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Show 2 - The Daily Thursday, March 4, 1999 Utah Chronicle Nation n Brief Michigan State Dealing With Racist Scribblings in Dorms Laura Hancock: laura.hancockchronicle.utah.edu Assistant News Editor, Dave Hancock: davechronicle.utah.edu News Editor, Nation Connecticut May Investigate The Connecticut legislature is considering legislation that will regulate SAT preparation courses and investigate the extent to which the test affects college admissions. The legislation comes as the SATs are undergoing national scrutiny for suspected class and cultural bias. State Rep. Patricia Dillon commenced the initiative as a first step in finding out whether the SAT discriminates on the basis of economic status. The State's Education Committee will hold a hearing March 15 over a bill that incorporates two proposals involving the SATs, State Senator and Senate Chair Tom Gaffcy said. One of these proposals calls for the state to do a study of how much colleges weight SAT scores in the admission process; the other proposes that the State regulate SAT preparation services. Companies that provide SAT tutoring services claim that their classes can significantly raise a student's score. State regulation would ensure that SAT tutors are qualified to teach, Dillon said. An article in the Jan. 10 issue of The New York Times Magazine raises several concerns that Dillon hopes to address through her legislation. Dillon said that if the SATs are the elimination of affirmative action is taking away the safeguard for those who cannot afford preparation services to help them on the SATs. U U d, Tamatia Harvel was leaving her fifth floor room in South Wonders Hall at Michigan State University when she saw the graffiti scribbled on her door. "I had a drawing on my message erase board," said Harvel, a family and child ecology sophomore. "It was a man in a noose." Last month, Harvel's and other doors on the floor were marked with racist and sexist slurs, including, "no ." n day" and "pigs and n Concerned by the action and the handling of it by Residence Life, Tyree Williams, president of the Black Student Alliance, mailed letters this week to all Residence Life staff members. "I've been disappointed with the way Residence Life has handled these situations in the past," Williams said. The incidents occurred during the weekend before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to MSU housing officials. Last year, Williams worked as a (U-wir- e) Day gaining anything by doing this" J. Bernard Machen on the possibility of four-yea- r President, degrees being awarded to Dixie College students through the U World Russian Who Killed Missionary Is on Trial Russian man is on trial for the stabbing death of an American Mormon missionary, a news report said Wednesday. The missionary, Jose Manuel Mackintosh, 20, of Hiko, Nev., was attacked last October w.hilc coming out of an apartment building following family. A a visit with a church fellow missionary suf- fered multiple stab wounds but Police say the suspect, Sergei Chudakov, is an alcoholic who was drunk at the time of the stabbing. Authorities have described the attack as a random act of violence that was not aimed at the church. Chudakov was on trial Wednesday in the central city of Ufa at the Supreme Court of the Russian republic of Bashkiria, the Interfax news agency reported. The Associated Press has recovered. Correction An article that ran Wednesday, March 3, headlined "United and Cond Off" statvergence Parties ed that an Party flier was the out Monday, March during passed 1 the of Council. Greek meeting Poli-ticke- anti-Unit- The State News res- ident assistant in Holden Hall when Two Capitol Hill lawmakers are stepping in to resolve a clash between military recruiters and the nation's law schools. They propose to repeal a law that cuts federal financial aid to schools that banned puses. Representatives Barney Frank and Thomas J. Campbell are preparing to introduce legislation that would repeal part of the "Solomon Amendment," which was passed last year and withholds federal funding from colleges and universities that bar military recruiters due to the military's discrimination against gays. The amendment did force the "great majority" of Association of American Law Schools (AALS) members, which include the University of Utah, to change their policies, according to Carl C. Monk, executive director of AALS. The AALS requires its members to The flier was instead distributed to all greek houses in time for their individual Monday evening meetings, said Ashley Offerman, president of the Intra-Fraterni- cam- adopt poli- March 4 The Hinckley Institute of Politics is hosting a wrap-u- p to this year's Legislative session at 10:45 a.m. in Room 255 of Orson Spencer Hall. Sen. Scott Howell, Sen. John Valentine, Rep. Sheryl Allen and Rep. Dave Jones will all speak. The University of Utah department of chemistry is hosting a lecture by Yuri Kryshenko, a graduate student at the U in Room 2006 of the Henry Eyring Building. "Catalysis by Molecularly Imprinted Polymers" begins at n a.m. The U Women's Resource Center is holding a panel discussion titled "Breaking Boundaries At Work" at noon in the Gould Auditorium of the Marriott Library. Call for more information. 