2 - The Michigan Daily -- Wednesday, April 16, 1997 NATION/WORLD I BOWLS Continued from Page 1 son, said a waiver is not necessary. "It's not too much to ask people to work 25 hours a week (to receive the food stamps)," he said. fTruscott said the governor's refusal to waive the requirements is consistent .with his welfare policies. "Instead of (the protesters) doing cheap theatrical stunts to get a photo in the paper, they should do something to actually help people," Truscott said. BCRS member Rachel Caul con- tends that a government waiver of food stamp provisions is needed for areas where a work requirement for food stamps in not practical. "Currently, poverty-stricken residents of any state aged 18-50 can only receive food stamps for a three-month period unless they are working. However, the governor of the state can request a waiv- er to the work requirement for food stamps in areas where there is more than 10 percent unemployment and labor sur- plus areas,' Caul said. However, Truscott said there are work and community service jobs available throughout the state. The indi- viduals affected "have a lot of time on their hands,' Truscott said. "If the governor approved a waiver, 70 percent of the 50,000 affected in Michigan would be able to continue to use food stamps even during unemploy- ment'" Lindamood said. Students at the School of Social Work are taking part in the drive, which Lindamood said represents more than just social work, but social action. BCRS is a social action group that believes in taking an activist role in affecting public policy, he said. Lindamood said he feels BCRS has chosen this aspect of the wel- fare issue because of its basic importance and tangibility. "We have identified an issue where we can do something measurable. By collecting bowls, we are speaking directly to what is happening. The leg- islation concerning welfare reform is all very removed," Lindamood said. "This issue concerns a basic, essential human need - food:' The local bowl drive is the first in the statewide campaign. The second drive is scheduled for May 10 at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and the People's Food Co-op in Kerrytown. The rally to deliver the bowls is scheduled for May 28, from 1:15-3 p.m. at the State House in Lansing. COLE Continued from Page 1 committing two NCAA violations for its involvement with Detroit booster Ed Martin. But University officials said yes- terday they do not anticipate a con- flict of interest between Cole's intri- cate knowledge of private University matters and her new position with the NCAA. "If she knew something about the NCAA and the University, she would have to recuse herself- that's standard legal ethic"' Harrison said. Senior Associate Director of Athletics Keith Molin said he has "the utmost respect for Cole's integri- ty;' and does not foresee any con- flicts. "Elsa has always conducted herself in a professional manner and there is no doubt in my mind she will continue to do so as general counsel in the NCAA;" Molin said. In her new position with the NCAA, Cole is required to oversee the manage- ment of all legal issues affecting the organization and the coordination of all litigation. "(Cole) would be involved to find counsel to represent us and to give advice to our staff" said Wallace Renfro, NCAA director of constituent communications. Renfro said Cole was selected from an applicant pool of 120 candidates nationwide. Cole, who was appointed to University general counsel by former President James Duderstadt in 1986, resigned in February. As the University's top attorney, Cole was involved in the first defense of the Code of Student Conduct and specialized in areas of sexual harass- ment law and student due-process issues. Cole's starting date at the NCAA, whose headquarters lie in Overland Park, Kan., was Monday, but she is not expected to officially report to the office until April 30. SAROUND THE N04An QN Bowles testifies in Whitewater trial LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Reaching into the White House inner circle, Whitewater prosecutors questioned President Clinton's top deputy before a feder-, al grand jury yesterday about whether he tried to buy the silence of a key witness. "Absolutely not'" White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles told reporters as he. entered the same courthouse where the long-running Whitewater investigation had' taken a dramatic turn a day earlier. On Monday at the sentencing of James McDougal, prosecutors said their in4 tigation had been revitalized by new information from the Clintons' ex-business partner and now accuser. More importantly, they said that much of what McDougal - a witness with admitted credibility problems - told them has been corroborat- ed by documents or other witnesses. In addition to investigating decade-old financial transactions in Arkansas, pros- ecutors are now trying to determine if attempts were made by White House aides or presidential supporters to influence witnesses after Clinton took office. Bowles, who was in the courthouse most of the day, was the first of several pres- idential aides who are expected to testify'. He was expected to be questioned about telephone calls he made in spring 1994, to try to line up financial help for longtime Clinton friend Webster Hubbell, had just left the No. 3 Justice Department job under an ethical cloud. W OR K-STUDY Continued from Page 2. anyway,- Beck said. Others,, however, believe that the larger paychecks will encourage stu- dents to work more. "It's definitely a bonus for students, although most of them get the money back anyway," said Michigan Student Assembly President Michael Nag-rant. "It will certainly encourage students to participate in work-study more:' On 92 college campuses in Michigan, 22,850 students receive work-study funds. The allocation to work-study in the state is more than $24.8 million. More than 945,000 stu- dents nationwide participate in work- study jobs. GORE Continued from Page I. Cuomo also said the planned open- ing of three casinos in Detroit will help the city's economic state. "This will also allow people to go back to work;' Cuomo said. Empowerment zones face challenges in encouraging more profit-seeking large businesses to get involved with empowerment zones, Gore said. "The private sector must be re- engaged," Gore said. "The private sec- tor has only just begun to get engaged." Gore said the empowerment zone program is effective because the people R E A D A N D :;ss:.;':,- >-ta:,R;;EC Y C L E3;^,;;;:p>::::::. T H E D:::: ............... a The School of Public Policy is pileased1o announce the 1997Staeb:.ler Lecture BeelyGodwin MPP... fo r Xtits FridayI'April 8, 9 :.:,:rsit o MchianAlmwiCeA S :::" ;5 wiin i: i : ,{ " -. . ':,.y '' "r; c r : ;1me m b e r o t h e N a t i o n a l P e r f d t n 7a h c e . R e v i e :fatta chairedFy Vice4Pr , . ent Gore Shewotrks on imprv nteoVernm ntal etire iver Ical f!eibili1 ..v r.3.. ., . .