2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 9, 1996 NATION/WORLD IMSA Continued from Page 1 ing Sunday night's chalking Kirk refused to shake hands with QUP members. "They are trying to make it sound like I did not want to shake hands with them because they are gay -the truth is I had two large cuts on each of my middle fin- gers I got while chalking," Kirk said. "My hands were dirty, they were bloody - I do not believe-anyone there would have wanted to shake hands with me" Other assembly members were quick to emphasize that the resolution did not mention Sunday's events. "What we are taking a stand against is the action of spreading hate mes- sages, we are not condemning that group," said LSA Rep. Ryan Friedrichs. "This has nothing to do with the College Republicans." LaLonde said he was unsatisfied with the resolution because it did not men- tion the College Republicans by name. "They admitted they did it and we did nothing to them," he said. Kirk said that while his group support- ed QUP's right to free speech, the gay- rights group has exaggerated the issue. "QUP is over-blowing this," Kirk said. VP candidates get ready for debate .£,t ,: M: i .. " ;r{. { w ;: a.. .. , ; .::;; ., .:> . ' .:. , . of) 0 0 0 o - to 00 CO G 4. O - Tuesday, October 15 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Michigan Union The Washington Post ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Vice President Gore and Jack Kemp last night wrapped up three days of preparation for today's vice presidential debate, an event that many will view more as a warmup for the 2000 presidential campaign than a significant devel- opment in the Nov. 5 election. Aides to both candidates predict- ed the two will focus on familiar issues, such as urban revitalization . and the tax propos- als that have differ- entiated their top- Kemp of-the-ticket run- ning mates this fall. They insist that nei- ther man is looking ahead to a presi- dential bid four years from now. But political enthusiasts say the White House ambitions of Gore and Kemp will make today's debate more intriguing. "In a sense we're getting a preview of Expand your ha rzons Read the Daily Keep those hpriZ~nS CI~an Recycle the OPEN-MINDED BIBLE STUDY all denominations welcome all faiths welcome all sexual orientations welcome all pcople welcome FRIDAYS 3:30-5:00 at Canterbury House Blue house past the Frieze Bldg. 72 . Huron Graduating this year? Looking for internships? Watch for these organi: Capitol One E&J G Radio Shack EDS ZS Associates Peace Leo Burnett Snrint " Kick off your job search " Network with employers " Pass on your resume " Connect with recruiters " Explore options " Get an early start zations attending Job Fair '96! allo Michigan Media Booz Allen & 11am ilton Corps Huron Valley Center Goldman Sachs Bloomingdale's arOne St. Paul Companies Americorps E Merrill Lynch ( plus many more.... Equis Cellul2 Job Fair '96 Sponsor 'Capitol One a Jump On Board featured event Stop by CP&P for more information about Job Fair '9% and participating organizations! Cairetr [Tannin t'hc ntn the campaign of 2000, and that makes it more interesting," said Thomas Mann, a political scholar at the Brookings Institution. Past vice presidential debates have produced some memo- rable soundbites, such as when Lloyd Bentsen told Dan Quayle in 1988, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy," Mann said. "But there's little evidence that running mates make a big differ- ence," he said. When Gore and Kemp square off in a St. Petersburg auditorium for 90 min- utes at 9 p.m. today, they will compete for TV viewers with the Atlanta Braves vs. St. Louis Cardinals playoff game. About five million fewer Americans watched Sunday's presidential debate between President Clinton and Robert Dole than watched the first presidential debate of 1992. Nonetheless, the Clinton and Dole camps are treating today's debate like a major event, secluding the running mates for hours of closed-door rehearsals with legions of advisers and stacks of briefing papers. SEARCH Continued from Page 1 Tuesday are illegal according to the state's Open Meetings Act, which requires that most meetings of public bodies be open. "The Michigan Supreme Court specifically said when it ruled that the last search was illegal, that only infor- mation that is highly personal that is contained in an application can be dis- cussed in a secret meeting"Lowenstein said, emphasizing that keeping the entire application secret is illegal. In the 1987-88 search that resulted in the selection of former President James Duderstadt, the University lost a five-year legal battle with The Ann Arbor News and the Detroit Free Press after it kept presidential search information secret. "The court said you could not have a closed meeting to discuss the entire application. That circumvents the whole purpose of the law;' Lowenstein said. "Regents want to eliminate any- thing that might be embarrassing from the public discussion." Harrison said the closed sessions are exempt from the state's Open Meetings Act because "some of this stuff is con- fidential and we don't want it floating around." Harrison said the law allows a public body to discuss job applications in secret if the applicant asks to keep materials confidential. "You can't hold a closed meeting just because the applicant has checked a (confidential) box. The only thing you can discuss in a closed session is infor- mation that is of a highly personal nature," Lowenstein said. Personal information would include medical history and marital status, she said. Varner said the board is complying with the law because all decision-mak- ing will be open to the public. When the board meets publicly Wednesday morning, it will consider and then announce its list of finalists. While this could be the same as the advisory committee's recommenda- tions, the board also may add or sub- tract names during these discussions. Chemistry Prof. Thomas Dunn, who chairs the faculty's governing body, said the search process loses its credibility when