LOCAL/STATE
The Michigan Daily - Monday, Novembei 27, 2000 - 3A
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City drops meter fees or holiday season
Event highlights
Internet sources
about cancer
The last event in a series on how to
access online cancer resources will
take place Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the
University's Cancer Center.
Dietitian Suzanne Dixon will lead
the session which is titled, "Nutrition
Information: The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly."
The Cancer Center is located on
1500 E. Medical Ctr. Dr.
The free event is open to the public,
but preregistration is required. Please
call 615-4012.
Holiday music to
brighten hospital
The University Hospital System
will sponsor Gospel Extravaganza II
on Thursday at 12:10 p.m. on the first
floor of the University Hospital
Lobby.
The event is sponsored by the
Friends of the Hospitals, grants, gifts
and arts sales as part of the Gifts of
Art program.
U' prof. to read
work at Rackham
Author Peter Ho Davies will give a
reading from his work Thursday at 5
p.m. in Rackham Amphitheater.
Davies, a professor for the Univer-
sity's Master of Fine Arts program in
creative writing, has received awards
from Silver PEN Award in England,
the Mail on Sunday Literary Prize, the
Oregon Book Award for Fiction and
fellowships from the National Endow-
ment for the Arts.
Sponsored by the department of
English and the Office of the Provost,
the reading is free to the public.
Conference to
focus on effects
of extended life
The University's Life Sciences, Val-
'ucs and Society Program and the Pro-
ject on Death in America will
co-sponsor a conference beginning
Friday in Rackham Auditorium.
The two-day conference, titled
"Death and Its Enemies," will focus
on the social and ethical implications
of extended longevity of life.
-V isiting Law prof. Robert Burt
organized the conference, which will
address topics including scientific
research on the increasing longevity
of life and cultural attitudes towards
dying and dead people.
Experts from universities including
Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Cornell
will participate in conference events.
Pre-registration is required for the
conference, which is free to the public.
In order to register visit http://life-
sciences. umich. edu/values/confer-
enceregister html or call (734)
647-4571.
Midnight Madness
set for Main St.
0 Late night shopping with Santa and
Mrs. Clause will fill Main Street on
Prilay for Midnight Madness.
While shoppers enjoy the extended
hours of stores on Main Street, the
Boys Choir of Ann Arbor, Boys Night
.Out, a barbershop quartet and the
Eclectics Band will add to the festive
atmosphere.
Visitors can also bring a toy for the
* "Community Toy Chest" located at
306 S. Main St., which is sponsored
bJy SOS Community Services.
iRegistration open
for U-Move classes
To help University students, faculty
and staff to keep their New Year's reso-
lutions, U-Move will offer classes in
swimming, yoga, and kick boxing dur-
ing Winter term.
To avoid standing in line to register
in January, U-Move has begun accept-
ing registrations at the U-Move Fit-
ness Office in room 1271 Central
Campus Recreation Building from
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
For more information call 764-1342.
- Complied hi Daily Sta/fReporter
Lisa Hoffman.
By David Enders
Daily Staff Reporter
For many students with a car on campus, get-
ting a parking ticket is almost as common as not
getting one.
"I have three unpaid tickets," said an LSA
senior studying at Cava Java in the Michigan
Union last night who asked her name not be
printed. "Parking is extremely annoying."
Another LSA senior sitting across from her
said she had "four or five" unpaid tickets.
Tickets will be less common for the rest of the
year after the Ann Arbor City Council unani-
mously approved a "Free End of the Year" park-
ing program last week to encourage holiday
shopping in the area.
Councilman Chris Kolb (D-Ward V) was one
of the main proponents of the measure.
"It's to compete with free parking at the malls
and strip malls," Kolb said yesterday.
Meters will be free after 3 p.m. on Thursdays
and Fridays and all day Saturday from this week
until Christmas at all of Ann Arbor's 1,895
metered spaces. Parking meters are normally in
effect until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Roger Shambaugh, a manager at Bivouac
Sporting Goods on South State Street, said he
expects the meter time reduction will help the
store.
"I would think that would be great," he said.
"It takes you 15 minutes to buy a cup of coffee
on State Street, let alone try on a pair of pants or
decide what cool sweater you want."
Council members expect the plan to cost the
city more than $75,000 in lost meter fees and
ticket revenue but anticipate stores will experi-
ence higher sales.
"The lost revenues is what the city is giving to
downtown," Kolb said. "It's more 64 an invest-
"It's to compete with free parking at the malls and
strip malls."
--Chris Kolb
Ann Arbor City councilman
ment."
There are a few exceptions to the holiday rules:
To promote turnover of spots, motorists will still
receive tickets if they leave their vehicles in a spot
longer than the maximum time indicated on the
meter or park in a no-parking zone.
Blue meters allow four-hour parking, gray
meters permit two hours, brown meters indicate a
one-hour limit and yellow meters have a 30-
minute maximum;
Also, spots used by the Downtown Develop-
ment Authority and the parking lot adjacent to
the Amtrak station on Depot Street are still sub-
ject to normal parking regulations.
Along with free meter time, the council is con-
sidering changes to current parking laws, includ-
ing a 10-minute grace period on expired meters
and giving meter attendants the option of waiving
a ticket if a driver arrives while it is being issued.
City parking has been under scrutiny since a
local jeweler sued the city's parking department
when his car was towed in 1999 just after he
made a complaint against the parking depart-
ment.
Better not shout, better not cry
State legislators return to
Lansing to finish session
LANSING (AP) - State lawmakers return to the Capitol
this week to wrap up legislative work for the two-year session.
