The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 25, 2002 - 7 I AP PHOTO Marilyn Walker and Frank Lindh, parents of captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh speak at a news conference outside Alexandria federal court in Virginia where their son was arraigned on charges that he conspired to kill his fellow Americans in Afghanistan. Fami ly reficesi ENGLER Continued from Page 1 pass his anti-terrorism bill and asked the federal government to increase the number of officials at Michigan's borders with Canada. As for economic development, Engler talked about keeping taxes low, attracting a $1 billion nuclear physics institute to the Michigan State Universi- ty campus, easing federal regulations for the development of fuel-cell technology to maintain Michigan's dominance in the auto industry and expanding the public's access to broadband Internet technology. There were few mentions of projects such as reforming the judiciary or creat- ing state departments. Why the more limited focus? Ed Sarpollus, vice president with the Lansing polling firm EPIC/MRA, said there's just no more money for addition- al projects. The state is currently facing a $900 million budget deficit and, con- sidering the downturn in the economy and its impact on revenue, expectations are that most programs will see their funding decreased. "He's ignoring the problem that everyone's talking about by saying, 'We're OK, we're building for the future,"' Sarpollus said. Engler had to put a positive spin on things, he added. "The governor was not going to go to his speech and say we're going to have to cut education, and we're g'oing to have to cut this and this and this," Sarpollus added, saying Engler's optimistic tone is perfectly legitimate for a governor. Meanwhile, it seems state Democrats and Republicans will debate Engler's legacy, like their compatriots in Michi- gan and around the country debate the legacy of President Ronald Reagan. "He had 10 years to prepare the state for a recession everyone knew was com- ing, but we're suffering just as much as we were in other recessions," said Mark Brewer, chair of the Michigan Democ- ratic Party. "If you ask the people of Michigan if they were better off than they were 12 years ago when he took office, they'll say they are," said Jason Brewer, com- munications director for the state Republicans. The Washington Post The Kelly household in Rockville, Md., has four kids and three TVs. Typically, there's a children's show on at least one of the sets. While Sue Ellen Kelly fixes dinner, the kids are likely watching one of Disney's many cable channels. Later that night or on Saturday afternoons, it's probably Nickelodeon, another cable channel. On Saturday mornings, everyone's out the door. "It's the swim meet or the basketball game or the hockey game or the baseball game or whatever," Sue Ellen said. "I don't even think the kids turn on the TV on Saturday morning." The television battle for kids is over. Cable has won. The major networks - dogged by a decade of rising production costs, low ratings and declining advertising revenue - have thrown in the towel, as a recent spate of deals illustrates. Further, a common kids culture - the Saturday- morning cartoon ritual, when millions of children watched the same shows at the same time -- is becom- ing a collateral victim of the changes. This week, Fox sold its Saturday-morning block of programming to 4Kids Entertainment Inc. This follows NBC's move in December to lease three hours of its Sat- urday-morning programming to Discovery Channel. Over the past two years, CBS and ABC have farmed out their Saturday-morning programming to corporate cousins, Nickelodeon and Disney respectively. For the first time, none of the four major networks will produce its own kids shows, which is significant: Net- work-made children's programming was once a building block of programming, a way to hook the next generation of viewers. But even the WB, which caters to young audiences, recently stopped providing kids shows to affiliates. The WB has partnered with the Cartoon Net- work to show that channel's cartoons on WB stations. In television's early days, when there were only three channels, networks discovered a captive advertising tar- get in kids. Shows such as "Howdy Doody" were wrapped around commercials for such products as Ovaltine, in which kids were instructed to tell Mom "more Ovaltine; please." If advertisers wanted to reach children, and their parents, they had to go through ABC, CBS and NBC. Cable programming hurt Saturday cartoon lineups seeing sw LINDH Continued from Page 1 charges. Then U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Curtis Sewell asked whether he understood the possible penalties, including life in prison. "Yes I do, sir," Lindh said in a quiet voice. He responded, "No sir, I don't have any questions," when told he would be kept in custody for now but would have another hearing Feb. 6. At that time, the judge will deter- mine whether Lindh will remain in custody without bail. At the White House, presiden- tial spokesman Ari Fleischer said of the highly publicized case: "The