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WHEN: Todnight at 8 p.m. m/bfdgs/Th e Wire WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium edition of the Michigan Daily ("RackhamStu- dent Government talks school's services, future Bill ofRights,") incor- rectly stated the number of graduate students who have signed GEO member- ship cards. 800 students have signed the card. . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. New housing policy expected to begin this fall for freshmen * GUILLERMo ARIAS/ AP Suspects stand next to containers filled with crystal meth and chewicals during a presentation to the press in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Feb 12, 2011. Mexican drug gang suspects rounded upacross the U.S. From Page 1A der students will also have the option of sharing a suite with consenting students of their identified gender, Harper said. While these students will still have their own rooms, they'll be able to share the suite - which would have a communal bath- room - with suitemates of their preferred gender. At the meeting, Harper said the University decided to move forward with the policy because it wants to provide the best envi- ronment possible for all students, including those who identify themselves as transgender. "The intent is that if you are (transgender), we want to make sure you have a safe, healthy ... experience," Harper said. In an interview after the meet- ing, Armstrong said though the University's decision wasn't what he hoped for, it was a step in the right direction. "It's definitely progress, but obviously it's not necessarily what the Open Housing Initia- tive initially envisioned," he said. "But I'm certainly happy ... with the change that has happened." Echoing Armstrong, MSA Rep. Allison Horky, a co-leader of the Spectrum Center Student Advi- sory Board and co-founder of the Open Housing Initiative, said she was pleased with the opportuni- ties the policy will open up for transgender students. "The change tonight is very important because it directly affects transgender students," Horky said. Armstrong said he plans to continue advocating for the Open Housing Initiative throughout the remainder of his term. "We're still going to be work- ing on this issue," Armstrong said. In response to Armstrong's sentiments, Harper and Jackie Simpson, director of the Spec- trum Center, said the University has a long way to go before it can comfortably enact a gender- neutral housing policy. Simpson brought up worries about female safety as one possible hindrance to enacting a gender-neutral housing policy. "For some, it's the fear of safe- ty for womenthat raises concerns about people of the opposite gen- der living in the same space," Simpson said. Harper added that more dis- cussion must take place between different groups at the University before it can move forward with a gender-neutral housing plan. "I think it is going to take a lot of education," Harper said. "I just think we have alot of work to do." Simpson said in an interview after the meeting that the office is working to draft the new policy within the next two weeks. She said she's excited to play a part in allowing transgender students to live in suites with people of their identified gender. "We want to make sure we have a campus climate that is conducive to making those stu- dents feel comfortable," Simpson said. According to Simpson, the policy will likely take effect for incoming freshmen starting in the fall. Interviewed after the meeting, Housing spokesman Peter Logan said he thinks that from a Uni- versity housing standpoint, the policywill be easy to implement. "They'll work out something that's very doable," Logan said. "I think this is a step in the right direction." In a press release issued after the meeting, members of the Uni- versity's chapter of the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union wrote that the organization is standing behind the Open Housing Ini- tiative and its commitment to a more extensive gender-neutral housing policy. "We are enthusiastic about the progressive policy change announced at the meeting tonight, but we believe there must be a continued push for an Open Housing option that is available to all University of Michigan students," LSA junior Ellen Steele, a University ACLU member, wrote in the press release. Agents arrested more than 100 people in 150 locations WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed- eral, state and local authori- ties conducted a massive sweep yesterday of suspected Mexi- can drug cartel members in the United States in a widespread domestic response to the kill- ing of a U.S. agent in Mexico last week. "We are taking astand and we are sending a message back to the cartels that we will not tol- erate the murder of a U.S. agent, or any U.S. official," said Carl Pike, assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's special opera- tions division. Pike said the nationwide roundup, which began Wednes- day and was expected to con- tinue into today, is targeting suspected criminals with ties to any Mexican drug cartel to try to disrupt drug trafficking operations in the United States. By yesterday morning, agents in areas including Atlanta, St. Louis, Denver, Detroit, San Antonio, San Diego, Chicago and New Jersey had seized more than $4.5 million in cash and nearly 20 guns, arrested more than 100 people and confiscated about 23 pounds of metham- phetamine, 107 kilos of cocaine, 5 pounds of heroin and 300 pounds of marijuana at more than 150 different locations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapa- ta was killed, and fellow ICE agent Victor Avila was wound- ed in Mexico on Feb. 15 when the Chevy Suburban they were in was run off the road by at least two vehicles loaded with armed men. Authorities have said the agents, who were driv- ing in a fortified sport utility vehicle with diplomatic license plates, identified themselves as U.S. diplomats in the moments before the shooting. Mexican authorities have arrested one person in connec- tion with the brazen attack, which is believed to be the work of members of Mexico's Zetas gang. Former Mexican special forces soldiers are among its members. "We are basically going out to disrupt narcotics distribu- tion here in the United States no matter what cartel their allegiance is to," Pike said. "It would be futile to send a mes- sage back 1o one cartel when they all are just as guilty." 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