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Clinic emphasizes safe feet for diabetics DI TUESDAY The Lima News i i A I 50 cents daily ii5o Sunday June 24 2003 HIGH COURT RULES ON AIRMATIVE ACTION 11 I 1 'I' 4 I 1 1 vL iSMs a 'O zy i br Lima studying school traffic Speed limit sign changes will be made By JIM SABIN jMblnlimanewscom 419 993 2091 LIMA The city intends to do a full traffic study around the new Lima Senior High School and make speed limit and sign changes where needed but will probably wait until the school is close to open ing next year to do it The traffic commission tabled a request to reduce speed limits now along North and Market streets alongside the school which is slated to open in August 2004 City En gineer Kirk Niemeyer said a full study will be done and any changes must be in com pliance with the Ohio Depart ment of Transportation Changingthe speed limits now he said would be largely ignored by drivers The speed limit is now 35 miles per hour on each may pay attention to it for a few days but after that increase their speed It really have any effect until the school he said The city is actually looking at all of its school buildings particularly the new ones under construction or recently finished While the changes have been largely made get ting signs up and streets marked is still being done Niemeyer said Besides those changes the city also will study where stu dents are walking to get to school and set up the appropri ate crosswalks if any are needed he said hurdle that we have to get across is making it consis tent throughout the city so the police department can enforce he said The studies are ongoing as the city has the time and money to pursue them he said Jackie Bray (far left) of Ridgewood NJ and Michelle Un of Atlanta hug Monday on the University of Michi gan campus in Ann Arbor The two were part of a rally celebrating the Supreme Court's decision Monday to uphold affirmative action Bray Is a senior at the university and Un recently graduated Supreme Court upholds of affirmative action ByANNEGEARAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON In its most sig nificant statement about race in a gen eration a divided Supreme Court al lowed the colleges and uni versities to select students based in part on race ruling Monday that di verse classrooms mold good citizens and strong leaders The court emphasized that race can not be the overriding factor but a ma jority acknowledged a broad social value in encouraging all races to learn and work together order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citi zenry it is necessary that the path to INSIDE: ANALYSIS: A breakdown of the opinions in the ruling A4PORN ILTERS: The court ruled the government can force Internet filtersonlibrariesA4 leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and Justice Sandra Day wrote for the 5 4 majority At issue was whether admissions policies that give one racial group an edge unconstitutionally discriminate against other groups In two decisions involving the Uni versity of Michigan the court under scored that racial quotas are unconsti tutional but left room for the public universities and by extension other public and private institutions to seek ways to take race into account court has in essence provided the nation with a road map on how to construct affirmative action programs in higher education that are constitu tionally NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said The court preserved the rules outlined 25 years ago in a landmark ruling that underpin the consideration of race at in stitutions or gatherings as diverse as military academies corporate board rooms and campus leadership retreats COURTA7 Greeks probe possible terror links to ship loaded with explosives By THEODORA TONGAS The Associated Press PLATIYALI Greece A rusting cargo ship was placed under heavy guard Monday as officials struggled to unravel its last voyage: Were hundreds of tons of explosives below decks linked to terrorism or simply a business deal gone bad? The Greek coast guard im pounded the Baltic Sky and army demolition experts secured its cargo of 750 tons of indus trial grade explosives and 8000 detonators that documents say were bound for Sudan The vessel was forced to an chor at an obscure Greek port Sunday after wandering the Mediterranean Sea for nearly six weeks much of it under international surveillance Its crew five Ukrainians and two Azerbaijanis face charges that include entering Greek waters without announc ing their hazardous cargo It should have declared that it was sailing with a cargo that was like an atomic Mer chant Marine Minister Giorgos Anomeritis said Making sense of the meandering journey may take sometime The inquiry is complicated by the murky world of shipping where the true owners of a ship often hide behind offshore GREECEA7 Silver screens to shine again in Van Wert Lima Van Wert residents rallying behind theater owners Cheaper alternative for movie lovers ready to open INDEX wwwllmanewscom f' 1 1 5 By JIM LANGHAM Lima News correspondent By GREG SOWINSKI gsowinskillnianewscom 419 993 2090 SW GREG SOWINSKI The Lima News Matt Roark stands outside the Eastgate Dollar Movies MX 4: Read amily page for a look at Star Spangled Spectacular and other ourth of July events in the region "5: BUSINESS B5 6 UWYU CLASSIIED MMwaiMMaatmaaCS OBITUARIES HMiiuiiiMHWHHiitt C0MICSM DM REOKMSIKTE Rl 4 C0WMENTIWYmJW SPORTS Cl 8 MM NEWS INWIIHSmiHiWHI hM) jREOWJE WSHMHIIIIWIlWllliUllllAI LINDSAY STEINER The Lima News Jim Boyd of Van Wert stands Inside the lobby of the Van Wert Cinemas on Monday afternoon Boyd and his wife Joyce own the cinemas and hope to have three screens open by November The recently formed task help the Boyds In addition local force under the direction of the residents are conductingafund 28 pages 4 sections rph WEura TOQAYt Sunny Highs near 90 Clear skies in the evening hours with lows in the upper 60s si! IM st 51 LIMA Cheapskates par ents and anyone with a buck no longer have a reason to avoid the movie theatre Eastgate Dollar Movies plans to open riday if everything goes by schedule The cinema will offer movies at an afford able rate said Matt Roark a general manager for Teicher Theatre of Troy the company that operates the cinemas town you have peo ple who afford to see the movies right when they come he said By waiting two to three months for the big hits to pass through theatres movie lovers can save a lot of money Roark said The average ticket at a first SBSVS 41 ft ftO WS 4 mention popcorn and a drink Eastgate that Is scheduled to open this weekend no cinema VAN WERT Residents of the Van Wert area are uniting their efforts to help a couple rebuild a cinema complex and drive in theater after both businesses were destroyed in the Nov 10 2002 tornado The Van Wert Entertain ment Task orce is helping Jim and Joyce Boyd owners of the Van Wert Cinemas and the Ridgeway Drive In in their ef forts to rebuild their business the tornadoes the Boyds made a moderate income from the theaters and were working towards paying off the loan used to expand the cine mas from two to five said JD Bruewer who is head ing up the fund raising effort the tornado they are struggling to rebuild and get Community Improvement Cor raisingauctionAug2at Trinity back to even We want to help poration has established the riends Church in Van Wert them get back to where they Van Wert County Entertain to were before the tornado ment and Recreation und to 0 4 i i.