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20 years ago this week
(March 30,1992): The 1992 men's
basketball team, more commonly
known as the Fab Five, defeated
the Ohio State Buckeyes in over-
time to advance to the Final Four
of the NCAA Tournament.
Both Jimmy King and Jalen
Rose, members of the Fab Five,
said that while they were happy
with the Wolverines' advance-
ment to the Final Four, they
weren't fully satisfied yet.
"Right now, there's a feeling
of happiness, but not satisfaction
because our goals are beyond that
right now," Rose said, according
to The Michigan Daily.
The Wolverines proceeded to
reach the NCAA National Cham-
pionship, but fell to the Duke Blue
Devils 71-51.
40 years ago this week
(March 30, 1972): The Univer-
sity's Board of Regents rejected
two drafts of a plan designed to
create African-American Cul-
tural Living units in two campus
residence hall for the following
year, the Daily reported.
The board cited a fear of seg-
regation as well as legal barri-
ers as reasons for disapproval of
the plan, leaving 400 students
who expressed interest in such
communities disappointed. The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
opposed the plan, according to
the Daily.
"We are opposed to the estab-
lishment of what amounts to sep-
arate living facilities for blacks,"
an NAACP official told the Daily.
60 years ago this week
(March 28, 1952): The East
Quadrangle Council rejected the
plan to house both women and
men in the East Quad Residence
Hall, shifting co-ed housing to
the South Quad Residence Hall
instead, the Daily reported.
East Quad President Earl
Aldon cited the plan's negative
effects on "the solidarity and
tradition" already established in
the all-male dormitory, the Daily
reported.
South Quad president Al War-
shawsky held similar sentiments
regarding the plan to shift women
into his dormitory.
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Guard Jimmy King goes up for a slam dunk in Michi-
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CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Where to go?
WHERE: Michigan Sta-
dium
WHEN: Saturday around
4 p.m.
WHAT: Two directional
signs were reportedly sto-
len from the stadium con-
course, University Police
reported. The signs are
thought to have been stolen
Friday between 9:30 a.m.
and 11:30 a.m. There are no
suspects.
Wire transfer
WHERE: Medical Inn
WHEN: Friday around 8
p.m.
WHAT: Two-cartons of
wire were stolen, University
Police reported. The wire
was taken from a secured
room which is used by a
contractor between 2:30
a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Just give me a Education film
sign screening
WHERE: West Quad Resi- WHAT: The Baha'i Club is
dence Hall screening "Education Under
WHEN: Sunday at 12:50 Fire," a documentary about
p.m. Iranians of the Bahai faith
WHAT: A student stoleone who are denied the right to
of the building's exit signs an education.
at about3:30 a.m. Sunday, WHO: University Library
University Police reported. WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
The student has been iden- WHERE: Hatcher Gradu-
tified. ate Libraryrrm 100
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Bench burglary
WHERE: 2500 Block of
Stone Road
WHEN: Sunday at about
4:05 p.m.
WHAT: A female said her
laptop computer was sto-
len from abus stop bench,
University Police reported.
The subject said she saw
an unknown man grab the
computer and flee.
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Comedy
performance
WHAT: Comedian Jeff
Dwoskin will perform.
Some proceeds will ben-
efit the YAD Social Action
Fund. Advance tickets
cost $17 and will cost
$25 at the door. Appe-
tizers will be served.
WHO: Hillel
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Ann Arbor Com-
edy Showcase
CORRECTIONS
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provided to North Star
Reach. The $500,000
dollars will be given to
the camp over the course
of the next five years. It
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that Dance Marathon
was previously held in
the Sports Coliseum. It's
always been held at the
Indoor Track Building.
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Scientists recently dis-
covered that popcorn,
which has a reputation
for being one of the healthi-
est snacks, is especially
healthy because it contains
more antioxidents than fruits
and vegetables, the Science
Daily reported.
Amid the end-of-the-
season roster chang-
es for the Michigan
hockey team, senior forward
David Wohlberg has signed a
contract with an AHL team
in Albany, N.Y.
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE8
New York city educa-
tors banned the use of
certain words, such as
dinosaur and Halloween, on
the city's standardized tests,
Fox News reported. Officials
said the banned words might
negatively affect students'
emotions.
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Supreme Court begins to
hear health care case
Justices remain
unconvinced law's
penalties can be
classified as a tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court plunged into
debate yesterday on the fate of
the Obama administration's
overhaul of the nation's health
care system, starting with point-
ed questions about a legal issue
that could derail the case.
A decision is expected by late
June, in the midst of a presiden-
tial election campaign in which
all of President Barack Obama's
Republican challengers oppose
the law and promise its repeal
if the high court hasn't struck it
down in the meantime.
With demonstrators chanting
outside, eight of the nine justices
fired two dozen questions in less
than halfhour yesterday morning
at Washington attorney Robert
Long. He had been appointed by
the justices to argue that the case
has been brought prematurely
because a law bars tax disputes
from being heard in the courts
before the taxes have been paid.
Under the new law, taxpay-
ers who don't purchase health
insurance will have to report
that omission on tax returns for
2014 and will pay a penalty along
with federal income tax. At issue
is whether that penalty is a tax.
Some of the justices reacted
skeptically to the idea that the
penalties encapsulated in the
Patient Protection and Afford-
able Care Act were actually a
tax.
"What is the parade of hor-
ribles?" asked Justice Sonia Soto-
mayor, if the court decides that
penalties are not a tax and the
health care case goes forward?
