2A -The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 5, 1999 NATION/WORLD continued from Page 1A "'heir concern but received no response, Southworth said. At that point, he felt it was "no longer viable to work through she student government." Southworth and the two other plain- were referred to attorney Jordan 4Morence, and after evidence was com- a iled, they filed the case in federal court. In November 1996, the district court ftudge ruled in the students' favor, affirm- ing that their right to freedom of speech and association had been violated. The university appealed to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, who again denied the legitimacy of the school's funding policies. The case, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin v. Southworth, is scheduled to be heard sometime next fall. After the second decision was made, the university refunded the .student fee money to all three plaintiffs, Southworth Said. He said this action proves the uni- versity has a weak case. Southworth said he is confident that the country's highest court will uphold the earlier decision because the plain- tiffs are completely in the right. "The First Amendment was set up and designed to protect the minority" he said. "It is the only thing we have to protect those who are not in power." Both parties agreed to a stay of the lower courts' orders, Lorence said, so no changes will be implemented until the Supreme Court makes its decision. Michigan Student Assembly Rep. Sumeet Karnik also expressed feelings of opposition to Southworth's no-fund- ing stance. "I think it would be a terrible disaster" if the funding of student groups was dis- continued, Karnik said. "I can see a lot of student groups discontinuing if they couldn't get money from MSA." Karnik, who chairs the assembly's Budget and Priorities Committee, said the University's student fee, which is less than $10 per semester, is allocated to groups who apply for money and pre- sent a convincing case to the MSA bud- get committees. All University students are eligible to serve on either of the com- mittees, regardless of whether they are an assembly member. The committees decide which groups will receive money based on the impact the group will have on the campus, not its political or ideological stance. The decisions are not taken lightly, he said. "We're not just giving money out, we're making an investment in the atmosphere on campus," Karnik said. Local officials cite low offenses at Bash AROUND THE NATION VIOLATIONS Continued from Page 1A pants procured an amplification per- mit to use the Diag from noon until 1 p.m. and did not exceed their time limit. To handle the estimated 5,000 people who congregated in the city Saturday and to ensure order, officers in Ann Arbor patrolled their designated areas in teams comprised of state, city and campus police. "Our officers were paired with officers from other agencies," DPS Lt. Robert Neumann said. "This made it easier to spread out a little bit more." DPS officers acted as lead officials when patrolling the campus, with offi- cers from other agencies giving sup- port. Officers patrolled campus in this manner to avoid complications with jurisdiction. Neumann also said about 12 under- cover DPS officers walked around cam- pus during the festival. Prior to the annual event, AAPD offi- cials said they did not foresee any changes in their patrolling habits. "We just have our usual shifts going out," AAPD Sgt. Flocken said. As of Saturday evening, AAPD offi- cers had handed out 89 violations for var- ious offenses. In a written statement, AAPD officials said they did not have any "major" problems with the large crowd that inundated the Diag and the city's streets. Unofficial reports from DPS state that 29 people were cited by DPS officers for being in possession of marijuana in the Diag area, Neumann said. "The number of violations have decreased every year," Neumann said, adding that DPS has not significantly changed any of its methods for patrolling Hash Bash during the past five to 10 years. The University campus falls under state laws governing the use of marijua- na. In the state of Michigan, possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana is a misdemeanor and carries a fine of up to $2,000 and/or a sentence of up to one year in prison. There is also a lesser offense for the use of marijuana which carries a maxi- mum jail term of 90 days and/or a max- imum fine of $100. But officers issued more offenses for violations unrelated to marijuana. Nine people received tickets for ille- gally selling items on the Diag and an additional nine were ticketed for carry- ing or consuming alcohol on city streets. Four minors were ticketed for using and/or carrying tobacco.. Those charged with marijuana viola- tions were taken to the DPS office located at 525 Church Street for pro- cessing. People who were arrested and brought to the facility should expect a phone call from DPS officials within the next few weeks. Suspect arrested for Melissa' Virus Cybersleuths had been peering into cyberspace, collecting clues about the Melissa virus author, for eight full days before David Smith was arrested in New Jersey on Friday and charged with being the culprit. So it came as no surprise to software analysts when newspapers reported that the 30-year-old Smith was working as a computer programmer, had filed for bank- ruptcy in Florida three years ago and was now living alone in a Monmouth Coun* N.J., apartment with two cats and a big pile of computers. Analysts already had been tracing the digital fingerprints left across the Internet by the creator of Melissa, the nasty virus that overloaded e-mail systems world- wide. Even as Smith was being released on bail, electronic profiles based on Internet "aliases" were being linked to him through such clues as Smith's private e-mail account: DLSmith@monmouth.com. The online persona that emerged, analysts said, was of a "prolific" Internet writer who called himself a "pill-head" and posted thousands of messages to online bulletin boards devoted to music, art, sex and computer viruses. "We believe David Smith has about a dozen different aliases," said Peter Tippett, chief executive of Reston, Va.-based ICSA.net, one of many computer secur firms where virus experts have been working continuously since the first Melis. infected file was posted to a sex-related Internet newsgroup March 25. . _ .... ...... . ........ th~x~k tep ::.:.:.:.: .. .. ... PRAfMPRtNACKL .:.::..:..7 5 43.:::.... ..: .7.: Amy ~e~an sj~ Whos ..:.: ttwt~~wetI Y2K fear, bosses limt vacation time CLEVELAND - Save the cham- pagne for another occasion. This New Year's Eve is going to be dry for thou- sands of workers pulling Y2K duty. Fears that the Year 2000 computer bug will create havoc has caused com- panies nationwide to limit.- even for- bid - vacation time at the end of the year. Some of the bans are just a couple days or so. Others will last months. Technicians, utility workers - including the 8,400 at Detroit Edison Co. - as well as bankers, city employees, emergency person- nel and financial consultants are among those who'll be shelving their party hats and noisemakers come Dec. 31. Detroit Edison has banned vacations from Dec. 27 to Jan. 7, 2000. And Comerica Bank's 11,000 employees - 8,800 of them in Michigan - have been told that no vacations will be allowed from Dec. 27 through Jan. 31, 2000. In some cases, the blackout periods have workers grousing, but others are taking the situation in stride. Willie Kennedy had hoped to toast the new year in the Caribbean warmth of Aruba. He and his wife, Shawn, h planned the island trip for years. China secretly supported Clinton WASHINGTON - The chief of China's military intelligence secretly directed funds from Beijing to help re-elect President Clinton in 1996, former Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has told federal inves- tigators. Chung says he met three time with the intelligence official, Gen. Ji Shengde, who ordered $300,000 deposited into the Torrance, Calif., businessperson's bank account to subsidize campaign donations intended for Clinton, according to sources familiar with Chung's sealed statements to federal prose- cutors. .......... ................ 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