LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 1, 2002 - 3A I CAMPUS Prof. investigates Prof. discusses demography societal relations to Residence Hall Horror i medical care Connections between medical treat- ment and ethnicity, gender and geo- graphic areas will be discussed by Dartmouth medical Prof. John Wennberg tomorrow in a lecture titled "Physician Practice Variation: What it is, Why it is and What Next?" sponsored by the Medical School. The discussion will be at the Ford Auditorium at noon. Lecture explores Cambodian history David Chandler, a history professor at Georgetown University, is delivering a speech titled "Cambodia Shadowed By Its Past." The event, sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, begins at 2 p.m. in Room 1644 at the School of Social Work Building. Citizenship in the 21st century to highlight lecture Harry Boyte, prominent democratic theory and civil society scholar from the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, will be on campus tomorrow in an event spon- sored by the Center for Learning Through Community Service. Boyte's lecture, "A Different Kind of Politics: John Dewey and the Meaning of Citi- zenship in the 21st Century," will be at the Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League tomorrow at 3 p.m. Japanese film portrays adultery, mid-life crises The Center for Japanese Studies will be showing Yoshimitsu Morita's 1997 film "Lost Paradise" tomorrow. The film follows a middle-aged man, unhappy with his unresponsive wife, begins an adulterous affair. The film begins at 7 p.m. in Lorch Hall. There will be English subtitles. Men's Glee Club doubleheader showcases variety The Men's Glee Club, the second old- est college chorus in the country, will be led by Stephen Lusman during their Sat- urday night performances. Both concerts will feature pieces western and spiritual numbers. The Friars, an octet subset of the Glee Club, will also perform. The concerts are at 6 and 9 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. Student tickets bought with valid identification cost $5. Arabic calligraphy instructor shares artistic secrets Renowned University Arabic calligra- phy instructor Khaled al-Saa'i will dis- cuss and demonstrate his artwork on Sunday. The event is in conjunction with the Museum of Art's exhibition of al- Saa'i's work. The instructional series will be at the Museum of Art on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Tuba ensemble plays in recital Fritz Kaenzig, tuba professor at the School of Music, will be conducting the Euphonium and Tuba Ensemble Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. The ensemble will perform works by John Stevens, Rossini, Frescobaldi, Mozart, Respighi and Eliz- abeth Raum. The concert is at the Music School Recital Hall. Expert analyzes Chinese influence in Japanese art Maribeth Graybill, the senior Asian art Curator the Museum of Art, will discuss the current exhibit "Japanese Visions of China." The event is Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Museum of Art. Christian Science lecture explores safety, spirituality Christian Science Lecturer Barbara Fife will speak Monday evening on the issues of protection and safety through prayer and spirituality. The event is spon- sored by the Christian Science Organiza- tion. Her lecture will be held in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League, at 7:30 p.m. Lecture discusses disability studies religious concepts By Shabina S. Khatri Daily Staff Reporter ' There are only three concepts of God in modern society, Wayne State Prof. Munir Fareed argued yesterday at the closing lecture of Islam Aware- ness Week, sponsored by the Muslim Students Association. The three types of beliefs include theism, or belief that God exists; atheism, or disbelief in God; and indifference, that God is irrelevant, Fareed said. "Most people in the world believe in God, but most people in the world are inconsequential," he added. "The world is dominated by an elitist men- tality, which makes people inconsequential to the ruling global psyche. The movers and shakers of the world act on the premise that God may exist but (believe) He is non-interfering. Ethics and actions are therefore not colored by God." Engineering senior Yair Ghitza said Fareed's classification of the concepts of God were fasci- nating. "One point in particular that I found inter- esting was the idea of the irrelevance of God in today's society," he said. "It's sort of a new idea. When you have a discussion about God that's something that usually doesn't come up." In a secular society, the separationof church and state has evolved into the separation of reli- gion from society, Muneer said. "Freedom of religion becomes freedom from religion (because) secular society determines the parameters of the religious," he said. "It is the Supreme Court that determines whether a Christ- mas tree or a menorah is secular or not. It is the Supreme Court that determines whether or not you can utter a prayer." Muneer also discussed the effect that tragedy has on a human being's concept of God. "Those who are most disturbed or concerned by God - whether the absence or presence of God - are people who suffered enormous setbacks," he said. "When the Jewish relationship with God was so sorely tested and brutally abandoned dur- ing the Holocaust, many Jews wondered, 'Can we still speak about the existence of God?"' Fareed said the current debate within the Mus- lim world about God focuses less on the existence of God and more on the relationship with God. "Should we experience God through the classical Quran and teachings of the Prophet (Muhammad) or worship God? Ultimately your responsibility is to taste God by worshipping Him." But Fareed pointed out that for many people, prayer often becomes an end rather than a means of reaching God. "That noble quest will always remain a mystery to them," he said. LSA freshman Kelly Edwards, who attended