The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 17, 1988- Page 3 Students evacuate MLB after bomb scare By MICAH SCHMIT Late yesterday morning, the midterm history Prof. Gerald Lin- derman's was administering "disinte- grated into 430 little pieces" after the Ann Arbor Police Department re- ceived a bomb threat at the MLB. The 10:30 a.m. threat was made by a male caller who told officers, "I'm tired of all the racism that's go- ing on, there's a bomb in the Modern Languages Building and I will make a statement at noon," Lt. Gary Kistka said. Six or seven Ann Arbor police officers and University public safety officials found nothing in a search of bathrooms and other public areas in the MLB for suspicious looking packages, said Bob Pifer, assistant director of public safety. "I don't recall there ever being a bomb in the past 15 years, and we've receive hundreds of threats every year," said Kistka. He said the police department al- ways recommends evacuating any building when a bomb threat is re- ceived. But the University Depart- ment of Public Safety decided not to authorize the buildings' evacuation and left the decision of whether or not to hold class to each of the indi- Vidual course departments, Pifer said. Pifer speculated that if the caller's cause was legitimate, the b omb threat itself was probably the "noon statement" which the caller said he would make. Professor Linderman's history class was evacuated at 11:30 a.m. when teaching assistants informed the more than 400 students - who were in the middle of his midterm - about the bomb threat and subsequent evacuation. History 161 students Colleen Tighe and Carrie Detavernier, both LSA juniors, said they were disap- pointed because they had prepared for this midterm. Detavernier added, "I was jammin } too." But one student was heard saying, "Thank god for terrorists, I wasn't ready for my midterm." See BOMB, Page 7 U-Mass protesters meet with chancellor at sit-in AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - More than 500 white University of Massachusetts students rallied yester- day in support of minorities occupying a building to protest racial harassment, while the chancellor opened talks aimed at ending the five- day protest. "Hey Joe, racism has got to go," students chanted as Chancellor Jo- seph Duffey made his way to the New Africa House, which has been occupied since Friday morning by an estimated 200 students and several faculty members. A student spokesperson said the negotiations would be conducted by a nine-member committee and wit- nessed by all the protesters, who include Blacks, Hispanics and As- ians. STUDENTS AND faculty also read letters of support, including a message sent yesterday by Democra- tic presidential candidate Jesse Jack- son. Some supporters had traveled from Albany and Philadelphia, and local businesses and residents had sent protesters blankets, pillows and food. "I came to see if they needed any. help," said Michelle Norman, a sen- ior from Pleasanton, Calif., who added that she was missing two classes to attend the vigil. "I think it's a good cause," she said Jackson, a Democratic presidential contender who was in nearby New Hampshire for yesterday's primary balloting, called the protesters a t 9:15 a.m. to lend his support. "The students occupying the New Africa House have taken a principled position on legitimate concerns. The quality of leadership in the state and country can be determined by how it The six original demands included a written policy against discrimina- tion by the university, prosecution of five white students accused of attacking two Black men and a white woman on Feb. 7, and thle suspension of campus police officers who allegedly formed a line-up of Black men when women complain6d of harassment. Sara Lennox, a German professor, said 50 faculty members have signed a statement deploring the recent incidents and urging the administra- tion to resolve the dispute. a 'A clim danger erance allowed a at tc te of hostility, nd racial intol- "A CLIMATE of hostility, must not be danger and racial intolerance must pot o continue.' be allowed to continue," said the statement, signed by members of an -Sara Lennox, ad hoc committee to promote racial U-Mass prof. tolerance. The group was formed iii response to a fight between Black ano1 white students following theWorld Series in 1986. Daily Photo by JESSICA GREENE, The gift of life Barbara May, LSA senior, takes time away from her books to donate blood at the Red Cross blood drive in the Michigan League. ' researchers study truck related deaths handles such crises as this one," Jackson said in a statement read by a protester. THE PROTESTERS said they would meet with Chancellor Joseph Duffey at 1 p.m. to negotiate on a revised set of demands, which a spokes-person of the group declined to detail. They vowed to remain until Duffey agrees to their conditions. The university rescheduled classe$ that usually meet in New Afric# House to other buildings. "We see this as a short-term temporary thing. We don't want to escalate tensions," spokesperson James Langley said. Between 50 and 200 students remained in-the building through the long holiday weekend, according tc Roscoe Robinson, 24, of Boston, a spokesperson for the protesters. Activist criticizes 1960Os By ELISSA SARD The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute yesterday announced the creation of a new research program to study truck travel and accidents on a national level. The center will fill a void in large- truck research created by a cut in federal funding during the last eight years, said Director Kenneth Campbell, an associate research scientist, mechanical engineering lecturer, and teacher in the department of statistics. Due to the tight federal budget, UMTRI is now the only group in the nation with a steady program which focuses on large-truck related statistical research. UMTRI receives funding from private and public contracts, but will not receive money from t h e University for this type of research. The new Center for National Truck Statistics will focus on providing an accurate national picture of the problems related to fatal large THE LST What's happening in Ann Arbor today