I One hundred eleven years ofeditorialfreedom ti NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 7640557 wwwmichigandaily.com Tuesday October 16, 2001 0201 t~-I Anthrax scares sweep nation WASHINGTON (AP) - A letter sent to Sen- ate Majority Leader Tom Daschle tested positive for anthrax yesterday as the bioterrorism scare rattling the nation reached the halls of Congress. The discovery of anthrax in Washington fol- lowed earlier instances in Florida, New York and Nevada in which at least 12 people were exposed to spores of the potentially deadly bac- teria. Mondaypight, another case of the dis- ease was announced in New York. The 7-month-old child of an ABC News 1 employee has tested positive for anthrax, ABC News President David Westin said. The child is Inside: A Lansing firm that is the nation's only anthrax vaccine maker seeks FDA approval. Page 3. ------------------------- --------- -------- - - expected to recover. New York police commis- sioner Bernard Kerik said news agencies throughout the city were being inspected for anthrax contamination. The piece of mail in Daschle's office, which contained a powdery substance, was dispatched to an Army medical research facility at Fort Detrick, Md., for further examination, said Capitol Police Lt. Dan Nichols. The Fort Detrick findings could be available as early as today, officials said. Nichols and others warned that the initial tests were not necessarily accurate. Bush told reporters "there may be some pos- sible link" between the spate of anthrax inci- dents across the country and Osama bin Laden, who administration officials say was behind the Sept. 11 airline hijack attacks. 'I wouldn't put it past him, but we don't have any hard evidence," Bush said. Daschle was in the Capitol and was not exposed to the letter, which was opened in his other office a block away in the Hart Senate Office Building. Officials would not the person who opened the letter, identify though Nichols referred to the aide as a female. Aides who may have been exposed to the letter were tested with nasal swabs and being treated with the antibiotic Cipro as a precaution, said Dr. John Eisold, attending physician in the Capitol. "They are innocent people caught up in a matter for which they have nothing to do," a somber-looking Daschle (D-S.D.) told reporters at a news conference outside the Capitol. "I am very, very disappointed and angered." Nichols said a criminal investigation led by esse the FBI was under way. The Daschle letter - and similar scares in other congressional offices - prompted a halt to all mail deliveries in the Capitol and raised the angst there. Many lawmakers, aides and other employees already were nervous about working in a building that could be a high-pro- file target for terrorists. In Trenton, N.J., Postal Inspector Tony Esposi- to and FBI officials said the letter to Daschle was postmarked in Trenton on Sept. 18, the same date and postmark on a letter that infected an NBC employee in New York last week. Jackson U.S. not neanng end of airstrikes Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - The U.S. bomb- ing campaign against Afghanistan intensified sharply yesterday amid sig- nals from the-Pentagon that the air raids will not soon taper off, as some officials suggested only a few days ago. As Navy attack planes and land- based bombers blasted targets across Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said yesterday's strikes may have been even larger than the campaign's first day, when 40 aircraft and 50 cruise missiles were dispatched against that nation's Taliban regime and the al-Qaida ter- rorist network. "It's been a big day for the air war," a senior defense official said. Meanwhile, a leader of the anti-Tal- iban Northern Alliance said in an interview that about 10,000 rebel fighters were advancing on the strate- gically important city of Mazar-i- Sharif in northern Afghanistan and expect to take it in coming days. The city's capture would help the rebel forces consolidate groups of fighters who have been battling in sep- arate pockets in the north and west. The U.S.-led forces began the air campaign Oct. 7 to root out bin Laden - the Bush administration's top sus- pect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - and to punish the Afghanistan Taliban regime for harboring him. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters that while the air campaign's planners had largely destroyed their first list of targets, with the help of overhead surveillance cam- eras and sources on the ground they have developed a new list that will likely take more days to destroy. And Rumsfeld said the officials hope that "as relationships with people on the ground develop and improve, that the targeting information will be still better." Lasting through night and into yes- terday, the latest airstrikes pounded Kabul and its airport, where a variety of military equipment has been stored. The bombs cut a power cable, plunging See AIRSTRIKES, Page 2 r I slated to visit ' on Friday By Rachel Green Daily Staff Reporter The Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to visit campus Friday to promote affirmative action before a federal court of appeals in Cincinnati examines the University's race-conscious admissions policies. A spokeswoman for Jackson's Rain- bow/PUSH coalition yesterday con- firmed the visit. Fliers posted around campus say Jackson is scheduled to speak at a rally in the. Michigan - 4MISS Na League Ball- / N ARIA room at noon.t Jackson last visited campus in Inside: Two scholars March, two days after a argue against criticisms fdysaaftd- of affirmative action. federal dis-P e3 trict judge Page 3. struck down the Law School's admis- sions policies. Meanwhile, with the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled to hear the two lawsuits challenging the admissions policies of the Law School and College of Literature, Science and the Arts one week from today, students are question- ing what might happen to diversity at the University if the use of affirmative action is deemed unconstitutional. Nursing junior Joe Salazar said he believes the sole purpose of the use of race in admissions is to promote diver- sity. "If you have a whole crowd of the same, it's like hanging out with a bunch of 'you,"' he said. Salazar said he adds a unique dimen- sion to his Nursing classes as one