LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 2, 1996 - 4 Vandal attack store, hide in restaurant The Ann Arbor Police Department detained two youths Saturday night in connection with a robbery at Bill's Mar- ket on Packard Street. AAPD officers were called to the grocery store to apprehend five youths who were taking items from the store. According to an AAPD report, the teen-agers entered the store and walked around talking. Some of the ths walked to the front counter and began to ask a clerk questions while one youth stuffed objects into his jacket. The store's owner, who was also present, caught the thief and escorted him out of the building, along with the other subjects. When the ownerre-enteredthe build- ing, the youths yelled at the owner and j rk and broke the glass door to the ket. At that point, the clerk went outside and grabbed the suspect that smashed the door. The other youths kicked and punched the clerk until he was forced to let go of the suspect. The subjects fled the scene and headed toward campus. The men from Bill's Market followed the youths to McDonald's on South University Av- enue. APD officers were notified that the ects were at the restaurant and took two youths into custody. They were later released to their parents. The clerk at Bill's Market sustained minor injuries and didnot require medi- cal treatment. Woman threatens doctor with knife A woman pulled a knife on a doctor Sunday at Mott Children's Hospital. The Department of Public Safety reported that the woman was at the hospital for treatment for her injured child. Due to possible child abuse, DPS ran a warrant check of the woman's boy- friend and discovered he was wanted by the Detroit Police Department for a jevious crime. he woman was apprehended by DPS and her boyfriend was arrested and held at DPS offices on Kipke Drive. Detroit police picked up the subject and began an investigation into charges of child abuse. Pretrial hearing delayed in Lujan urder hearing In order to authorize additional psy- chiatric evaluations, the murder and arson trial against LSA sophomore Crystal Lujan was delayed last week. Lujan and Ann Arbor resident Dale Lipke face several charges in connec- tion with the murder of a Sumter Town- ship man and multiple arsons last Sep- tember. The pretrial motions were originally Weduled for Jan. 12, but have been delayed several times. Student receives threatening phone calls A Bursley Hall resident notified DPS on Friday that he had received threaten- Scalls on his answering machine. . The caller, who said his name was Cecil, reportedly told the victim, "You better pay up or you'll be sorry." The subject left anothermessage say- ing, "We're gonna get you, we know where you live." . The victim claims he does not recog- nize the caller's voice nor does he owe anyone money. Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Sam 1'. Dudek. What GRouP MEETINGS 0 ALIANZA - Latino Organization, weekly meeting, 764-2837, Trot- ter House, 1443 Washtenaw Ave., 7 p.m. Q Cleptomaniacs and Shoplifters Anonymous, weekly meeting, 913-6990, Friends Meeting House. 1420 Hill Street. 8 p.m. Corporatior By Alice Robinson; Daily Staff ReporterJ The sound of frantic typing buzzes in the air. Easily audible conversations are going on all around, and the printer just decided not to recog- nize a command. A bad dream, or a night at Angell Hall? Next year students may spend less time in dreaded computer labs and more time on a personal computer intheirrooms, thanks to ajoint venture with Microsoft Corp. and Zenith Data Systems. Microsoft and Zenith will join with the Univer- sity this fall to provide "Z-stations" - IBM- compatible computers that are already connected to the campus network - to students at a dis- counted rate. "We're going to be able to deliver systems that; will be readily and easily connectable to Univer-+ 'U' join in new technology effort sity of Michigan campus systems," said Gene Lambert, Director of Higher Education Marketing for Zenith, the company that will provide the computers for the project. "They'll already have all ofthe necessary software for it to be hooked up" to the University's network, said Doug Van Houweling, dean of academic out- reach and director of the University's Information Technology Division. Just how simple will it be? Van Houweling said that to connect the new PC's to the ITD network, students will "just plug it in and follow a few steps." Most residence halls equip all rooms with Ethernet outlets, allowing for easy accessibility to useful cam- pus technology. However, students still must go through a complicated process to have programs like e-mail and Wolverine Access at their fingertips. The current procedure for connecting a com- puter to the University's network involves pur- chasing a modem and loading software from a connected computer onto a disc, then transfer- ring it to the computer.0 All but six residence halls supply Ethernet out- lets, and ITD hopes to have them installed in all dorms by the fall. Because of its reputation for implementing new technology, the University was only one of two schools chosen to pilot the Z-Station project. