2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 3, 1999 NATION/WORLD MSU student to appeal riot penalty ACROSS THE NATION EAST LANSING (AP) - A Michigan State University student plans to appeal a court order that she pay restitution for her part in the March riot at the school. Laura Quitmeyer of Macomb County's Shelby Township, was convicted in October of lifting her shirt to a crowd during the March 27-28 riot. Quitmeyer was the first of the 132 people charged with rioting to ask the city to justify the $2,384.33 that each convicted rioter is fined. The On Wednesday, East Lansing District Judge David Jordon ruled that Quitmeyer should pay the fine. Jordan also sentenced her to seven days in jail. "I didn't destroy anything and now I have to pay for what other people did," Quitmeyer told the Lansing State Journal. Quitmeyer's attorney, Lawrence Baumgartner, challenged the city's numbers, including costs for police overtime, the number of tear-gas canisters used and road repair crews. Baumgartner also accused the city of double- charging for things like 14 damaged parking meters. A judge has already required several indi- viduals convicted of destroying those meters to pay for the damage. But Jordan ruled that the city's numbers were "sufficiently persuasive" after East Lansing offi- cials responded to each question. An appeal hearing is expected in January. Police say up to 10,000 people ran through the Michigan State campus and East Lansing after Michigan State lost to Duke University in the NCAA Final Four men's basketball tournament. city says the fine is 1 percent of the damages it suffered during the riot. HANUKKAH Continued from Page 1 In all the history about Hanukkah's origin, presents are not mentioned. "Since Hanukkah happens to fall around Christmas, it has become more commercialized with presents, especially in this country," Kirschen said. Another tradition at Hanukkah celebrations is to play with a drei- del, a four-sided top with Hebrew letters on each side with the inscrip- tion, "A great miracle happened there." "Basically dreidels came to be because during the rest of the year gambling was prohibited," said Hillel member Shani Lasin. "During Hanukkah, the rabbis were more relaxed, so people would gamble with dreidels and cards," she said. Hillel members will be passing out dreidels, candy, menorahs and $238,433 in candles in Angell Hall noon. Mall site chosen for King Memorial WASH INGTON--The National Capital Planning Commission yesterda.unan imously chose a site on the Tidal Basin to honor Martin Luther King Jr., granting the slain civil rights leader a place of honor in one of the nation's most visited, an< visible, open spaces. The memorial will be built in a line between the Lincoln and Jefferson memori als and near the tribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt. With the decision, King beco* the only private individual elevated to such a distinction, his memorial soon to b a part of the nation's monumental core. A jubilant John Carter, King memorial project manager, said after the vote thai the foundation was ready to go on to the design phase. "We are ready to launch our international design competition as of, well, as o today," he said, holding up a mailing tube that was addressed to one of the 80 peo- ple who had asked for competition information. He said the deadline for entering the competition is May I and that organizers expect to hold an award gala eveni June 15, Although the commission's vote in favor of the Tidal Basin site was never a surc thing, Carter said he wanted to be ready to move quickly if the vote was to appr v that site, the one the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Project Foundation embraced. the Fishbowl area of today from 10 a.m. to LAWSUIT Continued from Page 1 defense of our policies' They also are sponsoring a Hanukkah shabbat dinner tonight and a Hanukkah party Sunday night. Students also can drop by to make latkes at Hillel, which is located at 1429 Hill St. "I'll probably go to one of the Hillel functions," LSA sophomore Seth Weiss said. "We usually have a Hanukkah party at home and exchange gifts, so I kind of miss that, but it's cool to experience the holiday with new people," Weiss said. Not all Jewish students have plans to celebrate Hanukkah though. "I wasn't planning on celebrating Hanukkah, because it's not a very important holiday," said LSA first- year student David Spirer. "It used to be a big thing at home when I was little, but now it's not," Spirer said. Barry said. "We have shown that diversity in the classroom makes a big difference in the quality of a student's education." Lehman told The Michigan Daily in December 1997 that the school's policy of encouraging diversity was under threat and the University had a national respon- sibility to defend the future of affirmative action and diversity in education. "The dominant sense is that we are doing the right thing and it is, in many ways, an honor and a privilege for us to be the spokespersons for legal educa- tion," he said in 1997. Now, two years later, Lehman said he believes the University has a strong case. "I believe that, two years after the complaint was filed, we are exactly where we want to be," Lehman said. "We have prepared a powerful case that demonstrates convincingly that the plaintiffs' arguments are without legal merit. And in preparing the case, the University has reaffirmed its mission to provide a diverse environment to the campus community, Barry said - a kind of self-reflection, she added. "We have articulated to students, alumni, faculty and our constituencies the defense of our policies, and that has been very valuable," Barry said. 