I One hundred elcven years ofeditorialfreedom tit! NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 wwwmichigandaily.com Thursday November 1,2001 a . . @ BI !, TRASH-TALKING 2nd at p rape a reported Freshmen claim they were drugged Thursday night at Beta Theta Pi By David Endors Daily News Editor Two 18-year-old women have now told police that they believe they were drugged and raped at a fraternity party last weekend. A University freshman told police Tuesday night that she was raped after possibly being drugged at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. Another freshman told police Friday she thinks she Was drugged and raped at the same party. The party was an unregistered semiformal event with the local chap- ter of Delta Delta Delta, said sorority President Martha Rothbaum. Roth- baum said she did not know at the time the party was not registered with the Social Responsibility Committee.' The sorority's national organization is looking into the matter. "Our primary concern is to assist our members," Rothbaum said. The second woman said she remembered dancing with a student during the party and after waking up in a room at the fraternity thought that she had had sex with him, She also said she spent most of the day after the party vomiting. The Ann Arbor Police Depart- ment has two male suspects, one in each rape, said Detective Sgt. Richard Kinsey. The suspect in the incident reported Friday has been described as a black male student between the ages of 18 and 20. No information was released on the suspect in the incident reported Tuesday. No charges had been filed against either man. Beta Theta Pi President Mike Bas- ford would not discuss details about the incidents. "We're cooperating with the authorities, and when the police investigation is complete we'll release a formal statement," Basford said. See RAPES, Page 7A DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily The Rock and a nearby trash can were painted green yesterday, three days before the big intrastate rivalry game between the Wolverines and the Spartans this Saturday in East Lansing. Pait pranks are preludie to rivabry matchup By Jennifer Misthal Daily Staff Reporter When the Rock is green and Sparty is blue, the annual Michigan-Michi- gan State showdown must be right around the corner. In the spirit of the intense competi- tion, the Rock, on the corner of Hill Street and Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor, was painted green and white yesterday. Meanwhile, members of Michigan State's marching band have been camping out around the statue of their school's mascot, Sparty. But they weren't able to protect the statue from being painted blue by Michigan fans yesterday. Still, neither campus has requested extra security for Saturday's game because of subdued feelings about the rivalry this year, security officials from both school said. The rivalry between the University of Michigan and Michigan State Uni- versity dates back to Oct. 12, 1898, but the competition is being under- played on both campuses this year, with some University students going as far as denying that a true rivalry even exists. "Can it really be a rivalry when Michigan has won two-thirds of all the meetings? Michigan State is an annoyance to our football program. They win once every three years and they will never let you forget about it," said "Superfan" Reza Breakstone, an LSA senior. Other students shared similar senti- ments. "The game is a bigger deal there. Here, we are seen on a national level; See RIVALRY, Page 7A Michigan at Michigan State Saturday, 3:30p.m., Spartan Stadium Sports editor Krista Latham of The State News faces off with The Michigan Daily's Raphael Goodstein. Page 8A rMTV mght film N "~newsnsa'U By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter AP PHOTO An Afghan refugee carries a bag in a refugee camp near Khwaja-Bahuddin, a northern alliance stronghold, in Takhar province yesterday. U.S. jets launched heavy bombing raids on Taliban frontline positions north of Kabul yesterday, sending huge plumes of black smoke over areas struck by the bombs. Front line ruc hard near Kabul' The Diag could soon resemble a scene from MTV's "Real World" if producers from the network's new program "MTV University" get their way. The four-hour program, currently in the pilot stages, partly consists of a documentary about college life filmed at selected universities across the country that examines issues facing college students, ranging from binge drinking to rape. Morgan Hertzan, executive producer of "MTV University," said he was ini- tially drawn to the University of Michigan after his first visit to Ann Arbor. "I absolutely love the campus. You guys have everything we're looking for," Hertzan said. In all, MTV plans to include eight schools in the documentary. The network has already shot footage at the University of Connecti- cut, Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Pennsylvania State University. It hopes to film at the University of California at San Diego, the University of Georgia, the Univer- sity of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Michigan sometime in the near future. "We picked one school in each geo- graphic region and we basically just tried to find big schools that were diverse," he said. Because final