- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 3, 1995 LSA faculty gets report on support services ly Josh White Daily Staff Reporter A report presented to the LSA faculty meeting yesterday says support services need to be more accessible, but some faculty cautioned against extensive use Of some programs. }fDavid Schoem, assistant dean for undergraduate education, presented the report, which the Joint Faculty-Student Policy Committee finished in April. He said it will serve asabasis for future discussion on how to improve services, especially for first-year students. "We will continue to talk about the issues of support services and work from the recommendations the committee dis- °toveredto fix the problems here," Schoem said. "Esrold Nurse, the new assistant dean for student affairs, is already look- ing into the area of academic advising. We will look at the report and hopefully try to make some changes based on it." After researching materials sent to first-year students regarding support services, Schoem said the committee found the information "overwhelming and confusing," which rendered the in- formation relatively useless. The committee's recommendations included establishing learning commu- nities for all first-year students, devel- oping strong departmental clubs for concentrators, increasing peer advising and expanding freshman interest groups. "It is important that new students have the opportunity to learn about sup- port groups and get involved in smaller interest groups so as to feel more a part of a community here," Schoem said. "Students who are now part ofa smaller community take advantage of the ser- vices, and those who see themselves as one out of 5,000 first-year or 17,000 undergraduate LSA students are less likely to use the services available." Ruth Scodel, director of the LSA Honors Program, said extenisve peer advising may actually cause problems. "Peer advising can be used as ex- 1 Classitie s... ..ad horn aily Service Concrns The advisory committee identified individual areas of concern related to student support services, which include: Students too easily feel isolated at the University. There are Inadequate mechanisms to effectively deliver the multitude of student support services. it Is too easy to underutilize academic advising services. There are insufficient incentives available for interested faculty to participate in student academic communities and in areas of student support services. Technology is underutilized in support services. cuses for not doing our jobs," Scodel said. "It can be good at some functions but it is not a replacement for faculty or grown-up advising. I know more about life than I did when I was 20 years old, and I think that is the same for most of us. I don't know if we want peers to be leading other students in the wrong direction with no faculty safeguard." Schoem said the report will serve as a springboard to further discussion and that this year's committee will look into seperate issues. DREIS BACH Continued from Page 1 school coach in Mishawaka, Ind., said yesterday that he was surprised to hear of Dreisbach's run-in with the law. "He was never in any trouble," he said. Geesman said that Dreisbach "was a top-flight student and athlete. He was a great leader for us." Dreisbach's offense came less than a month after the arrest and firing of his former coach, Gary Moeller. Moeller was detained following a night of ex- cessive drinking and abusing police of- ficers at a Southfield restaurant April 28. The University announced his de- parture on May 4. Carr immediately assumed coaching. responsibilities on an interim basis. On May 16, nine days before Dreisbach's ticketing, Athletic Director Joe Roberson gave up looking for a new coach and made Carr coach for this season. Normally, these types ofmisdemean- ors fall under the jurisdiction of Ann Arbor City Attorney's Office. How- ever, since the Washtenaw County Sheriff's department issued the ticket, the case was sent to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office. - Daily Staff Reporter Jodi Cohen contributed to this story. NO _J i I Tl-, 1ilL Writing's on the SWall... __ Make Your De ree More Marketable I U' 20 years of paralegal training excellence in the midwest Convenient schedule with flexible course offerings Bachelor's Degree required Representatives will be on campus on October 11th. To meet with a representative on your campus, call collect: 312 341-3882 Engler spent two months out of state in past year DETROIT (AP) - Gov. John Engler's travels outside Michigan dur- ing the last year add up to two months, with nearly half -28 days - spent in the nation's capital. Engler spent 61 days in the last 12 months outside Michigan, compared with 73 days in 1992, the Detroit Free Press found in a review oftravel records. After Engler's wife, Michelle, had triplets last November, the governor said he would cut back on his office hours and his travel schedule. "Most of his trips are one day. He leaves in the morning and comes back in the afternoon or evening," said Engler spokesman John Truscott. "A lot oftime he'll say, 'Great, I'm home in time to see the babies before they go to sleep.'"' Demands on Engler nationally have been heightened by his position as vice chairman ofthe Republican Governors Association; he becomes chairman in November. And he also has been men- tioned as a possible vice presidential choice for the 1996 GOP ticket. Many of his trips to Washington were the result of requests for him to speak before Congress on welfare reform and education. He also spoke to the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation, both Washing- ton-based conservative think tanks. For example, in January and Febru- ary Engler spent seven straight days in Washington to attendthe National Gov- ernors Association meeting, testify be- fore Congress and conduct interviews with national media. He spent 10 days in August on a trade mission to Japan and Hong Kong. Before upsetting Democratic Gov. James Blanchard in 1990, Engler por- trayed his opponent as a heavy traveller who used state planes and helicopters at great taxpayer expense. In 1989, Blanchard spent 57 days out of Michigan, a Free Press survey showed at the time. FIGHT Continued from Page 1. head and saying that he was okay. But there was a lot of blood all over his shirt and a big gash on his head. There was also a lot of blood on the floor. There were nice puddles and splashes right in the middle of the hallway." Stashko said the victim was attacked unexpectedly, and the victim seemed to think the fight was going to be outsideI the building. "The guy was just jumped from be- hind, and then hit over the head," Stashko said. "He couldn't have seen it coming because the gash was on the back of his head." Stashko said the pool cue was smashed into two pieces and was taken as evidence by Department of Public Safety officers, who arrived on the scene at 8:15 p.m. At 