NEWS The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 7 * SMITH Continued from page 1 Technical High School, which is 96-percent black, and said she never realized the rest of the world wasn't like her high school. That, she said, was why she wanted to come to the University: to see what the world was like outside of her bubble. After 12 years of schooling with a homogenous student body, the culture shock of coming to the predominant- ly white University was inevitable. Smith describes the beginning of her time here as lonely. She had trouble finding her own campus niche. Until April 1, 2003. Before that day, she had attended a few meetings of the pro-affirma- tive action group BAMN, but she wasn't completely sure she was ready to commit. "It's radical to join such a move- ment," she said, "To dedicate your life to it, you have to be sure it's the real thing." And on April 1, 2003, amid the cheers, the speeches, and the march, Smith was sure she was part of something special. "It made me feel like I was part of a well-organized movement," she said. In coordination with her party and the campus chapter of BAMN, she has devoted herself to support- ing affirmative action. Recently, she attempted to mobilize action against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a proposal that, if passed, would end some affirmative action programs in Michigan. DAAP has been circu- lating a petition against MCRI, and Smith has been speaking out against the initiative anywhere people will listen. On her days off from classes at the University, she speaks in high schools around Detroit about the issues facing minorities today in America. Her schedule on these days runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. She has prepared presentations about the fight for affirmative action and gives them in class after class until the school day has finished. Fighting for civil rights is more than just a passing phase for Smith. She is majoring in sociology, which she said helps her see where social problems come from so she can work to fix them. Following gradu- ation, she plans to become a law- yer and to focus on protecting civil rights. That DAAP is running primarily on a single-issue platform has been the subject of criticism. "It is a danger that DAAP is only running on this one issue," said Robbie O'Brien, party chair of Students 4 Michigan, "Most of our candidates are opposed to the MCRI, but we realize that there are many other issues that concern campus." Smith said she will keep fighting for what she believes in. "For three years, I've been a civil rights leader here on campus," she said. "That has been the center of my life, and it will continue to be forever." FANTUZZI Continued from page 1 goals on Fantuzzi's and SCP's platform. "It's about student choice," he said of the Coke contract debate. "Whether Coke is guilty or not, that's up for debate. But it's about student choice." Members of the Coalition to Cut the Con- tract with Coca-Cola have dismissed SCP's promise to bring Coke back to campus. RC senior Clara Hardie, a campus activist who has been heavily involved in the campaign, said Fantuzzi's claim that only a small minority of students wanted the Coke con- tracts suspended is laughable. "He obviously doesn't understand that there's a coalition of over 5,000 students at the University who are working with thou- sands of students at hundreds of schools across the country" Hardie said. Fantuzzi, however, passionately voices his support for his party's promise. "I would like (MSA) to get out of stu- dents' business" he said. "Just leave me alone. Let me party on the weekends and study for school. Give me my Coke." He didn't stop there. "Don't speak for me on political issues," he said. "What do you know? But (MSA doesn't) want to be told this. That's why I ran." First and foremost, Fantuzzi sees his family and hometown as inte- gral to who he is and what he does. "If you want to know about me, you really have to know a lot about my family," he said, "because they're a very important part of my life." Born in Royal Oak and raised in Sterling Heights, Fantuzzi's father and most of his father's friends are union workers. Almost everyone he knows from home works for the Big Three auto companies. He doesn't drive a car on campus, but Fan- tuzzi, a metro Detroiter, was surprised by the types of automobiles prevalent on campus. "Back home, you will not find people driving foreign cars," he said. "But then I come here and I go, 'What's a Subaru?' Half these car companies I didn't even know existed. 'What is this? Toyota?' " Fantuzzi said the word "conservative" isn't as useful for defining him and his par- ty's politics as it once was. "I think the word is often perverted, especially in recent times," he said. "A lot of people think we're going to get rid of condoms at (University Health Services) or something like that, and that's just not the case. It's not that great of a word anymore." Though his party calls itself conserva- tive, Fantuzzi said SCP represents an over- arching common-sense viewpoint. Ideally, he would like students to under- stand the word "conservative" to mean a doctrine of small, limited government. "Government is best when it governs least. That's the type of conservatives we are," he said of SCP. For Fantuzzi, the idea of limited govern- ment means a few things, one of which is that MSA should cut its discretionary spending. He even tried to solicit game show host Bob Barker to help him make this last point. "I wrote (him) a couple months ago. We were going have something called 'The Price is Wrong,' and it was going to be about how MSA wastes our money. I thought it was a great idea." Unfortunately, Barker didn't come through the way Fantuzzi had hoped. "But he sent me an autographed picture," he said. REPS Continued from page 1. providing transportation to away athletic events. Unlike MPP, S4M does not vote in a bloc or share a common party ideology. DAAP is running pri- marily on a platform of defeating the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative and maintaining affirmative action on campus. "If you defend affir- mative action - if you defend integration - you have to vote for us," Stenvig said. According to Ruper, two of SCP's key issues are allo- cating student funds more fairly and bringing Coke back to campus. Voting opened at mid- night this morning. It will continue through 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. Students can vote at vote.www.umich.edu. Winners are determined through a point-rank- ing system. For example, because there are 10 open seats for representative can- didates on MSA, students will have to rank 10 candi- dates in order of preference - the higher the rank, the more points awarded. The candidates with the most points win. ORDINANCE Continued from page 1 period, Davalos was allowed to speak. Davalos placed the blame for the housing rush on the shoulders of students, not landlords. He argued that student government should educate students to help them make informed choices about housing, not push for legislation. Landlord Lelahni Wessinger presented an inch- thick pile of listings printed from University Hous- ing's website to underscore her point that there are still many housing units available for this fall. "There are right now over 1,100 postings at the University of Michigan website," she said. "It's more about the rumor mill on campus than it is about facts on the ground." But only 617 of those listings are available next fall - the rest begin earlier. Student after student took the microphone to tell of the pressure to sign leases early. "Students name the housing rush as a hardship each and every year," said Mohammad Dar, vice chair of MSA's External Relations Committee. City Council member Leigh Greden (D-Ward 3) joined students in urging passage of the legislation. "There are many times when the market fails," he said. "When that happens, it is the duty of the gov- ernment to step in and correct that failure." The University will likely now hold its fall hous- ing fair in late November or early December next year, Levine said. In years past, the University has held the event in late October. Levine said it necessary for the the ordinance to go hand-in-hand with education about the lease- signing process. "(Student Legal Services housing attorney) Steph- anie Chang and MSA will be working to make sure students are aware," he said. -Jason Liu contributed to this report. the michiganc GREAT CENTRAL CAMPUS location, i- censed for 5, 315 John St., $2100/month, 12 month lease beginning in Aug. Call Jim David at 248-437-3300. GREAT, REMODELED 2 bdrm. apt. 4 min. walk to Campus. $795/mo. Avail. now to Fall. Prkg., heat, H20, coin ldry. 973-7368. 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