LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 31, 2000 - 3A OCAMPUS Bollinger begins search for VP for Student Affairs University President Lee Bollinger announced last week the launch of a committee to find a new vice president for student affairs. Last spring, former Vice Presi- 4ent for Student Affairs Maureen Hartford announced she would resign from her post to become president of Meredith College in North Carolina. Hartford started her tenure as the first female president of the all- girls college in July. E. Royster Harper, former dean of students, currently serves as the interim vice president for student affairs. The committee of 16 University faculty, administrative and student members is chaired by Residential College Prof. Thomas Weisskopf. *,.,,The committee also includes 'Tulia Ann Hower, the director of New Student Programs in the Office of the Provost and Kerry .Larson, senior associate dean of Horace Rakham School of Gradu- ate Studies and associate professor o9f English. wMichigan Student Assembly President Brain Elias is also a memeber of the committee. Elias is currently the only student on the *,,committee. The group will conduct a nation- al search and present a list of final candidates tonBollinger. Nominations for candidates are welcome and can be sent to Cha- cona Johnson in the Offic of the -President. WISE to present WELillian Prize The Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program plans to present the second annual Lillian Prize tonight at 6:30 p.m. The presentation will be held in the Chavez Lounge of Mosher Jor- ian Residence Hall where the WISE members live. The award is named in honor of former WISE student Lillian rWaratt, who lived in Moshr Jor- d'an while studying dental hygiene dPuring the 1935-36 school year. The prize is a 5300 gift certifi- cate to a local bookstore and will be awarded to a current WISE member who is the winner of an es say contest. tThe presentation will feature ,Jpse-Marie Griffiths the Universi- ty's chief information officer and "Barbara O'Keefe, director of the Media Union. Pourshariati to present lecture on Iranian history "the Department of Near Eastern Studies is scheduled to present a lecture by Parvanch Pourshariati, a v visiting professor of Iranian history. His lecture titled "The Sub-Cul- ture in the Medieval Iranian World: Tho Saluks and Ayyars of the Abu Muslim Namas," is scheduled for this afternoon at 4 p.m. in 3050 Frieze Building. '' hosts lecture by poet Baker Poet David Baker will present a lec- ture titled "Heresy and the Ideal: Hummer, Bloom and the Critique of the Romantic" this Thursday at 4 p.m. The lecture, to be held in Angell Hall Room 3222, is sponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost. -Baker is the author of five books and five chapbooks. Baker's poems have been pub- lished in such journals as Poetry, the Paris Review and The New Yorker magazine. His critical essays on poetry are being collected in a book titled "Heresy and the Ideal: On Contem- porary Poetry." For three years he served as editor of Quarterly West and is now poetry editor of the Kvnyon Review. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Jodie Kaufman. 'The View' co-host leads minority panel By Tiffany Maggud Daily Staff Reporter Lisa Ling, co-host of ABC's "The View" ran anxiously into Rackham Auditorium Friday night, just 50 minutes after her plane landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Although Ling was running behind schedule, a crowd of 350 University and high school students waited patiently for her arrival. The former Channel One news reporter was one of five minority celebrities to address issues of dis- crimination and affirmative action as a part of the University's Martin Luther King Jr. symposium. Ling said despite her busy schedule, she is pleased to take the time to work with minority stu- dents and their struggles to combat adversity. "For me, it's to see the kind of impact it makes on people;" she said. "Any time you have someone around your age with similar experiences, it helps become more strong and to persevere'." Ling directed the discussion in a talk show for- mat by provoking ideas among the panel of young activists from across the country, including Yessica Diaz, a Public Health and Social Work graduate student. The panelists addressed questions concerning the roles and opportunities of minorities in society. "Of all the shows lined up for fall TV, none are very diverse," Ling said. "Should TV try to depict reality more than it does?" she asked. Ayinde Baptiste, a youth spokesman at the 1995 Million Man March, said he thinks