S-- The Michioann ail.- A-MnnrioMav 6 0AA9 -ilia ivIwingali uaiiy - muiiuay, may v, Zwc CHENEY Continued from Page 1 means following a path they did not expect to trav- el. "I wager that 10 years from now, many of you will find yourselves following a very different course," Cheney said. "Sometimes life has different plans for us." He advised graduates not to let their doubts get the best of them. "America is still the country of the second chance," Cheney said, adding that most people are able to succeed because others help along the way. Aside from a joke at the expense of his predecessor, former Vice President Al Gore, Cheney's remarks appeared void of political commentary. "It wasn't the time or the place," Diane Christ, a resident of Troy, said after the convocation. Like many others, she said she was not aware of the protestors set up outside of the building as a result of Cheney's presence. In addition to protestors from the Lansing area, Phillis Engelbert, a member of the American Friend Service Committee, organized Ann Arbor residents to demonstrate outside the convocation as well. Engelbert stated that as a Wyoming congressman, Cheney voted against the Equal Rights Amendment and against funding for Head Start, a program for the development of low-income children and their families. She also mentioned Cheney's extensive ties to Enron and called him a "warmonger and war- profiteer" in a written statement. When Cheney's motorcade drove by, protestors voiced their messages. "I wanted Cheney to know that not everyone appreciates his global policy," Engelbert said. For the most part, however, the activists' mes- sages were intended forgraduates and their families.4 "We're not going to change (Cheney), but we're going to have an effect on the people around here," Michigan State junior Daniel Brooks said. In response to the protesters' statements, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said "it's a great country where everyone is able to express their opinion" WEBBER Continued from Page 1 and there, in high school when you want to look good and things like that, but that was really the extent of it," he said. "As far as $200,000, that's crazy num- hers." Webber remembered Martin as "just a nice guy," who would "let you come over to his house and cut his grass and give you $20." Martin was thoroughly involved in the Detroit basketball com- munity. Webber saw him at most of his games and felt Martin was someone he could count on in times of need. "He would call himself our godfather, you know, the players, and if it was a problem or something - you know, my father didn't have the money - I'd go get $50 from him," Webber said. "He was kind of what I said, a godfather, someone you thought you could trust, somebody who was older than you and could keep you ina safe environment." Webber also elaborated on his living conditions during his two years at Michigan in an effort to show that he was living everything but the high life while in Ann Arbor. "Man, come on. I'd have bought a Porsche," he said. "I was driving my dad's (Chevrolet) Corsica, and the pas- senger door didn't open, and the driver's seat was broke.... If anybody looks at the (game) program at Michigan, we were wearing the same suits. I'm wear- ing one suit on this page, and Juwan (Howard) is wearing another. On the next page, I'm wearing Juwan's suit, and he's wearing my suit" Webber was recruited heavily by cur- rent Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, who was an assistant when Webber decided to come to Michigan. Webber feels that even Izzo would admit that the allegations are false. "Tom Izzo knows how I got to Michigan," Webber said. "He knows if he (had been) the coach at Michigan State (at the time), I would have gone to Michigan State. If anyone were to ask him, he would tell you. He cried when he didn't get me in, and I cried when I didn't go there." With all of this drama unfolding dur- ing the season, Webber has made a con- certed effort to concentrate on winning an NBA Championship and has not "let this one get me mad." "Yeah, I'm the poster boy," Webber said. "But it's cool. It's cool. Somebody's been wanting to attach something nega- tive to me" BUSH Continued from Page 1 interest rate or because they wish to because they wish to spread paying their loans out over a long period of time. Rodriguez said that overall consolidation aids them in saving money and paying off balances. "It's helping them be responsible about the debt that's incurred on them of getting a college education," Rodriguez said. "What (the govern- ment is) saying is 'we're going to take away an option from students that has allowed them to save money."' Forty-six Senate Democrats sent a letter to President Bush Tuesday asking him to drop the proposal, citing the already rising costs of college. "Middle class students are turning more and more to student loans as their only means of affording rising college costs," the letter said. "Elimination of this program will deny students the ability to consolidate their loans at low, fixed interest rates imposing tens of thousands of addi- tional dollars in additional loan costs to students and their families," it stated. White House spokesman Ari Fleis- cher said Wednesday that President Bush would continue to work with Congress to find another way to address the budget shortfall. But he blamed Congress for generating the deficit in the Pell Grant program. "Congress created a serious fiscal problem in 2002 when they underfund- ed the program by some $1.3 billion," Fleischer said. "We're just going to continue with the Congress to find a solution. That idea was a voluntary$ one, never a mandatory one." Democrats said the real reason for the budget shortfall is President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut passed last year. They claim it is geared toward the wealthy and that many programs necessary for lower and middle classes are now being cut. "Now we're beginning to see the trade-off that American families will have to pay," Stabenow said. "All those decisions are being made because the choice was made to put the tax cut in front." Congressional Democrats also said President Bush's budget cuts more money from education than he promised in the "No Child Left Behind Act," signed in January 2002. They said states are already being forced to make drastic reductions in education spending. According to a report from the office of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D- Mass), states cut a total of $1.5 bil- lion from their higher education budgets this year. "These are simply the wrong prior- ities for this nation," Wellstone said. 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