8A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 5, 1998 NATION/WORLD I Rescuers fail to find bodies at crash sight Rescuers believe none of the plane's 104 passengers survived, CLAVERIA, Philippines (AP) - Rescuers searching the crash site of a DC-9 airliner high on a steep Philippine mountain ridge failed yesterday to find any passengers or large plane fragments in the dense jungle. Rescue officials offered little hope that any of the 104 people aboard the twin-engine Cebu Pacific Air plane sur- vived the accident in the southern Philippines. Rescuers did not indicate whether they located any identifiable body parts. Rescuers did find pieces of seat cushions, scattered clothes and vari- ous documents, including business cards, at the edge of a deep ravine, and said much of the plane may have tumbled over the rim after the initial impact. Efforts to reach the bottom through the remote, dense jungle were unsuccessful by nightfall, when rescue efforts were called off for the day. The steep slopes, rain and dense vegetation had kept rescuers from reaching the crash site on Mount Sumagaya, about 7,260 feet high, i NCAA Continued from Page 1A "If it's a major case, which it sounds like it may be, we only do things at the meetings," the committee member said. "Last meeting, Michigan was not on our agenda." Senior Associate Athletic Director Keith Molin said the University pro- posed to punish itself by reducing its recruiting visits. "Our position as an institution is to get over with this process as soon as possible," Molin said. Ellerbe said this type of penalty would hurt the University's basketball program. "Any time something is taken away from you, you're at a disadvan- tage to your competitors," Ellerbe said. David Berst, chief of the NCAA enforcement staff, said he has received the letter submitted by the University that details the University's sanction recommendations. Berst said assignment of the penalty is "pending," and the next step is for the committee members to review the University's report. "We are ensuring them that the report is being reviewed by the NCAA Committee on Infractions," Berst said. The NCAA Committee on Infractions is composed of professors, legal experts and other professionals from across the nation, meets as a group every two months. Berst also said he could not speculate on the time frame of the investigati but said the decision will not be kno "in the next couple of days" and i. "more likely" to be made within the month. But the committee member said the NCAA committee's decision may nol be announced until a month after it' next meeting in April. Besides submitting a letter of rec- ommendations for the sanctions, the University has the right to a hear4 with the committee, which wotdi mean anyone charged of impropriety could speak directly to committee members, prolonging the decision further. "If Michigan comes to a meeting ir month X, the hearing takes all day," the committee member said. "There's ar awful lot of material. The committee then writes a report, something around 50 pages. Once we agree on the rept and make a decision, it could be as 1 as a month until the whole thing is pub- lic." The committee member detailed a case the NCAA committee had on its agenda at its meeting last week. "A school we just heard, we were dealing with events that happened in 1996 and the school submitted its report in late fall of 1997 and it was on our agenda at the meeting January," said the committee me ber. "That was fairly a quick one in terms of a school getting in its inves- tigation and report with the enforce- ment stuff done." AP PHOTO Volunteer rescuers head toward Mt. Sumagaya in Southern Philippines yesterday to the crash sight of the Cebu Pacific DC-9 passenger plane. for nearly two days. The strong winds that hampered rescue helicopters earlier in the week apparently blew some debris - including a blood-stained Cebu Pacific blanket and airline docu- ments -to several locations includ- ing spots on a neighboring moun- tain. The 31-year-old plane disappeared Monday morning as it was preparing to land in Cagayan de Oro city on Mindanao island, about 28 miles away. After flying over the crash site, about 500 feet from the mountain's peak, military Chief of Staff Gen. Clemente Mariano said the plane had "almost cleared the top of the mountain, but it may have suffered a down-draft, causing it to hit the mountain." The airplane was making a visual, not instrumental, landing approach when it disappeared, the officials said. It had made an unscheduled stop at another airport and therefore was not on its normal flight path from Manila to Cagayan de Oro. The plane's substitute route took it over high mountains and deep ravines, with thick clouds covering some slopes. The plane carried 99 passengers - including five children - and five crew members. The passengers included one Japanese, one Austrian, a Swiss, an Australian and a Canadian. The plane's last radio contact was with the Cagayan de Oro airport tower 15 minutes before it was due to land. In that call, the pilot said he was 42 miles from the airport and was starting to descend. There was no indication that the plane was in trouble. Cebu Pacific began operations in March 1996 after the Philippines had all of their airline operations deregulated by government forces last year. The airline has had no previous major accidents. U yr 1't YrS i j ".; r3 '.'taw - *)OtMA FOX Continued from Page 1A clearly hit the wrong person," Walton said. Binkley told WWJ radio in January that the charges were unwarranted because Fox acted in self-defense. He said Fox hit Thomas because he fea he was going to be attacked again. University Law Prof. Samuel Gross said defendants have no legal right to delay a trial if new counsel is hired. "It's perfectly common if someone changes lawyers for the judge not to allow the change unless the lawyer can continue the case without delay," Gross said. But Walton said the Oakland County prosecutor's office usually gives deference to new legal counsel. "The attorney needs time to become familiar with the facts of the case so he can represent his client,' Walton said. ---Daily Sports Editor Sharat Raju contributed to this report. COALITIONde with that of Pioneer students, e said. Continued from Page 1A "I don't see affirmative action as arti- attempt to intervene in the lawsuit. ficial," Galardi said. "I see it as an "We don't know what the content of important aspect of what we do." an intervention will be," Baker said. Robert Sedler, a Wayne State "We will have to study it once it has University constitutional law professor, been filed, but clearly, there is an enor- said if the court permits the intervention. mous amount of interest presented by the high school students will be the actu- the lawsuit." al third party to intervene in the lawsuit. High school students from the not the lawyers or the organizations le metro-Detroit area who say they will ing the coalition. be closely affected by the lawsuit are "They will claim an interest in the scheduled to appear at today's con- lawsuit, which is an interest in getting ference which was called by the into U of M," Sedler said. coalition. Baker said she is not surprised that Bob Galardi, Ann Arbor Pioneer other parties want to become involved High School Principal, said he has in the lawsuit. not been contacted by coalition "This is a matter that affects a great attorneys who may be seeking high many people, so naturally people will school students to participate in the want to become involved in some wav" intervention, but that the concept Baker said. would not surprise him. Galardi said Sedler said that after the coalition he is not opposed to the student par- files its motion to intervene, both ticipation. the plaintiffs and the University will Galardi said Pioneer High School is have the opportunity to respond the top feeder of students into the before the judge makes a final rul- University, with about seven to eight ing. percent of each graduating class "I would expect the intervention enrolling in the University. 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