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sidewalks.
VENDORS "If you choose who you are
From Page 1 going to enforce the laws to, you
are discriminating," he said.
then. Councilmember Sabra Briere
"I hear the students, the faculty, (D-Ward 1) said revising the ordi-
my customers," saidBeverly Salada, nance is only fair because its lan-
who has worked at the stand for guage is vague.
three years. "They're very against "That's enough to tell us that
it, they want me to stay out here." we need to be much clearer to our-
Escalada was as short and direct selves about our expectations, and
in his comments to Council, toss- to the public in general about what
ing up his hands and saying that the rules really are," she said.
the ordinance should be enforced Sylvia Nolasco, the owner of
to "not just us." Pilar's Tamales on the corner of
In an interview, Escalada said South and East University ave-
he felt that the ordinance was nues, demanded that the Council
being unevenly enforced because review the ordinance.
other vehicles like FedEx delivery "It puts us in a position to be
trucks and University repair vans forced to radically change their
frequently park and drive on the business operations, or worse, to
go out of business," she said.
In a private meeting with two
vendors last Friday, Mayor John
Hieftje discussed his intentions
to rewrite the ordinance so Ann
Arbor's current vendors can keep
their carts.
After consulting with city
administrators yesterday after-
noon, Hieftje proposed the 90-day
extension to allow enough time for
City Council to deliberate.
LeRoy Whipple, owner of the
Dog Days hot dog stand, said he
was optimistic about the permit
extension.
"Obviously it's something that
I'm excited about," he said. "I'm
just looking forward to seeing
what the amendment is going to
be."
SOHONI
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But Sohoni said students
should ultimately judge him
- and presidential candidate
LSA junior Sabrina Shingwani
- on the quality of their ideas and
goals as student leaders.
"It's really big for people to
understand that our personalities
are not reflective of what happens
in the past," said Sohoni. "We're
different, we've learned from
these things and we know how
to do these things better in the
future."
Sohoni, a Ross School of Busi-
ness junior, first won a seat in the
assembly representing the Busi-
ness School in fall 2006, where
he served on the Health Issues
Commission during his one-year
term as a representative.
MSA President Mohammad
Dar, an LSA senior, said Sohoni
played an integral role in writing
a recent proposal authored by Dar
and co-sponsored by Sohoni that
urges University administrators
to lower the cost of the current
Domestic Student Health Insur-
ance Plan.
"He joined the Health Issues
Commission his first semester (in
MSA), and you knew he had done
his research," Dar said.
Although Sohoni's current
position as student general coun-
sel primarily focuses on oversee-
ing MSA's internal procedures
and protocols, Sohoni's col-
leagues said they believe he has
the ability to succeed in the more
outreach-oriented position of
vice president.
"He's well-suited for the move
to a more external vice presiden-
tial role, which I know he'll be
great at," said LSA senior Nate
Fink, who currently serves as
MSA vice president. "To be a
good executive, no matter what
the position, you have to be
approachable. And I really think
he is."
Sohoni said he wants to pro-
mote networking and interaction
between students and alumni
across all schools and colleges at
the University.
He said the fruitful relation-
ship that the Business School
maintains with its alumni should
be the model for alumni rela-
tions throughout the University,
whether it's students and alumni
from the same academic program
interacting or student organiza-
tions working to stay in touch
with former members.
An Ann Arbor native, Sohoni
also stressed the importance of
maintaining dialogue between
MSA and the city on issues that
affect students.
"It's not an issue that a lot
of kids feel is that pertinent to
them," he said. "But when they
realize that all of a sudden they
can't park their car in front of
their house, it becomes impor-
tant."
Dar said Sohoni's experience
with the city and University
administrators would help him
get down to business as vice pres-
ident, if elected.
"Those relationships give him
the ability to hit the ground run-
ning from day one on not only
new issues, but also on issues he's
been working on as student gen-
eral counsel," Dar said.
MSA Rep. Tim Hull said that
he's often felt frustrated with the
lack of communication between
representatives and members
of the executive board, but that
Sohoni has always been one of
the more open, frank members on
the board.
"When I talk to him and he
doesn't like what I have to say,
he's still been willing to hear
what I have to say and discuss the
issue at hand," Hull said.
Sohoni said he thinks the orga-
nization will show students it
can get things done if MSA can
implement some small ideas, like
providing busing for students for
Michigan football away games or
developing transportation plans
for North Campus residents
stranded on Central Campus
after 2:30 a.m.
"Kids see MSA as this kind
of theoretical organization that
talks about a lot things but never
actually gets anything done,"
he said. "It's important to make
sure, every so often, kids are see-
ing somethingtangible."
While Dar said negative per-
ceptions of MSA from the Yost
scandal will likely carry over into
the next term, he said Sohoni
was the best person to deal with
them.
"When you talk to him, you
know he's a different person," Dar
said. "I think that he will hold
himself to a level that is expected
of an MSA vice president and he
will do that with beautifully fly-
ing colors."
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New N.Y. governor sworn in
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Just
hours after he received a standing
ovation from lawmakers chant-
ing his name, New York's newly
sworn governor was answering
questions about straying from his
own marriage.
David Paterson became the
state's first black chief executive
and the nation's second legally
blind governor almost exactly a
week after allegations first sur-
faced that now-former Gov. Eliot
Spitzer was "Client 9" of a high-
priced call girl service. Paterson
told the Daily News of New York
City that he maintained a relation-
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1999 until 2001 during a rough
patch in his marriage. He and his
wife eventually sought counseling
and repaired their relationship.
The couple agreed to speak
publicly about their marriage in
response to rumors about Pater-
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swirling in Albany since Spitzer
resigned, the Daily News report-
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Paterson andhiswife, Michelle,
acknowledged to the newspaper
that they each had affairs but did
not go into details.
"This was a marriage that
appeared to be going sour at one
point," Paterson told the Daily
News. "But I went to counsel-
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to make it work. Michelle is well
aware of what went on."
A spokesman for the governor,
Errol Cockfield, did not imme-
diately reply late Monday to an
e-mail or telephone calls seeking
comment about Paterson's inter-
view with the News.
Hours before the interview,
Paterson outlined a message of
unity in a state eager to move
past his predecessor's sordid and
speedy political collapse.
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