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LOCALSTATEHEALTH 4A Friday. Jan. 19, 2001 Battle Creek Enquirer OBITUARIES DEATH NOTICES U-M president testifies at admissions-policy trial Thomas G. Gale Battle Creek Thomas G. Gale, 69, of Battle Creek died Thursday, Jan.

18, 2001, in Battle Creek Health System. "I think this is very healthy." Larry Purdy, an attorney for the Center for Individual Rights, said although no one will say it, the concept of critical mass is a new word for quotas. "It is a real number," Purdy said Target percentages of minorities were not included in the policy because they did not want anything that resembled quotas, Lempert testified. Terence Pell, an attorney for the Center for Individual Rights, said Justice Louis Powell, who wrote an opinion in the 1978 Bakke case, said that race could be a plus factor on a case-by-case basis. "And what we have shown in Michigan is that race is an overwhelming and systematic factor.

It trumps other factors and is used in every case," Pell said. On Dec 13, U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan upheld the university's inclusion of race among criteria for undergraduate admissions. Lawyers have said one of the Michigan cases could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which last addressed the issue in the Bakke decision that outlawed racial quotas in university admissions but allowed schools to consider race in deciding which students to accept Steve Raudenbush, a statistician for Michigan, and a former admissions dean, Dennis Shields, were scheduled to testify Friday.

Shields decided to reject Barbara Grutter, a 47-year-old Plymouth Township woman who claims she was unfairly rejected from the law school because she is white and filed the lawsuit with the Center for Individual Rights. 'And what we have shown in Michigan is that race is an overwhelming and systematic factor. It trumps other factors and is used in every case." Terence Pell Attorney for the Center for Individual Rights the week that he operated admissions by looking at academic criteria, qualified students who brought interesting things to the class, and a special program that considered minorities. Stillwagon said that through these three "pools" of applicants, he aimed to get between 10 percent to 12 percent minority enrollment Richard Lempert, a professor of law and social work at Michigan who was appointed by Bollinger to head the policy committee, Thursday testified that the written policy represented a major change for the university that abolished the "pool system." Instead of the "pool system," Lempert created the concept of "critical mass" where students of varying backgrounds, cultures and races would be included in the enrollment to provide a range of thoughts and opinions to the law school. "I think we have a critical mass of law students," Lempert testified.

Geralda Miller Associated Press DETROIT The admissions policy at the University of Michigan Law School was written in full compliance with the Constitution and embraced different backgrounds, experiences and racial and ethnic diversity, Michigan President Lee Bollinger testified Thursday. "I'm very proud of every part of it," Bollinger testified during the third day of a federal trial over the law school's affirmative action policy. Bollinger was dean of the law school when the policy was approved by the faculty and enacted in 1992. Opponents of the admissions policy said the university has used diversity to justify lowered academic standards favoring less-qualified minority applicants. District Judge Bernard Friedman is presiding the trial of the second of two lawsuits filed against the university by the conservative, Washington D.G-based Center for Individual Rights.

Friedman must determine whether affirmative action is needed to offset biases that minority students face; whether the law school uses a double standard to admit minorities; and to what extent Michigan uses race when making admissions decisions. Realizing that race was an issue at universities across the country, Bollinger said he formed a committee to review the school's old practices to make sure they were legal and develop the policy in place now. Allen Stillwagon, admissions' dean until 1990, testified earlier in Beat poet Doug Glass Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS Poet Gregory Corso, one of the circle of Beat poets that included Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, has died. He was 70. Corso, who had prostate cancer, died Wednesday, his daughter, Sheri Langerman, said Thursday.

He had been living with her since September. Born in New York's Greenwich Village, Corso was the author or coauthor of more than 20 collections of poetry and other works. Ginsberg discovered Corso in the 1950s. Corso's first poems were published in 1955. One of his best-known works was the 1958 poem Bomb, an ode to atomic weapons in the shape of a mushroom cloud.

