.. . , sin, _ - . S S S S 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 Wednesday, September2 7 - D i 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? MagazineEditor: AnneVanderMey EditorinChief: Karl Stampfl ManagingEditor:JeffreyBloomer Cover Art: Emma Nolan-Abrahamian Photo EditoriEmma the Nolan-Abrahamian st~it -t Designer: Bridget O'Donnell Free coffee Free bagels Free newspapers Free WI-Fl How's that for starters? 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. 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