I~~r m tti News: 76-DAILY Advertising: 764-0554 One hundred seven years of editorniz1freedom Monday December 1, 1997 .. :1 IN I Coleman Young dead at 79 'U' clinic Detroit mourns lo SS of a pioneer C#ETROIT (AP) Former Mayor eman Young, a tailor's son who overcame racism to become Detroit's first black mayor and presided over his city for an unprece- dented five terms, died Saturday. He was 79. Young died at about 1:55 p.m. at Sinai Hospital, where he had been in intensive care since July 24. The cause of death was respi- ratory failure, officials said. "Coleman never stopped fighting. He put up a good fight," said Dr. Claud Young, the f er mayor's doctor and cousin. think Coleman's last thing was his life, he was hanging onto life. He loved life and he was not willing to give in until he had to." Young suffered a cardiac arrest Nov. 12 and was in a coma on a ventilator after he was resuscitated. He had advanced emphysema and was hospitalized several times in recent years for heart and respiratory problems. "The people of this city have lost a great war- rior" said Young's successor, Dennis Archer. "His compassion, his intellect, his courage, Iwit and even his occasionally sharp tongue were the essential ingredients of a man who tried to lead us to a world as it should be, rather than accepting a world of the past." President Clinton praised Young as "an out- standing public servant who will be missed." "He was not only a great mayor of Detroit but an inspiration to so many city leaders throughout the nation," Clinton said. Former President Jimmy Carter called Young "one of the greatest mayors our coun- has known." Carter gave millions of dol- lars in federal aid to Detroit during his term after Young's support helped him win the 1976 presidential election. "With compassion and vision, he provided the leadership that lifted Detroit from a cli- , AP PHOTO0 Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young stands In front of the Spirit of Detroit in June, 1987. Young, the city's first black mayor, held the top office for an unprecedented five terms. cleared of allegations JACKSON, Mich. (AP) - A jury has cleared the University of Michigan's Family Assessment Clinic and its director of allegations they bungled a 1992 child-abuse eval- uation and mislabeled a Jackson County man a pedophile. The six jurors deliberated about four hours Tuesday before finding in favor of the clinic and its director, Dr. Kathleen Coulborn Faller. Both had been sued by the man on behalf of his daughter, now 8 years old. "We fought the good fight," the father told the Detroit Free Press in Wednesday's editions. "I wasn't in this for the money. I was in it for the people that have gone to this clin- ic and may go to it in the future" Faller said she was pleased with the verdict. "It really goes to the whole Child Protection Act and the need to provide safeguards for people who act in good faith who are trying to protect children, which is what we try to do," she said. The father had gone to the clinic in 1992 seeking to put to rest repeated accusations by his ex-wife that he had been molesting their daughter. No criminal charges were filed. Faller's clinic agreed to impartially interview both parents and the child, conduct psychological tests and consult with previous professionals involved in the case. Two videotaped interviews with the then-3-year-old girl and clinic interviewer Jane Mildred resulted in Mildred fil- ing a report of suspected child abuse with the state Department of Social Services - now called the Family Independence Agency - accusing the man of fondling his daughter. During the interviews, the girl said her father had hurt her and she made gestures with anatomical dolls and drawings while seated in her mother's lap. The father's attorneys claimed the "double-team" ques- See CLINIC, Page 7A TD w ork to curtail effects of milennium By Wajahat Syed Daily Staff Reporter The millennium bug, which could have devastating effects on computer systems around the world, may wreak havoc in exactly 760 days - the moment the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, 1999. But employees of the University's Information Technology Division are working to assure the possibility of such a "cyber cataclysm" remains remote. The millennium bug may occur when the Real Time Clock, a timing devise in the motherboard of everything from PCs and mainframes to respirators and elevators, changes its year units from 99 to 00. When systems convert from 99 to 00, instead of advancing into the year 2000, the computer may retract the date all the way back to 1900. Some experts have speculated the invalid date will lead to millions of corrupted files and faltering systems. "The problem is at many levels," said Gloria Thiele, the ITD Year 2000 Project (Y2K) leader. Thiele said the century problem arose because data storage on widely used University programs, some of which are 40 years old, was such an expensive process. "The data was stored on 2-unit-per-day, -month and -year basis," Thiele said. "The first two are fine, but now, as the new millennium