Bills will die if they fail to reach enactment by the time
lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn for the year in two
weeks. They would have to be introduced again next year
and begin their travel through both chambers anew if they're
to pass.
The top issue facing the Senate is the anti-pornography
package, a series of nine bills designed to impose new regu-
lations on adult entertainment operations and allow local
governments to add their own rules.
The package differs from similar legislation that has
passed the House, which also included state licensing of
adult entertainment operations. And lawmakers are running
out of time to reach an agreement on the matter this session.
"It is up the air," said Sen. William Van Regenmorter, a
Republican from Ottawa County's Georgetown Township
and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which
approved the Senate bills.
"There still is time," he said. "I felt it was my job to do the
committee work. We did not use a licensing approach at all."
Among other things, the bills would require adult entertain-
ment businesses to close at midnight; require nude dancers to
stay at least six feet from viewers; require patrons to be at least
21 years old; and provide for financial forfeiture of a compa-
ny's assets for conviction under the law.
But the Judiciary Committee rejected state licensing of
adult entertainment operations, as provided by the House.
And it voted down a requirement that adult businesses close
on yesterday.
"The principal problem (of the pornography industry) is its
secondary effects - increases in crime, devaluation of prop-
erty," Van Regenmorter said as the committee approved the
bills. "We're limiting them as much as we can. Licensing car-
ried state approval. We felt it was better to have strict regula-
tioni."
The other major legislation facing Senate action this
week would set ground rules under which convicted crimi-
nals could use DNA testing to challenge their convictions. It
also was approved by the Judiciary Committee, but has not
yet been considered by the House.
The bill was approved in committee over Democratic-
objections that few convicted criminals would have the
money or legal advice to contest their convictions. One key
area of disagreement is a one-year limit on such challenges,
which is expected to be debated on the Senate floor.
Senate debate comes as DNA testing has cleared dozens of -
people nationwide, including some death-row inmates. And
an "Innocence Project" has been set up at several law schools
to review cases which might be successfully challenged.
Both sides say they don't want innocent people in prison,
but prisoner advocates argue the bill stacks the deck against
such defendants seeking a new shot at freedom.
The bill, which has the support of Michigan prosecutors,
sets out several conditions for inmates to meet in challeng-
ing their convictions within a year of the bill becoming law:
A defendant must always have asserted innocence. A
person who pleaded guilty could not ask for a new trial.
The defendant's identity must have been at issue. For
example, a person who claimed he had consensual sex with a
rape victim could not now claim someone else committed the
crime.
The defendant must show the DNA evidence is rele-
vant. For example, if an accomplice left the DNA sample at
the crime scene, it does not prove the defendant did not par-
ticipate in the crime.
0 The defendant must show that a properly conducted
DNA test on uncontaminated evidence will establish that
the defendant was not the source of the sample.
The Senate has several other items before it finishes the
legislative session. They include a rewrite of the state drain
code, a prohibition against riding in the open beds of pickup
trucks, and bills to require doctors and laboratories to use
safer hypodermic needles.
MICHAEL HYNES/Daily
Tibor Tuske sits on Santa's lap at Briarwood Mall yesterday. The Thanksgiving
weekend began the onslaught of holiday festivities in the mall.
Pentagon officials
met w
representatives
HARRISON TOWNSHIP (AP) -
Some residents in this Macomb Coun-
ty community may soon decide.
whether to sell their homes as federal
and local officials are expected to dis-
cuss the sale of the land that abuts Sel-
fridge Air National Guard Base.
The private land - about 36 acres
- would be bought so military planes
would have a place to land in case of
emergencies.
The base is in the heart of one of the
fastest growing areas of the county.
Fighter jets, cargo planes and midair
refueling tankers take off and land
over new subdivisions and industrial
parks.
Base officials are still conducting
studies, and Pentagon officials are
expected to meet next month with offi-
cials from Harrison and Chesterfield
townships.
Selfridge evolved from an Air Force
base to an Air National Guard base. It
houses each branch of the U.S. mili-
tary.
Lawrence King of Chesterfield
Township said he would sell his prop-
erty to the base if asked.
"This property was in my family
before Michigan was even a state, so
I'm the last of the Mohicans so to
speak," King told The Detroit News
for a story yesterday. "But I'd still sell
it. I wouldn't have a choice."
Crews plan missions hours, some-
times days, before departure because
of their civilian neighbors.
"We try to balance the needs of the
community with the needs of the mili-
tary. We hope to minimize the noise,
Maj. Sean Southworth said.
Renaming of building
halted due to lawsuit
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EASTPOINTE (AP) - East Detroit
Public Schools officials are consider-
ing renaming a school administration
building amid a lawsuit filed by the
former schools chief.
It has been proposed that the John E
Gardiner Administration Building be
renamed to the East Detroit Public
Schools Administrative Building.
However, the school board halted a
vote on the issue because of a lawsuit
Gardiner, the district's chief adminis-
trator for 15 years, filed last year. The
suit says board members and an audi-
tor defamed him by blaming him for
millions of dollars in cost overruns on
a massive construction project funded
by S28 million in bonds.
Gardiner claims he was made a
"scapegoat for the shenanigans, rascal-
ity and villainy" of others, according
to the lawsuit.
Gardiner has not been charged with
any crime stemming from the investi-
gation by police and the FBI.
David Scothorn, East Detroit's for-
mer assistant superintendent of busi-
ness services, was charged with
embezzling more than $438,000 in
district funds for personal use.
Scothorn is free on bond as he awaits
trial.
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