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LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1884 Th e La w r e n t ia n FRIDAY • JANUARY 9, 2004 • VOL CXXI, NO. 11 ■ WWW.LAWRENTIAN.COM LUCC candidate state Warch on weed / Page 4 SPORTS Vikes move up on ments/Page 2 FEATURES ranks/Page 8 LUCC institues online voting DeStasio awarded research grant Voyager system to $206,000 to allow voting at any study the effects time during electionof zebra mussels by Jonathan Isaacson in G reen Bay News Editor by Jonathan Isaacson Lawrence University News Editor Community Council convened Tuesday in a brief first meeting of Bart DeStasio, associate profes the term to discuss upcoming sor of biology, received a grant last council elections as well as change month from the University of in the bylaws and a potential conWisconsin Sea Grant Program to stitutional change. study the effects of the zebra mus The main item of discussion sel population in Green Bay. was the upcoming LUCC election DeStasio and student research to choose a new cabinet. The elec assistants will be compiling data tion will take place in the coming from previous studies with the data week, with a candidate forum on to be collected in the upcoming Sunday, January 11 at 3 p.m. in study to create computer models of Riverview Lounge. the effects of invading zebra mus The major change in elections sels, a species native to the Caspian this year is the institution of an Sea region of Asia, in Lake electronic voting option for stu Michigan's largest bay dents. In addition to the tradition The $206,000 grant will fund al paper ballot, students will be DeStasio's research and will allow able to vote using their account on two undergraduate students to join the university's Voyager system. the project as technicians and sum photo by Jonathan Isaacson Voting online will be available mer research assistants. The grant Lawrence biology Professor Bart DeStaso is shown here with a map of Lake Michigan. DeStasio will be leading a study starting Sunday evening at6 , will also support one graduate stu ofthe effects of the zebra mussel on Green Bay. after the candidate forum. Online dent at the University of Wisconsin voting will be accessible through at Green Bay. ent than the impact the small mus the fact that Green Bay, often con as an undergraduate. Thursday night. Paper ballots will One objective will be to con sels have had on other areas within sidered one of the most productive DeStasio's team will have data be available at Downer during struct a model that can be used in the Great Lakes region. fisheries in the Great Lakes chain, about the food web of the bay from Friday’s lunch and dinner hours conjunction with similar modeling In most areas where the zebra has been thoroughly studied. A con each summer throughout the eight and Saturday’s brunch and dinner efforts under way in Bay of Quinte mussels have been found, the water siderable amount of data will be ies, before the invasion of the zebra hours. in Lake Ontario and Oneida Lake becomes very clear and has very lit available to the researchers workmussel, as well as data from a few The council plans to use the in New York. tle food such as algae for native ing on this project. summers in the early nineties, school email system and fliers Towards this end, DeStasio and species. Consequently, the native Much of the data that the team immediately after the arrival of the around campus to help explain the Green Bay researchers will be species often go into decline. will use will come from the work of mussels. and facilitate the first year of working with researchers at "(In Green Bay] we're not seeing a retired Lawrence biology profes The zebra mussel was first dis online voting. Cornell University and the Ontario this," DeStasio said, "There is more sor, Sumner Richman. covered in the Great Lakes in 1988 In other business, the council Ministry of Natural Resources, algae than before." Richman, who taught at in Lake St. Claire, a relatively small unanimously approved a constitu attempting to further the under He said that the purpose of the Lawrence from the late fifties until lake situated between Lakes Huron tional change that states that bothstanding of the zebra mussels' study to be funded by the grant is to his retirement in 1995, received a and Erie, near Detroit. Since then, the Committee on Committees impact on the entire Great Lakes determine what is different about series of grants to study Green Bay. the zebra mussels have spread and the Finance Committee Chain. Green Bay, and why is it responding DeStasio, a Lawrence graduate,rapidly, making it into Green Bay should include a faculty member DeStasio explained that the the way that it is to the invasion. was a student of Richman's and by 1992, and lake Winnebago by whenever possible. impact of the zebra mussel in Green The research will be aided by participated in some of the research 1998. LUCC president Jacques Bay is apparently drastically differ Hacquebord explained his desire to see faculty representatives on the two committees stating that Alum confirmed as ambassador to India he felt the inclusion of a faculty member would add a dimension to by Andy Dolan He had previously served as said committees. News Editor Undersecretary for International Vice president Ned Connors Affairs for the Reagan and first added his sentiments that it is a Bush administrations. David Campbell Mulford, good idea to include faculty mem According to TajaNews.com, Lawrence class of 1959, became bers on the committees because Mulford's appointment "could the United States' ambassador to they would have experience with mean that the Bush India after being confirmed by a the university that stretches fur Administration is shifting from voice vote of the U.S. Senate last ther into the past and likely fur the political aspects of the Indo- December. ther into the future. American relationship which was Bush nominated Mulford last The change cannot be affected prominent during the stint of November to be Robert Blackwill's until the resolution is taken to the Robert Blackwill, to highlighting successor to the position. student body as a whole in an elec the economic aspects, though the Blackwill joined the National tion. For change to be made, two political side of the relationship Security Council after a two-year thirds of the voters must approve will continue to get considerable term as ambassador. it. The passage by the council attention." Mulford's official title is clears the way for the change to be Aditi Phadnis notes this as Ambassador Extraordinary and brought to the student body. well regarding Mulford's appoint Plenipotentiary of the United Also approved unanimously ment saying, "[M]any feel this will States of America to India. approved a bylaw change regard take the focus away from the polit Mulford currently serves as ing the institution of online voting. ical relations between India and Chairman International and A language change in the bylaw the US to emphasize on deepening Member of the Executive Board makes it applicable to whatever economic relations." for Credit Suisse First Boston in voting system might be used. The Phadnis notes this may not be London, England. He previously change was made due to the possi a preferable approach, stating, served as Chairman and Chief bility of a new program being "Mulford's record in straightening Executive Officer for the same developed specifically for the elec out economic relations between David Mulford (left) pictured here with Romanian president Ion lliescu, was company. tions. recently appointed US ambassador to India. Multord graduated trom Lawrence in 1959. See A m b a s s a d o r on page 2 THE LAWRENTIAN 2 NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2004 Ambassador: alum D EC ISIO N2 0 0 4 : gets prestigious nod LUCC Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections continued from page 1 vent injury-and I submit my at Do Something Inc., in which I helped the US and other countries - candidacy for coordinate charitable for Kenneth Cole and our vexed laun Argentina, for instance...is such LUCC President Def Jam Records. In the summer of 2003 I dry situation. that it might be best for India if on Jan. 7, 2004. was a marshal for the 40th anniversary As your next Mulford were to concentrate on Because of my celebration for Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" President, I will strengthening Indo-US political past experiences, speech and the March for Jobs and do my level best relations and leave the economy I feel that I am Freedom that preceded Dr. King's speech. to ensure that all part well alone." most qualified Currently I am a member of LU's Model of your concerns He goes on to say that, for the position. UN chapter. are addressed; "Mulford was assistant to Nicholas During my Joel Rogers that your ideas Brady, US Treasury secretary high school years are pursued; and from 1988 to 1992, and was I took part in above all, that involved in evolving the Brady many endeavors. your government Plan that replaced the region's I served as My name is governs. commercial bank debt with trad Junior and Bill Dalsen, and I able securities, reopened the inter Senior Class president; I was the secretary would like to national capital markets to Latin and vice-president of our FFA chapter; I serve as your My name is Tariq Engineer and I am aAmerica and set the scene for the served as vice-president of the Science next LUCC junior government/philosophy major.