"Know that the earth will madonna the Bomb that in the hearts of men to come more bombs will be born magisterial bombs wrapped in ermine," he wrote. Among his collections of poems are Gasoline, Elegiac Feelings American and Mindfield. He remained active up until his death, recording a CD with Marianne Faithfull at his daughter's Gregory Corso dies Louetta Burris Battle Creek Louetta "Irene" Burris. 86, of Battle Creek, and formerly of Homer, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001, in Laurels of Bedford.

She was born Dec. 22, 1914, in Hat Rock, to Henry and Flora Seewer and graduated in 1934 from Casey (III) High School. After she married Dean Burris on Dec 22, 1937, in Terre Haute, Ind, they moved to Plymouth, Dl, and to Homer in 1961. He died in 1998, and she moved last year to North-Pointe Woods in Battle Creek. Surviving are sons, Larry Burris of Illinois, William Burns of Whitney, Texas, Donald Burris of Homer, Ronald Burris of Battle Creek and Raymond Burris of Glen Moore, Pa; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

She also was preceded in death by a son. Dean Burris a daughter, Louetta; brothers, Ray and Charles Seewen a sister, Edna Stevens and Anna Brown; arid a granddaughter. Community (nvofttnMnthobbtes Was active in the Homer United Methodist Church. Served as a Cub Scout den mother. VWtabon: Noon to 8 p.m today at the 1 Kevin Tidd Funeral Home.

Albion, where the family wiP be present from 5 to 8 pm Swvices: 2 pjn. Saturday in the Homer United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Mark Mitchell officiating. Buriac Fairview Cemetery. Homer.

MamorUs Homer United Methodist Church. Dorothy A. Castelein Hastings Dorothy A Castelein. 92, of Hastings died Wednesday, Jan. 17.

2001, in Pennock Hospital Hastings. She was born Feb. 10, 1908, in Hastings to Ira and Lucy (fahnke) Otis. She graduated from Hastings High School and attended Ferris State College. She was employed by Thornap-ple Manor for rjfi years before retiring.

She previously worked at insurance offices in Hastings and Grand Rapids and in the office at EW. Bliss Co. in Hastings. She married Nial R. Castelein on April 5, 1929.

He died May 20, 1991. Surviving are sons, William Castelein of Middleville and Ronald Castelein of Alabama; a daughter, Peggy Goldsworthy of Hastings; 10 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Community Involvement, hobbies; Member of Quimby United Methodist Church and Women of the Moose. Life member of the Rebekah Lodge. VWUrJorc 7 to 9 pm today at Wren Funeral Home, Hastings.

Services: 2 pm Saturday at the funeral home with the Rev. Kenneth R. Vaught officiating. Buriafc Hastings Township Cemetery. Memorial: Quimby United Methodist Church.

Kathleen Y.Eddy Parchment Kathleen Y. Eddy, 62. of Parchment, and formerly of Del ton, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2001, at home. She was born Nov.

8, 1938, in Delton to Elwood K. and Helen R. (Lester) Eddy. She graduated from Delton-Kellogg High School in 1957 and attended Grand Rapids School of Bible and Kalamazoo Valley Community College. She was employed in the medical records department at Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, for 33 years before retiring in December.

Surviving are a brother, Kenneth Eddy of Plainwell; and sisters, Violet DallaVecchia of Detroit and Marian Olson of Omaha, Neb. Community IrryorVBnMnthohbJts; Enjoyed stock car races and regularly attended races at Kalamazoo Speedway. Loved her family, especially her nieces and nephews ami great-nieces ami oreatrephews, and her cats. Spunky and Sweetheart. VUMtoR 11 am to 1 pm Saturday at Williams-Gores Funeral Home, Delton Sanrfets 1 pm Saturday at the funeral home.

Burist Prairieville Cemetery. Mmorisk Interchange Youth Help Services of Otsego. Evelyn Carter Battle Creek Evelyn Carter, 106, of Battle Creek died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001, in the Calhoun County Medical Care Facility. Arrangements are pending at T.M.

Hughes-Perry Mortuary. Robert A. Cross Battle Creek Robert A Cross, 87, of Battle Creek died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001, in Battle Creek Health System. Arrangements are pending at T.M.