truck accidents, Campbell said. "Our job will be to give the people who are working on solving the problems objective guidance," he said. Campbell said many people assume the accident rate must be greatest on interstate highways because they think truck travel is heaviest there. But statistics show that only 20 percent of fatal accidents occur on interstates. The accident rate for rural, non-interstate roads is double that of interstate highways. Fifty percent of all large truck accidents occur on non-interstate roads. The new Center will have some involvement with University faculty and graduate students in statistics because the research will provide real problems for graduate students to work with, which is part of necessary field experience. The new Center will also provide some part-time hourly jobs for undergraduates interested in conducting telephone and mail based survey research. POLICE NOTES LSA junior Roderick MacNeal found a flier calling on white stu- dents to unite and condemning the integration of Blacks into society under the windshield of a car parked near South Quad yesterday afternoon. The flier is the third anti-Black flier discovered on campus since the beginning of winter term. Officials with campus security and the Ann Arbor police department said yesterday they had received no reports of other fliers being found and no re- ports have been filed on the incident. By Jim Poniewozik Assault The Department of Public Safety received two complaints last night of an assault on a University student and a larceny from a car at Couzens Hall, public safety officer Sgt. Gary Hill said. At press time, security officers were'still trying to determine whether or not the incidents were related. Security officers were interviewing at least four persons believed involved in the incident, Hill said. Hill said the suspects do not appear to be University students, staff and faculty. By Elissa Sard RESUME SPECIAL We will generate your one page resume, laserprint it, .an vi.. ,Iu nt, C n n a.n By DOV COHEN Kwame Ture, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, the radical Black leader of the 1960's, urged students of the 1980's to "rectify the errors" of the student movements of the '60s and smash the American capitalist system. "The students of the 1960's didn't properly question the values of society," said Ture, the former Prime Minister of the Black Panthers and organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, two of the more militant civil rights organizations of the '60s. Speaking before about 100 people at Rackham Amphitheatre last night, Ture said the reformers of the 1960's "were fighting against a corrupt system, but only because they wanted to be a part of it." Calling on the students not to "reform" the system as the activists of the 1960's aimed to, Ture said, "students have a responsibility to spark the revolution to bring down the evil system." Ture, who popularized the slogan "Black Power," said the students of the 1960's failed to achieve what the slogan embodies. "Black people have no political power today." While Africans "have more elected positions than any other ethnic group in this country," they have less political power than any other ethnic group, he said. reformers, capitalism Daily Photo by JESSICA GREEN; Former Black Panther Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichel) speaks last night at the Rackham Amphitheatre on the role of the student in the '80s. , Speakers Prof. Peter Railton - "Human Nature and Social Change", 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union Wolverine Room, Sponsored by the Michigan Alliance for Disarmament. Prof. W. Wefelmeyer- Dept. of Mathematical Sciences at Johns Hopkins, "Efficient Estimation of Integrated Density Functions", 4:00 p.m. in 451 Mason Hall. . Geoffrey Wolf- author, will read from his work, 4:00 p.m., Rackham West Conference Room. Sponsored by the Visiting Writers Series. Stephen Dunn- Author will read from his work, 8:00 p.m., Rackham East Conference Room. Sponsored by Visiting Writers Se- ries. Prof. Milan H aune r- "The Meaning of Czech History", 4:00 p.m., East Lecture Room, Rack- ham. Meetings TARDAA, British Science Fiction Fan Club- 8:00 p.m., Rm. 296 Dennison Bldg. LSAyStudent Government- weekly meeting, 6:00 p.m., 3rd. Floor Chambers, Michigan Union Ann Arbor Coalitin Against Rape- Take Back the Night Planning Committee, 7:30 p.m., Community Action room, 2nd. floor of fire station across from City Hall Asian Student C o a l i t i o n (UMASC)- General meeting, mence(a stringed instrument) and the tambur (a drum). Free concert at 8:00 p.m. at Rackham Auditorium. "Global Africa" a film- part of "The Africans" film series, sponsored by the International Center and the Peace Corps as part of the Black History Month cele- bration. Discussion leaders Debbie Robinson and Jennifer Sharpe. Thermal Fluids Seminar- "Eruption Mechanisms in Turbulent Boundary Layers", 4:00 p.m. at 2305 G.G. Brown Lab UAC/Starbound Talent Competition Finals- 7:30 p.m. Mendelssohn Theater South African Political Prisoner Bracelet Program- Bracelet sale in the Fishbowl, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Sponsored by International Possibilities Unlim- ited "The Journey: from faith to action in Brazil", film- Part of. the Environment Film Series, explores liberation theology, 12 noon. Rm. 1046, Dana Bldg. "Contemporary Inuit Draw- ings" art exhibition- Pre- mier exhibition of the first com- prehensive survey of Inuit (Eskimo) drawings, February 16- March 20, at the University Mu- seum of Art Computer Networking Tech- nology- 1:00-3:00 p.m. at 4212 SEB, Registration required, call 763-7630 University Lutheran Chapel - Ash Wednesday Service with Holy Communion, 7:30 p.m., The leaders of the movements in the 1960s did not get power for the people, Ture said, "they got political jobs for themselves." "The highest expression of Black Power is Pan-Africanism," Ture said. "Pan-Africanism," defined by Ture as the liberation and unification qt Africa under scientific socialism, isga central tenet of the All Africa'n People's Revolutionary Party, far which Ture is a spokesperson. 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