LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 3 THIS WEEK Five years ago... The Michigan Daily reported that University Secretary Walter Harrison was one of three finalists in the Uni- versity of Hartford presidential search. Harrison joined the University in 1989 as vice president for public relations. Regent Phil Power (D-Ann Arbor) said Harrison's departure would be a great loss for the University. "It will have a pronounced impact because he is a liaison between the Board of Regents and the community," Power said. Hartford announced Harrison as its choice the next month. He started at the position in July. Ten years ago... Three months into their first term, Regents Larry Deitch (D- Bingham Farms) and Rebecca McGowan (D-Ann Arbor) attended a Michigan Student Assembly meet- ing to discuss student concerns about rising tuition and the State- ment of Student Rights and Respon- sibilities. Both students and the regents said they found the dis- course very valuable. "I'm looking forward to this as the beginning of a series of dialogues," Deitch said. April 13, 1970 Vice President Spiro Agnew came to the University and criticized the recent agreement between Universi- ty officials and the Black Action Movement. The accord called for the black student population to rise to 10 percent by the 1973-1974 school year. "In a few years time, perhaps - thanks to the University of Michigan's callow retreat from reality - Ameri- cans will give the same fish-eyes that Italians now give diplomas from the University of Rome." The University never fulfilled its agreement, and black enrollment stayed below 5 percent until President James Duderstadt initiated the Michi- gan Mandate in the late 1980s. April 17, 1978 The Michigan Daily reported that faculty members were recruited by the CIA to do classified work. Such recruiting had been going on since 1967. April 15, 1958 Michigan Daily reporters Barton Huthwaite and James Elsman were arrested by Cuban police after attempt- ing to get an interview with rebel leader Fidel Castro in the mountains of Cuba. The government released them after 12 hours. April 14, 1964 President Lyndon Johnson accepted the University's offer to speak at the 1964 spring commencement cere- monies. At commencement the next month, he proposed his idea for a Great Society, one that "demands an end to poverty and racial injustice - to which we are totally committed in our time." He was the first American chief executive to speak at the Univer- sity's graduation. April 15, 1935 Michigan Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald said he favored excluding students from state institutions who refused to serve in the military. Fitzgerald's announcement came after a peace protest at the University and Michigan State College. April 17, 1981 Twenty-two-year old Bursley Resi- dence Hall resident Leo Kelly shot and killed two fellow residents Edward r Siwik and Douglas McGreaham at 6 a.m. When police came to the dorm after the murder, they found Kelly calmly sitting in his room holding a sawed-off shotgun. Kelly's fraternity brother Warren Fudge described Kelly as a "loner." "Most brothers now probably won't even know him," Fudge said. April 13, 1971 The University's Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics changed its rules to allow women to serve on the board. The election of Rose Sure Berstein to the board prompted the change. April 15, 1954 LSA administrators said they were considering plans to exclude all sen- iors with a "B" or better average from final exams. They were con- cerned seniors had too many finals in Study: Alcohol leads to more severe injuries By Erin Saylor Daily Staff Reporter It is well-known that consumption of alcohol impairs one's judgment and ability to operate motor vehicles. But researchers at the University say that alcohol can also make the body more susceptible to severe injury in a motor accident. Both passengers and drivers who had con- sumed alcohol before being involved in motor vehicle accidents were one and a half times more likely to experience serious injury than those involved in an accident who had not been drink- ing, the study showed. Taking into account the severity of the acci- dent, whether or not the person had a high alco- hol tolerance and if they wore a seatbelt, the study showed that the injuries were more severe - even for those under the legal limit. The legal blood alcohol content in Michigan is 0.1. "We found that those who had been drinking and involved in an average car crash had an injury severity that was 30 percent higher," said Ronald Maio, associate professor of emergency medicine and director of the University Injury Research Center. This research suggests that even with des- ignated drivers, people are still at risk when they get into the car if they have consumed any amount of alcohol. Though earlier studies on animals had suggest- ed such results, this is the first in-depth study to examine the correlation between alcohol and injury severity. Conducted at two hospitals in Michigan, the study examined 1,362 motor vehicle crash victims 18 years and older. Twenty-one percent of the patients had consumed alcohol before their accident. At this point, researchers are only able to spec- ulate as to why alcohol makes the body more vul- nerable to injury. Maio suggested that somehow alcohol decreas- es the body's, or the cell's, resistance to kinetic energy, such as that experienced in a car crash. But he added that more research is necessary to determine the exact cause. "I feel that society has very much underesti- mated the effects of alcohol on the injuries of those in accidents," Maio said. "Not only is it the cause of many accidents, but it increases the severity of the injuries." Maio and his colleagues hope their research will increase public awareness of the degree to which alcohol puts people at risk and improve treatment of those patients who have consumed alcohol prior to being injured. "I think that a designated driver is an excellent idea, but it still doesn't cover all the bases," Maio said. "People who have been drinking still run a risk of making their injuries worse." According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 17,448 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2001. But Maio point- ed out that this number only accounts for those who have been involved in a crash where at least one of the drivers had consumed alcohol. "This does not include the number of other people in the car who had also been drinking," he said, adding that this is a good example of how society needs to take a closer look at the degree to which alcohol affects safety. Annual Hopwood Awards recognize student writers ByKate t For the Daly ___________________ Students spearhead fundraising effort with water balloons "I am a writer - this is what I do," said David Turner, who graduated last winter from the University. Turner won a $4,000 Hopwood Screenplay Award for "The Free Agent," a romantic comedy that he compared to "Jerry Maguire." The 72nd Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Cer- emony was held yesterday afternoon in Rackham Auditorium. The Awards are funded by a donation from Avery Hop- wood, a 1905 University graduate. A prominent dramatist, Hopwood endowed a fifth of his estate for the encouragement of creative writing. This year, students received $119,500 in prizes for writing. Cate- gories included drama, screenplay, novel, essay, short fiction and poetry. Thirty-five graduate and undergradu- ate students were awarded cash prizes ranging from $600 to $7,000. Students' works went through two rounds. University faculty and mem- bers of the Ann Arbor community judged the first. National judges from each respected field then read the finalists' work. Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard was the keynote speaker at the event. A graduate of the University, former Hopwood winner and pub- lished poet, Howard stressed the importance of reading in his speech titled "The Fatality of Reading." "There is merely indifference ...stu- dents in our writing programs do not read," he said. Howard expressed great concern ASHLEY HARPER/Daily Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator Richard Howard gives the keynote speech at yesterday's Hopwood Awards Ceremony. for students' lack of reading, espe- cially in "voluminous works" such as those by Marcel Proust. He left the awards ceremony with a message to writers. "Without reading, writing will perish. We do not write for our- selves, for each other, we write for the great dead," he said. Hopwood Award recipients joined the ranks of alumni such as Arthur Miller, Nancy Willard, John Wagner and Naomi Saferstein. "Over 2,600 gifted young writers have received awards and those who receive them today are among distinguished writ- ers," said English Prof. Laurence Gold- stein, who presented the awards. Rackham student Elizabeth Kostova, a student in the Creative Writing Pro- gram, received a $7,600 Hopwood Novel Prize and the Geoffrey James Gosling Prize for her novel "The His- torian," which she described as being "about the historical Dracula and three generations of historians who pursue his legend." "Like most writers, I am going to use it (the prize) to pay some debts," Kostova said. "I also plan to go to Bulgaria to finish some research for the novel." LSA junior Tyler Lieberman won prizes for his screenplay "The Good Doctor." "I wanted to write a thriller," Lieber- man said. "I hate needles and doctors, so I used my own fear to make the screenplay more chilling,"he said. By Lydia K. Leung Daily Staff Reporter As finals edge closer, an entrepre- neurship class has organized a water balloon contest to help students release their stress and raise money for Ozone House, a non-profit organi- zation that provides youth and family services in Ann Arbor and surround- ing areas. The class - Industrial and Opera- tions Engineering 422, taught by Prof. Ken Ludwig - puts emphasis on edu- cating college students to start their own businesses. The water balloon fundraising event - the main project of the class - gave the students a real-life opportunity to use the knowledge they gained from the class, Ludwig said. "The objective is that they find a proj- ect to do on the last day of class that involves the entire class and raises money for charity," he said. Students reached a consensus at their first meeting, deciding to hold a water balloon contest, which would allow other students to buy two water balloons for a dollar to throw at human targets. The human targets consisted of stu- dents as well as Ludwig and the class graduate student instructor. They lined up on the North Campus Diag and pre- pared to get wet. "I'm not only willing but happy to be a target because my students asked me to," Ludwig said. "I'd be a pretty poor example if I wanted to stand on the side- line, because one of the things about "The objective is that they find a project to do on the last day of class ... (that) raises money for charity. - Ken Ludwig Engineering professor entrepreneurship is to be engaged and this is how I'm entrepreneurial these days at the University." Ludwig said entrepreneurship is about stress, risk, talent, strength and creativity. Apart from starting a busi- ness, he added that it also means living a creative and innovative life. Engineering senior Erik Syrjannen echoed Ludwig's view and said the course motivated him to consider being an entrepreneur someday. "These days the economy is not doing great, many people are finding it hard to get a job and they are looking for new ideas," Syrjannen said. Within two hours, the group collected more than $200 from students, staff and faculty members who passed by. "Getting people to participate is so much harder than we anticipated. I guess this is the first time they see this form of fund raising" Engineering senior Ros- alyn Woo said. "But I think we are all happy with the results of this activity. We all had fun and certainly brought some fun to the North Campus area." Special Advance Screening! 02/03 spring season $10 Rush Tickets on sale 10 am-5 pm the day of the performance or the Friday before a weekend event at the UMS Ticket Office, located in the Michigan League. Audra McDonald and Trio Ted Sperling music director and piano Mary Ann McSweeney bass Warren Odze drums 50% Rush Tickets on sale beginning 90 minutes before the event at the performance hall Box Office. "Broadway's most adven- turous singer!" (Time) The first performer in theater history to receive three Tony Awards before age 30 (for Carousel, Master Class and Rag- time), Audra McDonald was also nominated for an Emmy in 2002, promis- ing equal success as she begins a film and televi- sion career. , , ', .,:;; Ji %; ; S { t.5:1t': , frin Celia Keenan-Bolger guest vocalist Fri 4/18 8 pm Michigan Theater $10 Rush Tickets are not available for this event. 50% Rush tickets will be offered depending on availability the night of the performance. Gabrieli Consort and Players Bach's St. John Passion Paul McCreesh music director Sat 4/19 8 pm Michigan Theater Take a study break dur- ing the last weekend in Lent to enjoy Bach's St. John Passion, a dramatic musical setting of the events of Passion week as recounted in the New Tes- tament Gospel according to St. John. The Hilliard Ensemble Morimur ("We Die") Christonh Ponnen violin Taken from the CD of the same name which reached cult status a v-n nan Mrim..fo t 1