2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 20, 1997 NATION/WORLD REGENTS Continued from Page 1A Regent Olivia Maynard (D- Goodrich) said the suits threat to diversity could have consequences reaching beyond the University cam- pus. "The lawsuit is not unexpected. The whole issue of diversity is more important than just this campus," Maynard said. "We need to educate here a group of men and women who reflect the community in which we live, and the community that will be in the 21st century." Regent S. Martin Taylor (D-Grosse isle) said the lawsuit must be taken seri- ously. "I am in absolute unequivocal sup- port of the University in this area," Taylor said. "I am confidant that the University will prevail. (Affirmative action) is in the best interest of the stu- "1 am confident the university will prevail. - Regent S. Martin Taylor (D-Grosse Pointe) dents at the University, the entire state and the nation." Regent Shirley McFee (R-Battle Creek) said she hopes the suit will not deter minority students from applying to the University. "I think the impact it will have (is) it will make us to take a long look at our policies," McFee said. "I think the importance of diver- sity at the University is extraordi- nary." - Daily Staff Reporter Janet Adamy contributed to this report. RAPE Continued from Page IA Dugan did not address the rape charges, despite an Ann Arbor Police Department report and an investigation conducted by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office, which stated non- consenual penetration. "I try to do what I can and to help (my family) no matter what," Dugan said. "I was told not to speak to them again (by my lawyer). "It's very difficult without my family to support me," said Dugan, who spoke for a few minutes after Foley's statement. Foley said she believes that court is the only way for Dugan to get the max- imum penalty possible. "This hearing feels like a win," Foley said. "Three months is just too easy. I would rather have a good ending, and he get the maximum sentence possible. Michael lacked remorse, where was the apology in his statement? The lack of remorse is even an indication that he is not going to change, it will have to con- tinue. In her statement, Foley said she was frustrated in being shut out of the prior legal agreement. "The agreement states that if Michael pleads guilty to the charge then he will get a lesser sentence" Foley said. "It was not my decision to make. It was the choice of the prosecutors. I feel kind of tricked by the prosecutor, who is supposed to be on my side. Three months is the sentence that my prosecutor said was the most probable sentence for Michael." The courtroom fell silent as Foley looked Dugan in the eye and recounted the rape and her step-brother's string of other sexual assaults. On Labor Day weekend in 1991, Foley and her sister visited her step- brother, Michael Dugan in Ann Arbor. Dugan, then an Engineering junior, had invited the pair up for the weekend, two days before 15-year-old Foley began her sophomore year in high school. "People were sitting around drinking," Foley said. "I considered at the time that I was with my brother and my sister. To me you couldn't get safer than that." Foley said she and her sister Laura fell asleep on a pull-out bed. Foley said she awoke couple of hours later to find her step-brother raping her. "Michael was on top of me," Foley said. "My shirt was pushed up, one leg of my pajama pants were off and my under- wear was off. I was so shaken. I was just trying to figure out what happened." Foley said she went to the bathroom to try to figure out what was going on. When she came out of the bathroom Dugan was standing right outside and asked if she was "OK." "I was in shock," Foley said. "I didn't know what had happened or what I had woken up to. I mean this was someone I trusted, I didn't want to believe what had happened." Foley said she returned to the pullout bed and laid down once again next to her sister, closed her eyes and pretend- ed to be asleep. "Michael returned to the room 15 minutes later and started to get on top of Laura," Foley said. "I pretended to be asleep and I put my leg on top of her to prevent him from doing the same thing to her. I didn't want to directly confront him at the time." Foley said after the incident, she man- aged to put on the best act of her life. "Michael was away at school so I didn't have to see him," Foley said. "... The only time I had to see him was on the holidays. I would cringe every time his name was mentioned. I was a psych major, and I still don't know to this day how I managed to act normal." At the end of April 1995, Foley gath- ered her strength and told her family what had happened. Dugan never denied the allegations. Foley then learned that she was not Dugan's first victim. "What was disturbing is that I was not the first person in my family who was raped by Michael," Foley said. "My sis- ier, Laura, was raped by Michael when she was 14, and he was 15. It was the same story, Michael had gotten her drunk and she woke up with him on top of her. Michael couldn't deny it, there was blood all over her sheets." Foley said her family knew about the alleged rape of her sister, but kept the incident a secret from her and other sib- lings. "My family took Laura and Michael to a psychologist," Foley said. "The psychologist told my parents that what Michael had done was a teen-age hijinx, a mistake that he had made as a teen-ager," Foley said. "Basically that it was an isolated incident:' Since Foley has pressed charges, three additional women have come for- ward to report similar experiences with Dugan. "My sister Laura, my brother Tom's roommate, also were raped by Michael, and Michael's own sister has feared him so much that she locked herself in her room one evening when he was acting weird and trying to get her drunk, Foley said. "They were all under the same circumstances and planned out. He tried to get all of us drunk and then attacked when we were sleeping, there is a definite pattern here." AROUND THE Clinton tapes may h WASHINGTON - Charging that videot events at the White House may have beena ing committee said yesterday he may seek sure that we get the whole story." Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) leveled his ac quality of the tapes, which show Clinton ac donors. "The tapes are going to be analyzed ver sound and so forth that may not be readily, Burton said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation "We think maybe some of those tapes may you know, altered in some way," Burton sai The emergence of the tapes has height Clinton may have violated federal campaig federal property or soliciting "soft money be used only by political party organizatio - for his own re-election campaign. Soft money can be contributed in unlim butions directly to candidates - is limited States give back welfare rightsa WASHINGTON - Congress was hard on immigrants when it restruc- tured the nation's welfare system last year, but the mood in state capitals has been strikingly different. While the federal law cut nearly all benefits for legal immigrants, almost every state has decided, sometimes using its own money, to keep immi- grant benefits intact. "The federal government is shirking its- responsibility," Texas' Republican governor, George Bush, said recently as he announced state aid for elderly and disabled immigrants who lost food stamps. "Texans are compassionate people who will help those who truly cannot help themselves." Last year's massive welfare overhaul cut immigrants from federally funded food stamps and disability rolls, although disability benefits were partly restored later. The law also gave states the power to ve been altered apes of President Clinton's fund-raising altered, the head of a House inveatiga the assistance of lip-readers "to make ccusation while complaining about the ting as host at meetings attended by big y thoroughly by technicians to pickup apparent when you first look at thenj, n. y have been cut off intentionally - been, d. He offered no specific evidence.. ened the partisan debate over whether n finance laws by seeking donations on " - contributions that are supposed4t9 ins for general party-building activitic> ited amounts. "Hard money" - c- by federal statutes. decide whether to cut immigrants from cash assistance and Medicaid, -, prn- grams financed with a combinatiorof federal and state dollars. Investigators eye:t group's mailings ' WASHINGTON -A mailing by tbx National Council of Senior Citizen; that benefited a Senate candidate'in Virginia is drawing the attention of fed- eral authorities investigating the Teamsters election scandal. The union paid $85,000 last year to underwrite the advocacy group's mai ing that praised the Democrats' Senate contender, Mark Warner. Court rec , s indicate Warner also paid a fee te direct-mail firm, and that money, was funneled back to the re-election vam- paign of the Teamsters' president, Rohi Carey. It remains unclear whether the caw- didate's campaign or the couhll knew the funds would go to Caroys coffers. Both have denied wrongdo- ing. aa.HiXco3a;u:rk::+; j; A~oUND THE WERL ..-! M ICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY WINTAECR ELECTIONS ARE NOVEMBER 19TH & 20TH All candidates interested in running for a seat on MSA should pick up a candidates' packet at 3909 Michigan Union " Office hours are 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday " Packets will be available on October 15, 1997 Election Schedule Hamas stops attacks against Israel GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The founder of the radical Islamic group Hamas said yesterday that militants have halted attacks on Israel for the time being. But Sheik Ahmed Yassin told The Associated Press that the "cooling off" period would last only if Israel stopped its punitive measures against Palestinian civilians - such as eco- nomic closures, house demolitions and land seizures. "We have stopped, and many times we've stopped for months, but the Israelis still continue their attacks against Palestinian civilians," Yassin said. "Why don't they stop?" If Yassin's declaration translates into an end to Hamas terrorist bomb- ings in Israel, one of the main imped- iments to Israeli-Palestinian peace- making efforts would be removed. But the message was sometimes contradictory and Israel reacted skepti- cally. David Bar-Illan, an adviser to A Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaba, said Israel welcomed the "change-of tone" in Yassin's statements but ,a d there were too many strings attached to make his cease-fire proposals c d- ible. Rebels optimistic after victory TURALEI, Sudan - The men, f Turalei are reed-thin giants, scraig the sky at seven feet. Armed, With spears and automatic rifles; they V'ear themselves with a regal dignity unaf- fected by the rags they wear or ,ir empty bellies. And in recent* , they seem to be standing even. talUr than usual. 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