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Abdel-Khalik said the most impor- tant development in the suits was the decision handed down from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, allowing two separate coalitions made up of students and public interest groups to iintervne into the cases. Abdel-Khalik, now in her third year at the Law School, is one of the 58 intervening students. "Our intervention was critical because it gives a voice to the students who are here now, students who aren't here yet and those who are no longer here" Abdel-Khalik said, In the meantime, both sides are preparing for the suits. CIR senior legal counsel Terry Pell said that as the trials near, interest in the cases grows. "There is a lot of personal interest in the case,' Pell said. "The higher educa- tion community is looking at this case very closely." Although summary judgments - motions for a judge to make a decision on the case based on evidence present- ed to that point - could be filed this spring, "I don't anticipate anything sig- nificant to happen in the next few months," Pell said. REGENTS Continued from Page 1 said, appointments tend to be guided by a governor's personal agenda. The resolution would limit appointees to no more than two consec- utive eight-year terms. No more than five board members for each school could come from the governor's party, and at least three must be affiliated with the other major party. Susan Shafer, Michigan Gov. John Engler's deputy press secretary, said the Legislature is unlikely to adopt the res- olution before the Republican governor is term-limited out of office in 2002. "We'll just kind of wait and see how this plays out," she said. Shafer maintained that the adminis- tration meticulously selects appointees to serve as board members, whereas voters may be uninformed about who is a competent candidate. "We look for capable individuals that can serve the universities well and have some kind of background or interest in education," Shafer said. Phil Power, who served nine years on the University Board of Regents, said most voters across the state are unfa- miliar with the candidates when they head to the polls in November. "There is a question of whether the outcome of these elections is anything more than a crapshoot," said Power, who lost his bid for re-election last year to regents David Brandon (R-Ann Arbor) and Kathy White (D-Ann Arbor). Schwarz has proposed similar reso- lutions several times in recent years. He said wants legislators to consider the issue and make an informed decision about what would best serve the inter- ests of all three institutions. "We could decide when it's all said and done that this is as good a situation as we're going to get," he said. A two-thirds majority in the Senate is required to send the proposal to the House. Smith said chances of garner- ing enough support this time around are "slim to none." WTO riots subside, Seattle regains calm SEATTLE - Responding to out- raged citizens who poured into the streets after fighting off tear gas in their neighborhood, Seattle officials yesterday eased the state of emer- gency that has paralyzed the inner city - allowing at least two protest marches and scaling back the columns of riot police that have blockaded downtown intersections, "We need to put an end to this. We need to talk," Mayor Paul Schell aeid wearily after a police crackdown against World Trade Organization protesters prompted the backlash in which hundreds of residents came out of their homes and faced off against police. After a night of confrontations that left some residents of the Capitol Hill neighborhood crouching on the floors of their homes, city leaders faced a barrage of angry criticism yesterday morning. Schell - facing a city as distraught over the police _ ___ _ AROUND THE WORLD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Grave discovery gives evidence of cartels MEXICO CITY - When cocaine boss Amado Carrillo Fuentes died in July 1997 during plastic surgery to dis- guise his identity, some analysts pre- dicted the collapse of his Juarez cartel, one of the hemisphere's premier drug- smuggling gangs. But the four suspected cemeteries of Juarez cartel victims discovered this week near the border city of the same name provide gruesome evidence that Mexico's major drug gangs remain powerful and vicious threats, both to Mexico and the United States. The key Mexican drug cartels, U.S. and Mexican officials agree, have evolved constantly in recent years even amid a crackdown against them. A new generation of younger traffickers, sometimes called "narco-juniors" has added a cold, high-tech sophistication to the arsenal of old-fashioned corrup- tion and brutality that made the cartels so feared. crackdown as over the WTO protest ers who have dominated the streets - pledged to "start the healing process." "Our primary goal is to regain and maintain peace in our city," th mayor said. "But we are still in a s e of emergency. This is not businesWa usual. People must understand that. Florida schools debate One Initiative TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - It appears recent events have causedth University of Florida and Florida State University to battle over issues othei than football. Speaking to a faculty gathering jusi before Thanksgiving, UF interin President Charles Young said Governor Jeb Bush's One Florida Initiative is submitting to the political push against affirmative action pro. grams. Young also commented on the grow- ing support for the initiative, especially from officials at FSU. The narcojuniors are no less brutal, but "their human and material struc- tures are lighter, they disguise theii merchandise, they move with more dis- cretion, they are better-educated, they have more of an entreprencu 1 vision of their business," Proceso mag- azine said in an August analysis of the new breed. German lawmakers open probe on Kohl BERLIN - In a growing scandal centered on former Chancellor Hel Kohl, German lawmakers opened a probe yesterday into secret payments and suspicions of graft that could permanent. ly tarnish his legacy as a states person. 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