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NEWS BRIEFS PANELIST
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JAKARTA, Indonesia
panelist and:
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this so-called
earthquake injures doesn't matt
president use
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A powerful earthquake struck each other."
western Indonesia yesterday, kill- Cotton w:
ing at least three people, injuring "The State
25 others, and damaging several sponsored by
buildings, officials said. No tsu- Assembly's M
nami was detected. mission. MS.
The U.S. Geological Survey said doun, the L
the quake had a preliminary mag- moderated a
nitude of 7.6 and struck under the the event, sai
island of Simeulue off the west- in response
ern coast of Sumatra - the region posted on Cr:
worst hit in the 2004 Indian Ocean The post
tsunami. "invading" t
Minutes after the quake hit, the bar Scorekee
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center disgust at ti
issued a bulletin saying parts of ships betwe
the Sumatran coast closest to the white wome
epicenter were at risk of a possible panel resulte
tsunami. rage" at the I
post.
TOKYO "It was
senior Jame
Kilpatrick addresses of Intellectu
St Difference, a
City Council for first
time since scandal Stock
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said
his first appearance before the sor i
Detroit City Council since a text-
messaging sex scandal was report- Key in
ed last month was "cordial."
But he also added that his focus dropp
Wednesday morning was on the
city's economic stimulus plan, point
not controversy surrounding the
scandal and recent appeals by his NEW YO
office and the council to the state carved mod
Supreme Court. reversing ea
"I didn't come here to talk about tors appeare
it," Kilpatrick told reporters fol- ant signals
lowing the council meeting and with unusu
referencing the high court. "What- draw comfo
ever happens there is going to hap- that the Fed
pen." appear over
Kilpatrick also said he "can't inflation.
worry" about a decision Wayne Investorsi
County Prosecutor Kym Worthy a rise in co
makes while investigating if he and lackluster
his former Chief of Staff Christine constructioi
Beatty committed perjury during aside some
a whistle-blower's trial last sum- after minut
mer. meeting la
reveal sizab
ST. LOUIS inflation. TI
lower its ex
Sears to pay more economy th
than $500M for ness in the
sales of faulty ovens
Sears Holdings Corp. will in-
stall safety brackets on its stoves in
millions of households or offer gift
cards in settling an Illinois class-
action lawst over the appliances'
supposed propensity to topple.s
Under an agreement signed
off on last month by a Madison
County judge, Hoffman Estates,
Ill.-based Sears will offer to fix all
brands of its freestanding or slide-
in kitchen ranges in as many as 3.9
million homes by bolting them to a
wall or floor.
The deal covers Sears ranges
sold from mid-2000 through last
Sept. 18, when a judge granted the

settlement temporary approval.
The deal resolving the lawsuit
dating to July 2004 also requires
Sears to install safety brackets in
newly purchased ranges for the
next three years.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs es-
timate the settlement could cost
Sears more than $500 million.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
After 5 million-mile
ride, shuttle comes
back to Earth
Space shuttle Atlantis and its
crew returned to Earth on Wednes-
day, wrapping up a 5 million-mile
journey highlighted by the success- To play: C
ful delivery of a new European lab and e
to the international space station.
The shuttle and its seven astro-
nauts landed at 9:07 a.m. at NASA's
spaceport at Kennedy Space Center, just us
where the crew's families and top
space program managers gathered
to welcome them home.
NASA wanted Atlantis back as
soon as possible to clear the way for
the Navy to shoot down a dying spy
satellite on the verge of smashing
into Earth with a load of toxic fuel.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
U.S. DEATHS
3,963
Number of American service mem-
bers who have died in the war in
Iraq, according to The Associated
Press. There were no deaths identi-
fied yesterday.

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LSA junior Gerloni
at are we doing with
d diversity here? It
er if our (University)
es the word 55 times
h if she isn't talking
e're interacting with
as part of a forum,
of Black America,"
y Michigan Student
linority Affairs Com-
A Rep. Gibran Bay-
SA sophomore who
nd helped organize
d the event was held
to racist comments
aigslist last month.
said blacks .were
he popular campus
pers and expressed
he idea of relation-
en black men and
a. Baydoun said the
d from MSA's "out-
blatant racism in the
a rant," said LSA
s Logan, president
al Minds Making A
student group that

