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WAGE
Continued from page 1.
supporting of the measure in January.
Signature collection on the Diag will continue at least
for now, Bates said.
Last month, MSA held a panel discussion on the ini-
tiative. Students and others on both sides of the debate
participated.
Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema (R-Wyo-
ming) noted that the state has not had a raise in the
minimum wage in nine years. He said there are posi-
tives and negatives for raising the wage.
"But all in all, I think it's the right thing to do at
the right time," Sikkema said yesterday on the Sen-
ate floor.
Democrats pushing the ballot measure had hoped it
would bring more Democrats to the polls in Novem-
ber, something Republicans would like to avoid.
"It's a factor in the decision making - there's no
question about it," Sikkema said of the petition drive.
The Senate-approved bill initially would raise the
wage more than the petition drive would, but it would
not put the language in the state constitution, mean-
ing the increase could be repealed in the future. If
voters approved raising the minimum wage in the
state constitution, it would take another statewide
vote to repeal the increase.
The bill doesn't link the minimum wage to inflation-
ary increases, something the ballot measure would do.
Republicans criticized that tie, and Sikkema said that
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was one reason he decided to move the bill.
Michigan's $5.15-per-hour minimum wage is the
same as the federal government's. Seventeen states and
the District of Columbia have higher minimum wages.
The vote drew a mixed response from interest groups.
"I think it's good that the Senate is finally moving
on a bill," said John Freeman, executive director of the
Michigan Needs a Raise Coalition.
"We certainly support the bill," he said. "It's cer-
tainly better than their earlier position, which was not to
address the issue."
But he was not optimistic about the bill's prospects.
"It still has to pass the House," he said. "The House
has been a little bit more conservative than the Senate."
The Michigan Restaurant Association said raising the
minimum wage would kill jobs but added that it's better
to do it with legislation than by amending the constitu-
tion.
The Michigan Catholic Conference applauded the
Senate vote.
"Work is more than just a job, it is a reflection of our
human dignity and a way to contribute to the common
good," Paul Long, the group's vice president for public
policy, said in a statement.
Senate Democrats first introduced the bill to increase
the minimum wage in March 2005, but their efforts to
raise wages were largely ignored by Republicans who
control the chamber.
- Daily Staff Reporter Andrew Grossman and the
Associated Press contributed to this report.

DEBATE
Continued from page 1
the election. The group will e-mail its
picks out totthe 2,500 members on its
e-mail list.
"The reason that the College Demo-
crats endorsement is so sought-after is
that we have such a large and strong
membership on campus," said College
Democrats vice chair Jamie Ruth.
The presidential and vice presiden-
tial candidates for each party spoke
briefly about their main ideas and then
answered questions from the audience.
Of the questions, the issue of whether
to grant MSA funds to students group
that may lobby sparked the most heated
debates. Because College Democrats
lobby on behalf of Democratic politi-
cians, the audience had a large stake in
the issue.
The group has found it increasingly
harder to get money from MSA for
political events, Benton said.
Last month, MSA voted down a res-
olution to allow funding for lobbying
student groups proposed by Rese Fox,
Michigan Progressive Party presiden-
tial candidate. Opponents of the pro-

posal cited concerns about its effect on
MSA's tax-exempt status.
At one point, MPP vice presidential
candidate Walter Nowinski motioned
toward Students 4 Michigan's presi-
dential candidate Nicole Stallings and
her running mate, Justin Paul, pointing
out that they had cast the two deciding
votes that killed the resolution.
Much of the crowd of about 100
erupted in applause in support of
Nowinski.
S4M vice presidential candidate's
impassioned rebuttal, though, elicited
a similar response when he explained
that his and Stallings's votes were
based on concerns from the University
administration.
"This is very touchy with the admin-
istration," Stallings said in an inter-
view after the debate. "There was no
need for the resolution. We want to
handle it delicately."
Student Conservative Party presi-
dential candidate Ryan Fantuzzi and
running mate Tommi Turner also
aggressively attacked Fox's resolution.
Turner said the language in the reso-
lution would even allow MSA to direct-
ly fund lobbying, not just to fund other
student organizations that lobby.

"For candidates to say they won't
fund these groups or to drag their feet
is deeply disturbing," College Demo-
crats Treasurer Will Fogel said.
Another point of contention was
MSA's role in political issues that may
not affect students directly. One of
SCP's campaign cornerstones, accord-
ing to Fantuzzi, is that MSA should not
take a broad staynd on political issues
outside of student life.
"MSA is overreaching right now,"
Fantuzzi said.
The Defend Affirmative Action
Party has built itself around the foun-
dation of combating the Michigan
Civil Rights Initiative, which has put
an initiative on this fall's ballot to end
some affirmative action programs in
Michigan.
"We're not a single-issue party, but
we give emphasis where emphasis is
due," said DAAP presidential candi-
date Monica Smith.
MPP candidates said they agree with
DAAP on MCRI.
Stallings stressed preparing for
what would happen if MCRI passes
this fall.
"Regardless of outcome, there needs
to be lots of planning," Stallings said.

