2 -- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 10, 1997 NATION/WO RLD i ROSE BOWL Continued from Page 1. "My family is really superstitious," Lanxner said. "I watched this Middle Eastern movie when I was little, where this little boy kept having nightmares. The little boy's grand- mother poured salt around the boy's bed and put a knife in the mattress to get rid of bad spirits. I guess I kind of picked up on that." University alumnus Mark Grueber said he and his former first-year roommate Dave Gamm are the proud owners of a giant letter "D" and a cardboard picket fence that they use to show support for the team's defen- sive abilities. "We have had the D-fence for two years," Grueber said. "The first time we used it was the Ohio-Michigan game two years ago. They won that game, 31- 23." Grueber said that because he and Gamm were unaware of the power of the D-fence, they didn't use it at all last year. "We brought it to every game this year," Grueber said. Since Grueber and Gamm live apart from one another, they only use the spe- cial weapon when they watch the game together. "It's the two of us that make the force. I am the fence and Dave is the D," Gruebber said. "Combined knowl- edge is more powerful. We're sick." Other requirements for Grueber and Gamm are wearing the same clothes to every game. "We must also enter the same gate and leave at the same time - that is essential,' Grueber said. For Brock, his revealing ensemble proved a little hazardous after the Ohio State game. "I wore just my special boxers and my comforter into the stadium," Brock said. "I was extremely jubilant that we won. I ran onto the field in just my box- ers, running around and hugging all my friends. When I tried to leave through the endzone, I got kind of thrown around by the cops. It got kinda rough, but it was definitely an interesting experience." For his part, Lanxner even poured a circle of salt around Michigan Stadium the day of the Ohio State game. "I think I might even use this for finals," Lanxner said. BGA Continued from Page t past few years have been minimal." Wiggins said stepping at BGA func- tions in the Union, unless on a stage, was prohibited after a fight broke out during a BGA party on Oct. 10. Wiggins said a fight-occurred between two groups, one of which was comprised of members from outside the University. "I think the fights start because there aren't enough outlets for black students on campus," Marshall said. "The events are few and far between." Marshall said that although stepping does instigate some disputes between people, impromptu stepping should still be allowed. Stepping creates a good atmosphere, he said. "You should be able to step. I don't see that as doing any harm. People have been doing that for years," Marshall said. "I don't see that as the direct cause of fights. Stepping doesn't cause fights." Associate Dean of Students Frank Cianciola, who made some of the deci- sions regarding BGA events, said that although he empathizes with BGA's sit- uation, recurring incidents of violence related to stepping and outsiders have I led to the restrictions on the group's parties. "These were steps that we put in place to achieve our objectives," Cianciola said. "We want the security of University students first and foremost:." Cianciola said his office has invited BGA members to come up with another plan that might prevent further acts of violence at the group's parties. "I think that (rule is) in place until there is an alternate plan of action that might better address the problem areas," Cianciola said. "They need to come together as a community and identify the action steps that would address this issue." Cianciola said the current polices restricting impromptu stepping and limit- ing attendance to University students are not necessarily permanent, but rather they were created to halt the pattern of violence occurring at BGA events. "I think we're open to whatever that plan might look like," he added. BGA President Gerald Olivari said he anticipates positive outcomes. "I was planning to brainstorm on that on the break to come up with some ideas," Olivari said. "It's hard to find a middle ground, but there's one there." COTSONIKA Continued from Page 1. Stanford in 1902. That game was stopped with nine minutes remaining because of a mercy rule, leaving offi- cials so dismayed they canceled future games - replacing football for events as strange as ostrich races. At least things were more competitive. Football didn't return until 1916, when Tournament of Roses officials took their heads out of the ground. Washington State defeated Brown, 14- 0, that year, but we made our return soon afterward. On Jan. 1, the Wolverines will make their 17th Rose Bowl appearance, best in the Big Ten. If they win, the victory will be their eighth, best in the Big Ten. Is it any wonder that Michigan now has 32 conference titles, best in the Big Ten? We're going back to where we belong. It's picture perfect. But there's more. Our 17th appearance may be the sweetest. In this era of 85-scholarship equity, no school - no matter how powerful in the past - will dominate forever. Look at Miami (Fla.), Texas and Alabama - none are in a bowl. Look at the past four Michigan sea- sons, each of which ended with the Wolverines losing four games. Look at the future: Rose Bowls won't happen every year anymore. And somehow, despite what all the critics said in the preseason, this so- called down-and-out school has risen again. It may rise higher than it has since 1948, the last time it was crowned a national champion in foot- ball. It may rise higher than the 1947 team (whose members are having a reunion in Pasadena this year, if you need an omen), which went 10-0 and won the Rose Bowl but lost out on the national championship to Notre Dame. The team that won the first Rose Bowl may win the last real Rose Bowl, before, the Bowl Alliance arrives in Pasadena