NEWS The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - 7 BUSH Continued from page 1 aged to satisfy many of the conservatives who helped confirm Roberts - without inflaming Democrats who repeatedly warned against the selection of an extreme conservative to suc- ceed O'Connor, who has voted to uphold abor- tion rights and preserve affirmative action. Several officials familiar with Bush's con- sultations with Congress said that Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, had recommended that he consider Miers for the vacancy. In a written statement, Reid praised the Dallas native as a "trailblazer for women as managing partner of a major Dallas law firm" and said he would be glad to have a for- mer practicing attorney on the court. Frist greeted Miers by telling her, "We're so proud of you." Sen. Mitch McConnell, (R-Ky.), the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, issued a statement saying he looked "forward to Ms. Miers's confirmation." Republicans hold a 55-44 majority in the Senate, with one independent. Barring a fili- buster, they can confirm Miers on the strength of their votes alone. LEO Continued from page 1 of these lecturers. "It tells you what kind of responsibility LSA feels towards its lecturers," she said. University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said two criteria were used to decide if the 20 lecturers in question were classified in the wrong category. The first criterion was whether or not the lec- turer taught upper level courses and the second was the type of administrative and service duties the lecturer had performed. Based on this infor- mation, LSA decided that four lecturers had been classified with the wrong title. According to LEO's contract with the Univer- sity, a formal grievance must be filed with the provost's office and the LSA dean's office. If LEO decides to continue forward with the rejected mis- classification cases. LEO will be holding a meet- ing next week to discuss further action with its members. LEO Co-chair Kirsten Herold said she did not think the lecturers who had been denied reclassification would continue to fight a frustrat- ing battle with LSA. LEO members were also angry that lecturers denied reclassification were not given an adequate explanation as to why their request had been reject- ed. Halloran also said that LSA originally prom- ised the misclassified lecturers who were denied reclassifications written responses detailing why they were denied. But instead, Halloran said they received one- sentence responses that stated the individuals did not meet the criteria to be considered for higher classification. Lisa Young, an anthropology lecturer said the process has been very frustrating. She was hired six years ago as a lecturer II and teaches the hon- ors seminar classes and is an advisor to honors students. She said that she received an e-mail from LSA approving her reclassification to a lecturer III, but after a week she received another e-mail saying the reclassification had been a clerical error. Herold said the review process over the mis- classified lecturers has been very frustrating for a number of reasons including the constant delay the union experienced with LSA. She said that the original deadline according to the contract for LSA to respond to the misclassification cases was July 1, but due to mutual agreement the deadline was extended to Sept. 30. "This is a process that has been disrespectful to the individuals and the union," Herold said. RESEARCH Continued from page 1 "When you're dealing with complicated scientific questions, minor subtle changes can have a major impact," he said. Additionally, Integrity in Science claims that companies try to delay or prevent publication of results that crit- icize their products and that research- ers occasionally withhold publishing such studies for fear of losing corpo- rate support. Goozner said solutions to reducing academic-industrial ties include requir- ing university researchers to disclose all funding sources and to provide other scientists with access to all data. He also said the government must increase funding for risk assessment research. "We need independent sourc- es of research funding," he said. But Garabrant said corporate funding has not influenced any of his research, and he points to a study he conducted funded by Rohm and Haas - a manu- facturer of a wide range of chemical products - that linked its DDT pesti- cide with pancreatic cancer. Additionally, Garabrant said he has been leading a two-year study funded by a multi-million dollar grant from Dow Chemical Corp., based in Midland, Mich., to examine whether residents living in the area have been exposed to dioxin, a chemical which has been found in elevated levels in soil near Dow's central plants. The contract with Dow provides the University with the right to publish the study's results as it sees fit and guar- antees that Dow or anyone else cannot obtain the original data without a legal challenge. Furthermore, Garabrant's team must report to a scientific adviso- ry board of professors and government officials from around the country. It is through measures such as this advisory board that the University claims it has taken steps to keep its risk-assessment research independent from corporate sponsors. Al Franzblau, professor of environ- mental health science and emergency medicine and a risk center faculty member said input from the advisory boards has already led to changes in the study's protocol. He added that Dow cannot impede the progress of the study because it will only see the results once they are published. "We don't report to Dow. We report to the scientific advisory board," he said. "Dow has no role in the conduct of the study." Paula Lantz, chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy and faculty member at the risk center, said the provisions included in the dioxin study should be a model for all projects carried out by the center. Despite such safeguards, Goozner said corporate-funded studies like the dioxin project still lose cred- ibility in the eyes of the public. He said people; especially if they do not understand the technical details of scientific research, might not trust the results of studies funded by cor- porations, even if they are carried out in a completely objective, inde- pendent manner. "It's not (sufficient) saying this money won't affect my judgment," Goozner said. When judging studies like the dioxin project, he said, peo- ple will think, "I'm living there. Why should I believe you?" Yet for the most part that hasn't been the case with the dioxin study, said Veronica Horn, chair of the study's community advisory panel. Horn, executive vice president of the Saginaw County Chamber of Com- merce, said while there will always be some people who question the study, overall the meetings with the University faculty have 'produced "very thoughtful discussion on how to approach this." Garabrant's team has "been as open with the test results and proce- dures as I have ever seen," she said. Although some people initially were distrustful of the study, "after the first meeting or second, people read- ily understood this was being run correctly," she said. HIGHER ED Continued from page 1 for the nation to have a comprehensive agenda for the future of higher educa- tion," he said. Another concern that McCluskey shares with many other critics of the initiative is that the makeup of the commission does not represent tax- payers. Most members of the panel, he said, have personal investments in the decisions that Spellings makes concerning the strategy that she sets forth. "The big businesses and the high- er education insiders all have vested interests in getting as much money out of the taxpayers as possible," McCluskey said. For example, he predicted that the executive from Boeing, who is on the committee, will push for a mandate requiring higher standards for engi- neering departments, so that his air- plane company profits from a better quality of engineering students. 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