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U' says it
can't match
Harvard aid
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college would soon replace exist-
ing student loans with grants and
scholarships, which students don't
have to repay.
Pomona spokeswoman Cynthia
Peters said the financial changes
are not meant to compete with
Harvard's, but rather to accom-
modate middle class students.
"Over time, applications
from lower-income and middle-
income students have declined,"
Peters said. "We want that pool
to be there. A lot of top-tier lib-
eral arts colleges are in the same
position. They're doing what
they can to increase those appli-
cations."
The University of Michigan
has no plans to reform its own
financial aid policies for a number
of reasons, according to Pamela
Fowler, executive director of
financial aid.
Phil Hanlon, the University's
associate provost for academic and
budgetary affairs at the Univer-
sity, said the University remains
committed to making college
affordable, but emphasized that
Harvard and Michigan are two
very different schools.
"We're at a much different scale
for one thing," he said. "The num-
ber of undergraduates at Harvard
College, according to the Dean's
Office, is 6,600 this year. We
have a public mission, this year's
undergraduate enrollment is over
26,000 and so we have to craft our
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nurse practitioners and physician
assistants and has determined
that it is appropriate and not dis-
criminatory in any way."
The University's statement
seems to indicate that the case is
headed to court.
"We are confident that a court
will agree that the University
establishes its pay in a fair and
non-discriminatory manner, and
not on the basis of gender," it says.
MichaelPitt, aRoyal Oak-based
attorney representing the Univer-
sity Hospital employees, said the
University has until February to
respond to the suit, at which time
it can either dismiss or respond to
the charges.
Although the case was initially
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Delmar said the University
Hospital's superior resources and
reputation swayed him to leave
New York for Ann Arbor.
"It's definitely in a different
league than the university we
were at," he said.
In New York, Delmar and his
team rarely got to see how their
findings were used in treating
patients.
The University of Michigan
Hospital's partnership with the
Center for Arrhythmia Research
was another benefit of the move,
Delmar said.
The newly hired teamwillbring
more than $5 million annually in
research grants to Ann Arbor from
the National Institutes of Health
and other institutions.
"In today's competitive aca-
demic climate, we're especially
proud to have recruited them to
Michigan," said James Woollis-
croft, dean of the Medical School,
financial aid policies in a way that
makes the most sense to our stu-
dents."
Fowler said state funds are
crucial in deciding tuition costs
and how much financial aid the
University can give. Because of
declining state funding in recent
years, the University has had to
raise tuition and has had less state
money to put toward financial
aid.
Fowler said Harvard's substan-
tially larger endowment - about
$35 billion compared to the Uni-
versity's $7.1 billion endowment
- allows the school to give out
more financial aid.
In addition, many of the dona-
tions to the University's endow-
ment are earmarked for specific
departments and projects so not
all donations can go toward finan-
cial aid Fowler said.
LSA sophomore Alexandra
Warbasse said she thinks a finan-
cialaidpolicylikeHarvard'swould
attract more middle-class stu-
dents to the University. Warbasse
identifies herself as a middle-class
student, and avoided applying to
Ivy League institutions because
she couldn't afford them.
"A big reason that I didn't apply
to Ivy League schools - I actu-
ally retracted my application from
Dartmouth - is because I knew
that if I got in, the temptation
would be too great, and I just sim-
ply can't afford to pay something
like $40,000 or $45,000 a year,"
she said.
filed with in county circuit court,
the University filed on Friday to
move the case to a federal court
because the employees' discrimi-
nation allegations fell under the
federal Equal Pay Act of 1963. The
motion was granted.
Pitt said that because the claim
also applies atthe state level, under
the Elliott-Larsen CivilRights Act,
the employees would soon make a
motion for the case to additionally
be heard at the state level.
This lawsuit joins another
ongoing discrimination case, filed
by former Law School Prof. Peter
Hammer, who claims the Law
School denied him tenure in 2002
because he is openly gay.
Later this month, University
lawyers will ask a Lansing circuit
court judge to throw out Ham-
mer's case for a third time since
Hammer filed the suit in 2005.
in a written statement.
Delmar said transferring the
research team's grant money from
the New York institute to the Uni-
versity of Michigan was a chal-
lenge, but that the issue has since
been worked out.
In addition to their positions at
the new Center for Arrhythmia
Research, many of the incom-
ing researchers will also join the
Medical School's Division of Car-
diovascular Medicine. Some of the
appointments will require approv-
al from the University's Board of
Regents.
Steven Scheinman, dean of the
SUNY Upstate's College of Medi-
cine, told The Associated Press
last month that the school's insti-
tute would likely have to change
its cardiovascular focus to a dif-
ferent discipline as a result of
losingthe researchers to the Uni-
versity.
"Baseball teams do this to each
other, universities do this to each
other, whether it's in medicine
or outside medicine," Scheinman
said.
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project. Together, these five have
worked to reach a larger base than
originally intended.
Parke, a co-captain from last
season's varsity soccer team, has
been discussed the site's potential
with Michigan men's soccer coach
Steve Burns, who has coached the
team since it received varsity status
in 2000.
