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NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
Gen. Pace calls
homosexuality
immoral
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff said yesterday he consid-
ers homosexuality to be immoral
and the military should not con-
done it by allowing gay soldiers to
serve openly, the Chicago Tribune
reported.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace likened
homosexuality to adultery, which
he said was also immoral, the news-
paper reported on its website.
"I do not believe the United
States is well served by a policy that
says it is OK to be immoral in any
way," Pace told the newspaper in a
wide-ranging interview.
Pace, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and a 1967 graduate of the U.S.
Naval Academy, said he based his
views on his upbringing.
He said he supports the Penta-
gon's "don't ask, don't tell policy"
in which gay men and women are
allowed in the military as long as
they keep their sexual orientation
private. The policy, signed into law
by President Clinton in 1994, pro-
hibits commanders from asking
about a person's sexual orientation.
DETROIT
Michigan teachers
struggle to find jobs
Teaching remains among Michi-
gan's most popular college majors.
An estimated 7,000 people will
be certified this year, but 75 percent
won't land jobs in the state because
there aren't enough teaching posi-
tions to go around.
Some saythis trendofyoungpro-
fessionals finding jobs elsewhere
is a burden to taxpayers who help
pay for college degrees that benefit
other states.
"It's just sad that after you've
been in school for so long and work
so hard, you have to go someplace
else to do what you want to do,"
29-year-old Katrina Newnum, a
2005 Grand Valley State University
graduate, told The Detroit News for
a story yesterday.
WASHINGTON
Amid controversy,
Army pushes out
Surgeon General
Army Surgeon General Kevin C.
Kiley abruptly stepped down under
pressure from military superiors,
the third top Army official forced
out in the fallout from revelations
of shabby treatment of wounded
soldiers at Walter Reed Army Med-
ical Center.
The Army said yesterday that Lt.
Gen. Kiley had submitted a request
to retire over the weekend. Acting
Army Secretary Pete Geren had
asked Kiley for his retirement, said
a senior defense official, speaking
on condition of anonymity because
he was not authorized to talk about
the events.
WASHINGTON
Dems weaken war
spending stance
Top House Democrats retreated
yesterday from an attempt to limit
President Bush's authority for tak-
ing military action against Iran as
the leadership concentrated on a
looming confrontation with the
White House over the Iraq war.
Officials said Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and other members of the
leadership had decided to strip
from a major military spending
bill a requirement for Bush to gain
approval from Congress before
moving against Iran.
Conservative Democrats as well
as lawmakers concerned about
the possible impact on Israel had
argued for the change in strategy.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
NOTABLE NUMBE'rR
Number that Israel Charles mas-
ter'sthesispremieredonBillboard's
R&B and Hip-Hop singles sales
chart last month, The South Flori-
da Sun-Sentinel reported. Charles
arranged and produced "Let's Fall
in Love Again," a song for Planta-
tion singer Rachel Brown, for a
commercial music class at Florida
Atlantic University. The song has
since dropped to Number 18.
As Comerica exits,
Fifth Third moves in
CASTING SPELLS
DETROIT (AP) - Fifth Third
Bank says itwill invest $100 million
in southeast Michigan over three
years, open up to 40 banking cen-
ters and create up to 350 jobs.
Yesterday's announcement
follows Comerica Inc.'s recent
announcement that it will move
its corporate headquarters from
Detroit to Dallas.
"Southeast Michigan is a growth
market for Fifth Third Bank," Greg
Kosch, president of Fifth Third
(Eastern Michigan), said in a state-
ment. "We will build out our banking
center distribution network, increase
wealth-management capabilities and
reinforce the commercial bank port-
PRESCRIPTIONS
From page 1
Those who qualify will be noti-
fied in a letter next month, which
will include a list of their medica-
tions and contact information for
a University pharmacist, who will
give advice on how to save money
on drug costs.
Two major practices that will be
promoted are pill-splitting, which
entails buying medications in larg-
er doses than prescribed to save
money and dividing the pills, and
switching to less expensive generic
drugs whenever possible.
The University's prescription
drug plan covers about 80,000 peo-
ple. More than 3,000 people qualify
for the pilot program, University
Health System Spokeswoman Kara
Gavin said.
Nationwide, 4.3 percent of
Americans take eight or more med-
ications, according to a University
press release.
University Pharmacy Prof. Les-
lie Shimp said this program is not
only going to lower costs; it will
also promote the safety of prescrip-
tion drug users.
By speaking with a pharmacist,
individuals will be more aware of
possible negative drug interactions
of both prescription and over-the-
counter medications, she said.
"There were redundancies in the
medications I was taking," Fred
Remley, said a retired University
staff member, after consulting with
University pharmacist in testing
the program. "The result was that
I felt dopey sometimes."
By taking less medication, Rem-
ley said he saved money and began
to feel better.
The pilot program will be evalu-
ated a year after its implementation.
At a press conference yesterday,
administrators said if the program
works well, it would likely expand
to a larger population.
Although the program may not
see, relevant to students, it may
benefit them in the long run.
"There may be things we can
learn from this that may possi-
bly influence the way we man-
age student healthcare," said
Laurita Thomas, the University's
chief human resource officer.
folio over the next few years."
Two new centers will open
in Detroit in March and April,
the Detroit Free Press reported.
Branches also could open in Fenton,
Ann Arbor, Berkley and Riverview.
Cincinnati-based Fifth Third
operates 1,150 full-service banking
centers in Ohio, Michigan, Ken-
tucky, Florida, Illinois, Tennessee,
Indiana, West Virginia, Pennsylva-
nia and Missouri. It has both retail
and commercial banking products.
It is the Detroit area's sixth-larg-
est bank. Fifth Third increased its
consumer depositcmarket share by 21
percent in southeast Michigan in the
last reporting period, officials said.
HOUSING
From page 1
said Housing spokesman Alan
Levy.
Levy said University Housing
has worked to include at least one
unisex bathroom in each residence
hall, but it's difficult to attach bath-
rooms to rooms for students who
identify with non-traditional gen-
der expressions.
Levy said North Quad, a new resi-
dencehallslatedtobefinishedin2010,
will offer suites with attached bath-
rooms. But he said officials haven't
discussed offering co-ed housing
where students of any gender or sex-
ual expression may live together.
Simpson said having broader
availability of gender-neutral hous-
ing would be beneficial. She said
the University is trying to meet the
needs of students uncomfortable in
traditional residence hall settings.
"I do think that having gender-
neutral housing options available
campus-wide would be a good
direction, so that it doesn't neces-
sarily designate just one area of
campus that there would be gen-
der-neutral housing options on,"
said Simpson, referring to the
potential of North Quad for such
housing.
A student campaign would be
the most effective way to encourage
the University to adopt more wide-
spread co-ed housing, Levy said.
But Simpson said she has not
seen any signs of a formal student
response to the current policy.
Levy said no organized student
movement has approached him,
either.
Nationwide, several colleges
have changed their housing policies
as a result of student campaigns.
LSA junior Andrew McBride,
who works in the Office of LGBT
Affairs, said the University needs
to do more to make students in the
LGBT community feel more accept-
ed at the University.
"More gender-neutral housing
and I also think just more state-
ments ingeneral supportinggender
diversity among the student popu-
lation and among staff and faculty,"
he said.
"Those could be some very pre-
liminary first steps"
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Students audition for a summer orientation skit in Angell Hall yesterday. The audition for the University's Educational Theatre
Company consisted of improvisational activities and short games.
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