three-stage Taepo Dong 2. Without flight-testing, the reliabili- ty of such a missile fired in anger is questionable. For several years, North Korea has held to a voluntary morato- rium on flight tests of its long-range missiles, although American officials say the country may renew them at any time. White House spokesman Ari Fleis- cher sought to play down the state- ments, saying they reflected old intelli- gence. He said, "This old news is why it's important to proceed with deploy- ment of missile defense and also why the president is focused on multilateral diplomatic talks to deal with North Korea." Some Democratic senators, howev- er, criticized the Bush administration's handling of the North Korean standoff. "It seems to me that's a threat that's as imminent, or perhaps more so, directly to the United States than is Iraq," said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Tenure-seeking female faculty find decreasing disparity at 'U' By Tomlslav Ladika Daily Staff Reporter tenured pro of females past decade Though the University has a higher percent- In additi age of minority faculty members than most recruit fem other research schools, it still lags behind most improve th Big Ten schools in its percentage of female fac- ing science ulty pursuing tenure. dent Lester Of the University's tenure-track faculty in Science 2001, 25 percent were female, ranking Michi- the nation gan eighth in the Big Ten, according to statistics female fac provided by the Association of American Uni- istry Prof. C versities Data Exchange. "It has The statistics also reveal the proportion of females in females teaching lecture courses is higher than has to do w the proportion who have received tenure. career to fo Females comprised 57 percent of all University LSA fre lecturers in 2001, but 34 percent of associate dent andV and assistant professors, as well as 17 percent of member, s Bomb scare at A2 Fed. Bldg. a false alarm ofessors, were female. The percentage in all four categories has risen in the le. on to encouraging all departments to ale faculty, the University is trying to e number of female professors teach- and engineering, Senior Vice Presi- Monts said. and engineering departments across have greater difficulty recruiting ulty than other departments, chem- Carol Fierke said. to do with a discouragement of math and science, and I also think it uith the perception that it is a difficult llow and have a family," she said. shman Marissa Lefler, a biology stu- Women in Science and Engineering aid because science and engineering "are traditionally male-dominated fields, and perhaps more competitive, it can be intimidating for females if they are in the minority." To improve the recruitment and retention of female faculty in science and engineering fields, the University is using a $3.75 mil- lion grant received from the National Sci- ence Foundation in 2001 to fund its ADVANCE Institutional Transformation for five years. The initiative created a variety of programs aimed at educating departments on gender-equi- table hiring practices, providing financial sup- port to female faculty to achieve their career goals and encouraging female students to pur- sue careers in science. It also allocates funds to departments looking to recruit female faculty or improve their departmental climate. See DISPARITY, Page 7A Bus blaze burns out By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter Business senior Becky Trevino (right) and Engineering senior Ramon Martinez help Becky's sister Sandra Trevino-Ferrer prepare for her math exam tomorrow. Becky is the first in her family to attend college. Statistics show only few Hispanics attend collegae By Soojung Chang Daily Staff Reporter Business senior Becky Trevino is the first person from her family to go to college. In fact, she had to convince her parents to let her attend the University because they wanted her to go to a school closer to home like the University of Michigan at Dearborn or Wayne State University. In spite of this, Trevino said she has flourished at the University. One of the few Hispanics in the Business School, Trevino is also getting a double degree in the School of Engineering and is the presi- dent of Sigma Lambda Gamma, a Hispanic sorority. According to a Monday article in the New York Times, Trevino is the exception rather than the rule among Hispanic students. A recent article cited a study by the Pew Hispanic Center that indicated only 16 percent of Hispanic high school graduates earn a four-year college degree by age 29. In 2001, there were 1,034 Hispanic students enrolled in the undergraduate program at the Uni- versity and the 2002 freshman class is 6.1 percent Hispanic. The article cited several factors that experts say are responsible for the difficulties that His- panic students face in higher education. They include language and culture barriers, financial problems, a lack of role models and inadequate preparation from schools. It also noted a cultural emphasis on extended family that causes many See HISPANICS, Page 2A A bomb scare yesterday morning caused the evacuation of the Federal Building on Liberty Street, which houses the Ann Arbor post office. The scare came just days after the Bush administration