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Show 2 - Friday, March 31, 1995 The Daily Utah Chronicle MM""'"1""" .WX"'' '.y offers powerful inducements to homosexuals to lie," Nickerson said. military I from page 1 status that he or she will commit undesirable acts is an extreme measure," he wrote. "Hitler taught the world what could happen when the government began to target people not for what they had done but because of their status." Lawyers for the plaintiffs welcomed the ruling but cautioned that it applies only to the six people in the case.. "We don't want people to read the paper and think they can come out tomorrow," said Beatrice Dohrn, legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which helped represent the plaintiffs. Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern said the government will appeal. "Wc believe the challenged policy is constitutional and we remain committed to defending it," he said. The Clinton administration adopted the policy in 1993 as a compromise s advobetween the views of cates and those flatly opposed to gays in the military. The judge said the new policy violates the constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection. "The policy ... is not only inherently deceptive, it also gay-right- t 'Jmniitlt Phon Jaff BackstraMl social Dan Edwards, an expert in ethnic studies and work, spoke at a panel discussion of diversity on campus. The panel was sponsored by The concern is that these circumstances alienate students simply as a result of being numerically under represented. Villa also shared an observation that minority students seeking advice will generally seek a counselor with a minority background. Jesse Soriano, director of health science ethnic minority affairs, was concerned that minority groups arc discouraged from the U. Medical School, as a result of ethnic diversities in "Attracting minorities is difficult because CPA averages and MCAT scores for the U.'s Medical School arc the highest in the nation," Soriano said. Statistics place minority MCAT scores averaging at seven nationally, which is half of the U.'s average. Soriano credits the variance to different approaches ethnic groups take to educational preparation and to learning methods. "It is not saying that minorities arc stupid." Soriano said. "Any such assumption would be preposterous." He supported his views by indicating that Utah has the only Tonga n medical student in the country, and with the fact that there is only one practicing Native American physician in the entire state. Also, the department of health sciences carries the least amount of minorities nationwide. Soriano said. "Somewhere along the way the minorities arc taught 'We don't do math well,'" he said. "We need teachers to realize that science and math arc the weak points for minorities." Dan Edwards, an expert in ethnic studies and social work, stressed the importance of understanding the diversities between cultures. Edwards shared a personal experience in which he worked with a Navajo student, who had been diagnosed by Caucasian doctors as borderline psychotic, displaying social, behavioral and eating disorders. Experts were astounded by the in symptoms after decrease Edwards was able to accommodate the young man's request for an eagle feather. The student's behavior was a result of the haunting belief in evil spirits and an inherited hex. against which the feather would protect him. "To understand a group's values is to understand their culture." Edwards said. "We need more data on minority students on this campus." Villa said. "It is only through understanding the situations of minorities that wc will be able to better serve them." 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Waterski self-imag- Some classes closed The Multicultural Training Group will meet again on April 27 Tennis - Over 100 classes to choose from Camp F.mplnympnr ek 1 involvement, but police have seized a cache of chemicals and equipment for making nerve gas in raids at the sect's compounds. The cult also denied involvement in the attack on National Police Agency head Takaji Kunimatsu, who was shot a justify discriminatory policy," four times from behind by a masked assailant as he was leaving his Tokyo conNickerson wrote. None of the five men and one woman dominium for work Thursday morning. could be reached for comment. Their Kunimatsu was in serious condition after lawyers said they did not wish to make surgery in which he needed 21 pints of blood. statements. The military had begun discharge proThe shooting was a fresh shock to ceedings against three of the six, who Japanese already reeling from the subway include two Navy enlisted men on active attack and marked another assault on a e of safety and security in a duty and four reservists a Navy comwhere an an mander, Army captain, Army country guns are banned. and lieutenant "We colonel. a can Army only say, 'It's scary, it's so sergeant "This is an important first step in the scary,'" said author Kaoru Takamura. "I fight, but it's not over. Thousands and think this is very sad." Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama thousands of other lesbians and gays need to know that, at least for the time called the shooting a contemptible act Coles, an and ordered an all-obeing," said Matthew investigation. He American Civil Liberties Union lawyer also called for tighter security for top who argued die case for the plaintiffs ear- government officials. lier this month. Kunimatsu did not have a bodyguard BY RICHARD PYLE with him at die time of the attack. Associated Press police combed the quiet neighborhood in eastern Tokyo where Kunimatsu lived for signs of his assailant, described as a thin middle-age- d man in a black coat who wore a surgical face mask. He fled by bicycle. 8AM-8P- M Several people believed to be cult followers were seen at Kunimatsu's building on Wednesday, handing out leaflets criticizing police actions against the sect Transportation officials ordered special vigilance on buses, trains, planes and stations for suspicious objects or people. Subway officials have earmarked $11.1 million for new security cameras at nearly 150 stations. The first of those were installed Thursday at Kasumigascki station, next & to the headquarters of the national and Registration Classes now in session MRM0D Summer Outstanding Japan from page (MHJOQ'OB (NC(D The Associated Students of the University of Utah. to," Villa said. The government, he said, failed to prove its key argument that homosexuals, by their presence, can harm a military unit's cohesion. "Even if defendants do believe that heterosexual service members will be so mere statement of upset by a as to work cooperanot homosexuality in the such a belief does not unit, tively Travel Allowance RoomBoard, Laundry Uniforms & Linens Provided Qua fBQimpi-ms!- Tripp Xgke Camp Maine Poland, For Application & Interviews calli 1400-580499-9 of , TVfvn tiBr7r nn n n |