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E-TECH D4 Internet sites that can guide you to big savings Tffl? IMflMWATI FMOI1TOTO CINCINNAT1.COM FINAL NEWS 50 CENTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Supreme Court splits twin rulings on race and diversity Upfront Must reads inside today's Enquirer 5-4 ruling upholds considering race in Michigan law school admissions: The justices affirmed the school's "narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in the educational benefits" of a diverse student body. MAJORITY: O'Connor, Stevens, Souter, Glnsburg, Breyer MINORITY: Rehnqulst, Scalla, Thomas, Kennedy 6-3 ruling strikes down Michigan undergraduate admissions policy: Justices showed a wariness with the concept of quotas in a point system in which applicants were rated on various factors, including race, which violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. MAJORITY: Rehnqulst, O'Connor, Scalla, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer MINORITY: Stevens, Souter, Glnsburg Court anptois WHAT IT MEANS The University of Michigan must revise Its undergraduate admissions policy and schools nationwide will likely follow suit to conform to the ruling. WHAT'S NEXT The decisions could affect public- and private-sector hiring policies, racial set-asides in government contracts and other pending court cases involving race and diversity. tat states mm quota ii Decisions the biggest since Bakke p.

It l-v Dave Matthews fans party down at Riverbend The Dave Matthews Band played the first night of a two-night stand Monday at Riverbend. The scene on the lawn before the concert looked more like an American Eagle ad than a rock concert. DMB fans are clearly not Deadheads. TEMPO Dl Online: Concert review at Clnclnnatl.com. West's draft stock plummets Xavier's David West almost certainly will become the lowest-drafted Associated Press College Player of the Year in the 33-year history of the award during Thursday's NBA draft.

But overcoming low expectations is nothing new for him. SPORTS CI Dean announces presidential run Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has formally announced his candidacy 'for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He has vaulted into the top tier of Democratic contenders with fiery rhetoric that urges voters to overcome their "profound fear and distrust" of the political system. NATION A2 Also Open house celebrates the return from Iraq of 100 Marines from the Tristate.

METRO Bl Wimbledon qualifier ousts defending champ Lleyton Hewitt in one of the biggest upsets in the tournament's history. SPORTS CI IV i By David Stout The New York Times WASHINGTON In its most important statements on racial preferences in a quarter-century, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the admissions policy of the University of Michigan law school on Monday, finding that minority applicants may be given an edge, but struck down the part of the university's undergraduate-admissions system that relies on a point system. The pair of rulings did not go as far as opponents of racial preferences would have liked, nor perhaps as far as people committed to race-conscious admissions policies would have wished. But taken together, the twin decisions were the most important rulings on the subject since the landmark Bakke decision of 1978, which rejected rigid quotas but recognized race as a "factor" in admissions and hiring decisions. The rulings are expected to have wide impact through private colleges and universities, businesses and other areas of everyday life even though, technically, they address only admissions policies at public institutions.

Admission policies at Tristate schools differ by institution, but no local college will likely have to change its written rules or the way it considers minority student applications because of Monday's decision by the Supreme Court While several allow race to be used as one of many factors in either undergraduate or law school admission, none uses a point system similar to that of the University of Michigan. Ronald A Crutcher, Miami's provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, considered the decision a victory. But, he said, the debate is not over. "What youH see is a deluge of challenges," he said. "We have not come to grips in America with the fact that people of color are still not given consideration because of the content of their character.

Race, ethnicity, color are still factors." In its 6-to-3 ruling on undergraduate admissions, the justices struck down a point system under which applicants were rated on various factors, including race. In so ruling, the court showed the wariness with which it has regarded the general concept of "quotas" in recent years. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, The Associated PressJOHN F. MARTIN On the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, students celebrate the Supreme Court's decision upholding the principle of admissions policies that take race into account.

They are (from left) Madelina Young of Buffalo, N.Y.; Carolina Saenz of Washington, D.C.; Patricia Dyer of Birmingham, and Jane Rhee of Tucson, Ariz. Local colleges step up minority recruiting More coverage and opinions Greater Cincinnati students are as divided as the Supreme Court on racial preferences. A14 Putting the court's ruling into perspective. A14 Timeline: Court and administration actions on related issues since 1978. A14 Excepts from the rulings.

