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Arguing for change
While debate in the form of
heated classroom discussions
and formal competitions are
a major component of Univer-
sity life, Detroit Urban Debate
Education - a student club
and certified non-profit orga-
nization - seeks to expand
educational and debate oppor-
tunities for Detroit high-
school students.
The club travels weekly to
high schools to teach students
the fundamentals of formu-
lating and executing an argu-
ment. According to LSA junior
Miray Karabulut, the club's
assistant director, members
act as assistant coaches by
developing lesson plans, giving
lectures, creating interactive
exercises, performing speed
drills and teaching research
techniques.
Karabulut said most mem-
bers have a background in
debate, however those without
prior experience are encour-
aged to take a suggested sociol-
ogy course to learn the basics.
She stressed the importance of
debate for all students.
LSA sophomore David Seid-
man, a club member, echoed
Karabulut's sentiments and
said being able to effectively
articulate arguments is a valu-
able skill to have at both the
high school and college level.
"We want to make sure that
every one of these kids that
wants to go to college has the
means to succeed in terms of
both presenting a strong appli-
cation, but also, once they're
in college, having the ability
to build on the education they
have from high school," Seid-
man said.
Karabulut said coaching the
students has been a memorable
experience and that she was
surprised by how receptive
the students in Detroit were to
learning more about debate.
"I expected the kids to be
stubborn and opposed to the
activities, but what I found
was that the kids in Detroit
who I was teaching were very
engaged, very interested, very
into learning," Karabulut said.
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11:15 a.m.
WHAT: A purse under a
desk on the fourth floor was
stolen, University Police
reported. A suspect was
described as a black male
in his 40s to 50s with light
complexion, glasses, a mus-
tache, a possible goatee and
wearing dark clothes.
Bursley busted
WHERE: Bursley Resi-
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1:20 a.m.
WHAT: An arrest was
made after a student was
suspected of possession
of marijuana, Univer-
sity Police reported. Police
released the student pend-
ing warrant authorization.
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Gerrymandering to prevent
Texas Republican primary
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Presidential vote was
planned to take place
on Super Tuesday
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The
chances of Texas voters having
much influence in the Republican
presidential race faded yesterday,
after a panel of federal judges
acknowledged the state's deep
divisions over political maps had
made it nearly impossible to pre-
serve an April primary.
Delegate-rich Texas was origi-
nallyscheduled tobe apartofnext
month's slate of Super Tuesday
primaries, but the redistricting
clash forced the state to resched-
ule its contest to April 3. With
that date now all but dead too,
elections workers who squeezed
into a packed San Antonio court-
room yesterday advocated a new
date of May 22, which could be
long after Republicans settle on a
nominee to face President Barack
Obama.
One judge questioned whether
the election shouldn't even be
pushed into the summer, and
another spoke like he was losing
patience with a stalemate that'has
kept the state's-election calendar
in limbo.
Despite court-ordered nego-
tiations, the Texas attorney gen-
eral and minority rights groups
suing the state have been unable
to compromise for weeks on tem-
porary voting maps for the 2012
elections. On some maps, only
one disputed district stands in the
way of a deal.
Pointing a finger at the table of
minority rights lawyers, U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Orlando Garcia stern-
ly ordered both sides to return to
court Wednesday with at least
an agreement on the state Senate
boundaries.
"The Senate - get it done,"
Garcia said.
The hearing was then abruptly
adjourned.
Picking a new primary date
won't beso quickly solved. Garcia
and the other two judges on the
panel have not yet officially can-
celed the scheduled April 3 pri-
mary, but that's a mere formality.
U.S. District Judge Xavier
Rodriguez at one point suggested
that June 26 may make the most
sense for the primary elections.
That would make Texas among
the last states inthe nationto hold
a primary but would also ensure
that maps would reflect any Vot-
ing Rights Act issues that a Wash-
ington court is still deciding.
But Democratic and Repub-
lican party officials said they
would prefer a vote in late May.
Xi Jinping reviews troops during a full honors ceremony in his honor yesterday at the Pentagon.
CInese heir apparent visits
Des Moines and Washington,
Sandusky allowed to contact
grandchildren, have
Former Penn State Sandusky faces 52 criminal
counts for.what prosecutors say
coach faces 52 counts was the sexual abuse of 10 boys
over a 15-year period. He has
of criminal conduct denied the allegations.
