2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 17, 1999 NATION/WORLD FORD Continued from Page I University," said Regent David Brandon (R-Ann Arbor). Maynard said she is looking forward to Ford's visit. "First we had a Nobei Prize winner, now we have a president coming," she said referring last month's visit by physics Prof. emeritus Martinus Veltman, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics last month. Bollinger said the plan to rename the school after Ford has been in the works for nearly six months. "There's been some thoughtful planning regard- ing this honor," Brandon said. Bollinger said the renaming is part of his plan to create better relationships between the University and alumni. "I've wanted to forge stronger relationships with our distinguished alumni," he said. "This has been something I've been wanting to do." Public Policy Dean Rebecca Blank said the name change will benefit the expanding school. "It also raises the visibility of our school by associating it with one of the University's most prominent alumni and one of the state's most effective politicians," Blank said in a written state- ment. If the regents approve the recommendation to rename the school after Ford, it will become the second time this year the board has named a school after a former student. In June, the regents named the College of Architecture and Urban Planning in honor of Bloomfield Hills retail mogul A. Alfred Taubman, after he donated $30 million to the school. In 1935, the regents established the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate lStudies when the trustees of the Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund of Detroit gave the University $6.5 million to construct a building for graduate stud- ies and establish an endowment to support research and other scholarly activities. After graduating from South High School in Grand Rapids in 1931, Ford attended the University, graduating with degrees in economics and political science in 1935. A member of Michagamua - the senior men's honors society, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the University's student council, Ford also is known for playing center and linebacker for the Michigan football team, where he was named most valuable player his senior year. After graduating from Yale University Law School in 1941, Ford joined the U.S. Navy, remaining in the Naval Reserves until 1963. Serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for Grand Rapids from 1948 to 1973 and House Minority Leader from 1965 to 1973, Ford assumed the presidency in 1974 after Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Since only 80 seats will be available in the Kuenzel Room, the University will set up 100 additional seats in the Pendelton Room where audience members can watch the regents meeting and press conference on te levision m onitors. UMTV - a University television net work avail- able on campus - and MediaOne ca ble will broadcast the event live starting at 2 p.m. on chan- nel 22. AROUND THE NATION NTSB delays giving EgyptAir case to FBJ WASHINGTON - Objections by the Egyptian government have delayed a deci- sion to turn the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash investigation over to the FBI, a federal law enforcement official said yesterday. The nature of the objections could not immediately be learned. U.S. officials sought FBI control of the investigation amid indications sor one in the cockpit prayed before the jet went into its fatal plunge, T i Associated Press learned. The timing of the prayer - before the jet's autopilot was disengaged and the plane dived from 33,000 feet -- raised suspicions that Flight 990 was deliberately brought down. But Egyptian officials sought and received a delay in the turnover, a source said. The Egyptian embassy in Washington refused immediate comment. Earlier yesterday, two U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity, said the FBI would take over the investigation. "The NTSB investigates accidents, the. FB1 investigates other things," said one of the officials. The prayer was apparently spoken by someone in the co-pilot's seat, bu was unclear whether it was the co-pilot, a source speaking on condition Of anonymity told theAP STABENOW Continued from Page 1 The female senators expressed the necessity of having women in govern- ment positions, especially in the Senate. "We need a group of women ... to change the way we do business in the United States, " Feinstein said. The senators all stressed the impor- tance of rigorous campaigning to all those who attended the r4lly, a group equally composed of men and women. "I need you to hang in there with me until the end of the season and that's election 2000," Stabenow said. "It's a long campaign ahead," she added, riling a loud applause and a standing ovation from the crowd. PROTESTERS Continued from Page 1 Vice President for Student Affairs E. Royster Harper could not be reached last night for comment fol- lowing the student protest. The non-violent protesters marched silently from the Fleming Building, across the Diag and down South University Avenue, linking arms before arriving at Trotter House. "We strongly believe in non-violent resistance," Gilbert said. "We are non-violent to those who are non-vio- lent with us." Gilbert said the group plans to meet again to discuss its concerns, but members have not decided whether to hold another protest. She expects the g roulp's membership to increase. "I hope thmat mrany more student s will join," she said. "There's an open invitation for all students of Afican descent to join in our ranks" The group is not. sking to eclude students by solelIy addressing the c on- cerns of black students, Gilbert said. "What we do will he to the benefit of students of A frican descent and indirectly affect (University) faculty and staff," Gilbert said. "We believe that there are other sympathetic communities. We just want to unify our community." SPRING TERM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE writing, camping, reading, hiking, music, canoeing, art + J NELP Earn 8 credits studying New England literature and culture, explore New Hampshire's mountains, and visit the Maine Seacoast. INFORMATIONAL MEETING & SLIDE SHOW Thursday, Nov. 18 at 8:15 PM Aud. B Angell Hall For info contact Jackie Livesay at 764-9505 or jlivesay@umich.edu The University of Michigan Department of Dermatology is currently offering a new investigational treatment for acne. If you are male, between 18 and 35 years of age, and in good general health, you may be eligible to receive a new treatment for facial acne. Office visits and medication are provided free of charge to eligible participants. If you are in good general health and havc acno, you may be eligible. You may also receive up to $150 for your participation. For more information, please call: (734) 936-4070 University of Michigan ---Medical Center Change to transplant rule may be held up WASHINGTON - A House com- mittee chair and at least one senator are trying to block new rules overhauling the organ transplant system, despite a high- level agreement last week allowing the rules to take effect. House Commerce Committee Chair Tom Bliley (R-Va.) is threatening to pre- vent an unrelated piece of health legisla- tion from coming to the House floor unless a delay in implementation of the transplant rules is attached to a bill that is scheduled to move before legislators go horne for the year. Bliley is searching for legislation on which to attach a delay, although the Clinton administration has refused to go along with further postponements and is certain to resist. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, following the wishes of his home state of Illinois, is backing the administration, which makes Bliley's last-ditch effort more difficult. "We are trying to get that extension included," a Commerce Committee AROUND TH E Summit raises issues of isolation in Cuba HAVANA, Cuba - In the first Ibero-American summit conference to be staged in Cuba, leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal have made one point abundantly clear: their policy of engagement toward President Fidel Castro in the face of U.S. efforts to isolate him is not a one-way street. Castro has touted the presence here of heads of state and other dig- nitaries from 21 countries as a diplomatic coup. But the coup has come with a price: at least eight vis- iting dignitaries have gone out of their way to hold unprecedented meetings concerning human rights with Cuban dissidents whom Castro has suppressed since coming to power four decades ago. Although he told arriving leaders they could hold talks with whomev- er they pleased, Castro warned the anti-government activists of possible spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity, said yesterday. Meanwhile, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R- Ala.) is trying in the Senate to delay the rules' implementation. He is invoking a senator's power to delay at least tem- porarily passage of a $315 billion spew ing bill. Congress, Clinton agree on spending WASHINGTON -The White House and Republican leaders neared agree- ment yesterday on a massive spending bill that would finance the hiring of new teachers and police officers, increase funding for medical research and co plete work on the federal budget. The two sides were still haggling over whether to include a small across4he board spending cut that the Republicans favor to combat waste and fraud in the government. But after weeks of con- tentious negotiations, the two ,sides resolved all other substantive issues tied. to the budget, including a new debt relief plan for the Third World and a controver-, sial milk pricing arrangement. AORLD legal consequences for them. 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