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So far this semester there have been 38 rapes
reported to SAPAC. This will not change until
people's attitudes toward women change.

Editor at Large of "Life" magazine Roger
Rosenblatt will speak at the Hopwood Awards this
afternoon. Joshua Keidan talks with Rosenblatt.

Graduating Daily Sports Editor John Niyo reflects
on his four years at Michigan. Read the final
installment of Blame it on Niyo.

Today
Thunderstorms;
High 56, Low 42
Tomorrow
Cloudy; High 48, Low 32

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Court
arraigns
alleged
stalker
by Will McCahil!
Daily Crime Reporter
, A 24-year-old Ann Arbor resident
was arraigned yesterday on charges of
stalking a University student.
Timothy Grizzle was arrested by
University Department of Public Safety
(DPS) officers Friday, after a female
LSA senior made a number of com-
plaints to DPS that he was stalking her.
State law requires two reported inci-
dents of stalking before an arrest can be
. made.
Grizzle stood mute at his arraign-
m tent before -Judge Timothy Connors
yesterday in 15thDistrictCourt. Grizzle
had apparently decided to plead guilty,
but then changed his mind and made no
plea
DPS Lt. James Smiley said the Ann
Arbor Police Department has had pre-
viousproblems with Grizzle, and called
the connection between Grizzle and the
woman he allegedly stalked "an ongo-
mlg hate relationship."
SThe two dated in the past, Smiley
said, and Grizzle harassed the woman at
intervals over the past six years, once
allegedly breaking her arm.
Grizzle, an Ashland, Ky. native, is
not a student but lives in Ann Arbor and
is unemployed.
Grizzle eluded police for several
__ days after the stalking complaint was
registered against him, finally being
apprehended Friday, the day Judge
Elizabeth Pollard issued a warrant for
his arrest.
Connors set bail for Grizzle at
$1,000. Grizzle could not post the sum
and was therefore detained overnight at
Washtenaw County jail.
The charge of stalking is a misde-
meanor and carries a maximum sen-
tence of one year in prison and/or a
$1,000 fine.
A pretrial hearing is set for 11 a.m.
this morning.

Students tr
to survive
finals rnch
by Mona Qureshi she has begun to feel less concernf
Daily Feature Writer her annearance and wears more swe

for
ats

April Harrison gazed drearily at the
rain trickling down her window yester-
day as she curled up next to her com-
puter in her untidy room. Harrison, an
LSA sophomore, has not cleaned for
days in order to make time to study for
finals and write term papers.
"My room is a disaster," she said.
"I'm not cleaning it until I pack."
Dirty laundry topped with a Michi-
gan baseball hat piled up on her floor
and her clothes playedpeek-a-boo from
her half-open drawers.
H-3arrison, like many University stu-
dents, is coping with a syndrome affec-
tionately known as the finals crunch.
LSA senior Deana Zeters said she
too has changed her behavior. She said

and baseball caps.
"I don't know what's clean and
what's dirty," she said. "It's called the
'recycling days."'
A circulation desk assistant at the
Undergraduate Library (UGLi), Zeters
said more people are taking advantage
of the UGLi's extended hours until 5
am. She noted as well that the last-
minute book rush for term papers has
escalated - one woman checked out
25 books last night for two papers due
today.
Such a rush to finish papers has the
campus computing sites brimming with
lines of students waiting for computers.
Angell Hall on Sunday night around 11
p.m. saw a peak of 400 students on a
See CRUNCH, Page 2

>; ,.
HEATHER LOWMAN/Daly
LSA senior Molly McClimon pours over notes in the UGLi one hour before her Social Psychology final yesterday
afternoon.