A14 Bush: Diversity won. A14 Tristate universities' admissions policies, reactions. A15 Editorial: Court could have done more to clarify how to achieve diversity goals. B10 Local Voices panel reacts to rulings. BIO Those programs, local admissions officials say, may have led to the spike in applications that could lead to a spike in enrollment as well.

Numbers aren't final, but Xavier and UC already are showing increases in minority enrollments this fall. "When I came in my first year, in every class I was the only student of color, period," says Xavier student body president Natasha Hamilton, a Cleveland senior studying history and political sci- By Kristina Goetz The Cincinnati Enquirer Minority applications for fall classes are up 73 percent at Xavier University. They're up 21 percent at the University of Cincinnati and 19 percent at Miami University. In Greater Cincinnati, universities awaited the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on race-conscious admissions policies by aggressively recruiting minority students.

Monday's ruling upholding race as a factor to determine who is admitted to college isn't expected to cause dramatic changes in the way local schools select their students. None of them admits students based on the sort of "points system" ruled unconstitutional at the University of Michigan. But local colleges and universities have become more aggressive in recruiting minorities. The University of Michigan case has been a factor, local administrators say. But so, too, has been a national effort to bring more diversity to college campuses.

COMING WEDNESDAY Use your own noodles and cook up pasta salads that are better than "instant" FOOD See COURT, Page A15 See MINORITIES, Page A15 Vs '-it Standards for tires tightened WEATHER Hamas nears a truce deal Israel remains distrustful 3 High 91 Low 66 Mostly sunny. A Palestinian gunman wears the slogan, "Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa brigade, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" during a funeral for four Palestinians killed Monday in the northern Gaza town of Beit Ha-noun. Associated Press RICK BOWMER COMPLETE FORECAST: BL2 INDEX Four sections. 162nd year, No. 76 Lotteries B2 Abby 08 Business B5-9 Comics D6 Editorial BIO Kids' Comer .812 Movies D7 Obituaries B4 Sports CI TV D8 ready comply with the new standards.

NHTSA estimated that 5 to 11 percent of tires will have to be redesigned or modified to comply. The new requirements are expected to cost tire manufacturers $31.6 million. NHTSA said. The agency estimates they will save at least four lives and prevent 102 injuries each year. Under the new criteria, tires must be tested at 87, 93 and 99 miles per hour for 30 minutes at a time.

The current test is 75, 80 and 85 miles per hour. A tire will be considered compliant if there is no visual evidence of tread separating or cracking after the test, and the tire pressure isn't lower. By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press WASHINGTON Tires made for passenger cars and light trucks will be required to withstand new speed and endurance tests by 2007 in the first new federal safety standards for tires since 1967. Congress ordered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to make the changes in 2000 after the recall of millions of Firestone tires. "Without question, these new performance requirements will improve tire safety," said NHTSA Administrator Dr.

Jeffrey Runge. Most tires on the market al- fighting, with each saying, in effect, that the other must go first. An agreement by Palestinian militias to suspend their armed uprising could be a major breakthrough and a way out. However, Israeli officials remained deeply suspicious, saying a truce is just a ploy by militants to win time to prepare for more shootings and bombings. The terms of the emerging deal between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and the militias were not clear.

One Palestinian By Karin Laub The Associated Press JERUSALEM Hamas and other militant groups are on the verge of agreeing to halt attacks on Israelis, Palestinian officials said Monday, while Israel warned it may not accept what it considers a tactical cease-fire meant to give the militias time to regroup for more violence. A U.S.-backed peace plan, the "road map" to Palestinian statehood by 2005, has been hung up over the two sides' inability to end 33 months of Classified C10-18 First Run Classified CowngM, 2003. Tt Oflcmnat Enquirer three-month truce. Leaders of the smaller Islamic Jihad group are trying to persuade activists to accept a limited deal, but are facing stiff opposition, he said. Palestinian officials, in- i i ii u.

mediator said the truce will be open-ended and apply not only to Israel, but the West Bank and Gaza Strip a key condition for Israel. However, a leader of one of the armed groups said on condition of anonymity that Hamas will only accept a II See MIDEAST, Page A13 l09orioior it fr-idfriTr i'irr'" rr".