8 p.m., one ambulance from Uni- versity Hospitals reported to the scene along with a fire rescue team. Paramed- ics wheeled the victim out ofthe Union's back entrance and out onto South State Street at 8:05 p.m. Medical officials had the victim im- mobilized with a neck brace, and blood could be seen dripping down the side of the victim's face. DPS is looking for two suspects and has "sketchy" descriptions of the as- sailants, Lt. Douglas Swix said. "The suspects fled the scene and we have not been able to locate them," Swix said, adding that DPS is listing the fight as "some kind of misunderstand- ing that degenerated into an assault." Want to help change education? Consider MICHIGAN for graduate studies in EDUCATION Attend a prospective students' meeting Saturday, Oct. 14 beginning at 9 a.m. Learn about our Innovative master's and doctoral programs designed to prepare professionals in elementary, secondary, Survey finds number of overweight youth doubled since 1960s WASHINGTON - The number of seriously overweight children and ado- lescents in the United States has more than doubled during the past three de- cades, with most of the increase occur- ring since 1980, according to the latest government figures. Results of the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey re- leased today by the National Center for Health Statistics show that 4.7 million American youths age 6 through 17 are severely overweight. That is 11 percent of children in that age group, more than twice the 5-percent rate observed in the 1960s. "No matter how we define it, we see the same pattern in children that we've seen in adults over the same time pe- riod," said Richard Troiano, an NCHS epidemiologist and lead author of a study on the findings that will appear in this month's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Experts believe that American chil- dren are probably ballooning for the same reasons that theirparents are. Stud- ies by Tufts University researcher Wil- liam Dietz and others suggest that physi- cal inactivity - largely due to games and personal computers -- conspires with too much munching of high-calo- rie foods to add unwanted pounds. No compensation for radiation subjects WASHINGTON- Mostpeople sub- jected to government-sanctioned radia- tion tests during the Cold War suffered little or no long-lasting effects and should not be compensated, an advi- sory panel says in its report to the Presi- dent. The panel, which documented some 4,000 radiation experiments in an 18- month study, said that it found only three cases-involving roughly 30 in- dividuals-where compensation is clearly warranted. The findings by the 14-member Ad- visory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, were submitted to the White House yesterday. President Clinton was expected to outline the government's response, including fu- ture actions, at a ceremony today. Dr. Ruth Faden, the panel's chair- man, said yesterday that the committee sought to establish a clear "framework" that calls for compensation in any ex- periments where subjects were deliber- ately misled, did not give clear consent and where physical harm can be shown. I A ATIONAL REPORT Clinton, Jiang to meet in New York City WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, after refusing to grant Chinese President Jiang Zemin a formal state visit at the White House, agreed yesterday to a summit between President Clinton and the Chinese-leader in New York City later this month. Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced that Clinton and Jiang will meet Oct. 24 in New York, where both men will be attending ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the U.N. Security Council. It will be the first summit-level meeting between the nations since Clinton permitted Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to make an unprecedented visit to this country last spring, souring relations between the United States and China. Chinese leaders had been pressing hard for the full regalia of a state visit -- including red-carpet ceremonies for Jiang's arrival, a White House banquet, flags flying on Pennsylvania Avenue and a 21-gun salute. Neither Jiang - who is both president and Communist Party leader - nor Premier Li Peng has visited the White House since China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. 7iH4GN7( RECORDS we WANNEt - ou Mus IC a "" m phone: 663.5800 1140 south university (above goodtime charleys),AA rn mon.-thurs.: 9:00a-10:00p sundays 1 fri. & sat.: 9:00a-11:00Pf I:00*$-B'O0 W AROUND THE WORLD Death toll rises in Public Works MinisterHalil Culhaoglu said about 4,000 buildings -about half Turkish earthquake the town - collapsed. The quake dam- DINAR, Turkey - Cries for helpaged 18 nearby villages, said Interior p Minister Nahit Mentese, who estimated rose from collapsed buildings yester- damage at about $200 million. day as rescuers searched in a heavy downpour for survivors of an earth- Egyptexpels quake that toppled nearly halfthe build- American professor ings in this Turkish city. Authorities raised the death toll from CAIRO, Egypt - The government Sunday's quake to 71, and dozens more has ordered an American professor who were feared trapped. About 200 people has lived in Egypt for 15 years to leave were injured in the magnitude six quake, the country within a week. said Mustafa Secen, the city's health Paul Condie, of San Jose, Calif., said director. yesterday that the government gave no Nearly 45 percent of Dinar's build- reason for refusing to renew his resi- ings were destroyed and wide cracks dence visa. criss-crossed most of the remaining Condie, a professor of English at the structures in the city of 100,000 people American University in Cairo, has a 200 miles southwest of Ankara. wife and three children. His residence Heavy rain and power outages ham- permit expired Sept. 30. Without it, the pered rescue efforts, and 43 aftershocks family cannot stay in Egypt. rattled the town throughout the day. Sources at the university, speaking on One,withamagnitudeof3.9,hitat9:55 condition of anonymity, said they be- p.m. (3:55 p.m. Ann Arbor time), ac- lieved Condie was active in a Christian cording to Kandilli observatory. church, suggesting he may have offended Some residents criticized the lack of Egyptian sensitivities about proselytiz- equipment and slow pace of the rescue ing. It is against Egyptian law to try to effort. Thirty people were rescued yester- convert Muslims to Christianity. day. The report on possible Christian ac- "There are two people in that build- tivities arose after Condie spoke to The ing,"-Zubeyde Sezen said, pointing to Associated Press, and he refused to her neighbor's house. "They needed to discuss the case further in a second lift the ceiling up, but they only had telephone call. excavators. Those brought the whole Officials at the Interior Ministry re- building down. 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