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ON CAMPUS
Vigil to be held
for actor Reeve
The Student Society for Stem
Cell Research will hold a candle-
light vigil in memory of actor
Christopher Reeve on the Diag at 8
p.m. today. Reeve was paralyzed in
an equestrian accident in 1995 and
died in 2004.
Dance professor
to hold
discussion
Dance Prof. Peter Sparling will
lead a discussion on the Martha
Graham Dance Company at the
Ann Arbor District Library at
7 p.m. today. Sparling, a former
dancer for the company, will dis-
cuss Graham's life and legacy, as
well as the impact of his work on
modern dance.
Artist to give
talk on comic
strip, sign books
Comic artist Alison Bechdel
will speak about her comic strip,
"Dykes To Watch Out For" at
7 p.m. today in the auditorium
of East Quad Residence Hall.
After the talk, the Common
Language Bookstore will sell
copies of Bechdel's hooks. The
author will also be available to
sign copies. The event is free.
CRIME
NOTES
Man exposes
self to woman in
parking lot
A woman who was asleep in
her vehicle at a University Hos-
pital parking lot awoke to find
a man exposing himself to her,
the Department of Public Safety
reported.
Person arrested
at 'U' camping
property
A person was arrested for tres-
passing on University property in
Pinckney, DPS reported.
Cash stolen
from emergency
room
Someone took cash from a
purse at the University Hospital
last night, DPS reported. The
patient had left a purse in a lock-
er before going for treatment in
the emergency room.
THIS DAY
In 'U' History
Physical
education
classes begin
Oct. 10, 1931 - Classes that
fulfill the mandatory physi-
cal education requirement for
freshmen students will begin
Monday, Oct. 12.
Students in most colleges are
required to take a physical edu-
cation class. The classes will
be offered three times a day
on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fri-
days.
The classes offer a wide
assortment of sports and activi-
ties. No experience is required
for wrestling, boxing, basketball
and track and field classes.
However, for participation in
other sports such as football,
cross-country and swimming,
it is expected that students have
had prior playing experience.
When students return from
spring break, they may choose
to focus on a particular sport or
activity.
This will allow students to
obtain more experience with a
single sport they particularly
enjoy.
Students may also participate
in courses such as golf, tennis,
fencing and baseball.
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
NUL president
campaigns
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Marc Morial says political impact."
arc MrialSayS Morial said Michigan was picks
passage of MCRI for this year's election becaus
would roll back years the University of Michigan w
phe focus of a 2003 U.S. Suprem
of progress Court decision related to affirm,
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LANSING (AP) - The presi-
dent of the National Urban League
traveled across Michigan yester-
day to lobby against a ballot pro-
posal that would ban some types of
affirmative action programs in the
state.
Marc Morial, president of the
New York-based organization
since 2003, said Michigan is in the
national spotlight because of the
proposal.
"This is an effort to use Michi-
gan as part of a campaign to try
and roll back progress and roll back
affirmative action;' said Morial,
a former New Orleans mayor.
"Michigan is being used as a politi-
cal pawn. This is not the only stop
on the retrenchment train. There
will be another state next year.
It will be selected for maximum
tive action programs. Michigan's
status as a large Midwestern indus-
trial state also made it an attractive
political target for anti-affirmative
action groups, Morial said.
The ballot proposal is sponsored
by a group called the Michigan
Civil Rights Initiative. It would ban
the use of race and gender prefer-
ences in university admissions and
government hiring.
Similar proposals have passed in
California and Washington state.
The National Urban League is
one of several groups trying to
derail the movement in Michi-
gan, saying it would undo years
of progress for minorities and
women. The proposal's opponents
say that, if it passes, it could hurt
Michigan's reputation and make it
appear as if the state does not wel-
come diversity.
Northwest reaches
K K d U s y yLL/yas
Kenneth Kiesier conducts the University Symphony Orchestra yesterday at Hill Auditorium.
agreement with
Gubernatorial candidates striking mechanics
prepare for second debate MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - North- old jobs back will be classified as
Debate will compete
for viewers with the
Detroit Tigers game
LANSING (AP) - Gov. Jenni-
fer Granholm has to tone it down.
Republican rival Dick DeVos has
to beef it up.
Those are among the sugges-
tions for the two gubernatorial
contenders as they head into their
second debate tonight.
The debate, to be held at the
WOOD-TV studios in Grand
Rapids, will be much more struc-
tured than the initial freewheeling
debate last week at WKAR-TV in
East Lansing.
