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ON CAMPUS
SAB to host
free screening
of film on Darfur
"The Lost Boys of Sudan" will
be shown today at 5 p.m. in the
Student Activities Building. The
film, directed by Megan Mylan,
follows the journey of two Suda-
nese refugees from Africa to
America. The screening will
be hosted by James Hathaway,
director of the University's Pro-
gram in Refugee and Asylum
Law and an authority on interna-
tional refugee protection issues.
Admission is free.
Philosophy club
to hold debate
on logic
The Undergraduate Philoso-
phy Club will hold a discussion
on the role of intuition and logic
in decision-making today at 9
p.m. in 2271 Angell Hall. All
students are invited to partici-
pate in the debate.
CRIME
NOTES
Camera swiped
from Panda
Express
A camera was stolen from an
unattended purse left at Panda
Express in Pierpont Commons
Monday at about 8 p.m., the
Department of Public Safety
reported. The purse was turned
in to the police, but some items
had been removed.
Deer survives
encounter with
Ford Focus
A Ford Focus driving down
Bonisteel Boulevard hit a deer
at about 9:30 p.m. Monday, DPS
reported. All the passengers in the
car were unharmed and the car sus-
tained little damage. Officers were
S at first unsure about the condition
of the deer, but after spending a few
minutes in the area it walked away,
apparently unharmed.
Thief makes
off with laptop,
leaves no trace
A laptop was stolen from a
1,400 more
Delphi workers
accept buyouts
ON THE RIGHT TRACK
About 70 percent of
workforce to leave their
jobs by end of year
DETROIT (AP) - Another
1,400 hourly workers have decid-
ed to accept buyout offers from
Delphi Corp., meaning that the
struggling auto supplier will lose
more than 70 percent of its work
force by the end of the year.
Delphi released the buyout num-
bers yesterday, bringing to 20,100
the number of its production work-
ers who have decided to leave this
year either through buyout offers
or early retirement packages.
Delphi had 27,500 unionized
workers as of June 30, and 12,400
United Auto Workers union mem-
berspreviouslyacceptedretirement
offers. Another 6,300 members of
the International Union of Elec-
tronic Workers-Communications
Workers of America also will take
buyouts or early retirements, Del-
phi said.
The buyouts of up to $140,000
per worker are another victory for
current members of the UAW but
another loss for the future of the
union and organized labor as a
whole as union membership con-
tinues to dwindle.
The UAW had 1.2 million mem-
bers 20 years ago; it now has less
than 600,000. Twenty percent of
the nation's work force was union-
ized in 1983. By 2005, union
membership had dropped to 12.5
percent of the work force, accord-
ing to the federal Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
All Delphi workers who accept-
ed the early retirement and buy-
out offers will be off the payroll
by Jan. 1, with several thousand
replaced by lower-paid temporary
workers as the company closes or
sells 21 of its 29 U.S. plants, Del-
phi spokesman Lindsey Williams
said.
The departures do not include
about 5,000 other Delphi workers
who will leave the company and
return to General Motors Corp., its
former parent, by September 2007.
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Donald Maschat, an Ann Arbor resident, replaces a tire yesterday g
plete Auto, which has been In Ann Arbor since 1929.
Aging inmates, tighter parole
rules fuel prison spending
Stabenow pushes for
decision on tariffs
Senators say China's
unfair trade practices
are sapping state jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two
senators who say they do not trust
China to change what they call
unfair trade policy said yesterday
theytrusttheBushadministration's
top negotiator enough to give him
a little more time before forcing a
vote on punishing tariffs.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-
S.C.) met with Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson yesterday as the
senators geared up for an expected
vote on a Senate bill that would
impose a 27.5-percent tariff on
Chinese goods.
However, the measure is not
expected to become law this year.
The administration opposes the
bill and there is no companion
measure in the House of Repre-.
sentatives.
The senators say the tariff is
necessary to force China to float
its currency, the yuan. Critics of
China say the yuan's value is arti-
ficially undervalued by as much as
40 percent, making Chinese prod-
ucts much cheaper on the world
market and hurting U.S. manufac-
turers.
