The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 7 Families of Sept. 11 victims scrutinized Come to Sushi Stephen Push was shocked when the first e- mails arrived. The senders had seen him on television talking about his wife, who died in the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, and the federal plan to compensate families of the victims. "We feel your grief, really," one e-mailer wrote. "I'm just wondering if we have to feel your greed too?" "If $1.6 million is not enough for you, I hope you rot in hell,"another wrote. How far the families of Sept. 11 have fallen. From their pedestals as the collateral casualties of the worst episode of mass murder in the United States, the objects of sympathy and the recipients of donations from millions of heartsick country- men, they have toppled to become the object of scorn to many. This backlash comes after many of the fam- ilies criticized proposed rules for a federal victim compensation fund passed by Con- gress 10 days after hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. The fund, which promised compensation to anyone physically injured or the relatives of anyone killed, as long as the recipients waived their right to sue, was approved as part of a $15 billion airline bailout. But some families argue that the federal plan, which is separate from the $1.5 billion in aid raised by private charities, could leave some of them with nothing or next to it. And that's where things began to heat up. Families of September 1 1 Inc., a group co- founded by Push, who lives in Great Falls, Va., has received dozens of nasty responses to its criticism, he said - as have other victims' groups after their leaders spoke out against the fund's rules. The harsh sentiments are also reflected in some of the more than 8,000 pub- lic comments posted on the website of the Department of Justice, which is administering the fund. "The perception has gone from us generating all this sympathy to a situation where people think we are as greedy as a pack of wolves," said Anthony Gardner, chairman of the WTC United Family Group, based in New York. | : s r v- _... r(" } ,;: s' Y i . v ! T y +w, w nj.., . ._ ::,.. PRESIDENT Continued from Page 1 administrators. "I think that people make deci- sions about coming to the Universi- ty for all kinds of reasons," Harper said. "Do not connect dots that aren't connected." Harper added that she is not con- cerned about her position at the University or the stability of the institution during this transitional phase. "The reality is everybody isn't going," Harper said. "There are people who every day come here and do their work. It gives the impression that the only people who matter here are the senior administrators. That isn't true. Sometimes, we count the least. I mean, if we had an exodus of bright students, then we would be in trouble," she added. Last spring, similar changes occurred at Harvard University, when former U.S. Treasury Secre- tary Lawrence Summers was appointed to the presidency. Although the institution has not seen significant restructuring to the administrative staff, changes have been made to the style of gover- nance, said spokesman Joe Wrinn. "He is much more heavily staffed as far as wanting people around to know what is happening," Wrinn said. "There is more work as far as preparing information for inter- views, both on topics and basic briefings. It's just a more compli- cated place than it was 15 years ago." DEBBIE MIZEL/Daily ISA senior Jeanah Jung exits the kitchen of Sushi.come on North University Avenue where she is a hostess. BIBLE Continued from Page 1 Rev. Graham Baird of the First Pres- byterian Campus Ministry said the TNIV is not the first attempt at making a gender-neutral translation of the Bible. "In the New Revised Standard version a real attempt was made to do something gender inclusive in terms of language," Baird said. "I'm all for including all perspec- tives and all people, and any way we can help more people feel included by God is a good thing, if we do it carefully." Baird said women have con- tributed to theology and biblical tradition for centuries with little recognition, and a gender inclusive version of the Bible seems like an attempt at making up for lost thanks. "I feel maybe it's over-compensa- tion, but probably appropriate," Baird said. English Prof. Ralph Williams, who currently teaches English 401 "The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences," thinks the issue of biblical translation is com- plex. . "Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, the Biblical languages, variously have inflections on adjectives and nouns and have pronouns which indicate grammatical gender - which is not necessarily the same at all as bio- logical gender," Williams said. Mormons focuso Continued from Page 1 Inglehart said he expects the presi- dent to focus much of his speech on the military, but added it would be interest- ing if Bush touched on the perception of America in other countries. Political science Prof. J. David The Washington Post SALT LAKE CITY - Rocky Anderson, mayor of the city that will host the Winter Olympics next month, includes in his official press package an article he wrote about his happy hours pub-crawling with members of "the astoundingly beau- tiful Utah Bikini Team." Why was the mayor playing foos- ball