FRIDAYFocu 11Page 3 V f 4 1 F* tr "Iilg One hundred three years of editorial freedom Vo iN.13AnAbr,.cia rdy ac 2., 194019 TeM ;ia DI.y I I Michigan Party .wins in landslide. Neenan, Stern to lead MSA The Michigan Party retained control of the MSA presidency in this week's elections. LSA junior Julie Neenan was chosen as the new president, along 'with running-mate LSA junior Jacob Stern as vice president. They captured an unofficial 38 percent of the ballots cast, over runner-up Trevor Moeller of the Outsider Party. About 2,700 students cast a ballot for one of the eight slates. Neen Here are the unoffical results. Kovacs & Song 4.3% Payne & Kilgman 4.6% By RONNIE GLASSBERG DAILY STAFF REPORTER One more year. The Michigan Student Assembly's leadership seat has again been claimed * the Michigan Party in a landslide ctory. University students decided to elect LSAjuniorJulieNeenan asMSApresi- dent, continuing her party's reign for a second year. "I think we had a strong, positive campaign and I'd like to think our method of campaigning had something to do with the outcome of the election," Neenan said. "I. really think the Michi- 1n Party rose to the challenge." In unofficial results released yes- terday, Neenan received about 38 per- cent of the votes. About 2,700 students cast a ballot for one of the eight presi- dential candidates. The runner-up was Outsider Party presidential candidate Trevor Moeller, who received about 25 percent of the vote. "I think it shows the student body s confidence in Julie to be a great dent body president," said outgo- ing MSA President Craig Greenberg. Jacob Stern, also an LSA junior, will serve as MSA vice president. "I'm really excited and happy to win and I lookforward to working with the new assembly," Stern said. An estimated 9 percent of all stu- dents voted in the election, including ,? percent in Engineering and 15 per- nt in LSA, Greenberg said. In the unofficial results, students also narrowly passed the Michigan Party's new MSA constitution by 60.6 percent-0.6 percent more than needed to enact the constitution. Neenan said she wants to begin to use the new constitution immediately to implement the various goals of her party. During the campaign, Neenan pledged to work to amend and elimi- nate the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities - the code of non-academic conduct, to improve campus safety and to keep student group funding high. "I want to jump right into the issue of the student regent and implementing the new constitution," Neenan said. She said her party is already work- ing on some of the goals, including campus safety. "We've already been talking to City Council and we're look- ing at getting an engineer to come in and survey the campus and outside areas to develop a lighting plan that will be more effective," Neenan said. Neenan, a pre-med English major, now serves as MSA treasurer and chair of the MSA Campus Governance Com- mittee. The new leader of MSA is a past president of Sigma Kappa sorority and resides in Cincinnati. Stem now chairs the MSA Budget Priorities Committee, which allocates funds to student groups. An economics major, Stern lives in Del Mar, Calif. Pending MSA Election Court ap- proval of the results, Neenan and Stern will replace Greenberg and Vice Presi- dent Brian Kight on April 5. The results should become official Monday. Greenberg and Kight were the origi- nal founders of the Michigan Party just over a year ago. See MSA, Page 2 nan Stem / Masey&Curtin, Protest Party 4.9% DO Party - 7.3% Students' Party 12%' Clinton releases 1970s tax forms tosilence critics LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON - President Students Wait Clinton, in a cool and confident de- fense of his conduct, declared yester- day that he had "nothing to do" with a for gam e, failed Arkansasthrift institutionorwith , the management of the Whitewater ski address real estate venture that have bedeviled his administration. In a nationally televised news con- Dy JAMES R. CHO ference, Clinton said he would release DAILY STAFF REPORTER his late 1970s tax returns today to lay President Clinton's 40-minute to rest questions on the Whitewater press conferesne overlapped affair, and he insisted that the matter with the NCAA West regional had not interfered with his efforts to matchup between Missouri and reform health care, enact anti-crime Syracuse last night much to the legislation and other initiatives. chagrin of a number of basketball "The American people should fans. know that Iand my administration will "EntertainmentTonight,' not be distracted," Clinton said. Jeopardy! and "A Current Af- Clinton acknowledged that the fair" gave way to the president's Whitewater affair had begun to erode address last night for his nation- his popularity among voters but said ally televised press conferenceas he was actually surprised that the ef- he attempted to distance himself fect had not been worse. from Whitewater and renew pub- The news conference came amid a lic attention on his domestic renewed White House effort to dispel agenda. accusations that the first family was Thepress conference - tele- holdingbackinformationon the murky See STUDENTS, Page 2 Whitewater events. The Clintons are to leave today for a weeklong vacation in Texas and ents during the spring break that b California, and the White House did gins today. not want to give an impression that Clinton answered questions for they were turning their back on the minutes in the East Room - the m questionsthatcontinuetoboilupdaily jority of them on the Whitewat about the affair. With his further ex- matter - and made a clear effort planations, the president also hoped to offer the broadest defense possible offer more support for Democratic law- makers who must face their constitu- See CLINTON, Page WENDY STODDART AND ANDREW TAYLOR/Daily Outsider Party earns 6 seats in small schools, disbands By RONNIE GLASSBERG DAILY STAFF