VV A-mom. LOCALI:57ATt The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 21, 1995 3A New resume software helps job hunt Students searching for summer jobs or employment after graduation now have a new tool: WinWay Resume 3.0 for Windows. The program, available on disk and CD-ROM, includes automatic resume and letterwriting, contractmanagement, interview simulations and salary nego- tiation. The software's estimated cost is $39.95. It includes templates for many types of business correspondence, in- cluding advertisement responses, inter- view follow-ups and rejection response letters. The software also contains fea- tures that help job-hunters select effec- tive phrases. CD-ROM allows for video simula- tions of interviews, complete with mo- tion and sound. Ancient star cluster visible in Michigan skies this month One of the oldest objects visible with the naked eye-the globular star cluster in the constellation of Hercules - can be seen in Michigan skies this month. The star cluster formed shortly after the birth of the universe and is believed to be 8-10 billion years older than the our sun. Hercules can be found almost di- rectly overhead at dusk. Astronomers estimate the cluster con- tains about 1 million stars crammed together into a globe-shaped area 100 light-years in diameter. Despite this large number of stars, the cluster looks faint and small, because it is about 23,000 light-years from Earth. Post-doctoral fellowships available for minorities The National Research Council plans to award 20 Ford Foundation post-doc- toral fellowships for minorities. Fel- lows will be selected in a national com- petition from among recent doctoral recipients who show promise for future achievement. Awards will be made in behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engi- neering, mathematics, physical and life sciences, as well as interdisciplinary programs composed of two or more eligible disciplines. Fellows can select an appropriate not- for-profit institution ofhigher education or research to serve as host for the year. The deadline for submission of ap- plications is Jan. 5, 1996. For applica- tion materials and more information, contact the Fellowship Office, TJ 2039, National Research Council, 2101 Con- stitution Ave., Washington, D.C.20418. Biological fellowships available The Howard Hughes Medical Insti- tute will award 80 fellowships for full- time study toward a Ph.D. or Sc.D. in the biological sciences. Awards are for three years, with the possibility of a two-year extension. Fellowship awards include an annual stipend of $14,500, and a $14,000 an- nual cost-of-education allowance. Fellowships are intended for students who have completed less than one year of graduate study. The fellowship pro- gram is international, and is adminis- tered by the National Research Council. The deadline for applications is Nov. 3, 1995. For more information and ap- plications, contact Hughes Fellowship Program, The Fellowship Office, Na- tional Research Council, 2101 Consti- tution Ave., Washington, D.C. 20418. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Cathy Boguslaski Lacking funds, SLS is forced to fire employees By Michelle Lee Thompson Daily Staff Reporter As the fight to fund a legal advising service for students gets into gear again, the service has fired one of its project coordinators, less than a year after an- other attorney resigned to search for a higher-paying job. Student Legal Services Director Doug Lewis told the Michigan Student As- sembly that SLS lost Housing Law Reform Project coordinator Larry Fox last week to a lack of funding. "It was very clear that this is what it was going to come to," Lewis said yes- terday, adding that SLS spent four months reaching the decision to termi- nate Fox. "The costs keep going up, and the income doesn't go up -you start los- ing people," Lewis said. The announcement preceded a read- ing of SLS's latest ballot proposals, set to go on the November's student ballot. The first ballot question asks for students' approval of the $18,000 the University Board of Regents voted to put in escrow at the board's June meet- ing. The ballot also asks for students' approval of an additional $1.84 per stu- dent increase in fees, effective Septem- ber 1996. The third ballot question asks stu- dents whether they would approve re- moving a fee cap on funding for the services. "I understand that for the cost of about two beers ... you have someone who will walk into court with you, someone who has respect in this town and somebody who (cares)," Lewis told the assembly Tuesday night. The proposed budget- which MSA is scheduled to vote on next Tuesday - includes a one-time $2,000 SLS expen- diture, for SLS to use for employee bonuses. "We thought that by giving a $2,000 bonus to SLS to do as they please, it would boost the morale around that office," said MSA President Flint To Contact SLS students seeking legal advice can came in during the office's walk-in hours Monday 1-4 p.m. and Tuesday-Thursday 9 am.-noon, or call 763-9920 for more information. Wainess. But Rackham Rep. Remco Van Eeuwijk said he was disappointed in SLS for its recent actions. "I'm not very happy with them, hav- ing laid off someone recently," Van Eeuwijk said. "But I would be willing to give them more than $2,000 if they could provide the same level of ser- vices, at least until the November refer- endum." The legal service - which charges no fee at the time of service - is funded solely by the annual student fee, cur- rently $4.16 per student. SLS's total budget last year was $89,000. The service has not received an in- crease in funding since 1991. "Because of the fact that SLS hasn't had a fee increase in such a long time, it's going to take a real jump-start to get us back anywhere near to where we were before," Lewis said earlier this week. MSA Vice President Sam Goodstein told the assembly Tuesday night that it should work hard to get the ballot ques- tions