president has faith in our impartial system of justice. ... The president looks forward to justice being done in the court." Outside the courthouse, Lindh's parents - who met with their son for the first time in two years before the hearing Thursday - said he never intended to harm Americans. "John loves America. We love America. John did not do anything against America. ... John is innocent of these charges," said Frank Lindh. Lindh's mother, Marilyn Walker, Y again fought tears as she said: "It's been two years since I last saw my son. It was wonderful to see him this morn- ing. My love for him is uncondition- al and absolute." Brosnahan, who met with Lindh before and after the hear- ing, said that despite "the govern- ment's effort to demonize him, he's a nice young man." The government's criminal complaint paints another picture. While at an al-Qaida training camp in June, Lindh "learned from one of his instructors that Osama bin Laden had sent people to the United States to carry out several suicide operations," according to an FBI affidavit. The criminal complaint accuses Lindh of: Conspiring to kill Americans outside the United States. Providing material support and resources to a terrorist organization, Harakat ul-Mujahideen, in Kashmir. Providing material support and resources to bin Laden's al-Qaida. Contributing goods and ser- vices to the Taliban and to people whose property and interests are legally blocked in the war against terrorism. ACTIVISM Continued from Page 1 last night at the Michigan League as part of the University's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. They emphasized the need for solidarity and greater understanding of heritage within the Asian American community. They both stressed that an important part of this understanding is having courses in Asian studies at the Univer- sity level. "We have a right to these classes so that our young people can be educated on what we've done here," said Nashida, who participated in the strikes at San Francisco State University that he said were instrumental in the creation of an ethnic studies program at the school. "In very few places where Asian- American studies programs exist ... (the programs) were initiated by facul- ty members. Most have been student- initiated," Nakanishi said. Nakanishi, director of the Asian American Studies Center at the Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles, battled for eight years to gain tenure at UCLA. After support poured in from other teachers, students, and the com- munity, he succeeded. He said other Asian Americans have had the same difficulty in becoming professors and gaining tenure. Both Nishida and Nakanishi said mobilizing the community is vital in student activism. Community involve- ment helped both Nakanishi's struggle for tenure and Nashida's efforts to implement an ethnic studies depart- ment at SFSU. "The essential part of any student movement is the ties you have to the community," Nashida said. College campuses are environments where ethnic groups can unite, said Nakanishi, and it is important that they work together and not engage in a "tug-of-war" for their individual goals. Despite the solidarity necessary for minority activism, Nashida and Nakanishi both emphasized the impor- tance of maintaining each group's her- itage. Nashida said the American melting pot can cause ethnicities to lose identity and conform to a national standard. Leilani Dawson, a School of Infor- mation student, said attending the forum gave her "a better sense of the scope of the issues that face Asian Americans today." Dawson is a mem- ber of United Asian American Orga- nizations, which sponsored the forum. "It gave me more of a reason to get involved in the (Asian Pacific Ameri- can) community," said LSA sopho- more Soojung Chang. Nashida said it should be everyone's priority to make an impact on society. "When you punch your ticket out, the world should be a little bit better," he said. RHA Continued from Page 1 doing this." But students for the amendment said students' health should come before smoking privileges. In the end, RHA President Tim Winslow, an engineering junior and resident of Baits house, said the two members who chose to abstain from voting were responsible for the bill's failure. LSA sophomore Carrie Rheingans said she abstained from voting because she felt members didn't have enough time to talk to the students they represent to see if residents were for or against the ban. "I abstained because my hall hasn't given an official position," Rheingans said. Although the first resolution failed, many RHA members said they were in favor of a similar reso- lution. Others said the resolution had not been put to rest and would be a reoccurring theme in upcoming weeks. "It's going to come back," said Music freshman and Alice Lloyd resident Anup Aurora, who said he is against banning all smoking in residence halls. "I do think it should be controlled. The Univer- sity is based on freedom of choice. If we take smoking away from students, that goes against what the University stands for." 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