LOCAL/STATE
The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 13, 2001-- 3
Graffiti found on
walls of South
Quad bathroom
Graffiti was found on the walls
of a fifth-floor bathroom of Bush
}fIouse in South Quad Residence
ailll Monday morning, Department
rf Public Safety reports state. DPS
has no suspects.
Sweatshirt stolen
from East Quad
reception desk
A yellow sweatshirt was reported
stolen outside of the kitchen office
of East Quad Residence Hall Sun-
day afternoon, DPS reports state.
The unattended item had been left
unattended between 11 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. DPS
has no suspects.
'student reports
ing assaulted
A female reported an incident of
non-aggravated assault near the
Advanced Technology Laboratory
,Monday evening, DPS reports state.
Her ex-boy friend was attempting to
take her keys and twisted her
wrists. The case is under investiga-
lion.
Sloves stolen from
alth Care Center
Six boxes of latex gloves were
reported stolen from the Taubman
Health Care Center early Monday
.niorning, according to DPS reports.
The boxes had been left unsecured.
tIPS has no suspects.
items stolen from
9ehicle in carport
on Church Street
Several items were reported
stolen from a vehicle in the Church
Street carport Wednesday evening,
according to DPS reports. A
portable CD player along with 25
CDs and a gym bag with athletic
clothing and tennis shoes were
4aken from the vehicle. The rear
*or had been left unlocked.
¢The gym bag was recovered by
officers later that evening without
tle contents. The bag, shoes and
took were recovered. DPS had no
suspects. An investigation was
pending.
backpack stolen
kom West Quad
dining hall
A backpack with contents of a $220
value was reported stolen from West
Quad Residence Hall dining area
Wednesday evening, DPS reports state.
The student left his backpack unat-
tended after eating lunch. DPS has no
suspects.
Student receives
harassing letter
A Business School student
e ceived a harassing letter in her
rairjlbox Thursday afternoon, DPS
reports state. The letter said she
was being followed. DPS has no
suspects.
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Court oxqv
jeaously
By Hanna LoPatin
Daily Staff Reporter
In 1993, Brent Barrett was dating a
co-worker when his supervisor, Cary.
Vadja, asked the woman out on a date.
After the woman turned Vadja down, he
discovered the nature of the relationship
between the woman and Barrett, setting
off a chain of events that eventually led
to Barrett's firing.
Barrett took his case to court claiming
discrimination, but the Court of Appeals
ruled Tuesday that workers are not pro-
tected from discrimination grounded in
romantic jealousy under Michigan's civil
rights legislation,
Barrett claimed that he was illegally
fired from Kirtland Community College
in Roscommon under the state's anti-
sexual harassment laws and protections
against retaliation for attempting to use
the civil rights act's provisions.
Following the event, Barrett claimed
that Vadja cut off all direct communica-
tion with him and subjected him to rules
that other employees were exempt from.
He complained to the president of Kirt-
land and months later filed three com-
plaints with the Michigan Department of
Civil Rights.
The court rejected Barrett's assertion
that he was discriminated "based on sex"
under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights
Act.
In the opinion, Judge Brian Zahra
wrote, "Interpreting the CRA's prohi-
bition of discrimination based on sex
to prohibit conduct based on roman-
tic jealousy turns the CRA on its
head ... It is beyond reason to con-
clude that plaintiff's status as the
romantic competition to the woman
Vadja sought to date places plaintiff
within the class of individuals the
Legislature sought to protect when it
yY. 1 " .
Bash with
'U' denies use of undercover c
to keep tabs on student groups
By Anna Clark
Daily Staff Reporter
After a student activist group at Michigan Sta
uncovered a campus police officer who was posin
to investigate the organization, University of Mic
insist that the Department of Public Safety doe
such tactics.
"This isn't how we do business here," saidl
woman Diane Brown. "We honor and respect1
ment speech rights so thoroughly on this campus.
Nevertheless, at last weekend's Hash Bash, DPI
Vaughn sported a tie-dyed t-shirt and mingled
while snapping photos of the event.
"My job is to take photos of the activities," Vau
Brown said Vaughn wasn't the only photogra
Bash and that picture-taking is routine during larg
"We do a lot of photography work whenever we
where our officers are perhaps going to be surrou
said. "That would include football games, or so
(Hash Bash)." Brown added that Vaughn was no
students but instead "folks who were engaged with
For more than a month, Michigan State campu
cer Jamie Gonzalez posed as junior "Samantha V
ticipate in meetings and rallies of the activist gr
for Economic Justice, according to The State Nei
State's student newspaper.
Michigan State Assistant Chief Jim Dunlap sai
statement that the undercover investigation wasr
vent possible violence caused by the activistsc
Bank President James Wolfensohn's commence
on the campus this spring.
Brown said the University of Michigan has ot
investigating suspicions of illegal activity.
"We may confront student groups, but we wo
close that we are police officers," Brown said.
RC senior Peter Romer-Friedman, a member
Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality,
never been aware of any DPS infiltration. "The}
our meetings and stood outside to observe the nun
dance, and even picked up literature," Romer-Fr
"But to my knowledge, there's been no infiltration
incognito officer
)ffi ers Romer-Friedman added that DPS officers have also worked
to protect SOLE members from being intimidated by outsiders.
