The Michigan Daily - Monday; October 6, 2000-7
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-4~spapers that you're better off than
you were eight years ago too," Lieber-
tman said at one point - a reference to
'he-considerable fortune Cheney made
'in the oil business.
""And I can tell you Joe, that the gov-
ernment had nothing to do with it,"
retorted the Republican candidate,
"echoing his and Bush's campaign cen-
rpiece: Little government involve-
ient in the lives of citizens.
"Cheney did show a bit of a lighter
side," said Adam Killian, Michigan
Youth Chair for Bush/Cheney 2000.
"Anytime you can combine serious
issues with humor it really benefits."
;ach man pledged at the outset to
avoid personal attacks. Cheney took
th4t one step further. "I promise not to
~i g up your singing," he said to
eberman.
"And I promise not to sing,' Lieber-
in replied with a smile.
But in a departure from the jovial
portions of the debate, the vice presi-
dential nominees devoted many of
'their answers to explaining their poli-
cies in great detail.
"There will probably be a lot of peo-
ple who will walk away from the
debate thinking they were too preoccu-
ied with detail in order to mask other
,pblems with their policy," communi-
eation studies Prof Michael Traugott
said. "I thought each was appropriately
serious for the occasion."
"Cheney was a bit more detailed,"
Traugott added. "He was obviously
trying to distinguish the Bush/Cheney
plan from Gore's."
Lieberman, nonetheless, also gave
very detailed descriptions of the
G0;e'Lieberman agenda - at one
oint even getting so detailed in
scribing the Gore tax plan that
t Cheney said, "You have to be a CPA to
figure out what he just said."
As campus political activists, both
Perring and Killian said they hoped
certain messages would resonate with
young voters.
"What Lieberman said is really
applicable to students," Perring said.
"For example, the budget and promis-
g to pay off the debt. When we're
actually out in the real world that's
something that's going to affect us."
Killian said he hoped students
would identify with the Bush Social
Security reform plan.
"It allows young people the oppor-
tunity of investing some of their pay-
roll tax into the stock market ... and I
ithink that's° an issue a lot of young
people are concerned about," he said.
- The Associated Press contributed
to this report.
EVACUATION
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rooms for the price of a double, Yowell
'said, and if they choose to move home
until the renovations are complete they
,ijJ get a full refund, minus a prorated
'.meal plan deduction.
*"Our main concern is the potential
health hazard for students;' she said.
All the drywall will be removed and
the areas where mold is and will be
found will be disinfected and killed,
Yowell said.
North Quad should be ready by the
end of the semester for students to
move back in, Yowell said.
Students in University of Michigan
estidence halls have no need to worry
, about health hazards, said Patty Watt,
W University's manager of health,
tidiistrial hygiene and safety.
Watt said the University has not had
any reports of mold problems in resi-
dence halls. She attributes this success
:.ate to the careful precautions building
staff take when problems arise.
"If we take the proper precautions,
:Q prevent it from starting," she said.
Watt stressed that "when moisture is
esent, we must make sure to thor-
ghly dry out everything, and if it
cannot be completely dried out, we
must remove it. For example, we have
removed wet carpet so mold will not
grow under it."
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CENSUS
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Prewitt said he is unsure of how this new mul-
ticultural recognition will affect future decisions.
Although race-based social policy would be diffi-
cult, it may be possible, he said.
Yessica Diaz, a graduate student in the School
of Public Health and Social Work, said Prewitt
presented the 2000 Census in a positive way.
"I was really impressed with his recognition of
multiculturalism in the United States and how
people want to identify who they are and who
they represent," she said.
"As a member of the Latino community, I'm
really concerned that we are also counted and
represented," Diaz said. "We are such a large
population with little representation;" she said,
adding that she hopes the new form will help
with improved social policy.
"I know that in my community in New York
people are interested in filling out the census
forms to be identified, recognized and counted,"
Diaz said.
Prewitt said there was an unusually high return
rate of 67 percent, which is 6 percent higher than
expected.
This allowed the Census Bureau to remain on
schedule and stay more than 300 million dollars
under budget.
