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. Lab equipment Jump around *t x > ; - k Engineering sophomore Josh Salazar jum dome at the Feminist Fair yesterday in t 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. G~ONW.: CA. T2.. A............ 76449 3I M E R C Y C 0 L L E G E JOBS!!!. Summer Term Apply now at the Law Library- * non-Law Students " Law Students " S.I. Students Minimum pay is $8.00 per hour! Apply outside room S-180 in the Law Library's underground addition. 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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 '44 S LAM Invitational *The U- "erw"/ of MCchigon Anil A; .Mi? Gf A,,,( ' n ',,2001 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/ THE CALENDAR What's happening in Ann Arbor this weekend FRIDAY p.m., Hill Auditorium, 764- SUNDAY SERVICES 0583 "Mass Media Access and U "Scottsboro: An American Campus information Participation: The Case of SATURDAY Tragedy," Sponsored by Ceniers 76-INFO. Saturday April 14, 2001 . PRELIMINARIES Round 1 1:00 PM- 2:00 PM MICHIGAN vs. YALE in the Michigan Union U-Club EASTERN MICHIGAN vs. UC BERKELEY in the Michigan League Underground CASE WESTERN vs. LSU/SU in Leonardo's at Pierpont Commons.