2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 14, 2000 NATION/WORLD i New vice president to begin post next month RUDGERS Continued from Page 1 Freedom of Information Office, Michi- gan Radio and News and Information Services. Rudgers will also become the official University spokeswoman. Julie Peterson, director of News and Informa- tion Services, currently fills this position. The Office of Communications has undergone several appointment and administrative changes since Bollinger took office in 1997. Former Vice Presi- dent of University Relations Walt Har- rison came to the University in 1989 and left in July 1998 to become presi- dent of the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He also servedas Univer- sity secretary. Former University spokeswoman Lisa Baker served as associate vice president for communi- cations from 1990-1998. Both began their terms under former University President James Duderstadt. After Baker and Harrison left, Bollinger divided the Office of Univer- sity Relations into the Office of the Secretary and the Office of Vice Presi- dent for Government Relations. Lisa Tedesco and Cynthia Wilbanks filled those positions, respectively. The third division of University relations is the "Honesty is the absolute, fundamental goal of public relations in my view." - Lee Bollinger University president Office of Communications. Rudgers will serve as its first head. The only office that currently has an open position is the vice president for student affairs. A committee of Univer- sity faculty, staff and students are cur- rently conducting a national search and must submit three unranked recommen- dations submitted to Bollinger. Maureen Hartford, former vice pres- ident for student affairs, left the Uni- versity last spring to become the president of Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. E. Royster Harper, for- mer dean of students, is serving as interim vice president. ACROSS T HE N ATION( Organizations to ask for cooperation WASHINGTON - Leaders of some of the same organizations that led the noisy and often violent demonstrations that disrupted the World Trade Organiza- tion meeting in Seattle last fall have set the same goal for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings this weekend in the nation's capital. And they are building on the lesson they say they learned out West: The need to keep strong alliances with all groups opposed to globalization. "We're more aware now of sensitivity between different groups than we were then," said Matthew Smucker an activist for Rainforest Action Network in Min- neapolis who is helping to organize this week's protests. The Mobilization for Global Justice's says roughly 450 groups have endorsed its mission. It is coordinating dozens of organizations spanning a wide range of ideologies, including environmentalists, organized labor and feminists. Activists describe the movement as leaderless, and most of the protesters seem to have come together through an informal network of groups across the country. Information is spread largely through word of mouth and the Internet. Deci- sions - when and where to hold a march, what strategy to pursue - are made by consensus, reached by a council of representatives of the various groups. Yet, not everyone agrees, even when it comes to the so-called enemies. S , advocate dismantling the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, while others are simply asking for reforms. yI Z The2000 Hopwood Awards Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing Arthur Miller Award Jeffrey L. Weisberg Poetry Prize Dennis McIntyre Prize Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing Helen S. and John Wagner Prize Andrea Beauchamp Prize Robert F. Haugh Prize Meader Family Award Naomi Saferstein Literary Award Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award Lecture b Donald' Hl Author of: Kicking the Leaves The Happy Man The One Day String Too Short To Be Saved Old and New Poems (1947-1990) Without The 2000 Hopwood Awards will be announced Tuesday, April 18 pt 330 n the Rackham Auditorium Fro* and Open to tho Puice Great-uncle refuses to release Elian MIAMI - Elian Gonzalez's great- uncle defied the government yester- day and the government blinked, letting its deadline to collect the boy pass and agreeing to a delay that averts a law-enforcement showdown for now. In Little Havana, thousands cheered wildly at the news. Attorneys for Elian's Miami rela- tives claimed victory after a federal .appeals court issued a stay blocking anyone from taking the boy out of the country. The Justice Department, though, said it had agreed to a delay of "three or four days." The 1lth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told the government to respond to the stay by 9:30 a.m. today, giving great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez's family another day with Elian at the very least. Lazaro "feels relief," family spokesman Armando Gutierrez said, "at least until tomorrow morning." Yesterday's court action capped a fluid, electrifying day that began min- utes after Lazaro Gonzalez dared the government to take Elian by force. In less than 24 hours, the Miami rela- tives met with Attorney General Janet Reno, publicly announced their defi- ance of her, allowed Elian to speak on TV and ignored a 2 p.m. deadline to deliver him to an airport for retur his father. 22 FedEx workers arrested in scandal WASHINGTON - Federal authori- ties said yesterday they have broken up a Los Angeles-based drug trafficking operation that used the Federal Express overnight delivery system to ship tons of marijuana across the United State Sweeping into FedEx warehou and offices across the country, federal agents arrested 22 drivers, customer service representatives and security agents yesterday who they allege vari- ously packed the marijuana into FedEx boxes, placed bogus labels on them and handed them over to dealers parked along delivery routes. FedEx shipped more than 4,000 boxes of drugs ac s the country, federal officials said. Hopwood AWARDS AROuND THE U.N. study reveals a need for reform UNITED NATIONS - UN. sanc- tions are often ignored, but when they do strike home, it's often innocents who are hurt and not the rogue regimes they targeted, according to the first case-by-case report card on their effectiveness. The report highlights a dilemma Secretary-General Kofi Annan has raised repeatedly with regard to Iraq, and comes after a decade in which the United Nations imposed more sanc- tions than at any other time. "The Sanctions Decade: Assessing U.N. Strategies in the 1990s," is expected to generate a lengthy debate when it is presented to the Security Council on Monday, when it takes up the issue of reforming sanctions. For the most part, the 274-page report backs "smart sanctions" that target regimes with specific measures and not broad-based trade embargoes that often hurt innocent civilians. It cites a ban on Angolan rebels' diamond exports as a good way to starve the rebels' ability to finance their military campaign - but notes that the ban was never enforced and was only imposed after the rebels earned nearly $4 billion from gJm sales. The book examines the Angola ban and 10 other U.N. embargoes imposed in the last 10 years. Opponents warn of Fujimori's campaign LIMA, Peru - Opposition acti were jubilant yesterday after forcing a second round in Peru's presidential elec- tions, but experts warned that support- ers of President Alberto Fujimori would step up a campaign of dirty tricks and electoral fraud to hold on to power. Fujimori fell a hair short of the majority he needed and will face upstart chal- lenger Alejandro Toledo, an intelma- tional economist who once shined shoes to help out his impoverished family. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. I 4-' 4', 4ky