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season the Wolverines won a national championship.
Complaints from students and alumni caused Uni-
versity President Lee Bollinger and former Athletic
Director Tom Goss to promise that would never hap-
pen again, and all University students received full-
season tickets the following season.
The administration kept its promise and gave all
students full-season tickets, but Roundtable mem-
bers thought students were still taking a back seat to
the general public when it came to athletic tickets.
Even though all students received full season tick-
ets, they were being dispersed around the stadium,
forcing some to sit outside the designated student
"We were told that students were the first priority
but when push came to shove, the first priority was
going to people who paid full price for tickets," Elias
said.
Bodnar said that of the 22,000 student tickets,
20,776 will be in the student section which spans
sections 25 to 32. The other tickets will be mixed in
with the general public.
Elias said another concern addressed at the discus-
sion was the priority of students in receiving the tick-
ets.
Bodnar said priority will now be given to under-
graduate and returning graduate students on the Uni-
versity's Ann Arbor campus. Next on the list will be
first-year graduate students and students at the Flint
and Dearborn campuses.
If 22,000 tickets is not enough to fill the student
demand, students from the lower priority groups will
be the first ones to receive full refunds instead of
their full-season tickets.
But if the demand for student tickets is less than
22,000, the extra tickets will be available to the gen-
eral public. Bodnar said this is to ensure that the
number of tickets allotted for students will remain
stable at 22,000 for future seasons.
Bodnar said 22,000 tickets should be adequate to
meet demand, but a final determination will not be
made until after all the applications are received. Stu-
dent applications for this fall were sent out this week.
"I don't know how much of the conversation had
an impact,' Elias said of the Roundtable discussion.
"But at least we knew that the athletic department
listened to us. I think at some level we affected the
change."
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Senate confirms Paez, Berzon as judges
WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Richard Paez and Marsha Berzon
as federal appellate judges yesterday, ending years of bitter debate over whether
they were too liberal and whether women and minority nominees have more dif-
ficulty winning Senate approval.
Vice President Al Gore, interrupting his presidential campaign schedule,
made a rare appearance in the Senate to be ready to cast a vote, in his capacity
president of the Senate, in case of a tie.
That wasn't needed as first Berzon, by a vote of 64-34, and later Paez,
by 59-39, were confirmed as judges on the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of
Appeals.
Gore celebrated the confirmations by saying, in Spanish, "Friends, today
we've finally achieved justice."
"We've seen a troubling pattern of the Republican Party standing against qual-
ified judicial nominees who happen to be women and minorities," he said at a
news conference.
Paez is Mexican-American and was strongly supported by Hispanic
groups.
President Clinton also referred to the nominees' diverse backgrounds in h
ing the votes at the end of a White House meeting with religious leaders:
think maybe we're, by fits and starts, moving toward our one America."
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Shows viewed the tax cut as a necessi-
ty and estimated the current bill to be a
better use of the surplus than the 5800
billion dollar tax cut proposed by
Republicans last year, Strider said.
But, Strider said, Shows voted for
the two-year increase plan along with
other Democrats.
Ted Lapkin, spokesman for Rep. Rick
Lazio (R-N.Y.), who sponsored the pro-
posal, said Republicans tried to "craft a
bill that reflects the concerns of both
sides of the aisle in the House that on
one hand recognizes the need to raise
the minimum wage but on the other
hand the needs of small businesses."
Welday echoed this analysis of the
bill. "Small businesses will have the
same benefits that larger corporations
have had," he said.
Had the Democratic amendment
failed to pass, Clarke said, President
Clinton had pledged to veto any legis-
lation that would take more than two
years to raise the minimum wage.
Michigan Democrats to
caucus across the state
CAUCUS
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admitted beginning at 10 a.m. and
must be registered by Itl a.m. Regis-
tered voters must also show proof that
they are in their designated caucus
zone to vote. Voters must be regis-
tered as Democrats or be prepared to
declare themselves a Democrat at the
caucus site.
Local representatives from Gore
and Bradley campaigns are expected
to be present at the Union caucus
site to represent the candidates. Stu-
dents for Gore co-Chairman Michael
Masters will be the representative for
Gore.