That debate drew hundreds of
thousands of viewers eager to hear
more from the candidates than
what they've been saying in 30-
second television ads.
This time, the audience may
be smaller. DeVos and Granholm
are up against an even tougher
opponent than each other: the
Detroit Tigers.
The baseball team this weekend
won its first playoff series since
1984 and will take on the Oakland
Athletics tonight in the first Amer-
ican League championship series
playoff game. Both the debate and
the game start at 8 p.m.
William Rustem of Public Sec-
tor Consultants, a Lansing think
tank, said DeVos and Granholm
both need to improve in the sec-
ond debate.
"He's got to be gubernatorial,
show he can explain the facts,
rationally discuss the issues and
lay out where he wants to take this
state in the future," Rustem said.
"At the same time, she has to be
a little less pushy and let him go a
little bit."
Rustem said both candidates
need to do a better job of giving
voters specifics on how they'll
help turn around Michigan's trou-
bled economy.
"It shouldn't be a debate about
who's worst. It should be a debate
about who's best for the future of
Michigan," he added, predicting
that "the one who does it best will
improve dramatically in the polls."
A poll conducted last Tuesday
and Wednesday found Granholm
slightly leading DeVos, 46 per-
cent to 40 percent, with 12 percent
undecided and about 2 percent
going to the three third-party can-
didates in the race, who weren't
invited to any of the debates. The
EPIC-MRA poll had a margin of
sampling error of plus or minus 4
percentage points.
Bill Nowling of The Sterling
Corp., a strategic communica-
tions company in Lansing that has
worked for Republicans, said the
poll showed more people moved
into the "undecided" column after
tuning in to the first debate.
"To me, that's a clear indica-
tion that people didn't care about
anything else that didn't have to
do with, 'How are you going to
create jobs and improve the econ-
omy?"' he said. "Unless you're
talking about jobs and the econ-
omy, then Michigan voters aren't
paying any attention."
Nowling said that means DeVos
has to get back to what has been
the prime focus of his campaign
until recent weeks: Telling voters
that he can do more to create jobs
than Granholm, Nowling said.
west Airlines Corp. adits striking
mechanics reached a tentative agree-
ment yesterday that would end the
14-month-old strike, but few workers
are likely to get their jobs back.
Approval by union members
would end a walkout that began in
August 2005 but long ago ceased to
have any visible impactontheairline,
which hired permanentreplacements
and outside contractors to replace the
striking mechanics, cleaners and
custodians of the Aircraft Mechan-
ics Fraternal Association.
Northwest, Michigan's largest
passenger air carrier, said replace-
ment workers would keep their jobs.
Striking mechanics who want their
laid-fa n ca wa---it for openings
created by replacement workers who
quit or retire. Those positions would
be filled based on seniority, so the
longest-tenured mechanics would be
the ones who stand the best chance
of getting a job back. Union officials
said the airline no longer employs
union cleaners and custodians.
The agreement reached yester-
day is far less favorable than earlier
offers rejected by the union. But the
union said it does improve on the
terms Northwest imposed, including
1.5 percent raises beginning in Janu-
ary, sick time paid on the first day
of illness-instead-of after two days,
and overtime after 8 hours a day.
I,...
Levin
speaks out
against
Amway
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen.
Carl Levin says the conditions
Amway Corp. agreed to so it could
sell products in China undermined
work by Michigan lawmakers
to tear down trade barriers there
against U.S-made goods.
Levin, a Detroit Democrat,
told the Associated Press in a
recent interview that Amway
acquiesced to discrimination
against U.S. products by the Chi-
nese government and restrictions
on selling U.S.-made goods on
the Chinese market.
He takes exception to comments
made by Republican gubernatorial
candidate Dick DeVos that, while
he was Amway president from
1993-2002, he "competed in China
and won." The direct-sales compa-
ny invested $200 million in China
to build a factory there because
China would allow Amway to sell
only goods that were made there.
Levin said he was troubled
by DeVos' address to the state
Republican party convention in
late August when the business-
man said "there is only one can-
didate in this race who has ever
run a manufacturing company.
There is only one candidate in
this race who has competed in
China and won."
Said Levin: "That characteriza-
tion to me is so off the mark, runs
so contrary to what we have to do,
what we need to do, to reduce this
trade imbalance.
"That's not competing and win-
ning for Michigan," he said.
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