N N One hundred ten years ofeditorialfreedom f NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 www.michigandaily.com Monday November 13, 2000 q I@B W -4 II 'r nu 'a cantor to remain as 'U' provost Wisconsin names John iley new chancellor of Madison campus By Jen Fish Daily Staff Reporter After a six-month search, the regents of the University of Wis- consin system have chosen Madi- on campus Provost John Wiley as the new chancellor of the institu- tion over University of Michigan Provost Nancy Cantor and Dart- mouth College Provost Susan Prager. Cantor was nominated as a candidate by an undisclosed person earlier this year. The announce- ent was made Friday after a closed session of the University of Wisconsin regents. The search com- Cantor mittee formed soon after Chancellor David Ward announced his resignation last March after serving in the position since 1993. Wiley will succeed Ward eginning next year. "It's a big responsibility," Wiley said. He added it is both "gratifying and more than a little humbling" to be selected for the campus' top post. The position of chancellor is roughly equivalent to that of presi- dent at the University of Michigan. The University of Wisconsin's Madi- son campus has an enrollment of about 40,100 students, a faculty of bout 2,135 and an annual operating udget of $1.4 billion. "It happens to be an interesting time to take over here," said Wiley, noting that the Madison campus is currently in good academic and financial standing. "I have no expectations," he said. For now, "it's better to keep on the course we are on. It's a matter of tak- ing it one step at a time, he said. Wiley also said he and Cantor have een colleagues for many years and was initially surprised they would be competitors. "I know Nancy Cantor very well and have the very highest regard for her," Wiley said. "She is just terrific." Cantor had similar accolades for the school's new chancellor. "I think the world of John Wiley and I think it's a good choice for Wiscon- sin," Cantor said. Cantor began her career at the *Jniversity in 1989 as associate dean for faculty programs at the Horace Rackham School of Graduate Stud- ies. She left the position in 1991 to join the faculty of Princeton Univer- sity, where she chaired the psychol- ogy department from 1992 until her return to Michigan in 1996. Prior to her appointment as provost in 1997, Cantor was dean of Rackham and ie University's vice provost for aca- emic affairs. She received her degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a doc- torate in psychology from Stanford University. Student critical after By David Enders Daily Staff Reporter A University Engineering sophomore remained in critical condition last night at the University Hospitals after consuming 20 shots of Scotch whiskey in 10 minutes early Saturday morning, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department. Byung-Soo Kim had a blood alcohol content of 0.39 percent - almost four times the legal drunken driving limit of 0.10 percent - after being transported to the hospital from a party at the Willow Tree Apartment complex on Shirley Lane at 1:42 a.m. Saturday. AAPD officer Eric Bowles found Kim and another male student unconscious in a back bed- room of the apartment where they were attending a party after one of the partygoers requested an ambulance. Kim's face was blue and he was not breathing. Bowles immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation and both men were taken to the emergency room. The second man is expected to recover, police said. People at the party told police Kim turned 21 years old Thursday and that he passed out after drinking the shots. Partygoers put Kim in the bedroom, and called for an ambulance when they discovered an hour later that he was not breath- ing. Kim's parents, who live in South Korea, arrived at the hospital yesterday after flying to the United States. Interim Dean of Students Frank Cianciola spent much of the weekend at the hospital and said many students also visited the hospital to show support. Cianciola said psychological services are avail- rinkin able for students who need help coping with the incident and that the Korean community and reli- gious groups are also offering their support. "This type of drinking isn't necessarily about a rite of passage or being a young adult," Cianciola said. "Students have to realize the results of this kind of drinking." AAPD detectives are investigating the party where Kim was drinking and charges are possible Bradley McCue, the Michigan State University student who died in 1998 after drinking 24 shots in a 90-minute period on his 21st birthday, had a BAC of .44 percent. ecount battle heads to court Bush attempts to block hand ballot recount The Associated Press The legal skirmishing quickened yesterday in the over- time race for the White House as Republicans warned that painstaking recounts in Democratic-dominated coun- ties expose Florida to political "mischief" and human error. Democrats defended the practice in court papers, and said America's next president will be determined "in a matter of days - not inside: Protesters rally against the weeks, not months." Electoral College in Ann Arbor on Updated voting Saturday. Page 3. figures in all-impor- tant Florida gave Republican George W. Bush a 288-vote margin out of some 6 million votes cast, with recounts under way in four jurisdictions. Democrat Al Gore leads in the nationwide popular vote but the Electoral College tally is so close that whoever takes Florida almost cer- tainly will win the White House. Both parties previewed their legal