LOCAL/STATE Protesters fly in from Berkeley to see trial By Jen Esh stressed they were committed to changing the poli- lems" of arguing diversity and promoting its bene DailyStaffReporter cies of their own law school which stormed usine fits. coalition member Mohammed Kashmis The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 17, 2001-- 7 ie- d DETROIT - Showing their support for affirma- tive action and hoping to unite student movements across the nation, law students from the University of California at Berkeley took the red-eye to watch terday's proceedings. 'We're hoping to work with the students at Michi- gan," said Serena Lin, a member of the UC-Berkeley Coalition for Diversity. "We want to work together to promote the importance of diversity in law education." The students joined members of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, who were also out in full force yesterday. BAMN organizers said they plan to picket every day of the trial and will be coordinating with other BAMN chapters across the nation to ensure that stu- nt activists maintain a strong presence at the trial. tudents from the UC-Berkeley coalition also affirmative action in 1995. In 1995, the University of California Board of Regents adopted a resolution that banned the use of race as a factor in admissions, contracting and hir- ing. A year later, California voters approved Proposi- tion 209, which eliminated the use of gender and race preferences in higher education admissions statewide. The effects of the regents' resolution and Proposi- tion 209 have been devastating, the students said. "After Prop. 209 the numbers (of minority stu- dents) have drastically dropped," coalition member Marisa Arrona Logue said. The UC-Berkeley students said they are looking to the University of Michigan admissions cases to decide the future of affirmative action in higher edu- cation and possibly reverse the California ban. Additionally, the students said they are working to "create new ways to get around the same old prob- One proposal the students have is to have a diversity rating added to the U.S. News and World Report rankings of schools. The Coalition for Diversity is a newly invigorated movement, the members present at yesterday's pro- ceedings said. The University lawsuits have been a call to action for the students. "It's a positive thing that we have something to rally around. This case is extremely important," coalition member Carlie Ware said. They were joined by students from Michigan State University, the University of Michigan's Flint cam- pus and San Francisco State University as well as high school students from Oakland, Calif., and Detroit. "This is really a pivotal moment for the coun- try," said Yvette Felarca, a member of the Berke- ley chapter of BAMN and an Oakland, Calif., school teacher. SPRINT Continued from Page 1 Detroit at Sprint's request. Stern, of Southfield, said he is fighting to get the lawsuit remanded back to Washtenaw. "Claims involving misrepresenta- tions concerning the extent of cellular service fall within state consumer pro- tection laws and the state common law are not preempted by federal law," Stern wrote. Sprint contends the lawsuit should either be dismissed by U.S. District Judge Julian Cook, or sent to the Feder- al Communications Commission where, officials said, grievances with cellular phone companies should be aired. "The matters of which plaintiffs complain are matters that should be decided by the FCC based on its specialized knowledge and experi- ence," Sprint lawyers wrote in their motion to remand the case to feder- al court. Stern disagreed. "You don't require a scientist with technical experience to tell you whether your phone is work- ing or not,"he said. Sprint "would like it to go to the WASH INGTON Continued from Page 1 fighting him every step of the way." Fernquist said that the purpose of Voter March is not to protest Bush. "It's a very different agenda than FCC because I don't think they (the FCC) have to certify it as a class action lawsuit," Stern said. Stern has already filed a motion in Washtenaw County and federal courts to deem the suit a class action. Sprint also argued that federal courts have decided that complaints of poor , service constitute attacks on the rates and such a complaint belongs in feder- al court. Sprint lawyers wrote, "PCS providers are not required to wait until their infrastructures are fully developed before offering service." Stern said he agreed with that argu- ment, but that his complaint is one'of deceptive advertising, a claim that,- belongs in state court. "They (the FCC) wanted to give encouragement to these companies to come in and increase competition. The problem is that the FCC does not give them the right to misrepresent their cov- erage." "They had basically no coverage in central Ann Arbor but they advertised solid coverage there," he said. r A hearing in federal court is sched- uled for March 8. most of the other groups that are protesting," he said, adding that Voter March participants tend to be moder- ate. Cheryl Warner, a Voter March orga- nizer in Grand Rapids, said, "We're a group of middle-of-the-road Ameri- cans. A lot of us have never done this before." LAWSUIT Continued from Page 1 Legal counsel for the intervening defendants Miranda Massie told the judge that the group, whose presence is unprecedented in higher education affirmative action cases, will demon- ate the racial inequality that still exists and how it can detrimentally affect minority applicants. "Affirmative action is the only why to offset that bias," Massie said, later adding, "There is no substitute for it." She named 14 possible witnesses for the intervention, including two University students. Intending to offer background to the University's admission policies, CIR *led Allan Stillwagon, former direc- tor of admissions to the University law school, as its first witness. Stillwagon served as director from 1979-1990 and used admissions criteria that was revamped in 1992. Stillwagon explained an admis- siots system that included the Spe- cial Admissions Program, which was particularly aimed at drawing minor- students to the law school. Although Stillwagon said he read "every line, every word of every applicant," he admitted that about half of the admission offers each year were given to the minority stu- dents who might not qualify through academic merit alone. Through Payton's cross-examina- tion, Stillwagon said he had nothing to do with the law school admissions sys- tem established in 1992 and which is on trial. Adding to the University's cross- examination, George Washington a lawyer for the intervening defen- dants, questioned Stillwagon about the results of the affirmative action policies he implemented. Stillwagon told Washington and the court that when he was a law student at the University in the early 1960s, a minority student was "very rare." Still- wagon affirmed Washington's state- ments that "affirmative action changed an all white institution into a place were there were at least a few minori- ties." CIR also called Erica Munzel, the assistant dean and director of admis- sions for the University's Law School. Through Kolbo's questioning, Munzel highlighted the current admissions policies. Kolbo emphasized the part of the policy that said the law school sought to establish a "critical mass of minority students." The two struggled over the meaning of this. "Is one African-American student enough?" Kolbo asked her. Munzel said that there is no set number to achieve a "critical mass." Through more questions, -she said the University aims for 10 to 12 percent minority enrollment and that she relies on the feedback of the law school faculty and dean to tell her if she wasn't meeting the goal in her admissions decisions. She said that if they disagreed with how she was carrying out the established admissions policies, they'd "let me know." Munzel also told Kolbo that she thinks of critical mass in general terms. That is, there is not a critical mass for the hispanics and blacks specifically, but for underrepresent- ed minorities overall. Craig Goldblatt represented the University's cross-examination. Dur- ing Goldblatt's questioning, Munzel said there was no separate admissions system for minority students and that minorities were not guaranteed admis- sion. "There were minority applicants we did not admit who had higher test scores and higher GPA's than majority applicants," Munzel said. The intervention's examination used examples of law school stu- dents without impressive GPA's or LSAT scores that showed extraordi- nary character and life experience. Despite their below average acade- mic performances, Munzel said the students would be "interesting" and worthwhile to have in the law school. With the end of Munzel's testimony, the court adjourned. Kolbo said he was satisfied with the first day. "We're pleased with the way things are going," he said. "We're doing what we want to do." But Massie said she thought CIR didn't present a quality case. "CIR set themselves back today," she said, adding that she thought Still- wagon's testimony was "irrelevant" and Munzel's testimony was "great for policy." V Exercise with away those EXTRA POUNDS -1 Register for classes NOW! 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