2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 20, 1997 NATION/WORLD MSA Continued from Page 1A body to try to encourage voting. . "I think there will be an increase in voter turnout than last year," Nagrant said. "More students will know about this especially with the mass e-mail." LSA junior Kyu Kim said he votes every semester in the MSA elections. Kim said he usually votes for the candidates with the most well-known names, even though the party plat- forms are published on the Web. "1 try to go on whatever I read in the Daily," Kim said. "The main thing is recognition, which is a bad way to do it but it's the best way to do it." LSA Rep. Barry Rosenberg, who is running as an inde- pendent candidate, said he reminded his friends to vote. '1 feel like I have the capablity to make positive changes;' Rosenberg said. LSA candidate Jill Mikoleizik, who is running with the Michigan Party, said campaigning outside on campus ylloivs candidates to have more personal contact with stu- dent voters. "A'lot of people don't know what MSA does. Hopefully, that Will change," Mikoleizik said. LSA junior Scott Weinberg said it is important for students to be aware of who is running for representative seats on the assembly. Weinberg said he appreciates the time candidates take to get recognized. "Basically, I voted for who I met and who I thought would +a good job," Weinberg said. "Students should vote if they yrct about their future at the University." rPak- Man Shuen, who heads the United Rebels Front tw slate, said the cold weather yesterday did not deter tIRr: candidates from the party's campaigning efforts. E6 crSr W up ". Shuen said the presence of the candidates encouraged stu- dents to vote, but added that some students treated his party like they were loan sharks, acting like they were only there to collect payment or votes. "Many students would not have voted if we were not there," Shuen said. "Many students act like they are political- ly frigid." Douglas Friedman, who is running for a Rackham seat with the Liberty Party, 'is not new to the MSA scene. Friedman resigned from the assembly last year, but said that the new leadership and the possibility of Liberty Party mem- bers on the assembly may provide opportunity to make valu- able changes on campus. "The assembly needs new ideas and new interests in doing something for students," Friedman said. "New blood follow- ing the same old routine will do absolutely nothing." Jessica Curtin, who heads the Defend Affirmative Action Party, said her party was going to stay on the Diag and hand out fliers. "We have been active and many people see this as our ongoing fight on affirmative action," Curtin said. Joel Hoffman, who worked the polls in Angell Hall yester- day morning, said he expects most students to vote online. Hoffman said he has sat at the polls for three straight years of elections and has observed that Angell Hall is one of the busiest polling sites. Engineering sophomore Elizabeth Langhal, who volun- teered at the polls at the Union, said activity at the polls picked up as the day went on. "It was more than I expected from what I heard," Michels said. "It's sad so few people vote." The polls will be open at various locations and times on campus tomorrow. Students can also vote online at http://www.umich.edu/-vote. REGENTS Continued from Page 1A ness or proposals to the regents. "There is nothing totally new because after every SACUA meeting, we send the regents notes from the meeting. It will be more of an overview of everything that has happened in the last year" D'Alecy said. D'Alecy said he plans to present many topics from resolutions that SACUA already has passed, ranging from tobacco divestment to diversity statements. He also wants to report about SACUA discussions of faculty access to the regents. "I am going to talk about faculty access to the regents," he said. "We know that we have a strong position with the president inviting us to access the regents." But Marie Ting, program coordi- nator for the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, is hoping to also connect students to the board. Ting is bringing a group of minority students to observe the meeting. "I call them regents' field trips," Ting said. "In general, students don't know what the regents are, what they do or. what the meetings are about?' Ting said minority students often do not feel an attachment to the University. She hopes that bringing groups of minority students to the monthly meetings will help them feel more involved in the University. "I feel that if students know who govern them, they will feel more con- nected," Ting said. l-AROUND THE NATIQN Muslims angered about treatment of Sheik WASHINGTON - He is blind, has diabetes, asthma and a heart ailment, and is nearly 60 years old. But the U.S. government is treating Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman as if he were a criminal about to escape, keeping him in isolation in federal prison and denying him communication privileges afforded most other inmates. The restrictions on Rahman, convicted in 1995 as the leader of a conspiracy to bomb New York landmarks, follow prison rules U.S. Attorney General Janet Re issued last year for terrorists. Their crimes are particularly grave and, if gran customary mail and phone privileges, they could order up more attacks, she rea- soned. But Rahman's health and treatment at the prison in Springfield, Mo., have angered Muslims in the United States and abroad, with some vowing to take revenge. Indeed, some members of the group claiming responsibility for this week's massacre of tourists at Luxor, Egypt, say their gunmen had hoped to take hostages for the sheik's release. At least one distinguished American is upset about Rahman's situation, too. Ramsey Clark, former attorney general in President Johnson's administration, has gone to bat for the sheik by filing a lawsuit on his behalf against the U.S. govern- ment. Clark called Rahman's prison conditions "unbelievable." Study shows danger of stick margarine BOSTON - Ordinary stick mar- garine, as well as anything baked and fried with shortening and other kinds of hardened vegetable oil, appear to be the worst foods of all for the heart. A large new study offers the strongest evidence yet that something called trans fat, which is a primary ingredient of standard stick margarine and shortening, is an especially unhealthy part of the diet. The mounting mass of scientific data contradicts a generation of advice that switching from butter to stick margarine is a healthy thing to do. On the contrary, the latest study suggests that ordinary stick margarine - though probably not the newer low-fat spreads - is even worse for the heart than butter. But, both should be avoided. "The worst type of fat appears to be trans fat," said Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. "That's still unknown to most con- sumers." Most of the trans fat that people eat is made through a process called hydro- genation, in which vegetable oil is altered so it hardens and resists spoiling. Usually these foods list "partially hydrogenated" oil on the label. Regular stick margarine is typically about 17 percent trans fat. Iowa woman gives birth to septuplets DES MOINS - An Iowa woman gave birth yesterday to what might be the first surviving set of septuplets, making medical history with the successful delivery of four boys and three girls. Six of the infants, born to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey, were listed in s ous condition after being delivered Cesarean section at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines; the seventh, Joel Steven, was listed as crit- ical. But doctors and family members seemed elated by the babies' apparent- ly robust health and their birth weights, which ranged from 2 pounds 5 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces. AROUND THE WO t Of course, no one can guarantee a particular MCAT score. But Kaplan has gotten more students into med school than all other national review courses combined. 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Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov invited Albright and the for- eign ministers of France and Britain to this traditionally neutral city to detail a plan he worked out with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz for resolving the latest crisis in the Persian Gulf.. "A certain program has been worked out that allows us, we think, to avoid ... a confrontation, to avoid the use of force and achieve a settlement," he said, refusing to elaborate. Even as Clinton strengthened American military power in the Gulf, U.S. officials encouraged Russia and France to use their influence with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. State Department spokesman Ja Rubin said Albright hadn't b informed in advance about the proposal. 50 years of marriage for Queen, prince LONDON - The much-ridiculed institution of royal marriage got an enthusiastic boost yesterday fiom someone who ought to know. Prince Philip, married for 50 yeaA' Queen Elizabeth II, called their marriage a successful partnership, praised his wife's tolerance and expressed pride in their chil- dren, whose marital history is less happy. The special problems of royal mar- riage pose a challenge that he and.the queen have met, the 76-year-old Doke of Edinburgh said in an unusually per- sonal speech at a luncheon the 'day before their golden anniversary. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. -I- The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus sub- scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. 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