budgeting still has to be worked out, Hertzan said there are still a few hurdles he must clear before filming at Michigan can begin. "I'd love to go to the University of Michigan right now," Hertzan said, adding that the details have yet to be finalized. If and when MTV does come to Ann Arbor, the network will attempt to capture what it means to be a Michi- gan student by following students as they partake in campus traditions like See MTV, Page 7A Anthrax .kills N.Y. womanx WASHINGTON (AP) - A New supply room that had recently included York woman died of inhalation anthrax a mailroom, but there were no reports of yesterday, the fourth person to perish in suspicious letters or other obvious cause a spreading wave of bioterrorism. for alarm - a sharp contrast to other A co-worker underwent tests for a cases in which tainted mail has been suspicious skin lesion, heightening con- linked to the disease. cern the disease was spreading outside Surgeon General David Satcher said the mail system. there is "great concern" that authorities Despite an intensive four-week inves- don't know how she was infected. tigation by the FBI and health experts, At the White House, Fleischer told Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "I reporters that a co-worker of Nguyen at have no progress to report" in identify- the Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hos- ing the culprits or preventing further pital had reported a skin lesion that attacks. raised concern. "I think for the American people it's In all, officials have tallied 17 cases of frightening, it's scary," conceded White anthrax including the first confirmed House spokesman Ari Fleischer, as diagnosis on Oct. 4. There have been 10 authorities also reported a new suspect- cases of the inhalation form of the dis- ed case of skin anthrax involving a New ease - including all four deaths - and Jersey postal worker and closed the seven occurrences of the less dangerous facility where he works. skin type. Tens 'of thousands of other Dr. Patrick Meehan of the Centers people, many of them postal service for Disease Control and Prevention workers, are taking antibiotics. said no new cases of the disease had In Kansas City, Mo., preliminary tests been reported in Washington for sever- found anthrax spores at a postal facility, al days. though officials were awaiting tests that Authorities expressed particular con- would confirm these results. A small cern over the early morning death of amount of anthrax was also found on a Kathy T. Nguyen, a 61-year-old Viet- piece of equipment shipped to Indi- namese immigrant who lived alone in anapolis for cleaning. the Bronx and worked in a small Man- There was evidence of widening con- hattan hospital. Doctors sedated her and cern in occupations and locations where put her on a ventilator after she checked no anthrax has been found. In New Jer- into a hospital three days ago, and offi- sey, for example, officials ordered 1,300 cials said she had been too sick to assist toll takers on the state's turnpike to wear them in their investigation. rubber gloves as a precaution when col- The woman worked in a basement lecting money. Los Angeles Times CHARIKAR, Afghanistan - U.S. warplanes resumed heavy airstrikes yesterday against Taliban front-line positions north of Kabul and outside the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, a day after secret talks between the Afghan opposition's defense chief and the U.S. commander in charge of opera- tions in Afghanistan. Waves of bombing against Taliban targets about 25 miles north of Kabul sent huge clouds into the clear sky, as F/A-18 Hornet jets and at least one B- 52 bomber returned repeatedly after three days of relative calm. The biggest explosions were believed to be from 1,000-pound bombs intended to pound Taliban bunkers near the front lines close to Bagram air base, six miles south of this opposition-held town. Near Mazar-e-Sharif, where forces of +he rnnncatinn Nnrthern Alliane ha v day's heavy bombing by U.S. planes. "This went very well. We liked this very much;' Kudratulla Umar, an offi- cer with the Northern Alliance forces stalled about nine miles outside the key northern city, said by telephone. Umar said alliance forces there are ready to try to capture the city, a deci- sion reached by alliance generals in a strategy meeting last weekend. But he said they were waiting for a signal from the United States. "We are ready to move toward Mazar-e-Sharif, but we are waiting for the Americans to say when to start," Umar said. The intensified U.S. bombing of Tal- iban front lines follows weeks of com- plaints by alliance officials that they had not gotten sufficient air support to allow their forces to advance. According to a senior alliance offi- cial, the alliance's defense chief, Gen. Mohammed Oassim Fahim met Tes- R en meeting about search process By Elizabeth Kassab Daily Staff Reporter The University Board of Regents is steadily sifting through an abundance of resources to decide the structure of the presidential search to find a successor for departing President Lee Bollinger. Advice and suggestions have come from many corners of the University community, and the regents are also drawing fromm nat nresidentia1 gearches at the University and else- Ladies and gentleman? I D fAVIDl ROCHKIND/Dily E