Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, November 13, 1990

Deal protects Social Security


WASHINGTON (AP) - Monthly
Social Security checks are now
virtually off limits to politicians
trying to cut the federal deficit
because of a small change in the way
the budget shortfall is calculated.
The change is a relief for 39 mil-
lion elderly, handicapped and other
Americans who rely on the $265 bil-
lion program - and for politicians
loathe to cut the politically popular
pension system.

But critics say the shift formally
removes the biggest single domestic
program from shouldering the burden
of future budget cuts. As a result,
other federal endeavors would have to
bear a greater brunt of whatever re-
ductions are made, they say.
"Whether they're elderly or chil-
dren, if they're poor, they're
poor," said Susan, executive director
of the Coalition on Human Needs, a
Washington-based group that

champions aid for low-income
Americans of all ages. "Why should
one have to sacrifice for the other?"
The Bush administration agreed
to take Social Security out of the
calculations used to determine the
federal defecit.
Proponents said with the pension
program running an annual surplus
of billions of dollars, the overall
budget gap was being shrunk artifi-
cally under the old system.


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CANDIDATES
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lidity of the requirement was defi-
nitely something LSA-SG should
discuss.
"It's dealing with class require-
ments that affect LSA students. I
don't think the majority of students
on campus wanted that class," Sciar
rotta said.
Ehrlich said the LSA government
should distance itself from curricu-
lum decisions.
"It's not the job of LSA govern-
ment to be directly involved in the
curriculum," Ehrlich said.
Ehrlich added that in the past the
LSA government has filled student
positions on University committees,
but that it has avoided antagonism
towards the administration in order
to maintain a "good working rela-
tionship."
Smith said the racism and ethnic-
ity course requirement was not
something in which he thought the
LSA-SG should be directly involved.
But he added, "I believe racism is
a problem all students should be
concerned about."
In response to questions about
funding, the candidates were basi-
cally in agreement that LSA gov-
ernment money should be available
to a wide variety of student groups.
MSA is embroiled in controversy
over its allocations of funding and
rooms to student groups.
SUMMIT
Contined from page 1
tions endorsed that call, and Saddam
said he might attend if consulted on
the timing and agenda.
Saddam said the summit should
discuss linking the Arab-Israeli dis-
pute to any decision over Kuwait,
which Iraq invaded and occupied on.
Aug. 2 in a dispute over land, oil
and money.
Meeting in Baghdad, Palestine
Liberation Organization chairperson
Yasser Arafat and Chinese Foreign
Minister Qian Qichen yesterday
backed the call for an Arab summit.
Qian said China "will support
any Arab effort to resolve the con-
flict ... If Arab leaders agree to meet
in a summit, China will certainly
support that."
The team is allowed to recharge
the Sunrunner's batteries for another
two hours each morning. A race of-
ficial called "the Observer," accom-
panies the team at all times and en-
sures that they refuel with only solar
power.
As the sun sinks in the western
horizon, Engineering senior Harpreet
Labana electronically tilts the Charg-
ing Structure so the solar array can
gather as much of the afternoon sun-
light as possible. She also gestures
bystanders away from the array, so
their shadows do not block the pre-
cious light.
Today, in particular, the team is
pleased with the results: Michigan
finished third, behind Ingeniershule
Biel and Honda, and slightly ahead of
Western Washington University.
The competition between Michi-
gan and Western Washington is
neck-and-neck - an oddity this far
into the race. To add to the drama,
the two American schools developed
an intense rivalry when they com-
peted against each other in the Sun-

rayce.
Fancy closes her speech by reiter-
ating the team's fundamental strat-
egy, "I think everyone knows this,
but remember: we're running our
own race. We've done it so far, and
we've got to continue to do it."

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
DR. JAMES ANDERSON
University of Illinois-Champaign
REFLECTIONS ON INSTITUTIONAL RACISM:
Origins of Black Faculty
at White Northern Institutions

AUSTRALIA
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"And if you look back, that's
what we did all afternoon - decided
to go 57 kilometers an hour, for ex-
ample, and at one point, because of
a cloud, we dropped down to 55.
Western Washington has a little dif-
ferent strategy. They kind of run
fast when the sun's out, and slow
down when the sun starts to drop...

they go fast when there's sun. We
like to go for a nice, average speed
all day. So that's why we kind of
leap-frogged," Pavlat said.
A minor incident arose at one
point when Viking XX attempted
to pass the Sunrunner. The two
cars, traveled side-by-side on the
narrow two-lane highway and forced
an approaching vehicle off the road.
Michigan beat Western Wash-
ington by one hour and 19 minutes
to win GM's Sunrayce last July.



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OUTBACK
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- particularly trucks with sev-
eral tractor-trailer units behind them.
These aptly named "road trains" gen-
erate strong winds that threaten to
blow solar cars off the highways of
the outback.
One of the requirements of the
Sunrunner was that it could travel at
full speed past a road train, approach-
ing it at 50 mph, without losing
control. Although it passed this test,
it is still vulnerable to other hazards
posed by these gargantuan trans-
ports.
"Our big concern with road trains
is, at times, they choose to be cour-
teous and pull off the road," said En-
gineering school graduate Doug
Parker, who works on the race's lo-
gistics and financing. "When they
pull of the road, they kick up enor-
mous piles of rocks...The (solar)
cells are done in strings, and if you
smash a cell, the entire string goes
out. A couple of correctly-placed
rocks could knock the solar collec-
tion power down by one-fourth."
The solar vehicles all make
mandatory 10-minute media stops
throughout the race, during which
they can make minor adjustments
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without losing time. Each time the
Sunrunner pulls into such a stop,
several team members stand waiting
with hoses and brushes to cool and
clean the car's cells.
"The efficiency of the cells is
based on temperature," said Engi-
neering junior Jenniffer Patrick, who
sprayed down the Sunrunner at a me-
dia stop. "And at a standstill posi-
tion that we're going to be at this
media stop, the array needs to be
cool, and we use the water to do it.
We're also going to dust it, because
the dust really affects the sun in-
take."
The media stops are also small
doses of civilization, for the major-
ity of the race's 1,900 miles pass
through the rugged Australian out-
back. Here, temperatures rise above
100 degrees and flies swarm around
human bodies like the Australians
that engulf the solar-powered cars at
media stops.
When the Sunrunner pulls off the
road, the 11 men and four women
who constitute the Solar Car team
quickly disassemble their creation.
They detach the solar array and prop
it onto a framework of metal pipes
- "the Charging Structure."
Rules allow two hours of charg-
ing after the designated stopping
time each evening.


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