Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 15, 1991 Calvin and Hobbes V'pDAY EoR SN~OW A4D TEtL 16o. K o'y~VoNE. ofMY obeN PATENT ENtlN JWUNVONS! ..i - z I I tM KND AN W'NVS6t^ CRE.TlNtZER ONE. SNAOT'RE H VICTIM A 8 88tNG SU'AP, A DLSANUTCR O~a . oil SURE, CA tI! GC USA BRE~j( iP 4. 1 by Bill Watterson AS R iA1.,D PROVES, tCS 4vtTE EFFECTIVE, EVEN AT LONG Rl NGE . n _. . .. Y" g 5 e N 5 z < d C 0 T T YES 3 +s LSA-SG to honor 16 student war reservists with plaques 0 by Rachel Freedman University students who served in the Persian Gulf War will be met with praise and honor from the LSA Student Government (LSA- SG) when they return from the Middle East. LSA-SG will send letters and plaques to the homes of all students who fought in the Gulf War. The letters and the plaques honor the reservists for their ser- vice and dedication and express the University's gratitude. "LSA Student Government has been thinking about the idea for a while," LSA Student Government President Joe Sciarotta said, "At first, we thought of sending care packages. But, the process became too difficult and we encountered too much bureaucratic red tape try- ing to send them." Sciarotta said the letters were sent to the homes of 16 reservists this week, along with a cover let! ter from the University. The plaques will be sent in a week or two. As of this week, none of the sixteen reservists have returned home, he said. booder State College .SO'YOU EI.LAS ARE LQOKII'JG FOR A THRiEE $E D ROM APARTMEN'T, 'JTtLTtES INXVUDED3, SPA- CtOU, . ..MAYBE A BACK- { SPEND NAWD YU'LL rO4tc1 $450~rH ki ' AroSN ! AvE SOM"E liEALJTlFVL RAI3lT BIUTCHES IN PETPOLT iN c j , THAT PRANGE. by Alan Landau S T5 A FIX-r ERTU HS ..[ C []O C P0T ENTIAL. oo o o c ° 8: g x xa - C C-.'. STANFORD Continued from page 1 $45,250 was spent for a weekend trip to Lake Tahoe for the university Board of Trustees and their spouses. University officials claim that these expenditures are permitted because the government's grants may be used to support "general administration in support of research." However, the university has al- ready repayed the government more than $500,000, and has agreed to reimburse the government for other expenditures deemed inappropriate. Frank Mankiewicz, the attorney representing Stanford, said, "There is no factual evidence of the misuse of funds." "We payed the government back for funds in question, and if need be, we will pay them more, but we maintain that we acted according to research grant standards," he said in a press statement. Stanford is also under investiga- tion for failing to be audited since 1981. Private universities are sup- posed to be audited every two years. "Stanford is changing its accounting procedures," said Mankiewicz. "Our old method was not fool-proof. We made some mistakes. Our new method won't be perfect either but maybe it will reduce the number of errors." Committee members were un- available for comment. 0 0 di *~~'.:St.* 3 Y V S day, 1991 BAKER Continued from page 1 that the allied victory over Iraq opened "a window of opportunity," to move ahead on the basis of two U.N. Security Council resolutions adopted at the end of the 1967 and 1973 Mideast wars. The resolutions imply the ac- ceptance of Israel by other Mideast nations and call for with- drawal from occupied territories. "There is a better chance than there was before of real reconcilia- tion, real peace," Baker said after seven hours of talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad that ended past midnight. .Baker acknowledged that none of eight Arab leaders he had met with over six days was ready to make peace with Israel. The eight ranged from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to Assad and included representatives of Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Lebanon and Qatar. Baker also met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, with a group of Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem who said they were authorized by Yasser Arafat, Chair of the Palestine Liberation Organi- zation, to meet with him and with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fares Bouez in Damascus. Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are flowin'-with green beer, of course-all weekend at Ashley's! Kick off spring this fine St. Patrick's day- we're open at noon on Sunday. And remember... Ashley's has Harp Lager on draught! Make Ashley's your pub on State! -- - A Soviet delegation including several Sponsored and organized by the directors, film scholars, and representa- University of Michigan Program in tives of the American-Soviet Film Initia- Film and Video Studies and the 29th tive will be present at the film screening. Ann Arbor Film Festival. CANDIDATES Continued from page 1 were Councilmembers Ann Marie Coleman (D-First Ward), Nelson Meade (D-Third Ward), and Joe Borda (R-Fifth Ward). Coun- cilmember Jerry Schleicher (R- Fourth Ward) was out of town. The only councilmember not running for reelection this year is Terry Martin (R-Second Ward), who nevertheless attended the fo- rum. Robert Barry, professor of engineering at Lawrence Techno- logical University in Southfield, will run for the Republican seat in her ward instead. Joining the incumbents were: Valerie Ackerman, a Greens can- didate running for the second ward; Barry; David Damroze, a Libertarian running for the third ward; Kirk Dodge, a Republican running for the third ward; Daniel Klimaszewski, a Democrat run- ning for the second ward; and Da- lynn Park, a Greens candidate running for the third ward. Libertarian candidate Emily Salvette, running for the second ward, was unable to attend. : 338 South State Ann Arbor (at William) * 996-9191 --1 Open 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. (Sunday noon to midnight)' PRIVATIZING Continued from page 1 Privatization Council and a former Executive Vice-President of the Michigan State Chamber of Com- merce, defined privatization as the "alternative delivery of public ser- vice." He used a number of exam- ples to illustrate the wastefulness of public services and the financial benefits of privatization. The Michigan State Supreme Court, for example, employed 85 workers to handle its transcripts. A private company offered to take over the job for no money except 10 percent of the costs it could cut. $100 million was saved, Mills said. Mills also challenged critics of privatization. For example, in re- gard to concerns that privatizing public services would lead to cor- ruption, he said, "By competitive bidding and regular reporting (of the performance of the contractor), it would be much harder to give (the contract) to a good old boy" who didn't deserve it. DeGiuseppe, who graduated from Michigan last December with a degree in economics, focused on the benefits of privatization of Ann Arbor, specifically in waste pickup and disposal, and parking structures. He said Ann Arbor projected a $1.7 million deficit for garbage pickup even before the defeat of a plan to charge residents a dollar for every bag of trash collected. To solve the problem he sug- gested loadshedding, a technique used in Traverse City. DeGiuseppe said he was not criticizing public employees, but thought they should not be exempt from competition. 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