4 Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 19, 1988 Football empties libraries, almost BY LISA POLLAK It was Saturday and these students were ready. They woke up, put on comfortable clothes, and got psyched up for the day's events. They took their seats - which were great - and diligently studied the sights before them. After all, there wasn't much else to do. These students went to the library. This is a story about the people who cared more about passing than passing up, preferred the stacks to the stands, and knew their coursepacks better than their fullbacks. It's a quiet story, a story of little pagentry, a story that begs the question: Why? "The fact is, I needed to study," said engineer- ing junior Scott Alexander. "You can do it better when there's nobody around.... Besides, you can get trashed at home." This sentiment was echoed Saturday through- out the undergraduate and graduate libraries, where a scattered group of students adamantly de- fended their plans. "It's not like there's something wrong with us, or we don't like Michigan or something. We just have better things to do. Not everyone goes to the games," said one, who preferred to remain anonymous. But the story of the library on football Satur- day is, frankly, kind of boring. No one runs, blocks, throws, marches, screams, or cheers. They just stare. And flip pages. And take notes. Still, after all the polls, predictions, and point spreads, this select group of diligent students might have been the best oddsmakers of all. "I care what happens, but I came here because I was sure Michigan would lose," said first-year LSA student Dosie Dwyer. "It's a little boring here, but I figured we'd lose to Miami anyway," said LSA senior Cathy Kim. Added another: "Like Jimmy Johnson, I'll get the last laugh - and all my homework done." The story of the library on football Saturday is, when you get right down to it, the kind of story that nobody thinks about and doesn't really matter. It's sort of how one student, hidden high within the grad's South Stacks, felt Saturday af- ternoon. "I could die in here and no one would know." In the library on a football Saturday, Wolverine hopes are the same way. Spending bill looms over Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - Remember President Reagan's nationaly televised pedge in January to veto future catchall spending bills like the $600 billion behemouth Congress sent him last year, and the promises by scores of lawmakers from both parties not to do it again? Guess what may be about to happen. As the Oct. 1 start of the 1988 fiscal year approaches, increasing numbers of senators and represen- tatives, and their aides, concede that an omnibus spending bill looms as a real possibility. It wouldn't be as large as last year's. After all, two of the 13 individual appropriations bills that finance the government have already been signed into law, and four others have been sent to Reagan for his signature. But with the presidential cam- paign influencing much of what happends in Washington these days, and with the hopper stuffer with legislation Congress wants to pass WHAT'S p .HAPPENING RECREATIONAL SPORTS *INTRAMURAL TOUCH FOOTBALL SIGN-UPS Thurs, Sept., 22, Fri., Sept. 23, and Mon., Sept 26 lam - 4:30pm Intramural Sports Building 4 Game and 6 Game Leagues available Play begins Thursday, September 29, 1988 *IM OFFICIALS NEEDED LEARN A NEW ACTIVITY, MAKE MONEY, MEET NEW FRIENDS, AND HAVE FUN -TOUCH FOOTBALL OFFICIALS CLINICS Wednesday, September 21, Monday, September 26, and Tuesday, September 27 7pm Intramural Sports Building before leaving town next month, a catchall spending bill may well be the result. "I don't see any way out of that scenario right now," Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, a ranking Re- publican on the Approprations Committee, said recently. Everyone agrees that come Oct. 1, a short-term ominus bill is virtually unavoidable, providing financing for a week or two for all Eighth Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show 10:00 to 5:00 Sunday, September 25 Lansing Civic Center, 505 W. Allegan, Lansing Admission- $2.00 Over80 Dealers Info: 307E. Grand River Ave., E. Lansing, M'48823 (517) 332.0112 RESUME SERVICE For a resume that can do the job. depend on Kinko s. kinkors- the copy center 540 E. Liberty 761-4539 1220 S. University 747.9070 Michigan Union 662-222 (open early, open late) agencies which money has not yet been provided for the new fiscal year. But if spending legislation is not finished by the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, lawmakers would likely either pass another omnibus bill to tide the government over until Congress returns in January, or send the president a package of all remaining appropriations bills and dare him to veto it. The engine that would drive such a measure would be defense. Reagan has already vetoed a Pentagon budget bill containing arms control language and cuts in the "Star Wars" missle defense system, a rejection that was interpreted as an effort to make defense an issue in the presidential campaign. Mon.-Sat. 11-8 551 S. Division IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Gilbert kills 60 in Mexico MONTERREY, Mexico - Workers searched yesterday for the bodies of up to 200 people swept away when a river poured over its banks and overturned four buses. Sixty people were confirmed dead. The buses were caught in the path of the Santa Catarina River, when a flash flood spawned by Hurricane Gilbert ripped a 40-mile-long path of destruction Saturday through northern Mexico's most populated region. By yesterday, the river, which had swollen to a 150-foot-wide torrent, was almost back to its normal size of 20 feet. Soldiers were then able to use cranes to pull the crushed body of one intercity passenger bus from the mud. Meanwhile, in northeastern Mexico, U.S. Coast Guard aircraft from New Orleans were picking up scores of people near Vallecillo that were threatened in Mexico and parts of Texas. State Treasurer: tuition program interest rates high LANSING - Some savings and loans have been setting interest rates too high for parents taking out loans to invest in the state's guaranteed college tuition program, state Treasurer Bob Bowman says. If those rates don't begin to drop soon, the Michigan League of Savings Institution may lose its exclusive contract with the state, which is guaranteeing Michigan Education Trust loans, Bowman said. Fixed-interest rates MET loans last week ranged from 9 percent to 12.25 percent, based on a state-compiled list. The lowest variable rate, according to the state's list, was 8.5 percent at Traverse City's small Northwestern Savings and Loan. The banks and savings and loans defend their rates. They say that in most cases, their rates are below home equity loan rates and well below those charged for personal loans. Pope visits Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique - Pope John Paul II yesterday urged the Marxist government and rebels to end their 12-year civil war and called for international aid to rebuild the country. On the last full day of a 10-day trip through southern Africa, the Pope was greeted by a crowd of 5,000 when he blessed an orphanage in a slum of reed huts. The government, he said, "should make efforts in the sense of building." Addressing himself to the rebels, the pope said: "Abandon the paths of violence and vengeance. Put aside destructive action and try to save what's left." During his homily, the pope said Mozambique should be afforded "peace from the outside, of an ideological, military, and economic nature" - an apparent reference to South Africa, which has been accused of using a variety of tactics to harrass Mozambique. Lotto winners split $33mil LANSING -- Two tickets will split a record $33.5 million Super Lotto jackpot after matching the six numbers in the latest drawing, the Bureau of State lottery said yesterday. A computer check found two of the 19.6 million tickets for Saturday's drawing matched the numbers 20, 27, 29, 39, 42, and 44, lottery spokesperson Ron Hall said. The winners will split a jackpot that, after seven consecutive rollovers in the twice-weekly game, had grown to $33,555,966, Hall said. They will receive the second-largest single prizes ever awarded in Michigan - $16.5 million. The largest single award was a $17.1 million jackpot won Feb. 13 by the M$M Lotto Club of Port Huron. The total payout from Saturday's drawing was even larger, at $37,685,310, the most prize money ever for a single drawing in Michigan, Hall said. kl ...awardT winning surgers,fried vegeta6les, homemade desserts, soups I (U St1*1 li. 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