News: 76-DAILY dvertising: 764-0554 C tti One hundred seven years ofeditonrilfreedom Monday March 16, 1998 :,; 4. ':F s ¢. :.;k :':,r{F cr: <.s yE nkyyu. s a {e{ zr,..' 'E;'vy l b ,TF ? z i ."x .. ,.r? ., { ,, : ur a .,'m ;,.... a > .a,.. ' 'r... :4y .;,s vA a'F. F"r 0,1999 Ttw Michigan :r..:"ysg°M ..,<.. e: wx ,r "' ttN , .,,? ., d Z rx>s :,." g; ?xF Y , } a x zz ,x. 5hixxRa :en18 M ounge onors student's emory y Rachel Groman )aily Staff Reporter The mood was light and upbeat as tudents, faculty and family members athered in the main lobby of Mary arkley Residence Hall for the dedica- of the Arati Sharangpani Lounge. miles and bright faces filled the oom in spite of the tragic event that rought this group together -the death fa University student. "It's so great, so beautiful to have so any people here - new and old staff," aid Markley Resident Director Joslyn alson, who worked with Sharangpani. Sharangpani was an LSA senior when he was killed in a Comair commuter lane crash near Detroit on January 9, 7. She was returning from a final job *nterview with Proctor & Gamble in incinnati when her plane went into a osedive 18 miles from Detroit etropolitan Airport, killing all 26 pas- ngers and three crew members aboard. Dipti Sharangpani said the dedica- ion in honor of her daughter was held t a very appropriate time and place. The setting sun streamed directly into center of the lounge as the dedica- i began, illuminating the podium here various speakers shared stories of ow Sharangpani touched their lives. "This is what she was," said Dipti harangpani, remarking on the sun and miling. Those who attended the dedication ere invited to sign a mural on the ounge's wall. Quotes ranged from usiness senior Soni Dani's, "You ouched me in ways that I didn't even w ... until you were gone," to LSA enior Doug Barns', "4th Wing, A/RD staff 96-97 rocks the house!" Engineering senior Rudhir Patel pened the ceremony, followed by a oem about friendship by LSA senior ama Faik. Faik said he "will never for- et Arati's ability to have so many 'ends and to retain those friendships" LSA sophomore Stacey Waxtan, a ident in the hall where Sharangpani a resident adviser before her death, resented an excerpt from the book 'Chicken Soup for the Soul." She See SHARANGPANI, Page 3A emisia celebrates omen By Lee Palmer Daily Staff Reporter Prohibited from entering the Michigan Union, which at that time was a clubhouse for male students, female University students raised the funds to Id the Michigan League in 1929. n the late '50s, female students won full access to the Union, and 40 years later, both men and women gathered in the League to participate in an open forum on issues affecting women. In celebration of the "feminine life principle'" Artemisia, a weekend-long conference on women's issues, drew a crowd of almost 100 participants this past weekend to hear more than 65 men speak on topics including women in politics, women's health, gender roles and sexuality. "This conference is a wonderful cel- ebration of being a woman," said LSA junior Melissa Walsh, a conference participant. "I feel a lot of times there tends to be a push for de-sexing of everyone in general," Walsh said. Artemisia co-chairs and LSA iors Puja Dhawan and Kiran Chaudhri, who have been planning the conference with the help of an execu- tive board since fall, said they were overwhelmed by the positive feedback the weekend generated. r Sweet plans Bruin'd falls to UCLA, ends season Michigan loses 85-82 to UCLA to end their run in the NCAA Tournament By James Goldstein Daily Sports Writer ATLANTA - A season that began tumultuously with the painful firing of coach Steve Fisher ended yesterday for the Michigan basketball team with consoling hand- shakes from University President Lee Bollinger and Athletic Director Tom Goss in a solemn lockerroom in the Georgia Dome. Michigan bowed out early from the NCAA Tournament, suffering an 85-82 gut-wrenching second-round defeat at the hands of sixth-seeded UCLA. All of the team's key contributors felt an empty pang in their stomachs after the game. The question was: Who felt worst? There's Michigan guard Louis Bullock, who injured his right shin in Michigan's 80-61 victory over No. 14 seed Davidson on Friday, but said he was fine for yesterday's game. He wasn't fine. Bullock, in possibly the worst shoot- ing performance of his Michigan career, was off target all game, connecting on just 7 of his 27 shots and making a paltry 2 of 14 3-pointers, en route to a 16- point performance. For the junior Bullock, whose sharpshooting had single-handedly carried the Wolverines to victories this season, this will be a hard loss to get over. "It's tough, Bullock said. "It will sink in more and more as the tournament continues." Then there's junior center Robert Traylor. Attempting to purposefully miss the second of two free throws with the Wolverines trailing by