rbne E111JU itoUa One hundred edeven years ofeditorlirdom Summer Weekly www.michigandally.com Monday July 29, 2002 'N & l ! !1! :111 i !j {o I NEWS Highest paid administrator looks forward Brater and oana to research Joh fac( each other before the primary for the 18th District state Senate !Democratic nomination. Page 3 OP/ED The Daily endorses Lynn Rivers for U.S. Rep. and John Schwarz and Jennifer Granholm for governor as the Aug.6 primary closes in. Page 4 A iRmR By Maria Sprow Daily News Editor Before he steps down from his posi- tion as executive vice president for medical affairs Wednesday and begins pursuing his goals as a researcher again, Gil Omenn is taking a vacation. He has spent the last week traveling around the country talking to others about his research specialties - pro- teins and genetics - and will continue to travel around the world in coming weeks to lecture about health policy. He also plans on g a year sabbat- ical bfore he bgin teaching classes. Omenn, the first person to hold his current position, c to the Univer-Omenn sity in September 1997 after bing dea of the School of Public Health as the University of Wash- ington. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1961 and magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1965, gaining his Ph.D. in genetics from Washington in 1972. Despite his ties to other universities, Omenn now speaks highly of his five years here and said he is looking forward to his future here and seeing the develop- ment of the Life Sciences Initiative. "For myself, I've had a large role in the development in the Life Sciences Initiative, for the campus and the state. I'm still very active on the scientific side, not just the management side, of the health system," Omenn said. "This is my chance to get deeply immersed in the modern medical sciences again." He said he is looking forward to continuing his research in proteonics and sees the next couple of years as a key period in the field. "Everybody has heard about sequencing the human genome, so once you know what the genes are, you See OMENN, Page 3 U.S. Reps. John Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) shake hands after their only schedul primaries, hosted by the American Association of Retired Persons in Dearborn. "We shouldn't just automatically rubber stamp or agree to things just because -somebody said it's national defense." - U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers "(Republcans) tried their best to load this education bill with * extremist proposals, but their ideas were rejected.J" - U.S. Rep. John Dingell Squari Dbhgell andi issues with oi By Jeremy Berkowitz Daily News Editor U.S. Reps. John Dingell and Lynn Rivers are racingtoward the finish of their campaigns, trying to grab support of the last remain- ing undecided voters before the Aug. 6. 15th Congressional Dis- trict Democratic primary. Dingell supporters have pointed out his 46 years of experience in Congress, as well as his place with many pieces of historical legislation, while Rivers touts her positions on issues, which she says are closer to the views of the ed debate before the Aug. 6 ng of f Rhers debate ie week to go district's residents. "I have not been alive for 46 years," said Rivers, an eight-year lawmaker from Ann Arbor "I was not part of the (Civil Rights) land- mark legislation in 1964 because in 1964 I was in second grade." Despite a tough race, the two candidates have similar views on many critical issues. Rivers and Dingelf are both strongly in favor of public education, in keeping public college tuition affordable and thereby support- ing programs such as Pell Grants. She said she relates to See PRIMARIES, Page 2 in Goldmember," starring Mike Myers, has nothing new for audiences. See "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" instead. Page 10 SPORTS The Michigan hockey team took a big hit this past week, as Mike Komisarek and Mike Cammalleri signed pro contracts and will not return. Page 13 CONTACTS NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 Links between smoking, depression confined By Andrew McCormack Daily StaffdReporter A five-year study underway at the Uni- versity's Nicotine Research Laboratory is attempting to better explain the hazy rela- tionship between clinical depression and smoking. "A person with a history of depression brings something different to the drug nicotine," said psychiatry Prof. Ovide Pomerleau, director of the University's Nicotine Research Laboratory, which heads the study. "People vary with respect to their brain chemistry. That's what makes us individuals." Smoking acts as a self-medicating habit for depressed people, Pomer- leau said. But Pomerleau added that psychia- trists are unsure if the relationship is causal in that depression predisposes a person to smoke or correlated by anoth- er factor, perhaps at a genetic level, which makes a person more susceptible to both. However, he said there is definitely a See SMOKING. Page 2 LSA freshman Genevieve Oles (center) sings at the Blue Note Cafe in Lake Orion Saturday.