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NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
Bush: 4,000 lives
weren't lost in vain
Marking a grim milestone, a de-
termined President Bush declared
yesterday the lives of 4,000 U.S.
military men and women who have
died in Iraq "were not lost in vain."
The White House signaled anew
that additional troops won't be
pulled out soon.
A roadside bomb in Baghdad
killed four U.S. soldiers Sunday
night, pushing the death toll to
4,000.
That number pales compared
with those of other lengthy U.S.
wars, but it is much higher than
many Americans, including Bush,
ever expected after the swift U.S.
invasion of Iraq five years ago.
Bush proclaimed the end of ma-
jor combat operations in Iraq in
May 2003. Almost all of the U.S.
deaths there have happened since
then.
"One day people will look back
at this moment in history and say,
'Thank God there were courageous
people willing to serve, because
they laid the foundations for peace
for generations to come,"' Bush said
after a State Department briefing
about long-term diplomacy efforts.
"I have vowed in the past, and I
will vow so long as I'm president, to
make sure that those lives were not
lost in vain - that, in fact, there is
an outcome that will merit the sac-
rifice," Bush said.
NEW YORK
Stocks jump after
JP Morgan ups bid
for Bear Stearns
Wall Street extended its big
advance yesterday as investors
applauded a new agreement that
will give Bear Stearns Cos. share-
holders five times the payout that
was set in a JPMorgan Chase & Co.
buyout deal a week ago. Investors
were also pleased by a stronger-
than-expected housing report, and
sent the Dow Jones industrial aver-
age up nearly 190 points while also
selling bonds sharply lower.
JPMorgan boosted investors'
optimism by lifting its offer for
Bear Stearns to $10 per share from
$2. The revised plan is aimed at
soothing Bear Stearns shareholders
upset over JPMorgan's earlier offer,
which was made at the behest of the
Federal Reserve when Bear Stearns
was near collapse.
Bear Stearns shares jumped
$5.29, or 89 percent, to $11.25, while
JPMorgan rose 58 cents to $46.55.
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece
Protests overshadow
torch-lighting show
Even before the Olympic flame
was lit yesterday, a protester of Chi-
na's humanrights policies disrupted
the solemn ceremony, foreshadow-
ing the prospect of demonstrations
throughout the 85,000-mile torch-
relay route right up to the Beijing
Games themselves.
Forecasts of clouds and rain had
been considered the main threat to
the pomp-filled torch-lighting. But
in the end, while the sun sparked
the flame to life, it was the protest-
ers who turned the joyful bow to
the Olympics' roots into a political
statement about China's crackdown
in Tibet and other rights issues.
Three men advocating press
freedom evaded massive security
and ran onto the field at the cer-
emony in Ancient Olympia before
they were seized by police.
WASHINGTON
Clinton adviser calls
1Obamabacker'Judas'
Hillary Rodham Clinton adviser
James Carville is refusing to apolo-
gize for comparing New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson to Judas.
Carville made the comparison
to The New York Times after Rich-
ardson, once a member of President
Clinton's Cabinet, endorsed Hill-
ary Clinton rival Barack Obama
last week for the Democratic presi-
dential nomination. Carville called
it an "act of betrayal," and pointed
out that it came during Holy Week.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
4,000
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.
NAME CHANGE
From Page 1
Office of LGBT Affairs?" and
yes-or-no questions like, "Are
abbreviations okay?" and "Are
acronyms okay?" Almost 400
people responded to the sur-
vey.
Simpson said the office
decided to avoid using acro-
nyms because they seemed too
restrictive and exclusive. Some
of the proposed names includ-
ed the Center for Gender Iden-
tities & Sexual Orientations,
Center for Queer Life, Cen-
ter for Genders & Sexualities,
Pride Center, Stonewall Center
and Rainbow Center.
During the name transition,
the office worked closely with
E. Royster Harper, the Univer-
sity's vice president for student
affairs, and Susan Eklund, asso-
ciate vice president for student
affairs and dean of students.
"I'm so pleased that the
LGBT office has taken on this
important project," Eklund
said. "It has been a multi-year
process and they have done a
thorough and outstanding job."
LSA senior Ruth Barkan said
she approved of the center's
new name because it "requires
us to look at the entire picture
instead ofjust one aspect."
"I hated having to define
myself in a category that
doesn't fit me," Barkan said. "I
think 'Spectrum' will allow me
to be a little more forthright in
asserting my sexuality, which
does not fall under the letters
the office used to stand for."
Other students shared Bar-
kan's view on the name.
"I think it's going to work,"
said LSA senior Amy Dickin-
son, co-chair of the Michigan
Student Assembly's Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Issues Commission. "We want-
ed to get away from something
stereotypical like the Rainbow
Center, and The Spectrum Cen-
ter is a lot more credible."
