2% ia Untti sews: 76-DAILY dvertlsing: 764-0554 One hundred seven years of editmor;lfreedom Thursday April 2, 1998 :11 i NOR M M icers to face Wildcats nBoston By Pranay Reddy Daily Sports Writer BOSTON - When the Michigan hockey team takes the ice today to face New Hampshire, expect the unexpected. How elsb can you describe an NCAA emifinal game between two overachiev- g teams that each defeated a pair of highly touted teams one week ago? Michigan (30-11-1) will face the Wildcats (25-11-1) today at 2 p.m. at the FleetCenter, with the second game between Ohio State and Boston College scheduled for tonight at 8. The Wolverines are riding a wave of The omt into paOff ostn aterupset ia Ting then-No.2 Michigan North Dakota, 4-3, vs. New on Saturday night in Hampshire the West Regional at the at Yost Ice Arena. FleetCenter The victory fol: 2 p.m. ESPN 2 lowed a close shave the night before with Princeton, in which Michigan escaped with a 2-1 win. pite Michigan's success at the region- s, the Wildcats have proven to be no slouches either. New Hampshire pulled off a stunning upset of its own in the East Regional at Albany, N.Y., upending Boston University, 4-3, in overtime. And since the victory, the Wildcats have been basking in the glow of their achievement. Forward Mark Mowers' overtime goal against the Terriers has been dubbed "The shot heard around New Hampshire" -- and the Wildcats ve been flying high ever since. And they still haven't come down, New Hampshire netminder Sean Matile said. "We're so high on this experience right now. We haven't stopped smiling, but by two o'clock tomorrow we'll stop smiling." Mowers has made an attempt to keep his emotions in check, particularly to void any sort of letdown against the olverines today. If the past is any indication, said Mowers, a letdown is definitely a possibility. "Monday was probably the peak of our emotions, Mowers said. "We tried to get everybody to relax on Tuesday. "We don't want to do what BU did last year after they beat Michigan. They kind of lost all their juice for the next game." New Hampshire's landmark vic- tory put the Wildcats into the national mifinals for the first time since 1982. ut now the Wildcats are in the position of having to prepare for a Michigan team that has participated in six of the past seven NCAA semifinals. New Hampshire plays an up-and- down style game led by its high-scor- ing offense. The Wildcats boast four of the nation's top eight scorers, which will no doubt challenge a young Michigan defense. But after shutting *own the high-flying North Dakota scorers a week ago, the Wolverines seem to be ready. New Hampshire, on the other hand, seems to be preparing for more than Michigan's players. Michigan's history can be quite a for- See HOCKEY, Page 8A Judgedismisses Jones The Washington Post WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., threw out Paula Jones' sexual harass- ment lawsuit against President Clinton, abruptly calling off an often unseemly four-year legal strug- gle that opened virtually every corner of the presi- dent's private life to public scrutiny and led to a crim- inal investigation that has threatened to topple his administration. in a ruling yesterday that shocked both sides in the long-running case, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright rejected all of Jones' claims stem- ming from her 1991 encounter with Clinton in a hotel suite, concluding that even if Clinton did proposition her crudely it did not constitute sexual assault and that she had not proven she was punished in the workplace or emotionally afflicted by Clinton for rebuffing him. "There are no genuine issues for trial in this case," she wrote. The White House and its allies immediately rejoiced in what they saw as a momentous turning point, not only for the president's legal and political prospects but also for his chances of shaping a favor- able legacy. "The president is pleased to receive the vindication that he's been waiting a long time for" said White House press secretary Michael McCurry. But Jones' lawyers immediately signaled that they will appeal the dismissal, meaning months of addi- tional legal maneuverings. And independent counsel Kenneth Starr said there would be "no effect" on his investigation into whether Clinton or his friends tried to tamper with witnesses stemming from the Jones case, including Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who reportedly was caught on tape say- ing the president wanted her to lie to Jones' lawyers about having an affair. Wright's ruling stunned those involved in the case, most of whom were anticipating that the trial set to start May 27 in Little Rock would prove a grueling and combative ordeal. Clinton, who was nearing the end of an l1-day journey through Africa, initially asked his attorney calling from Washington if it was an April Fool's joke. Jones, according to one of her lawyers, heard the news on a cellular telephone call while driving in Southern California, pulled over to lawsuit the side of the road and cried. "I'm shocked, shocked," David Pyke, one of the Dallas-based lawyers for Jones, said minutes after learning of the ruling. "I think we had great grounds to go forward and the case should have gone forward." In her 39-page ruling, Wright never addressed whether Clinton actually dropped his pants and asked Jones for oral sex in a suite at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel on May 8, 1991, while he was Arkansas governor and she was a low-level state clerk. Instead, she granted the president's motion for summary judgment by arguing that if true, such behavior might be "boorish and offensive" but had See CLINTON, Page 1OA ONE toof DAX M.IpOqRE mOF StudentsVI protest two lawsuits By Rachel Edelman Dail Staff Reporter In a show of support for thek University's affirmative action poli- cies, hundreds of students took part in a second National Day of Action yesterday. More than 70 colleges