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WEATHER 150 .2 .1 Bbckhawks Red Wings NEXT TODAY: U-M regents meet in a closed session to review confidential information in candidate applications. In the afternoon, they will announce their list of finalists, which could vary from the finalists recommended Thursday by an advisory committee. MONDAY: Finalists begin lVklay campus visits. Regents will interview them in public and each will attend a town meeting and a social event. Regents hope to select a president by late November.

recommend five candidates, but one dropped out late Wednesday, a day after Washtenaw County Trial Judge Melinda Morris ruled that regents could not hold private meetings with finalists. The ruling came in a suit brought by the Free Press, Ann Arbor News and Detroit News, challenging the private sessions and other closed-door meetings as violations of the state's open meetings laws. Lehman said the unidentified candidate withdrew after telling him, "I cannot go forward with such a process, because it no longer provides any opportunity for candid conversations about sensitive issues." Faulkner said he hadn't planned to apply for a new job until he was approached by consultant Malcolm MacKay. "I am not involved in any other search, anywhere, for any other job," Faulkner said Please see U-M, Page 6A of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Carol Christ, 52, vice chancellor, provost and professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.

Larry Faulkner, 51, provost, vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jeffrey Lehman, chairman of the advisory committee and dean of the U-M Law School, said: "Each of the four people is a person of highest integrity who knows and loves the public university. Each is committed to the special responsibilities of leading a public institution." And he added: "They all have wonderful senses of humor." The advisory committee was scheduled to By mabyanne George Free Press Ann Arbor Bureau The eagerly awaited list of top prospects to lead the University of Michigan contained one less name than expected but was released with the appropriate amount of maize-and-blue emotion on Thursday. During a three-hour meeting filled with testimonials of love for U-M, a 12-member advisory committee offered the Board of Regents its Final Four Lee Bollinger, 50, a former U-M Law School dean who now is provost and professor of government at Dartmouth College. Stanley Chodorow, 53, provost and professor A 1 1 Fair, committed parents can surmount complications and raise happy children in two households, experts say.

bimpson mostly white Mistrial bid denied; judge sees no racism 1 ff I I I 7 I 3ir 'J tdt lJ iyj Braves win, 15-0, and go to Series Tom Glavine pitches Atlanta over the St Louis Cardinals. The Braves will open the World Series on Saturday in New York. SPORTS 1C Special section on the marathon It's all about hitting the road to improvement As well, the pull-out section on Sunday's Detroit Free PressMazda International Marathon has all the facts PAGE IF Fright est Time for the Halloween-season list of haunted houses and other fun spots you can visit LOCAL NEWS 68 A boost for Detroit The city's bond rating rises, meaning it will cost Detroit less to raise money. LOCAL NEWS IB Magazine folds Detroit Monthly is calling it quits, leaving the metropolis as the only one in the top 10 markets without a city magazine. BUSINESS 8A That science guy Bill Nye of children's television comes to town STEPHANIE SINCWIRAetrolt Free Press From left: Jake and Josh Waldecker divide their time between the two homes of their parents Michelle Klein and Tom Waldecker.

Dad says, "This is not my first choice of how to raise kids but it's the best way we have." BY LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press SANTA MONICA, Calif. In a decision sure to fan the. racial tensions surrounding the OJ. Simpson case, a judge refused on Thursday to declare a mistrial and seated a majqrity-white jury to determine whether Simpson was responsible for the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Earlier Thursday, Simpson's defense team had demanded a mistrial, alleging that lawyers for the victims' families were dismissing prospective jurors because they were black.

But Thomas Lambert, an attorney for the families, gave other reasons. After lengthy questioning, Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fuji-saki said he was convinced the challenges were not "solely on the basis of race" and rejected a mistrial. A few hours later, the judge seated a jury of eight whites, two blacks, one Hispanic and one man who is half-Asian and half-black. Seven jurors are women. Two of the whites said during questioning that Simpson was "probably guilty" but that they believed they could render a fair decision.