injecting minority roles into mainstream popular culture gives society the idea that minorities have some- how become better people than stereotypes depict them to be. "I don't want people to wonder what's going on and think there is an explosion of intellect among minorities," Baptiste said. Ling said she is constantly expected to mobilize equality for Asians in the entertainment industry. She said she often questions herself and her responsibility to be a role model in the Asian com- munity because of her high profile career. "A Taiwanese man once said to me 'Lisa Ling, Lisa Ling, you're the only Taiwanese person on TV, you need to save Taiwan.' Then I thought to myself 'But I'm an American.' But I still feel dif- ferent, because people are relying on me," she said, adding that she is "not only expected to satis- fy those (minority) groups, but the demographics of the entire American community.' The panelists agreed that supporting affir- mative action - whether in the media, in the workplace or in universities - is beneficial because the policy creates diverse0 popula- tions, but they also identified some of its potential downfalls. Diaz said that although affirmative action has brought many Hispanic student together with the rest of the community, she still often finds "that she is the only Latino student in the classroom." Ling said she doesn't want television executives to feel more compelled to hire her because she is a minority. "I don't want people to think that I got my job because I am an Asian, she said. "Affirmative Action categorizes people. It emphasizes the fact that the people on this panel are minorities and not just students,' Ling said. When the panelists opened the discussion up to the audience, a high school student stunned them with the question, "What do you think of Martin Luther King, and what do you think of America?" The rest of the audience applauded. Initially speechless, the panelists took a few minutes each to ponder what they called "a very good question." Baptiste broke the silence, saying, "There are a lot of things Dr. King was, but he is still an impor= tant role model. His message is still pertinent tg the world today. The war he fought for is still no over," he said. Protesters picket new uStarbcks By Sana Danish Daily Staff Reporter Objecting the proliferation of corporate presence in Ann Arbor, a group of more than 20 protesters gathered outside the new Star- bucks Coffee on the corner of South State and East Liberty streets Friday. "The opening of the new Star- bucks symbolizes something about corporate takeover. It's a cultural cleansing," said protest organizer Kristine Pettersen, a University Spanish lecturer. Pettersen said the protest aimed to encourage people in the down- town area to use their buying power to support local businesses rather than corporately owned cof- fee shops. "Starbucks is one of the most visual symbols of corporate con- solidation," said protester Andrew Cornell, an LSA senior. "Corpo- rately owned coffee shops repre- sent a narrowing of choice for consumers. The manager of Starbucks declined to comment. Protesters passed out fliers stat- ing that although corporately- owned coffee shops like Caribou Coffee and Espresso Royale Caffe already exist in Ann Arbor, they "play by the rules." The flier claims that Starbucks uses tactics like buying out leases from local merchants and saturating the mar- ket by setting up several stores in the same area to force the local competition out of business. Sean Carter, general manager of Amer's Delicatessen on South State Street said he didn't have a problem with the recent opening of Starbucks. "This is not something that's very new to us," he said. "Espresso Royale, Caribou and Einstein's are all under corporate ownership." Carter said local businesses are more responsive to the needs of their customers and that the increase in corporately owned businesses brings a homogeniza- tion of coffee houses. "I feel we have a closer personal relationship with our customers, and we can tailor to their individ- ual needs better," he said. Cafe Felix co-owner David Lan- drum said although it is still too early to tell, he thinks Starbucks will affect business for local cof- KRISTIN GOBLE/Daily !SA senior Ariana Ghasedi was among more than 20 protesters who were picketing the opening of the Starbucks Coffee at the corner of South State and East liberty streets on Friday. fee shops because it is more recog- nizable. "We see (Starbucks) as more of a McDonalds," Landrum said. "For the person that's not from Ann Arbor, it's something more famil- iar than a local shop." Music freshman