at brew gardens with the cur- rent Mrs. Utah and her gal pals? It seems Anderson faces an unusual public relations challenge: how to convince the world that his city is not a Dullsville populated by teeto- taling missionaries in skinny ties and sensible shoes. When Anderson met recently with a group of international jour- nalists, they kept asking not about the vibrant arts and culture, bur- geoning high-technology sectors, commitment to public transport, ;aeseets or waist-high er of' the slope'. t-ghpwe No, the foreign press wanted to know about the Mormons. The mayor, a Democrat and non-Mormon in a state that is solidly Republican and 70 percent Mormon, took pains to point out that the church should play a role in the Olympics because of its over- whelming presence, not to mention that it was Mormon pioneers who set- tled this stunning valley and built a city from scratch. "It is a story worth telling," he said. "But there is so much more to Salt S the michigan daily VETERINARY RECEPT./ASST. P/T hrs. no exp. nec. will train 668-1466. ANN ARBOR, CHILDCARE for 2 boys (7,9) starting April. Need car. Contact Dan 730-2582 or danschul@umich.edu Lake now," Anderson continued, boasting not just of the city's virtues but of its newfound diversity - the annual gay-pride parades, the growth of immigrant communities and the ris- ing population of non-Mormons, who now account for about half the popula- tion of Salt Lake City. It is a fact that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is so entwined in the history, com- merce and politics of Utah that its presence at the Olympics will be inescapable. From the arcane liquor laws that require buying "memberships" at "private clubs" to order a drink, to the concerts given by the glorious Tabernacle Choir, to the presence of 4,000 clean-cut Mormon volun- teers dressed in dark suits and plain dresses, the church's influence will be felt everywhere. To counter the "Mormon Olympics" image, Gordon Hinck- ley, the church's 91-year-old presi- dent and "living prophet," has declared that missionaries will not buttonhole potential converts dur- ing the Games here next month. The word from on high is: Keep a low, polite, neighborly profile. Show the world that the Latter-day Saints are a wholesome, vibrant; conservative but mainstream Chris- tian religion, and not some weird cult of polygamists (a practice the church officially renounced more than a century ago). Singer, who said he was cynical of the administration's handling of for- eign affairs, argued that the presi- dent shouldn't be allowed to "get away with murder." "We shouldn't let him call it defense spending. We should call it corporate welfare," he said. "We're going to be buying a lot of new weapons that are relatively irrelevant to national security needs ... a form of political payback for the tremendous support his campaign had from the so-called 'defense indus- tries.' In a hint of tonight's speech, a top HATE CRIMES Continued from Page 1 report documenting 645 of the hate crimes that occurred against Asian and Arab Americans the week after Sept. 11, Mishra considered last year's tragedy "one of the greatest threats to civil liberties that we know." The recent wave of racial profiling across the country and the increased use of secret evidence against immi- grants has led Mishra to believe that Americans are now responsible for looking after their own rights, he said. "We can no longer trust our govern- ment to protect us. Our communities are going to have to band together," he said. The documentary detailed the accounts of several hate crime victims and mentioned possible solutions to the problem, including a wide-scale effort to educate the public about the causes and effects of hate crimes. administration official said Bush will announce a program to "pre- serve and extend the great good that we've seen come out of the evil of September 11, and extend values like this throughout America and throughout the world." Although one high-profile persona, Hamid Karzai, chairman of Afghanistan's interim government, plans to attend the address at the Capi- tol, it remains unclear whether another top official will sit in the House cham- ber tonight. Vice President Dick Cheney, who, citing security reasons, sat out the president's address to Con- gress the week after the Sept. 11 attacks, has not stated whether he will take his chair as the Senate's presiding officer. The president's address will be broad- cast at 9 p.m. on all the major networks. - The Washington Post contributed to this report. Mishra advised students to assume a more proactive role in combating race- based discrimination. "It takes real leadership to show people the conditions of the communi- ty, and to do it persistently," he said. Engineering sophomore Mahima Mahadevan said she learned a lot from the event. "I didn't even know about half of the issues the documentary presented. It's very shocking to see. I'm actually surprised to see that so many Indians are victims (of hate crimes). I thought (the backlash) was more of an Arab thing," she said. LSA sophomore Kimberly Kim agreed. "I guess I've been very ignorant about the backlash, she said. Mishra plans to go on tour with the documentary, distributing thefilm to community-based organizations around the country. 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