Brown said there is no DPS officer with the sole responsibil-
ity of keeping an eye on student activists, saying that officers
work instead with their areas of specialty. For instance, Brown
said, officers with experience in sexual assault would work
with relevant student groups. But Romer-Friedman said that
ate University during SOLE's occupation of University President Lee
g as a student Bollinger's office two years ago, a DPS detective told him.that
higan officials his primary job was to watch activist groups.
s not employ Brown noted that there could be some confusion over a DPS
sergeant whose main responsibility is to work with student
DPS spokes- organizations that are scheduling special events and may have
First Amend- security needs. Despite the University policy against infiltration
" that Brown cited, there has been a history of campus and
S Officer Paul national organizations keeping reports on activist groups.
in the crowd In 1973, The Michigan Daily reported that the co-founde of
the Weatherman, an activist offspring of the local chapter of
ghn said. Students for a Democratic Society, was associated with an FBI
pher at Hash informant and may have been a government agent himself.
e rallies. According to the article, Weatherman's co-founder was "in
e're in crowds direct and continuous contact with Larry Garthwohl, a con-
nded," Brown fessed FBI informer" while serving as a leader in the group..
)mething like In 1970, activists discovered a two-foot thick file on them-
t seeking out selves in the Reserve Officer Training Corps files in Noitth
our officers." Hall. The file was mostly stuffed with newspaper clippings of
as police offi- SDS activities, as well as glossy photos of several activists and
olare" to par- a series of communications between military and University
oup Students officials on procedures for handling disruption of the ROTC
ws, Michigan program. The Daily quoted ROTC Commander Russell Hurd
as saying that the pictures were taken by both ROTC personnel
d in a written and University officials to keep track of anti-ROTC activities.
meant to pre- "The University asked us to take some of those pictures,"
during World Hurd said in the original article. "We did so for awhile until we
ment address ran out of film."
But many of the clippings in the file made no mention of the
her means of ROTC or other military activities. Al Haber, the first president of
SDS and a University alum, said he doesn't believe the Universi-
uld fully dis- ty has used police infiltration in the form of an officer disguised
as a student activist but it's possible that it has happened.
r of Students "I'm sure the University would deny it until they're caught
said he has with their pants down," he said, adding that infiltration isn't just
y've come to about gathering information. It's also about destroying a move-
nber in atten- ment by "putting a lie in the middle of the discussion' he said.
iedman said. "It's very destructive to democracy," he said. "It's deceitful.
." You'd think public servants wouldn't practice deceit."
DPS keeps eye on Hash
ABBY ROSENBAUM/Daily
ps and flails his arms in the space
he Diag.
ertuams
p.
ruling
prohibited discrimination based on
sex under the CRA."
Because the court rejected Barrett's
claim to discrimination based on sex, it
also disagreed that his firing was retalia-
tory.
The defendant asserted that Barrett's
job was in jeopardy long before he filed
his complaints with the MDCR, due to
prolonged absences he took as a result of
Vadja's treatment.
Roy Henley, attorney for the defen-
dant, said Barrett's complaint to the pres-
ident was not protected from retaliatory
action under the CRA.
"Romantic jealousy is considered
more affairs of the heart," he said.
"Although it may not be pleasant, it's not
protected."
Barrett's only protected action was his
complaint to the MDCR, Henley said,
and that was a "considerable time" after
the president issued her memo.
The ruling "is consistent with every
other court ruling that dealt with this
issue," Henley said.
Barrett's attorney, Michael Forster,
said he believes the court missed the
issue of the case by focusing on roman-
tic jealousy.
"That romantic jealousy may have
been a part of the situation is irrelevant,"
he said.
Of the opinion, Forster said, "It is so
incomplete factually that if I were to crit-
icize the romantic jealousy factor, I'd be
discredited."
The court overstepped its bounds,
Forster said. "My initial impression was
that the court ignored the principles that
give appropriate respect to jury deci-
sions;'he said.
Forster said his client will appeal.
The ruling overturned a jury decision
awarding Barrett with a $99,960 damage
award.
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*amaged by staff High winds Knock out
Two pieces of equipment were
rejorted accidentally damaged by staff
.jenbers Wednesday afternoon, ow er er
according to DPS reports. A resistance
was damaged. Associated Press A Detroit boy was electrocuted af
Tomorrow
ter
Bench found
painted near East
uiniversity
A cement bench located between
thfe School of Education and the
Business School was found spray
painted Tuesday morning, accord-
ing to DPS reports. DPS has no
suspects.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Jacquelyn Nixon.
Thousands of Michigan homes were
without power yesterday as thunder-
storms and gusting high winds knocked
down power lines, uprooted trees and
wreaked havoc across the state. A
Detroit fourth-grader was killed after
being electrocuted by a live wire.
In Troy, traffic lights at major inter-
sections were out on and off through-
out the day as winds - which reached
speeds of 70 mph in some parts of the
state - threw tree limbs onto cable
and snapped power lines.
touching a downed power line, televi-
sion station WXYZ reported.
The child was rushed to St. John
Hospital where he was pronounced
dead, a hospital spokesman said.
In Oakland County's White Lake
Township, winds whisked garbage can
lids down the middle of streets and
blew out transformers. In the Detroit
area, trash blew across highways.
Lights flickered at the weather ser-
vice station in White Lake Township,
meteorologist Danny Costello of the
National Weather Service said.
College Unions
POETRY
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Invitational
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THE TEAMS-Michigan, Yale University, Eastern
Michigan University, University of California-
Berkeley, Case Western Reserve University,
Louisiana State University ISouthern University.
THE FINALS
Sunday April 15, 2001 at 2:00 PM in
the Michigan Union Ballroom -
Top 3 teams
Featuring: Marc Smith, the father of
the poetry slam
$3.00 students, $7.00 others
www.umich.edu/-poetslam/
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MICHIGAN vs. YALE in the Michigan Union U-Club
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CASE WESTERN vs. LSU/SU in Leonardo's at Pierpont Commons.