next year and old traditions die forever. Well, it's picture perfect. These Wolverines have achieved in the true spirit of Michigan, a pub- lic school that gives talented, moti- vated peoplea forum in which to succeed. Lloyd Carr hasn't been a head coach since he worked with high school kids in the 1970s. Quarterback Brian Griese nearly left school after wallowing in a backup role last season, not long after he faced public ridicule for an instant of anger outside a campus bar, but he's back. There are so many others, but they all blend into one, which may be the very reason why they'll all be in Pasadena together. Charles Woodson? Well, like I said, I wonder if this is all just a mirage.He's so quick, he could have beaten those ostriches in 1913. But when you think about it, he's the only star we've got. Everyone else is just a Wolverine, and that's enough. No current player has seen the Rose Bowl either. None of them spoke about the national championship above a whisper until last week. And now, when they see a picture of that stadium on a postcard, they'll be mailing it to their mothers. I can only imagine what they'll be writing on the back, the wish-you- were-heres and I'm-glad-I-worked-so- hard-to-play-football. Hi, Mom, this is where I belong. As for me, I don't think I'm going to send any postcards. I might just walk down to the stadium and see it for myself, touch the wall, maybe, and make sure it's real, shaking my head in the sun. Court asked to regulate pursuits WASHINGTON - A lawyer urged the Supreme Court yesterday to crack down on high-speed police chases, say- ing they kill a person a day nationwide. But the justices did not seem inclined to take the suggestion. Paul Hedlund, who represents a California couple whose 16-year-old son died as a result of a police pursuit, made a highly emotional plea for a new constitutional right to sue police and local governments when a pursuing offi- cer kills or maims someone - either someone being chased or a bystander. Thejustices tried repeatedly to cut off Hedlund's recital, to get him to focus on the legal fine points, but the lawyer managed to go on with an aroused denunciation of reckless officers. The court did not appear moved by it. The reason the constitutional claim is being fought by police departments, Hedlund said, "is because they want to continue" such chases. "They want to continue killing people," he boldly asserted. If such deaths were "an isolated event, it wouldn't come to this court's attention," Hedlund argued. But deaths, he said, "are occurring one a day." In 1985, he said, 385 people died from police pursuits. He did not cite. source of that statistic. Food system causes rise i bacteria WASHINGTON - The efficient worldwide food system that gives gro- cery shoppers more choices and lower prices carries a troubling cost: an upsurge in food poisoning. The rat salmonella illness alone has dou d over the past 20 years. The way outbreaks occur also is changing. In the past, most cases origi- nated in restaurants or at events. Such cases still happen - one per- son died and 750 were sickened by sal- monella at a Maryland church outing last month. Now, food sometimes is tainted during processing and is distrib- uted before anyone gets sick. AROUND THE NATION Freeh urges for Mdependent counsel WASHINGTON - FBI Director Louis J. Freeh told a House committee yester day that he believes "very strongly" that an independent counsel should be appoint ed to investigate the campaign fund-raising scandal although he said he had no problem being overruled by Attorney General Janet Reno. Offering unusual public insights into high-level decision-making in the camp-.m probe, Freeh said that he and Reno examined the same evidence and the same but came to opposite conclusions about whether the Independent Counsel Act should be invoked. Freeh said that he reached his decision on the basis of several factors, indi- cating that among them was a concern that Reno faces an unavoidable conflict of interest in investigating President Clinton, who appointed her to office. "In recommending that an independent counsel be appointed I did not, and do not, imply that I believe any particular person has committed a crime, is the target of a grand jury or even has done anything improper, Freeh told the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Although committee Republicans worked hard to shine a harsh light on the dif- ferences between them, Freeh and Reno, who also testified yesterday, made a pub. lic display of standing by each other. Denying that a "professional rift" had d0- oped between them, Freeh said, "It merely means we disagree on a matter of law ... that two lawyers disagree should not be surprising." : :. ........... ;<, AROUND THE WORLD'-- 11-1-14-. C'y. ME4 y< 7t 4. / Islamic summit offers views on West TEHRAN, Iran - Iran opened an Islamic summit meeting yesterday designed to promote unity among the world's 1 billion Muslims. But the host country's leaders offered starkly con- trasting views on relations between Islam and the West, underscoring deep divisions within Iran itself. Ayatollah Ali Khameini, the coun- try's supreme leader, lashed out at Western powers in a fiery opening speech, targeting in particular the United States, which he accused of "global arrogance" and assorted sins against Islam. He denounced what he called the "global Zionist media," blasted the U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace process as "unjust, arrogant, con- temptuous and finally illogical," and warned the United States to pull its warships out of the Persian Gulf, which he described as "an Islamic sea." But President Mohammed Khatemi, a moderate cleric elected last May in an unexpected landslide, made an entirely different impression, speaking of the need for tolerance and understanding among people of different faiths. 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