SPNO 4 Today, we bring you a history lesson about the university administration's attempts to regulate student behavior over the years. It didn't just start with the code. Vampire horror comedy? Yes, that's the theme of John Landis' new feature, "Innocent Blood". And what's more, Anne Parillaud ("La Femme Nikita") is back, wearing fangs this time. SPORTS .1 Michigan's last Big Ten football loss was at the hands of Iowa two years ago in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines look for revenge against the Hawkeyes in Saturday's 1992 Big Ten opener. Today Breezy, colder; High 56, Low 35 Tomorrow Clouds and sun; High 58, Low 37 V t t t . i One hundred two years of editorial freedom Vol. CII, No.1 Ann Arbor, Michigan -Tuesday, September 29,1992 @1992 The Michigan Daily Michigan voters could tip scales in close election by Lauren Dermer Daily Government Reporter With less than five weeks to elec- tion day, the Democratic and Republican campaigns are both heavily courting Michigan voters, rendering residents capable of cast- ing the deciding ballots on Nov. 3. Both parties, along with pollsters and political analysts, have Michigan - which controls a bloc of 18 electoral votes - high on their lists of key states in the presidential race. U-M to get $6 millon for auto research by Hope Calati Daily Government Reporter The U-M will receive $6 million in grants to improve automotive transportation, university officials announced yesterday. The U.S. Department of Transportation gave the U-M the first of three $1 million annual pay- ments at a news conference yester- day afternoon. The state and private industry will provide matching funds, bring- ing the total to $6 million. U-M President James Duderstadt and Gov. John Engler, who attended the event, praised the cooperation between the state government, Congress and the university. "The transportation department is a shining example in Washington of the one bipartisan achievement of this Congress," Engler said. "This is one more example of how a quality university can work." The money will go to the Great Lakes Center for Truck and Transit Research, an organization of six midwest universities that studies transportation. The U-M is a mem- ber of the center. The center focuses on making commercial highway traffic, safer and more productive. Douglas Ham, the acting administrator of transportation department's research and special programs administration, presented the grant to Duderstadt, Engler and center Director Thomas Gillespie, a See GRANT, Page 2 "If the presidential race tightens to a dead heat, Michigan could be the state that swings the outcome," said Michigan State University DAILY NEWS ANALYSIS political science Prof. David Rhode. U-M Prof. Michael Traugott, a research scientist for the Center for Political Studies, said Michigan is important in the presidential election because of its manufacturing base. "The midwest is interesting be- cause it represents a microcosm of the entire country," he said. "When the national economy is in trouble, industrial states like Michigan go down first and recover very slowly." And this causal effect is evi- denced by Michigan's unemploy- ment rate, which is hovering at 9 percent, compared with 7.2 percent four years ago. The battle for Michigan's elec- toral votes highly targets "Reagan Democrats" - Democratic subur- banites who voted Republican in the last three presidential races. Reagan Democrats accounted for about 10 percent of the 3.6 million Michiganders who voted in 1988, according to the Michigan Researchers Associates of Lansing. "The reason 'Reagan Democrats' were attracted to Republican candi- dates in '84 and '88 was a promise of prosperity and an argument that the Democratic party was out of touch with mainstream America," Traugott said. But he said the combination of a soured economy and a Democratic candidate who seems worth the risk is likely to win over voters who were let down by Bush's pledge for "no new taxes." Candidates are also targeting African American voters in the state. While Democrats hope to regain many of the party's Reagan Democrats, the Republicans are hop- ing to win over Black voters. And this seems feasible in light of criticism among some Black lead- ers that Clinton has taken their vote for granted and focused on white, middle-class voters. But analysts agree that Michigan is still up for grabs. Bush's criticisms of Clinton's plans may sway the blue-collar worker in the election. Bush says Clinton's proposed fuel-efficiency standards will result in the loss of 40,000 autoworker's jobs and his plans to raise revenue will "shaft the middle class" by raising their income tax. See ELECTION, Page 2 Jackson urges Students: vote by Lauren Dermer Daily Government Reporter YPSILANTI - The Rev. Jesse Jackson - accompanied by the Eastern Michigan University bas- ketball team- strutted out to the center of the school's fieldhouse yesterday encouraging students to register to vote. "We must turn our pain into partnership and power," said Jackson, decked in a gray EMU sweatshirt. "We must reach within ourselves and go forward by unity and hope, not backward by divi- sion and fear." Jackson - the civil rights leader who was named in early September to lead a Democratic