Tara Siesener was inside Starbucks during the protest. She said although she thought the protesters' concerns seemed valid, she was not going to boycott the coffee shop. "I see it as just another coffee shop where you can sit, because half the time the other ones are full," she said. Members of the student groups Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality and Environ- mental Justice also participated in the protest. SOLE member and RC senior Jessica Bodzin said she thought a protest had been necessary for some time and that it's not just coffee shops facing corporate competition. "Enough local businesses have< closed down to merit this protest, Bodzin said. "Schoolkids Record' and Wherehouse Records have both gone out of business." I 'U' holds juvenile, justice symposium Oman" Scprir By Caitlin Nish Daily Staff Reporter Several weeks after the conviction of the nation's youngest murder defendant ever to be tried as an adult, the Universi- ty's Criminal Law Society sponsored a symposium on juvenile justice Friday at the Law School. According to material published by the society, the symposium was "a day of interdisciplinary discussion with commentators and practitioners on solu- tions to the legal and sociological prob- lems inherent in juvenile crime" The symposium began with introduc- tory remarks by Daniel Bagdade, the co-counsel for Nathaniel Abraham, a 13-year-old recently sentenced for a murder he committed at age 11 in Detroit. Symposium participant Michelle Molitor said she wanted to hear about the issues surrounding the Abraham case after working with the Michigan Senate Democratic Committee. "Some of the issues around trying and sentencing juveniles as adults are really timely in Michigan because we are one of a lot of states to give the option of trying juveniles in adult court," Molitor said. "The Nathaniel Abraham story has been given incredi- ble press" The second event of the day consisted of a panel discussion titled "Police Inter- viewing Techniques of Juveniles" A panel composed of professors and police officials spoke of the rights of young suspects and the struggles inter- viewers face when interviewing juvenile suspects. A second panel titled "Trying Minors as Adults" explored state waiver provi- sion allowing juveniles to be tried as adults and data on those provisions and their impacts. The topic of trying juveniles in adult courts was one that attracted many sym- posium goers. Mark Lambert, executive director of the Goodwill Farm Association - a residential treatment facility for juve- niles, said it was the issue of juveniles being tried as adults that brought him to hear the panel discussions. "I'm looking for more discussion on what we're not doing before kids end up in court. What I liked, and I know this is a university, is that it seems there is a sentiment away from trying kids as adults," Lambert said. Following the panel discussions, Uni- versity Law Prof. Donald Duquette and Michigan Sen. William Van Regen- morter (R-Hudsonville) spoke during a debate about trying minors as adults. The symposium reconvened with a panel discussion on juvenile detention and juvenile detention facilities. Participants in this discussion were Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project in Washington, D.C.; Larry Miesner, director of the Office of Juvenile Jus- tice in Lansing, Jerome Miller of the National Center on Institutions & Alternatives and University Institute for Social Research Prof. Rosemary Sarri. "I just graduated from the School of Social Work and I am interested in pro- grams for juvenile delinquents. I thought it would be good to get as much information as I can," said Karen Wolownik. Symposium co-coordinator Kelly O'Donnell said that about 150 people turned out for the day's events. "It took a lot of time and effort but the response we received from people who worked in the field was astound- ing,' said co-coordinator Sarah Riley. all gommenc ent ~.it S'%peaker For Entries The Office of the Vice President for Communications A is making a Call for Entries for a Student Speaker at Spring Commencement. Saturday, April 29, 2000 9:30a.m. Michigan Stadium The student speaker mot+4 tcetclip ache degree during Winter T1rm Q.rr . 2000. f, > Submit o Typed draft of spech 1 l ue length) emphasizi 1.caIem p its experiences unique te Audiocassette tai of author reading tF pr's :m s in d g U-M ail, speech C urriculum Vitae ( scholarship and can resume) highlight 6s leadership l615-0520 or by QuestionsI * Contact Beth Moceri bmoceri@umich.edu Please submit entries to: THE CALENDAR 0 -- - -e . r -t . r+ 1 ..- '.../. x'.'.