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MSA discusses affirmative action
ACTION
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"Once we get education, I believe students will
back affirmative action," Shultz said. "MSA should
start to support protests and sit-ins. We should start
to use MSA as a political vehicle."
Last semester, MSA passed a resolution
declaring its support of affirmative action poli-
cies at the University.
LSA sophomore Elizabeth Keslacy, who is run-
ning for president with the New Frontier Party, said
MSA should remain impartial in the debate - only
going so far as educating students on the issues.
"I think MSA should not put forth an opin-
ion," Keslacy said. "When MSA passes these
resolutions, it doesn't represent the student
body. They should encourage dialogue. That
-should be the scope of their efforts."
Most candidates agreed on the need to accu-
rately determine student sentiment on the
University's admissions policies.
Independent presidential candidate Ferris
Hussein, an LSA junior, said MSA should
vocalize the views of the student body.
"We like the idea of a referendum," Hussein
said. "We see MSA as a megaphone - an
extension of the students' voice. The student
body should decide what MSA does instead of
the other way around."
Earlier this semester, MSA struck down a
resolution calling for a referendum asking stu-
dents whether race should be used as a factor in
the admissions process.
LSA junior Trent Thompson, the Students'
Party presidential candidate, said he voted
against the measure because of its inherent
bias, but said he is not against the general con-
cept of having a referendum.
"I voted 'no' on the referendum resolution
because the question was slanted towards
race," Thompson said. "If we have a referen-
dum question, it should ask about gender, eth-
nicity, athletics and alumni status."
LSA junior Ryan Friedrichs and LSA sopho-
more Albert Garcia, independent presidential
and vice-president candidates, and Michigan
Party representative candidate Mehul Madia,
an LSA junior, have been working on conduct-
ing a professional survey on various issues -
including affirmative action.
"The poll's results will enable the assembly
to accurately reflect the feelings of the students
at the University," Garcia said. "The affirma-
tive action debate is yet another reason we
should have direct constituency."
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MSA
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"I think voter education will increase," said Ryan
Friedrichs, an independent candidate for MSA presi-
dent.
Friedrichs, an LSA junior and current MSA repre-
sentative, said this year's election is his third, and he
has received more positive feedback from this election
than from past elections in which he ran successfully
for a seat on the assembly.
Friedrichs credits many of these sentiments from
students to the availability of online voting, which
began last year.
Online voting is "very slowly starting to fundamen-
tally change how the process happens," Friedrichs
said.
Mehul Madia, a Michigan Party representative who
is running for re-election, said that although the rainy
weather put a damper on the day, meeting with stu-
dents attracts voters and hopefully increases voter
turnout.
"It's more effective than campaign posters and Diag
boards," said Madia, an LSA sophomore.
Also emphasizing the power of the voter-candidate
connection, independent vice-presidential candidate
Nick Pavlis said that giving students personal attention
is key to effective campaigning.
"That's definitely the best way to do it," said Pavlis,
an LSA junior. "The flyers - you have to do it
because everyone else does - but the word of mouth
is probably one of the most important things."
Some candidates said many voters' already have
made up their minds.
"I think by now, students have pretty much decided
who they're going to vote for," said New Frontier pres-
idehtial candidate Elizabeth Keslacy.
Online voting can be accessed at
http://www umich.edu/-vote.
AROUND TH E NATION
Former aide faces White House attack
WASHINGTON - Three days after a former White House
aide riveted the nation with her televised account of an unwel-
come sexual encounter with the president, information that
could challenge her version of events continued to come to
light yesterday.
Information also emerged indicating that President Clinton
took an active role in the decision to release correspondence
that might discredit Kathleen Willey's allegation that he had
kissed and groped her near the Oval Office in November
1993.
An affidavit released yesterday details the story of Willey's Clinton
close friend, Julie Steele, who said Willey asked her to lie to
back up Willey's account of her encounter with Clinton.
Steele, who has known Willey for 20 years, told Newsweek magazine last year
that her friend had come to her house on Nov. 29, 1993, and told her that Clinton
had fondled her and that she felt "humiliated:"
Subsequently, Steele told the magazine that Willey had actually first told
her of the White House meeting weeks later and that Willey had not be4
upset.
Judge stops Prop.
187 implementation
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge
issued a final ruling yesterday forbid- ;
ding implementation of the core provi-
sions of Proposition 187, declaring that
California's 1994 ballot initiative target-
ing illegal immigrants' use of public
benefits was unconstitutional.
The widely anticipated action slap-
ping a permanent injunction on the mea-
sure comes almost 3 1/2 years after
California voters overwhelmingly
approved it following a campaign that
galvanized national attention on the
issue of illegal immigrant use of health
care, schools and social services. Most
of the law never took effect because of
court rulings that temporarily blocked
enactment.
The stage is now set for a round of
appeals that many believe will reach the
U.S. Supreme Court, possibly as soon as
next year.
Gov. Pete Wilson and other
Proposition 187 proponents have
accused U.S. District Judge Mariana
Pfaelzer of dragging her feet on issuing
the final ruling, thus delaying their
appeals and the ultimate fate of the mea-
sure. But opponents of Proposition 187
said the lengthy review was understand-
able given the complexity of the case
and the state's shifting strategies a
sometimes contradictory arguments.
Clinton team fights
for troops in Bosnia
WASHINGTON - The Clinton
administration told a dubious
Congress yesterday it had a legal
right to keep thousands of American
soldiers on peacekeeping duty in
Bosnia without a pullout deadliq
and asked for nearly $2.5 billion to
finance the operation through
September 1999.
Within hours, the House voted
225-193 against a hotly fought reso-
lution that would have forced
President Clinton to withdraw U.S.
troops from Bosnia or get permis-
sion from Congress to leave them
there.
AROUND THE W :.LD
Hong KonMleader
discusses fure
HONG KONG - The Beijing-
approved leader of Hong Kong
appeared to move the goal posts back
this week for the territorys arrival at
the full democracy outlined in its mini-
constitution.
Departing from the government's
previous assurances that Hong Kong
aims to hold direct elections in 10
years, Chief Executive Tung Chee-
hwa surprised visiting American
democracy monitors by saying the
timetable, included in the territory's
Basic Law, might not apply to legisla-
tive elections.
In a Tuesday meeting with a dele-
gation from the Washington-based
National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs led by former
U.S. Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh, Tung reportedly said
that the achievement of full democ-
racy could take up to 15 years,
depending on how coming elections
go.
"We were somewhat puzzled when
he indicated it might be 10, 12 or 15
years ...," Thornburgh told reporters
yesterday.
"He said he was committed to the
letter of the Basic Law. ... But it4
seem to contradict the widely share
view that the process of full democra-
cy would be completed within ,10
years."
Plot a'st Mandela
halte by securty
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
- A cabinet official told tO
Parliament yesterday that the reports of
a plot against the government of
President Nelson Mandela were part of
a disinformation campaign by elements
in the security forces who want to
destabilize the country.
Safety and Security Minister Sydney
Mufamadi reassured Parliament that the
"overwhelming majority" of South
Africa's security forces would support
the government in the event that dest
bilization "machinations" came to pa,
- Compiled from Daily wire reports.
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