ews: 76-DAILY dvertising: 7640554 I £ I1r t1 / One hundred seven years of editorial freedom Friday January 9, 1998 1 -1 - I ---------- - ---- . ........... .... ......... . .... . . . ..... . ........... ....,. . :. ... " , , , z ;: .::. Y :: Y + , :. 3 5 3 a 9"a x , '" :: ::' v,. . , ,v::: ..'a }p e',a pj{yyyyrr y{{{r yy y iq/ .r . , . pv T rs'4 S' r' r:S :y s a 2 x a 3 :,. ;y:o .y ,.. ,r... t a ~ ss r..s E i ;. ,s? r WOO I arade rocessiol Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud aily Staff Reporter Nothing can rain on the Wolverines' para In honor of the Michigan football tea ose Bowl victory and national champions itle, the Athletic Department will hole arade Sunday, an event that officials hope N ring more than 100,000 fans to Ann Arbo The parade, which will begin at 2 p.m., i erve as a consolation prize to the many I ' are annoyed that they are unable to ets to the rally Sunday night in Cri rena. "The parade gives people who aren't gc o Crisler Arena an opportunity to take par he celebration," said Assistant AthlI irector Bruce Madej. opular p rof. ust take term off William Nash Staff Reporter To the chagrin of students and him- elf, history Prof. Sidney Fine will not each his popular U.S. history course his semester. An unexpected illness is preventing he former winner of the Golden Apple ward from performing his normal eaching duties this semester. Over inter break, Fine's doctor advised that e not continue teaching this semester. was slated to teach History 467: .S., 1933-present. "I've only missed two days in 50 ears, but it would be unfair to students o teach under these conditions," said ine, who would not specify the nature f his health problem. History Prof. David Fitzpatrick has ken over the lecturing duties, but in tudents' eyes, there is no replacement one of the University's most popu- structors. "He's been a legendary figure here at he University and his class lived up to xpectations," said LSA sophomore hristian Hoard. Hoard took Fine's lass, U.S. History 1901-1933, last emester, and looked forward to having im again. "When I walked in and saw that he asn't there, it felt like part of the class as just missing," said LSA first-year ent Rachel DeYonker. DeYonker ped the class after learning that ine would not be teaching - she lans to wait for his return. DeYonker said she knows other stu- ents who are doing the same thing. "It's not because (Fitzpatrick) is eaching. It's because Prof. Fine isn't," eYonker said. Fine recommended Fitzpatrick as a eplacement, and the history depart- t agreed. "He has experience and a very good teacher," Fine said. Taking over for Fine is bittersweet or Fitzpatrick, who said he was both xcited and sad to take the job. "At one level, I'm distraught taking he class of both my mentor and friend. ut on the other hand, I'm tremendous- y honored he recommended me to take is place," Fitzpatrick said. Fitzpatrick has made it clear that e is only filling in for Fine and isn't ng to take his place. He doesn't lan to make any major changes in he course. "I feel that students signed up to take Sidney Fine's course and I will teach it hat way," Fitzpatrick said. Students have expressed concern for e teacher who many described as per- onable and nice. Fine held extensive ffice hours and always made a point in .ture of encouraging students to visit "I have gotten a lot of very affection- te messages expressing concern from students," Fine said. Fitzpatrick said that after the first lecture, many students approached him made official scheduled for Sunday Players, coaches and University and city officials will travel in convertibles and pickup trucks through the streets of downtown Ann Arbor. The 1.8-mile parade route will begin at the intersection of Hill and State streets, go north on State Street, east on Liberty Street, south on Main Street and end at Hill Street. "I began to hear about the number of stu- dents who wanted to participate in the celebra- tion when I got back," said Athletic Director Tom Goss. "This is our opportunity to say 'thank you' to our fans." Because of the amount of planning involved, the Athletic Department hired The Parade Company, which is based in Detroit, to orga- nize the parade. The parade most likely will cost more than $20,000, Madej said. The Parade Company produced Detroit's Thanksgiving Day parade and the Red Wings' victory parade last summer. "If you went to Pasadena, the victory parade adds an exclamation to the season," said Parade Company Executive Director Susie Gross. "If you didn't go to the Rose Bowl, the parade will provide a wonderful opportunity to join the celebration." The Michigan Marching Band, in addition to several local high school bands, will provide musical entertainment to spectators. Goss, Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon and University President Lee Bollinger also are slated to appear in the event. "It is the hottest ticket in town right now," See PARADE, Page 2 PAUL IALANIAN/Daily Bob DeCarolis, senior associate athletic director, distributes scarce football pep rally tickets to SA sophomore Emily Reidy, Nursing junior Tara Basso and LSA sophomore Beth Hananer. I 'U' researchers debate cause of global warming By Sam Stavis Daily Staff Reporter As concern for global warming con- tinues to rise, most scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing. But the causes of this problem are not as clear. While many experts believe that global warming is a result of man-made greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, others maintain that such changes are a natural occur- rence. The global warming debate only will heat up after yesterday's announcement that 1997 was the Earth's warmest year on record. Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the Earth's average temperature last year was 3/4 of a degree Fahrenheit above normal. University researchers have formed several different theories explaining the phenomenon. Joyce Penner, University professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sci- ences, is one of the few researchers arguing that global warming might be a natural occurrence. Her research indi- cates that aerosols created by sulfur emissions from the burning of fossil fuels - substances such as soot and sulfuric acid - actually help cool the planet. "These particles can reflect solar radiation," Penner said. "Not as much sunlight gets to the surface of the Earth to warm it up, which has a cooling effect:' Aerosol particles also become cloud nuclei, forming water droplets that increase cloud coverage. This further reduces the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth. Penner's study showed that these clouds and free-floating particles cool the Earth more than previously thought, at a rate almost twice that of which greenhouse gases warm the planet. So if the global climate is getting warmer, as studies show, it might be because of natural reasons, Penner said. "There's natural variability in the warming system,' Penner said. "If the two effects were nearly balanced, then the hundred-year trend that we've seen might be due to natural causes." Although Penner's results are prelim- inary, she believes they are conclusive enough to cast doubt on conventional theories about global warming during the past hundred years. She also said the results confuse the issue of global warming in our immediate future. "It adds a complication, which may mean that we would not anticipate a warming as soon as we would other- wise expect," she said. But because aerosol emissions are being cut, global warming could well increase. Europe and the United States have cut aerosol emissions because they cause acid rain, But greenhouse gases, which Penner believes cause global warming, continue to increase. "Aerosols have a very short lifetime; CO2 has a very long lifetime," Penner said. "If we continue on the same emis- sions trends that we're on, CO2 con- centrations will rise faster than aerosols will." Henry Pollack, a University profes- sor of geological sciences, agrees with Penner on one thing - the Earth is get- ting warmer, and it will continue to do so. But the cause of global warming is different, Pollack said. "The temperature increase is real, there isn't any real quarrel about that," Pollack said. "The causes are more debatable." Pollack examined the temperature readings from 300 sites around the world. These sites were used to mea- sure temperature changes over a 500- year period. This gives information about climate changes before 1900, when meteorological data began to be recorded globally. "We have looked at a five-century interval, which lets us look at the pre- industrial era as well as the industrial era,' Pollack said. "Our results show that the Earth's temperature did warm See WARMING, Page 7 PAUL TALANIAN/Daily Holger Warzecha takes time out of his day to visit the University's bible exhibit, "From Papyri to King James," on the seventh floor of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate library. Exhibit taesteBible's history w Vith classic texts By Lee Palmer Daily Staff Reporter Artists, those studying Greek and Latin, and religious people hoping to confirm their faith are among those who have visited "From Papyri to King James," a historical exhibit created by the University Special Collections Library. The exhibit displays texts from as early as the year 119. and traces the transmission of the English Bible to the King James version of 1611. Religion and English Prof. Ralph Williams, who teach- es a class on the Bible, spoke at the exhibit's opening Dec. 7, to a packed room of about 80 students, faculty and community members.% "People were especially interested in the motives involved in the creation of these texts and the visual rep- resentations that have accompanied them," Williams said. Preserving more than 10,000 individual fragments of papyri texts, the University hosts the largest collection of early manuscripts written on papyrus in the Western Hemisphere and the fifth largest in the world. Papyrus is a plant found in the Middle East that was used as paper before parchment. "For me, (the exhibit's) great interest is in the presence here of singularly important material testimonies to the See EXHIBIT, Page 7 U' task force seeks change in trainng po By Jordan Field and Katie Plona Daily Staff Reporters Attempting to ensure a safer training regimen for Michigan wrestlers after the death of teammate Jefferey Reese, an internal Athletic Department task force has released a series of recommenda- tions that intend to improve the sport. "We established the task force to focus on how we can make the sport safer," said Athletic Director Tom Goss in a written statement released with the task force's seven suggestions. "With these recommendations, we have come that has moved the nation's wrestling community and spurred national atten- tion about the sport's potentially fatal training methods. Just one month before Reese's death, Jack Saylor, a wrestler at Campbell University in North Carolina, and Joseph LaRosa, who wrestled at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, also died while trying to shed pounds. Officials at all three universities are now in the process of reshaping their wrestling programs. Wrestling coach Dale Bahr said he hopes something positive will come from weight management for Michigan wrestlers: * Rubber suits will be prohibited. * Sauna use will no longer be allowed the day of weigh-ins. All activity will be supervised on weigh-in days. A trainer will be present during the actual weigh-in. Weigh-in will occur between one to three hours before competition. Weight assessment and monitoring programs will be made and the weight of each wrestler will be recorded daily. A mandatory nutritional educa- tional program must be set up for all - = It 101,910 w I , , - I I , I ",% , : I , , - .: "' 9 a