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AIDS
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HIV-associated lymphoma.
The doctor had grown close to
the young girl, who had been
orphaned by AIDS.
"I couldn't deal with the fact
this child died of AIDS, she died
alone and she died innocently,"
Bayer read. "I went from there to
thinking I don't want to get close
to another patient and watch
them die."
Because of the huge influx of
AIDS patients and continuous
impersonal deaths, doctors are
often confronted by a feeling of
indifference, Oppenheimer said.
He said doctors often give up
onpatients after diagnosingthem
with AIDS because of the lack of
supplies and hospital space in
South Africa.
"What I began to see was a
sense of hopelessness develop-
ing, not only among the patients
but amongst the medical staff,"
Oppenheimer read from another
doctor's story.
"If eighty percent of my
patients have AIDS and I can't do
anything about it, then what am I
as a doctor?"
Prof. Howard Markel, the
director of the University's cen-
ter for the History of Medicine,
said after the lecture that an
essential element of a complete
medical education is learning
how to treat patients like real
people.
"We try to impart on our stu-
dents that there is more than just
vials to prescribe," he said. "Or
a body to operate on, or tests that
PRESS
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Pluto Press in a closed meeting on
Friday, but it has delayed releas-
ing the decision to the public.
Speaking on behalf of the Uni-
versity Press, University spokes-
woman Kelly Cunningham said
the decision would likely be
released sometime this week.
Cunningham said the Press's
contract with Pluto is renewed
annually. The University Press
has worked with Pluto Press for
the last four years.
If the University decides to
cancel the contract, it must noti-
fy Pluto by either November 30
or May 31, with the cancellation
taking effect six months after the
notification, Cunningham said.
University Press Director Phil
Pachoda, who sits on the execu-
tive committee, said in an e-mail
on Saturday that he wouldn't
comment on the Press's position
with regard to the Pluto contract
until the statement's release.
Two committee members,
Law School Prof. Don Herzog
and Peggy McCracken, an asso-
ciate dean of Rackham Graduate
School, also declined to com-
ment.
The press came under attack
in August from pro-Israel group
Stand With Us Michigan for dis-
tributing"OvercomingZionism,"
a book published by Pluto Press.
Written by Bard College Prof.
Joel Kovel, the book argues
against the existence of Israel as
an exclusively Jewish state and
proposes a single-state solution
to the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict.
The University announced in
September that the press would
immediately suspend distribu-
tion of the book, citing "serious
questions" about the book raised
by "members of the University
community."
TRIAL
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there must be some indeci-
sion," his father, Orange Tay-
lor Jr., said later. "He's not that
type of person. True enough,
he's young, but he's not a mur-
derer."
Taylor also was charged
with first-degree criminal
sexual conduct, which car-
ries a penalty of up to life in
prison.
First-degree murder automati-
cally brings a penalty of life in
prison without parole, while sec-
ond-degree murder carries up to
life in prison.
Juror Lauretta Codrington,
48, said she was one of two who
favored acquitting Taylor. She
said the remaining 10 favored
conviction.
The evidence, she said, did
not prove beyond a reasonable
doubt that he committed the
crime: "We couldn't place the
defendant in (Dickinson's) room
before she died," said Codring-
ton, who lives in Ann Arbor
and owns a sports management
company.
you order, that there is a human
being in your office who is a loved
one, or a spouse, or a child."
Markel said that this is par-
ticularly important when dealing
with AIDS, where the statistics
can be daunting.
"When you can see past the
statistics and putyourselfintheir
situation, it becomes a lot easier
to treat your patients as human
beings," he said.
Oppenheimer said there is
still an absence of political will
to address the epidemic. This has
contributed to the limited avail-
ability of HIV/AIDS medication,
despite the prevalence of the dis-
ease.
Accordingto current estimates
by the Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation, there are over of the
47 million people who inhabit
South Africa, S million people
are living with AIDS. Many of
the infected are children.
In some hospitals, 30 to 40
percent of the pediatric wards are
made up of children with HIV or
AIDS, accordingto Bayer.
Alexandra Sloan, a University
alum who now works at the Cen-
ter for History of Medicine, said
she was impressed by the lecture
and enjoyed the style of Bayer
and Oppenheimer's book, which
mixed hard facts with personal
accounts.
She also said she was inter-
ested in the response of medi-
cal professionals to situations in
which medication doesn't erase
the problem.
"It's really interesting to see
what we do when biomedicine
fails, because we rely so much on
it," Sloan said.
The press's executive commit-
tee announced a day later that
it would resume distribution of
the book despite having "deep
reservations" about the book's
content.
The committee said in a state-
ment that "it would be a blow
against free speech to remove
the book from distribution."
The executive committee did
say,however, thatit would reeval-
uate its contract with Pluto.
In an open letter to the pub-
lic, author and historian Howard
Zinn said the University's threat
to cancel the contract would be
"a serious blow to the principles
of pluralism, academic freedom
and free speech."