Fire in cult compound kills as many as 86

* FBI officials believe
cult members set fire
after federal agents
invaded Branch
Davidian hideout
WACO, Texas (AP) - Doomsday
cult leader David Koresh's apocalyptic
prediction for his followers came true
yesterday when a raging fire destroyed
the compound where he had held fed-
eral agents at bay for 51 days.
As many as 86 members of the
Branch Davidian religious sect, includ-
ing Koreshand 24children, were thought
to have died as the flames raced through
the buildings in 30 minutes. Only nine
were known to have survived.
The blaze erupted about 12:05 p.m.,
just six hours after FBI agents began
using armored vehicles to pound holes

in the complex of buildings and spray
them with tear gas in a bid to force an
end to the standoff.
Nine cultmembers who escaped the
flames are believed by federal officials
to be the only survivors, but authorities
said they would not know the precise
death toll until they could search an
underground maze of passageways.
Justice Department spokesperson
Carl Stern said two survivors were in-
jured critically, one had a serious injury
and three have minor injuries, all in-
cluding burns. One person taken into
custody told authorities that people in-
side the compound had set the blaze,
Stern said.
The person said that as he left one of
the buildings, "he could hear above him
people saying, 'The fire's been lit, the
fire's been lit,"' Stern said.
"We can only assume it was a mas-

sive loss oflife,"FBI spokesperson Bob
Ricks said in a solemn afternoon news
conference.
Ricks said multiple witnesses spot-
ted cult members setting several fires.
One person, Ricks said, "was knelt
down with his hands cupped, from which
a flame erupted."
FBI agents reported seeing a man
wearing a gas mask and black uniform
throw something inside, followed by a
fireball. Additionally, Ricks said, aman
found yesterday afternoon in a bunker
on the grounds said lantern fuel had
been spread throughout the wooden
complex and that the fire was started
simultaneously in several places.
Koresh had warned the- FBI last
week that agents would be "devoured
by fire" if they tried to harm him.
A maze of tunnels was believed to
run under thecomplex, butJackKillorin;

a spokesperson in Washington for the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire-+
arms, said the agency believed no tun-
nel system would have allowed people+
to survive the fire.;
"It's a bad end and one of the ends
we feared from the beginning," Killorin
said. "Obviously, suicide was aconcern;
all along, but the method was different,
unexpected."
Attorney General Janet Reno ap-
proved the assault and informed Presi-;
dent Clinton. The FBI notified the
compound'sneighbors before daybreak
"that it would end today," according to
Melanie Felton, a nearby rancher.
Late in the day, Reno said the FBI's
assault had been carefully planned over
several days. She added that she "could
not give the president that assurance"
that the agents could prevent a mass
suicide such as the cyanide poisoning

that killed 913 people at Jonestown,
Guyana, in 1978.
The fire erupted while television
cameras provided live coverage of an
armored vehicle battering a hole into
the compound's first story.
Agents in the predawn tear gas as-
sault were met by gunfire, at least 75-
80 rounds, the FBI said. The agents
continued ripping holes in compound
buildings throughout the morning, and
at a 10:30 a.m. session with reporters,
Ricks spoke calmly about the decision
to force Koresh and his followers out.
"Today's action is not an indication
that our patience has run out," Ricks
said. "The action taken today was, we
believe, the next logical step in a series
of actions to bring this episode to a
conclusion."
See CULT, Page 2

Students to attend march for

lesbian, gay, bisex

by Randy Lebowitz,
Daily Staff Reporter
Contingencies of activists will par-
ticipate in the 1993 March on Washing-
ton forLesbian, GayandBisexualEqual
Rights and Liberation April25. Among
them will be students from the Univer-
sity and members of the Ann Arbor
community.
The gay community is demanding
passage of a federal civil rights bill
banning discrimination based upon
sexual orientation. Of particular focus
will be the issues of gays in the military
and AIDS.
Grassroots organizers from across
the nation have spent the last two years
planning the event. Although the actual
march will occur Sunday, a week filled
* with more than 250 related events has
also been scheduled to run April 20-28.
"Thismarch is acall toarms, notjust
for the gay, lesbian and bisexual com-