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh was also selected. Other features of the mega-PC's include dy- namic software such as Microsoft Windows 95 and sound, microphone and CD capability. Zenith and Microsoft researched the technology needs of major universities across the country and found schools often have trouble providing enougl computers for students. But the University has worked hard to alleviate. this problem. "We currently have better computer accessibil ity than any public university that I know about but that doesn't mean it can't be improved."Vat Houweling said. Nico Angleys, Engineering senior and resider computer systems consultant for Bursley Hall said the Z-stations will have an impact on corn puter labs next year. "Residence computer site will have less of a load and residence compute printers will have more of a load" if a gredte number of students own PC's, he said. "I think more and more students want to have thei own computers and they want to have them wort like the computers in computer labs," he said. City:Street to stay open for Hash Bash event By Will Wissert Daily Staff Reporter The Ann Arbor City Council voted 8- 3 last night to uphold a decision by City Administrator Neal Berlin that denied the closing of Monroe Street on April 6 for Hash Bash. In response, the Hash Bash Coalition plans to file a petition today claming the street should be closed for safety rea- sons, said Hash Bash Coalition Coordi- nator Rich Burkett. The coalition is scheduled to hold a public rally on the Diag on Saturday, April 6, from noon - 1 p.m. It had hoped to receive a permit that would block off Monroe Street to traffic so the rally could move to the street area in front of Dominick's Restaurant af- ter an hour of public speeches on the Diag. "If(the coalition) can'tget the crowds from the University they can't have the kind of public rally they want," said David Nacht, the attorney representing the coalition. "Could this really screw up Ann Arbor traffic - even Hash Bash traffic?" Nacht called the permit decision a free speech issue. Councilmember Elisabeth Daly (D- 5th Ward) agreed. "I support their right to free speech and anyone else's right to free speech," she said. " don't think concerns for traffic are important enough to deny this permit Hash Bash fills up more streets than just Hoover."~ City Attorney Abigail Elias denied that the decision on the permit is an issue of free speech. "The concern here is the downtown congestion caused during Hash Bash," she said. "This de- cision is not about the content of the group's speech." Councilmember Patrick Putman (R- 4th Ward) said the coalition could hold the rally at Fuller Park - three-quar- ters of a mile from the Diag - instead of blocking public streets. "I'm a prod- uct of the late '60s and early '70s and I've seen lots of people march for ev- erything under the sun-they marched a lot further thanjust three-quarters of a mile," he said. "Ifthis were a party I could see people not wanting to walk very far. This sounds more like a party then a political rally," Putman said. Councilmember Stephen Hartwell (D-4th Ward) cautioned councilmembers not to say too much during the debate of this controver- sial issue. "If we vote this down they are probably going to sue us and they will use our comments against us," he said. "Let's let the City Attorney handle this." Burkett pointed to Hartwell's com- ment as evidence that the Council's decision would be overturned in court. "What they said in there is evidence that they will lose in court," he said. "They were speaking their minds and someone shut them up. There was no free speech in that council." Students, computer users go online for Internet romances By Debra Sills For the Daily If students were looking for love and romance, where would they go? The personals? Touchdown Cafe? A frater- nity party? Perhaps the romance is right at their fingertips - literally. Many college students and other computer users are using their modems to find love over the Internet. "You get to know each other ... since you are farther away you get to know each person better and you tend to con- nect more," said Steve Jones, an LSA senior with friends who have met in cyberspace. This increasingly popular method of meeting romantic interests and friends is available to University stu- dents through The ,i real-time com- puter"talking," as are very well as computer conferencing and diSappoii e-mail. because Surprisingly, many Internet us- ers say couples often meet in the aren't me land of cyberspace. On especiall Internet Relay Chat, a real-time IRCE " service where students can con- verse with other Eng users, many people admitted to falling in love online. minal Service. The University for merly provided e-mail access