three of the week's four-part lecture series, said she learned a lot from Islam Awareness Week. . "I come from a very homogenous, white part of New Jersey, so initially I came because I'm inter- ested in the Middle East. I think it's good to have that broad awareness of cultures," she said. SaNA AUH Uay Stockwell Residence Hall Student Supervisor Robert Levine celebrates Halloween while serving lunch in the dining hall yesterday. Universities criticized for By Dan Trudeau Daily Staff Reporter "Some of the most creative minds I kn the universities and run screaming to ot law firms. Believe it!" Law Prof. Cath said yesterday at the University Senate Nickerson Annual Lecture on Academ Freedom. In her lecture, titled "From Powerl The Uses of Academic Freedom," Mac the academic community, accusing th sities of limiting the freedom of thoug to defend by imposing standards of u grading and tenure. "Almost no one who has academic pow or at least publishes them, that challen orthodoxy," MacKinnon said. "Those wh use (academic freedom) seldom have it, a often have it, seldom use it." MacKinnon, a nationally renowned p Yale University, Harvard University an Chicago among others before her term a Michigan. She has also gained attention throughl rience representing sexual harassment vi States and abroad, and through her str against sexual discrimination. Yesterday's lecture also addressed uses dom to protect professors accused of sexu ing that such use of the 1st Amendment de professors to use suggestive speech in the it failed to defend "the rights of the student "We have focused on inviting students1 because academic freedom is an ambig would be tragic if we were to lose our sion," said Peggie Hollingsworth, preside Freedom Lecture Fund that co-sponsored "What we hope to do is to show the; 1imiting freedom demic freedom and the responsibility that we have to protect it," Hollingsworth added. Also present for MacKinnon's address was lecture name- aow are repelled by sake H. Chandler Davis, a former University mathematics her places - even professor who refused to testify before the House Un-Amer- arine MacKinnon, ican Activities Committee in 1954 regarding his involve- 's Davis, Markert, ment in the Communist Party. He claimed that because of ic and Intellectual his 1st Amendment rights, he was not legally compelled to speak. essness to Power: The University dismissed Davis shortly afterwards when Kinnon criticized he refused to testify before a similar committee within the e nation's univer- University. ht that they claim Davis served a prison term in 1960 after being convicted niformity through of contempt of Congress. He is currently a professor at the University of Toronto. After yesterday's lecture, he com- ver thinks thoughts, mented on the current state of academic freedom. ige the established "Danger to academic freedom is greater now than it was o could most often in the 1960s and threatens to be greater than it was in the nd those who most 1950s," Davis said. He attributed this claim to federal policy makers and their rofessor, taught at willingness to compromise individual rights. d the University of "We have now a much worse statutory situation. Many at the University of protections of the law were declared inoperative in the fall of 2001 because many officials have shown themselves to be her extensive expe- extraordinarily willing to take an ad-hoc approach to 'indi- ctims in the United vidual rights," Davis said. ong public stance LSA senior Lindsay Hollander said MacKinnon's lec- ture drew attention to a side of academia that many s of academic free- undergraduates do not consider when exposed to aca- aal harassment, say- demic works. fended the rights of "Next time you read a paper of someone in your field classroom, but that that you really respect, think about what they might t to learn." rather be writing about and what is stopping them," to the lecture series Hollander said. uous notion, but it The American Association of University Professors freedom of expres- Ann Arbor Chapter, the University Law School, the nt of the Academic Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and the event. the University Office of the President also co-spon- great value of aca- sored the lecture. JOHN PRATT/Daily Law Prof. Catharine MacKinnon speaks yesterday at the University Senate's Davis, Markert, Nickerson Annual Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom. Cancer researcher calls for ncreased preventive measures DID YOU FIND ANY MISTAKES ON THIS PAGE? CORRECT USI E-MAIL THEM TO CORRECTIONS@ UMICH.EDU By:Iylene Kiang Daily Staff Reporter Melt the iceberg before it surfaces. This was the message Michael Sporn, a Dartmouth College profes- sor of medicine and University alum, championed during a presen- tation titled, "The Chemoprevention of Cancer: New Approaches and New Agents." Challenging existing practices in cancer therapy, Sporn is the main proponent in the study of chemo- prevention - a term he coined in the early 1970s - which is based on using drugs, vitamins or alterna- tive remedies to prevent or post- pone the development of cancer. Sporn was one of the first to intro- duce the chemopreventive aspects of vitamin A. Identifying carcinogenesis - the development of cancer - as the primary target, Sporn's research is aimed at understanding cancer at a molecular level in hope that inhibitory compounds can be devel- oped to destroy developing cells. "For 30 years we have been racing for a cure and it hasn't been very productive." - Michael Sporn Dartmouth College Professor of Medicine sive or metastatic cancer. He added that even with the most advanced diagnostic techniques, often times when people find out they have cancer, the disease may already be in its end stages. "With mammography, sometimes women find lesions that have already been present for 10 or 15 years." Sporn's presentation was one of many delivered by prominent can- cer researchers from around the