2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 31, 2001
NATION/WORLD
Michigan senators oppose Ashcroft
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michigan's two Democ-
ratic senators said they will vote against President
Bush's nominee for attorney general, Republican for-
mer Sen. John Ashcroft.
Although Ashcroft appears to have enough votes
to win approval by the Senate as early tomorrow,
many Democrats have announced their intention to
vote against him because of his conservative views
on civil rights, women's issues, homosexuals, abor-
tion, gun control and the role of the judiciary.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Lansing said she does
not trust that Ashcroft would uphold the mission of
the Justice Department, citing his outspoken opposi-
tion to abortion rights and school desegregation.
Sen. Carl Levin of Detroit said he would vote
against Ashcroft because his rhetoric has been
"extreme, divisive and unfair."
Ashcroft foes have said votes against his confirma-
tion would send Bush a signal against nominating sim-
ilarly conservative nominees for federal judgeships.
Bush voiced frustration yesterday with the contin-
uing opposition to Ashcroft, who lost his re-election
bid in November to deceased Democratic Missouri
Gov. Mel Carnahan. Carnahan's widow, Jean Carna-
han, filled the seat.
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent Ashcroft's
nomination to the full Senate yesterday by a vote of
10-8. Senate Republican leader Trent Lott said he
hoped for a final vote by tomorrow and expressed
confidence that Ashcroft would be confirmed.
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"Everything he teaches you really
sticks with you. He takes you into the
field and he tries to give you the bigger
picture. You really take that with you,"
" Pierce said.
Barnes used his prized find, the
largest organism in the world, a forest of
Aspen Clone trees near Fish Lake in
Colorado, to demonstrate interconnec-
tions in the environment The forest of
aspens derive from the same genes and
are connected through their roots,
weighing a total 13 billion pounds.
The "professor being honored is in a
class of his own," said S.H.O.U.T.
Director Jordan Goodman, who read
from one student's nomination while
introducing Barnes. "I feel a drive in his
class to perform as well as possible, not
only for myself, but so I don't let him
down," the letter read.
Jamie Katz, Hillel program associate
and staff advisor to S.H.O.U.T., said-
preparation is what separates Golden
Apple professors from their colleagues.
"Students walk into a classroom one
day. They find a teacher who turns them
on like they've never been turned on
before," Katz said.
SNRE graduate student Ryan O'Con-
nor said Barnes' classes carry a reputa-
tion of being both challenging and fun.
"Everyday I found myself wonder-
ing what new method he would unveil.
Barnes is an excellent and inspiring
teacher, but he is also a friend and
mentor to the students," O'Connor
said.
SNRE senior Hanna Wingard values
the time Barnes spends with his students.
"He takes us to the Smokey Moun-
tains. I don't know another professor
who takes time out of his weekend time
to take his students out of the class-
room," Wingard said.
FINANCE
Continued from Page 1.
One Democrat who said he is eager
to speak with Schwarz about working
on campaign finance reform is state
Sen. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Twp.).
"I'm pleased that he's working on a
statewide organization," Peters said.
This push for campaign finance
reform needs to be bipartisan in order
to succeed, Peters said, because in the
past it has been a question of one party
leveraging against another.
Campaign finance reform is badly
needed in Michigan, Peters added.
"There is so much special interest
money in the process that tends to dic-
tate which issues get on the agenda,"
he said, adding that he is not implying
that votes are being bought, just that
the funds tend to skew what issues get
looked at first.
One thing Schwarz and Peters can
easily agree on is that it is time for cam-
paign finance reform to find a spot in
both the national and state law books.
"Campaign finance reform is a criti-
cal issue in Michigan as it is across the
country," Peters said. "It's becoming
obscene how much money is neces-
sary to run for political office."
The national bill, which will come
to the floor in March, is likely to pass
this time around, Schwarz said. "Sena-
tor McCain has the votes in the U.S.
Senate;' he said.
Though Schwarz does not think a
state campaign finance reform bill will
be introduced until the spring, the for-
mation of the committee coincides
with the Arizona senator's efforts to
spread the word about the issue along-
side the bill's co-sponsor Sen. Russ
Feingold (D-Wis.).
The two began a six-state tour Mon-
day by holding a town meeting in Lit-
tle Rock, Ark.