Selection of eight alternate jurors was supposed to begin Thursday. However, undisclosed problems developed. One of the sworn jurors was summoned into the judge's chambers. Two prospective alternates also went inside. Another prospective alternate was dismissed when she disclosed a hardship problem.

Sources said misconduct allegations had been raised against a black juror who was likely to be dismissed today. Fujisaki appeared ready to rule on the problems, but deferred until this morning after plaintiffs attorney Dan-Please see SIMPSON, Page 16A Sunday, with haring custody can work his zany but 1 1 leffective take scientific By Jennifer Dixon And ariana e. Cha Free Press Staff Writers or 14-year-old Jake Waldecker, who has spent most of his life being shuttled between his divorced parents, joint custody has its University of Michigan. The parents' fight made its way to the Michigan Supreme Court and back to Macomb County Circuit Court before they agreed to split custody 50-50. Fathers' rights advocates on Thursday hailed the settlement as the best possible arrangement for the child, but women's rights advocates and other experts asked why Ireland should have to drop out of a prestigious university and give up full custody of her child.

Legal and child development Please see CUSTODY, Page 16A Thursday. "If I lived with one parent, I'd miss the other. This way, I've grown up with both a mom and a dad and I'm not missing out on anything." Jake is one of thousands of children nationwide who divide their time between their parents. Now, Maranda Ireland-Smith, the focus of a celebrated custody battle, is about to join their ranks. Professionals who work closely with parents who share custody say it can work if there is good communication, mutual respect and the children come first.

If the parents are miserable, the kids likely won't be happy. Maranda's parents, Jennifer Ireland and Steve Smith, who never married, agreed Wednesday to share custody equally and end a bitter fight over their 5-year-old daughter. She'll spend Tuesdays and Thursdays with her 21-year-old mother and Mondays and Wednesdays with her 22-year-old father. On weekends, they'll take turns caring for a little girl who drew national attention when a judge in 1994 awarded Smith custody in part because Maranda was in day care while Jennifer Ireland attended the ups and downs. Sometimes he leaves homework and permission slips at one house and has to get a ride back to pick them up.

But he likes having two adults to turn to for advice. "It can get a little frustrating sometimes, but it works," he said WEEKEND -A INSIDE Bridge 15D Business 8A Classified Index 2E Comics, Crossword 140 Editorials 14A Feature Page 8E Horoscope 8E Jumble 7E The List! 12D Movie Guide 2D Names Faces 16D Obituaries 4B Sports 1C Television 8D The Way We Live 1E Weekend 1D Your Money 10A Volume 166, Number 166 1996 Detroit Free Press Inc. Printed in the United States Find us on the Web SPONSORS CAN PLAY, TOO HI I I 1 I I tm I fjf I 7 boards that players race past. Bosch, QVC and Yamazen logos decorate car doors. It's EA Sports' first auto racing video with real ads.

"Most video games use made-up sponsors," said John Caponigro, president of Sports Management Network, which secured sponsors for the video. Here, "Everything's real." Producers are giddy: Since its September launch, the game has sold more than 200,000 copies. At $59.95 a shot, that's $12 million in sales. And, although advertisers got a free ride this time, they may not in the next Please see GAMES, Page 16A Teen boys race cars past billboards with real-life advertising conjunction with Sports Management Network of West Bloomfield Township, which represents racing legend Mario Andretti. In Andretti Racing '96, fiery crashes and breakneck velocity are pure fantasy, but the sponsors are real.

Ads for Texaco, Toyota, McDonald's and Champion Spark Plug emblazon bill BY RACHEL KONRAD Free Press Business Writer As they maneuver cars at fantastic speeds through the tight turns of the hot-selling video game Andretti Racing '96, young video junkies might not care that they are prime targets of a clever new advertising approach. Teenage boys, the most avid video game players, are a notoriously difficult group for advertisers to reach. They're channel surfers who don't sit still except perhaps for a hot new video game. Enter Andretti '96, the race-car video game produced by EA Sports in the pw li www.freep.com www.autoauth.com RICHARD LEEDetroit Free Press In Andretti '96, fiery crashes and breakneck velocity are pure fantasy, but the advertisers in the popular new video game are real..