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Petraeus: More than military
action needed in Afghanistan
General says victory
also means political,
economic progress
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. Gen.
David Petraeus said yesterday
that experience in Iraq shows it
will take political and economic
progress as well as military action
to tackle increased violence in
Afghanistan.
"You don't kill or capture your
way out of an industrial strength
insurgency," he told The Associ-
ated Press in a telephone inter-
view.
His comments come as a debate
over the need to redeploy troops
from Iraq to Afghanistan has
become a central issue in the U.S.
presidential campaign.
CHALLENGE
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that they're at a new kind of envi-
ronment where people all carry
their weight."
Participating students signed
up in teams of four, each one doing
a rotation of five different games
and challenges. Twenty teams
signed up for the event, eight of
them made up of freshmen.
Eight restaurants, includ-
ing student favorites like Panda
Express, Noodles & Company
and Stucchi's, sponsored the
challenge by providing food and
prizes.
The sponsors each claimed an
event - like Subway's Maze and
Panda's Pictionary - and winners
Petraeus, who is widely cred-
ited with pulling Iraq back from
the brink of civil war, is taking
over as chief of U.S. Central Com-
mand, the headquarters oversee-
ing U.S. military involvement
throughout the Middle East, as
well as Afghanistan and the rest
of Central Asia.
He'llhand over the reins inIraq
to Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno tomor-
row during a ceremony at the U.S.
military headquarters at Camp
Victory on the western outskirts
of Baghdad.
Petraeus' counterinsurgency
strategy has paid off in Iraq,
where the number of attacks has
dropped to its lowest point in
more than four years. But he will
face a new challenge with vio-
lence rising in Afghanistan.
It will be a delicate balancing
act to tackle a resurgent Taliban
enjoying refuge in the lawless
border areas of Pakistan without
losing ground in Iraq.
"We've got a situation in
Afghanistan where clearly there
have been trends headed in the
wrong direction," Petraeus said.
"Military action is absolutely nec-
essary but it is not sufficient."
"Political, economic and dip-
lomatic activity is critical to
capitalize on gains in the security
arena," he said.
The 55-year-old general
assumed control of U.S. forces in
Iraq about 19 months ago after
President Bush ordered some
30,000 additional American
forces to Iraq as part of a so-
called surge aimed at stopping
spiraling Sunni-Shiite sectarian
violence.
SANDALS
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statement that Notre Dame is
not just some garbage school out
there that everyone can just crap
on all the time.'"
Notre Dame thrashed Michigan
on Saturday and earned respect by
capitalizing on turnovers, commit-
ting fewer penalties than the Wol-
verines and executing on big plays.
The Fighting Irish were on the
field Saturday to make a statement
to the entire college football world.
"It feels great," Notre Dame
quarterback Jimmy Clausen said
after the game. "I was talking to
a bunch of guys before the game, I
said, 'Remember what we felt like
last year? That's never going to
happen again.'"
Now, Michigan must have a
sense of how Clausen and his
teammates felt after losing 38-0
last year at the Big House.
As a team with a lot of doubt-
ers, the Wolverines knew they
were playing for some respect on
Saturday, too.
But you don't earn respect by
turning the ball over six times.
You don't earn respect by com-
mitting twice as many penalties
as your opponent. You definitely
don't earn respect when one of
your most veteran players on
offense - junior tight end Carson
Butler - gets ejected from the
game for an egregious personal
foul with the result of the game
already decided.
So now the questions that have
been directed toward at Notre
Dame for almost three years will
shift to the staff at Schembechler
Hall.
Is Michigan still a premier
college football program? Will
the bowl game streak stay alive?
Who's to blame?
Michigan led Notre Dame in
total offense, in time of posses-
sion and in first downs, but it was
a failure of fundamental football
- winning the turnover battle,
committing fewer penalties than
the other team - that doomed
Michigan this week and that's a
bad sign because it's something
that inexperience can't explain.
Shifting from a pro-style
offense to a spread scheme doesn't
explain fumbling three times in
the first five minutes of the game,
including on each of Notre Dame's
first two kickoffs. But that's just
what Michigan did, giving Notre
Dame such a short field that even
the supposedlyinept Irish offense
couldn't help but put up 14 points.
A new defensive coaching staff
doesn'texcusethe safety with deep
responsibilities biting on a play-
action fake. But that's just what
happened to junior safety Stevie
Brown on a 48-yard touchdown
from Jimmy Clausen to Golden
Tate in the second quarter.
Rich Rodriguez and his staff
will have a winning program
soon enough, but after the game,
he made an unsolicited statement
that should give fans some pause.
"Michigan football will be
back," Rodriguez said. "All the
naysayers out there, whatever.
I'm disappointed but I'm not dis-
couraged. Michigan football will
be back."
Now that Michigan's head
coach has acknowledged his
team's fall from whatever pinna-
cle historically strong programs
perch on, it's time for the Wol-
verines to refocus their season on
gaining back what they've lost:
Respect.
- Sandals can be reached
at nsandals@umich.edu.
received a gift certificate from the
event's restaurant. Other events
involved transferring a golf ball
vialongcardboard tubes and orga-
nizing eightblindfolded engineers
into a square using only communi-
cation and a rope.
Some people were enticed with
free food and prizes but some,
like Engineering freshman. Shibo
Fang, came with peer mentors as
a way to meet people and "have
fun."
"I liked it," Fang said. "It was a
really great first time."
