LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 4, 2000 - 3 *HIGHER ED Maize rage Hideki pushes for online listings of textbooks Questionable artwork pulled from exhibition A student art display was pulled from a University of Texas at Austin art exhibit last month after some stu- dents complained it was racially offensive. The exhibit's curator, Nathan Heiges, removed the display, titled "Black Threat Barbie," which showed a black mannequin holding a syringe and gun inside a pink box. University of Texas at Austin stu- ent Roy Stanfield, the piece's artist, said his creation's purpose was to crit- icize society's view of minorities. Heiges said the display did not have any text explaining the artist's pur- pose. The chair of the African-Ameri- can Culture Committee echoed the opinion that a purpose statement was needed and added several committee members were offended by the work. *Toledo students told to pay up or face expulsion University of Toledo students who owe the university $200 or more in tuition bills will be expelled if they do not pay up. Letters were sent last Wednesday to students with debts to the university, ordering them to pay their bill§ or start up a payment plan by tomorrow. If they do not comply, students will be dropped from classes and they would not be able to sign up for future terms until their bills were paid. Administrators said 1,700 students owe money and the university may lose up to $1.4 million in unpaid tuition. gCamera found in Tufts men's room Tufts University police removed a hidden camera found in a men's library restroom last week. A student reported to police he saw a person try- ing to start up the camera and battery pack. The bathroom is listed on the Web- site, wuwwcruisingfirsex.com, as a top ,spot in the Boston area for homosexu- al sex. The library's director said it has increased surveillance around the restroom. The facility has also been vandalized repeatedly in the past including the removal of stall doors and divisions between urinals. Va. Tech students aid sick classmate * Virginia Tech is holding a five-kilo- meter run to help raise money for a student who needs a bone marrow transplant. Patcharee "Ann" Hen- sirisak was diagnosed with Non- Hodgkins lymphoma two years ago. The men and women's cross-coun- try teams and the graduate student association are among the student groups sponsoring the event. Home Depot also helped fund the race, pay- ing for T-shirts. * Organizers said they have raised about $2,000 so far and are looking to [get another $1,000. Northwestern student protests breakfast move A Northwestern University student as been on a hunger strike for more than a week because he opposes the shift in weekend meals from one cafe- -teria to another Willy Bailey handcuffed himself to a railing in the Allison Hall cafeteria near the apple juice fountain. A food service manager asked him to unlock himself, but Bailey said he never bought the key. University police tugged the handcuffs off Bailey. Stu- dents shouted "Free Willy" and heered the protester as he left the cafeteria. Bailey said he ate nothing but salt and a vitamin C pill since last Tuesday. - Compiledfrom U- WIRE repo/rts b1 Daily Staff Reporter Robert Gold. By Michelle Poniewozik Daily Staff Reporter With the hopes of saving student costs, Michigan Student Assembly President Hideki Tsutsumi announced at last night's MSA meeting his goal to have textbook lists for each class posted on the Internet for students to access before the beginning of the semester. Hideki's goal is to have books post- ed by the end of December for the upcoming winter semester. "This can help a lot of students save a lot of money," Hideki said. "The cost of things is the biggest problem at the University." Also at the meeting, the assembly failed to approve a motion to reappro- priate funds for specific speakers for the Peace and Justice Commission's Affirmative Action 102 education pro- gram, although a resolution passed at last week's meeting approving the pro- gram still stands. Originally, MSA was going to allo- cate $6,000 to bring civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and affirmative action opponent Ward Connerly for Affirma- tive Action 102. Since Connerly's trip is being fund- ed by another organization and Jack- son was already planning to be in the area, assembly members said if the funds are not required for Jackson and Connerly's visit the money should go back into MSA's surplus funds. "We're scrounging for $200 every- where, and (PJC is) on a roll," SNRE representative Mona Gupta said in response to PJC co-chair Jessica Curtin's wish to reallocate the money. "This money's not going to go to waste if she doesn't use it," Gupta said. "We'll use it." The assembly did approve the bud- get for the 2000-2001 academic year with two amendments. The amendments adjusting the bud- get included an increase in the Elec- tion Committee's budget from $3,000 to $4,350, with the increase coming from MSA's surplus budget, and a transfer of $700 from the Voice Your Vote Commission to the Campus Gov- ernance Commission. The assembly approved the alloca- tion of $750 to the Budget Priorities Committee and the Community Service Commision. It also agreed to use $250 to purchase a new uniform for the Uni- versity's "Superfan," LSA junior