of the only male and Latino students in his program. "Because of affirmative action, I can offer my perspective in class, what my culture offers to medica- tion and healing," he said. Engineering senior Bernard Drew said he considers affirmative action a vital and equaling factor in college admissions. "Affirmative action benefits many students who might ordinarily be overlooked during selection processes due to factors outside of their immedi- ate control," he said. "These external factors may manifest themselves through the gender roles, race relations, financial barriers and more." As a member of Omega Psi Phi, a black fraternity that boasts members including Jackson, Drew said members of his fraternity will be attending Fri- day's rally and will travel to Cincinnati to protest the hearing next Tuesday. But for every student on campus who believes a ruling against the University would be detrimental, it's not difficult to find another who thinks the opposite. See LAWSUITS, Page 2 DEBBIE MIZEL/Daily State Sen. John Schwarz of Battle Creek shakes hands with Arizona Sen. John McCain last night during a campaign fund- raiser at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ann Arbor. Schwarz is a Republican candidate for governor of Michigan next year. MCdain uses stump speech to praise . S. By Louis Meizlish Daily Staff Reporter Impressed with Americans who are now "more patri- otic than any generation ever was," Sen. John McCain last night praised a nation still reeling more than a month after terrorist attacks rattled its foundation and offered his perspective on the U.S. response during an appearance in Ann Arbor. The results of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks became the focus of McCain's speech yesterday at a fund-raiser for Michigan gubernatorial candidate John Schwarz, a Republican state senator from Battle Creek. During the event, McCain frequently told reporters and donors that it is OK for American citizens to be afraid, so long as that fear is controlled. "So be afraid, but fly the airlines and make your pur- chases," said McCain, the Arizona Republican who ran a failed presidential campaign against George W Bush last year. As the United States continues its second week of airstrikes in Aghanistan, McCain, who has served for 15 years in the Senate and currently holds a position on the Armed Services Committee, said he supports whole- heartedly President Bush's attempts to oust the Taliban from power. "No regime that believes that women should not work, receive an education, or health care should stand," he said. If the United States is successful in ridding See McCAIN, Page 2 Annual housing hunt beginning earlier each year By Karen Schwartz Daily StaffReporter Bollinger finally meets with SACUA members By Shannon Pettypiece Daily Staff Reporter After weeks of frustration with University Presi- dent Lee Bollinger, members of the Senate Adviso- ry Committee on University Affairs finally met with the chief executive to address their concerns about inattention to facultyp matters and proposed changes to the Board In Control of Intercollegiate Affairs. "This is a unique opportu- nity for us. This may be they last time we meet with the president," said SACUA Chair Moji Navvab, an Architecture and Urban Planning professor. Although Bollinger had Bollinger met last week with Navvab and informally over the phone with other members, he had not met with the board this semester, canceling his visit to last month's Senate Assembly meeting. Navvab said he felt SACUA had finally "This may be the last time we meet with the president." - Moji Navvab SACUA chair Navvab said. It was critical to finalize the issues regarding the Board in Control bylaw changes before leaving the University rather than passing them on to the next president, said Bollinger, who will become Colum- bia University's new president July 1. "It is important that I do this in the time I have left because I have been working on this for a long time. If this was not in line with what I take to be the Common practice around the Big Ten then I think it would be different," he said. Bollinger said there should be a "line" between the Board in Control and the administration so productive relationships can be created between Although most students moved into their houses and apartments less than two months ago, some have already taken to the streets to begin looking for a place to live next fall. LSA sophomore David Bender said he started looking for housing three weeks ago, around the second or third week of classes. "From our experiences last year, we decided that nothing was too early and it couldn't hurt to start looking," he said. "We're looking on the Housing website and going door-to-door; people are sign- ing leases already. ... Where we live now, the company is already asking us if we want to renew for next year." Engineering sophomore Steve Brill- hart said he secured his current apart- ment last October, and even then he found that a lot of places for this year were taken. "We heard that if you didn't have anything by Thanksgiving you were going to wind up living in the dorms again," he said. "Everyone had places when we did, if not a little earlier." But Engineering junior Ahmad Elkhatib said he didn't start looking for housing until the beginning of March last year but wasn't at all wor- ried about not finding a place. "Even as late as March if you look Landlords have been asked to not advertise for 2002 until Nov. 6, after the annual housing fair, to prevent early lease signing, said University off-cam- pus housing adviser Melissa Goldstein. With about 26,500 students living off campus and 10,500 living in Uni- versity housing, Goldstein said she knows finding a place to live can take some time and effort. "You have to really look at all the things you're looking for ... look on websites, make a list, look at a bunch of different places and contact the land- lords, and look at the lease - be careful' you know what it say;' she said. She added that it is important for students to read contracts carefully and know what they're getting into. "People don't realize leases are bind- ing contracts. When you sign the lease, it's a deal and the landlords hold you accountable. Landlords have rights and duties and so do you," Goldstein said. 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