{.x":::±,:f. 4:.:.. {}"{:.:::oi,: x":: o-:2{:.:.lts, ats~ rk:,t am il. y l c.-:.. .a. who will benefit from the zones are the ones who build them. "It's designed not to be top-down, but bottom-up;' Gore said. "You asked, we responded. The results speak for them- selves.' While Gore acknowledged that some may doubt the government's interest in empowerment zones, he said the Clinton administration will continue to support them in the long run. "There are no quick fixes. It's a process;' Gore said. "Rest assured, we are in this together whether we live in the Kentucky highlands or south-cen- tral Los Angeles or anywhere in between:' PROVOST Continued from Page 1. bottom-line approach to problems. I think he's a very smart guy. He certain- ly knows finance and budgeting, which may be helpful for running a business school, but from my point of view he was not quite aware of the rest of the University?' As a result of Whitaker's work with SACUA, the board became more con- cerned with budget as it pertains to pol- icy, which was mostly a positive change, Dunn said. "I was very interested in his approach to things;' Dunn said. "It was just much more business-oriented, more customer-product-oriented, than we are used to at Michigan?' Dunn said Whitaker is very qualified for the position at Rice, and the two will be a good match. "He made a lot of difference here;' Dunn said. "He started a lot of pro- grams at the business school here. Gil brought a breath of fresh air to the business school. He brought a real sense of business to the Business School. I think Rice and Gil will do very well together?' Candidate drug tests no longer requiired WASHINGTON - States may not force political candidates to take drug tests, the Supreme Court ruled yester- day, striking down a Georgia law as mere symbolism. By an 8 to 1 vote, the justices said Georgia's law violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unrea- sonable search and seizure. The law said that candidates who refused to submit to a drug test or who tested pos- itive for illegal drugs could not be placed on the ballot. "However well-meant," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court, acknowledging the nation's problem of illicit drug use, "the candi- date drug test Georgia has devised diminishes personal privacy for a symbol's sake." The ruling was a triumph for oppo- nents of broad-scale government drug testing, an increasingly common prac- tice in an era of heightened concern for narcotics abuse. However, the court emphasized that the unique Georgia law, covering the governor, lieutenant golernor, other top offi- cials, judges and legislators, was not enacted in response to any reported illegal drug use among politicians. When the risk to public safety is real, the justices said, blanket search, would be allowed. Nuclear waste site near Vegas approved. WASHINGTON - The Senate' voted yesterday to establish a tempo- rary storage facility for nuclear= waste at Yucca Mountain, northwest of Las Vegas. But it failed for as ond year to muster enough votes override an expected veto by President Clinton. .The 65-34 vote, two shy of the two-thirds needed to overcome a veto if all 100 senators vote, keeps open the vexing question of what to do with the nation's scattered piles of radioactive garbage, 33,000 tons in all. sAROUND THE WORL 220 South University Ave. to. 209, A n Aror tM 300 die as fire ruins pilrims' camp MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Fires driven by. high winds tore through a sprawling, overcrowded tent city yesterday, trap- ping and killing pilgrims gathered for a sacred Islamic ritual. The official death toll was 217, but witnesses said at least 300 died. Saudi Arabia said more than 1,290 pilgrims were injured in the fire, which witnesses blamed on exploding canis- ters of cooking gas. Most of the dead were Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, many of them elderly, witnesses told The Associated Press. Some were tram- pled to death as pilgrims fled the fire on the plain outside the holy city of Mecca. "Men panicked and ran in every direction," said an Indian pilgrim who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone and identified himself only as Irfan. Helicopters dropped water from above while civil defense workers used firetruck hoses on the flames. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims were stranded after the fire destroyed an estimated 70,000 tents, which= the pilgrims use for shelter in the final of the Hajj. Civil defense forces Mecca and nearby Jiddah and Tail rushed to the scene, handing out tents and supplies. Israeli .politicians may face indictment JERUSALEM -- Israeli televirt and radio reported yesterday that--'* have recommended felony Indictm against Prime Minister Benjamir Netanyahu's justice minister, his chief of staff and a key coalition ally.. The reported police recommenda- tions, following a three-month corrup- tion probe, excluded Netanyahu him.- self from calls for prosecution. But even without official confirmation,. the reports struck a political body blow to Netanyahu's embattled government.= - Compiled from Daily wire reports. I Yes, I am interested in finding out more about Olalnd University's College of Arts and sciences Spring and Summer credit courses. Please . } send an application and informiaton on: . []I Art anid Art Historiy F f il weentry F LI Bitehc tiaIScieNtcfs Elfi Chemnistry I. E Elish I[]Ent irmiental Studies1 LiiInteiriatz nal StudiesI 1, E lluti .. Matbernatli ciece F Eimodem XLanguages and literature Mttsic, Theatre and D~ance ~~Philus~hy 21 PI D ysic.. s Ml Political Science Mid 1 1Aic AdnijiStrationI :l:<) I [] Returzic, CEtnunictafiEn and JSjr :j I' S [Ii1oIgy anid Anthropologyu I .. . 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