0 Page 2-The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 18, 1991 Calvin and Hobbes by BillWatterson Bridge Club competes for title by Garrick Wang PAD, 4N O U LtEYIKLNh DCR~ OVEAR SOLVE WE~ PROBEMS? 4. r 4, 0 ' 4 t ' I NRY GRoN-UPS . kJT Daily Staff Reporter m "i ' w1', I I Dooder State College I'M TAKING A GREAT NEW.. COURfl DAVE. MOLECULAR PAR- TIC.LE PHYSICS. c ISN'T THAT WITHI PRO- FESOR KEN LEV? I YAM! HE'S MY ROLE MODEL! A TRVE LIBERAL. HE WAS ATC WODSTOCK , HE LED PEACE MARCHES-..THE M'ANBURNT HIS DRAFT CARD! G 1> -1- 50 Y~OU WILL BUILD THE FOR 20 MIL- MOLECULAR LION 8UCKS PARTICLE DEATH HOW CAN JI BEAM, PRO- SAY NO?! FESSOR KENLEV? ---- eI I ACT LKE TN V KNOW WHAT 1E.URE DOING. - By Alan Landau BESIDES, THIS WILL GUARANTEE MY TENURE." Ii Four University students will be competing as a team against five other collegiate teams in the North American Collegiate Bridge Championship title next month. "I'm looking forward to compet- ing with other schools that have won their regional competitions," said Ning Li, an electrical engi- neering graduate student and a member of the team. "I hope we can play well and win the champi- onship." Li said four members of the University's Bridge Club qualified to compete in the championship by earning the highest aggregate score in its region. The competing schools were assigned into five conferences based on their geo- graphic location. The Bridge Club held a campus competition last November to qualify for the title. The campus competition con- sisted of 10 pairs of club members divided into two equal teams. The pairs played against each other to determine the two team winners. Fan Jiang, a computer science graduate student and Li's partner, said the winning teams' aggregate scores were submitted to the American Contract Bridge League. The national organization used the scores to determine the regional champions. Li said the five regional cham- pions and an at-large team will compete against each other in At- lantic City, N.J., next month. According to a press release, each team will play the other five competing teams twice. The four highest scoring teams will then advance into the semifinal round. The four schools that advance will be paired and play two matches to determine the finalists. The finalists will compete in a single elimination "knockout" round to determine the national champion. Jiang said the other five teams competed for the championship last year. This year's competition includes Harvard, Stanford, Rice, Cal Tech, and Virginia. Jiang said he and his team- mates will play some mock games before traveling to Atlantic City. He hopes a national championship will attract students to join the Bridge Club. "It's a fun game ... we would like more to join and enjoy the game," Jiang said. Former Contra 'Comandante' slain " 1 f / / MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - An official from the Sandinista- controlled security police yester- day promised a full-scale probe into the slaying of former Contra chief Enrique Bermudez, whose death cast doubt on government assurances for the safety of other rebels who laid down their arms. But a right-wing radio station blamed the slaying of Bermudez late Saturday on Sandinista sym- pathizers, some of whom cheered the news of the killing. Officials said they had no sus- pects and no one claimed respon- sibility for the killing. Bermudez was shot outside his car near the downtown Interconti- nental Hotel Saturday night. The assassin reportedly fled on foot. Vice Interior Minister Jose Pal- lais said it appeared Bermudez was followed, and was shot twice from a distance of five to six feet. Taxi driver Rene Sanchez said a man looked at the body and said, "He is 380, Enrique Bermudez." Bermudez's nom de guerre was "Comandante 380." Bermudez was a colonel in the brutal National Guard that propped up dictator Anastasio Somoza and was Nicaragua's military attache in Washington when the Sandin- istas toppled Somoza in 1979. Sports Minister Carlos Garcia said the killing had diminished the safety of ex-Contras. SUMMER DAY CAMP STAFF OPPORTUNITIES IN ChICAGO'S NOIITIIERN SURURBS Are you interested in a rewarding and challenging position as a day camp group leader working with children? CAMP JOBS give you career skillls in communications, supervision, problem solving, leadership and decision making. INTERVIEWS ON THURS. FEB 21 10-3 MICHIGAN UNION, MICHIGAN ROOM call for information or stop by: 1-708-913-1818 CIRCLE M DAY CAMP Wheeling, IL DISCOVERY DAY CAMP Lincolnshire, IL RESTAURANT -CHEF JAN 26 years of experience TOP GOLD MEDAL WINNER OF DETROIT COBO HAL NATIONAL CONITES Sponsored by Michigan Restaurant Association Michigan Chefs 0o Cuisine Association ARTS Continued from page 1 sion will be combined. "As far as the administration is concerned, the councils will be merged," Mitchell said. Goldman said that the gover- nor's proposals - if passed - will change the structure of the arts in Michigan. "The bottom line is that the arts will look completely different in the state from today," Goldman said. MCA had a general fund of $13.5 million this year, Goldman said, $700,000 of which came from the federal government's National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Detroit Symphony Orchestra receives $2.6 million from MCA funds. Grants to other art programs total $9.1 million. The remaining funds are used for administrative purposes, Goldman said. If the Commission on Art in Public Places - which received $400,000 from the state last year - and MCA were combined, they would receive a proposed total budget of $900,000, Mitchell said. The combined councils would re- vamp their missions to promote and find private funding for arts in Michigan - instead of actually doling out funds. This would mean grant money would be eliminated and art orga- nizations throughout Michigan would lose portions of their bud- gets. In addition to the direct effects of losing state funding, some NEA grants would also be in jeopardy, Goldman said. She explained that in order to receive many federal grants, they must be matched in dollar amounts by the state. "It's very likely that we will lose federal dollars because we will not be able to match them," Goldman said. Even the current 10.4 percent cuts will make it im- possible to match federal funds, she said. People Dancing, an Ann Arbor based contemporary and modern dance company, is one group that would be directly affected if the state is unable to match federal art funds. People Dancing was one of seven Michigan arts programs cho- sen as part of a $350,000 devel- opment program sponsored by the NEA. The company received $10,000 this year to plan how it would use its share of the funds, but it is unlikely there will be state funds to actually implement the@ program next year. "If there are significant cuts what will happen to that pro- gram?" People Dancing Board of Directors President Diane Rosen- blatt said. "If there's no Michigan Council for the Arts, the develop- ment program is done for - it's gone." In tomorrow's paper: How vari- ous Ann Arbor art organizations plan to handle the recommended state cuts, and the community's re- sponse to the proposed reductions. GULF Continued from page 1 in Washington. If a deal is struck in three days, it will probably emerge from negotiations involving the Soviet Union and Iran. A Soviet official said their pro- posals resemble Iran's, which re- the next GOING OUR WAY? 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Soviet officials were initially encouraged by Iraq's offer last Fri- day to withdraw from Kuwait, but they later said the many conditions Baghdad attached to the offer make it unacceptable. Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz is meeting today with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Earlier news reports said Gor- bachev asked President Bush not to start a ground war until Aziz concludes the Moscow talks. Updating the war: During one pre-dawn skirmish, an American Apache attack heli- copter firing Hellfire missiles de- stroyed two American military ve- hicles, killing two soldiers and wounding six, the U.S. Command said. It was the worst friendly-fire accident since Jan. 29, when a U.S. warplane hit a Marine recon- naissance vehicle during a furious tank battle along the Saudi-Kuwait border and seven American sol- diers were killed. Also, travelers reaching Nicosia yesterday gave vivid accounts of an anti-Saddam Hussein protest by as many as 5,000 people in Iraq earlier this month. 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