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NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
U.S. Navy helping
pirated vessel
A U.S. Navy destroyer helped
sailors who retook control of their
vessel yesterday in a deadly battle
with pirates after the North Kore-
an-flagged ship was hijacked off
Somalia, the American military
said.
A helicopter flew from the USS
James E. Williams to investigate a
phoned-in tip of a hijacked vessel,
and demanded by bridge-to-bridge
radio that the pirates give up their
weapons, the military said in a
statement.
The crew of the Dai Hong Dan
then overwhelmed the hijackers,
leaving two pirates dead, accord-
ing to preliminary reports, and five
captured, the military said.
Three seriously injured crew
members were brought aboard the
Williams, the statement said. The
pirates remained on the Dai Hong
Dan, which the crew was returning
to the port of Mogadishu.
A U.S. Navy spokeswoman said
piracy was a scourge in Somalia's
waters, and American ships were
available to intercede.
N'DJAMENA, Chad
Chad gov't charges
6 French citizens
with kidnapping
Authorities charged six French
nationals with kidnapping after a
failed attempt to fly 103 children
to France who a charity said were
orphans from Sudan's war-battered
Darfur region, officials said yester-
day.
Interior Minister Ahmat Bachir
said if the six were found guilty,
they would face up to 20 years in
jail with hard labor.
A judge in eastern city of Abeche
also agreed late Monday to allow
prosecutors' charges of complic-
ity against three French journal-
ists, said Justice Minister Pahimi
Padacket Albert.
A seven-person flight crew also
would be charged with complicity,
he told The Associated Press.
Authorities in Chad detained
17 people - nine of them French
- after the French charity tried
to put the children on a plane last
week.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic
Tropical storm
kills at least 20
Tropical Storm Noel headed
toward the Bahamas on yesterday
after causing flooding and mud-
slides that killed at least 20 people
in the Dominican Republic and left
another 20 missing, officials said.
Forecasters said a tropical storm
watch, which means that tropi-
cal storm conditions are possible
within 36 hours, may be issued for
southeast Florida later in the day.
The spinning tropical storm had
been forecast to hit Haiti hardest
but veered toward the Dominican
Republic, apparently catching resi-
dents off guard Monday.
"We didn't know that it was
going to be like this, it took us by
surprise," saidGuarionexRosado as
he left his home in La Cienaga, one
of Santo Domingo's most affected
neighborhoods.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Suicide bomber
kills 7 people
A bomber blew himself up about
a quarter-mile from President Gen.
Pervez Musharraf's office yester-
day, killing seven people and deep-
ening Pakistan's insecurity ahead
of crucial elections.
Officials said the attacker deto-
nated his explosives among police
at a checkpoint in the garrison city
ofRawalpindijustsouth of the cap-
ital, Islamabad.
Musharraf was safely inside
Army House, about a quarter-mile
away, where the blast was clearly
heardsaid presidential spokesman
Rashid Qureshi.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
U,:S# CAF! A T"ES
Number of American service mem-
bers who have died in the War in
Iraq, according to The Associated
Press. There were no new casual-
ties identified yesterday.
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Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic affairs, told a panel at the Alumni
center yesterday that the University is expanding outreach to low- and moder-
ate-income students and increasing community college transfers.
'U' officials
lay out
post-Prop 2
plans
Administrators say
they're expanding
outreach, targeting
scholarships
By ZOE BAMBERY
Daily StaffReporter
Just because race- and gen-
der-based affirmative action
is now illegal in Michigan, the
University doesn't need to give
up on its quest for diversity, said
James Jackson, the head of the
University's Institute for Social
Research at a panel last night.
Affirmative action, he said,
was just one of many means to
achieve that goal.
Other ways of achieving
racial diversity were the topic
of last night's event at the Uni-
versity's Alumni Center.
Assistant General Counsel
Maya Kobersy said there are
still ways to legally help minor-
ity students attend the Univer-
sity even after the passage of
Proposal 2, the ballot initiative
passed lastcyearthatbanned the
use of race- and gender-based
affirmative action in Michigan.
"The proposal doesn't say a
lot of the things some people
say it does," she said.
She pointed out that feder-
ally funded programs aimed at
underrepresented minorities
aren't affected by Proposal 2.
Kobersy said the University
works with donors to target
scholarships without using
race, national origin or gen-
der.
That might mean giving
scholarships based on involve-
ment with a certain group
- like high school programs for
minorityscholars - or for being
from a certain high school
"The University remains
committed to diversity and
we're doing what we can with-
in the confines of the law to
achieve that," she said.
Lester Monts, senior vice
provost for academic affairs,
said the University is working
to expand transfers from com-
munity colleges and reach out
to low- to moderate-income
students as a way of increasing
diversity.
"I don't think it's a secret
that the students who attend
selective universities are from
the higher-income families," he
said.
Those sorts of initiatives
weren't what LSA senior Shel-
don Johnson, the speaker of the
Black Student Union, was hop-
ing to hear.
Johnson said after the panel
he was disappointed with the
panel's focus on the external
aspects of Proposal 2 and phi-
lanthropywhenthe administra-
tion needs to work to integrate
what he called a segregated
campus.
"We're spending time send-
ing people to Washington and'
California, but we're not listen-
ing to the students here," John-
son said. "A lot of the problems
were problems before Proposal.
2."
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