2A - The Michigan Daily -- Monday, November 15, 1999gA Tio n!isLe Tuition freeze among slate of election issues MSA Continued from Page 1A pass as many resolutions as they want but I don't see any real change coming about," said FRAT Party Chair Ray Howell, who is vying for an LSA seat. Ross Kirschner, a BP member and LSA candidate, said freezing the cost of tuition is a bad idea. "The University is an integral part of the state. The state legislature should provide as much funding as possible so that tuition doesn't have to go up as much," Kirschner said. "Personally, I feel that a tuition freeze is unrealistic. At such a large research university, we cannot have a tuition freeze. We have to pay professors and other costs like that." But independent candidate Michael Berger favors a tuition freeze. "Since I've come to the University, tuition has gone up every year. I understand that technology is the biggest force behind that, but education needs to be affordable for students," Berger said. "The University can find resources for money instead of hiking tuition. For example, why can't Nike support us with more funding? We generate so much money for them with the Maize and Blue stuff." In addition to tuition, many candidates are focusing on increasing student services, such as expanding the University Health Service to include residence hall hours and extended hours of operation at the clinic. Independent candidate Robert Rosenberg, who is vying for an LSA seat, said, "I feel Jhat UHS doesn't perform the services which they are supposed to. Something has to be done. You can sit in the waiting room long enough to catch someone else's sickness. It is just not up to par and I want to work with other peo- ple to change this." "We want to work to reduce the cost of vaccina- tions. That does cost money and it has to come from somewhere. Increased funding from the state would work potentially with our ideas to expand UHS. The amount it would cost to work with the UHS proposals is not "Personally, I feel that a tuition freeze is unrealistic - Ross Kirschner Blue Party candidate that significant in the grand scheme of the University budget," Kirschner said. Youmans said UHS needs to provide more hours for students to take advantage of the service and greater accessibility to all students, including those who do not have insurance. "There are so many superfluous expenses in the budget - celebrations on campus, landscaping, etc. The responsibility for the University is to make edu- cation and services accessible, and students have the right to demand that from the school," Youmans said. AROUND THE NATION ( EgyptAir cockpit recorder analyzed NEWPORT, R.I. - Investigators set to work yesterday on the cockpit voic recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990, hoping the so-called black box retrieve from the ocean floor would help explain the airliner's mysterious plunge from th sky. After a two-week search, the recorder was found Saturday night by a remote operated robot. Yesterday it was delivered to National Transportation Sg Board headquarters in Washington. NTSB Chair James Hall said scientists would begin analyzing the recorde immediately to see if its tape was damaged by the destruction of the plane or b its lengthy submersion at a depth of 250 feet. "I think within the next 24 hours we will be able to characterize the content on the tape," Hall said. Civil aviation officials from Egypt and Arabic linguists from the Stat Department were available to help translate any cockpit conversations in Arabic Hall said. If the tape is badly damaged, it will likely be taken to its manufacturer, when more sophisticated equipment could be used to pick up sounds, Hall said. The New York-to-Cairo jetliner crashed off Massachusetts' Nantucket I on Oct. 31, killing all 217 people aboard. DEMOC RATS Continued from Page 1A Fowler focused some of his attention to the accomplishments of the Clinton- Gore administration such as low inflation rate, less people on welfare, lower crime rate and two budget surpluses. Fowler said that as president, Gore wants universal pre-school, equal pay for all, protection of social security surpluses, abortion rights and tighter gun control. The speaker sessions were both fol- lowed by a question-and-answer period where attendees asked the representatives about important domestic issues. But audience members also expressed concern regarding mutual attacks by the Democratic candidates on each other. The vice president's attack on Bradley is "an example of the kind of divisiveness .. that are making people skeptical of the political process" Foulon said. After losing both the House of Representatives and Senate to Republicans in the 1994 elections, Democrats are working on a campaign to "Take back the House Leadership 2000." The workshops included health care, public education, campaign finance reform, social security and Medicare and the Michigan Supreme Court. State and federal members of Congress were invited to speak and hold workshops about the issues that officials have been supporting. U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Dearborn) said that he is playing his part in getting Democrats elected by participating with party members to inform people on the issues, campaigning in his own district to take back both the state legislature and federal congress and working to get U.S. Rep. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) elected to the U.S. Senate. Attracting young people to political campaigns is important to some Democrats who believe the youth have a lot to offer the democratic process. Students are "key to political success and preservation of the democratic system of the country," Dingell said. Mutation may promote colon cancer NEW YORK - Scientists have iden- tified an inherited genetic mutation that may make people more vulnerable to colon cancer, possibly playing a role in up to 9 percent of cases diagnosed each year in the United States. If confirmed, the work might someday help doctors identify patients who should be tracked especially closely for early signs of the disease. The mutation apparently promotes cancer by hindering a process that keeps cell growth under control, said Kenneth Offit of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He and col- leagues present the work in today's issue of the joumnal Cancer Research. Sanford Markowitz of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, who did not par- ticipate in the work, said the result would be important if borne out by further work. "This is a provocative finding that is crying out to be confirmed by additional studies," Markowitz said ina telephon interview. The mutation affects the ability of natural protein called transforming growth factor beta to control cell growth N.Y.lawmakers w to remove Trm tax WASHINGTON - On Capitol Hill a "rum cover-over" isn't some sort o frozen cocktail. It is an obscure tax pal by consumers on every bottle of import ed rum. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgii Islands have no votes in Congress but d< not lack for friends among lawmaker from New York, which has roughl- million people of Puerto Rican dest. At stake is whether Congress wvil return the full amount of tax revenues o give Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgi: Islands only a portion. 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Hundreds killed in Turkey earthquake DUZCE, Turkey - Rescue workers from 23 different countries poured into Turkey and joined thousands of sol- diers yesterday in a massive effort to save people believed buried beneath the rubble of Friday's earthquake. The tem- blor killed at least 374 people and injured 3,000 others. Turks signaled motorists yesterday to shut off their engines in one part of a quake-stricken town so a rescue team could listen for the cries of a child buried beneath slabs of concrete. A block away, the newly homeless lined up for blankets and food. Emergency crews and volunteer organizations say the organization of the relief efforts stands in contrast to the aftermath of the devastating Aug. 17 temblor, when relief teams wan- dered through the quake zone with lit- tle idea where their help was needed. But they add that many basics including food, tools and maps are still in short supply. 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