Here's mud - er, I mean tear gas in your eye. The Ann Arbor police paid no regard to gas etiquette in clearing South U. Monday night, and the students' attitude was not much better. Tommy Stinson's no longer just a 'Mat - he's doing his own thing with a new band, Bash 'n' Pop, which plays the Pig tomorrow night. Hail to the Victors! Even though the men's basketball team lost to Duke, they're still #1 in our hearts. Fans flooded Crisler Arena yesterday to let them know. Today Mostly sunny; High 56, Low 34 Tomorrow Sunny; High 60, Low 38 Jr 4v 42V ARpr t Itttt *rn One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Vol CI o.10 n Arbr ichian Wdneda, Ari 8,199 ( 192 Te ichga3.i Students question cop use of teargas by Ben Deci old man from Sterling Heights was charged Daily Crime Reporter with disorderly conduct for such behavior The dust is still settling from Monday night's riot on South University and is loaded with aggravation, attempted explanation - and teargas. The police reported three arrests in total. Two men were charged with disorderly con- duct. The third, a 22-year-old man from Windsor, was arrested for streaking down South University after receiving encourage- ment from his fellow rioters and other observers. Sgt. Sherry Woods of the Ann Arbor Po- lice Department said "fighting in the street among the students" precipitated the initial action, a mounted division sweep of streets crowded with approximately 5,000 students. But some students said the violence started after the police began to take action. "There was no violence going on until the police came in and shot us with teargas," LSA first-year student Jason Menges said. The mounted division swept up and down South University twice. Students taunted the force, slapped their horses, and tugged at the officers, an eyewitness said. According to police reports, an 18-year- A police damage summary detailed a car whose windows were shattered when the driver attempted to cross East University, a See RIOT, Page 2 'U' waits to discuss tearrassinJ!incident I by Melissa Peerless Daily Administration Reporter The University administration has not yet discussed Ann Arbor Police officers' tear- gassing of a crowd of students after Mon- day's NCAA Championship basketball game because many administrators were still in Minneapolis - where the tournament took place. "Right now, nobody has the facts to com- ment about it," said Director of Presidential Communications Shirley Clarkson. Clarkson added that University President James Duderstadt and Executive Director of University Relations Walter Harrison did not See UNIVERSITY, Page 2 DOUG KANTEPJDaily An unidentified student cheers as a kiosk goes up in flames on the corner of South University and East University late Monday night after police officers left the scene. -Speakers clash during Israeli-Arab discussion By Pari Berk and Ren6e Huckle Daily Staff Reporters Speakers clashed during the first University Jewish- Arab sponsored Israeli-Palestinian dialogue before two hundred people at Rackham Auditorium last night. The dialogue, titled "Prospects for Mideast Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue," was a discussion between Henry Ford Community College Anthropology Professor Dr. Nabil Abraham and Ambassador Uriel Savir, Consul General of Israel-New York. The dialogue was mediated by Law Professor Theodore Antoine. Syma Kroll, a liaison between the two parties said, "The conference is important because it's Jews and Arabs taking risks to sponsor something jointly because of the sincere desire to bring about peace." Abraham, a member of the Detroit American Anti- Discrimination Committee, said, "Prospects for Palestinian peace are as poor today as they were last October. The present government in Israel is not ready, to meet Palestinians halfway." "We are heading towards a bi-national state which is unequal. It is more like an apartheid state where the ad- vantages accrue to the Israeli state," Abraham added. Savir, the second highest-ranking Israeli diplomat in the U.S., said, "A bi-national state is suicide for both parties. "The real conflict is between Arabs and Israelis who want peace and the dangers that loom against them. Am I optimistic? Yes, because the alternatives are too dev- astating to imagine," Savir added. In response to a question from a member of the audi- ence about why self-determinism of Palestinians is a se- curity threat to Israel, Savir said, "Everything (Israel) gave up is tangible and irreversible. This is not true for the other side.",' Abraham responded, "Security is a smoke screen for Israel to retain the occupied territories." Abraham added the issue is not one of security, but one of demographics. The