2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 12, 2001 NATION/WORLD MIK Continued from Page 1 1983, is scheduled to speak at Hutchins Hall in support of affirmative action at the Law School on Monday, said Jessica Curtin, a member of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary. Conyers' speech is one component of BAMN's Summit of the New Civil Rights Movement, a series of events cul- minating in the start of the affirmative action trial against the Law School on Tuesday. BAMN has organized a march to begin at noon Monday at the corner of Forest and South University The symj avenues and proceed to theI Diag for a rally. Students from "traditioi numerous schools, including the University of Virginia, the been one University of Wisconsin and the University of Toronto are largest a expected to attend. The symposium focuses on cornpreh matters other than affirmative ta action and the trials. # Activist and actor Edward James Olmos will deliver the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial lecture as part of the symposium. Olmos' speech will focus on the symposium's theme of "Commitment and Renewal." Olmos created "Americanos: Latino Life in the United States," a multimedia depic- tion of Latino culture, in April 1999. The symposium "traditionally has been one of the largest and most comprehensive in the nation," said assistant Provost John Matlock. "It pi e pg is certainly the largest at the university level." The holiday is a way for the University to celebrate diversity, Williams said. This is reflected in the more than 75 events on campus that comprise the symposium, which continues through February. The events are planned and scheduled by various groups such as student organizations and University departments and consist of activities ranging from community s.ervice dri- ves to speeches by prominent individuals. "King himself meant many different things to many different people," Matlock said, adding that people cele- osium brate King's commitment to economic and social justice ally has around the world. Williams said the symposium has of the "grown tremendously" since its beginnings, bring- id most ing together many diverse aspects of the campus and 'wsive in community. it Even so, "Dr. King's 71 --legacy remains unfinished," -John Matlock Williams said. The visible targets of Assistant Provost institutionalized discrimina- tion may have been abol- ished, but "vestiges remain in place now," Williams said. The annual holiday serves as a focus point. "It's a reminder how far we've come in one sense, but it's also a reminder of how much we must do," Matlock said. "We're still a long way from the dream that King and many other peo- ple espoused." NOBEL Continued from Page 1 while McFadden combined economics and psychology to cre- ate new models in the field of economics. In addition to Willis, director of neuroscience Prof. Richard Hume spoke about Arvid Carlsson, Paul Green- gard and Eric Kendal who were recipients in the catego- ry of medicine or physiology. Carlsson worked on a revolutionary new method of treating Parkinson's dis- ease, which affects one million Americans, including Janet Reno and Michael J. Fox. Kendal developed ways to reduce seizures and Greengard conducted behavioral research on the habituation and sensiti- zation. "Everybody expected Kendall to win for the last 20 years," Hume said. "These are very eminent men - everybody was delighted by this prize." The more dramatic part of the evening occurred when South Korean native Prof. Henry Em spoke about the strug- gles and triumphs of South Korea and its president, Kim Dae- jung, the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner. "He is the symbol of conscious and actions by his unwill- ingness to compromise in the struggle for democracy and human rights," Em said. Dae-jung, who was elected president of South Korea in 1997 met North Korean chairman Kirn Jong-il last June, in a historic meeting that "moved many to tears," Em said. "The search for peace is more pressing than ever," Em said. "The country is still divided with the most militarized border in the world - a peaceful unification holds well for Northeast Asia and the rest of the world." Rui Gardner, visiting scholar and graduate student, said the history lessons Em offered were very beneficial. "As a bio-chem major I didn't know anything about Korea - that's why I came here," Gardner said. Engineering graduate student Chien Huang said the entire symposium was "quite interesting" from which he gained new knowledge. CSCS director Carl Simmon said the symposium acted as a way to bring together diverse interests and encourage "curiosi- ty across fields." "The speakers were all local experts on their areas," Sim- mon said. "There is nothing in it for these people - they give up so much time and energy. Their only reward is the excitement they get from their field," he said. The second part of the series will be about the Nobel Prize Awards in physics, literature and chemistry and will take place on Jan. 25. AROSS TH E NATION Q Chao, Zoellick named to Bush