tutors students from the Detroit
Public Schools.
Other panelists included John
Matlock, associate vice provost
and director of the office of Aca-
demic Multicultural Affairs and
William Collins, minority affairs
director for the Comprehensive
Studies Program
The panelists addressed avari-
ety of topics, but spoke at length
about the extent of the diversity
at the University.
"Dowehave diversity?Yes,"said
Collins, "Are we satisfied? No."
Collins said the number of
minority students at the Univer-
sity has skyrocketed since he was
in college in the 1970s.
"When I was a student here,
there were about 50 African
American students here," he said,
"Mr. Matlock just mentioned that
there are now SO black student
organizations."
Still, Collins said, there needs
to be more interaction between
the different multicultural
groups on campus. He suggested
that University students may be
able to do that better than Uni-
versity administrators
"When I'm using that phrase
'role model,' I'm talking about
you, not me," Collins said.

CEREMONY
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and started her own speech, which
went uninterrupted from that
point.
While Bates was speaking, LSA
junior Aria Everts, another SOLE
member, presented Coleman with
an oversized check for 25 cents.
Everts said that amount was sig-
nificant because that's all it would
cost per clothing item to substan-
tially improve working conditions
for sweatshop employees over-
seas.
"We wanted to do something

that would be useful to fill peo-
ple in at once on the University's
complacencies," Everts said. "It is
always difficult to find President
Coleman, and we felt that being
where she was helped us make a
strong statement."
Things calmed down after the
protest, though. After the speech-
es, Askwith poured the opening
cup of coffee, and everyone in
attendance was invited in for free
coffee and pastries.
During the Great Depression
- and while he was still a student
- Askwith founded a bus com-
pany, which later became Campus
Coach Lines, a nationwide luxury

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 3A
bus service. The business is still
running today.
Askwith, who previously gave
money for the Askwith Media
Library in the UGLi and the Ask-
with Auditorium in Lorch Hall,
asked University officials last year
how he could help contribute to
the University.
University Librarian Paul Cou-
rant said officials responded by
saying Askwith could donate
toward a caf&.
Askwith said he was excited
about the new caf6.
"It's a lovely setting and it just
adds to the whole ambiance of the
educational experience," he said.

2 fighter jets collide over Gulf of Mexico
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. pilots had ejected and were later Weather in the area was clear.
(AP) - An Air Force fighter pilot rescued. The exercise emphasized "basic
died yesterday after his jet and The base has suffered a "great maneuvers and tactics," Harmer said.
another likely collided during a loss," Harmer said in an e-mailed A Coast Guard rescue jet located
training exercise and crashed into statement. one pilot and radioed the location to
the Gulf of Mexico. The other pilot He said, "We will continue to do a fishing vessel, which picked him
was rescued and is expected to sur- everything we can to assist our fam- up, said Coast Guard Petty Officer
vive. ilies and airmen at this tragic time." James Harless.
The single-seat F-15C Eagles The cause of the collision about A Coast Guard helicopter then
crashed Wednesday off the Florida 35 miles south of Tyndall Air Force hoisted the pilot off the vessel.
Panhandle, said Col. Todd Harmer, Base was not immediately known, That pilot told rescuers he saw
commander of the 33rd Fighter but the Air Force will investigate, the other pilot also eject butlosthim
Wing, 58th Fighter Squadron. The Harmer said. in the clouds.

s up as investors dismiss
concern about inflation

terest rates
)ed by half
last month
RK (AP) - Stocks
est gains yesterday,
rly losses as inves-
d to digest unpleas-
about the economy
al equanimity and
rt from the notion
leral Reserve didn't
ly concerned about
initially upset over
nsumer prices and
readings on home
n seemed to set
of their concerns
es from the Fed's
.st month didn't
le concerns about
he central bank did
pectations for the
is year amid weak-
credit markets and

in housing - a development
that wasn't likely surprising to
Wall Street.
The Fed's deliberations and
apparent lack of urgent concern
about inflation was perhaps
a welcome sign as investors
grappled with new evidence of
increases in consumer prices as
well as rising oil.
Higher prices would make it
harder for policymakers to jus-
tify further rate cuts.
The Fed lowered key interest
rates by a half-point to 3 percent
on Jan. 30, following an emer-
gency three-quarter point cut
the prior week.
"The Fed identified that the
consumer is in somewhat tough
straits," said John O'Donoghue,
co-head of equities at Cowen &
Co. And while the rate cuts made
last month in response to the
tight credit markets came as a
relief at the time, "the credit mar-
kets are still very stressed out, if
not shut," O'Donoghue said.

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