2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 20, 1999 NATION/WORLD NATIONAL CITY Continued from Page 1 Finance and Budget Chair Chad True said about the declaration. "It's as ifthey have railroaded students into this option, and it seems to be one of the worst on campus," said Rackham student Suzanne Owen, MSA treasurer. Owen said that formalizing the rela- tionship between MSA and WSA is the first step in changing the contract with National City. "My plan is to talk to administrators in the MCard office to see what changes can be made to current banking policies, especially in reducing fees for student accounts,"Owen said. Doyle said the department of financial operations has not talked to MSA repre- sentatives yet, but it will try to get MSA's input before finalizing the contract. "We ask them different questions on how policies would affect students," he said. Owen hopes that in the researching the new contract, the administration seeks primarily to serve the students and not simply opt for the highest bidder. She added that other financial institu- tions on campus have checking account options that do not incorporate any ser- vice fees, such as Great Lakes National Bank and the University of* Michigan Credit Union. Seema Malhotra, manager of the GLNB branch located on Last Liberty Street said students are very critical clientele for the bank. "We offer a variety of accounts, including a student checking account. We also give a premium for anybody who opens an account here," she said. While Doyle noted that these banks are "definitely interesting prospects," they are not always viable. "There are other factors that are very important to students, such as how many branches are close to campus and how many ATMs arc available. Plus, we do not get a bid from every single bank, so even ifsuch a bank offers great services, then they are just not an option,' he said. GLNB Marketing Development Manager Ray Black said GLNB decided not to bid for the new contract. "It was not opportunistic for us," Black said. UMCU Marketing Director Mary Dahlky also said the credit union is not bidding to fill National City's shoes. Doyle added, "we're trying to please a majority of people, and that's difficult to do." MUSEUM Continued from Page 1 the area on vacation, said the muse- um was perfect for her two sons, Sam and Joshua, because they are "learning real life things like how a muffler works." Bouncing around his mother, 6-year-old Sam's enthu- siasm was visible. "It's neat. I learned how to build that thing," the young Cayne said, pointing to an intricate 5-foot repli- ca of a roller coaster. While the museum has been a consistent draw for local schools, lattner predicted that the site will become even more popular with the additions. [Hattner said 145,000 peo- ple visited the museum last year, and she hopes 200,000 will visit this year. The museum now provides visit- ing groups a cafeteria for lunches. Prior to this new addition, space was not available for meals, lattner said. Etta Dickerson, a fifth-grade teacher at Ludington Middle School in Detroit, said that prior to yester- day her school had never organized a trip to the museum "We will probably make this a yearly event," Dieckerson saiid, adding that more than 90 Ludingt on students made the trip and 60 more were expected today. One of the new programs for stu- dents is Science Works. In this gallery, laboratory classes are avail- able for students from kindergarten to sixth grade. "It was a beautiful facility. The lab for the kids was just delightful," Dickerson said. While the museum has the reputa- tion a place only for kids, Rattner said this should not keep adults from visiting. "We are not a children's museum," Iattner said. "We are a "science museum," she said, adding that peo- ple should never stop learning. Exhibit Coordinator John Bowditch said all of the attractions in the MediaWorks gallery are new to the museum. Visitors can play a harp that has a "laser beam for each tone" or watch their faces distort on a computer screen. The computer photographs an onlooker's face and with the reorganizing of its pixels, proves "seeing is not believing." ARouND THE NATION Pentagon report reveals nuclear sites \WASI JINCTO - The Pentagon for the first time is acknowldgin, Cold War locations of nuclear weapons outside the United States, including naval depth bombs, ready for atmming, in (uba during the 1002 missile criss with the Soviet Union. The names of nine places where bombs or bomb components minus their nuclear charges were located between 1951 and 1977 are recaled in a 332-page official Pentagon historv. The names of 18 other locations were blacked out by gov- ernment censors before the document was released to Robert Norris, a priv ate spe* cialist on nuclear weapons and author of numerous books on the topic. Using other