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September 11, 2000
Ford, Kissinger to attend ceremony
By Yael Kohen
Daily Staff Reporter
Almost a year after the University Board of
Regents voted to rename the School of Public
Policy in honor Former President and University
alum Gerald R. Ford, administrators are holding a
celebration tomorrow that will include campus
visits by the former President and former Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissinger.
The regents renamed the school in November,
in an effort to boost the school's recognition and
to honor Ford, who graduated in 1935.
"We're a strong program, but a small program
compared to, say, (Harvard's) Kennedy school,"
said Catherine Shaw, director of external relations.
The Ford School of Public Policy is ranked
eighth in the nation according to this year's rank-
ing by U.S. News and World Report.
University President Lee Bollinger said that
renaming the school could offer additional pres-
tige to the programs there.
Kissinger, who is still active in foreign affairs, is
scheduled to share remarks in tomorrow's ceremo-
ny. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kissinger served.
as assistant to the president for national security,
affairs before becoming secretary of state.
By hosting this public ceremony, University
administrators will be able to
include students and commu-
nity members in the events.
"This is a ceremony really
to mark the naming," said
University Provost Nancy
Cantor, adding that "we will
consider the things Ford has
done and the mission of the
school.",
The celebration will also
include remarks by Bollinger,
Cantor, Gov. John Engler, University Regent
Rebecca McGowan (D-Ann Arbor) and Public
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Policy Dean Rebecca Blank.
The event will be held at
Hill Auditorium at 11 a.m.
tomorrow. Students will be
admitted on a first-come,
first-serve basis and no tick-
ets are required.
The School of Public Poli-
cy was first founded at the
University in 1914 as a pro-
gram in the Institute of Public
Kissinger Administration and was one
of the first of its kind, training its students in policy
study and public management.
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Bobby Knight's famous temper finally
did him in as Indiana University's head
basketball coach.
*Knight
out at
*Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana
University fired coach Bob Knight, end-
ing three tumultuous decades at a school
where he was one of basketball's best
coaches but also one of its most volatile.
Knight's temper finally did him in last
week when he grabbed a student by the
arm to lecture him about manners. The
*coach had been under a "zero-tolerance"
school policy that included no "inappro-
priate" physical contact with students.
Indiana University President Myles
Brand, who criticized Knight for
repeatedly flouting the school's con-
from ZBT
for
By David Enders
and Caitlin Nish
Daily Staff Reporters
Interfraternity Counci
confirmed yesterday tha
versity chapter of Zeta
will continue to be reco
IFC, despite the expuls
members handed down th
by the fraternity's nationa
tion.
The ruling, made at I
meeting of the semester 1
day, altered the sanctions
the chapter when it w
guilty of hazing in April.
ZBT, which returned t
last year after five years of inactivi-
ty, was investigated by IFC last
semester following allegations of
hazing, including an incident in
i officials which an active member of the fra-
t the Uni- ternity poured bleach on a pledge,
Beta Tau resulting in facial burning.
gnized by Although the chapter would not
ion of 47 admit that any acts of hazing
is summer occurred, IFC judicial branch hand
1 organiza- ed down a guilty verdict.
"With the evidence presented,
FC's first (the Greek Activities Review Panel)
ast Thurs- had no other choice than to recom-
placed on mend to expel the chapter in the
vas found fall," IFC Executive Vice President
Marc Hustvedt said yesterday.
to campus See ZBT, Page 1OA
Knight
refused an
,option to
resign.
duct policy
since it was set
in May, said he
gave the coach
the option of
r e s i g n i n g.
Knight refused,
Brand said, and
was fired for a
"continued pattern of unacceptable
behavior."
Brand stressed that Knight's con-
frontation with freshman Kent Harvey
was not the only reason for the dismissal
of the 59-year-old Hall of Fame coach.
"If that was only instance that took
lace, you would not be here today,"
Brand told reporters.
Brand said he stood by his decision
to not fire Knight in May and to insti-
tute the conduct policy, calling it the
"ethical and moral thing to do" because
of Knight's contributions to the school.
"I still believe we had to give him one
last chance," Brand said. "He failed to
live up to that. That was his decision.
"His unacceptable behavior not only
continued since then but increased."
0 The search for a new coach will
begin immediately, Brand said, adding
that he did not yet have any candi-
dates. Knight, who reportedly was in
Canada, where he often goes to hunt
and fish, will be paid for the final two
years of his contract.
Knight won three NCAA champi-
onships with the Hoosiers and guided
the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal
in 1984. But his behavior, which has
included verbal and physical abuse of
players, has been a problem since he
took over the Hoosiers in 1971.