munity, but to every citizen who op-
poses discrimination-to every citizen
who will not remain silent while the
Constitiution and Bill of Rights are re-
placed by fundamentalist doctrine,"
according to a press release.
Eventswillinclude lobbying, work-
shops, receptions and drag shows.
Co-coordinator of the University's
Lesbian-Gay Male Programming Of-
fice (LGMPO)Jim Toy said he expects
more than 1 million members of the
community to be in attendance to advo-
cate equal rights.
RC sophomore Ryan Bradley said
he will attend the march in order to
garner support for the homosexual com-
munity. "I believe the besttool forequal-
ity is visibility," Bradley said. "This
shows that we are part of society and
that we deserve equal treatment."
Bradley said Washington, D.C., was
the perfect place for this type of rally.

"People look at the Washington Monu-
ment and the Lincoln Memorial and get
the impression that it's this beautiful
white-washed city, but they don't real-
ize that a lot of people are there who
don't fulfill the American values," Bra-
dley said.
This will be the third march that
Debbie Rosenstein, arecentUniversity
graduate has attended. "My experience
is thatitdoes matter if you asoneperson
show up, because one plus one plus one
adds up," she said.
Rosenstein said it is always encour-
aging to see the diversity of the people.
"It's always amazing to see little kids
with signs thatsay I'mproud ofmy two
mommies.'"
She said this march is important
because it will create more visibility for
thediversegay community. "Itwillgive
an understanding that gay males, lesbi-
See MARCH, Page 2

Participants in the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay
and Bisexual Rights plan to present government officials with
a list of several demands. These include:
passage of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil
rights bill and an end to discrimination by state and federal
governments, including the military; repeal of all sodomy
laws and laws that criminalize private sexual expression
between consenting adults;
massive increase in funding for AIDS education, research
and patient care; universal access to health care; and an end
to sexism in medical research and health care;
legislation to prevent discrimination against lesbians, gays,
bisexuals and transgendered people in the area of family
diversity, custody, adoption and foster care, and expansion
of the definition of family to include the full diversity of all
family structures;
full and equal inclusion of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and
transgendered people in the education system and in
multicultural curricula;
the right to reproductive freedom and choice and an end to
sexist discrimination;
an end to racial and ethnic discrimination; and,
an end to discrimination and violent oppression based on
actual or perceived sexual orientation/identification, race,
religion, identity, sex and gender expression, disability, age,
class and/or AIDS/H IV infection.

' Anthro.
Dept. voted
best in U .S.
by Kenneth Dancyger
Daily Faculty Reporter

Archeologists across the nation are
looking beyond ancient ruins to learn
more about anthropology.
According to a survey conductedby
the Society for American Archeology
(SAA), the University's Department of
Anthropology offers the best graduate
program in the country.
Thesurveywasdistributedrandomly
to 163 members of SAA -which con-
sists of Ph.D. holders employed in pro-
fessional positions at colleges and uni-
versities across the nation.
Approximately 10 faculty members
from the University are members of the
society, including Department of An-
thropology Chair Richard Ford.
Members of the SAA evaluated ar-
cheology programs based on character-
istics ranging from research opportuni-
ties for students to the presence of de-
partmental publications.
Ford said he was not asked to com-
plete a survey, and is not aware of any
other University faculty members who
may have been approached by SAA.
The majority ofrespondents consis-
tently ranked the University's program
the best in the nation, followed by the

Members of summer assembly hope to further goals of MSA

by Jennifer Tianen
Daily MSA Reporter
Instead of splashing in the waves or
soarking un the rmvs. some members of

SummerTerms, the assembly musthave
at least 10 representatives on hand to
convokequorum-definedas themini-
mum amountofvoting members needed

drafting a budget proposal for the
upcoming year;
laying the foundation for the year
on a meeting-to-meeting basis;

"I'm sure we'll have to keep our
guard up to see what kind of surprises
the administration has in store for us,"
Kightsaid. "Lastyear, they dropped the

"I think the representatives that will
be around for the summer assembly are
motivated to get the necessary things
done to have a successful assembly,"

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