three with 1.1 seconds remaining, Traylor committed a violation by stepping over the free throw line too soon, dashing Michigan's last hope for vic- tory. Meanwhile, UCLA's Kris Johnson, who led the Bruins with 25 points, made eight straight free throws in the final 37 seconds to put the game out of reach. See BASKETBALL, Page 2A MARGARET MYERS/Daily Michigan forward Mace Baston walks off the court at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta yesterday after the Wolverines fell to the UCLA Bruins 85- 82 in the second round of the South region of the NCAA tournament. The Michigan men's basketball team finished its season 25-9. [["at could have been,? The bottom ibis~ painful ATLANTA - "We don't believe in moral victories at Michigan" - that's what Michigan basketball coach Brian Ellerbe likes to say when his team loses. Well, he's absolutely correct. In the end, wins and losses are what count. Everything else - the adversity a team fights through, the odds it fights against - becomes a distant memory. Unfair? Maybe. But it's the truth For those of you who can't bear to think about what went wrong, we'll bask in what went right this season - and there was a lot - first. Despite losing their coach three weeks before the season and having a fan base that, for the most part, had no faith in them, the Wolverines over- came all odds to put together a surprising and at times amazing season. Robert Traylor, who came so close last summer to leaving school for the NBA, improved signifi- DAN cantly on the court and off, STILLMAN becoming the team's undis- Still the puted emotional leader. Man Jerod Ward, amidst labels of "Underachiever" and "Failure," finally got through a season injury-free. He went from bust to NBA prospect in a matter of weeks, not only silencing his critics, but transforming them into adoring fans. Robbie Reid, after not playing basketball for two years, left Brigham Young for Michigan and became an integral part of the Wolverines' attack. And Brian Ellerbe, thrown into the unenviable position of interim coach less than two weeks prior to the season, made a name and a future for himself, wherever that may be. So many positives never felt this bad. We can even take consolation in the way Michigan ended its season. In their last two trips to the NCAA Tournament, the Wolverines lost their first- round games. They made mental mistakes, phys- ical errors - you name it - and lost two games they should've won easily. Yesterday, UCLA beat Michigan. The Wolverines didn't turn the ball over too many times or call timeouts when they shouldn't have. The Bruins simply played a brilliant, inspired game. They out-ran, out-defended and out- coached the Wolverines. But all of that is consolation, not what really See STILLMAN, Page 2A Day unites Korea s AJ~Mmnans By Rachel Edelman and Susan T. Port Daily Staff Reporters Twelve-year-old Courtney Lehmann was excited to see some of her friends from-Korean American summer camp for the first time this year as she walked into the Chemistry Building this weekend. As an adopted child in a white family, she rarely has the opportunity to expe- rience her cultural heritage. Korean heritage and culture was celebrated with a children's program and a cultural show as part of the sixth annual Korean Cultural Arts Festival, which featured a community service program on Saturday afternoon and an evening cultural show. The events drew about 500 people. "We -'.,. n to thi-*nrir -nhra " cniA Al Roberts togivew annual speech By William Nash Daily Staff Reporter A decorated journalist and current University of Maryland' journalism Prof. Eugene Roberts is scheduled to speak in the Rackham Amphitheater about college freedoms at 4 p.m. today. The former editor of both the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer was chosen to give this year's "Academic Freedom Lecture." The annual lecture honors three University professors who were suspended during the McCarthy era for, alleged involvement with the Communist party The lecture unintentionally follows the March 12 death of: former University Prof. Mark Nickerson, one of two profes- sors fired for his political affiliations. Roberts said said his lecture will mainly focus on the free- dom of speech on college campuses where, "by some counts 100 campuses have had publications seized." He pointed to his own university, which has in the past had several thousand copies of the campus newspaper seized by students who didn't agree with what was published in it. "In the last 10 years, there have been enough abuses of freedom on college campuses to warrant very grave con- cern:' Roherts said. 'RIAN^ AYUG 'VIC" "aily University students perform a traditional Korean fan dance during the Korean Cultural Arts Festival on Saturday night in the Chemistry Building. wer ndniteA Kby white hjnuigphnlde and the Duiring' the dayv booths with varius cultural