grass-roots voter registration drive - said the country is facing an immense pain stemming from economic and social problems. "I have seen the bloodshed and stains on the street of people who tried to get the right to vote. We marched 65 miles to get the right to vote, " he said. "You who have the right to vote today must do it with a passion." Although Jackson did not even mention Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton during the speech, he openly criticized the Bush administration. "Bush has a countdown to pri- vate life because his economic policies have failed and his gim- micks have run out," he said. Jackson said policies in the last 12 years have put "our humanity on trial" by finding scapegoats, such as the Japanese, for our do- mestic problems. He warned students not to "get trapped in the little pockets of race that divide us." See JACKSON, Page 2 The Rev. Jesse Jackson gestures while addressing a rally at Eastern Michigan University yesterday afternoon. Police nab 200 In Mafia drug, crime bust ROME (AP) - Two alleged drug kingpins who walked out of an ice cream parlor in the heart of Rome were the first rounded up in a vast dragnet that authorities yester- day said smashed a worldwide drug and money-laundering operation. "Operation Green Ice" caught some 200 people over the weekend in the United States, Italy, Britain and Costa Rica, Italian authorities told a news conference. Tens of mil- lions of dollars in cocaine, cash, jewels, securities and property were seized. Achille Serra, a top police offi- cial, said the ring sent cocaine from .Colombia through the United States and Spain, for distribution in Italy and other European countries. George Terwilliger, a deputy U.S. attorney general, called the case "truly a crippling blow to the Colombian cartel." While officials in Rome said 201 people were nabbed, U.S. officials held a news conference in Arlington, Va., and put the number of arrests at 153. The discrepancy could not im- mediately be reconciled. Authorities in Rome reported 34 arrests in Italy but gave no break- down of the others. Robert Bonner, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), said seven people arrested account for "most of the key finan- cial operations" for the Cali cocaine cartel in Colombia. Authorities said the operation also struck a deep blow to organized crime groups in Sicily, Naples and Calabria, which have a stranglehold on southern Italy. "Never has there been a strike of such importance against the Mafia, Camorra and 'ndrangheta," national police Chief Vincenzo Parisi said, referring to the mobs in those areas. Parisi said the operation began Friday with the arrest in Rome of Colombians Jose Duran, whom he described as a Colombian cartel boss, and Pedro Villaquiran, a re- puted leading cocaine distributor in Europe and Duran's aide. Authorities were led to them when police trailed a Dutch woman to an ice cream parlor in Rome's famous Piazza Navona, the news agency AGI said. Officers watched as she sat at a table. Duran, reportedly known as "the Pope," and Villaquiran joined her. As they left the bar and walked a few steps past the fountain in the square, police quietly arrested the three. Rodrigo Polonia Gonzales See DRUGS, Page 2 I Perot sees econonic *plan akin to Clinton's DALLAS (AP) - Ross Perot said there was "a lot of commonal- ity" between his economic views and Bill Clinton's after the Arkansas governor and President Bush made unprecedented overtures to win the support of the Texas billionaire and his followers at a Perot rally in Dallas yesterday. Perot said he would decide Thursday whether to enter the presidential race for the final month, insisting the answer rested with the supporters who placed his name on the ballot in all 50 states. State leaders of the Perot movement assembled in Dallas Law school students polishing resumes for interview process Perot 1/2 hours in a closed meeting with Perot and his supporters. Participants said the session was dominated by discussion of Clinton's economic growth and deficit-reduction programs. "There is a lot of commonality," Perot said. "Where there are differences of opinion they are - 1~j~~ -- - I. by Marc Olender Daily Staff Reporter Last week, law students hud- dled around huge tables in Room 200 of Hutchins Hall, frantically searching through large blue binders in search of potential summer and full-time jobs. Tomorrow, these same students will return there decked out in their best clothes, clutching leather portfolios and waiting to be sig- naled for an interview. Representatives from various law firms are beginning a series of on-campus visits to recruit sum- mer interns. The interviews, which began Friday, will continue for six to what type of law they wish to practice. "Most of the second-year stu- dents don't have a very clear idea of the kind of law they want to practice, or where they want to practice it," said Nancy Krieger, the law school's placement director. While Schmidt, first-year stu- dents and other second-year stu- dents will be looking for summer employment, third-year law stu- dents are searching for permanent jobs. The interviewing process is the university's way of bringing na- tional law corporations to campus. This process eliminates the need s P,