regents can change the advisory committee's recommendations. "The faculty and staff screening committee went through all the names and they would have judged the person to be less qualified than the others" Dunn said. "By a whim of regental approval, it is difficult to imagine that this person should be put back on the list. You're negating the process that has been put in the first place." Dunn said that instead regents could have nominated someone tothe adviso- ry committee during the early stages of the search. Beginning Thursday, finalists will arrive on campus to meet with members of the University community, including students, faculty and administrators. Both internal and external candidates will stay for about a day-and-a-half. When the finalists are on campus, they will participate in "town meet- ings" with members of the University community and the general public. They also will attend an "evening social function with a mix of invited guests" and can request separate meet- ings with individual regents. The five finalists PSAC plans to rec- ommend already have been scheduled for campus visits, Harrison said. "Those five know what their sched- ules will be like," Harrison said. "They also know the regents might choose not to make them finalists." Michigan Student Assembly ::':: - ---_ Pope's surgeons say no sign of tumor ROME - Surgeons removed Pope John Paul II's troublesome appendix yesterday and said they saw no signs a benign colon tumor had returned. Doctors sidestepped questions about the pontiff's other health problems, including a marked hand tremor. The 76-year-old pope's vital signs held up well during surgery at Gemelli Polyclinic, and doctors said he came through it successfully. John Paul quickly regained con- sciousness after general anesthesia, greeting and thanking everyone. "He should be sitting in an armchair tomorrow," said Dr. Corrado Manni, chief anesthesiologist for the 50-minute surgery. "The appendix that was the cause of the pope's ills doesn't exist any more" Manni said. The appendectomy aimed to cure what the Vatican said were recurring bouts of inflammation and fever that caused John Paul to cancel some public engagements this year. Frequently, the pope's energy flags and he walks with Detroit gets $34.2M for demolition WASHINGTON - The Clinton Administration announced yesterday it was awarding $34.2 million to Detroit mostly to demolish some of the city's worst public housing at the Herman Gardens and Jeffries Homes develop- ments. The administration also awarded $1.4 million to demolish the Daniels Heights project in Saginaw. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a total of $716 million in grants nationwide, with most of the funding going to demolish public housing and build new housing. Detroit had the fourth largest grant, with Chicago receiving the most - $122 million. In an attempt to make public housing safer and more community- and job- oriented nationally, the rebuilding pro- jects are being combined with job train- ing for residents and a crackdown on crime including new guidelines to bar drug dealers and other criminals from public housing. Since 1993, HUD has demolished 23,000 housing units and -plans to demolish 100,000 by 2000. More students take Chinese, Arabic WASHINGTON - Chinese and Arabic are the fastest-growing foreign languages on college campuses. Chinese enrollment rose by 36 per- cent and Arabic by 28 percent between 1990 and 1995, according to a survey by the Modern Language Association of America being released today. Spanish remains the No. I studied language at the 2,700 two- and fer- year colleges that responded to the association's survey. French and German kept their second- and third- place rankings. Japanese eclipsed Italian for fourth place. Douglas Black, a Georgetown University student from Binghamton, N.Y., says heightened interest in the Middle East is luring more students to Arabic. Smoking linked to blindness in elderly CHICAGO - New research gives smokers one more reason to quit: Pack-a- day-or-more puffers double their likelihood of developing the most common cause of blindness among the elderly. Age-related macular degeneration, a tusually untreatable affliction, impairs the vision of an estimated 1.7 million Americans and causes more new cases of blind- ness than any other ailment among people age 65 or older, according to the g ernment. Smoking already is blamed for promoting cataracts, another major cause ol vision loss. Cataracts threaten the vision of far more people than macular degen- eration but cause much less blindness because most cataract sufferers keep their sight with treatment. The more people smoke and the longer they smoke, the higher their risk oI developing macular degeneration, according to two new studies in today's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. "It is another reason to either not smoke, quit smoking or reduce your amount of smoking," said Dr. Johanna Seddon of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. Years after quitting, former smokers still faced up to double the risk of get g the condition, the new research found. 4 Nobel prizes in econoncs awarded NEW YORK - An American econo- mist with unorthodox ideas - among them that "it's insane to try to balance the budget" - yesterday shared the Nobel economics prize with a British professor. William Vickrey, professor emer at Columbia University, and James Mirrlees of Cambridge University in England were cited for explaining how governments as well as consumers use incomplete data to make decisions. Vickery and Mirrlees will split the $1.12 million prize for innovative stud- ies on "asymmetric information." The theory refers to the way in which everyone - from corporations to con- sumers - makes decisions based in varying kinds and amounts of data. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. difficulty. That image generated concern that a bowel tumor, removed in 1992 and described as benign, had returned. 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