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The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 3

ON CAMPUS
Museum screens
film on German art
movement
"Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th
Century" will be shown at the Uni-
versity of Michigan Museum of Art
at noon today.
The film sets the history of the
Bauhaus movement, a German move-
ment of art and design whose aes-
thetic is based upon ideals of simple
forms and unadorned functionalism,
in the context of the chaos of the Wei-
mar Republic.
The screening is sponsored by the
museum.
CRIME
NOTES
Barely clothed
person taken to
psychiatric ER
A person wearing only a coat was
picked up for indecent exposure on
East Medical Center Drive early
yesterday morning, the Department
of Public Safety reports.
The individual was then taken to
the psychiatric emergency room for
evaluation.
Fallen cyclist
refuses assistance
near CCRB
DPS reports a subject falling off
a bike near the Central Campus
Recreation Building Monday evening.
The bicyclist declined assistance
from officers.
Industrial tool
found damaged
at EECS building
An industrial tool was found
accidentally damaged at the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science
building on North Campus early Monday
morning, according to DPS.
The tool was reported as damaged
' when shipped.

State GOP looks to replace chair DeVos

LANSING (AP) - The jockeying to replace
Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Betsy
DeVos has begun.
Former state Rep. Andrew "Rocky" Racz-
kowski, who ran unsuccessfully against U.S. Sen.
Carl Levin in 2002 and served in the Michigan
House from 1997 to 2002, told The Associated
Press yesterday that he wants the job.
"I was an elected official, I was active with the
state party at the grass roots, I understand fund-
raising ... party organization and planning," he
said, listing why he would be a good choice for
GOP chairman.
The 35-year-old Raczkowski. a U.S. Army
Reserves major from Farmington Hills, recently
returned from a year in Africa and elsewhere with
Operation Enduring Freedom.
Also considering a run is Myrah Kirkwood, a
security manager for McDonald's Corp. who ran
unsuccessfully this year against U.S. Rep. Dale
Kildee of Flint as one of the few black Republican
candidates in Michigan. A former Detroit police

officer, Kirkwood said yesterday that she has the
organizational skills to manage the party.
"I certainly am used to challenging situations,"
she said. "I think I have the best credentials to
make the jump to state party chair."
Others mentioned as possible replacements for
DeVos are Oakland County GOP Chairman Paul
Welday; former Detroit TV anchor Tara Wall, who
now works for the Republican National Commit-
tee; former House Speaker Chuck Perricone of
Delton; and Domino's Pizza Inc. Chairman and
CEO David Brandon of Ann Arbor, a regent at the
University
Party activists want someone who can help
them unseat Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm
and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2006 and stave
off a Democratic charge to regain majorities in the
state Senate and House. Whoever is picked must be
able to recruit strong challengers and raise enough
money to help buy ads and set up large-scale voter
outreach efforts.
"It's a very fluid situation now as far as party

Among the candidates are former House Speaker Chuck
Perricone, University Regent David Brandon, former
U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Raczkowski and Oakland
County GOP Chairman Paul Welday.

chair goes," said Tom Shields, whose Lansing
company, Marketing Resource Group, has done
work for the state GOP. "No one's really gravitat-
ing toward one candidate."
The race could firm up fairly quickly, however,
even though about 400 Republican delegates won't
meet to elect a new leader until their Feb. 4 and 5
state convention in Grand Rapids.
GOP National Committeeman Chuck Yob said
he plans to endorse a favorite by early next week.
"Rocky seems to be the only one running right
now, really," Yob said. "I think if someone doesn't
surface soon, he's going to have it locked up....

I'm still doing some ground work on which way's
the best way to go."
Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, who along
with Attorney General Mike Cox shares the spot-
light as the GOP's top state officeholder said party
activists have a few more steps to take before mak-
ing a decision.
"We need to define what we're looking for in a
party chair," she said, noting that Republicans usu-
ally choose either a successful fund-raiser who del-
egates to an executive director, as DeVos did, or a
paid leader more along the lines of former chairmen
Rusty Hills, Dave Doyle or Spencer Abraham.
"ething ... because they know students don't like the
rrent policy," he said.
Ford added that right now he just hopes this proposal
I1 pass and does not think that LSA-SG will pursue
extension of the policy to second-semester freshmen
I students from other grades.

DROP/ADD
Continued from page 1
deadline for all students.
"The administration has their reasons for why they
can't move (the deadline), back so they've tried to do
SAFE
Continued from page 1
chair and LSA sophomore Jennifer Gonik said SAFE's
campaign unfairly places all the blame for the Palestin-
ian-Israeli conflict on the Jewish state.
"I think the goal is to have real dialogue to eventu-

tics of the opposition to promote his cause. He accused
pro-Israeli groups of McCarthyist tactics - branding
pro-Palestinians as terrorists to discourage people from
associating themselves with groups like SAFE.
"Any group that supports this issue is going to be
called anti-Semitic," Dika added.
Some questioned whether MSA members would

ally work out a peaceful solution,"
she said.
Gonik said she did not think
SAFE shared this goal.
"I think if you want real dia-
logue, you wouldn't be promoting
a divestment campaign, which is
a one-sided attempt to demonize
Israel," she said, adding, "They
have a right to speak their minds."
Campus rallies were frequently
suggested as a means of educa-
tion, with many proposing that
SAFE hold a mock checkpoint on
the Diag.

"I think the goal is to
have real dialogue to
eventually work out
a peaceful solution."
- Jennifer Gonik
LSA sophomore

be receptive to an issue that some
may perceive as irrelevant to stu-
dents.
But Dika said that even if
some MSA candidates prom-
ised to address only issues that
directly involve students, "too
bad, they're going to have to
have to deal with us."
Divestment campaigns have
been successful in the past in
persuading the University to
divest from tobacco companies
and from businesses that dealt with

apartheid-era South Africa.

One attendee suggested that SAFE frame U.S. sup- Attempts to convince organizations to divest from
port of Israel as a threat to national security. Israel have been largely unsuccessful, although the
But Dika said he did not want to use the scare tac- Presbyterian church decided to do so last summer.

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