Long suggested it could encour-
age more challenges to the long-
standing system in which the
general rule is that taxpayers
must pay a disputed tax before
they can go to court.
Outside the court building,
about 100 supporters of the law
walked in a circle holding signs
that read, "Protect my health-
care," and chanting, "Care for
you, care for me, care for every
family." A half-dozen opponents
shouted, "We love the Constitu-
tion!"
A four-person student band
from Howard University was
part of the group favoring the
law, playing' New Orleans-style
jazz tunes.
The law, much of which has
still to take effect, would require
almost all Americans to obtain.
health insurance and would
extend coverage to more than
30 million people who now lack
it. The law would be the largest
expansion in the nation's social
safety net in more than four
decades.
People hoping for a glimpse of
the action had waited in line all
weekend for the relatively few
seats open to the public. The jus-
tices allotted the case six hours
of argument time, the most since
the mid-1960s.
Nurses Lauri Lineweaver and
Laura Brennaman, who are com-
pleting doctoral degrees, had
been waiting since noon Sunday
and got tickets to see arguments.
"It's an honor to be in the court,"
said Lineweaver, 35.
The court will release audio
recordings of the arguments on
the same day they take .place.
The first time that happened was
when the court heard argument
in the Bush v. Gore case that set-
tIed the 2000 presidential elec-
tion. The last occasion was the
argument in the Citizens United
case that wound up freeing busi-
nesses from longstanding limits
on political spending.
Outside groups filed a record
136 briefs on various aspects of
the court case.
The first arguments yesterday
concern whether the challenge is
premature under a 19th century
tax law because the insurance
requirement doesn't kick in until
2014 and people who remain
uninsured wouldn't have to pay a
penalty until they file their 2014
income taxes in early 2015.
Taking this way out of the case
would relieve the justices of ren-
deringa decision in political high
season, just months before the
presidential election.
The biggest issue before the
court is today's argument over
the constitutionality of the indi-
vidual insurance requirement.
The states and the National
Federation of Independent Busi-
ness say Congress lacked author-
ity under the Constitution for
its unprecedented step of forc-
ing Americans to buy insurance
whether they want it or not.
The administration argues
Congress has ample authority to
do what it did. If its action was
rare, it is only because Congress
was dealing with a problem that
has stymied Democratic and
Republican administrations
for many decades: How to get
adequate health care to as many
people as possible, and at a rea-
sonable cost.
The justices also will take up
whether the rest of the law can
remain in place if the insurance
mandate falls and, separately,
whether Congress lacked the
power to expand the Medicaid
program to cover 15 million low-
income people who currently
earn too much to qualify.
If upheld, the law will force
dramatic changes in the way
insurance companies do busi-
ness, including forbidding them
from denying coverage due to
pre-existing medical conditions
and limiting how much they can
charge older people.
The law envisions that insur-
ers will be able to accommodate
older and sicker people without
facing financial ruin because of
its most disputed element, the
requirement that Americans
have insurance or paya penalty.
By 2019, about 95 percent of
the country will have health
insurance if the law is allowed to
take full effect, the Congressio-
nal Budget Office estimates.
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, chats with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a bilateral meeting at the
Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday.
bama to Russia: More
fexibilityafter elections.
Comment picked
up by microphone
gives political
opponents fuel
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -
President Barack Obama told
Russia's leader yesterday that he
would have more flexibility after
the November election to deal
with the contentious issue of
missile defense, a candid assess-
ment of political reality that
was picked up by a microphone
without either leader apparently
knowing.
Obama's Republican oppo-
nents pounced on the comment,
saying the president has a hid-
den agenda that could include
concessions to the Russians if he
is re-elected this fall.
"This is my last election,"
Obama is heard telling outgoing
Russian President Dmitry Med-
vedev. "After my election, I have
more flexibility."
Medvedev replied in Eng-
lish, according to a tape by
ABC News: "I understand. I
will transmit this information
to Vladimir," an apparent ref-
erence to incoming President
Vladmir Putin.
Obama and Medvedev did not
intend for their comments, made
during a meetingin Seoul, South
Korea, to be made public.
Once they were, the White
House said Obama's words
reflected the reality that domes-
tic political concerns in both the
U.S. and Russia this year would
make it difficult to fully address
their long-standing differences
over the contentious issue of
missile defense. Obama, should
he win re-election, would not
have to face voters again.
"Since 2012 is an election year
in both countries, with an elec-
tion and leadership transition
in Russia and an election in the
United States, it is clearly not a
year in which we are going to
achieve a breakthrough," White
House deputy national security
adviser Ben Rhodes said.
Obama's candid remarks
yesterday illustrated the politi-
cal constraints that hem in any
president who is running for
re-election and dealing with a
congressional chamber - in this
case, the House - controlled
by the rival party. Republicans
have fought Obama fiercely on
health care, taxes and other
issues. They are eager to deny
him any political victories in a
season in which they feel the
White House is within reach,
although Obama's remarks sug-
gested he feels good about his
re-election prospects.
Even if Obama was confiding
a political reality in a supposedly
private moment, the comments-
gave the GOP new openings to
question his sincerity and long-
range plans.
Mitt Romney, the leading
Republican contender to face
Obama this fall, told a San Diego
audience the unguarded com-
ments were "an alarming and
troubling development."
"This is no time for our presi-
dent to be pulling his punches
with the American people, and
not telling us what he's intend-
ing to do with regards to our
missile defense system, with
regards to our military might
and with regards to our commit-
ment to Israel," Romney said.
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