1 tw /S x The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 27, 1995 - 3 Native Americans hold forum on repatriation, funerary 'U' to hold memorial to honor Fulbright The Southeastern Michigan chapter of the Fulbright Associa- tion will hold a memorial for late Sen. J. William Fulbright, who died in February. There will be a panel discussion with visiting Fulbrighters on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Wil- liam Clements Library. The pro- gram is titled "Fulbright Perspec- tives on Education in the U.S. and abroad." In August 1946, President Truman signed the Fulbright exchange fel- lowship program into law. Since its inception, nearly 250,000 students have travelled abroad or visited the United States as part of the program. Fulbright won widespread support for his adamant opposition to the Viet- nam War. t Famous Fulbrighters include poet Maya Angelou, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and composer Philip Glass. The program will include a video tribute to Fulbright by President Clinton, who saw Fulbright as a mentor. Afterward,. the Clements director will lead a tour of the li- brary and explain how research stu- dents can gain access to its hold- ~ngs-. Campus Computer Showcase to display graphics The best computer graphics on ampus will be on display this week in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building and the Campus Computer Showcase. Sponsored by Apple Computer Inc., Cyber-Arts Show 95 will feature animation, graphics, multi-media and music on computers. Organizer Jay Holman, an LSA first-year student, said there are ap- proximately 15-20 entries. "We are *doing this show to show off some of the features of the Macintosh com- puter and to give the art, music and multi-media inclined students a chance to show off their hard work," Holman said. Students can view the entries free of charge March 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. inthe EECS Building and March 31, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at *Campus Computer Showcase. Hollywood alums to visit campus The Program in Film and Video Studies will host six leading Holly- wood producers, executives and writ- ers Wednesday and Thursday for a *discussion of their industry in the next century. Television executive Barbara Corday and five University alums - Sony Theatres chair Barrie Lawson Loeks, television scriptwriter Roger Lowenstein, producer John Lyons, screen writer David Newman and New Line Cinema chair and CEO Robert Shaye - in a free, public panel dis- *cussion. - Compiled by Daily Staff Re- porters Stephanie Jo Klein and Jason Wine By Katie Hutchins Daily Staff Reporter Not much controversy appeared at the annual Native American Law Day panel at Hutchins Hall Friday, since the members of the panel were all in agreement on the issue. The topic was repatriation, and the problem is an ongoing struggle for many Native Americans today. "What I was taught is that once you are put in the Earth, that's where your body belongs," said Pearlie Broom of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Many tribes believe this and have been struggling for years to retrieve human remains and sacred objects from museums and universities that have collected them for display and study. George Martin - who opened the discussion with a traditional native prayer - described seeing boxes of human remains and sacred medicine bags in a museum being stored, not displayed or studied. "It wasn't a museum. It was a ware- house," he said. "You smell that cedar (from the medicine bags). You smell that sage ... and you sit there and won- der about all the power and all the healings that go along with that." Now, thanks to the Native Ameri- can Grave Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, native peoples are getting the chance to rebury their ancestors. Jack Trope and Michael Barry - attorneys who have worked to enact and enforce the grave protection acts - described the legal issues involved. Both said the current legislation is insufficient - the national law only covers federal lands and federally funded programs. Trope attributed the insufficien- cies to the compromises necessary to achieve consensus in Congress. He added that "Native Americans did not have the clout to force legislation through, even in this area, where cer- tainly there was a great deal of sym- pathy in Congress." Also present for the discussion was Native American Philip Minthorn Jr., who works in the repatriation of- fice at the Smithsonian Institute's Na- tional Museum of Natural History. Minthorn encouraged tribes to "take the initiative in this" and learn about the repatriation laws. "If they don't, then it will be a detriment to the claims that they are making," he said. The Smithsonian Institute - which has the largest collection of human re- mains in the United States - is com- plying with a different act, which pro- vides for the establishment of the Na- tional Museum of the American Indian and the return of human remains and funerary objects to the descendants. But, how the descendants are identi- fied