Burns has suggested ways to
make the site more appealing to
soccer coaches at the collegiate
level by adding tools that would
help coaches recruit players who
use the site.
Parke said Burns's recommenda-
tions will make the site more attrac-
tive to collegiate coaches. About a
quarter to a third of the site's users
have soccer "rsums" that they
use to post their playing sched-
ules, which are visible to coaches.
Coaches can then attend games or
access the contact information of
players they might be interested in
recruiting.
Parke said the site might not
be as appeal to coaches with com-
petitive programs like Michigan
because those coaches already
have deeply entrenched recruiting
methods.
"It's different for Michigan
recruiting," Parke said. "They
have the funding to call and visit
recruits by going to all these tour-
naments."
Burns said he would pay atten-
tion to a site like Project Freestyle,
though, because it would be a new
way to recruit talented players.
"With recruiting, there are so
many different ways to skin a cat,"
Burns said. "It's changing all the
time. I'm not going to just look past
this and say that because we have
a budget and can go out and look
at recruits ourselves that a website
like this couldn't assist or help us."
Burns said he thought the site
would be more helpful to smaller
schools operating with little admin-
istrative support or funding.
Members of the group are also
reaching out to the club and intra-
mural sports community.
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including Sen. Barack Obama (D-
Ill.) and Sen. John Edwards (D-
N.C.), have removed their names
from the ballot for the Michigan
primary, fearing that New Hamp-
shire voters would punish them
for campaigning here. The state of
Michigan moved its primary for-
ward, in violation of Democratic
and Republican National Commit-
tee rules.
In response, the RNC has
stripped Michigan of half of its
convention delegates. The DNC
stripped the state of all of its con-
vention delegates.
After introducing his candi-
date, LSA senior and Students
for Edwards chair Travis Radina
explained the options voters will
have if they choose to cast a bal-
lot for a Democrat. He encour-
aged Edwards' supporters to vote
"uncommitted," explaining that
(From left) Michael Parke, Aly Juma, Brent Medema, Jeff Lemons and Chris Mwakasisi are the five responsible for Project Free-
style, a soccer networking website. Originally started for fun, the creators now aim to make the site profitable.
Medema, who served as captain
of last year's club soccer team, said
convinced his teammates, as well
as members of Purdue University's
club soccer team, to use the site.
The site allows users to track
their statistics throughout a sea-
son. That seems like a simple tool,
but means a lot to many club teams,
which usually don't keep statistics,
Medema said.
"Before we used the site, when we
played other club teams, we had no
way to even scout the other team,"
Medema said. "It's difficult to know
who the best player on a team is
write-in votes for Edwards will not
count in his favor because of the
complications with the Michigan
primary.
Throughout the discussion, Radi-
na emphasized Edwards' desire for
change and focus on improving the
lives of "average Americans." He
outlined Edwards' goals for the
eradication of poverty and improve-
ment of public education.
LSA sophomore and Students
for Obama chair Tom Duvall said
that while his candidate's opinions
on economic and education reform
are consistent with the Democratic
party, he said that Obama's back-
ground has provided him with a
unique perspective on poverty.
"He has been on the streets of
Chicago and seen the racial dispar-
ity," Duvall said.
Duvall said that Obama would
work to eliminate the health care
industry's excess spending, citing
the $1 billion spent by health insur-
ance companies on governmental
lobbying.
Duvall said Obama's stance on
when there aren't stats available."
Medema said he's scheduled to
meet with officials from the Univer-
sity's Recreational Sports depart-
ment Friday to convince them to
implement the scheduling aspect
of the site into intramural sports.
If the intramural sports teams join
the site, Medema said, players on
the teams would receive automatic
e-mails and text messages notifying
them of when and where games are
being held.
So far, the members of the group
have only spent their free time on
the project. Mwakasisi said he used
the United States' involvement
in Iraq was distinct because of
its careful and expedient plan for
withdrawal.
LSA sophomore Kelly Bernero,
chair of Students for Hillary, said
that Clinton's platform focuses on
providing quality health care for
all Americans. About 47 million
Americans do not have health care
coverage.
LSA junior and College Repub-
licans chair Chris Irvine, who was
unable to attend the lecture criti-
cized Clinton's stance on health
care. "President Clinton put Hillary
in charge of a health care program,
and she failed miserably," he said.
Irvine said that Republican can-
didates will address the health care
crisis in America by working with
private insurance and pharmaceu-
tical companies to keep control of
health care in the hands of Ameri-
can citizens.
LSA senior Gideon D'Assandro,
who represented Students for
McCain during the debate, said
McCain's policies would encourage
his own multimedia background to
design the site himself.
The group hasn't reached out to
any advertisers yet. Parke said the
group is waiting to do that until it
has more users.
All five members of the group
have are staying in Ann Arbor after
the school year to help get the web-
site off the ground and make it prof-
itable.
"It wouldn't make sense for us
to go leave now that we've done
all this," Mwakasisi said. "We're
all really dedicated to making this
work."
competition that promotes quality
health care.
D'Assandro also defended
McCain's policies on Iraq. He told
audience members that McCain
would continue to deploy U.S.
troops until the country did not
need a U.S. military presence to
maintain control.