an( other services through MTS, but the system has been phased out over th( past two years. After talking fOr fou hours over the system, Dudek said h( and his girlfriend discovered they were both from the same small town. Then then set up a time to meet and startet dating. Two and a half years later, Dudel says that meeting in cyberspace is be- coming popular and that he's "startini to see it more and more." Despite finding friends over th( Internet, some wonder whether com- puter romance is all that it is cracked ui to be. "I don't think of it as very romantic, Dudek said, add- ing that he know: Sbtins ofpeople who me over the compute: that plan to ge married. Erich Neupert a Canadian resi- dent, said be is r cans frequent IRC uses and that many types of peopk use the service. Ir '4 The spoken word Local poet/rapper/singer Jordan Dowling reads at the Guild House. The Guild House hosts authors from around the area every Monday night. Campus reacts to DAy theft aridles f !: I- By Katie Wang Daily Staff Reporter Following last week's theft of more than halfofThe Michigan Daily's press run, Alianza has issued a statement in response to a Daily article that linked members of the Latino/a alliance to the theft. "Alianza believes these speculative allegations to be a component of the witchhunt against active students of color at the University of Michigan," said the statement, which was issued by Nora Salas, co-chair of public opinion. Alianza has hired trial attorney Wil- liam Goodman to represent the organi- zation. Salas has refused to comment further and is forwarding further in- quiries about the incident to Alianza's attorney. Salas said the organization hired an attorney because, "The news articles we read about the allegations brought up the idea that the Daily was going to use the information of the anonymous source and charge someone with a felony or theft, and (because of) the implications that it has for Alianza on campus," Salas said. The article, which appeared in Thursday's edition of the Daily, quoted an anonymous source who witnessed a group of people taking the newspapers at Angell Hall last today Q Campus Information Centers, Michigan Union and North Cam- pus Commons, 763-INFO, info@umich.edu, UMeEvents on GOpherBLUE, and http:// www.umich.edu/-info on the World Wide Web Q English Composition Board Peer Tutoring, 741-8958, Mason Hall, Room 444C. 7-11 o.m. Wednesday morning. The source's statement, "There was a group of people, some of whom were possibly members of Alianza, who entered and removed all of the newspapers," has sparked discussion on campus. E-mail messages from various campus organizations that have been sent to students have con- tended that the quote, "found this Latina/o organization guilty of theft without due process." The Daily issued a statement yester- day to clarify the context of the quote. "The source knew one of the suspects to be a leader in Alianza, but was unsure about whether the other participants were also members of the group," the statement said. The University's Department of Public Safety is conducting an inves- tigation into last Wednesday's theft of about 8,700 copies of the newspa- per. A sign denouncing the newspa- per as racist, saying, "The Michigan Daily has been canceled today due to racism," was posted in place of the missing Dailys. Although DPS would not provide details about the investigation, Sgt. Kevin McNulty said the investigation is making progress and that DPS is "still looking for other people to come in as witnesses." Users can tap into this resource on University computers by typing "irc" at a Unix prompt. From there, users ex- plore channels with the names love, romance, singles, couples and others. IRC users can send private messages to others online, and go into private "chat rooms." Anyone in the world with access to the Internet can use IRC. Confer, a University program lim- ited to University students, includes discussion groups to which students can subscribe. Although the service is used for classes, it can also be used for social purposes, and includes groups for trading jokes and gaming. LSA senior Stephen Dudek met his true love through the Michigan Ter- fY through his opinion. cbersex is m o popular than cyberlove.} - Carlos Roche "I don't think gineering senior there is a lot o romance, Neupert said. "Maybe some sex talk. but that's about it." Engineering senior Carlos Roche, ar ITD consultant, said IRC and confer are the most popular services with Univer- sity students, and agreed that people dc meet over the University's system. "It happens quite a bit," Roche said. warning that, "the meetings are'very disappointing because expectations aren't met, especially through IRC" LSA sophomore Stacie Shermati has not yet tried to meet people or[ the Internet, but said she thinks it is agreat idea. "It seems easy because I know that a lot of people meet that way,' Sherman said. 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