2 - The Michigan Daily -- Friday, November 21, 1997 NATION/WORLD KELLY MCKINNELL/Daily Drector of Housing Public Affairs Alan Levy spoke before members of the Residence Hall Association in last night's meeting about housing shortages. :RHA seeks housing solutions HOUSING Continued from Page 1. Taylor suggested surveying students to find out what they want in terms of housing. "Let's find out what their druthers are in regard to housing," Taylor said. Regents and RHA members both inquired about the possibility of build- ing a new residence hall. The University hasn't built a residence hall since it erected Bursley in 1968. But Housing Director William Zeller pointed out that the bed spaces created by a new residence hall would cost hearly $50,000 each. "This is the main reason we haven't moved into building a new residence --hall," Zeller said. RHA members called University *'officials greedy and criticized them for accepting more students than the University is equipped to handle. "I don't see a larger freshman class as being of any benefit other than bringing in money," said Engineering junior Jason Stonehouse. But Director of Housing Public Affairs Alan Levy said the larger incoming classes are a result of an inability to predict the number of stu- dents who will enroll at the University. Levy said Housing plans to send a letter informing students who cur- rently live in the residence halls about the new policy before Thanksgiving break. Maynard said she remembers a peri- od of time when students didn't want to live in the residence halls. "It's fascinating that it's sort of cycli- cal," Maynard said. BUDGET Continued from Page 2. "It is a very creative way to do bud- geting," Maynard said. VCM, which was approved two years ago, made each individual unit of the University responsible for its own revenues and costs, essentially setting them free as individual financial enti- ties. Regent Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor) said the fact that VCM does not give the individual units incen- tives to manage their costs concerns him. "If everybody focuses on individual units, what happens to the interdiscipli- nary missions, which are one of the SAFETY Continued from Page 2Z and then there is the problem of people jumping on top of each other." Following Wisconsin's victory over Michigan on Oct. 30, 1993, Badger fans in the student section became stuck between the crowd rushing for- ward and a fence blocking them from the field. Six people were critically injured. Former Michigan placekicker Remy Hamilton, who was present at the game, said he saw fans being trampled as they attempted to rush the field. "I didn't realize what was going on at the time,' Hamilton said. "I figured that it wasn't going to be as bad as it was. I remember helping people up, helping some girls who were getting trampled on the field. I got into the locker room before any people got really hurt." University officials became fearful that this could happen at Michigan Stadium after the Michigan Student Assembly passed a resolution in sup- SYMPOSIUM Continued from Page i1 "I don't think affirmative action is the only answer, the only solution," said LSA sophomore and panelist William Youmans. "Having both will only speed up the process.' But LSA junior Gregory Hillson said removing affirmative action practices will act as an incentive to make social changes necessary for establishing equal opportunities. "If you want to get rid of the problem .. we have to end affirmative action," Hillson said. Others argued that affirmative action is a form of discrimination, so trying to couple t with other reforms is contra- dictory. "As we've seen, affirmative action is an inflammatory solution," Agrawal said. "If you use affirmative action, you're almost saying that even if we do balance our K-12 education, you still need affirmative action." RC junior Neela Ghoshal said affirmative action must be main- tained because it works to eliminate economic class discrimination, a force that can limit a student's prima- ry education. "I think that racism still permeates our society," said Ghoshal, adding that wealthy minority students also experi- ence racism. University's greatest strengths?" Power asked. Cantor also proposed that alloca- tions for University service mis- sions, which include the libraries, museums and the president's and provost's offices, should go through her office, not the individual schools and colleges. Though he initially questioned if it was smart to put the budget control of these units in one person's hands, Power said the centralization of money will help ensure the service units receive tough-minded budget supervi- sion. "Previously, no one person had over- all responsibility (for the budgets)," Power said. port of students who desire to rush the field. MSA President Michael Nagrant said that after consulting with University administrators, MSA mem- bers recalled the resolution. "We realized that there is no safe way to do this, so we decided we had to make sure that students know that they shouldn't do it," Nagrant said. Hall explained that if the crowd starts to surge forward as people begin to leap onto the field, people who do not wish to make the jump will be thrown over the rail. She said the situation has the potential to cause a stampede. "If you look at how stampedes often happen, they happen because pressure buildf' Hall said. "When the pressure builds, the crowd becomes trapped and people are pushed over." Hall said students who do not com- ply with the ban will be arrested and receive a civil infraction, which can result in a trip to the police station and a $50 fine. "We are hoping for voluntary com- pliance from the students;' Hall said. Several of the students advocating affirmative action said removing the policy from the University would have deep repercussions. LSA sophomore Delbert Sanders said the University would not be an environment conducive to mutual learning among people of different classifications because it would be a more homogeneous place. "I think we do a disservice