NEWS The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 11, 2005 - 7 'EDUCATION Continued from page 1. concrete that the state is doing to help the situation. Mike Forster, chair of MSA's External Relations Committee, was the Univer- sity's other representative at the confer- ence. While he said he was impressed with the concept of the event, he was not pleased with the format. "I didn't feel the questions were too great. The last one was confusing, and the legislators didn't know how to answer it," he said. Representative Stephen Adamini (D- Marquette), suggested that if Michigan- ders want better funding for universities, they should stop lobbying for lower taxes. "If the message we are getting from people is 'cut our taxes,' then that is what we will do," he said. People cannot ask for both lower taxes and better funding, because there simply isn't that much money, Adamini said. State Rep. Gretchen Whitmer (D- East Lansing) said it is up to students to improve their financial situation. She said campus grassroots organizations are the best source of change, and that students should take every advantage to contact their representatives. "It is up to students to drive the decisions being made here," she said. But the sparse attendance from repre- sentatives and senators caused some to question how seriously legislators take students' calls for better funding. Rep. Scott Hummel (R-DeWitt) assured students that he believes the issue is in fact very important. "I made a commitment to be here, and I take it very seriously," he said. Wiggins said MSA has plans to send another set of delegates to Lansing in the coming months to repeat this attempt to reach legislators. "This was a step in the right direction," Wiggins said. But students have a lot more work to do, he added, before they see any changes to the state's funding. BLOOD Continued from page 1 Another reason for the increased scope of this year's drive is increased investment from the Red Cross, which lent organizers more nurses this year than in past years. "The majority of the nurses in Washtenaw County are at the drive," Taylor said. The blood battle often brings in many first-time donors. "I've never done it before, and always wanted to give blood," LSA freshman Samantha Pabich said. "Beating OSU was part of it too." "Usually in blood drives, you get the same 2 percent of the population who donate blood, but in the Blood Battle, about 50 percent of the peo- ple are first-time donors," said Mark Michaels, co-chair of Alpha Phi Omega. "At first, people are afraid to do it. Then, after they do it for the first time, they realize it's not really that bad, so they come back." The blood battle has a higher pur- pose than beating Ohio State; blood banks serve an important role in sav- ing lives. One beneficiary is LSA sophomore Ruth Barkan. She was diagnosed with cancer twice - first in 1989 and again in 1998. During her treatment, she received around 100 blood transfusions. She comes every year to a blood battle donation site to thank the Red Cross workers. "The American Red Cross to me is one of those life-saving institutions," she said. She said she feels most students "never see who they're benefiting." Without the transfusions she had received, she says, "I don't think I would have made it." Students can make appointments to donate online at givelife.org. Beach- nau recommends that donors eat and drink well before they donate. MSA Continued from page 1 the two-day election period was put into action this year. In previous years, candi- dates were required to cease campaign- ing as soon as voting started. This year, MSA successfully lobbied the Universi- ty's residence education office - specifi- cally Systems and Procedures Associate Coordinator Lee Evilsizer - to change this campaign stipulation. Paul said S4M members were relent- less in publicizing the elections, "doing everything (they) could in order to get the word out." Paul said the stepped- up publicity campaign included more intensive chalking and more prominent flyering. Voting website coordinator William Northway theorized that confusion between the MSA election and Wednes- day's city election could have contributed to the exceptionally low voter turnout. New representatives will be sworn in during the next MSA meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on the third floor of the Michi- gan Union. VOTING Continued from page 1. in South Dakota blocked voter regis- tration of Native Americans, officials from Charleston County South Caroli- na harassed blacks who wanted to vote and Alabama's Jefferson County would not hire blacks to work at polling cites in white districts, the report says. Debo Adegbile, associate director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said discrimina- tion will not go away without a law to keep officials in check. "Voting officials will continue to jus- tify these acts," she said. Among the sections of the Voting Rights Act set to expire is Section 5, which requires some state and local governments - mostly areas in the South with a history of voter discrimi- nation - to obtain federal authoriza- tion before they can apply changes in voting procedures. State and local gov- ernments must prove that the change in voting procedures does not discrimi- nate based on race. The Michigan Election Law Proj- ect is composed of more than 100 Law School students under faculty direction. 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LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) This is a poor day to divide things or decide how something should be shared. Whatever you decide today will need to be amended tomorrow - keep that in -;- today. Quite likely staff shortages will occur as well. Avoid major decisions. Just go with the flow as best you can. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is a highly creative day. Your thinking is entirely out-of-the-box. This is wonderful for creative projects; how- ever, don't spend money. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) This is a poor day for shopping or making major decisions. However, it's a good day to have fun and do artistic things. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) This is a bad day to sign contracts or conduct important negotiations. You cannot rely on things. Everything is a bit nebulous. Wait until tomorrow. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is an extremely poor day for busi- ness and commerce. Try to delay what- ever business you can until tomorrow or Monday. 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