But after the closed-door meet-
ing with Paulson, the senators
voiced renewed hope that the Bush
administration, through Paulson,
could get results. They said they
would take a day or two to decide
whether to hold a vote before Con-
gress goes on recess at the end of
the week.
Paulson "is optimistic he can
get something done. We believe
in him, he's a great guy," said
Schumer. As for China, he said,
"It's our belief they move when
pushed."
Graham, too, seemed won over
by Paulson's private persuasion.
"We're intrigued by his thoughts
about where China may be going
in the short term and long term,"
said Graham.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-
Mich.) said she hopes the measure
reaches the Senate floor because
"currency manipulation is costing
us jobs every day in Michigan."
"We need to send the stron-
gest possible message," Stabenow
said.
The issue has been closely
watched by Michigan's delegation
because of its impact on the auto
industry, auto suppliers and other
manufacturers.
"We have to get tough on China
and enforce trade agreements to
keep jobs in Michigan," Republi-
can Mike Bouchard, Stabenow's
November election opponent, said
in a statement.
State spends 1.8
billion more on prisons
than on education
COLDWATER (AP) - James
Lindsey is an increasingly rare
specimen of prison inmates in
Michigan these days.
Not because of his age - he's
82 and leans on a cane - but
because 26 years after his sec-
ond-degree murder conviction
in 1980, he's scheduled to be
released in a few weeks from the
Lakeland Correctional Facility in
Coldwater.
"I gotta take advantage of this,
'cause my days are numbered," he
told The Grand Rapids Press for a
story published yesterday.
The ranks of inmates like
Lindsey who are age 60 or older
in Michigan are growing - from
649 in 1995 to 1,557 last year,
according to the state Depart-
ment of Corrections. And largely
because of medical problems,
elderly prisoners are more than
three times more expensive to
incarcerate than younger inmates,
according to the National Center
on Institutions and Alternatives.
Along with the elimination of
credits for good behavior, tough-
er drug laws and a parole board
that is more hesitant to release
inmates, it's fueling a spike in
corrections spending - about
$1.8 billion, more than the state
spends on higher education.
Numbering about 15,000 in seven
prisons in the early 1980s, the
state's prisoner population has
now risen to more than 50,000 in
42 prisons.
Michigan has the highest rate
of incarceration of the eight
Great Lakes states, and many say
the state could save millions if it
brought its numbers more in line
with those of its neighbors.
"If the states around us with
similar crime rates can oper-
ate with fewer people in prison,
then why can't we?" asked Perry
Johnson, Michigan's director :jM
corrections under former Gdv
William Milliken.
Michigan's parole board, which
was replaced with 10 new appoifi-
tees in 1992 by former Gov. Johrt
Engler, keeps many parole-(i
gible inmates well beyond their
earliest release date. The od
board paroled about 68 percent
of eligible inmates in 1992, whale
the current board paroles about;
50 percent.
Parole Board Chairman Jh
Rubitschun said the recent murdcii
convictions of Patrick Selepak
who killed three people after he
was arrested on a parole violation
and mistakenly released, will
likely make the board even mote
wary.
"I think we're a little more cai- .
tious-erring now," he said.
That could mean ever-risingi
costs and even more cases likes
Dudley Beatty, who turned 861
in March and has been in prison
since he was 29.
locked office in the Medical Center
Development Office sometime over
the weekend, DPS reported. Police university unions-
found no signs of forced entry at almost as good as
the building or the office.
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September 27, 1970 - The open-
ing of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate
Library appears to have appeased
students' complaints over the Gen-
eral Library's former conditions.
The $5.5-million addition to the
General Library is air-conditioned,
carpeted and well-lighted. The To play: Complete
building will house about a million
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stance Dunlap, head librarian for
the General Library. There is no
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final stages of moving volumes into
the new building. About half the
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on floors two through six of the new
library, relieving the overcrowding
of stacks in the old section.
The seventh and eighth floors,
slated to open in October, will hold
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two-thirds full, Dunlap said.
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coincides with further reorgani-
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library. The floor numbers of the
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