Knight has had one of the game's
most notorious tempers: Throwing
chairs across the court, stuffing a fan
in a garbage can, scuffling with Puerto
Rico police and even kicking his own
son on the bench.
Last spring, he was accused of
choking one of his players during
ractice in 1997, an act caught on
videotape. Following a school investi-
gation into that claim and others, Indi-
ana warned Knight in May that he
must adhere to the zero-tolerance poli-
cy, which included no "inappropriate"
physical contact with students. The
university also suspended him for
three games and fined him $30,000.
Meanwhile, Harvey and his two
brothers have received numerous
*hreats by phone and e-mail, said their
stepfather Mark Shaw, a former local
radio talk show host and a longtime
critic of Knight.
Shaw said the teens never wanted to
see Knight fired. An apology from the
coach was all they wanted.
Senate showdown
has familiar feel
SAM HULLtNHEAD/Daily
University President Lee Bollinger jogs with faculty and students In the fourth annual Fun Run in Nichols Arboretum on
Friday. Bollinger finished the 3.1-mile course in 25 minutes.
RUN FOR IT
Bollinger sprints
into new semester
By Jane Krull
For the Daily
LSA sophomore Stephen Gotfredson had one goal in
mind Friday - outrun University President Lee
Bollinger.
Gotfredson's plan had been simmering in the back of
his head since last year's Fun Run, in which he claims
Bollinger cut him off to beat him by a few precious sec-
onds.
When Gotfredson crossed the finish line ahead of
Bollinger, a look of ecstatic triumph beamed from his face.
This year's "win" Gotfredson attributed to his skeleton
socks and his aerodynamic yellow swimming cap that
gave him the extra motivation to finish in front of
Bollinger.
Bollinger later crossed the finish line in his bright
white Nikes with a time of 25:11.
This year's fourth annual Fun Run was held for the
second time on a winding course through the Nichols
Arboretum.
April Prickel, program coordinator for Nichols
Arboretum, said the Fun Run allowed students to
become acquainted with the area.
It's "a great opportunity to see the plants and special
habitats in the Arboretum," she said.
Along with showcasing the beauteous Arb, the Fun
See RUN, Page 9A
By Jeremy W. Peters
Daily Staff Reporter
DETROIT - In many ways, the
U.S. Senate race in Michigan is begin-
ning to look more and more like the
presidential race.
Republican incumbent Sen. Spence
Abraham and Democratic challenger
Rep. Debbie Stabenow
are battling over the C-A M P
same issues as Texas
Gov. George W. Bush'
and Vice President Al
Gore: Prescription
drugs for the elderly,
tax cuts and even a debate over debates.
The senatorial election - one of the
most closely watched in the country
- is expected to be tight.
"There are only about 10 or 12 Sen-
ate races every two years and most are
closely watched," Abraham said at his
party's state convention last month.
"We've anticipated a horserace even
before there was an opponent and I'm
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,
very confident. I think it will be a
competitive, close race because Michi-
gan is a competitive state."
A recent Detroit News poll shows
Abraham ahead of Stabenow 43 per
cent to 34 percent. Her campaign isn't
expressing any concern over their
standing.
"After you spend $6 million on get-
ting your message out
A I G N and less than half the
voters want you back,
I'd say their tactics aren't
working," Stabenow
spokesman Robert
Gibbs said.
One of the staples of the Stabenow
campaign is her promise to provide
prescription drug benefits for the
elderly. Mirroring the presidential
race, Stabenow and Abraham have
starkly differing views on the role the
government should play in providing
health care.
Much like Gore, Stabenow favors a
See SENATE, Page 9A
Judge: Student records
not relevant to lawsuit
Are you ready for some football?
'U' does not have to release
alcohol violation information in
Cantor wrongful death case
By David Enders
Daily Staff Reporters
A judge ruled Friday that the University is not
obligated to turn over records of students who
have violated its alcohol policy in the wrongful
death suit involving University student Courtney
Cantor, who died two years ago after falling from
her sixth-floor Mary Markley Residence Hall
of student records without students' permission.
"The University feels it has a responsibility to
safeguard students' rights and records," Universi-
ty spokeswoman Julie Peterson said.
The ruling is the latest chapter in the lawsuit
that Cantor's father leveled against the University
following his daughter's death.
George Cantor's lawyer, Darrel Peters, request-
ed the information because it "could constitute
evidence of 'a pervasive culture of alcohol and
drug use and abuse which was tolerated and/or
ignored by University ofiicials."'
Cantor's lawsuit alleges the University Board
of Regents violated the lease on Courtney Can-
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