LOCAL/STATE-The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 20, 2000 - 7
MSA discusses financial matters, campaign rules
By Michelle Poniewozik
Daily.Staff Reporter
Highlighting last night's Michigan Student
ssembly meeting was a presentation on the
ngoing renovations to Mason and Haven
galls.
"We're going to reintroduce a more modern
tyle" than the "bland 1950s buildings" of the
other Central Campus buildings, said Richard
Reichman, the University's assistant architect.
MSA representatives expressed concern
about what impedance the construction will
have on parking and noise during final exams,
as well as how communication with the stu-
dents will be handled.
"We'll try to be courteous, but there will also
be times when we cannot totally control what
goes on. We'll do the best we can and try to
accommodate," said Hank Baier, associate vice
president for University Facilities and Operations.
Baier also said parking on South State Street
will be minimally affected.
"If four parking spots are blocked off, don't
call us, but if 10 are, call us," he said.
Construction is expected to be complete in
2002.
After the construction presentation, the
assembly's business moved to fiscal matters.
MSA Treasurer Siafa H lage announced at the
meeting a deflated budget compared to last
year due to a lack of a rollover in the previous
years funds. In the past, MSA has had 550,000
to 560,000 for committees.
"This year, we have even less," Hage said.
MSA President Hideki Tsutsumi admitted to
signing away unknowingly S1,500 to purchase
a full-page advertisement in today's edition of
The Michigan Daily with out consent of the
assembly.
The ad is part of a campaign to encourage
student groups to submit funding request
forms.
"A lot of things didn't go right," Ilage said.
"We lost a lot of checks in our checks and bal-
ances system without having a financial coordi-
nator."
It is MSA procedure for any spending of
over S 150 to be approved by MSA before actu-
al expenditure.
"There was no malicious intent. It was just
enthusiastic people trying to promote school
funding, but that doesn't excuse it," Hage said.
New committee and commission chairs were
decided at yesterday's meeting, with Engineer-
ing senior Ryan Whiteherse, SNRE senior Jes-
sica Mendelowitz and LSA sophomore
Elizabeth Anderson claiming the Rules and
Election Committee. Environmental Issues
Commission, and Women's Issues Commission
chairs, respectively.
"I want to carry a big stick and let people
know if they violate rules, they'll be penal-
ized," Whiteherse said. "Some people saw (the
rules) as being biased. I want to make sure it
can't happen this year."
Whiteherse will have a new set of rules to
enforce this year as the REC chair. MSA suc-
cessfully amended portions of the election
code yesterday.
The amended code will "clarify when people
can campaign in residence halls," Whiteherse
said, explaining candidates are now strictly
prohibited from campaigning near a computer
logged into the voting Website.
"I want to carry a big stick and let people know
if they violate the rules, they'll be penalized."
- Ryan Whiteherse
MSA Rules and Election Committee chair
"We are depending on Housing to report any
infractions," Whiieherse said.
The hiring procedure code and a 55,000 dis-
bursement from the MSA general fund to
Voice Your Vote Commission also were
amended.
Passed resolutions at yesterday's meeting
included support of "Affirmative Action 102."
Victory Over Violence Week and a Day of
Action in support of Affirmative Action, sched-
uled for Oct. 19.
Before Baier's presentation, MSA representa-
tives and executive officers greeted students
interested in joining MSA at the annual open
house.
"The purpose of the MSA open house is to let
everybody come in and meet the representatias
and committee chairs personally and up-close
and get an idea of how to get involved in MSA;"
Matt Nolan, MSA communications chair, said.
"It's our primary recruitment night of the year."-
"There are lots of energized freshman," Hl
said in reference to the large turnout of interested
individuals. "The big difference is their eyes are
open to what they can do on campus.
LSA sophomore Roger Tsai took advantage
of the free cookies and stayed for most of the
meeting.
"A lot of people see what goes on, but it's
sad people don't get involved. MSA is a gieat
way to get involved and the best way to affect
the University directly," Tsai said.
*Police charge husband in
murder after fin g note
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) , A former school board presi-
dent who told authorities that his wife shot herself has been
charged with first-degree murder in her death.
