A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 18, 1996 Nwrlot4lwolmlD VMfs all-male policy is unlawful, Clinton lawyer tells hgh court WASHINGTON (AP) - Virginia Military Institute's all-male policy un- lawfully tells women they are unable to compete with men, a Clinton administra- tion lawyer told the Supreme Court yes- terday. Several justices seemed to agree. But VMI's lawyer said admitting women would fundamentally alter the 4emanding military-style program at they college where Stonewall Jackson Qnce taught. "Unless we are all to be educated the same ... we ought to allow these pro- grams that work," argued Theodore Olson, representing VMI and the state of Virginia. The tax-supported college should be allowed to exclude women even if the state did not offer a separate program for them, he said. Clinton administration lawyer Paul Bender, however, contended that a lower court ruling that let VMI keep women out was based on a "stereotypical view ofwomen and men." VMI is designed to teach "manly values that only men can learn," while Virginia's new program for women aims to teach "womanly val- ues, feminine values," he said. VMI could not exclude blacks by contending their admission would change the college's teaching methods, nor could separate law schools using different teaching methods be set up for men and women, Bender said. Several justices clearly were sympa- thetic. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aformer women's rights lawyer, said, "lfwomen are to be leaders in life and in the military, then men have got to become accustomed to taking commands from women, and men will not become ac- customed if women are not let in." Justice Stephen G. Breyer said that even ifadmitting women to VMI toned down some of the harsh treatment stu- dents endure, "Isn't the answer to that, 'so what'?" FORUM Continued from Page 1A state, especially in the Legislature. He said the new president must be "someone who knows how to deal with those in Lansing." "It is someone who should come from the humanities." Other speakers discussed the search process. Suggestions about ways to get around the state Open Meetings Act pervaded many of the comments: "There is nothing that requires you to be part of the search process before the final phase," Cohn asserted. The act requires that all board meet- ings be open to the public, including discussions about potential candidates. "The Open Meetings Act is in the hands of the Legislature," said Shirley McFee (R-Battle Creek), a co-chair of the search. "We are very sensitive to the fact that people's privacy needs some sort of protection. ... How we are going to deal with that, we are still evaluating." Maurice Binkow, who graduated in 1954, said the regents should begin the search by focusing on external candidates. "You ought to concentrate on outside candidates rather than inside candi- dates," he said. "You can always come back to them later." After the forum, the board inter- viewed two competing search firms, Russell Reynolds Assoc. and Schuyler, Frye, Baker and Parker Inc. Last month, the regents interviewed three otherfirms that may assist them in the search. The regents do not yet have a deadline for selecting a search firm. - Daily Staff Reporter James M. Nash contributed to this report. -T--- ~E~O- Forner aide clears Clinton in firings WASHINGTON-Confronted with his own memos linking Hillary Rodham Clinton to the White House travel office firings, a formerpresidential aide testified yesterday that he was pressured to take the action, but not directly by the first lady. "She did not order me to fire them," David Watkins told a House investigative committee looking into the May 1993 dismissals. But he added: "Did I feel pressure? Yes, I did." He pinned the blame on others, including Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, who at the time was working as a private, unpaid adviser to President Clinton. The committee's chairman, William Clinger (R-Pa.), said Clinton he would ask Mrs. Clinton to answer questions in writing defining exactly what role she played. Mrs. Clinton has said aides may have misinterpreted her expressions of concern about possible financial problems in the travel office to mean she wanted the workers fired, but that she never ordered such an action. Mrs. Clinton said yesterday that she did not have a hand in the decision. VILLAGE CORNER Ann Arbor's Employment Opportuniies BEST LIQUOR/ PARTY STORE 1989 - 1995 -Michigan Daily Readership Poll Open Residence H als Sun..Thurs. Sam -1 am Fri. - Sat. Sam - 2am Dining Services S. Forest at S. Univ. 995.1818 Panel cals for a flat tax in place of current tax code WASHINGTON - Fueling a grow- ing national debate over taxes, an influ- ential Republican panel said yesterday that the entire U.S. tax code should be thrown out and replaced with a drasti- cally simplified version featuring a single income-tax rate and few deductions. "We believe the current tax code can- not be revised, shouldnot be reinvented and must not be retained," concluded the report by the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, headed by former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp. Underthe sweeping flat-tax proposal, workers would be able to deduct pay- roll taxes, and the levy on capital gains would be eliminated. But in a conspicu- ous bow to anxiety in GOP circles over the flattax's political viability, thecom- mission left many details vague and did not recommend a specific rate for a proposed levy. It also left open the question of whether to retain highly popular deduc- tions for mortgage interest and chari- table contributions. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, the Republican presidential front-runner, yesterday offered a care- fully phrased endorsement of the flat tax. Dole expressed sympathy for tax- ing all income at one rate, but stopped short of an unequivocal embrace. Gene causes cancer in young women BOSTON -A single gene appears to cause a large share of breast cancer in young women, especially Jews, in whom it may trigger more than a quarter of all cases under age 40. Research in the past two years has found a gene, BRCAI, that is often blame when breast cancer runs in fa lies. Two new studies show the same gene is frequently the cause when the disease strikes women in their 20s and 30s, even without a strong pattern of bi-east cancer among the victim's familyX The younger women are when they get breast cancer, the more likely that it is caused by a miscue in BRCAI. Columbia Review INTENSIVE MCAT PREPARATION CLASSES NOW -:: -::FILLING! - --- e# "Nm ?N PSTfE. Russian forces step up attack on Chechen rebels W PERVOMAYSKAYA, Russia - Saying there was little hope of saving hostages, Russian forces unleashed a blizzard of rockets yesterday on the tiny village they have been unable to take in three days of fighting with Chechen rebels. One hostage who escaped from the village said he did not see anyone alive, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The assault came despite new terror- ist threats by Chechen sympathizers, includinggunmen who hijacked a Black Sea ferry in Turkey carrying200 people and said they would blow it up unless the Russians stopped the battle at Pervomayskaya. Hundreds of weary Russian troops pulled back yesterday around the ru- ined village, allowing their country- men to fire repeatedly from Grad rocket- launchers. Pervomayskaya's cluster of small buildings was also rocketed by hel i coptergunships and struck by rounds of artillery shells. Heavy machine-gun fire in the late afternoon indicated that the Chechens were still resisting. The last Russian rocket attack came shortly after 8p.m., ITAR-Tass said. Bosnian army leaves ruin behind in retreg PANJIK, Bosnia-Herzegovina - After burning and looting houses in an apparent attempt to prevent Bosnian Serbs from returning, government sol- diers were withdrawing yesterday from a bitterly contested front line in north- central Bosnia. NATO officials said the withdrawal was ahead of schedule, and they ex- pected forces all over Bosnia to me 6 p.m. deadline tomorrow to pull bac from former confrontation lines. In Washington, Defense Secretary William Perry said the pullback of op- posing forces is "the most positive de- velopment" since NATO-led troops entered Bosnia last month. However, another step in the U.S.- brokered peace accord - the release of all prisoners of war - probably won't be met by tomorrow's deadline. None of the troops carried weapC* - From Daily wire services ' ..__' I Salomon Brothers May/June 1996 Graduates Salomon Brothers is an international investment banking firm that makes markets in securities and provides a broad range of underwriting, financial advisory, and research services to governments, corporations, and institutional investors. 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