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Grants. She said she relates to people who have
trouble paying tuition, as she recalls her own
experience of paying her way through school.
She added that she opposes private school
vouchers, believing they are unconstitutional
and drain money from the nation's public
schools.
"Vouchers keep on sucking the lifeblood out of
schools," Rivers said.
Dingell has also fought against school
vouchers in the past, most recently in the
passage of President Bush's "No Child Left
Behind Act" last December, in which he and
other Democrats fought against conserva-
tives who advocated cuts in public education
funding.
"(Republicans) tried their best to load this
education bill with extremist proposals, but their
ideas were rejected," Dingell said earlier this
year. "Democrats held the line and our nation's
public schools and students are the winners."
With corporate responsibility becoming such
big issue this year following the exposure of
dishonest practices in companies such as the
Enron and WorldCom corporations, Rivers said
other members of Congress must now support
such issues as barring auditing firms from per-
forming both audit and consulting work for the
same companies, as well as pursing investiga-
tions of businessmen who have committed mis-
deeds.
If the Democrats retake control of the House this
November, Dingell would again become chairman
of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
which has conducted many of the investigations
into the various business scandals. He served as its
chairman until 1995, when the GOP took control of
the chamber, but remains the top Democrat on the
panel.
"I think that Congress is going to have to use
the bully pulpit to keep the pressure on for prose-
cution of the people that were involved in all of
these situations," Rivers said.
Dingell has also called for more honest and
stricter accounting practices for companies.
"If we don't have honest accounting we can be
in the same situation where the Japanese and
some of the countries in the East and even in
Europe are-where they don't know what they
have," Dingell said.
In the wake of Sept. 11, homeland security
has become another important issue in Con-
gress. Both Rivers and Dingell support several
parts of President Bush's plan to create a new
department of homeland security, but at the
same time are concerned about many provisions
which could go into the bill, including violations
of civil rights and the term "national
security."Rivers said she is opposed to clauses
which will forbid document from the new
department to be obtained by the Freedom of
Information Act. She also opposes not giving
benefits to civil servants in the new department.
"We shouldn't just automatically rubber stamp
or agree to things just because somebody said it's
national defense," Rivers said.
Dingell also has a legacy of supporting civil
rights legislation including the Civil Rights Acts
of 1957, 1964 and 1990.
The winner of the primary will likely face Dear-
born Republican Martin Kaltenbach, who is run-
ning unopposed for the nomination, in the Nov 5
general election.
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relatiouship.
"I wouldn't believe it," said an LSA
senior who wished to remain anony-
mous because of her medical condition.
She described herself as a social
smoker and added that she has been
diagnosed with depression and is cur-
rentlytaking Prozac.
"Smoking is something you pick up
socially," she said. "You smoke because
you want to:'
Still many students said they would
not be surprised if smoking was some-
how connected with depression.
"I wouldn't be surprised, with all
the stuff put in cigarettes, if some
odd chemical was linked to causing
depression," said Ann Arbor resident
Elizabeth Johnson, a 6-year smoker.
"I think it's possible that smoking
causes depression."
However, Johnson added that she
believes it is likely depression could
make people more inclined to smoke. "I
smoke when I'm depressed," she said.
Pomerleau said if the relationship
between smoking and depression is
causal, it is most likely that depressed
people use nicotine to briefly relieve a
"blue feeling" prompted by depression.
"To know that smoking
causes depression
makes me just be like,
'oh, another negative
effect!"
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But many say the study will not affect
their habits, regardless of the results.
" I know there are so many negative
factors in smoking. To know that smok-
ing causes depression makes me just be
like, 'Oh, another negative effect!' said
LSA senior Haejin King, who has been
smoking for over a year. "It wouldn't
affect me in any big way."
Pomerleau said the study is not being
done to deter people from smoking but
instead to improve medical knowledge
of the relationship.
"The implication of this study is to
better advise smokers with a history of 4
depression," he said. "We're trying to
better understand them. This is a study
of individuals."
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