.2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 9, 1998 NATION/WORLD PANEL Continued from Page 1A said race is more than just skin tone. It is an identity that includes experience and ideology, he said. "It should be a goal to emphasize a cmmon humanity for all people," Moutz said. "If we're after diversity, the proper way to achieve it is to ask." The panels also debated the use of gender preferences. Graves avoided discussing this issue because, he said, society treats gender differently than it treats race. "Gender preferences upset us less," Graves said. But Gonos said she did not under- stand Grave's statement. As a woman, Ehe feels like an underrepresented minority, she said. Despite the disagreement among the panelists, all six of the students agreed that affirmative action is an issue that needs to be debated. "There is a problem with discrimina- tion in our society," Moutz said. Law first-year student Aba Yankah said there is a need to break down com- munication barriers on both sides of the debate. "What I got out of (the debate) was the fact that there is still a gap of mis- understanding that needs to be bridged," Yankah said. The debate was an example of how to break down these barriers, Ellis said. "I think it demonstrated that we can talk and discuss this issue with civility," Ellis said. Even though the discussion didn't resolve any of the panelists arguments, it gave students a chance to discuss the issue, which some attendes said is important. "If nothing else, it is good to have people talk about this thing," said Law first-year student Matt Roskoski. SENIORS Continued from Page 1A Engineering senior. "You get an oppor- tunity to meet so many people." As proof, Henige attended -the reunion with hallmates from his first year at the University. "We're a success story," Business senior Matt Meyer said of the relation- ships he and his hallmates have main- tained during the past four years. Meyer added that he enjoyed "seeing the freshmen going through what we went through. "Its good to get back to your roots, where it all started four years ago,"he said. Business senior Roger Trim said the visit to the cafeteria brought him back to his early days at the University. "Your perspective on things changes," Trim said. "You see how much you've changed." Trim and Zimmerman noted how dif- ferent it is to be a senior and have no worries. "When we lived here," Zimmerman said, "you were going straight to the library. Now you're gonna go straight to the bar." Upcoming Senior Days '98 events include City Night - a fair featur- ing housing, transportation, and recreation information on major U.S. cities - scheduled to be held tonight from 8-I 1 p.m. in the U- Club of the Michigan Union; a spir- itual celebration service scheduled for April 16; and Senior Diag Days scheduled for April 20 and 21. R____ _T_ E ATION 6 ___ / Clinton: money for schools, not roads CH ICAGO_- President Clinton ventured to the shuttered, raggedy classrooms of a South Side Chicago school yesterday to turn the spotlight on congressional Republicans who he said would finance roads instead of schools. Peering beyond the plastic yellow tape that cordoned off an old fifth-grade room at the Rachel Carson Elementary School, Clinton stared with dismay at the buck- led and rotten floorboards, the peeling paint. "This is a classroom?" the president asked. Last year, the room's roof leaked so much that lessons had to be moved into the hallway when it rained. Thanks to a school rehabilitation program in Chicago, the former classroom is now used for storage. To an assembly of students and community leaders, Clinton Toted that Senate Republicans voted last week for billions in new highway projects but rejected his plans for hiring 100,000 new teachers and modernizin 5,000 schools. Republicans emphasize that they also voted for increased education spending by billions of dollars - just not for federal programs Clinton wanted. "I believe that we should have a good road program. I believe that unsafe bridges ought to be repaired," Clinton said yesterday. "But none of that will matter very much if we let the education system come crumbling dow4 around our children." Remember He left us an inspirational legacy to be "BRILLIANT" in everything that we do. Please help us honor his memory. The various clubs of the University of Michigan Political Science Department are collecting personal reflections on Professor Organski. These will be compiled into a book of memories and presented as a gift to his family. Deadline: To day,Thursday, April 9 Submissions from students and colleagues may be submitted over email at kg rauer@umich.edu. Questions may be directed to llam@umich.edu CANCER Continued from Page IA said he hopes that through the vigils and forums the group held this week, students are able to see that there is a support network available on campus. "Cancer is something that affects college students' lives," Cucinella said. LSA first-year student Beth Houtrow, whose mother survived breast cancer, said she would consid- er using the drug after doing some research on it. "I definitely would use the (new drug) if I researched and felt safe with it," Houtrow said. "There's a long history of cancer... not necessarily breast cancer, in my family." Although Wicha said he is excited about all of the attention the study is receiving, he said more research on the drug needs to be done. "I think its a breakthrough, but we need more follow-up to make sure." Wicha said it is important that the study's findings be made known because "you can't wait too long if you can help people right now." Wicha said researchers are working to develop drugs similar to tamoxifen that don't have the harmful side effects. Clinton lawyers want closed court WASHINGTON - Lawyers for President Clinton, the White House and Monica Lewinsky joined forces yester- day to ask a federal appeals court to continue to bar the news media from a variety of sealed court hearings on claims of executive privilege and attor- ney-client privilege. In a rare open court session on motions arising from the grand jury investigation of the Lewinsky matter, a consortium of a dozen news organi- zations asked a three-judge panel to overturn a series of orders by Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. Johnson has refused media requests to cover most hearings before her on privilege claims, as well as denying public access to deci- sions she has issued and legal argu- ments filed with her. Among the matters Johnson has considered in closed hearings are Clinton's reported invocation of executive privilege to shield White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from certain questions, alleged leaks by indepen- dent counsel Kenneth Starr's office, and attorney Francis Carter's attempt to decline to answer ques- tions involving his former client Lewinsky. Senator to review Clinton hearings WASHINGTON - Anticipating a report from Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently tapped a fresh- man Republican to review the mul- tiple congressional hearings on alleged Clinton administratiorl wrongdoing. Rep. James Rogan (R-Calif.), a former judge, will research what has gone well for Republicans who ran those hearings and what pitfalls to avoid in the future. He learned of his new task in calls from Gingrich's office and the office of House Judiciary Committee Chair Henry Hyde (R-1ll.) AR TH WORL ..Jil Peace negotiators meet non-stop BELFAST, Northern Ireland _ Protestants and Catholics, Irish and British met virtually nonstop yesterday as the final hours ticked away before the deadline for a peace deal in Northern Ireland. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bernie Ahern took a direct hand in the negotiations, Ahern- flying here in the early morning, flying back to Dublin, Ireland, so he could attend the burial of his 87-year-old mother, then returning to Belfast. The talks, designed to end three decades of sectarian violence and bloodshed in this British province, were unexpectedly stalled Tuesday when the largest Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, flatly rejected a draft settlement drawn up by the chair of the negotiations, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell. His 65-page proposal, the Ulster Unionists complained in a toughly worded statement, includes suggestions tantamount to "embryonic all-Ireland government." On a day laced with cold rain and sleet, Blair and Ahern met for a hour at Hillsborough Castle, south- west of Belfast. The two leaders then conferred separately with negotiators from Northern Ireland's political parties. Yeltsin threatens Latvia with reprisals MOSCOW - A simmering dispute over the treatment of ethnic Russians ii Latvia intensified yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin threatened to take economic reprisals against Riga, such as rerouting Russian oil exports away from the Baltic state. After a month of rhetorical joust- ing between Russia and Latvia, Yeltsin for the first time endorsed calls by Russian politicians to tighten the economic noose around Latvia in retaliation for the treatmento Russians there. -- Compiled from Daily wire reports. I Want to get INVOLVED? Build your LEADERS HIP SKILLS? 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