One hundred ten years ofeditorialfreedom 74TI ti NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 7640557 www.mkchigandaily.com Tuesday September 25, 2001 V*I.CI, o. 1Anr Atbr; 0001 he ich@ n l 1 New group promotes affirmative action By Karen Schwartz Daily Staff Reporter Inspired by what they said was the need for a prevalent student voice advocating affirmative action, mem- bers of a new campus group met yes- terday to discuss who they are - and who they aren't. The formation of Students Sup- porting Affirmative Action is, in part, intended to provide an alterna- tive to the Coalition to Defend Affir- mative Action and Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary. "We are not BAMN; we are not affiliated with BAMN," said LSA junior Michael Simon. "We work towards the same goal with a differ- ent focus." That different focus, the group's founders said, will be largely rooted in their status as a student-led pro- affirmative action organization - something they argued the campus was lacking. Group founders said SSAA will work to promote education about affirmative action and give students a voice and an avenue to learn about what's going on, LSA sophomore Kristen Harris said. "We're all students, started by stu- dents, organized by students, for stu- dents. That's the main difference," Harris said. She added that SSAA also is unique because it represents student leadership from a diverse variety of campus organizations. LSA sophomore Alyx Cadotte" said she attended the meeting because she likes the ideas that it promotes. "I think that it's a good idea that students have finally taken the initia- tive to start a group on their own that promotes awareness of affirmative action," Cadotte said. "I want to get involved." Simon said that although SSAA's membership represents and invites a broad spectrum of ideas about affir- mative action ranging from radical to moderate, the membership agrees on at least one thing. "We agree that affirmative action is the means to an end in correcting injustice," he said. "And we may dis- agree on exactly how to do it but we all agree it's important." LSA sophomore Jackie Bray, one . of SSAA's founders, said the Univer- sity is in a historic position with regard to the future and issue of affirmative action. "Students on this campus have a responsibility to vocally support affirmative action. In recent years the student voice has been lost. SSAA is an attempt to allow that pro-affirmative action student voice to go through," she said. "It was really important for stu- dents to stand up in a very organized but non-violent way, so we can start mobilizing for what we know will be quite a semester." LSA senior Jeremy Menchik said he attended the meeting. because he feels affirmative action is an integral part of ensuring a diverse university education and the best way to pre- pare students for the real world. "The University should be a si See SSAA, Page 2 .S. goes on offe sive First suspect charged for aiding attacks WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal authorities have charged the first person with aiding the terrorist hijackers, according to court docu- ments released yesterday. The num- ber of people arrested or detained in the wide-ranging investigation grew to 352. Herbert Villalobos was charged in federal court in suburban Virginia with aiding one of the suspected hijackers to fraudulently obtain a Virginia identification card a month before the Sept. 11 attacks. A second man who aided with the I.D.'s is cooperating and was not charged, prosecutors said. The court records disclosed as many as five of the hijackers got. Virginia cards in the month before the attacks. Meanwhile, the terrorism investi- gation proceeded on several fronts. Attorney General John Ashcroft disclosed that 352 people have been AP PHOTO arrested or detained in the investiga- tion and an additional 392 people were being sought for questioning about the attacks in New York and Washington. "We think they have information that could be helpful to the investi- gation," the attorney general told lawmakers. The Federal Aviation Administra- tion grounded farm crop dusters another day for fear they could be used in a biological or chemical attacks - a ban that was being lifted at midnight - and also considered asking airports and airlines to take new precautions with their own workers. The FAA said it was considering requiring that the workers' identifi- cations be verified, followed by new checks of employment histo- ries and possible criminal back- grot T wou airp secu suci Secretary of State Colin Powell watches President Bush In the Rose Garden of the White House yesterday as Bush announces the signing of a bill that will freeze the assets of terrorists and terrorist organizations. unds. he order on background checks uld affect tens of thousands of ort workers who have access to ure locations in airports, people h as baggage handlers, food ser- See HIJACKERS, Page 2 assets Bush orders freeze on terrorists' WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush ordered a freeze yesterday on the assets of 27 peo- ple and organizations with suspected links to ter- rorism,including Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise. For- eign banks that don't cooperate could have their own transactions blocked in the United States. "Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations," Bush said. "Today, we're asking the world to stop payment." The move was an effort