and univer- sities in 25 states also recognized the day of action, taking the lead from the University's initial efforts in February. "It has a more national character" said LSA first-year student Shaba Andrich, a member of the Coalition. to Defend Affirmative Action by ' Any Means Necessary. "It's up to us to lead the way - we need to pro- vide guidance to the rest of the coun- try on what it takes to defend affir- mative action." The first day of action was orga- nized in response to two lawsuits' filed this past semester that chal- } lenge the University's College of z Literature, Science and the Arts and Law Schools' use of race as a factor in the schools' admissions policies. "It was (the day of action on) February 24 that made this possible"A said Shanta Driver, the main coordi- nator of the recent student interven- tion in the lawsuits against the Law School. Driver said this is "the broadest National Day of Action in over a decade." EMILY NATHAN/Daily More than 200 people attended a TOP: Detroit NAACP Director John Johnson speaks outside Angell Hall yesterday. rally on the steps of Angell Hall, BOTTOM: Cass Technical High School seniors Roxanna Brooks and Erica Dowdell, along with BAMN which featured individuals who spoke member Lisa Resch, attend the National Day of Action yesterday at the Horace Rackham School of See ACTION, Page 2A Graduate Studies. Fraternities to re-open doors, ain strn Higher ed. bill nears resolution The Senate Labor and the Workforce Committee passes the Higher Education Reauthorization Bill By Mike Spahr Daily Staff Reporter The debate over student loan interest rates took one more step toward resolution yesterday. The U.S. Senate Labor and the Workforce Committee passed the Higher Education Reauthorization Bill with no substantive changes to the version of the bill passed in the House last week. The Senate reported a bill from committee that will lower interest rates on guaranteed loans for students to 6.9 percent during school and 7.4 percent after graduation. Associate Vice President for Government Relations Thomas Butts said the resolution will definitely aid students who have the guaranteed loans. "These are the same interest rate provisions as passed in the House," Butts said. "There is clear support for interest rate reduction for students." Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered an amendment that would have lowered the interest rates further than the final numbers, but he rescinded the amendment in an attempt to avoid deadlock, said Kennedy spokesperson Jim Manley. "Sen. Kennedy was not willing to prolong debate at this time, Manley said, "He is trying to forge compromise on as many issues as possible.: Kennedy's amendment would have reduced the interest rate to 0.3 percent more than the agreed upon numbers. "There's a real concern that this will continue to provide incentives to banks and not enough for the students to get low rates on student loans' Manley said. Manley said Kennedy achieved what he wanted in proposing the amendment, but he does hope changes can be made to fur- ther aid students. "He wanted to stimulate a dialogue;" Manley said. "He believes there is a willingness to work out a bi-partisan agree- ment in conference committee." Butts said it is possible to further change the bill because there will be more d-cussion about it in the coming months. "It continues to be a work in progress. I suspect there will be a lot of discussion before the bill even goes to the floor,' Butts said. He added that the full House may consider the bill later this month, while the Senate will probably wait until May. One possible sticking point that emerged late last week is the amount of money tax payers will contribute to private lenders in order to keep them in the guaranteed loan business. See SENATE, Page SA GokihagenM pasBy Gerard Coen-Vrgnaud Daily Staff Reporter "Why would a very large number of ordinary Germans choose to kill Jews?" That's the provocative question Harvard University Prof. Daniel Goldhagen asked an audience of more than 1,000 people at Rackham Auditorium last night. Goldhagen is the author of the much-discussed book "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," which argues that Germans were culturally and historically anti-Semitic and viewed the killing of Jews as morally acceptable. "We would have to conclude that Germans were motivat- ed by anti-Semitism and by their feeling that what they were doing was right," Goldhagen said. "The perpetrators were inwardly assentipg mass executioners.' Goldhagen emphasized that a large number of non-Nazi Germans were involved in the massacre of Jews contrary to the commonly held view that the Holocaust was carried out by a few Nazis. Goldhagen also attacked the widely disseminated belief By Sarah Welsh Daily Staff Reporter After the loss of four major campus fraternities from 1994-96, several chapters are making plans to re-open their doors at the University, and non- traditional brotherhood programs are attracting new members in record numbers.. "The old Greek stereotype is on the way out," said Erik Ranka, president of Pi Kappa Alpha. Ranka said his fraternity mostly attracts men who had never planned to join the Greek system, and "our numbers have always been on the increase," Ranka said. "I think there's been a decline," said Kwame membership in fraternities is on the rise. The University's Interfraternity Council hit a record high last fall with an average new member class size of 17, said Mike Ingber, former IFC vice pres- ident for recruitment. Those numbers are "truly phenomenal," Ingber said. Although there has been a recent increase in the number of new fraternity chapters on campus, Ingber said there is still "room for expansion." He noted that there are a number of men who rush each term but decide, for various reasons, not to pledge. Also, each organization offers a unique experience, so "they don't necessarily compete . ... .