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The Michigan wily - Wednesday, January 19, 2000 - 3

*IIGHER
EDUCATION
Bill requires
colleges to post
crimes online
*A recently introduced Kentucky bill
would require all state colleges to post
campus crimes on the Internet.
Kentucky Rep. Jim Wayne introduced
the bill to the Kentucky General
Assembly. The bill obligates all public
and private universities and colleges to
post any crimes reported to college
officials or police agencies.
More severe crimes, including mur-
der and rape need to be logged on the
Internet within 24 hours of the act.
*Schools not following the measure
would be fined up to $1,500 or face
criminal prosecution. The measure
stipulates that the crime's perpetrator
would be responsible for any damage
caused because of the school's non-
compliance.
Media guide jab
cans Ohio official
*An Ohio State University official
recently resigned from his position
because of a derogatory statement
made about a famous alum in the uni-
versity's men's and women's basketball
media guides. Director of Athletic
Communications Gerry Emig took
responsibility after the media guides
described Richard Lewis as a drunk.
Emig was reassigned to the Office of
Student Affairs.
iEmig said he accepted responsibility
"cause the media guide is under his
supervision. He apologized to Lewis,
the Ohio State administration and ath-
letic department in a written statement.
Lewis reportedly said he has not yet
decided whether he will take any per-
sonal action.
Black colleges
,et racist threat
Historically black universities across
the country received menacing letters
from an unknown sender postmarked
from Fayetteville, N.C. during the past
last month. The letter proposed that the
year 2000 would bring a race war
against all black Americans. North
Carolina Central University, Tennessee
State University, Alabama State
University and Stillman College in
,labama were among the universities
eceive threats.
The director of public relations at
NCCU said the school responded by
sending an e-mail to students and post-
ing informational fliers about the letter.
Anti-semitic
leader to speak to
#Northwestern
White supremacist Matt Hale, leader
ofthe World Church of the Creator, plans
on speaking with followers at
Northwestern University in an effbrt to
organize a campus chapter of his group.
Hale said he will meet with about 20
students and said five of the students
are already members of his organiza-
tion, which embraces racist and anti-'
Semitic teachings.
Al Cubbage, Northwestern's vice
1 sident for university relations, said
lewould be removed from campus if
h attempted to speak publicly. Hale
,would need an invitation from an offi-

cial student organization in order to be
on campus grounds.
Benjamin Smith, a World Church of
the Creator member, went on a multi-
state shooting rampage in July, killing
Northwestern basketball coach Ricky
Bvrdsong. Smith committed suicide
ter being cornered by police.
A&M president to
resign if school is
blamed for collapse
Texas A&M University President
Ray.Bowen said he would step down
from office if the university was found
accountable for the Nov. 18 bonfire log
structure collapse that left 12 students
*d and 27 injured. Bowen said he has
received messages from people around
the world about the accident and said
that he will take the final responsibility
as the university's president.
- Compiledfrom U-WIRE reports by
Daily Staff Reporter Robert Gold.

Atables motion on Code wording

By Lisa Koivu
Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan Student Assembly members delib-
erated for 45 minutes over one sentence in the
University's Code of Student Conduct at the
assembly's meeting last night in the Michigan
Union.
On the agenda for last night's meeting was
an amendment change to the Student Code of
Conduct proposed by LSA Rep. Abe Rafi. But
Student General Counsel Josh Trapani provid-
ed another set of amendments, causing the
proposal to be tabled until next week when the
discussion will continue.
"I wanted to hit on several key areas of the
Code of Conduct that are problematic and
make amendments that are a compromise
between the rights of the students and the safe-
ty of the campus community," Trapani said.
Before the amendments to the code were
postponed, assembly members voted to leave
the last sentence of the introductory paragraph

intact.
This sentence reads: "Essential values
which undergird this purpose include civility,
dignity, diversity, education, equality, free-
dom, honesty, and safety."
Rafi, chair of the Students Rights
Commission, deleted this sentence in his set of
amendments, saying, "We don't need this doc-
ument to tell us what our values are."
But Trapani said it is important to leave
those values in the document.
"It is important to stress people's liberty. If
we lead this avenue too wide open, it serves no
one," Trapani said.
MSA President Bram Elias said it is a good
thing the proposal was delayed until next
week.
"The biggest problem is that the student
code is so archaic and complex and students
aren't knowledgeable about their rights. If the
students aren't knowledgeable, the administra-
tion can do what they want. MSA has the task

to fix this problem," Elias said.
Elias and MSA Vice President Andy
Coulouris expressed their concern at the lack
of MSA representatives in attendance at yes-
terday's Winterfest in the Union.
Winterfest is the annual showcase of cam-
pus organizations and activities for prospec-
tive group members.
Coulouris said the event wasn't executed as
well as it should have been.
"We have a committee designed to promote
MSA on campus and there are two key events
for us to reach out to students - Festifall and
Winterfest. We have missed two key events to
get students interested in who we area"
Coulouris said.
Elias said that although MSA has done
many good things this year, University stu-
dents are not aware of the assembly's activi-
ties.
"If we aren't working to meet students we
won't get new people involved. We need to

work harder to get students turned on to
MSA," Elias said.
Elias said a new goal is for each MSA com-
mittee to recruit one new person by March.
A resolution addressing the decline in
underrepresented minority enrollment was
postponed for two weeks.
The assembly passed a motion to disburse
$550 from the Committee Discretionary Fund
to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Commission.
The money will be used to fund a new
LGBT literary magazine "G-Spot," which will
debut during Queer Visibility Week in
February.
The assembly also voted to allocate $500
from the Committee Discretionary Fund to the
Minority Affairs Commission to reimburse the
group for supplies bought for the Martin
Luther King Jr. march and rally held Monday
as part of the University's Martin Luther King
Jr. Commemorative Symposium.


