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THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK with GARY GRACA
RIiC t A look at the big news events this week and how important they really are. Conveniently rated from one to 10.
5B GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO JOIN THE
SUBMARINE TEAM?
A look at one of campus's most bizarre
and most successful sports teams
CATERING TO VETERANS
Mike Ilitch, the owner of the Detroit Red Wings,
Detroit Tigers and Little Caesar's, recently
received the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs Secretary's Award for his work providing
2 veterans with an opportunity to start pizza fran-
chises at reduced prices.
THE COUNTDOWN
With an Oct.1 deadline approaching, Michigan's
lawmakers are still trying to balance the state's
$1.6 billion budget deficit. Watch out for mid-
year tuition hikes, a credit rating through the
10 floor and state-employee unemployment
through the roof. And why again are companies
supposed to want to invest in Michigan?
LESSONS IN FAILURE
A group of professors at Stanford University are
protesting the appointment of former Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as an adviser to
a task force on ideology and terrorism at Stan-
"_ ford's Hoover Institution. The protessors aren't
3 just scared of the "unknown unknowns" of hav-
ing a controversial figure advise an important
task force; they are also scared of the "known
knowns" of his inept decisionmaking.
AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE?
Proving once again that rich people don't even
know what to do with all their money, a retired
school teacher donated $128 million to an elite
high school in Pennsylvania. The donation will
1 help create a Head Start program for the prep
school's 500 privileged students to give them
an even larger advantage in life.
KEEP DREAMIN'
Congressional leaders are reviving the Dream
Act, which allows young children of illegal
immigrants to receive citizenship if they serve
two years in the militaryor complete high
S school and college. The bill seemssensible
and narrowly tailored forbipartisan support
- something so unusual, it'salready doomed.
CIVIL STUPIDITY
Ever wonder why students at the University
don't seem to care about the war in Iraq,
Michigan's government collapsing or any-
thing political? According to findings from the
M( Awerican Civic Literacy Test, it's prohahly
8 because they don't understand. Students
answered an average of 51 percent correctly,
but freshmen only 47 percent.
SUB From page 5B
each diver in a skill test conducted
in a swimming pool.
Divers must log 12 dives every
year to stay certified. For Matlock
and other members of the dive
team this means twice monthly
excursions to Bowling Green, Ohio,
where they train in an old quarry.
At the beginning of the school year,
water temperatures average 60
degrees, but by November, when
the divers are squeezing in their
last dives before the submarine
is ready for testing, temperatures
hover closer to 45 degrees, Mat-
lock said.
Once the sub is ready for trail
runs, the team tests it in the Marine
Hydro-Dynamics Laboratory in
West Hall on weekends with the
help of the team's faculty adviser
Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering Prof. Robert Beck.
This is a huge advantage in com-
petitions, Hatfield said, because
most teams do not get to test their
sub in a tank before they arrive at a
competition.
The team is continuing a long,
storied tradition of submarine
building in the United States The
first well-known American sub-
marine was small and was pedal-
operated by one person, much like
Mercury III. During the American
Revolutionary War, its pilot tired
unsuccessfully to drill a hole into
the hull of the HMS Eagle, a Brit-
ish warship was docked in New
York Harbor.
Even though the days of human-
powered submarines have long
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since past, team members agree the said the team was always the main his college career working on it.
team is a great resume builder. talking point during job interviews "They love it," he said. "They
Nelson, who now works in - so much so that it almost didn't skip right over course work and the
Washington, D.C. designing ships, matter that he had spent so much of GPA."
6B-7B COLLEGE PREP IN ANBAR
Instead of coming to campus fresh out
of high school, they're arriving from the
front lines. Student veterans tell the
stories of what it's like going from the
military to the classroom.
8B WHAT SCIENCE CAN TEACH US
ABOUT DIVERSITY
Multiculturalism is a favorite topic of
administrators and politicians, but what
happens when scientists take it on?
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PERSON OF THE WEEK
LEE BOLLINGER
Whether it was opening the President's House for a victory party following the 1997 vic-
tory over Penn State or his outspoken of the University's affirmative action programs,
former University President Lee Bollinger had a flair for dramatic leadership. He exhib-
ited it this week at Columbia University, where he is now president, by allowing the
Iranian president to speak. Somehow it's hard to imagine anyone in the current Uni-
versity administration calling a world leadera "petty and cruel dictator."
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