581-75- (U-wir- e) Nation Bill Would Allow Law Schools To Forbid Military Recruitment military recruiters fr.om their A someone wrote racial slurs in an elevator and on the hall's Black Caucus bulletin board. "The whole thing was swept under the rug," he said. "There was no word of it afterward. Students who didn't see it never even knew it happened." Although she hasn't yet read Williams' letter, Kathy Stepanovich, acting director of Residence Life, said MSU doesn't try to keep these kinds of incidents quiet. She said MSU works with students to ensure their rights are protected. "That's not what we stand for or what we believe in," she said. "We are trying to keep communication lines open within the community." Hall officials have no suspects, but the hall manager set a $100 reward for information, said'Allyn Shaw, Wonders Hall complex director. He said police have investigated the incidents. "We tried as many different ways as we can, and we still haven't come up with anything," Shaw said. Yale Daily News Quote of the " don't see the SATs race-biase- Campus Events clause, lating the schools limited the many presence of military recruiters on their campuses. The Solomon Amendment forced many schools to bend their rules with the threat of losing federal funds, including Pell Grants and Stafford Loans, according to Campbell's office. The Campbell-Fran- k amendment, which will be introduced in the coming weeks, is designed to preserve federal financial aid for students at schools that ban military recruiters. Gerald B.H. Solomon, the New York Republican representative who authored the amendment that now bears his name, disagrees with the idea. "If there are institutions willing to accept the dollars of the federal gov ernment, it seems hypocritical to stiff-arthat branch of the government that protects society," said William R. Teator, a spokesperson for Solomon. now-retir- ed m Harvard Crimson cies, but the military forbids homosexuals from serving. To avoid vio (U-wir- e) ty Council. Don Haight, director of admissions at the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, will be in the Wilma Skaggs Biology Building, Room 212, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. There will be a short presentation and then Haight will stick around and answer; students' questions about, medical school admissions. The U department of geology and geophysics is holding the next.of its distinguished lecture series at 4 p.m. in Room 103 of the Engineering and Mines Classroom Building. Tim Stern will deliver an address titled "Crust and Mantle Deformation at an Active Plate Boundary: Results of the joint Geophysical Transect of the Central South Island, New Zealand." US-N- Z The department of is chemistry, hosting an address by Dr. Kerry Hipps of the University of Washington at 4 p.m. in Room 2006 of the Henry Eyring Building. For more information, call U 581-538- 3. The U department of biology is holding a seminar titled "What Short Tandem Repeats Have to Say About the Origin of Modern Humans" by Alam Rogers of the U today at 4 p.m. in Room 210 of the Wilma Skaggs Biology Buildfor more ing. Call information. . 581-47- Attention Premedical Students! umsmm 2000 Entering Class MARCH 5TH 10:45 AM INSTITUTE CHAPEL Larry H. Miller OWNER OF THE UTAH JAZZ The U Middle East Center is hosting a discussion group today in Room 208 OSH. "The Arabization of the Bible in the Nineteenth Century" begins at It Medical School Application Workshop Details on: MCAT, Recommendations, AMCAS and Interviews. All interested premeds welcome. NOW is the time to begin preparation! Thursday, March 4, 1999 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.,JTB 130 Marilyn Hoffman, Premedical Advisor 4:15 p.m. Need help with your taxes? ASUU is hosting a tax help session every Thursday evening, excepting spring break, until April 15 in Room 319 of the A. Ray Olpin University Union from 5 to 8 p.m. Planning on applying to medical school? Don't miss today's medical school appli- cation workshop in Room 130 of the James Talmage Building from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. All aspects of the application process will be covered. |