Hughes-Perry Mortuary. Mary A. Fisk Union City Mary Arlene Fisk, 80, of Union City died Thursday, Jaa 18, 2001, in Oaklawn Hospital Marshall. Arrangements are pending at Putnam Funeral Home, Union City. Ralph A.

Shirkey Warren, Ind. Ralph A. Shirkey, 91, of Warren, Ind, and formerly of Hastings died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001, in Wells Community Hospital in Bluffton, Ind. He was born Dec.

22, 1909, in Columbus, Ohio to Ralph W. and Josie (Callendar) Shirkey and was raised in the Midwest with his family moving often. He graduated in 1927 from Grand Haven High SchooL He graduated from Western Michigan Normal in 1932 with a bachelor's degree in art and history and earned a teaching certificate. He managed an store in Kalamazoo, then moved to Paw Paw, where he continued to work in the grocery business. After moving to Lansing, he worked in a defense plant until 1945.

At the end of World War II, he moved to Hastings, where he owned a neighborhood grocery store on Grand Street selling it in 1950, and buying another store on South Hanover Street that became known as Shirkey's IGA. He owned that business until retiring in 1972. He married Grace E. Thrun in 1933. She survives.

Also surviving are' a son. Gary Shirkey of Springfield, two grandchildren; and a sister, Betty Parsons of Warren, Ind. He was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Shirkey. Community invofvomofit, hobbies: Member, past elder and trustee of First Presbyterian Church in Hastings. Charter member and past president of the Hastings Lions Club, where he had 27 years of perfect attendance.

Former YMCA board member. Life member of the Masonic Lodge. Member of Sigma Tau Gamma national fraternity and the Western Michigan University Alumni Association since its inception. Enjoyed golf, hunting, fishing and baseball, which he played while at WMU. and also sponsored Little -League teams as well as bowling teams.

Won a contest to design a logo for the City of Hastings that appears on all city vehicles. Traveled and spent winters in Florida with his wife. Visitation: 4 to 6 pm Saturday at Wren Funeral Home, Hastings. Services: 2 pm Sunday in First Presbyterian Church, Hastings, with the Rev. a Kent Keller officiating.

Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Hastings. Memorials: YMCA. DEATHS AND FUNERAIS For paid obituary notices, call the Enquirer at 966-0674. BLANCHARD, CYNTHIA A. Funeral services will be held at 1230 pm today at the FAR-LEY-ESTES DOWDLE FUNERAL HOME.

For additional information, please call 962-5527. MORSE, CLARENCE G-: Services, 11 a.ra today in Bellevue United Methodist Church. Interment, Riverside Cemetery, Bellevue. For more information, please CALL SHAW FUNERAL HOME, LEHMAN CHAPEL, Bellevue, 763-9511. PHELPS, CHARLES Friends may call after 4 pm today at the FARLEY-ESTES DOWDLE FUNERAL HOME, where the family will receive friends from 4 to 6 pan.

today. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 1 p.m. Saturday with Pastor Brian Spencer officiating. Personal memories for the family may be submitted at www.farleyestesdow-dle.com. For additional information, please call 962-5527.

He was born Jaa 12, 1932, in Battle Creek, to Richard A. and Anna (Kings-north) Gale. He attended Penn-field schools and received a general equivalency diploma while in the Thomas G. Gale military. He served two enlistments with the U.S.

Army and served as specialist four during the Korean War before being discharged April 25, 1961. He was employed for 13 years by HiLex Corp. and managed Pic Way Shoe Stores on West Michigan Avenue and West Columbia Avenue for 13 years before retiring. He married Haruyo S. "Sue" Nakamura on Feb.

20, 1956, in Yoka-hama, Japan. She survives. Also surviving are daughters, Beverly S. Gale of Battle Creek, and Bobbi S. Miller of Wyoming; seven grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; brothers, Robert A.

Gale of Parchment and Edwin M. Gale of Battle Creek; and sisters, Anna Bates of Battle Creek, Lenita Henderson of Conway, Ark, and Florence Ernsberger of Marshall He was preceded in death by brothers, James A. Reed and Richard A. Gale and a sister, Dorothy Tuttle. Community involvement, hobbies; Member American Legion Post 298.