"We put a nation into chaos,"
D'Assandro said, referring to Iraq.
"We might not like it, but we're
there. We have a responsibility to
stabilize that nation."
After the discussion, D'Assandro,
the lone Republican panelist, said
that Alpha Kappa Alpha was suc-
cessful in it's attempts to keep the
discussion non-partisan. He said
that it was unique forum, which
required special preparation.
"African-American voters
don't represent a large portion
of the Republican constituency,"
D'Assandrosaid. "Itwasabigswitch
for me to tailor these responses to
African-American concerns."
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'Comeback Kid'
pushing for repeat
of 1992 campaign
DURHAM, N.H. - Is this what
it would have been like if Elvis were
reduced to playing Reno?
Former President Bill Clin-
ton has been drawing sleepy and
sometimes smallish crowds at big
venues in the state that revived his
presidential campaign in 1992. He
entered to polite applause and rows
of empty seats at the University of
New Hampshire on Friday. Several
people filed out midspeech, and the
room was largely quiet as he spoke,
with few interruptions for laugh-
ter or applause. He talked about
his administration, his foundation
work and somewhat about his wife.
"Hillary's got good plans," he
kept saying as he worked work
through a hoarse-voiced litany of
why his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton of New York, is a "world-
class change agent." He urged his
audience to "caucus" on tomorrow
for Mrs. Clinton, before correcting
himself ("vote"). He took questions,
quickly worked a rope line and left.
Maybe the sluggish day was a
blip. It was, in fairness, the day after
Mrs. Clinton finished third in the
Iowa caucuses, behind Sen. Barack
Obama of Illinois and former Sen.
John Edwards of North Carolina.
The former president was working
on 30 minutes' sleep. He traveled to
New Hampshire from Iowa in the
wee hours, and the university was
on winter break.
But there was a similarly listless
aura at the previous stop, in Roch-
ester. And again, on Saturday in
Bow, at just the sort of high school
gym that the master campaigner
used to blow out. Only 175 showed
up in Bow -- about one-third the
capacity of the room -- to hear Mr.
Clinton hit his bullet points on the
subprime lending crisis, $100 bar-
rels of oil and how "10 of Hillary's
fellow senators have endorsed her."
"The crowd seemed very pas-
sive," Arthur Cunningham of Bow
said after the speech. "Maybe they
were tired."
Since Mrs. Clinton's perfor-
mance in Iowa last week, one of the
more intriguing narratives around
her campaign has been the "Bill to
the Rescue" conceit.
People with ties to the campaign
said Mr. Clinton has been increas-
ingly engaged in strategy, talking
regularly to James Carville, one of
the chief architects of his 1992 cam-
paign. Carville said that he spoke
"periodically" with Mr. Clinton and
that they remained close friends.
Publicly, the former president
seems determined to amp him-
self down, to eliminate any hint
that he might be the headliner. He
speaks fast, in a conversational
voice, somewhat ill-suited to the
large rooms that the campaign has
arranged for him.
"I'm going to talk to you a little
bit about Hillary," Clinton said
in Durham, "and then when I'm
done, I'm going to saddle back to
this Democratic dinner, where I'm
going to sit in the audience and clap
for her."
His practiced self-deflation on
the stump reflects something of a
split within the campaign over how
best to use him, campaign advisers
say. There is a feeling among one
faction that he was overexposed in
Iowa, and that his presence became
a distraction.
But there is also a belief, advisers
say, that Mr. Clinton has a special
relationship with New Hampshire,
and thatwith his history in the state
and his enduring popularity, he can
be particularly effective.
Clinton always had the knack for
pumping out the sunshine on dark
days. Few were darker than what
he faced here, in 1992, during the
left-for-dead stage of his first presi-
dential campaign.
Against all odds and scandal,
Clinton started attracting big and
boisterous crowds. To this day, he
waxes nostalgic about an appear-
ance he made that winter in Keene,
at which 400 people showed up
-- 250 more than expected. "I
thought, I might actually win this
election," Clinton said during a
return to Keene last summer.
Mr. Clinton managed a surpris-
ing second-place finish that year
in the New Hampshire primary,
behind Paul E. Tsongas. He called
himself "the Comeback Kid," the
news media ran with it, and the
Clinton era began.
Sixteen years later, Clinton is
back in New Hampshire, in the ser-
vice of his wife's hobbled campaign
and extendingthe era.
"New Hampshire affords him
the opportunity to return to his
campaign roots," said Skip Ruth-
erford, a longtime friend of the
Clintons who worked on the 1992
campaign and is now the dean of
the Clinton School of Public Ser-
vice at the University of Arkan-
sas. "It reminds him of home, in
that he has the chance to engage
in that very personal brand of
politics."
But it is more complicated this
time than Clinton being irrepress-
ible, shaking every hand and will-
ing his wife to victory. He is not the
candidate this time; instead, he is
the statesman-surrogate-spouse,
who operates without the crowd-
building resources and advance
people that a candidate typically
has.
"Expectations need to be scaled
accordingly," said Joshua King, a
veteran of political stagecraft who
served as director of production in
the Clinton White House.