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RABBIS
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the nation grapple with the issue of faith
and homosexuality, the committee did not
make a decision, adjourning Wednesday's
meeting without a vote.
The issue is likely to resurface in
December at a meeting of the movement's
international association of rabbis.
Conservative Jews fall in the middle of
three major Jewish groups in the United
States. The more liberal Reform move-
ment passed a resolution in 2000 sup-
porting rabbis who choose to preside over
same-sex marriages and commitment
ceremonies. The traditional Orthodox
movement maintains that the Torah's
prohibitions on homosexuality must be
respected.
According to the National Jewish Pop-
ulation Survey if 2000, 38 percent of Jews
affiliated with a temple or synagouge were
Reform, 33 percent Conservative and 22
percent Orthodox.
The Conservative movement is "a cen-
trist movement in which there is a tension
between Jewish law and modernity,' said
Rabbi Jason Miller, a Conservative rabbi
and the associate director of the Universi-
ty's chapter of Hillel. "Living within that
tension means trying to strike a balance
between the two."
The Torah, the Jewish holy book, men-
tions homosexuality in Leviticus 18:22,
stating, "You shall not lie with a man
as with a woman; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13 states that the punishment
for such action should be death.
Openly gay applicants are currently

prohibited from enrolling in the Conser-
vative movement's rabbinical and canto-
rial schools.
"To some extent, it's a 'don't ask, don't
tell policy,' "Miller said.
The debate over the role of.gays in Con-
servative Jewish life has been at the fore-
front for the movement's rabbis.
"For rabbis in the Conservative move-
ment, this is the hot issue," Miller said.
LSA freshman Susan Turner, a Con-
servative Jew, supports a new approach to
homosexuality in Judaism.
"I don't have a problem with it," she
said. "I think it's good that people are
being more open-minded:'
But Turner said she could understand
opposition to the move.
"The Torah says, 'Be fruitful, multi-
ply,"' she said. "There aren't a lot of Jews
in the world; that's why it's important to
me to marry another Jewish person. We
need to produce more Jews."
LSA freshman Alex Jacobson said his
Reform Jewish family never discussed
homosexuality in the context of - their
faith.
"It's not like Jews sit around and talk
about sex," he said. "I've never heard a
Jew talk against gay marriage."
Miller was optimistic about the future
of gay and lesbians in Conservative Juda-
ism. He said he is confident the commit-
tee will "come to an answer that respects
the human dignity of all Jewish people,"
including gay rabbis and Jews in a com-
mitted homosexual relationship.
He added that he is certain the commit-
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to Jewish law and tradition."

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JANTSCH
Continued from page 1
$100,000 a year - the Ohio native has
also' earned the distinction of being the
first female principal tuba player ever in a
major orchestra, all before her 21st birth-
day.
Jantsch's status as the first female
principal orchestral tuba is worth not-
ing, but her age is even more remark-
able.
"(Jantsch's accomplishment is)
really positive in a lot of ways," said
Music Prof. Fritz Kaenzig, Jantsch's
studio instructor. "For young people,
for young musicians, it should be a
really exciting, hopeful sign that if
you play well enough and an audition
committee is open enough, there's the
possibility that you could land some-
thing like a position in the Philadel-
phia Orchestra right out of college."
And if her resume is any indication,
Jantsch's musicianship is top-notch:
After switching instruments from the
smaller, more solo-oriented eupho-
nium to tuba at age 12, Jantsch won
her first competition, the 2000 Tuba
Student Competition at the Leonard
Falcone International Euphonium and
Tuba Festival, at age 15 while attend-
ing Interlochen Arts Academy.
Last March, Jantsch had a typical
college student's existence: She divid-
ed her time between classes, practic-
ing and playing with Flywheel, the
women's, ultimate frisbee club team.
When the job opening with the Phila-,
delphia Orchestra was announced,
she decided to send in her resum6 in
hopes of getting a spot on the audition
list - and was rejected. But after that
round of auditions, the position still
hadn't been filled.
A coincidence helped Jantsch get
her big break. She sent in an audition
tape of herself playing to Bar Har-
bor Brass Week. The director of Bar
Harbor just happened to be Philadel-

phia Orchestra bass trombonist Blair
Bollinger, who was also the chair of
the tuba audition committee for the
Orchestra.
Bollinger was so impressed by what
he heard that he included Jantsch in a
selective group of tubists who were to
play in an invite-only audition for the
position. Although Jantsch progressed
to the final round, the committee still
wasn't convinced, and another audi-
tion was held last month.
But she was in luck. The finalists for
the second audition were chosen to fill
the tuba chair throughout the season.
"I played with (the orchestra) three
weeks in October and November, and
then they asked me back for the whole
month of February, so I was actu-
ally playing with the orchestra while I
auditioned for them," she said.
At the last audition in February,
Jantsch beat players with decades
more experience than she had. Some
of them were even college professors.
Kaenzig was ecstatic when Jantsch
called him that night to share the good
news.
"I shed a few tears," he said. "I was
so happy for her."
Kaenzig's tuba and euphonium stu-
dents have gone on to win auditions
for such ensembles as the Honolulu
Symphony, the Charleston Symphony
orchestra in South Carolina, the U.S.
Navy Band, the U.S. Marine Band and
the U.S. Air Force Band.
While Jantsch is excited about
beginning her position with the
Orchestra in August, she's still down-
to-earth about her career.
"It's not like there aren't going to be
any more challenges left," she said. "I
won't have to worry about the basis of
everything, because this is the thing I
can depend on."
She's still considering teaching,
performing and recording as a solo
artist in addition to her duties with the
orchestra.

'SINGER
Continued from page 1
desperate full-court press led to two Min-
nesota turnovers and two timeouts. But
just a minute earlier, with the team down
by seven, Amaker had his troops in a
quarter-court zone-trap. Because Michi-

victories in nine games to make a strong
case for an NCAA Tournament berth. But
the Wolverines won just two, and they are
now left on a rapidly shrinking bubble
that can't handle the weight.of their failure
down the stretch.
On Sunday, Michigan's most talented
team in years will gather to watch CBS's
coverage of Selection Sunday. But instead

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