2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 18, 2000 NATION/WORLD (17? FRIEZE Continued from Page 1 "So little in 31 years has been done to make this a decent building for faculty to live," he said. "For one thing, they need to replace all the windows. A (Graduate Student Instructor) went to raise a window on the third floor and all the glass came down." Beaver also said the interior of the building provides poor conditions for learning. "It's either too hot, especially in the fall or the early summer, or it's too cold," he said. "It's just a funny, funny old building. When I started teaching here, my editing room for film were dressing rooms." Kasdin said he and Neuman are not prepared to come forward with any pro- posal. "None of this will be done until the existing, significant renovations are completed," Kasdin said. Music junior Adam Levi said the building definitely needs to be replaced, and the University needs to account for all departments in the building, to ensure that none of them are displaced during any renovations or reconstruction. "There are so many theatre-related parts of the building," Levi said. "There are two theatres, a costume shop, a prop shop and set shop. They need to under- stand how much of an undertaking it's gong to be for the theatre department. But it's old and need to be ripped down." Students offer iput at meeting REGENTS Continued from Page 1 "We do not believe that occupation is the way to resolve issues within the Uni- versity," Bollinger said. "Under our principles it is clear that student organi- zations must not be recognized or de- recognized, or suffer any other penalty, because the ideas they espouse or beliefs they adhere to are offensive, or even dangerous, to our community." Bollinger went on to say that space allocation for student organizations will be addressed, and he emphasized that actions causing cultural offense are "not acceptable in a University that values and fosters diversity." Members of the SCC and the Black Student Union delivered their thoughts on the situation to the regents. "Michigamua violates the rights of native people and, in fact, all people," said Joe Reilly, co-chairman of the Native American Student Association. "We've tried to educate them, but now we're forced to take actions into our own hands." Reilly said he understands the concept of free speech but disagrees with it. "I don't accept it as a reason that my culture can continue to be degraded at a public university." LSA junior Sabrina Charles, a mem- ber of BSU, said the University is neglecting needs of student of color. "There has been a lack of adequate response to the changing landscape at the University," she said. LSA sophomore Monique Gifford, from Black FoIx Productions, said the lack of response from the admin- istration has resulted in her "almost total distrust of those who run the University." "If the neglect continues, we'll be left with no choice but to look for outside support,"she said. Michigamua member Nick Delgado, an LSA senior, addressed the regents after the criticism of his group. "Michigamua encourages students to enhance the University community by upholding the fundamental ideals of leadership and service, friendship and loyalty, and humility," he said. Delgado said Michigamua "sincere- ly and deeply apologizes to members of the Native American and University communities to whom these actions have caused offense." He said that while actions of the past cannot be for- gotten, the present members of Michigamua are committed to work- ing with the Native American commu- nity and University administration to prevent past errors from occurring again. Delgado said Michigamua is willing to renovate its office to rid it of offensive items. He proposed an advisory com- mittee composed of Michigamua mem- bers, University students, administrators and NASA members to discuss the Michigamua's use of the seventh floor of the Union. Volunteer in of anynew cmpact isc i stoc INFO MEETING Saturday February 19 Ann Arbor Call for details IICD (616)782-0450 ACROSS TH E ATiON Latest polls show Bush with slight lead WASHINGTON - As George W. Bush and John McCain hurtle toward their primary showdown in South Carolina tomorrow, the latest polls are giving the Texas governor a narrow lead. But the public might want to be wary of those numbers, because even some pollsters aren't putting much faith in the polls right now. Not after what h pened in New Hampshire. On primary night in the Granite State, while John McCain was celebrating his blowout victory, the pollsters were scraping egg off their faces. At least a dozen organizations published polls in the days leading up to the election, including the major broadcast networks, newspapers and news week- lies. None managed to gauge the size of the McCain wave with any degree of accuracy, while several had forecast a lead for Al Gore over Bill Bradley that was larger than his slim winning margin. One New Hampshire pollster, Dick Bennett, got it spectacularly wrong. He showed Bush with a lead over McCain right through election eve. "I've had to eat a lot of crow in the past," Bennett said. "I know how to mikq it taste pretty good:' A final pre-election poll by CBS News showed McCain ahead by a scan percentage points; he won by 19. On the Democratic side, CBS showed Gore 16 points up on Bradley; he won by just 4 points. Greenspan indicates rgate hikes to come WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan signalled yesterday that the central bank is likely to raise short-term inter- est rates again in coming months, pos- sibly several times more, to cool off the red hot U.S. economy and keep inflation under control. Even though the Fed has already lifted its target for overnight rates by a full percentage point since last June, Greenspan told the House Banking Committee, "There is little evidence that the American economy, which grew more than 4 percent in 1999 and surged forward at an even faster pace in the second half of the year, is slow- ing appreciably." There is always a lag before the full effect of interest rate increases, which raise borrowing costs, work their way through the economy. In the mean- time, the Fed chairman said, spending by consumers and businesses on goods and services keeps increasing faster than the economy's ability to produce them. That has driven the nation's unem- ployment rate down to 4 percent and caused the U.S. trade deficit to reach a record level, as imports have satisfied part of the nation's demand. Neither trend can continue indefinitely, s said. migration official charged with spying MIAMI - A U.S. immigration official with "secret" security clear- ance was arrested Thursday and charged with spying for the Cuban government, the FBI said. Mariano Faget was being heldO the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was to appear in court Fri- day, the FBI said in a statement. Faget, a native of Havana, is employed at the Immigration and Nat- uralization Service as a supervisory dis- trict adjudication officer. He hels 4 "secret" security clearance and was responsible for supervising decisions that affected immigrants and peo4 seeking political asylum, the FBI said. AROUND THE WORL ~13 I Civilians tortured by Russian soldiers NAZRAN, Russia - Chechen civil- ians detained during the Russian offen- sive in the region have been routinely beaten and tortured by their captors at "filtration camps" run by Russian secu- rity forces, according to former prison- ers and human rights monitors. Former prisoners, interviewed in separate locations, described masked guards delivering repeated blows with rubber truncheons and sometimes with metal bars or hammers. Some cited rapes of male and female prison- ers. At a prison in Chernokozovo - a closed filtration camp where rebel suspects are "filtered" from the mass of detainees - beatings were said to begin the moment prisoners arrived. "The guards hit me and said, 'What, you never learned to crawl'?" said Rus- lan, who was detained by Russian forces on Jan. 16 and taken to Cher- nokozovo, where he said he was forced to crawl to his interrogations. "They said I would leave there half a man:" Human Rights Watch, the only inter- national organization systematically probing abuses by Russian forces a Chechen rebels, has begun to coll testimony from detainees filtering into Ingushetia, a neighboring region to the west of Chechnya. "A truly disturbing picture is emerging, said Peter Boock- aert, a Human Rights Watch researcher; working in Ingushetia. Former cultist gets life in subway attach TOKYO - A former doomsday cult member was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for his role in the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing that killed 12 people and sickened thou- sands. The Tokyo District Court returned the verdict in the case against Kiyota- ka Tonozaki, a court official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.d - Compiled froni Daily wire reports. r - . 20% off the regular price i in d"f any nerw coma ~ V.Ict dic so ;.rade ftry c ur usede compact di kb.S i ppaI .. i7 S n1 . 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