to choke off financial support for bin Laden, whom the United States con- siders the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pen- tagon. The list names 12 individuals, including bin Laden and an Egyptian militant suspected to be his top deputy; 11 organizations, including bin Laden's al-Qaida network; three charities and one business. Missing from the list are Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, militant groups that are on the State Department's roster of terrorists but that some Arab nations see as legitimate fighters against Israel. Bush acknowledged that terrorists' assets in the United States were small. But his order also gives the Treasury Department wider authority to go after transactions of foreign banks that refuse to cooperate in the campaign against terrorism. "It puts the financial world on notice," Bush said in a Rose Garden appearance. "If you do business with terrorists, if you support or sponsor them, you will not do business with the United States of America." The president said he recognized that some European countries would probably need to rewrite their own laws to meet America's conditions. Switzerland, for one, is well known for banking secrecy. Bush said the administration would respond on a "case-by-case basis" in determining compliance. He also announced the creation of a foreign asset tracking center at the Treasury Department to "follow the money as a trail to the terrorists." Previous efforts to cut bin Laden off from funds have been unsuccessful, including steps by the United States and the United Nations in 1998 to freeze his assets after the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa. Bin Laden, an exile from Saudi Arabia, See ASSETS, Page 2 Draft unlikely for war on terronism By Lizzie Ehrle Daily Staff Reporter After Afghanistan's ruling Taliban announced yesterday that it was sta- tioning some 300,000 troops through- out the country to defend against possible U.S. attacks, Americans are looking for details on U.S. retaliation - whom it will be against, what form it will take and how many will be affected. A more specific question, one that is inevitably asked when facing a possible war, is whether a military draft will be necessary. "I think it's on people's minds," said Laura Reeds, an LSA senior. For people she knows, the chance of a draft has come up as a "what if" for the future. "It's possible, but I don't think it would happen soon," she said. "I don't think it's in the cards," said history Prof. Jonathan Marwil. "What- ever they're planning to do will not require huge numbers of people." The draft, which hasn't been used for almost 30 years, was instated because of vacancies in the armed forces that could not be filled by volunteers. In 1973, two years before the end of the Vietnam War, the government stopped drafting non-volunteers, instead moving to an all-volunteer military that is still in effect today. When the draft was used, there were exemptions given to those with educa- tion and family responsibilities as well as for health reasons. During the Viet- nam War, those who could afford to go to college went just to avoid the draft, Marwil said. "It got to be a very unfair system.," he said. See DRAFT, Page 2 ABBY ROSENBAUM/Daily University chemistry Prof. BJ Evans, shown with neighbor LSA sophomore Eric Cereshie, lives with his wife next to the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He says they are "mostly good kids." Lelong A2 residents call campus 'home sweet homey Use of hangover pill questioned By C. Price Jones For the Daily Rather than suffer the throbbing pain, nausea and loopy detachment during or after drinking alcohol, taking a pill will relieve these hangover symptoms, at least according to manufacturers of "anti-hangover" pills. But students say the pill may not be the cure-all it's advertised to be. Categorized as a dietary supplement, one pill - dubbed "Chaser" - is touted as "completely effective -on wine, beer, spirits and cocktails." Chaser's ingredients include calcium carbonate, or chalk, and vegetable carbon, or. charcoal, which attract and bind to Dough boy By Shawn Sion For the Daily Ann Arbor residents of all types reside among students and, for the most part, knew what they were getting into before they moved into predominantly student neigh- borhoods. In general, people that live in the area say they actually love the abundance of students and that it is one of the reasons they stay. However, people that have lived in Ann Arbor for a long period of worse and worse. "The maintenance of student properties is getting worse and the level of filth in general is rising," said chemistry Prof. B.J. Evans, who lives with his wife Adye Bel on Oxford Street amidst a cluster of fraternity houses. "It's not the students' fault, but the idea of leadership that the fra- ternity system strives for is not working. They need the alumni involvement that used to be pre- sent in order for them to properly manage a household," Evans said. husband caught three young girls urinating on the side of their garage. "Things like that did not used to happen," she said. Still, some families enjoy hav- ing young people around. "The house on the corner used to play their music really loud - it was good quality though. They had good speakers so we enjoyed it," said John Ducmanis, who lives on Wells Street with his wife where, they said, there is a good mixture of students and fa iles - i ABBY ROSENBAUM/ Daily I I , I