REPORTER Another long wait. The 43 candidates for nine LSA representative positions to the Michi- gan Student Assembly had to wait even longer for the results, while all the other MSA election outcomes had been 'tallied and reported yesterday. With only a handful of people counting throughout the day, the elec- tion staff did not have the LSA results at press time. Yesterday morning the staff com- pleted the results for the other schools. Unofficial results show the Out- sider Party, while losing the presiden- tial election, came out as the big winner for the small schools. The new party earned seats in Ar- chitecture, Art, SNRE, Business, Law and Medicine, for a total of six seats. The Michigan Party, which will continue to be the leading party on the assembly, took four seats, with one in Business, one in Nursing and two in Engineering. The Students' Party took one seat in Rackham. The Protest Party, another new party, took two seats in Rackham. Despite the Outsider Party's win for representative seats in the assem- See REPS, Page 2 be- 40 na- ler to to 7 Students, 4o celebrate Passover tomorrow By SHARI SITRON LILY STAFF REPORTER Pizza, chipatis and subs will not be on the menu starting tomorrow night for many Jewish students, since they will be celebrating the Passover holi- day that starts tomorrow at sundown. Passover commemorates the Jews' liberation from bondage in Egypt The holiday, which lasts for eight days, is traditionally accompanied by o Seders - or feasts - where the ory of the exodus from Egypt is told. During those eight days, Jews are not supposed to eat any leavened food because their ancestors left Egypt so hastily that there was no time for bread dough to rise. Many Jewish students said they will not be spending the Passover seders in Ann Arbor, but at home with -their a - 'U' continues asbestos removal By LISA DINES DAILY STAFF REPORTER The noise from University con- struction may only be a temporary nuisance. Yet a silent danger still lurks behind University walls, worrying many students and faculty. The University is currently remov- ing asbestos -a substance that studies show can cause lung cancer - from several campus buildings. The Univer- sity is working on a continuous process to remove asbestos from the UGLi, East Engineering, C.C. Little and Angell Hall. "Typically any renovation of a building will involve (asbestos re- moval) in someway," said Tom Schlaff, director of construction management. Tom Sparrow, a project engineer for construction management, said that while the University is removing as- bestos from several sites, it is not dan- gerous unless exposed to the air. The only areas where asbestos is being removed are places currently being renovated. Asbestos is a fire-retardant, pow- dery substance that was widely used as insulation until it was banned in build- ings built after 1975. Asbestos has been dubbed a"silent killer" because it takes 10-15 years for symptoms of asbes- tos-related diseases to appear. George Howard is the asbestos coordinator for the Michigan Occu- pational and Safety Hazard Associa- tion (MIOSHA). Howard said asbes- tos exposure canlead to scarring and hardening of lung tissue, and cancer of the lungs or the lung lining. He added that asbestos exposure is difficult to detect. "If a project is going on and they see fibers they can assume they have been exposed," he said. Sparrow said the University has a "multiple-barrier method" of precau- tions against asbestos exposure during the removal stages. All work is done within sealed plas- tic barriers, and an on-site industrial hygienist checks air samples for con- tamination levels several times a day. Workers must shower before and after removal efforts and wear special protective suits to avoid contamination outside the barrier. Asbestos is also moistened during removal in order to prevent air-born particles. "Everything that is done makes it basically a very safe operation," Spar- row said. He added there has not been a containment breach at any site where See page 3 for a special report of construction on campus. he has worked. However, particles can remain airborne for one day to one week, depending on the building's ventilation system. Workers who think they may be exposed can contact MIOSHA for more information or to file a formal com- plaint. Howard said complaints have been filed with MIOSHA against the University in the past, but he does not know of any current cases. Until a new lawtakes effect April 1, the University is not legally required to notify either faculty or students of the asbestos-removal projects. However, Sparrow said there have been group meetings to notify the faculty in af- fected areas of the removal. Many students said they were un- aware of the removal efforts, and felt the University has a responsibility to tell them that they might be exposed to asbestos. "I guess it doesn't worry me that much, but I would have liked to be at least notified," said Jessyca Jones, an LSA sophomore. Two Ann Arbor residents participate in the fourth annual Black/Jewish Seder at the Washtenaw Jewish Community Center last night. families. Dan Singer, also an LSA sopho- LSA sophomore Marjorie White, more, said he also is looking forward who will be celebrating at home with to going home for the holiday. "I will her family and friends, said she enjoys even be leading the seder this year," the seder because, "it is a way of he said. remembering our history." See PASSOVER, Page 2 Student ID cards to get a facelift Beginning this fall, all incoming students' cards and Men's swimming in 4th place By REBECCA DETKEN DAILY STAFF REPORTER Studentsplanningon working out at the CCRB According to a memo from the Housing Divi- sion, the differences between current cards and new cardswill be: By BRET JOHNSON DAILY SPORTS WRITER MINNEAPOLIS - The Michigan three." In the 500, freshman Tom Dolan swam a lifetime best 4:12.30. How- ... ... ..... .