documents, Norris and his co-authors said they could identify 17 of those other locations, ringing the globe from Canada to. Iceland to South Korea and Japan. The nine nuclear vweapon locations named in the Pentagon document arc Cuba, Puerto Rico. Britain, West Germanv, the U.S. territories of (Guam, Johnston Island and Midway. and Alaska and Hawaii, which were U.S. territories in the early years of the Cold War. Even with material blacked out, the "1 Iistorv ofthe Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons," published in February 1978 as a top secret document, reveals new information about the location, timing and types of U.S. nuclear weapon deployments. www. michigan+daily. corn - I MICHIGAN STUDENT, ASSEMBLY FALL '99 ELECTIONS November 17-18 POSITIONS AVAILABLE: MSA Representatives In: Business 2 LS&A 8 Dentistry I Medicine I Engineering 3 Music I Social Work I Nursing I Rackham 3 CANDIDATE PACKETS AVAILABItE 1020199 AT THE MSA OFFICE 3909 MICHIGAN UNION Questions? E-mail: election-board9 urnm i chdu FILING DEADLINE: 5:00 PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999 Columbine shootings spark slew of lawsuits LITTLETON, Colo. - The same intense ernotions that brought peo- ple together in a sea of silver and blue to mourn Columbine 11ih School's dead are now tearing them apart. At least 18 lawsuits are in the works as a result of the April 20 bloodbath, with just about everyone a pntential defendant - gun mak- ers, the gunmen's parents, the school district and the sheriff's department. Even the parents of one of the killers, Dylan Klebold, have filed a notice of intent to sue Shcriff John Stone. The Klebolds say Stone failed to inform them about the vio- lent tendencies of the other gunman, Eric Harris. Investigators were aware that Harris had made threats and main- tained a hate-filled Website, and the Klebolds claim they would have made sure their son stayed away from Harris if they had known that. T'he Klebolds' lawyer, garv Lozow, said Thomas and Susan Klebold want to protect themselves from lawsuits filed by victims and will not seek more monev that what other people are seeking from them. Senate blocks finance reform bill WASHINGTON The Republican-controlled Senate killed campaign finance reform Tuesday, culminating a debate marked by personal animosity and imbued with the politics of Campaign 2000. The bill went down to defeat after reformers twice failed to muster th$ necessary 60 votes to break a fil i buster mounted by opponents, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) the ingefatigable advocate of revamping: the U.S. election-financing laws and a Republican presidential candidate, vowed to press on. "We will not give up," he said afterward. "Eventually we will prevail." SPTO $120 OFFALL RINGS PLUS, UP TO #120 S1ERE MERCIIANDISE AROUND THE WORLD ,° , , : TOTAL UP TO 0240 SAVINGS A RTA RV ED GOA V Jii Student Union Bookstore Oct 18-Oct~23 " 11-4 PM " $25.00 Deposit _ J us . Indonesian sident withdraws fom race JAKARA, Indonesia Indonesia's president withdrew as a presidential candidate yesterdav, hours after law- makers rejected a speech in which he defended his 16 months in office. Indonesia's legislature was prepared to elect a new head of state later in the day. In a session that dragged from Tuesday into the early hours of yester- day morning, the 700-member People's Consultative Assembly also voted to recognize East Timor's vote for inde- pendence, paving the way for the half- island territory to become the world's newest nation. "I announce my withdrawal from the presidential nomination, and I believe that many sons and daughters of Indonesia can do the job better than I have done," President B.J. Habibie said at a news con ference. As he spoke, leaders of Habibie's Golkar Party met privately, and TVRI television reported they chose Akbar Tanjung, the party's chair, as its new presidential candidate, and Gen. Wiranto, head of the military and the defense minister, as his running mate. However, Marzuki Darusman, vice chair of the Golkar Party, told The Associated Press that it had not chosen another presidential candidate, was still meeting and may decide not to. Students try to block West Bank evacuation SHVUT RACHEL, West Bank - Israel's much-anticipated evacuation of, illegal Jewish settlements on the West Bank was off to a rocky start yesterdag when a band of high school students blocked the first dismantling operation, ordered by the government. Singing Hebrew prayers and folk songs, the youths sat atop boulders on a dirt road leading to the outpost above this Jewish settlement and forced a flatbed3 truck to retreat. "We want to show that this won't come to pass quietly, said Elnata4- Ben Yakov, an 18-year-old student . - Compiledfotm Daily wire reports. 4'.. L'- It's Bonus Time. 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