Currentlythere are norecords
available to the public describing
the decisions and actions taken
by the Press's executive commit-
tee at its monthly meetings.
According to the University
Board of Regents bylaws, the
University Press has direct ties
to the University, as its director
is recommended by the Univer-
sity president and appointed by
the Regents.
The Board of Regents bylaws
stipulate that the University
Press is maintained for the pur-
pose of publishing and selling
books and other documents "on
behalf of the University."
Additionally, the bylaws
state that the Press's executive
committee is responsible for
reviewing books that the Press is
considering for publications.
Pachoda said in a phone inter-
view yesterday that due to the
nature of the executive commit-
tee's faculty review process, the
group's proceedings mustremain
confidential.
"(The committee members)
are there to make final decisions
on whether projects proceed for
publication, and they couldn't
function if the meetings weren't
totally confidential," Pochoda
said.
ARRESTS
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felony that carries penalties of
up to four years in prison and a
$5,000 fine, and interference with
an electronic communication
device, a high court misdemeanor
that carries a penalty of up to two
years in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The charges stem from an
alleged denial of service attack
- an attempt to crash a website's
server - on the Michigan Pro-
gressive Party's website dur-
ing the election period of March
2006. The attack came in the form
of a computer program that down-
loaded a single file on rival MPP's
website over 200,000 times in an
attempt to overload its server.
MSA parties often route voters
through their websites to the offi-
cial polling site.
At the time of the attack, Vul-
jaj was a part of the Students 4
Michigan party, which narrowly
defeated MPP in most races in
the election, including the race
for MSA president and vice presi-
dent.
After the scandal, Vuljaj
resigned from his representative
position on LSA Student Govern-
ment. In March of this year, Vuljaj
was elected to MSA as a Business
School representative.
Vuljaj attended lastnight's MSA
meeting but refused to comment
on the situation. Schweitzer, who
wasn't known to be connected to
any of the parties, also declined
to comment, as did current MSA
President-Zack Yost.
S4M disbanded after the 2006
election, but many of its former
members, including Yost, founded
the Michigan Action Party, which
now controls the assembly.
Brown gave a series of reasons
for the 19-month delay between
the incident and the charges.
She said computer crimes take
longer to investigate than most
crimes. The case posed no threat
to public safety, so it was relative-
,ly low on DPS's priority list, she
said.
A different investigator also
took control of the case part of the
way through, Brown said.
She said DPS turned the case
over to the Washtenaw County
prosecutor's office six months
ago.
The impending arrests will
be the latest chapter in the 2006
election saga that nearly saw the
top three vote-getting parties get
disqualified for elections viola-
tions amassed during the process.
Former MSA President Nicole
Stallings, who won the presidency
on the S4M ticket in the 2006 elec-
tion, said she tried to change the
partisan culture while she was in
office, but another scandal-laden
election wouldn't be surprising.
"Do I think it could hap-
pen again? Probably," she said.
"Hopefully people have a lot less
motivation to be so cutthroat,
party-wise."
Stallings has repeatedly denied
any connection with the attacks.
Conn erly planning
2008 ballot efforts
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Nebraska and Arizona.
Although he said he hadn't
heard of ACRI's campaign yet,
Brice McCoy, president of the
University of Arizona College
Republicans, said he thinks most
students at the university disagree
with affirmative action.
"They always have it in the
paper, the president wanting to
recruit more Latino students. Peo-
ple get ticked off at that," McCoy
said. "The university puts a lot of
money into recruiting minorities."
Nate Kennedy, president of the
College Democrats of Missouri
and former chair of the University
of Missouri at Columbia's chapter
of the College Democrats, said an
affirmative action ban hasn't yet
gained political momentum in the
state.
He said he didn't know about
the proposal, even though he con-
siders himself attuned to Missouri
politics.
"It hasn't been a prominent
issue in Missouri politics in the
last couple of years," Kennedy said.
"As we get closer to elections, we'll
see what happens."
Durrell Hodge, president of the
University of Oklahoma's student
chapter of the NAACP, said his
group has taken an official stance
against the initiative but hasn'tyet
decided what to do about it.
Hodge said he is concerned that
people would signa petition toput
the initiative on the ballot and then
vote for it without understanding
what the measure's effects.
"We need to be on the lookout,"
Hodge said. "Their tactics are to
get people to sign the petition by
putting signs on it saying it stops
discriminatory practices."
Hodge said his group doesn't
expect to keep the initiative off of
the ballot because the petition will
likely garner the 138,900 signa-
tures necessary.
Oklahoma is traditionally a
largely conservative state. Almost
two-thirds of voters picked Presi-
dent Bush in the 2004 presidential
election. The state has two Repub-
lican senators and all but one of
the state's representatives are
Republicans.
"We're 100 percent sure they'll
get it on the ballot," Hodge said.
"We're working more toward voter
education because we know we're
going to have to vote on it."
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