0 Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 25, 1990 Jury selection commences in Cincinnati obscenity trial CINCINNATI (AP) -- Potential jurors in an obscenity trial involving Robert Mapplethorpe's sexually ex- plicit photos were asked yesterday whether they look at Playboy magazine or attend arts fund-raisers. Many questioned during the first day of jury selection said they'd seen such adult magazines as Playboy,, Penthouse, and Hustler, but said they didn't subscribe. None ac- knowledged having taken an art class; br attending a fund-raiser for the arts. The Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie, were charged in April with pandering ob- scenity and displaying nude photos of children. The photographs were from the exhibit "Robert Map- plethorpe: The Perfect Moment" The seven-week exhibition of photographs by Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in March 1989, at- tracted a record crowd of more than 80,000 people to the gallery last spring. About 150 gay-rights and anti- censorship demonstrators protested the trial outside the Hamilton County Courthouse from mid-morn- ing through the noon hour yesterday. They sometimes disrupted traffic, but there were no arrests. The charges are both misde- meanors. If convicted, Barrie faces a possible fine of $1,000 and six months in jail on each count. The gallery could be fined $5,000 on each count. Jury selection was expected to continue through today, with testi- mony lasting into next week. COURSE Continued from page 1 "I would hate to see them pro- mulgated as a solution to the per- ceived problem," he said. Tim Bahti, professor of German Literature, questioned why the diver- sjty issue takes precedence over other important issues. Bahti believes American history should be a University requirement since none of the students in a course he teaches knew the date of the end of the Civil War. Another forum to debate the di- versity requirement will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 2 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Auditorium C of An- sell Hall. Students and faculty are encouraged to attend, said David Shoem, assistant dean for students in their first and second years. U.S.S.R. Continued from Page 1 president additional powers. They said Gorbachev did not deserve such authority because he was not elected by direct vote of the people. "The people don't trust Gor- bachev!" shouted a group of demon- strators outside the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. The held signs say- ing, "A President - Not an Em- peror" and "All Decrees of the Presi- dent are Battles Against Democracy." The legislature voted 305-46, with 41 abstentions, to allow Gor- bachev the special powers until March 31, 1992. The time limit was intended to cover a 500-day eco- nomic reform plan, should one be approved. 0 0 A model student Architecture student Rebecca Gussner prepares a model for an upcoming project. 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