The Spectrum Center will
also launch a design contest
today in hopes of developing a
new logo - one that could be
displayed for Lavender Gradu-
ation, an annual ceremony that
honors graduating lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender stu-
dents.
The Center hopes to finish
updating all administrative
and informational directories
by Aug.l.
Since it was founded in 1971,
the center has undergone three
name changes to accommodate
shifting social constructions.
The office had been known
as the Office of LGBT Affairs
since 1995.
Simpson said she hopes The
Spectrum Center's new name
will stick for a longer period of
time.
Jim Toy, founder of the orga-
nization when it was called the
Human Sexuality Office, said
he was pleased with the name
change and the thorough eval-
uation process that preceded it.
While he said he recommended
"Rainbow Victors," he said
"Spectrum Center creatively
embraces an infinite variety
of constituents and their con-
cerns."
Simpson said that while
people might resist the change
at first, the campus community
was given ample opportunity to
weigh in on the decision.
"You can't please 100 per-
cent of the people 100 percent
of the time," Simpson said. "We
really feel like we have created
a space that is more inclusive
both through identity identifi-
cation and the work that we do.
It's a new day."
SACUA
From Page 1
Hanlon said the average psy-
chology professor teaches about
25 independent study courses
per year.
When asked about the degree
of difficulty in Hagen's courses,
Hanlon said University faculty
have academic freedom over the
content and teaching methods
of their courses.
He said that the University
"did not want to lay down direc-
tion on how courses had to be
taught."
"We feel that the types of
content and learning styles are
very different," he said.
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Prof. to become provost at University alum Kevorkian
new Saudi Arabian college announces run for Congress
ULABY From Page 1
leagues. Ulaby, whose career at the
University began in 1984, recently
completed a seven-year term as
the University's vice president of
research.
In an introductory letter posted
on the school's website, Ulaby said
KAUST's research will benefit the
scientific community while boost-
ing the local economy at the same
time. The letter cited solar energy
and wheat genetically engineered
to grow in saltwater as two areas of
research that will benefit the area
surrounding Saudi Arabia, much
of which is desert. Ulaby said these
studies are expensive to fund but
have great potential to improve
global living standards.
According to the KAUST web-
site, the university will recruit top
students and faculty from across
the world using an endowment
Ulaby estimates to be several times
that of the University of Michigan.
King Abdullah himself sponsored
much of the endowment.
"It has the resources to give the
best researchers from around the
world everything they need to do
their best work," said Saudi Ara-
bian Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi in a
video on KAUST's website. "From
its inception, KAUST will have one
of the largest university endow-
ments in the world."
If its prestige isn't enough to
attract the best, the university cam-
pus also includes a nine-hole golf
course, a yacht club, a shopping
center, and various schools and
day-care centers all in close prox-
imity to a beach on the Red Sea.
The university will also collabo-
rate with some of the world's top
schools.
"Right now KAUST has joint
programs like this with Berkley
and Stanford in this country and
with Cambridge and St. Peter's Col-
lege in England, and I hope that we
will be able to develop something
like that with U of M in the future,"
Ulaby said.
Ulaby said he would keep his
options open at the University of
Michigan, officially taking only a.
leave of absence.
"The University is home to me,
and the best friendships I have
made in my life came out of U of M,"
Ulaby said.
KEVORKIAN From Page 1
advocacy back into the spotlight
yesterday.
"I'm not a politician," Kevork-
ian said during his press confer-
ence. "My mind is free. So I can
say whatI think."
Few believe Kevorkian, who
has no prior experience in gov-
ernment, stands a chance to win
the congressional seat.
Political Science Prof. Michael
Traugott said an independent
candidate, especially one "who
wants to run a single-issue cam-
paign" like Kevorkian, usually
can't stand up to the Democratic
and Republican candidates..
Kevorkian hasn't given many
clear indications of his platform
so far but said he would continue
to push to legalize euthanasia if
elected.
While euthanasia is legal in
the Netherlands, Oregon is the
only state in the United States
that allows it.
For Kevorkian, the biggest
obstacle to getting elected may
not be a tarred public image or a
morally divided state. Instead, it
could be his lack of emphasis on
economic matters. Julie Petrick,
a spokeswoman for Democratic
congressional candidate Gary
Peters, a former Michigan state
senator and commissioner of the
Michigan Lottery, said Mich-
igan's voters want a candidate
who will work to fix the economy
and bring jobs back to the state.
Voter apathy about euthanasia
could be strong enough to keep
Kevorkian from making it onto
the ballot. So far, he hasn't col-
lected the 3,000 signatures need-
ed to run.
"I don't know who would vote
for Jack Kevorkian," said Mike
Brownfield, a spokesman for Rep.
Knollenberg.
But a lack of discussion about
euthanasia -doesn't necessar-
ily mean the public doesn't care,
Traugott said.
"The belief is that most Ameri-
cans don't care about this issue,"
he said. "That could just be an
artifact of not enough questions
being asked about this."
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