Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - The Michigan Daily - A 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. EMMAI 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. THIs DAY In 'U' History 'U' unveils [bring M3 nisversity e expansion of Unions graduate library m" For just $40 a month and no contract, you can talk anytime and never run out of minutes. 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