JE* tri Unilg News: 76-DAILY Display Ads: 7640554 Classified Ads: 76440557 One hundred eightyeas ofedioi*fredom Friday October 9, 1998 ---------- 0 r S 1 I IWO're notflying by the seat of our pants. -- Henry Hyde Chair, House Judiciary Committee Ait S in the handsk of the Congress and the people of 'r this country." -President Clinton } "The issue is not Swhether or not to proceed, but how to proceed." =--Rep. Debbie Stabenow (D-East Lansing) "We ... have the power to stop this daily mtudslide". - John Conyers Ranking Democrat, House Judiciary Committee At this point: The 258-176 vote clears the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings later this year. Clinton, the nation's 42nd president, is the third to face impeachment hearings. The House Judiciary Committee will launch an open-ended investigation into Clinton's actions. If enbugh evidence is found, the House would draft articles of impeachment, and Clinton would face a nal impeachment trial before the Senate. Clinton s fate in hands of Congress Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - For only the third time in the republic's 210 years, the House opened a formal impeach- ment proceeding yesterday against the president of the United States, and its largely party-line vote signaled a ran- corous investigation ahead. By a vote of 258-176, the House authorized its Judiciary Committee to investigate whether President Clinton committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" -the h Constitution's vague stan- dard for impeachment -by committing perjury and obstructing justice in con- cealing his indiscretions with Monica Lewinsky. Not one of the ner Republican members of the House voted against the res- olution authorizing the investigation, and they brought with them only 31 Democrats, most of them conservatives. By contrast, the House vote estab- lishing an impeachment investigation of President Nixon 25 years ago was 410-4. Judiciary Committee Chair Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) said it is his aim to have the inquiry completed by year's end, but it could easily be broadened if Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr sends Congress additional evidence from his still-ongoing Whitewater investigation. At the White House, Clinton pledgedthis cooperation with the inquiry, even as his aides quickly con- demned the House debate as "injected with politics." "I will do what I can to help ensure that this is constitutional, fair and time- ly," Clinton promised during a session in the White House Cabinet room. But, he added, "It's not in my hands. It is in the hands of the Congress and the people of this country, and ultimate- ly in the hands of God. There is nothing I can do." Gesturing with his right palm turned upward, Clinton said: "I have surrendered this. This is beyond my control." With the impeachment review likely to get under way after the Nov. 3 elec- tion, it was clear yesterday that many of those Democrats who voted with the Republican majority nqui did so because they feared a political backlash as they head into tight re-election contests. But if they prevail in November, they are expected to return to their Democratic base and join what is likely to become an extraordi- narily bitter struggle against Republicans over the remaining two years of Clinton's second term. Signs of the coming fury could be heard as both Democrats and Republicans stood in the uncharacteris- tically full House chamber. Mindful of the dramatic moment of the day, law- makers pounded their fists, waved their arms and argued in tough, almost- always partisan language about how they believed the inquiry should pro- ceed. See IMPEACH, Page 7 Inside: See the back page for in-depth coverage of the U.S. House decision to pursue an impeachment inquiry. Page 14. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-1.) will chair House Judiciary Committee proceedings looking Into the behavior of President Clinton. Goss emphasizes departments values Hockey draws interest Athletic director says he and colleagues apply key ideals to all situations By Katie Plo na Daily Staff Reporter Athletic Director Tom Goss always refers to his department's eight key values. ln a speech delivered yesterday as part of a ffckham lecture series focusing on American values, Goss outlined the underpinnings of a part of the University that faces obstacles and challenges that are unique to the Athletic Department. "The best thing we ever did was come up with our core values because it's allowed me to be consistent across a wide variety of issues;' Goss said. The Athletic Department, Goss said, needs to have a set of key standards - which he defined as honesty and integrity, accountabili- ty and responsibility, respect and compassion, competitive spirit and "the team must come first"- for when it makes decisions and han- dles various situations. These values, Goss said, are essential because the Athletic Department tries to balance many different areas, from the academic and ath- letic development of its student athletes to issues such as basketball reform and gambling. By asking a wide range of questions, mem- bers of the 50-person audience in Rackham Amphitheater made it evident that all of these issues are important to them as well. Goss said the Athletic Department's admin- istrators, coaches and staffers decided that the driving purpose behind the department should be creating an environment in which student athletes can develop themselves academically, athletically and socially. Gas That purpose reflects in everything the department does, even in the things that seem removed from that mission, he said. The Athletic Department tries to create sources of revenue - such as the video scoreboards recently installed in Michigan Stadium and Crisler Arena and the produc- tion facility housed in Crisler Arena - that will allow the department to eventually fun- nel money into some student athletes' pro- grams, Goss said. Goss said one of the other major issues the See GOSS, Page 2 By Erin Holmes Daily Staff Reporter The familiar sounds that fill Yost Ice Arena on game nights - the rhythmic cow bell "Go Blue" cheer and the chants of supportive stu- dents - could become louder if hockey inter- est is kept high this season. After being dealt two stinging blows - the all-time high season ticket prices and the plummeting sales of student tickets - the debut of the Michigan icers Saturday still bought out the vivid interest in hockey that stimulated discussion of adding more seats to the arena in the future. Bruce Madej, director of media operations for the Athletic Department, said he has addressed the possibility of building more seats on the east side of the arena, the area cur- rently reserved for students. "We're not down in total numbers, and there is definitely a strong interest in hockey," Madej said, adding that student sales fluctuate on a yearly basis. "We're putting 15 games on television this year. The interest is really there." But the interest may be coming largely from places other than the student body. The crowd of more than 6,100 fans last weekend boasted fewer students than last year. The Athletic Ticket Office reported that only 1,584 of its 2,271 allotted student season tick- ets were actually purchased by students. This is down from 3,556 last year, many of which were only split-season because of the high numbers. Remaining season tickets, Bodnar said, were issued to the general public following the conclusion of student sales. "We had a student section on center ice that reached to both endzones," Bodnar said, explaining that the general public seats were not intermingled with the student seats, although they were originally meant to be sold together. "We basically took the worst portions of the student section, toward the endzones, and put the public there. Somebody had to sit next to the students," he said. Bodnar said he was not disappointed with the overall sales of tickets. "Our main objective all along was to get the See HOCKEY, Page 2 B-School ranking declines By Susan t.Port Daily Staff Reporter The University's School of Business Administration's MBA program dropped two spots in BusinessWeek's biannual rankings to fourth in the nation. University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business received U' Delta Zeta chapter to close Sorority fails to attract new members By Kely O'Connor * y Staff Reporter i- After a year of insufficient interest by rushees, the University chapter of the Delta Zeta sorority was closed Wednesday night by its national organi- zation. The closing of the chapter was not a shock. said Delta Zeta President junior. "We came into the school year trying to reorganize our chapter, but we knew it might not work." Part of the reorganization effort included what Weiss called a "special recruitment period." The Panhellenic Association, the umbrella organization of 17 of the University's sororities, offered help to the struggling chapter prospective members, and after this, the house was to get one extra week for a series of less structured open houses and drop-in meetings. That plan was halted by the Wednesday announcement. Over the course of the past year, Delta Zeta lost about 50 members. Nearly 30 of those members were sophomores I -, m . , . , .