Cleland has tentatively sched-
with minors uled the trial to start in mid-
May. He said jury selection will
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A be a challenge, given the pretrial
judge rejected requests by pros- publicity and the special role
ecutors that jurors be brought in that Penn State plays in the Cen-
from outside the State College tre County community.
area to hear the child sex-abuse "If, after a reasonable attempt
case against former Penn State it is apparent that a jury cannot
assistant football coach Jerry be selected within a reasonable
Sandusky. time, then I will reconsider this
Judge John Cleland on Mon- ruling," Cleland wrote.
day also denied prosecutors' A spokesman for the attorney
requests that Sandusky remain general's office said the judge's
indoors while on home confine- orders were being reviewed.
ment before his trial and ruled Sandusky's lawyer issued
that Sandusky can have super- a statement saying Sandusky,
vised contact with most of his his wife and their family were
grandchildren, saying there was "relieved by and pleased with"
no evidence that the children's the visitation ruling, which
parents wouldn't be able to keep pertains to all but three of his
them safe. 11 grandchildren, ages 2 to
local jury
14. Those three children are
involved in a custody case, and
Cleland deferred decisions about
any visits from them to the judge
handling that matter.
Prosecutors made the bail
modification request, asking that
Sandusky remain indoors, after
hearing concerns by neighbors
about the safety of children, par-
ticularly at an elementary school
behind Sandusky's house.
"The commonwealth failed
to present any evidence whatso-
ever that the defendant presents
a clearly defined threat to any
student at the adjoining elemen-
tary school simply by being on
his deck," Cleland wrote. "No
evidence was presented that at
any time the defendant made
any effort to contact any of the
children by signaling or calling
to them, or that he made any ges-
tures directed toward them, or
that he acted in any inappropri-
ate way whatsoever."
Vice President Xi
Jinping reunites with
former hosts in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -
The last time China's soon-to-be
leader visited Iowa, he slept in a
bedroom with green shag car-
peting and Star Trek character
cutouts on the walls. He ate eggs
with a spoon because his host
forgot the chopsticks.
But apparently Xi Jinping
(shee jeen ping) remembered
the 1985 stay fondly because he
insisted on returning this week
to Muscatine, a small farming
community he toured to learn
about crop and livestock prac-
tices.
Back then, he was a young
Communist Party leader seeking
ideas to help his agriculture-rich
region of northern China. Now
the nation's vice president, he
made certain to add Muscatine
to his jam-packed itinerary so
he could reunite with the same
Americans who showed him
around the region's hog and cat-
tle operations and its abundant
corn and soybean fields.
"I'm flabbergasted that he
would take time out of his busy
schedule and come back to Mus-
catine," said Eleanor Dvorchak,
whose family hosted him for two
nights.
Although Dvorchak and her
husband have since moved to
Florida, they planned to return
today for Xi's hour-long visit, and
several other local farmers and
residents he encountered will be
there, too.
Some local officials were
encouraged that agriculture -
and specifically Iowa agriculture
- was to play such a prominent
part in a trip by the future lead-
er of the world's most populous
country.
"It sends a signal that the new
leader is not a stranger to the
U.S. and that he has experience
and familiarity with America
by reaching right into the heart-
land," said David Shorr, a foreign-
policy specialist at the Stanley
Foundation, a Muscatine-based
nonprofit that focuses on pro-
moting peace and international
relations.
Xi is expected to ascend to
the nation's highest office next
year and could lead China over
the next decade. His schedule
called for him to meetwith Presi-
dent Barack Obama yesterday
in Washington before flying to
Iowa. He'll also stop in California.
China has become an increas-
ingly important trading partner
for the United States. It purchased
$20 billion in U.S. agriculture
exports last year, making it the
top buyer of farm goods.
In 1985, Xi stayed with the
Dvorchaks; their 15-year-old
daughter, and their dog in a
four-bedroom, three-bath ranch
home. The Star Trek-themed
room had been left unchanged
after the couple's sons went to
college.
Eleanor Dvorchak, now 72,
recalled a handsome 31-year-old
man who was calm and intensely
focused on learning as much as
possible during his brief trip. He
kept busy until late each day, so
all he needed when he returned
in the evening was peace and
quiet, she said.
"My job was to provide him
with breakfast and a quiet place
for him to relax and think, to give
him time to pull his thoughts
together for the next day," she
said. "It was just a pleasure to
have him in our home. He was
very undemanding."
The language barrier made
conversation difficult, but Xi was
interested in touring the home
and seemed impressed with the
two-car garage and large con-
crete driveway that had a basket-
ball hoop, she said.
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