NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 25, 2004 - 5A FOOTBALL Continued from page 1A switches its entire defensive playbook to confuse them. They don't lead teams that are undefeated in the con- ference this late in the year. Mike Hart's not a freshman either. No way. Freshman running backs - especially if they are (maybe) 5-foot- 9 and look like they haven't started shaving yet - don't run for over 200 yards in crucial Big Ten conference games. They don't bounce off tackle after tackle after tackle for big gains. They don't break two long runs in the waning moments of a game to set up a victory. So it appears the best thing about Michigan's freshman backfield duo is that they refuse to act their age. "We have to come out here and play - Chad and I do," Hart said. "We don't want people to say we lost because me and Chad are freshmen." The irony is that much of the focus for this game was on a senior. Purdue quar- terback Kyle Orton - who had struggled in a loss to Wisconsin last week - was desperate to redeem himself and reclaim his Heisman-frontrunner status. Except that Orton spent much of his day running for his life from Michi- gan's pass rush. He looked flustered in the face of the Wolverines' defensive efforts, and his 14-for-30 day throwing the ball was the result. Meanwhile, Henne kept his cool despite plenty of pressure from the Boilermakers - even after throw- ing an interception and several times being unable to get Michigan into the endzone and into the lead. The result of that composure was not one, not two, but three drives by the Wolverines deep into Purdue territory after the Boilermakers took a 14-10 lead midway through the third quarter. "We've been through every situa- tion," said Henne after the game - a bold statement for someone who had just played his eighth college game. "When you feel comfortable out there and pre- pare through the week, you can come out during the week and show your talent." And man, what talent it is. With his 206-yard performance against Purdue - which included exactly zero carries for negative yard- age - Hart now has 936 yards on the season. That gives him more yards than any true freshman running back has ever had at Michigan, passing Ricky Powers's total of 748 yards in 1990. "I didn't know I'd be coming (to Michigan) doing this," Hart said. "I knew I could come in here and play, but I didn't know I was going to do this well." But, of course, no one could have known this was coming. In college football, freshmen are supposed to ease their way in - maybe redshirt or play a backup role. Not at Michigan. Not this year. Henne's been solid, the third-best quarterback statistics-wise in the Big Ten behind Orton and North- western's Brett Basanez, who run "Throw first, ask questions later" offenses. And Hart has been sensational - he had a run in the third quarter that was as good as any you'll ever see. On a 2nd-and-20 draw play, Hart was hit simultaneously by three (yeah, three) guys, and simply ran through the tackles for 33 yards to set up a Garrett Rivas field goal that cut the Purdue lead to 14-13. "He has a freshman status," said Michigan safety Ernest Shazor of Hart, "but he's playing in a senior body." So if the rest of the Big Ten is wait- ing for Michigan's backfield duo to start making the proverbial "freshman mistakes," it might be time to move on. Because I don't see any freshmen. . Chris Burke can be reached at chrisbur@umich.edu LOBBYING Continued from page 1A ects the University undertakes on behalf of the government. Many of those proj- ects are done in concert with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- vices which gave about $350 million last year. The department and the University work together on conducting research about issues such as mental health and pharmaceutical drugs. "There are all kinds of public benefit that accrues with research. The list is endless. It's the kind of basic research that corporations can't do because they need an instant return on their invest- ments," Waring said. Because lobbying the government to receive checks does not happen over- night, the University must keep up its relationships with members of Congress over the course of years. "You really need to establish relation- ships with key individuals - members of the Michigan congressional delegation - and their staff. We do a lot with respect to our colleagues in the Big Ten and with the other big higher ed organizations that represent universities across the country," said Cynthia Wilbanks, the University's vice president for government relations. Those same politicians and the next U.S. president will face a projected $415 billion deficit next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. As a result, schools may lose money earmarked to them - as has already happened with cutbacks in 2003. President Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry have pledged to cut the deficit over the next five years when they submit their budgets to Congress, whose members will discuss any changes with college lobbyists. POLICY Continued from page 1A conference on Iraq that Egyptian Presi- dent Hosni Mubarak will host next month. This conference is part of Bush's larger strategy to win back allies. The guest list includes leaders from Europe and the Middle East. At the behest of the Bush administra- tion, NATO members agreed earlier this month to aid in the training of Iraqi secu- rity forces, The Associated Press report- ed. They have promised 300 trainers by the year's end in addition to the 40 already stationed there, with a possible total con- tribution of 2,000 to 3,000 trainers. Not all of the training will take place within Iraq. According to