dialogue became heated during the question and answer period. LSA sophomore John Fleming said the issues in- volved were emotional. "You can't argue out of feeling; you need facts." he said. The conference was sponsored by several groups including Hillel, the Departments of History and Political Science, and the Residential College. Arafat's plane disappears over Libyan desert LONDON (AP) - Libyan radio reported Wednesday that radar con- tact was lost Tuesday night with an aircraft carrying Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat over Libyan airspace in "bad weather." Libya's Voice of the Greater Arab Homeland, quoting the Libyan news agency JANA, said the plane was crossing Libyan airspace from Sudan and disappeared from radar screens at 8:45 p.m. Libyan time (2:45 p.m. EDT) The radio said radar contact was lost when the plane was 70 miles from the village of Sarah. It quoted Libyan civil aviation sources as saying that Al Kofra air- port in Tripoli lost contact with the plane due to "bad weather condi- tions." "The civil aviation sources at the Great Jamahiriyah (Libya) launch an appeal to the International Red Cross, to the international meteoro- logical, artificial satellites, and civil aviation authorities to help in fixing the spot where the plane had landed or the airspaces it had crossed," the radio said. An Arafat aide, speaking on CNN, said Arafat had been in the Sudan for some time and was on his Libya's Voice of the Greater Arab Homeland said the plane was crossing Libyan airspace from Sudan and disappeared from radar screens at 8:45 p.m. Libyan time. way to observe Palestinian guerrillas training in southern Libya. The net- work also reported the weather pat- tern, commonly known as a"funnel" system, was likely to cause sand- storms. MICHELLE GUY/Daily Put on a happy face University basketball player Chris Webber smiles at the Homecoming pep rally at Chrisler Arena yesterday afternoon. MSA resolution condemns police action by Jennifer Silverberg Daily MSA Reporter Michigan Student Assembly members passed a resolution 12-3 last night con- demning the Ann Arbor Police Depart- ment's use of teargas to quell a rally on South University Monday night when thousands gathered after the Michigan basketball team's loss to Duke in the NCAA championship. "The police followed the Student Rights Commission's (SRC) recommen- dations on April 4 and the tactics were successful in maintaining the peace. The police directly contradicted the SRC's recommendations and conducted an ill- advised sweep on the night of April 6 leading to the unjustified teargassing of students," the resolution states. The resolution, introduced by former Student Rights Commission Chair Michael Warren, calls on the assembly to ask for a city investigation with MSA student representation of the incident and of general crowd control procedures. "MSA needs to use this incident to show we're there for them," newly- elected LSA Rep. Tobias Zimmerman said. "First and foremost we're here to protect students and stand up for them. At the very least, we should demand a City Council investigation of some sort. At the most, I would hope to see a repo- sitioning in the police department and it could even come to MSA taking a class action suit against the police on behalf of all the students." However, not all representatives supported the resolution. - "I think it's ludicrous that in every circumstance it's as if there's a law against the police using tear gas," Engi- neering Rep. Brent House said. "No one can say what would have happened if tear gas had not been used and I'm adamantly against this resolution." In other business, School of Social Work Rep. Jennifer Collins and Rack- ham Rep. Maria Yen placed a letter to Safiya Khalid on last night's agenda apologizing for the assembly's behavior at the March 24 meeting. The adoption of the letter passed 13-10 with two abstentions. The letter says standards of respect were violated when LSA Rep. Bill Lowry called Khalid a "bitch" while she was addressing the assembly. "Lowry's action was inexcusable, not only on personal and moral levels but on a broader level. No speaker who ad- dresses the assembly should ever be threatened or intimidated by a representative. Consequently, the entire assembly can be held complicit in the actions of one of its members," the letter states. "The letter is important because the assembly as a whole needs to make a very clear statement that we welcome constituents at our meetings," Collins said. * SRC chair resigns after speech code delay L... AAwSSwww IM r Iwws uln~,mra rannivnrfi An ralontrnnlt- mall "Peonle called me. messaged me and ...JI Yi.1l.i V I IIIII(II7IIilI .4.1........I