strategies for a fed- eral court hearing today on Bush's request to block manu- al recounts. Top Bush adviser James Baker, who described the five-day Florida standoff as "a black mark on our democracy and on our process," said the GOP legal team planned to argue today that manual recounts in only four of Florida's 67 counties would constitute unequal treatment under the 14th Amendment. Baker said Florida has no uniform standard for review- ing the ballots and suggested that Democrats who control the contested counties would play favorites. "It's all sub- jective, and therefore it presents terrible problems of human error and potential for mischief," Baker said. His rival, Gore adviser Warren Christopher, portrayed vote recounts as a routine necessity of democracy. "If at the end of the day, George Bush has more votes in Flori- da than we do, certainly the vice president will concede;" Christopher said, even while leaving open the prospect of court action if recounting ends with Bush still ahead. Democrats filed court papers last night on behalf of Gore arguing that Florida's manual ballot law is constitutional. Led by Harvard University law Prof. Laurence Tribe, Democratic Party lawyers also said Bush's complaints threaten Florida's right to run its own elections, a Gore legal adviser briefing reporters on condition of anonymity said. The document itself was not immediately released. The marshaling of legal forces, sets the stage for one of the most dramatic periods in American political history. A climax could come at the end of this week when final over- seas mail-in ballots will be cbunted and the trailing candi- date would be forced to concede or push deeper into uncharted waters. "By next Friday," Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) said, "the pressure on someone is going to be See RECOUNT, Page 2A Former pollster blames information, not media By Hanna LoPatin Daily Staff Reporter As the television networks repeatedly made and recanted projections for the winner of "They should get out of the projec- ture business," Wetzel said Friday at a forum hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He was joined by Florida into the early morning hours Wednes- day, former NBC pollster Roy Wetzel "could definite- ly feel their pain." "Because there was only one set of data, everybody fell off the U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) and state Sen. John Schwarz (R- Battle Creek). If the net- works each had edge of the ELLIE WHITE/D~aily TOP: Palm Beach County Judge Charles Burton, chairman of the county canvassing board, yawns while holding up a ballot during the manual recount in the early morning hours yesterday in West Palm Beach, Fla. ABOVE: U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) and former NBC pollster Roy Wetzel talk about the election during a debate Friday at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. But Wetzel said he does not blame the media itself for the mis- takes that occurred on election night. The institute that needs to be changed, he said, is the Voter News Ser- vice, which provides exit poll informa- tion to all of the networks. earth." their own source for tally- - Roy Wetzel ing votes, Wet- Former NBC pollster zel said, "what you saw Tues- day night would not have happened." "Because there was only one set of data, everybody fell off the edge of the earth," he said. The three political experts discussed See DEBATE, Page 2A ROTC holds vigil 4to honor veterans Colleagues continue to defend 'U' researcher By Stephanie Schonholz For the Daily Staring back at one another, hands tightly clasped behind their backs, legs shoulder length apart ROTC members, Engineering senior Nicole Feldpausch and LSA sophomore #lizabeth Robertson stood below the American flag Friday to commemo- rate Veterans Day. Feldpausch and Robertson were two of 64 cadets and additional ROTC staff who took 15 minute shifts standing at parade rest in tl,-n+i thrmmim it the lay "On this day we recognize the 37 million Americans who have gone before us to serve," said Col. John Gaughan, chair of the Air Force officer education program. Organized by Feldpausch and Engineering freshman Avrum Jacob- son, both members of the Air Force ROTC, the vigil took place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. A light blue flag flew below U.S. flag to acknowledge the anniversary of the Korean War. The flag has been raised "to remember the ser- vice and sacrifice of military peo- ni" saidL SA senior Rvan By Lisa Koivu Daily Staff Reporter James Neel remembers his father as being an extremely committed, dedi- cated man. "His research was his life. His integrity was remarkable,"Neel said of his father, University researcher James V Neel, who died in February. In recent months, James V Neel has come under attack by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney in the book "Darkness in El Dorado," in which Tierney charges Neel with intentional- ly infecting the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela with the measles for "We are satisfied that Dr. James Neel and Dr. Napoleon Chagnon, both among the most distinguished scien- tists in their respective fields, acted with integrity in conducting their research," Cantor said in the statement. Cantor also said the two actions taken by the two scientists were "humane, compassionate and medical- ly appropriate." Neel, along with fellow researcher Napoleon Chagnon, traveled to Venezuela in January 1968 to person- ally administer 1,000 doses of the Edmonston B vaccine to the Yanoma- mi to thwart the spread of the measles. I I