NATO officials, Iraqi policemen and troops will also train in Italy, Germany and Norway. Despite these developments, Kerry has said he would still accelerate the training process. The Democratic nominee has said the involvement of more allies would ease the burden on America's military. Though Kerry has asserted that he will gain allies if elected, no nation has pub- licly stated its intention to commit troops to Iraq in the event of a Kerry victory. Earlier this month, a spokesman for German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Germany will not change its policy on Iraq, even if Kerry is elected. "It remains in the future as it was in the past - there will be no German soldiers in Iraq," he told the AP. But Democratic vice-presidential nom- inee John Edwards has said a Kerry presi- dency would attract allies. "Success breeds contribution, (which) breeds joining the coalition," he said in this month's vice-presidential debate. Many of the allies' leaders have also expressed resentment at being denied reconstruction contracts by Bush for not having committed to the original coalition. Kerry has said he would allow coun- tries that did not support the U.S.-led inva- sion to bid on reconstruction contracts. There are currently 165,000 trained Iraqi personnel and the U.S. Department of Defense plans to expand the Iraqi National Guard. Kerry's plan to spread the responsibil- ity of rebuilding Iraq is an idea also shared by the Bush administration. The administration has said an Iraqi army is being trained to compensate for the shortage of allies and relieve pressure on the United States. There are currently 165,000 trained Iraqi personnel and the U.S. Department of Defense plans to expand the Iraqi National Guard, the army and the force patrolling Iraqi borders. The Bush administration has suggested - most recently by Vice President Dick Cheney in a debate with Edwards - that the burden of manpower, weaponry, tax dollars and casualties is shared by the U.S. with its allies. But as Edwards noted in the debate, an overwhelming majority of coalition casualties have been suffered by the United States, and CNN.com reports that about 90 percent of the coalition's casualties have been borne by U.S. forces. One week ago, the White House pro- vided fuel for Kerry's claim that Bush has not been aggressive enough in his pursuit of allies when it rejected a Saudi plan for a Muslim force that would provide secu- rity for Iraq's planned elections in January. One reason the administration offered for the rejection was that the proposed force would operate outside the established chain of command. Perhaps the sharpest contrast that has emerged between Bush and Kerry's foreign policy platforms relates to their stances on dealing with North Korea and Iran. Unlike Bush, the Democratic nomi- nee has favored bilateral talks with North Korea, which claims to have several nuclear weapons and defends its right to possess nuclear arms as a deterrent to U.S. aggression. In the final presidential debate, Kerry said this strategy would allow direct dialogue with North Korea on a wide range of issues, including its nuclear arsenal and human rights record. The Bush administration has refused to pursue one-on-one discussions with North Korea and has instead been engaged in six- party negotiations with the country that have also involved China, South Korea, Russia and Japan. But North Korean dic- tator Kim Jong Il has been reluctant to continue these talks, citing Bush's hostile stance towards the Communist nation. The presidential candidates also diverge on the issue of dealing with Iran. The Bush administration has expressed a desire to take up the issue in the U.N. Security Council, while diplomats from Britain, France and Germany met with Iranian counterparts Thursday and plan to have another meeting Wednes- day in Vienna. The three nations are offering incentives to persuade Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. Kerry, on the other hand, has said he would join these international efforts to discourage Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Islamic nation recently announced it will forge ahead with its nuclear program, though it claims its goal is to generate nuclear power and not weapons. But foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said yesterday, "Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrich- ment activities is not acceptable to the Islamic Republic of Iran." Neither candidate may be able to convince Iran to abandon its atomic energy program. As reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency, Presi- dent Mohammed Khatami said last week, "Kerry and Bush are both wrong if they think they can deprive Iran of its legiti- mate right to acquire nuclear technology. "U.S. policy is based on denying the right of Iran in enriching uranium to pro- duce nuclear fuel and this is something we do not accept," he added. University of Michigan Regent Candidates' Forum Take advantage of this opportunity to question the candidates and learn their views on issues important to the University. Sponsored by SACUA, Senate Assembly, and MSA Monday, October 25, 2004 4:00 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre (4th floor of the Rackham Building) Fourteenth Annual University of Michigan Senate's Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom "Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine For Our Times" Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:00 p.m. Honigman Auditorium 100 Hutchins Hall - Law School Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the Public Noam Chomsky Institute Professor of Linguistics Massachusetts Institute of Technology e .+w do