2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 8, 1997 NATION/WORLD BOLLINGER Continued from Page IA Students in his class who attended his office hours said that Bollinger manages to squeeze in time for them between phone calls and formal dinners. Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman, who chaired the search advisory committee that ultimately led to Bollinger's selection, said Bollinger learns and devel- ops his vision by deliberating and talking with com- munity members. "I think a sense of accessibility, his openness and his willingness to talk to people is sometimes hard, in a 35,000-student community, to get a sense of," Lehman said. "I think it is wonderful that he is able to express that part of his charac- ter" While literally opening doors to students, Bollinger also has reached out to the faculty. In his inaugural address, Bollinger spoke of faculty autonomy. He regularly attends meetings of the faculty's governing body and endorses increased "People are hungry for some kind of institutional identity." -- Lee Bollinger University President faculty access to the Board of Regents. But now, Bollinger may be faced with the greatest challenge of his presidency - defending the University's use of race as a factor in the admissions process. The two recent lawsuits attacking the University's affirmative action policies leave the world of higher education wondering what the future holds. Bollinger - as a lawyer, scholar, educator and, most notably, president - bears the responsibility of answering for the school. He says the University will uphold its policies at any cost. But personally, he views the lawsuits as touch- ing much deeper chords. He says affirmative action is the most important issue in the nation. It is not about wining and losing; to him it"is an open debate and discussion of where the University, and higher education in general, will go. It is an examination of how far society has come in gripping diversity. Workitg through the lawsuits, which Bollinger acknowledges will be extremely difficult, may enible the community to delve deep into its intellectual val- ues. Bollinger and the administration are in the process of planning meetings and events that they hope may assist the University in understanding the nature and seriousness of the question. When defending the University in this fight and others yet to come, Bollinger knows that no one can have too many allies. So far, he has found them - in the regents, the administration, the student body and the faculty. "There is just an attachment that I feel to this place that is inexplicable, and so the sort of rela- tionships I have with people are very deep and very long," Bollinger said. "To me, a life worth living, a life most worth living, is working with people in that basis that you've known for a long time." AROUND THE NATIQN Clinton to consider nuclear weapons - WASHINGTON - Turning U.S. nuclear policy toward an emerging threat, President Clinton has decided the United States will consider using nuclear weapons against attackers who hit American forces with chemical or biological weapons. The policy, made explicit in a classified presidential directive, marks th administration's first instruction to the Pentagon shaping a nuclear strate against the increasingly worrisome possibility that nations such as Iraq might turn chemical or biological arsenals against U.S. troops. A senior Clinton administration adviser said yesterday the policy con- forms with two decades of White House statements on the possible "first use" of nuclear weapons. But it adds presidential weight to the emerging concern about "rogue states" that has replaced the nuclear terror of the Cold War. Approved last month by Clinton, principal elements of the "Presidential Decision Directive' or PDD, were reported yesterday by The Washington Post. In many respects, the directive follows long-standing policy on nuclear weapons, including continued support for the nuclear triad - bombers, land-based missilO and missile submarines - and basic reliance on nuclear weapons as a mainstay o national security. . ANNIVERSARY Continued from Page 1A Norton said. Regardless of which teams ended up playing in the upcoming Rose Bowl, the Nortons planned to go. But being serious Wolverine fans, they could not be more "thrilled" to sing "The Victors" in Pasadena on New Year's Day. "We had already ordered the tickets, but that was the icing on the cake,' Harriet Norton said. "I am going to scream my little head off." Perry Norton said he does not know who will win the Rose Bowl but he still remembers which team was victorious in the game the couple missed 50 years ago. "In January of '48, they beat Southern California by 49-0,' Perry Norton said. "That was the same score as Michigan's first Rose Bowl 46 years before when they played Stanford. "We want them to win, but we don't expect that." SHAMEE IS ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AT ARBOR HILLS 913-5557 " HAIRCUT & STYLING " PERMANENT & COLORING " 200/0 OFF YOUR FIRST VISIT WITH THIS AD GO5 T0R0UGH 1/31/9$} VP to use global wanning expertise WASHINGTON - When asked about the uncertainties of global warm- ing, President Clinton often defers to his chief environmental adviser - Al Gore. "Read the vice president's book,' is Clinton's advice to those who question the need to rein in greenhouse gases. Gore was arriving Sunday in Kyoto, Japan, to press before delegates from 150 nations the U.S. position that green- house gases must be cut but not so rapidly as many demand. En route, the vice president gave no assurance that an agreement was in sight. "It's a very tricky situation and suc- cess is far from assured," he said. "A lot of issues are undecided." The United States would stabilize greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil, at 1990 levels over the next dozen years. Environmentalists have embraced a tougher European proposal that would cut emissions 15 percent beyond the U.S. plan. The Clinton administration decided to send Gore to the contentious climate conference after days of debate with political advisers anxious it might back- fire on the vice president if no treaty emerges or if he is viewed by environ- mentalists as accepting a weak agr4 ment. GOP threatens Reno with contemnt WASHINGTON - Republicans threatened Attorney General Janet Reno with contempt of Congress yesterday over her decision to forego an indepen- dent counsel's investigation of Wh House campaign fund raising. One senator, Orrin Hatch of Utah, said he's asking FBI director Louie Freeh to bypass Reno, and investigate impropriety in fund raising. "I have no doubt that the political appointees in the department who have been influ- encing her are doing nothing but pro- tecting the president," Senate Judiciary Committee chair Hatch said on CBS' "Face the Nation." SAROUND TH E WORL i To nail the MCAT, knowing the sciences isn't enough. You've got to know the test. At Kaplan we'll teach you both. Our expert teachers have helped more students get into medical school than all other MCAT prep courses combined. So, go with the leader. 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By midday yesterday, 42 bodies had been recovered and the toll wad expected to increase as some 1,400 firefighters, soldiers and medic personnel with heavy machinery a dogs scoured massive heaps of rub- ble. The workers searched through the night as temperatures plunged below zero. 20M Africans have AIDS, experts say ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - M than 20 million people in sub-Saha Africa carry the virus that causes AIDS, and most of them don't even know it, an expert told an international conference yesterday. "The situation in this region is unprecedented," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS. Piot was addressing the opening ses- sion of the 10th Intemationsl Conference on AIDS and Sexua Transmitted Diseases in Africa. - Compiledfrvm Daily wire reports. What's New? Whether you want to save for your children's education, supplement your retirement sav- ings, buy a new house, or even just start planning a big trip, there's big news. 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