UMEC member Aristo Chang
said the event was also aimed
at decreasing competitiveness
on North Campus. Within the
College of Engineering, many
students won't help each other
because they want to fare better
on the grading curve, he said.
"That's what we're trying to
eliminate," Chang said. "We want
teamwork - we want people to
help each other do well."
Peer Mentor and Engineering
junior Urvashi Sharma brought
her three mentees to the event,
forming a team.
"It's a good way to interact with
people," she said. "All the activi-
ties make you work together."
Chao said he was pleased with
the first official North Campus
Challenge and hoped it would
become a tradition.
"We can show people what an
engineering event is really like,"
he said.
Thomas Chan contributed'
to this report
PARKING
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stunt economic development in the
area and violate the city's North-
east Area Plan - a set of goals,
land-use recommendations and
objectives for the area surround-
ing the proposed site.
"We are told whatthey're going
to do - we are not consulted at
all," said Eliana Moya-Raggio, a
resident of the area and a Spanish
lecturer emeritus in the Residen-
tial College. "I don't think they
know the concept of dialogue."
Jim Kosteva, the University's
director of community relations,
said residents of the Wall Street
and Maiden Lane area have been
informed about the University's
intentions through several neigh-
borhood meetings held since the
Master Plan's release.
"In that plan, the University
mentions our anticipated need
for some more parking structures
to meet the ongoing needs of the
Medical Center, both of the Cen-
tral Medical Center, he said.
Kosteva said the suggestions
from those neighborhood meet-
ings have been incorporated into
the construction plans for the two
parking structures.
These modifications include the
incorporation of an office building
into the structure, a more visually
appealing architectural design for
the structures and the addition
of the proposed transit center, he
said. He said University planners
"do not anticipate any significant
environmental problems."
So far, the city government has
sided with the residents opposing
the new structures.
In June, the Ann Arbor City
Council unanimously passed a
resolution stating that Mayor
John Hieftje and the City Coun-
cil "request the President and
Regents of the University of Mich-
igan pause in moving forward
with plans for the Wall Street area
and engage in a planning process
with the City at the highest level."
"The objective of this process,"
the resolution continues, "will be
to merge the goals of the Univer-
sity with those of the City while'
at the same time addressing the
needs of the residents who live in
the Wall Street area."
Nearby residents say they have
received no response to the reso-
lution from the University.
To support the proposal, Koste-
va referred to the city's Northeast
Area Plan. Chapter 8 of the plan,
which focuses on Lower Town,
says appropriate uses for the Wall
Street area include "structured
parking."
Many residents, however,
claim that "structured parking".
to underground parking, not free-
standing, above-ground struc-
tures.
In a broader sense, the North-
east Area Plan illustrates why
relations between Lower Town
residents and the University have
frayed in recent years.
In an area hoping to revital-
ize around its historic homes, the
plan says that the University "has
removed numerous old homes"
which "have been replaced with
surface parking lots to serve the
university medical facilities in the
area."
Those opposing the structures
have suggested that the existing
surface parking lots be converted
into freestanding structures to
abate the need for new lots in the
Wall Street-Maiden Lane area.
CAMPAIGN
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people in Michigan," he said. "We
can draw a correlation, saying,
'Look at Jennifer Granholm: It's
the same Harvard education, the
same liberal policies"' as obama.
Elizabeth Kerr, spokeswoman
for the Michigan Democratic
Party, insisted that Anuzis's are
"completely false."
She attributed the state's eco-
nomic problems notto Granhoim's
policies but to trade agreements
and policies enacted by the Bush
administration that have sent
Michigan jobs to countries like
Mexico.
"George Bush's administration
has completely failed (Michigan's)
infrastructure," Kerr said. "Their
WEATHER
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The storms put a damper on
weekend plans for many stu-
dents, including LSA sophomore
Traci Grant, who said she put off
a trip to the bookstore to avoid
getting soaked.
LSA senior Nithya Joseph
said the torrential downpour
reminded her of the rainy season
in India, during which she and
friends would go outside and play
in the rain.
"I enjoy the rain, but I'm not
so happy about being wet right
now," she said.
LSA sophomore Jack Mastell-
er, walking to New LIfe Church
yesterday evening, said some
students had regarded the storm
with "fear and angst."Buthe tried
not to let the rain get to him.
"We're braving out the storm,"
he said.
trade agreements are unfair - they
totally benefit the big CEOs and do
nothing to help the workers."
Kerr said she doesn't think vot-
ers will equate Michigan's prob-
lems directly with Granholm, or
that Obama will hurt the national
economy.
"The voters already understand
it's failed federal government poli-
cies thatputMichiganinthis down-
ward economic spiral," Kerr said.
The next step, she added, "is
stressing that McCain will bring
four more years of George Bush.
And once voters see his record as it
really is, I think thatthey'll under-
stand that."
Anuzis's attempt to link Gra-
nholm and Obama will likely be
just one of many tactics employed
by both parties in what will be
a fiercely contested presidential
race.
Though Democratic candidates
have won the state in the previous
four presidential elections, Michi-
gan is hardly a given this yearfor
Obama, as numerous polls have
shown the two presidential can-
didates separated by just a few
points.
Anuzis said he thinks those
undecided voters are starting to
believe in his new message.
"I think that when you can
relate it to something local," he
said, "when people feel the unem-
ployment, see what's happening
and if we can say Barack Obama
is promising more of the same, I
think you're going to see people
start nodding their heads and'say-
ing, 'This makes sense."'
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