The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 I PHOTO HEADLINE 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. - CHELSEA HOEDL PAUL 5HERMAN/Daily Students buy roses from members of the group P.RO.V.I.D.E.S. at Mason Hall yesterday. CRIME NOTES Purse lifted WHERE: South Hall WHEN: Monday at about 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- dence Hall WHEN: Tuesday at about 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 0 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. *I I A '4 A £ ,o