Cabinet WASHINGTON - President-elect Bush, completing his economic team and re-concluding his Cabinet, chose former Peace Corps Director Elaine Chao as labor secretary and Robert Zoellick, a diplomat in two previous Republican administrations, to be U.S. trade representative. Two days after his first labor nominee withdrew under fire, Bush also mounted a spirited defense of two other nominees who have generated opposition: fo Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.) as attorney general and former Colorado Attor General Gale Norton as interior secretary. "You know, what happens in this town is, the voices of the special interests like to tear people down," Bush said, showing irritation. He urged "senators to tone down their rhetoric." Chao, the wife of a Republican senator, was Bush's second selection for Labor and appears likely to be confirmed. He picked her after his first choice, Linda Chavez, withdrew following disclosures that she provided shelter and cash to an illegal immigrant who did household chores. "I never expected our nominees to sail through without harsh questioning and good confirmation hearings," Bush said as he wrapped up a twoday visit to Washington and headed back to Texas. ie will return in the middle of next week to await his Jan. 20 inag* tion. Jeb Bush defends was caught completely off balance, by surprise?" said Mary Frances Berry, inaction in election chair of the panel investigating allega- tions of voting irregularities in the TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush state during November's presidential told the U.S. Commission on Civil election. "I was surprised that he Rights yesterday that although he was came and testified that he had o aware of predictions that the presiden- responsibility." tial race in Florida would be close, and that minority voter turnout was Black woman t expected to be high, he took no spe- cial measures to ensure that the clec- executed since 1954 tion was conducted properly. Bush, the brother of President-elect McALESTER, Okla. - A woman George W. Bush, told the panel that as convicted of killing a childhood governor "my duties are to certify the friend and later murdering a lesbian election" and exercise "a moral lover was executed yesterday night, authority to see that the laws - state becoming the first black woman exe- and federal laws - are upheld." Elec- cuted in the United States since tions, he said, are the responsibility of 1954. the secretary of state and the supervi- Wanda Jean Allen, 41, received a sors in each of the state's 67 counties. lethal dose of drugs at the Oklahoma Bush's as rtion that he had little State Penitentiary. reason or authority to make special "Father forgive them," Allen said provisions in advance of the election before she died. "They know not what drew questions from several panel they do." members, who seemed puzzled by the Gov. Frank Keating, an ardent death governor's comments. penalty supporter, cleared the way for "He never said, 'I wonder what's the execution by denying a late request going to happen on election day?' He for a 30-day stay. DTHED tacts, in Washington - followed secu- rity meetings that led yesterday to the renew peace talks easing of Israel's blockade on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. JERUSALEM - Israel and the An aide to Israeli Prime Minist r Palestinians resumed high-level peace Ehud Barak, Danny Yatom, told Is talks yesterday after a rapid series of television that both sides are interested conciliatory gestures and a drop in in whether they can "agree on some violence, reviving hopes of some kind kind of wording" before Clinton's of last-minute deal before President term ends Jan. 20. Clinton leaves office. Israeli negotiators, led by Foreign Former Serb leader Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, arrived at the Gaza Strip's Erez checkpoint just pleads innocent before midnight, entering directly into talks with a Palestinian delegation THE HAGUE - The highest-ra headed by senior negotiators Yasser ing Bosnian Serb official in the hais Abed Rabbo and Saeb Erekat, accord- of the U.N. war crimes tribunal pleaded ing to officials from both sides. The innocent yesterday to charges stem- meeting site was closed to journalists. ming from atrocities committed during Nabil Aburdeneh, an aide to Pales- the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia. tinian leader Yasser Arafat, said short- Biljana Plavsic, the 70-year-old for- ly before talks resumed "the next 72 mer Bosnian Serb president, is charged hours could be decisive, and we hope with every crime in the tribunal's these efforts will lead to something," statute: genocide, war crimes, crimes The session stretched into the early against humanity and grave breaches of hours today. the Geneva Conventions. The return to negotiations - three weeks after the last high-level con- - Compiledfrom Daily wire repor. LUI1LSM~~ IL. 1C L Ii!iL~JJ - uzU I- N ... The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. maril are $100. 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