' Channe 72 now shows
movies continuously

SAM HOLLENSHEAD/Daiy
American Culture department director Richard Smith holds the book he wrote.
Smith's department is searching for new faculty to teach department courses.
Searchor new
American Culture
faculty to bgin

By Elizabeth Kassab
Daily Staff Reporter
It's inevitable.
Walking down residence hall corri-
dors at anytime of night, students can
be seen curled up on beanbags and
futons, their eyes glued to the televi-
sion.
But now, students in residence halls
have expanded television options after
the Residence Hall Association added
two new channels to its television line-
up.
"I like to watch the movie channel
after a long night of studying," said
LSA first-year student Mike
Ferguson.
Students in residence halls have been
watching Channel 72, RHA's original
movie channel, since 1995.
Students who have an insatiable crav-
ing to watch movies at times when most
people are sleeping have had their
prayers answered with the expanded
movie showings.
Starting this semester, RHA starts a
new film every three hours on Channel
72 - all day long.
"We have enough videos from our
distributor to accommodate a 24-hour
format," said Michael Clancy,
University Housing's coordinator of
broadcasting.
"The RHA suggested that a 24-hour
format would be best," he said.
Instead of the previous schedule of
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four movies a day on weekdays and five
on weekends, eight movies are broad-
casted every day.
The University's contract with
Swank Distribution allows it to show 20
new movies each month - a total of
160 per year.
The University is allowed to keep the
movies for three months, which means
that no more than 60 movies can be
broadcasted at any one time during the
year.
Currently, RHA is scheduled to
broadcast 56 movies, Clancy said.
Interested students can share feed-
back about the newly-added channels
and look at the current movie schedule
at RHA's Website at
http://wwwhousing.umich.edu.
Clancy said students in residence
halls have other television options,
including Channel 76, which was
introduced last fall as a college TV
network, showing music videos, news
and sports.

Broadcasted on television moni-
tors in the dining halls of Bursle f,
Stockwell, Mary Markley and South
Quad residence halls, the channel is
now available with the regular
University Housing cable package
offered in each of the University res-
idence halls.
In addition, MTV's second network,
M2, entered the residence halls yester-
day and can now be viewed on Channel
77.
And now the University's student
television station, WOLV-TV, is broad-
casted throughout Ann Arbor, after
Media One began broadcasting station
programming last week, said WOLV-
TV producer Linda Wong, a Business
senior.
WOLV-TV will broadcast a half-hour
news show at 10 p.m., Sunday through
Wednesday, Wong said.
From Thursday through Saturday, the
slot is filled by the station's sports cov-
erage, she added.

"We have enough videos from our
distributor t accommodate a 24-hour
- Michael Clancy
University Housing Broadcasting Coordinator

By Tiffany Maggard
Daily Staff Reporter
In an effort to offer students a more
well-rounded and elaborate selection
of courses, the Program in American
Culture will be conducting an exten-
sive faculty search that could last as
long as four years.
In the process, program coordinators
will seek to recruit scholars who will
offer strong contributions to the
University's Latino/a, Asian Pacific
American and Native Studies programs.
"We need to aggressively develop
these areas with the highest scholarly cal-
iber," said Richard Candida Smith, direc-
tor of the Program in American Culture.
"One of our goals is to think of the
American culture in a multi-global way"
Smith said candidates include
senior doctoral scholars from other
highly regarded universities, includ-
ing Stanford University and Brown
University. Junior doctoral scholars,
who have not yet attained tenure, will
also be considered.
While only senior doctoral scholars
are qualified to obtain full-time posi-
tions as professors, junior doctoral
scholars will be appointed to either
associate professor or assistant profes-
sor positions. Smith held a luncheon
in Tisch Hall yesterday to inform
American Culture students about the
selection process. The more than 30
students then offered input by voicing
their expectations for the new faculty.
Some students said they were con-
cerned with the level of experience of
prospective faculty members. While
the students said they could develop
strong academic ties with full-time
professors, they said they felt junior
doctoral scholars do not have the
opportunity to interact on the same
level - a circumstance they said is
necessary in forming a solid educa-
tional experience.
"I am very impressed by the

American Culture program and its
effort to integrate Asian Pacific
American studies (into department
programs), but I think that because
less senior members teaching will
make us more detached from one
another and our relationships will not
be as strong," said Ann Pham, coordi-
nator of University Asian-American
Multi-Ethnic Affairs.
Students said they are also con-
cerned with the drop in minority facul-
ty in the American Culture program in
recent years. "I am concerned with the
loss of faculty of color. Perhaps they
haven't felt comfortable here," said
Kieu-Anh King, a Public Policy grad-
uate student.
Smith said a few faculty members
have transferred to other universities,
but he said he believes most of these
cases were related to lifestyle deci-
sions and family issues.
Smith said that maintaining a
diverse staff is something not only
familiar to the University, but to the
nation as a whole.
"I want to see faculty of color in
tenured professors - I want to see them
in the Dean's office and in the President's
office," Smith said. "We need to think
about how we can keep them in an envi-
ronment that can nurture them:
Students will have the opportunity
to hear each prospective professor
speak on their specialties through guest
lecturing during the remainder of win-
ter term and into the fall semester. The
students will then be able to assess
their impression of the prospective
professor candidates and make sugges-
tions to the department in the decision-
making process.
Despite the students' concerns, Smith
said he is confident the new recruits will
be fine additions to the department.
"I think comparatively speaking,
Michigan is at a national position that
can be highly desired," he said.


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Correction:
® The Michigan men's rifle team beat Eastern Michigan University on Saturday. This was incorrectly reported in
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