An autopsy determined that Sandra Anne Duyst had
been shot two times in the head just above the right ear
when she was found in the bedroom of her home last
spring,
Her husband, David Duyst Sr. was arraigned in Kent
County District Court in Rockford on Monday and was
being held without bond in the county jail. If convicted, he
could be sentenced to life in prison.
His lawyer, David Dodge of Grand Rapids, said yesterday
that Duyst has denied any wrongdoing.
Duyst called 911 and later told investigators that he was
in another room when his wife shot herself, officials said.
He also told them that he removed the gun from her hand;
*deputies found it lying on the bed.
But detectives told The Grand Rapids Press for a story
yesterday that evidence they collected after the March 29
shooting doesn't support his story. They said results of
DNA and blood-spatter tests corroborate the autopsy find-
ing that the death was a homicide.
"I had a lot of problems with someone shooting them-
selves in the head twice," said Detective Sgt. Chet Bush of
the Kent County Sheriff's Department. "We were suspicious
at that point. We wanted more evidence, and it takes time to
do that."
A mother of three children, Sandra Duyst was an award-
winning equestrian. She raised and trained quarter horses at
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and Social Implications Research at the National Human
Genome Research Institute and moderator of this morning's
"Ethics, Law and Society" session, highlighted the ques-
tions that the conference intends to address.
"The issues include how best to integrate genetics tech-
nologies into public health practice, how to conduct public
health genetics research and how to use genetic information
in public health setting," Thomson said.
Thomson also emphasized the conference's role in mesh-
ing interests from the genetics and public health fields.
"By bringing the public health community and the genet-
ics c6mmunity together to interact and share information,
the end result will be the public having better access and
better quality care," Thomson said.
Last year's conference had fewer than 300 participants,
but this year's conference boasts 374 people. In addition,
cnore than 200 of those registered for the conference also
attended Monday's symposium.
Toby Citrin, director of the Office of Community-Based
Health and a professor in the University's department of
Health Management and Policy played a key role in plan-
ning the conference. Citrin said lie was pleased with the
turnout for this week's events.
"That was far beyond our expectations" Citrin said. "We
certainly consider it a success."
The conference consists of large plenary sessions
*hroughout the day with break-out workshops on specific
topics. The conference concludes this afternoon with a clos-
ing session titled, "Advancing the Public Health Genetics
Agenda: Where Do We Go From Here?" in Mendelssohn
Theater at 3:30 p.m.
the family's Alpine Township ranch, where she also gave
riding lessons.
More than a year before her death, the victim had
hidden a prophetic note inside her china cabinet, detec-
tives said.
"If anything has happened to me look first to David
Duyst Sr.," Sandra Duyst wrote in the letter intended for her
sister. "He could be my killer. I would never commit sui-
cide. He may have killed me."
David Duyst told police that his wife had been depressed
and suicidal since being kicked in the head by one of her
horses on Nov. 19, 1998. The note found in the china cabi-
net alleged that his wife had not been injured by a horse but
instead had been beaten by Duyst.
"I'm not going to comment at this point on any specific
piece of evidence," Dodge said when asked about the note.
Duyst's father, Peter Duyst, said he stands behind his son.
"There is another side to this, and we believe that," he
said.
Investigators declined to elaborate on a possible motive,
but in court records they alleged that David Duyst had taken
out a S500,000 life insurance policy on his wife and was
having an affair with a co-worker.
Duyst was arrested Friday at his workplace, Northwest-
ern Mutual Life Insurance Co. in downtown Grand Rapids.
He is an insurance and investment agent and a former board
president of West Side Christian School.
A preliminary hearing for Duyst will take place at the
Rockford court on Sept. 28.
Participants in the conference include federal, state and
local public health and genetics officials, health policy-mak-
ers, health care providers, faculty and students at schools of
public health and other health profession schools.
"I think it is going very well," Citrin said. "There is a big
diversity of views and perspectives being brought to the
issue, which is exactly what we had hoped for."
The leaders in organizing the conference are the Univer-
sity's School of Public Health and the Michigan Department
of Community Health. Other sponsors of the conference
include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
Health Resources and Services Administration, the Nation-
al Human Genome Research Institute and the Association
of State and Territorial Health Officials.