is a contentious issue. Trope said the repatriation act requires museums to make an inventory of their collections, identify their cultural affiliation, and inform the tribes of their possessions. But "cultural affiliation" is not clear, Trope said. "Tribes and the scientific community can often have different views," he said. The panel lasted the full three hours, and several of the panelists attended a reception afterward. Native American Law Students Association co-chair Cass Buscher, who helped organize the event, was pleased with the discussion. "It was interesting to hear what is going on and what's covered by the law and what isn't," he said. Dancers, traders crowd CiLsler at 23rd Powwow .. By Jennifer Harvey Daily Staff Reporter Crisler Arena was filled with the sound of beating drums and the colors of flashy feathers this weekend during the 23rd annual Ann Arbor Powwow. Dancers,,drummers and traders came from all over the world to partici- pate in the event. Over the course of the weekend, four sessions of dancing filled the main floor of the arena and artists' booths jammed the hallways. Native American Student Asso- ciation President Mary Cotnam de- scribed the powwow as "a time of sharing." Indeed, thousands of people and representatives from tribes all over North America flooded the arena to see the dancers and purchase art. The dancers, described by the an- nouncer as "the foundation of the powwow," competed in a variety of categories based on age, gender and style of dance. Kerry Funmaker Jr., Evan Logan and Wayne Silas Jr. all competed in several dance categories. They drove from Wisconsin to dance at the pow- wow. The three young men travel across the United States and Canada every weekend to events like this one. "It's like a rodeo, only you have no horse. It's just you out there with others, competing and performing," Funmaker said. Silas said average powwow prize ranged from $100 to $2,000 per place in each category, and he expected Ann Arbor prizes to be no different, as the 1994 total for prizes and gifts was more than $50,000. "Ann Arbor is the best powwow. It's like our Olympics. It's about be- ing proud and carrying on the tradi- tions of our culture," Logan said. The event emphasized cultural pride. Before the performances of the women traditional dancers, the an- nouncer asked everyone to rise and honor Native American women who "fight daily to protect our children from drugs, alcohol, violence and ma- terialism." Survivors recall Nazi camps Hawaii Club members dance the hula at Hawaii Cultural Night Saturday. Students celebrate in Hawali Cultural Night By Spencer Dickinson Daily Staff Reporter About 4,500 miles from home, Hawaiian University students as- sembled Saturday night to celebrate Hawaii's rich culture and to forget their homesickness. The "Hui 0' Hawai' i," also known as the Hawaii Club, put on its first Hawaii Cultural Night. "We had a lot of help from families and businesses at home," said LSA sophomore Sheri Tokumaru, a Hawaii Club officer. In January, the club mem- bers began to write letters and make phone calls asking for donations. After a multi-course feast, club members and their 120 guests sat down for the culture show itself. The show began with a hula per- formed by the women of the Hawaii Club. The dance was choreographed by first-year Engineering student Faith Pagba, who studied hula in Hawaii. "I watched some tapes of hula dances performed by the Hawaii Club at Washington University and sort of filled in the gaps," Pagba said. The event featured Hawaiian story- teller Woody Fern, who flew in from Hawaii for the first performance. Business School junior and Ha- waii Club President Cory Kubota and LSA junior Kendrick Kakazu gave the audience "A Lesson in Pidgin," the composite Hawaiian dialect. The culture show emphasized the variety of the Hawaiian culture due to American, European, Asian and native Hawaiian influences. The Hawaii Club, which is now five months old, unites Hawaiian students and assists them in "adjusting academi- cally and socially to the Midwest." Kubota started the club by calling students with Hawaiian addresses in the student directory. Since then, the group's existence has spread by word of mouth at the University. Pagba said she is glad there is a Hawaii Club at the University. "I can relate to them," she said. "We are an ohana," she added, employing the Hawaiian word for "family." By Melissa Koenigsberg For the Daily Fifty years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration and death camps, a panel of three survivors re- called the Holocaust that still lives in their hearts and minds, though it ended nearly a lifetime ago. Panelist Perry Shulman, a Holo- caust survivor, said he is not sure he really feels "liberated." "You can liberate a mountain, city, country. How can one liberate a mind,? he said. "Memories go beyond that. Yes, 50 years ago, but to us it is memories that never escaped." Hillel's Conference on the Holo- caust committee sponsored "An Evening with Survivors and Libera- tors" Saturday at Irwin Green Audi- torium as part