passed. "We need to really push for this," Goodstein said. Although the priorities of SLS are to reform housing laws and represent stu- dents, Lewis said students are the higher priority. Fox had been the only employee of the office who did not represent stu- dents directly - the four remaining attorneys all do that job. "You as students have to take care of us because we represent you," Lewis said. "Everybody agrees that the office needs more money." ELIZABETH ULPPMAN/Daily Doug Lewis, the director of Student Legal Services, works at his desk yesterday. Student Legal Services handles more than 2,000 cases per year By Robert Jones For the Daily Although lawyers are sometimes ste- reotyped as overpaid, fast-talking and self-serving, the staff at Student Legal Services has a different focus - help- ing students with legal problems. The SLS staff of four lawyers and a paralegal has years of experience, a good reputation in the courts and they genuinely care for each student client, said Doug Lewis, SLS director for the past six years. The service operates as a prepaid law office for currently enrolled University students. Students fund SLS with a$4.16 fee, which appears on the tuition bill each fall. SLS provides students with legal ad- vice about landlord-tenant disputes, fam- ily and divorce law, and criminal de- fense, without an hourly fee, Lewis said. A typical visit to aprivate law firm can cost more than $100 per hour, he said. Students are not represented by SLS in cases against another student or the University. "Without the immediate 23ocent raise in the fee, within the next year the Student Legal Services will be severely hindered. ff - Doug Lewis Student Legal Services director f , Each year more than 2,000 cases are processed through SLS, meaning that, on average, about one out of every 18 students uses the service. Lewis said he worries that the service will not continue unless students vote to increase funding. The student fee does not increase with inflation and has not increased significantly in the last 10 years, he said. Proposed fee changes are voted on by the students during the Michigan Student Assembly elections andmustbe approved by the University's Board of Regents. Last April, students voted down a pro- posal to increase the fee, which Lewis said would have helped to control the service's growing budget deficit and to give the employees amuch-deserved raise. This November, the SLS fee reqiuest will again appear on the MSA ballot. One ballot question asks for a 23:cent increase for the 1995-96 school year, and another increase, bringing tht fee up to $5 for the following year. r "Without the immediate 23-cent raise in the fee, within the next year the Student Legal Services will be severely hindered and faces the possibility of laying off employees," Lewis said. Car accident injures one, draws crowd ay I ITAVWT9r / 9 By Jodi Cohen Daily Staff Reporter Following a three-car accident yes- terday evening, a 45-year-old man was in serious condition at University Hos- pitals. Police said the man was driving a 1994 red Dodge when he hit two ve- hicles at the corner of Washtenaw Av- enue and Hill Street. The man, who police said was hav- ing a reaction to insulin, then contin- ued north on Washtenaw before crash- ing into a tree. The Ann Arbor Police Department received a call at 6:45 p.m. "He lost control of the car. He struck two cars stopped at alight, went around them and struck a tree," said Lieutenant Norm Meldy. Marc Trachtenberg, an LSA senior participating in fraternity rush, was one of the many students who heard the loud crash yesterday evening. "I didn't see him hit the cars, but everyone heard the accident. He to- tally demolished the white car," Trachtenberg said. "He must have re- alized about the accident. He tried to peel off and he came down the side- walk and when he hit the driveway for Angell School, he lost control and flew into the tree." Chris Young, an LSA senior, also witnessed the accident. "(The man) was in major shock. He was making all these noises," she said. "We thought it was a child in the car because of the whining noises. He was in shock and then he passed out." The man hit two cars, a maroon Lin- coln and a white Chrysler, both stopped at the red light at Hill. After crashing into the second car, he drove off. He then drove on the sidewalk of Washtenaw before crashing into -and uprooting - a large tree in front of 1525 Washtenaw Ave. "I am the second person he hit. I was sitting at the light," said the driver of the white Chrysler, who asked that her name not be used. "He hit me in the back, stopped and then took off when I yelled to get the police and said, 'Look what you did.' He acted like he was on drugs." The accident, which attracted more than 100 spectators, blocked traffic on Washtenaw for about an hour. Neither police nor hospital officials would release the driver's name last night. [ 'rLY WAN'1 A-nHE 2wt'Nq/ F. 'ALL '161 I I GE5 (551 Ss4*t 15 OK ;: G d 5. :; P,5Y. I all a Correction Tau Kappa Omicron Sisterhood Inc. is holding amass meeting Sunday, Sept.24 at 6p.m. in the South Quad Ambatan Lounge. This was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Daily. GRouP MEETINGS EVENTS U Archery Club, 930-0189, Sports Coliseum, Hill Street, 7-9 p.m. U Campus Crusade For Christ, Real Life' weekly meeting, 930-9269, Kellogg Auditorium, Dental Building, 7-8:15 p.m. U Muslim Students Association, mass meeting, 665-5491, U "Chery Blossoms asSymbol of Peace and War," Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, noon lecture series, sponsored by Center for Chinese Studies, Lane Hall Commons Room, 12 noon s "FORUM Registration Sessions," sponsored by Career Planning and of Light Lutheran Church, 801 South Forest, 7 p.m. U "Thursdays in Leonardo's," live jazz, sponsored by UM School of Music Jazz Studies Program, Leonardo's, North Campus Commons, 8-10 p.m. STUDENT SERVICES O Campus hinomation Center, Michigan .. ar _