Citrin said the University's leading role in the field of
genetic research is oie reason the conference was held in
Ann Arbor.
"A lot of the most significant research in genetics is going
on in our university across a number of schools," Citrin
said.
"At our university, we feel very strongly that if we are
going to be doing significant research on the technology of
genetics, we also need to be doing research on the impact
the technology has on society," lie said. "U of M is probably
the leading institution in the United States for being able to
blend these two types of research together. not just focusing
on one or the other.'
Bradford Therrell, executive director of National New-
born Screening and Genetics, spoke yesterday morning
at the plenary session on Genetics in Public health Prac-
tice.
"So far I have been impressed with the conference,"
Therrell said yesterday. "There have been some good speak-
ers and I look forward to this afternoon."
JOYCE LE- /Diy
The Millennium Club, a new downtown dance club on First Avenue, offers window dancers to lure students inside.
-.New -downt'I"own anc"e
clubha
By James Restivo
For the Daily
Where antiique lamps and pottery once
now appear window dancers as an aggres
tising technique to lire students to down
Arbor's new Millennium Club.
While most clubs have flyers and inser
nightclub has "tasteful" window dancersf
said Nick Easton, owner and managero
club.
"We do have dancers in the windows
girls in their 20s that allure people to the c
on said. "It's a lot of fun, but it is tasteful.'
The new window dancers are now invitin
and city residents alike into the new club s
the owner of the already-established Ca
located iii the samie building.
Ann Arbor resident Cicily McClintic au
dance at the new Millennium Club but was n
"All the girls they picked were very simi
other, in a Britney Spears kind of way. Th
rethink the audience they are appealing to
tic said.
The club, which is an extension of t
Club, has been very popular since it ope
August. The two clubs.combined hold up
pie and Easton says they have been filled t
weekends.
Originally, Easton had constructed an an
in the space that is now the Millennium Cl
liquor license from the Cavern Club app
entire building, so he decided to conver
space.
He said the facilities are perfect f
"Atmosphere is important, and I believe
has a lot of atmosphere," Easton said.
Customers pay one cover charge for b
connected clubs, varying from S3 to S7. A
old Cavern Club, both are reserved onlyf
'atmosphere'
2I and older.
Once inside, the club boasts a size of 6,000 square
feet and full bars and dance floors.
were sold The Millennium Club, located at 210 South First
sive adver- Avenue, hias more open space for daticing than the
ntown Ann Cavern Club, which is composed of tunnels and
smaller rooms. Music varies from night to night, '
ts, the new with modern techno on Fridays and top 40 on Satur-
for appeal, days.
of the new Easton said it is quality music that will attract the
clientele. "Music determines the type of people this
pretty club will attract,' he said. "We have good quality
lub.' east- musicians and excellent DJs.'
The club boasts three DJs and several local bands
nut students operating on a rotating circuit. If someone does not
pawned by like modern and pop music, a trip upstairs reveals the
vern Club. rhythm and blues styling of the Cavern Club. The
two clubs in conjunction bring ages ranging from 21
ditioned to to 40s, Easton said.
ot picked. With such a varied crowd of people, safety is an
ilar to each issue that Easton would like to impress upon clients.
iey need to Police have been spotted at the club the past few
," McClin- weeks, but Easton said they do not signify problems.
"We have a wholesome. clean club," he said. "The
he Cavern police are always welcome and violence and safety have'
ned in late not been issues. We have been very successful."
o 600 peo- While success may be good news for the Millenni-
lhe last few um Club, it is located within two blocks of the Blind
Pig and Eight Ball, two other well-known Ann Arbor
itique shop night spots.
ub. But the Blind Pig bartender Jeremy Steinke said he is not,
lied to the nervous about the competition.
t the extra "We play two totally different genres of music,"
Steinke said. "Our clients come for live rock and roll
or a club. music. Nobody's worried."
this place The Blind Pig also allows students who are 19 and,-
over.
oth of the "There are many types of people in this town,"
Ns with the Easton said. "With the right advertising this town is
for patrons big enough for the amount of clubs it has."
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