approaches, we are faced with a serious problem with the year programs. ITD programmers have been examining the "century problem" since early 1991. The division's Human Resource Systems Product Area has developed and is currently proto- typing a "minimalist fix strategy,"known as the Y2K project. lTD officials' next step is devising a strategy to implement the anecdote system across all administrative systems. "The procedure is obviously a lengthy one," Thiele said. Conversion processes will take place at three levels. First, the University's main data storing assets and large data bases See 2000, Page 7A mate of unprecedented violence to one of hope and greater prosperity," Carter said. Republican Gov. John Engler called Young, a Democrat, "a man of his word who was willing to work with anyone, regardless of party or politics, to help Detroit - the city he loved and fought for all his life." ,"Coleman Young was a legend in his own time - a leader, a fighter, a pioneer in the battle for equal rights and against racial dis- crimination. His humor, gusto and passion for life will never be duplicated," Engler said. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Saturday. Archer ordered all flags in the city flown at half-staff until the day of the funeral. Though Detroit was plagued by the steady shift of jobs and residents to the suburbs, crime and the decline of the auto industry in the years after he first was elected mayor in 1973, Young was always optimistic about turning the city around. "This city is worth preserving," Young once said. "It has all the natural assets that it needs to make it: its geographical location, the strength of character of its people. "You pool all these people who have a See YOUNG, Page 5A M teans get lue- 0=m dad-whitapael r3 xi°" i _w By Janet Adamy Daily Staff Reporter If Michigan swimmer Andy Potts had wanted to wear blue and white, he would have gone to Penn State. But despite being a Wolverine, he's Wearing the Nittany Lions' colors. Potts' team is one of more than seven Michigan teams whose members have been wearing blue-and-white warm- ups since September, when problems in the production and shipping pipeline caused Nike to misplace the appropri- ate maize and blue warm-ups. "Obviously, our colors are maize and blue," said Potts, an LSA junior. "When Nike gives us blue-and-white 4 niforms, it's our Big Ten foe Penn State's uniform. Obviously, we don't want to be confused with our rival." In accordance with its University con- tract, Nike provides footwear and athlet- ic apparel for all varsity athletic teams. While Nike pulled warm-ups from retail store accounts to outfit teams such as men's football and basketball in Wolverine colors, many other teams were only left with the option of choosing plain blue warm-ups or blue- and-white warm-ups. The mistake so incensed Michigan athletes that all varsity athletic teams, including those that didn't receive the blue-and-white warm-ups, sent letters to Nike expressing their dissatisfaction with the mistake, Potts said. Fritz Seyferth, senior associate ath- letic director, said he was disappointed with the mistake. "We don't want our sports ordering blue and white," Seyferth said. "We want them wearing maize and blue" But Kit Morris, director of college sports and marketing for Nike, said the shortage of maize-and-blue warm-ups See WARM-UPS, Page 2A Members of the men's swimming team, LSA Junior Andy Potts, LSA junior Dave Stephens and Engineering junior John Reich, stand in Canham Natatorium, sporting the blue-and-white warm-ups they received from Nike in September. And then there were finals Rose Bowl art tribute travels to Kerrytown By Reilly Brennan Daily StaffReporter It wasn't until Ray Materson entered the big house that he learned to express his love and admiration for the Big House, the University's stadium. Materson was serving time in a Connecticut prison for robbery in late 1988, around the time of the Michigan-USC Rose Bowl game, when he decided to make a statement. "I saw a fella hanging socks outside of his cell. They happened to be maize and blue, so I traded a pack of cigarettes for them." Materson said. "I tore a corner of a bed sheet and borrowed a needle from a block officer and fashioned a big block 'M' so I could sew it on a visor cap and wear it during the Rose Bowl." Ma.tepronn said he then decide~d to buiv some said. "To their surprise, I told them I made it, and pretty soon I started getting orders for anything from a Harley Davidson logo to a Puerto Rico flag." Materson began using socks to create his embroideries, which went onto hats and T-shirts. He told the other inmates that if they wanted something, they had to provide the socks with the appropriate colors. "I don't know how, but if a guy wanted the Seattle Seahawks, I'd have a pile of socks the next day that were Seattle-Seahawks-green," he said. Materson eventually decided that his idea could become more than just an activity to pass the time. He next produced .Renoit's "The Swing" and Monet's "Sunrise" out of a collection of socks that he amassed. IMIS - - - ~