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ON CAMPUS
Panel to explore
possible effects
of MCRI
Students and faculty from Cali-
fornia and Texas will discuss the
effects ending affirmative action
has had in their states from 7 to 9
p.m. today in the Forum Room of
Palmer Commons. The discussion
will be followed with refreshments
and a discussion about the future
of affirmative action in Michigan.
Prof to speak
i on domestic
violence
Leslie Starsoneck, a visiting pro-
fessor from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, will speak
on children and domestic violence
today at 7 p.m. in room 1324 of
East Hall. The lecture is in honor of
Tamara Williams, who was killed by
her boyfriend when she was a senior
at the University in 1997.

FREEZE FRAME

Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - The Michigan Daily - 3A
Levin: Ray of
hope for Iraq

MORGAN BAKER/For
A student takes photos at a photography workshop in Alice Lloyd Residence Hall Monday.
Dems: DeVos owned

Senator hopeful
prime minister's four-
point plan will work
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen.
Carl Levin of Michigan said
yesterday that a plan endorsed
by Iraq's prime minister to stop
sectarian killings offers a "ray
of hope" but it's still uncertain
whether it will help stop the
bloodshed.
Levin, the ranking Demo-
crat on the Senate Armed Ser-
vices Committee, said he was
hopeful that a four-point plan
announced by Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki to unite Shiite
and Sunni parties in his gov-
ernment would end sectarian
the Daily violence. But he noted that it
lacked a plan to dismantle mili-
tias.
"While there is a ray of hope
because there is an announce-
ment, nonetheless we have to
be very, very cautious to see
whether it leads to anything
concrete," Levin said in a con-
ference call with reporters from
Israel. "At least it's a bit of opti-
mism that we leave with."
have been Levin was traveling with
Senate Armed Services Com-
controlled mittee Chairman John Warner,
igh stock (R-Va.) Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
ining the and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) on a
million five-day trip to Jordan, Iraq and
exchange Israel. They met with al-Maliki,
sy bylaws Jordan's King Abdullah II, the
oses and Iraqi president and vice presi-
to appoint dent, and Gen. George Casey,
on's nine the U.S. ground commander in
Iraq.

The plan announced by al-
Maliki's government Mon-
day night would try to resolve
conflicts between the different
factions by giving every party
a voice in how security forces
operate against violence on a
neighborhood-by-neighbor-
hood level. Local committees
will be formed in every Bagh-
dad district to discuss security
efforts.
AI-Maliki's government has
been under pressure to end
Shiite-Sunni violence that has
killed thousands of people this
year.
Levin said he was optimistic
that the parties were talking, but
he called it a "tenuous step." He
said it "does not include ways
militias will be dismantled, and
that's absolutely the key to end-
ing the sectarian violence, par-
ticularly within Baghdad."
At least 2,727 members of
the U.S. military have died
since the beginning of the war
in 2003, according to an Asso-
ciated Press count.
Levin said he stressed in
meetings with Iraqi leaders
that it would not be "feasible or
proper or wise for us to make
an open-ended commitment" of
U.S. troops to the country. He
says Iraqis need to make the
difficult decisions to advance
democracy in the fragile
region.
"We have to absolutely end
this idea that apparently'some
Iraqis and some of their lead-
ers have that we're there as
long as they want us to be,"
Levin said.

CRINME
NOTES trouble nursing home

Skateboarders
flee lot before
police arrive
Three skateboarders were spot-
ted in the parking lot at 1001 Hill St.
repeatedly taking the elevator to the
top level of the structure and skating
down the ramps Monday at about 8
p.m., the Department of Public Safe-
ty reported. When police arrived,
the skateboarders were gone.
iPod stolen
from library
A student taking a break from
studying in the library of the Dud-
erstadt Center returned to his seat
to find that someone had stolen his
iPod Nano and his headphones,
DPS reported. The theft occurred
Monday at about 1:30 p.m.
Mcard stolen
from student on
 courts
A student's Mcard was stolen
from a backpack left unattended
next to the basketball court in the
Central Campus Recreation Build-
ing Monday at about 4 p.m., DPS
reported. The student had been play-
ing basketball and hadn't noticed