declared that the terror alert be raised to "high risk" orange, the highest level since 2001, when the alert scale was created. Ann Arbor Police Department Sgt. Ed Stuck said the scare occurred at 10:45 a.m., when a postal worker moving a package accidentally dropped the box, causing it to break open. The postal worker discovered two hand grenades inside the box. The workers called the AAPD and immediately evacu- ated the building. The U.S. Marshal's service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also respond- ed to the call. Investigators and police bomb dogs searched the building. Stuck said the search lasted for less than an hour, finding no evidence of any wrongdoing. The building's normal operations resumed after the evacua- tion ended. Stuck said the grenades were determined to be dummy grenades - hollowed-out grenades that do not contain fuses or explosives. Dummy grenades can be legally pur- chased at most army supply stores and are used for any- thing from paperweights to training devices and memorabilia, he added. See SCARE, Page 7A RYAN WEINERIDaify Ann Arbor firefighters put out a small blaze yesterday that started when a bus engine backfired through the air filter. MIT opens mino1,rity programsto others By Jeremy Berkowitz Daily Staff Reporter Emergency contraception explainedl in discussion When Princeton University adminis- trators announced late last week the suspension of the Woodrow Wilson School Junior Summer Institute - an academic summer program exclusively for underrepresented minority students studying public policy - they raised concerns of a possible lawsuit. The University of Michigan's two lawsuits regarding the use of race in admis- sions, expected to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court April 1, have opened the possibility for more lawsuits to attack the procedures universities use to attain diversity. This week, legal worries spread to the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, where administrators announced that two summer math and science pro- grams - originally reserved for under- represented minorities - will be open to all, starting this summer. Both programs are seven weeks long and are intended for incoming fresh- men who might need more orientation to the university before embarking on their first year of college. When the Center for Equal Opportu- See PROGRAMS, Page 7A By Katie Glupker For the Daily "Here's the bottom line: we know that sex hap- pens," Lisa Kane-Low, nurse, midwife and Women's Studies lecturer, said yesterday at a teach-in about emergency contraception. The pur- pose of the event was to provide students with accurate information about their post-sex options for birth control. Kane-Low was one of several presenters at the event, sponsored by Students for Choice and the Student Health Advisory Council. Emergency contraception pills "are medication that prevent pregnancy after intercourse has already occurred," said Susan Ernst, University Health Services director of gynecology. She added that the pills cause neither birth defects nor the termination of a preexisting pregnancy. Ernst also presented information about Plan B, the emergency contraception pill that UHS pre- scribes. She said Plan B, a two-dose medication, taken within 72 hours of intercourse. To demonstrate that publicity helps to educate more youth, Kane-Low referred to a certain emergency contraception hotline that was receiv- ing an average of 133 calls per day. When the hot- line ran a 30-second commercial on MTV for two days in a row, the number of calls increased to over 4000 per day. "There is clearly a need for information," she said. Availability of emergency contraception is no longer the problem, said Katrina Mann, graduate liaison with Students for Choice. She added, "People just need to know about this." Traci Jarrett, UHS sexual health advisor, told the audience that emergency contraception can produce unwanted side effects such as vomiting and nausea. Emergency contraception "should not be used as your primary birth control method," Jarrett said. She discussed several other forms of contra- ception including condoms, diaphragm/cervical caps, birth control pills, time-release hormone Knowing your cop helps to fight crime By Brian Lundin For the Daily A push to prevent crime before it hap- pens by fostering relationships between police officers and students is the latest program being planned by the Depart- ment of Public Safety. The Team Community Oriented Policing Program deviates from tradi- tional policing philosophy and focus- es instead on pro-active, problem solving efforts involving all members of the community, DPS Sgt. Pat of community policing," said Alessi, architect and coordinator of the TCOP program. The campus will be divided into three districts: Adam District, south of South University Avenue and west of State Street; Charles District, includ- ing Medical, North and East campus- es; and Baker District, encompassing all areas between the Adam and Charles districts. Each district will be assigned about nine officers and its own problem- solving team comprised of DPS offi- Prof. Lisa Kane-Low informs students about emergency contraception pills during her speech in the Michigan Union f