Reza Breakzone. "We have a historical relationship with the Superfan," MSA Vice Presi- dent Jim Secreto said. "MSA needs to maintain and support the Superfan." A resolution in support of a motion to move the LSA admissions lawsuit to Ann Arbor from Detroit also was passed by the assembly. The decision on the admissions law- suits will either "change the complex or not change the complex of this Uni- versity," Rackham student Tom Guglielmo said. "Students need to have the ability to participate in this trial if they wish." Two new MSA representatives were announced at last night's meeting. Education senior Kevin Gentner and LSA sophomore Jessica Cash will rep- resent their respective schools on the assembly. "I'm happy to be here and very excited to get some of that stuff done," Cash said. Eleven students have been named to the Budget Priorities Committee for the upcoming funding disbursement to student groups. LSA sophomores Andrew Vieweg, Sarah Scott and Jill Chokshi, LSA freshman Javier Restrepo, Engineer- ing junior Milan Gandhi, LSA juniors Adam Damerow and Erika Dowdell, LSA senior Aqueelah Cowan and Social Work student Diego Bernal compose the commit- tee, which will be lead by BPC Chairman Siafa Hage and Vice Chair Farah Mongeau. JUYCL LLL/Uaiy Billy Poet, a five-year old Ann Arbor resident, refuses to feed corn to a goat at Bunyea Farms on Joy Road. Speech focu"11ses on violence in . s By Johanna Wetmore F or the Daily "Be the change you want to see," concluded Lawrence Carter last night in a speech delivered as part of Victory Over Violence Week. Carter, dean of the Martin Luther King International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, addressed the audi- ence at the Michigan Union Ballroom in a 75-minute speech profiling among others Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as the originators in the practice of non-violence. Carter cited media tactics for the per- petuation of human violent behavior. "If the repeated image of a Coke is used to make us want to drink Coke, how can the repeated images of gunplay and violence have no impact on us whatsoever?" he asked. "By spending money to see violent films, you send the message as to what you as the public want to see." In its gtoup statement, the Victory over Violence campaign was "born from the concern over the alarming rise in violent crime among youth" to spread its message of non-violence and to help young people counteract the route cause of violence. Carter reinforced the methods of the Victory over Violence campaign, say- ing, "What our world most requires now is education, that favors love of mankind and empowerment to improve society." Carter challenged University students to "work on your conscience to create a new conscience of peace within your- self" In response to the frustration students may feel about embarking on this chal- lenge, Carter said, "Our society is full of high achievers that make it look impos- sible to do any better or make a differ- ence. "If I had had a deeper appreciation of time when I was younger, I would have understood that it all depends on com- ing from a positive perspective," he said. "Even in planting the seed of an idea we begin to make a difference." Engineering senior Masakazu Sueda, one of the coordinators from Student Division, a University sponsor for the Victory over Violence activities, helped to bring Carter to cantpus. "Dr. Carter has a great understanding of our movement," lie said. "In the 20th Century, people try to change society from outside with war. Now it is impor- tant to have dialogue, to change our- selves from within." Sueda said he hopes University stu- dents will use Carter's words as a step, ping stone to improve themselves and help others. LSA junior Jamila Stewart, a repre- sentative of the Undergraduate Psychol- ogy Association for Students of Color, another sponsoring student group, was not alone in her disappointment at the small turnout. "A lot of people missed a very inspi- rational speech," she said. Got Your Back-to-School Survival Tools? As the academic year gets underway, we .< are traveling to colleges and universities across North America to introduce re- searchers to our line of biblio- graphic research tools. Join us as we learn how to search biblio- graphic databases on the Internet (including MEDLINE!), orga- nize references into personal desktop libraries, and create one-step bibliographies in your documents in hundreds of styles.t Not familiar with ISF ResearchSoft's bibliographic software? Come see what you have been missing! 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The University-sponsored Student Life Survey polled 2,041 undergraduate students in 1999 with the intent to find the attitudes and behaviors toward drug use. The study found that most female students on campus were not binge drinkers but those involved in a sorority were more likely to drink and use drugs. Of female binge drinkers, 48 percent had driven drunk in the previous year 19 percent were harassed or molested, 14 percent were injured and 2 percent had considered suicide. The study defines binge drinking as having four or more drinks in a row for women and five or more drinks in a row for men occurring once or twice in the previous two weeks. 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