Former member of Cedar Creek Goff Club. Enjoyed golfing, camping, playing cribbage and bowling. Bowled with the American Legion group and with Nottke Seniors. Visitation: After noon today at the Richard A Henry Funeral Home. Services: 11 am Saturday at the funeral home with the Rev.

B. Kyra Jackson officiating. Burbfc Floral Lawn Memorial Gardens. Memorials: To the family. Jack L.

Lazarus Kalamazoo Jack Lazarus, 75, of Kalamazoo, and formerly of Battle Creek, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001, in Kalamazoo. He was born June 16, 1925, in Battle Creek to Ted and Fran Lazarus. He served in the Navy during World War II and worked more than 30 years at Green Bay Packaging. He married Janet Coleman on Jan.

9, i960. She survives. Also surviving are sons, Phil Lazarus, Frank Caswell and Steven Lazarus; a daughter. Jackie Wilson; a brother, David Lazarus; and a sister, Beverly Irish. Community invorvementiobbies: Member of Comstock Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6252.

Enjoyed hunting, fishing and riding his Hariey-Davidson motorcycle. Visitation: 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 pm today and 1 to 3 pm Saturday at Langeland Family Funeral Home, Comstock ChapeL Services: 3 pm Saturday at the funeral home. Beatrice A. Runsan Coldwater Beatrice A. Runsan, 95, of Cold-water died Wednesday, Jan.

17, 2001, in Maple Lawn Medical Care Facility, Coldwater. She was born Jan. 15, 1906, in Detroit to Frank and Irene (Forler) Richards and moved to Coldwater from there several years ago. She was employed as a cost accountant by American Standard before retiring in 1967. Her husband, Alan Runsan, died in 1963.

Surviving are special friends, Betty James and Ron and Irene Frambes, all of Coldwater. Community (nvolverncntwbbies: Member of St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Coldwater and its Ave Marie Guild, the Fortnightly Musical Club, the Community Health Center Auxiliary and the Coldwater Garden Club. Enjoyed bird watching and traveling. VrsJUdorr. There will be none.

Services: 11 am today at Dutcher Funeral Home, Coldwater. Burbt Card Cemetery, Bethel Township. Memory Maple Lawn Medical Care Facility Activity Fund. also crossed the Florida Straits. "Admiral Hayes was one of our most dynamic commandants, an icon in the legacy of the Coast Guard," said Adm.

James Loy, the current commandant Hayes graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1946. In the Vietnam War, he commanded a Naval task force and a Coast Guard squadron. He returned to lead the Coast Guard Academy until 1973. Later, as commandant he ordered a review of the Coast Guard's mission, leading to an increase in its battle against drug traffickers who use boats to bring their cargo into the United States. rr) 1 Retiming meals could help reset body clock, study finds Maria Damon, an English professor at the University of Minnesota who has taught Beat literature, spent a week studying under Corso at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo, in 1977.

While Corso was lesser known than Ginsberg and Kerouac, he deserves no less recognition, she said. "I would say that he was very gifted, also undisciplined, which is part of the beauty of Beat writing," she said. "He was very well-read but not from formal schooling. He put things together in a highly romanticized way." Michael Skau, author of a 1999 book on Corso, said Corso was a media favorite when the Beat movement exploded in the 1950s because he was "the prototype of a bad boy." "He was very disruptive whether it was a social setting or a literary setting, very antagonistic even toward his closest friends," Skau said. "Ginsberg tolerated behavior from Corso that made Ginsberg look like a saint." Corso was married three times.

Survivors include five children, seven grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. in peripheral tissues like liver," independent of the brain's master clock. That doesn't mean eating habits are more important than light exposure for a person trying to prevent jet lag, Earnest cautioned but that changing meal times might "be an added bonus" in helping the body clock after a long trip. Indeed, "it's reasonable that if you're going to Europe, you should a few days before start eating dinner on European time," Menaker said.