"The taxpayers saved that money for them-
selves by being unusually cooperative with the
census process," Prewitt said.
"At some level we were able to engage civic
responsibility and promote the importance of the
census," he said.
Under the Constitution, the Census Bureau
must come out with a state-by-state count by the
end of the calendar year. In March and April, the
bureau will release a second count of race, gen-
der and age statistics.
Although states are not required by federal law
to use national census data for redistricting, Pre-
witt said he believes most states will use the
adjusted census data.
"For any practical purposes, they're more
accurate," he said yesterday afternoon.
Prewitt said he defines the census as "an esti-
mate of the truth." But as adjustments are made,
the census gets closer and closer to that truth, he
said.
Still, there are several obstacles to getting a
correct count.
There are many different groups of people who
tend to be counted twice, Prewitt said. Among
them are multiple homeowners and college stu-
dents.
The latter, Prewitt said, results from families
and students sending in their own census forms
with the student recorded on both.
But Prewitt rejects any large problems that col-
lege towns present, citing that 70 percent of the
population moves each year.
"I would still rather have those data than no
data;' he said. "All we can do is take a snapshot
on a given day."
People who live in central cities and poor rura
areas are also hard to count, Prewitt said, result-
ing in a disproportionate representation of minor-
ity groups.
Many areas across the country offered
incentive programs for completing the cen-
sus.
Prewitt said the Census Bureau did not partici-
pate in these endeavors, but did not disassociate
themselves from it, either.
"This is after all a civic obligation," lie said.
But Prewitt attributes the increased minority
return rate to the Census Bureau's own outreach
advertising program.
"We expected the entire census to go down by
4 percent," he said. "The places that improved
most aggressively were disproportionately minor-
ity.
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as a designer," she said. "Both his
colleagues and his students learned
from him and he was much beloved
and respected and valued."
Vakalo joined the School of
Architecture in 1979 as an assistant
professor in 1979 and became an
associate professor in 1991.
He chaired the doctoral architec-
ture program from 1995 until last
year and was teaching three gradu-
ate-level classes this semester.
"He was particularly beloved by
students, whom he treated both as
equals and as individuals. He was
also a mentor to junior faculty for
whom he had a soft and nurturing
touch," School of Architecture
Dean Douglas Kelbaugh said.
Vakalo is also survived by his moth-
er, Eleni, who lives in Greece.
He will be buried in Athens. A local
memorial service has not yet been
scheduled.
A memorial fund has been set up by
Buntrock to support graduate students
in Vakalo's honor.
Contributions can be made in
care of Mary Anne Drew at the
Taubman School of Architecture,
2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor,
Mich., 48109.
BUSH
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and other resources tax-free, to help
parents work at home.
The plan would offer a "tax-free
exchange between company and
employee," Bush said.
Bush addressed reforming the Fair
Labor Standards Act by giving
employees the chance to "convert
overtime into comp time."
This would allow employees who
work overtime the option of using
those extra hours as time off to spend
with the family or to receive monetary
compensation.
School safety was also a major con-
cern, as Bush firmly emphasized the
need for security reform in public
schools.
"I strongly support zero tolerance
for disruptive children in the class-
room;" Bush said.
"I believe we need to enforce laws
on the books, we need to send a chill-
ing signal ... that there will be serious
consequences in the United States of
America," he said.
Bush criticized the large number of
federal lawsuits against teachers
accused of being overly tenacious dis-
ciplinarians in the classroom as "a
deterrent to keeping the classroom
safe."
He vowed to reform the system by
giving teachers and school board
members more disciplinary authori-
ty.
"We also need to have federal
law that protects teachers and prin-
cipals and school board members
who enforce reasonable standards
of discipline in the classroom,"
Bush said. "I'm going to ask Con-
gress to pass a Teacher Protection
Act" to help teachers do their job
and make sure that teachers are
safe.
At the school, Bush viewed the
school's Internet filter system, which
prevents children from accessing
pornographic and violent Websites on
school computers.
Bush said he w'ould offer federal
funds to public schools that install
these systems to keep "filth and vio-
I lence" out of the classrooms.
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