Bradley officials have not contact-
ed the caucus site managers to name
a representative,
Democrats who voted in the
Michigan Republican primary last
month "can still vote in the caucus
but their vote could be subject to a
challenge," Denno said.
It is a violation of state Democrat-
ic Party rules for those who voted in
the Republican primary to also vote
in the caucus, Denno said.
Although Bradley has announced
he will not seek the presidential
nomination, he has not given up the
delegates he has already won and
still has the opportunity to win even
more in Michigan.
The possibility of giving Bradley
more delegates may draw some stu-
dents to caucus sites tomorrow, said
Students for Bradley co-Chairwoman
Amanda Beaumont, an LSA senior.
"A lot of people are dissatisfied
with the vice president and they
want to make their dissatisfaction
heard at the convention," Beaumont
said.
"I think (Bradley supporters) may
turn out anyway just to support his
policy positions," said Jane Michener,
a manager at the Union caucus site.
Gunman's motives
probed in rampage
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Memphis was
a city in mourning yesterday - flags
were at half-staff, bouquets of flowers
were placed on fire hall steps, and
firefighters and law officers wore
black bands across their badges.
All were in memory of two fire-
fighters and a sheriff's deputy who
were slain Wednesday - allegedly by
one of their comrades, firefighter Fred
Williams - in a rampage that has
angered and saddened this Mississippi
River city,
"It's just so shocking," said Pam
McFarlin, who took food to firefight-
ers at Fire Station No. 55 and brought
a bouquet of flowers to the home
where the men were shot. "We all just
feel so bad."
Williams ambushed the firefighters
as they arrived to fight a blaze at his
home, authorities said. Williams'
wife, Stacey, was found shot to death
in the garage.
Investigators said they were still
looking for a motive.
They were trying to determine
whether Williams set the fire to lure
firefighters to the home, or to cover up
his wife's death. It was also unclear
whether Williams made the 911 call
to report the fire, Police Director Wal-
ter Crews said.
Texas prison faces
shortage of guards
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - After 4
1/2 weeks of training, the 103 rookie
officers are within days of heading
into an environment of danger and
violence in the nation's second-largest
prison system.
They will join 27,300 securi
officers in a 151,000-inmate syste
that is operating about 2,000 guards
short.
The shortage has been attributed to
rapid expansion of the prison system,
low pay, a booming economy that.
makes the prospect of spending the
day guarding convicts less attractive,
and the risks of dealing with inmates
who seem to be getting meaner and
more violent.
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Female fighters push
on for Tamil victory
ARASADITHIVU, Sri Lanka - In
a land where women are prized for
their quiet passivity, one of the world's
most ruthless guerrilla groups is rid-
ing toward victory on the strength of
its female fighters.
Women of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam, rebels waging a war for
an independent homeland in this island
nation, are emerging as the movement's
most important weapon after thousands
of men have died in battle.
With vials of cyanide hanging from
their necks, women Tigers are shoot-
ing their way into government
bunkers and police stations. They are
hacking to death men, women and
babies.
Women Tigers are wrapping their
bodies with explosives and killing
dozens in suicide attacks. As the men
fall, the women fighters are stepping
into the upper ranks of a guerrilla army
once reserved exclusively for men.
Seetha, a 22-year-old leader of 1,500
women fighters, stands just over 5 feet
tall, wears her hair neatly trimmed and
says she might one day like to have a
family. Dressed in camouflage fatigues
and toting a machine gun, she tal
with the cool confidence of a batt
hardened commander.
Fire kills 18 girls at
Tuvalu high school
SUVA, Fiji - Fire swept through a
locked dormitory at a high school in
the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu last
night, killing 18 teen-age girls and-
their supervisor, a governm*
spokesman said.
The fire was believed to have been
caused by a student's candle that top-
pled over in the girls' dormitory at the
Motufoua Secondary School. The
dorm was an old wooden building
whose door had been fastened shut
and whose open windows were cov-
ered in wire mesh. The girls, ranging
between 14- and 17-years-old, were
locked inside their rooms.
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