"The brain will shift more quickly once you get there," meaning the two organs might be in sync sooner thanks to the liver's head-start But the discovery might have much more medically important ramifications: Doctors know that some diseases are worse at certain times of day and thus try timing some medications, a field called chronotherapy. Some cholesterol drugs, for instance, work best when taken before bed so they target a cholesterol-affecting liver enzyme most active at night Radiation for liver cancer works on a similar pattern, Menaker said it may work best with fewest side effects in the middle of the night when patients can't get it Yet if patients could reset their liver dock by altering meal times, "you might get quite an advantage," he said Menaker cautions that's just a theory, but that "it's likely all the peripheral organs have their own oscillators," or circadian clocks, something he is beginning experiments to test home, Langerman said. Corso was born March 26, 1930, to teen-age parents who separated a year after his birth. His own biographical notes in a compilation called The New American Poetry give a sample of his style and the early hardship of his life: "Born by young Italian parents, father 17 mother 16, born in New York City Greenwich Village 190 Bleecker, mother year after me left not-too-bright father and went back to Italy, thus I entered life of orphanage and four foster parents and at father remarried and took me back but all was wrong because two years later I ran away and caught sent away again and sent away to boys home for two years and let out and went back home and ran away again and sent to Bellevue for observation." At age 17, Corso went to prison for three years on a theft charge. After his release in 1950, he worked as a laborer in New York City, a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, and a sailor on a boat to Africa and South America.

It was in New York City that he first met Ginsberg, who introduced him to contemporary, experimental work. HEALTH ach upset and other problems, too. Menaker simulated jet lag by exposing rats to light six hours earlier than they'd normally wake. While the light-sensitive brain clock could adjust in a few days, the rats' separate liver circadian rhythms were out of sync for up to two weeks. The liver helps control food metabolism.

So Menaker, working with scientists in Norway and Japan, wondered if changing mealtimes would reset the liver's own circadian rhythm and thus help readjust the overall body clock. They tested rats genetically engineered to carry a fluorescent-stained clock-related gene when and how much the rats' liver tissue glowed under a microscope showed allowed measurement of the liver's circadian rhythms. Rats normally sleep during the day and feed at night. Allow them food only for four hours during daylight and they rapidly act like day is night, pumping away on their exercise wheels for a few hours before the food appears. Are they just hungry? Check those liver genes under the microscope, and Menaker found that the circadian dock in the liver had shifted by 10 hours after just two days of adjusted mealtimes.

The finding is "very important" said circadian rhythm expert David Earnest of Texas University. "What it proves for the first time is that feeding cycles can directly act on the rhythms expressed with Laukan Neebgaakd Associated Press WASHINGTON The timing of meals may play an important role in resetting body clocks, concludes a study that could aid scientists hunting ways to combat long-distance travelers' jet lag. The discovery, published in today's edition of the journal Science, is in rats, not travelers, scientists cautioned. Still, "it's noninvasive to change your eating habits," notes lead researcher Michael Menaker, a University of Virginia biologist. This would give you a reason to try it" But more important than the nuisance of jet lag, Menaker stressed, the discovery that the liver resets its own biological rhythms according to eating habits also could point the way to better therapy for serious liver diseases.

Everyone has a sort of master clock in the brain that controls their "circadian rhythms," biological patterns such as sleep and body temperature. This brain clock is very light sensitive, the reason most people sleep at night and wake during the day. Travel to a greatly different time zone, however, and it can take a while for that master brain clock to adjust. Then scientists discovered the brain-based clock isn't the only control of circadian rhythms. Other organs seem to have their own clocks that supplement the brain's master clock.

Perhaps thafs why sleep problems aren't the only jet lag symptom; lots of sufferers complain of stom- Former Coast Guard leader killed Associated Press MIAMI Retired Adm. John Hayes. 76, who led the Coast Guard during the Mariel boatlift that saw thoHtanHc of Cubans flee to Florida, died Wednesday after being struck by a van in the Florida Keys. Haves, of West Boothbay, Maine, was biking in Key Largo when he was struck, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Hayes was commandant of the Coast Guard from 1978 to 1982.

In 1080, the Coast Guard conducted the largest search and rescue mission in its history when 125,000 Cubans fled the port of Mariel in boats and rafts and 30,000 Haitians.