to our- selves when we don't try to get to know each other,"Sanders said, Because of the symposium, LSA junior Jacob Kart said he was not "con- vinced" about how to feel about affir- mative action. Rather, the symposium gave him the information to reach his own conclusion. "I've been to three of the four nights and was pretty undecided when I came,' Kart said. "Now, I feel like I can confidently say I'm in favor of affirma- tive action." One of the student moderators, LSA senior Scott Pence, said the purpose of the symposium was accomplished last night. LSA junior Melissa Walsh, also a symposium moderator and a member of Student Mediation Services, said students were able to hear a variety of different perspectives. "It wasn't just, 'This is the standard pro and this is the standard con,"' Walsh said. o AROUND THE NATION Social Security changes may be needed WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan said yester- day that the Social Security retirement age should again be raised and the annual cost-of-living adjustment trimmed to assure the future solvency of the huge retire- ment system. "There will have to be a lot of changes made" to protect benefits for future retirees, Greenspan told a meeting of a special Senate Budget Committee task force on Social Security. The current age for full retirement benefits, now 65, is scheduled to begin climW- ing in stages in the next century, and will reach age 67 in the year 2027. Greenspan didn'*t suggest a specific new age target, but said it should reflect increased longevity and the fact that fewer Americans have "physically arduous work." Many experts have suggested 70 as a retirement age that would accurately reflect the changes in health and longevity since Social Security was adopted by Congress in 1935. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is chair of the task force, which has offered a proposal to raise the retirement age to 70 in the year 2040. "The Senate will show courage on Social Security when the time comes," Gregg said after the hearing, noting that the Senate had voted to increase the Medicare eli- gibility age to 67 from 65 earlier this year when it adopted legislation to baaT the federal budget. Americans support higher gas prices WASHINGTON - In a survey that left business lobbyists stunned and envi- ronmentalists gloating, a poll made pub- lic yesterday found strong support among Americans for higher gasoline prices, if the increase - up to 25 cents a gallon - would help reduce global warming. But, even after a year of elevated political attention devoted to the phe- nomenon, the survey found a drop in the percentage of Americans who are con- cerned about it, and a sizable majority who believe all countries should share in the effort to contain it. The poll, conducted by the Pew Center for the People and the Press, pro- vides a rare look at public attitudes on environmental and economic questions as international negotiators approach a final round of talks to produce a pact on mitigating the impact of a changing cli- mate. The poll contained relatively good news for environmental groups and President Clinton. Of the 1,200 people surveyed last week, 66 percent said they had "a lot" or "some" confidence in envi- ronmental groups to "strike the right balance between protecting the envi- ronment and keeping the economy growing." Couple happy after birth of septuplets CARLISLE, Iowa - Looking like a man who may never stop smiling, Kenny McCaughey stood at the altar in his small-town church and described the joy of fathering septuplets - the four boys and three girls who were bo Wednesday in a Des Moines hospita While he beamed, the family was promised everything from a new home to a lifetime supply of Pampers. Donations and offers of help rolled into this town of 3,500, located seven miles south of Des Moines. McCaughey drove away from a news conference in a 15-passenger, $28,000 Chevrolet Express van donated by his employer. 1 AROUND THE WORLD I U UNITED AUTO AND SLEET REPAIR 2321 Jackson Ave. ~Ann Arbor 48193 . (313) 665-7130 STUDENT SPECIALS *Oil Changes $17.95 -Winterizations $39.95 *General Maintenance Inspection $22.50 *Foreign and Domestics Serviced " Please Call for Appointment Iraq to allow U.N. inspectors back UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations ordered its weapons inspectors back into Iraq yesterday after the gov- ernment of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein turned away from a confronta- tion that had threatened to draw the United States into renewed warfare in the Persian Gulf. U.S. military forces converging on the gulf did not immediately stand down, however, reflecting the attitude at the United Nations and in Washington that the crisis will not end until the inspectors have returned to Baghdad and resumed their work hunting down and dismantling Hussein's weapons of mass destruc- tion. Richard Butler, the Australian diplomat who leads the disarmament effort, said 77 staff members would fly into Baghdad from nearby Bahrain by noon today and be back on the job Saturday. He has said they will have catching up to do after three weeks of being blocked from inspections and may have to penetrate new Iraqi attempts to cover up work on prohibited weapons. President Clinton cautiously wel- comed the reversal even while orden@ more American firepower within strik- ing distance of Iraq. Islamic goup ma put a haltto attac CAIRO, Egypt - Three days after claiming responsibility for the slaugh- ter of 58 foreign tourists in Luxor o Monday, Egypt's largest militant grou said it would suspend further attacks if the government secured the release of its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, from prison .in the United States. In a statement faxed to foreign news agencies, the Islamic Group also demanded that the government release jailed members of the organization and sever relations with "the Zionist entity," otherwise known as Israel. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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