2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 16, 1996 NATION/WORLD Judge finds against 'U' in open meetings case ~~.. .:'r. '* :." ..' ;; 0. ; ti :J J SEARCH Continued from Page 1. said the University could not conduct presidential searches in secret. Rowe further added that the closed meetings planned for this week would have violated the law, even if public meetings were built into the process. "What the public will end up with is a charade, Rowe told Morris. "They are not going to see the real heart of the process." Rowe said the public would not have seen recommendations and applicant evaluations, which he contends serve as a good indicator of leadership traits. He also argued that the public would not have a clear view of how the advisory committee arrived at its top five recom- mendations. Ellsworth argued (, that the board had UU presented a plan Wha where it would w l select the next pres- will erni ident in public, thus breaking new a ground in its efforts - to open the process. "This is a public New: search - I venture to say the most public search for a uni- versity president that has ever been con- ducted in this state," Ellsworth said. Ann Arbor News Editor Ed Petykiewicz said the ruling showed the m it rd is proposed search process was not open enough. "The court ___________________, has spoken pvery strongly"' ,thb pu/blIC Petykiewicz h- said. "(The up With IS ruling) guar- J_ yantees the " public has - Jonathan Rowe access to a , a rvery impor- 1papers' attorney tant issue." The argu- ments on both sides hinged on a 1993 Michigan Supreme Court ruling declar- ing the search that hired former President James Duderstadt illegal. Although based on a very different search process, that ruling imposed lim- its on the way future searches can be conducted. "We're here because we came here before," Rowe said. "We're asking the court to look at this press release, com- pare it to the Booth case, and see that they're breaking the law again." Conversely, Ellsworth argued that the board took "great pains" to develop a legal plan, but one that would still allow confidential information about candi- dates to be discussed in private. "There are certain things that just do not occur in pub- Individ lie," he said. li;" sad, regentrs ar M o rris agreed in part w i t h public au Ellsworth in - Pe her ruling andR will allow the regents' meet- ing with MacKay and Lehman to be closed under a narrow OMA exemption. The law says that meetings to discuss personnel issues, like the one that had been scheduled for yesterday, can be closed if the applicant requests that cer- tain information be kept confidential. "It must be confined to the contents of the application that the applicant has requested be kept confidential," Morris said. Ellsworth argued that the current regents have tried hard not to repeat the illegalities of the '88 search. Noting that only three of the current board mem- bers - Regents Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor), Nellie Varner (D-Detroit) and Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) - were present at the last search, Ellsworth said the current board has crafted a different approach to the search. "This is a board which understood that what it did in 1988 did not comply with the Open Meetings Act," Ellsworth said. But in his presentation, Rowe said the proposed plan still was illegal, citing meetings where regents could review documents out of public view. "They are going to have communica- tions outside the public eye," Rowe said. "The public will never know the substance of the evaluation being made, the substance of the candidates." But Ellsworth said the regents did not intend to discuss the candidates during closed sessions, and thus were acting within the boundaries of the law. "There was to be ... what I would refer to as basically an individual study session for each regent," Ellsworth said. Rowe argued that the public has the right to attend this meeting as well. "They're going to talk about issues that should be talked about publicly," he said. Along with meeting privately with Lehman and MacKay, the regents hoped to have the chance to meet individually with each of the final five candidates. But Rowe contended that the regents would make conclusions about the can- didates in the process of these meetings, and thus make deliberations and gain information outside the public's reach. judge denies jury request m deaf case RIVERSIDE, Calif. -A defense attorney, acknowledging that her request way unprecedented, argued unsuccessfully yesterday that a jury fluent in American s gi Language be seated for a rape trial in which both the defendant and the alleged Vic tim are deaf. Public defender Mara Feiger said jurors who could directly interpret for th selves the testimony of the victim and other witnesses could best judge their ibility, because of the nuances of body language that are critical in sign language But Riverside County Judge Gordon Burkhart denied the request. He agree( with the prosecutor that using an interpreter to vocalize signed language is no dif ferent than employing a qualified interpreter in a trial in which witnesses speak, foreign language. Burkhart said, however, that he would allow the defense to present an expert wit ness to explain and interpret to the jury the subtle body language used by the dea witnesses. But he said lie would not allow that expert witness to opine whether th( witness was telling the truth based on body language - a request made by th( defense attorney but vehemently opposed to by the prosecutor. The case involves two students at the California School for the Ilea Riverside. Jesse Manuel Macias, 19, is accused of raping a 17-year-old gix or campus last June. There are no witnesses to the alleged rape. r.: wal rnot a ater Ellsworth nts' attorney "An individual regent who con- ducts an interview is a public body," Rowe said. "We're playing the same show-game again." Ellsworth inter- preted the law dif- ferently, saying the one-on-one meet- ings would not vio- Motor voter' registers 9 million WASHINGTON - Since the "motor voter" law went into effect last year, reg- istration rolls have increased by 9 mil- lion, a study released yesterday shows. That represents 17 percent of the 54 million people who had been unregis- tered in states covered by the new sys- tem, according to the study, prepared for the League of Women Voters and the NAACP by Human Serve, a New York-based bipartisan registration reform organization. For the 18 months from January 1995 to June 1996, some 20 million people either registered to vote for the first time, re-registered or updated their registrations using the law. "it shows that many more people will register if it is made simple," said Frances f'ivin, Human Serve's co-director. Some 8.8 million people, or 44.4 per- cent, registered at a department of motor vehicles, the report said. About 5 million, or 24 percent, registered through the mail. Voters also registered at other government locations such as unemployment offices, libraries or mil. itary recruiting offices. The National Voter Rights Ac requires states to offer registration through state agencies such as driver°, license offices -- hence the name motor voter. Study n strong city-suburb relations WASHINGTON -T-- Cities and their suburbs are more economically linker than ever before, the Department oi Housing and Urban Development says in a study released yesterday. HUD Secretary Henry Cisne unveiling the study in Detroit, poii to the city as one of several trying Q cooperate economically with suburbar neighbors to create new jobs. The study argues for continuation o existing programs to ease the transitior of city-dwellers from welfare to work. In the past 15 years, many high ,tecf and manufacturing jobs have moved t( the suburbs while cities have retained c large share of government services, World With Potential... " Pagers in service will grow from 24.5 million to 56.2 million by the year 2000. " Wireless products and services will capture 20% of the telecommunications dollar by 2010. Motorola's Future Of Possibilities... * Cutting edge technology " Unlimited career mobility * High-profile global presence * People-first philosophy * Continuing education opportunities on-site Play a part in developing the next generation of wireless technology. 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Before the hearing began just after 4 p.m., participants from both sides spent nearly four hours holed up in judge's chambers attempting to settle the issue independently. "We're just floating around here," Power said, as the private discussions broke and regents circulated outside the courtroom. Petykiewicz said no serious out-of- court settlements were ever considered. "There is not an agreement on the table, nor was there even an attempt to craft one," Petykiewicz said mid-after- noon. FRAUD Continued from Page 1 and private organization names. Fraudulent companies also use Washington, D.C., addresses that turn out to be post office boxes rather than business locations. And perhaps most controversially, some fraudulent com- panies claim to be holding scholarships for students and ask them to provide their checking account numbers to con- firm their eligibility. "Don't do it," Bernstein said. "A con artist can use the number to drain your checking account. They don't need your signature on a check, only the account number." In response to this growing problem for current and prospective college stu- dents, the FTC last month initiated Project $cholarScam, an educational campaign designed to help students, parents, educators and financial aid administrators identify and avoid scholarship scams. OPEN-MINDED BIBLE STUDY all denominations welcome all faiths welcome all sexual orientations welcome 11, ,'';Y., ;;} "tir,., : 'ti" > :..." . +?;, "",.;' ' :. vr.1 :{ ' G: rr; . k :;x :;:; ,+;: 4y i x. . . .. J- '.tiy .. 'a4 " .". -r ' ' Novo st emerge- s as early target o cultural deans* BEIJING - Novelist Wang Shuo, one of this nation's most successful writers - author of 24 best-selling books, a hit television series and sever- al movies - has emerged as one of the first casualties of a cultural cleansing campaign launched nationwide by the Chinese Communist Party. In an interview, Wang said publica- tion of his collected works had been halted under orders from party propa- ganda officials. Two of his most recent film projects, including "Relations Between Men and Women," a movie about adultery, also have been banned by officials, he said. Alarmed that China's rapid econom- ic development has been accompanied by a parallel moral decline, the party launched the first stages of its "spiritu- al civilization" cleanup campaign earli- er this year. The campaign was formal- ly endorsed at the plenary meeting of senior party officials in Beijing last week and detailed in a giant 15,000 character manifesto calling fa increased political control of virtliall all aspects of cultural life, including publishing, film, television and press. French journalists stop the press PARIS - French journalists laic down their notebooks and cameras-yes terday and took to the streets on behal of the greater good: theirs. . The extraordinary media pr was provoked by a government threat A( repeal a 30 percent tax exemption fo journalists, a professional perk datin from the 1930s. The strike, punctuated by a rall outside the French National Assembly shut down most of the French state owned broadcasters and French-lan guage wire services. The pres e stopped too. Today's editions of man French newspapers will not appear, - Compiled from Daily wire repotts. 1 n LRT . +en S Registration Wednesday, October 16 - Friday, November 1 at the Michigan Union Ticket Office [763-TKTS] No Mail-in Registration - No Refund Unless Class is Cancelled MCard Accepted Classes Begin Week of October 28 All Classes are held in the Michigan Union. BARTENDING 1 11114' IT moo ro Mondays U-Club 7-9pm 10/28-12/2 $40 Learn proper techniques and responsible bartending from professionals, We'll teach you to mix over 100 drinks with a flair! 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