The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7 EDUCATION From Page 1 Cynthia Wilbanks, the Univer- sity's vice president of govern- ment relations, said the University is actively giving feedback to law- makers about the bill. "We continue to be fully engaged," Wilbanks said. "We are not reluctant at all to share with policy makers the provisions that we like and the provisions we find challenging and ways in which we'd want to have them changed." Margaret Rodriguez, senior associate director in the Universi- ty's Office of Financial Aid, said in an e-mail message that efforts to increase federal funding for Pell Grant awards will help low- and 1 middle- income students. "Legislative efforts that increase federal grants for the neediest students and increase access to higher education are good," Rodriguez said. A full Pell scholarship pro- vides a maximum of $4,310 for the 2007-2008 school year. The pro- vision would call for significant increases to that number. LANGUAGE From Page 1 Mary Lambert, an LSA sopho- more, said she struggled through a Spanish class last year and had no idea she could receive an exemption. "Last year I was at office hours all the time," Lambert said. "And this year, I don't think my professor even knew the test existed." Jeffery Harrold, chair of the Quantitative Reasoning Com- mittee and a member of the Academic Standards Board, said students shouldn't rush to take the exam after a disappointing quiz score. He suggested that struggling students seek help from their professors or graduate student instructors. But when that's not enough, he An amendmenttothebillwould eliminate the need for families to fill out the i27-question Free Application for Federal Student Aid form by allowingtaxpayers to have their income and asset infor- mation compiled by the IRS and sent directlyto the Department of Education. "In general, I think people are looking for opportunities to streamline the process of student financial aid," Wilbanks said. The provision, she said, attempts to make it easier for stu- dents to apply for financial aid. The act will also require schools to provide students with the expected cost of completing a degree, including tuition and fees. An amendment made by House Republicans that would have pre- vented illegal immigrants from receiving federal student aid was not added to the bill. The Senate passed its version of a renewal bill last July. Both ver- sions will be reviewed in a joint conference between House and Senate members until both houses can agree on a version of the bill. A consensus will need to be reached by March 31, when the current Higher Education Act expires. said, sitting down with an aca- demic adviser and determining candidacy for a language waiver is the next step. "Once they've talked to the instructor about what's happen- ing in that class, the first person I tell them to talk to is their aca- demic adviser," Harrold said. Chalmers Knight, the chair of the Foreign Language Waiver Committee, said the process is holistic and that the committee tries to assess each case on its own merits. "We give everyone due process and we are quite diligent about being fair to both students and the college," Knight said. Cathleen Conway-Perrin, director of the Academic Stan- dards Board, said"students who think they might have a learning disability should seek help at the University's Office of Services for Students with Disabilities. LAWSUIT From Page 1 of West Virginia when the suit was filed in an attempt to move the case back to the state level. He said he dropped that investigation because of the judge's announce- ment yesterday. "With the judge's decision that the university is an agent of the state, it became irrelevant where he lived at the time of suit," Wake- field said. Although there is no time frame for proceeding with the suit in state court, Wakefield said he would try to resolve the case before a state judge as soon as possible. Athletic Department spokes- man Bruce Madej and Marvin Robon, an attorney representing Rodriguez, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Although Rodriguez signed a letter of intent to coach at the University of Michigan nearly two months ago that included salary figures, potential contract length and incentives information, he has yet to sign a contract with the Uni- versity. Distracted drivers drawing concern Exp coil d DET never tempti off the the wh Talk ing tex has alr states. likenin ing roo cars in tion sy tainme Som their c- gations ers anc printer Stat New Y erts say gadgets while riding in a cab in Miami -- the driver was watching a boxing ild be as risky as match on a television mounted on the dashboard. Srunk driving "I can understand a monitor in the rear, but up front it is a differ- By BILL VLASIC ent world," said Marcellino, who The New York Times sponsored a bill last year to ban all "display generating devices" in the 'ROIT -- Drivers have driver's view. had so many distractions New York already has a law ng them to take their eyes against TV sets in the front seat. road and their hands off "The driver shouldn't be doing eel. anything other than driving," ing on cell phones and typ- Marcellino said. Kt messages while driving Motorists have always engaged eady led to bans in many in risky behavior, whether it is But now auto companies, eating a sandwich, arguing with a g their latest models to liv- spouse, applying makeup or study- ms on the road, are turning ing a map while speeding down to cocoons of communica- the interstate. stems and high-tech enter- Safety experts say the influx nt. of electronics is turning cars e drivers are even packing into sometimes chaotic -- and ar interiors with GPS navi- distracting -- moving family screens, portable DVD play- rooms. d computer keyboards and The National Highway Traffic s. Safety Administration estimates e Sen. Carl L. Marcellino of that 80 percent of vehicle crashes ork learned this firsthand and 65 percent of close calls are caused in part by driver distrac- tion. And some tragic accidents have drawn further attention to the dangers. In June, five teenage girls were driving to a vacation home in upstate New York when their sport utility vehicle crashed head- on into a tractor-trailer, killing all of them. Police later learned from phone records that the driver had been typing text messages on her phone just before she swerved out of her lane. Toxicology tests ruled out alcohol and drugs as possible causes. The rise in distraction-related accidents is chilling to auto-safety advocates who typically study air bags and rollovers. "If we don't do something about it, you're looking at a situation that could rival drunk driving as a risk factor in crashes," said Clarence M. Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a con- sumer advocacy group based in Washington. WATER From Page 1 water. Implementation of a bill pack- age, "Great Lakes, Great Michi- gan," would keep large-scale water users like the University in check. The bill also seeks to ratify leg- islation that prohibits most sales of Great Lakes basin water to other states and nations. Under the new legislation, for example, a bottling company would need to obtain a permit before extracting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water from certain areas. Permits would then be reviewed in a "public comment period," during which residents of the area could voice any objections before sending the permit request to the Department of Environmental Equality for approval. LSA freshman Seth Soderborg, Warren's employee, said because the University would have to more closely monitor its water usage, students living in residence halls might have higher room and board costs if the bill passes. "If you live in the dorms, this is obviously going to affect your housing costs and your living costs," he said. The bill package has already been passed in Illinois and Min- nesota, and Warren said it's "days away" from being passed in Indi- ana. Though she strongly supports the bill herself, Warren acknowl- edged that some aren't as optimis- tic. "There is some opposition to the movement of these bills - those that would like to get their hands on Michigan's water and claim private ownership on what is a public resource," she said. opponents of the bill argue that it could hurt economic develop- ment and levy administrative fees on an already depressed state economy. But Warren said these costs would be offset by the conserva- tion of tourism, Michigan's sec- ond-strongest industry. Since fresh water is a relatively scarce resource, Warren said, it's especially important that states monitor how they use it. "Water is invaluable - there's no way you can put a price on it," said Christy McGillivray, a panel member and representative of the nonprofit group Clean Water Action. "But multi-national cor- porations will try to do that. You can't underestimate that incen- tive." - Charles Clinton contributed to this report. 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