NEWS IN BRIEF.;
WASHINGTON
Bush plots tax strategy with Congress
President Bush and his treasury secretary expressed confidence yesterday that
Congress will approve the massive tax cut at the center of Bush's economic pro-
gram. "As soon as possible," the president said was his aim.
Hoping to build momentum, Bush and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill held
strategy session at the White House with Republican leaders from the House an#
Senate and received encouragement for their efforts to pass a $1.6 trillion 10-year
tax reduction.
Senate Republican leader Trent Lott said after the meeting, "We fully expect
to have significant tax relief for Americans before the Fourth of July recess."
Declaring that he wanted to see the package approved "as soon as possible;"
Bush said he was open to suggestions on legislative strategy.
"We did discuss the timing of the tax package, how best to move it through the
House," Bush said. "We are interested in success."
Though Bush has talked of his proposal mostly in terms of returning surplus fed-
eral revenue to taxpayers, he and his advisers also have suggested a tax cut could be
helpful to the weakening national economy. Federal Reserve policy-makers we
considering fresh interest-rate reductions yesterday to spur the economy, five da
after Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan gave his blessing to a rate reduction.
AHMEDABAD, India
Pakistan aids quake relief efforts in India
Pakistan put aside its bitter rivalry with India yesterday and joined earthquake
relief efforts, but heavy equipment and explosives brought in to clear debris signaled
that hope of finding survivors had all but vanished.
Experts say few people could survive more than 100 hours buried in rubble le
by Friday's temblor, and much of the attention shifted to getting tents, blankets
medical care to the living.
Officials have counted 7,148 bodies, but estimates of how high the death toll
could rise varied widely.
Defense Minister George Fernandes estimated 100,000 may have died; Home
Minister Haren Pandya said he believed the figure to be between 15,000 and 20,000.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said it was impossible and improper to
guess. Aid from around the world was pouring into western India: a 747 loaded with
water purification equipment from the United States, a $500,000 mobile hospital
from Denmark and an air force plane filled with tents and blankets from Pakistan.
With nighttime temperatures about 41 degrees in the quake zone, blankets were a
high priority.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Emergency power
may cost $1.3 billion
California could be out at least $1.3
billion for emergency electricity before
lawmakers construct a long-term fix to
the state's botched deregulation program.
Lawmakers want to negotiate a deal
for wholesale electricity contracts for
up to 10 years to avoid a power crunch
in the coming decade.
The state took just 12 days to spend
$400 million approved earlier this month
by the Legislature to buy electricity for
financially strapped Southern California
Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric.
Both have been denied credit by
suppliers, and say they are $12.7 bil-
lion in debt because of soaring whole-
sale power prices. The state's
deregulation law bars them from
recouping their costs from customers.
Gov. Gray Davis ordered the state
Monday to spend up to $400 million to
buy power with money from the Depart-
ment of Water Resources budget.
WASHINGTON
Norton, Whitman
confirmed by Senate
New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman
and former Colorado Attorney General
Gale Norton won Senate approval yes-
terday to. direct the nation's environ-
mental and natural resources policies.
The Senate voted unanimously 99-0
to confirm Whitman as administrator
of the Environmental Protection
Agency after voting 75-24 minutes
earlier, along partisan and geographi-
cal lines, to accept President Bush's
choiceof Norton to be secretary of the
interior.
Most of those opposing Norton
were Senate Democrats from Eastern
states. Her most vocal support came
from Senate Republicans in Western
states with a large percentage of fed-
eral-owned lands.
The votes left all of Bush's Cabir
seats but that of attorney genera
filled just 10 days after his inaugura-
tion.
LONDON
Doctors accused
of stealing organs
One of the leading children's hospi-
tals in Britain illegally harvested heart
brains, eyes and other organs fro
thousands of dead children without the
consent of their parents, according to a
government report published yesterday.
The report blamed a rogue patholo-
gist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in
Liverpool for systematically removing
"every organ from every child who had
a post-mortem" between 1988 and
1995.
But investigators also found stoc@
piled body parts, including the head of
an Il-year-old boy, at the hospital and
a Liverpool University research center
that predated the term of Dutch
pathologist Dick van Velzen. And a
separate organ census issued by the
Health Department yesterday indicat-
ed that removing body parts without
"informed consent" is common in
English hospitals.
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