of the 16th annual con- ference. Ruth Kent was freed March 16, 1945. She was 9 years old when Hitler declared war on Poland. "I spent that night in the hospital," Kent said. "I could not take food. In a few weeks I was feeling better. I hitch- hiked back to my home. There was MITCHELL Continued from page 1 was enough evidence to charge Mitchell, 33, with the Inkster rape-murders. DNA tests conducted at the state police crime lab in East Lansing, Mich., linked Mitchell to four of the five vic- tims in the Ann Arbor rapes spanning a 2 112-year period. On March 2, Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie charged Mitchell with one count of first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The preliminary examination for the Ann Arbor sexual assaults and murder will be held today at 9 a.m. in 15th District Court to determine if Mitchell should stand trial. If found guilty of the charges, he could serve several life sentences in prison. Mitchell is in Washtenaw County Jail awaiting trial in a separate case involving a Christmas Eve assault and attempted purse snatching of an Ann Arbor woman. If convicted on the mugging charges, Mitchell faces up to 15 years in prison. Mitchell was wearing a bloody glove at the time of his arrest on Christmas Day. DNA tests conducted on the glove allegedly used in the robbery and Mitchell's blood were the break police needed in their investigation. Michigan State Police and the Inkster Police Department took blood and saliva samples from Mitchell on Feb.10 todetermine ifhe was involved in the Inkster deaths. Mitchell resided in Tnter befrue mnovino in Ann Arbnr not one Jewish neighbor left. I was wondering why I survived, it was so difficult." Kent remembers the separation from her parents at Auschwitz as the most difficult experience to deal with. She never saw them again. Kent said she feels celebrating liberation is valu- able, but it is more important to re- member the past and speak for those who have perished. Erna Borman believes that she survived by chance. A nearby farmer took her family into his barn, where they lived for two years. She never left the small spot behind the bales of hay or changed her clothes during that time. "I was 10 years old and I watched my mother die. I did not cry, I was dead anyhow," Borman said. "We buried her at the side of the road." Unable to speak and malnourished, she crawled across a main road and ran through fields, petrified of every- one. "I am supposed to talk of libera- tion. I did not know what liberation was. I do not want you to feel sorry for me. ... The kindness of a human be- ing, because of this, I am alive," Borman said. At the end of the panel, the audi- ence had an opportunity to ask ques- tions. The survivors answered ques- tions about religious faith, their feel- ings about prejudice today and how they found the will to survive. "We never gave up because it would be giving up on ourselves. We would never give into the forces that dictated the idea that we were not worthy," Shulman said. Uffil~j REIW4M Pf~cWfflim University of Michigan CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES presents the fourteenth annual ALEXANDER ECKSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE Speaker: William T. Rowe Professor of History Johns Hopkins University "Economics and Culture in 18th Century China" Thursday, March 30, 1995 8:00pm Rackham 4th Floor Amphitheater What's happening In Ann Arbor today I I GRoup MEETINGS 0 Nnjtsu Club, beginners welcome, 761-8251, IMSB, Room G21,7:30- 9 Pm. © Shorn-Ryu Karate-DoClub, men and women, beginners welcome, 994- 3620, CCRB, Room 2275,7-8 p.m. O Society For Creative Anachronism, North Campus, EECS, Room 1311, 7 p.m. workshop, 8 p.m. meeting U Taekwondo Club, beginners and other new members welcome, 747- 6889, CCRB, Room 2275, 8:30- 10 p.m. D WOL. Channel 70 Programming: WOLV News, 7-8 p.m.; Dating Game, 8-10 p.m.; Digital Concert, 10-12 p.m. House, 802 Monroe, 8:30 p.m. Q "Friendly Days Kick-off Bonanza," sponsored by Friendly Days, Michi- gan Union Ballroom, 8-10 p.m. Q "Genocide," 16th Annual Confer- ence on the Holocaust, sponsored by Hillel, Frieze Building, Room 3050, 12:30 p.m. Q "Meet Your Administrator Day," sponsored by Friendly Days, Diag, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Q "Multi Bank Securities Information Session," sponsored by Career Planning and Placement, Michigan League, Kalamazoo Room, 7-9 p.m. S"Poor Families and Child Serving Institutions: A Case Study of One Public Housing Project," sponsored by School of Social Work, West Engineering STUDENT SERVICES Q 76-GUIDE, 764-8433, peer coun- seling phone line, 7 p.m.-8 a.m. Q ECB Peer Tutorial, Angell Hall Computing Site, 747-4526, 7- 11 p.m. U Campus Information Center, Michi- gan Union, 763-INFO; events info 76-EVENT or UM*Events on GOpherBLUE Q North Campus Information Center, North Campus Commons, 763- NCIC, 7:30 a.m.-5:50 p.m. Q Northwalk, 763-WALK, Bursley Lobby, 8 p.m.-1;30 a.m. Q Political Science Undergrad Peer Advising, 764-6386, sponsored by UPSA, Haven Hall, Room 5620,11 a.m.-2 p.m. ¢a : ,