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3B JUNK DRAWER
What you should and
shouldn't be talking about on
campus this week.
4B ARCHITECTURE COLUMN
Austin Dingwall examines the
boundaries that State Street,
Main Street and the Diag cre-
ate.
5B ESSAY
James Dowd discusses
improving the efficiency of
automotive technologies ver-
sus the use of alternative fuels.
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7"""""Magazine Editor: James V. Dowd
- yaa~ :0Associate Magazine Editor:
Chris Gaerig
a >y sCover Art: Shubra Ohri
Photo Editor: Shubra Ohri
"u~x x -r rDesigners: Bridget O'Donnell and
v the Morgan McKay
:ae w, " " Editor in Chief: Donn M. Fresard
Managing Editor: Jeffrey Bloomer

6B SEGREGATED CAMPUS?
The lack of interaction among
ethnic groups at the Univer-
sity and how Proposal 2 will
worsen it.
11B BOOK REVIEW
The life of William Milliken,
Michigan's last moderate
Republican governor.

'Michigan's Passionate Moderate'
David Dempsey
By Christopher Zbrozek

ichigan once had a pro-choice
Republican governor, a card-
carrying member of the ACLU
who cared deeply about protecting the
environment and aidingurban areas. To
those of college age whose impressions
of the state's Republicans were formed
under Gov. John Engler, that sounds
impossible. Perhaps a moderate Repub-
lican like that could exist in a political
novel, but not in Lansing.
Yet former Gov. William Milliken,
the subject of the recent biography
"Michigan's Passionate Moderate" by
Dave Dempsey, was precisely such a
politician. The Republican from Tra-
verse City made cooperation and com-
promise a hallmark of his 14 years in the
state's top office; he had solid relation-
ships with individuals who would seem

to be his natural political enemies, like
Coleman Young, the long-time, hard-
left mayor of Detroit. Dempsey's book
chronicles Milliken's tenure as gover-
nor - and leaves readers wishing there
were more politicians like Milliken in
state government.
The primary impression that the
reader comes away with after read-
ing Dempsey's account of Milliken's
career is of an individual singularly
driven by his principles, the political
consequences be damned. Discussing
a proposed plan to make school fund-
ing more equitable between wealthier
and poorer districts, an aide quoted in
the book describes reminding Milliken
that the proposal would benefit areas
that voted Democratic. Milliken, view-
ing the plan as the right thing to do,

nonetheless wanted to go ahead with
it. Compare that to negative ads in the
most recent campaign criticizing Dem-
ocratic incumbents for supporting aid
to the Detroit public schools. Milliken
was willingtograntclemencyto prison-
ers when he thought the circumstances
warranted it. Compare that to Gov. Jen-
nifer Granholm's refusal to consider
seriously the petitions brought by the
Michigan Battered Women's Clemency
Project.
Granholm herself is an interesting
case study in the limits of Milliken's
moderate approach. Dempsey quotes
her as saying in an interview, "(Millik-
en's) advice is always apt ... he has been
and still is a tremendous ally and guide
for me in conducting affairs of state."
But whereas Milliken was able to work

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