Nursing home
company allegedly
abused elderly patients
LANSING (AP) - Demo-
crats yesterday repeated their
charges that Republican guber-
natorial candidate Dick DeVos,
along with his family, controlled
a troubled nursing home com-
pany cited for allowing elderly
patients to be abused.
"He made a huge investment in
this company," Michigan Demo-
cratic Party Chairman Mark
Brewer said of Alterra Healthcare
Corp., which went bankrupt in
2003 and was folded into another
company. "Dick DeVos had the
responsibility to care for vulner-
able senior citizens at Alterra."
Michigan Republican Party
Chairman Saul Anuzis denied
that DeVos had a controlling
interest in the company and said
he sold his shares after the com-
pany went bankrupt.
"He made it very clear that he
was a passive investor," Anuzis
said, adding that DeVos owned
less than 1 percent of the compa-
ny's stock. "He was not involved
in the board.... It's a cheap shot."
Later yesterday, DeVos tried
to tie Democratic Gov. Jennifer
Granholm to investments made
by the state of Michigan in two
companies he said have engaged
in abuse and neglect of patients.
"The governor is accusing me
when in fact the same activities
could be said of the governor
under her direct responsibility


and control:' he said. "This is
a double standard. It's another
cynical attempt to distort me
and distort my record in order to
advance a political career."
Granholm campaign spokes-
man Chris De Witt said the gov-
ernor had no say in the state's
decision to invest in Community
Health Services and Health Man-
agement Associates.
"The law precludes the gov-
ernor from making investment
decisions. ... DeVos made a per-
sonal decision to take control of
Alterra. That is a huge differ-
ence" De Witt said. "All of Gov-
ernor Granholm's investments
are included in her tax return."
Most state investments involve
retirement systems covering
state workers and public school
employees and are overseen by
the state treasurer and the Bureau
of Investments.
The state holds shares in Com-
munity Health Services through
the S&P 400 Midcap Stock
Index and in Health Manage-
ment Associates through the
S&P 500 Large Cap Index Fund,
said Treasury spokesman Terry
Stanton. He confirmed that gov-
ernors don't get a say in state
investments.
"The state treasurer is the sole
fiduciary:' he said.
According to the DeVos cam-
paign, among the problems found
at the facilities were dozens of
instances in which a male patient
sexually abused female patients
and problems with doctors inad-
equately caring for patients, lead-


ing to deaths that could1
prevented.
Brewer said DeVosc
Alterra not just throu
ownership but by loa
company nearly $200
in 2000 and getting in
changes in the compan
that allowed the DeV
investors close to themt
four of the corporati
directors.
Even though they w
minority, those four dir
veto powers over board
because the votes of at
of those directors were
for any motions to pass
Among those direc
Jerry Tubergen,
and chief executive
Corp., the Grand Rap
pany that makes inv
and handles taxes fo
his siblings and his
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tors was
president
of RDV
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'estments
r DeVos,
parents,
eVos Sr.,
-founded

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paper suspended
Oct. 4, 1962 - The College
Clamor, a student-run newspaper at
Flint Junior College, was suspend-
ed from publication by Superinten-
dent of Schools Lawrence Jarvie
at the behest of Lewis Fibel, Flint
Junior College dean.
Jarvie said he was "delaying
publication of the Clamor until a
decision could be reached on what
the purpose of a college paper
should be." After only two issues,
the paper was suspended due to
poor journalism and biased news
reporting.
Jarvie claimed the newspaper
was more of a student opinion
forum than a factual newspaper
and went too far in criticizing a
board member.
Clamor staffers claim the criti-
cism was misunderstood, and had
not been directed at one particular
individual.
Flint students, encouraged by
the Student Committee for Rees-
tablishment of Freedom of the
Press, have organized a protest to
begin tomorrow at noon.
Additionally, protest pamphlets
are being handed out quoting the
Virginia Charter of 1776: "Free-
dom of the press is one of the great-
est bulwarks of liberty and can
never be restrained but by despotic
governments."
Jarvie said the College Clamor is
not an independent newspaper and
is financed from tuition fees, which
means different rules apply.
"We feel that perhaps the editors
need a policy decision on where to
draw the line," he said.

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