a loaf halp Tuesday January 21, 2003 ©2003 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXIII, No. 77 One-hundred-twelve years of editorialfreedom Partly cloudy throughoutthe day and into the night with winds reaching up to 10 miles per hour. _ R1 LOW, 'Tomorro : wwwmkhigandailycom TAKING IT TO THE STREETS Fiht for affirmative action spurs new civil nghts movement Powell, Rice take stand on 'U policies By Andrew McCormack and Dan Trudeau Daily Staff Reporters Resolute defenders of affirmative action from across the country rallied in Ann Arbor this weekend to support what they have designated as the new civil rights movement. In a culmination of the weekend's events, hundreds of high school and University students marched with pub- lic leaders across campus and into the Chemistry Building where speakers, like the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) addressed the crowd. Shanta Driver, event moderator and national organizer for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Inte- gration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, introduced the dis- cussion saying racial division in the United States results from a failure by previous generations. "The leaders of my generation failed you. We shut down the movement. We stopped organizing," Driver said. "We pretended that it was enough for a few of us to get a job (and) to move out to the suburbs. Our failure has come at a high price." Jackson, who was the keynote speaker, called on the crowd to take action in swaying the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the upcoming hear- ings on the University's admissions policies. He said the Court is composed of real people, not inaccessible icons. "They also read papers, they also lis- ten to the radio, they also watch TV, See RALLY, Page 7A Nearly 200,000 convene in D. C. to protest war Bush's statement provokes top officials to voice their dissent By Jeremy Berkowitz Daily Staff Reporter In a surprising incidence of disagree- ment within the Bush administration, two prominent members of his inner cir- cle, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, spoke out this weekend sup- porting certain %DMISSIONS facets of the Uni- ON TRIAL? versity's admis- sions policies. B u s h announced Wednesday that he believes the Univer- sity's use of race in admissions is uncon- stitutional, and would file a brief in support of the Center for Individual Rights, a Washington-based law firm that is suing the University in two cases regarding LSA and Law School admis- sions policies. On CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Powell reinforced his full support for the University's admissions policies, which he first expressed three years ago. But Powell emphasized he believes Bush is a supporter of overcoming racial preju- dices in higher education. "In the Michigan case, whereas I have expressed my support for the policies used by the University of Michigan, the president, in looking at it, came to the conclusion that it was constitutionally flawed," Powell said. "But I do know that he is absolutely committed to diversity and the manner in which the brief has been filed to the Court allows the Court to make its choice on the Michigan case but doesn't go to the underlying issues." Meanwhile, the views expressed by Rice were not as clear-cut. After a Wash- ington Post article Friday suggested she was responsible for influencing Bush's decision to file an amicus brief support- ing CIR's position, Rice released a state- ment saying she is against race-conscious admissions. "I believe that while race neutral means are preferable, it is appropri- ate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body," Rice said. But on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sun- day, Rice, a former Stanford University provost and faculty member, was more reluctant to state her position on the Uni- versity's policies. Although she said she benefited from Stanford's efforts to diversify, she was less at ease to say that she disagreed with Bush's beliefs and more inclined to express her dissatisfac- tion with the University's policies. "I think that the president has come out in exactly the right place here. I am fully supportive of what he has done," Rice said. "I happen to think personally that there are problems with the Michi- gan case ... It is important to take race into consideration if you must - if race neutral means do not work - if you must take race into consideration, to do it in a way that looks at the total person, that does not assume certain things about a person's race just because of the color of their skin." In addition, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said yesterday during Mar- tin Luther King, Jr. day celebrations that she, along with several Senate colleagues, would file an amicus brief supporting the University's admission policies. "There are many ways to get to the promised land of integrated higher See POWELL, Page 7A Inside: Students voice their opinions. Page 3A By Andrew Kaplan Daily Staff Reporter WASHINGTON - In wake of escalating talks of preemptive mil- itary strikes, an estimated 200,000 activists, including dozens of Uni- versity students, gathered at the Capitol Saturday to protest a future war in Iraq. International advocacy coalition Act Now to Stop War & End Racism orchestrated the March on Washington, which began with a collection of speakers in front of the Capitol and ended with a march to the Navy Yard - a military harbor for warships - in the afternoon. While thousands marched to the Navy Yard, protests occurred in 30 other countries, including England, Japan and Brazil. In San Francisco, another 200,000 protesters marched against the war. protesters expressed several different motives for their opposition to a war, but many agreed that a war would crip- ple the U.S. economy and kill thou- See PROTEST, Page 7A Inside: Ann Arbor protests the war. Page 3A ,AVID KAZ/Daiy A rally in support of affirmative action quickly turned into an anti-war protest as demonstrators handed out "No war" signs on State Street yesterday. Webber faced with new indictment By J. Brady McCollough Daily Sports Writer Federal prosecutors charged former Michigan basketball stand- out Chris Webber Friday with three new counts of lying to a fed- eral grand jury. The first indictment of Web- ber, issued Sept. 9, charged that he, his father and aunt tried to mislead a federal grand jury in August 2000 about cash and gifts he allegedly received from banned Michigan basketball Webber booster Ed Martin. The original indictment did not include a written transcript of the false statements in question. This lack of evidence prompted Steve Fishman of Detroit, Webber's attorney, to file for a dismissal of the case. The government "filed the superceding indictment because their original indictment was clearly legally insufficient," Fishman told The Michigan Daily. The second indictment includes a partial transcript of Webber's answers to more than 50 questions in which the prosecutors accuse Webber of making false statements. Fishman said "there is no doubt" that the government issued the second indictment to ensure that the case will not be dismissed at the scheduled Feb. 5 hearing with U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds. "The only thing that is new (about the latest indict- ment) is that now, at the eleventh hour, faced with the imminent dismissal of the original indictment, the gov- ernment has decided to comply with the requirement that it set forth the specific statements that it claims to be false;' Fishman said. Fishman said that the Feb. 5 hearing will still take place, but he is sure that the case will not be dismissed. Webber's trial is set to begin in July after his duties with the NBA's Sacramento Kings are finished. Fishman also said he will likely file another dismissal request of the latest indictment. Fishman, a former Michigan basketball player (1967-70), questioned why the government would not have introduced the partial transcript in the original indictment. "Since the indictment was clearly insufficient, under federal case law, they either had-to have done it deliberately or been deliberately ignorant," he said. "Take your pick." US. District Attorney Rick Convertino interviewed Webber in August 2000 as a witness in the investiga- tion of Martin to uncover how much money Martin was making from an illegal lottery in Detroit-area auto plants. This past May, Martin pleaded guilty to charges that he used the proceeds from his illegal lottery to give See WEBBER, Page 2A Eminem surprises crowd with free concert in A2 FRANK PAYNE/Daily Rajmohan Gandhi addresses an audience yesterday on the legacy of his grandfather's philosophy of nonviolence. Grandson of Gandhi speaks on nonviolence By Joseph Utman Daily Arts Writer By Katie Glupker and Min Kyung Yoon Daily Staff Reporters Standing Room Only - the sign that should have been posted outside Schor- ling Auditorium 3:45 p.m. yesterday. Hundreds of people who could not enter the auditorium to hear Rajmohan Gand- hi's speech, "Clinging to the Truth in the 21st century: What the Legacies of King and Gandhi have to offer," stood outside and watched the speech from a live tele- vision screen. Rajmohan, the grandson of humani- tarian Mahatma Gandhi, spoke about the relationship Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi shared in their vision for peace. "It was interesting to hear what he said and to see how he related Gandhi and King to the theme," RC senior Kevin Fosnacht said. Rajmohan illustrated the parallel between his grandfather's fight for the Untouchables in India and King's fight for the blacks in America. "Violence against the weak had to be condemned," Rajmohan said. "Gandhi See MLK, Page 2A There are local celebrities and then there are local celebrities. Patrons at Touchdown Cafe on Saturday night fawned over prominent members of the Universi- ty's basketball team - players celebrating an 11th consecutive victory that had been recorded earlier that day in Evanston - interspersed throughout the bar's crowd. Yet these notable guests were reduced to adoring fans themselves when Ann Arbor rap group Athletic Mic League took the stage around midnight. After energetically performing for 45 minutes, the League rejoined the hoi-polloi and all those left in the crowd - regular bar patrons, bas- ketball players, and promising rappers alike - were sent into a frenzy by the evening's final, unex- pected performer, Detroit native Eminem. The hip-hop megastar appeared in conjunction with the scheduled performance of his Shady Records proteg6, Obie Trice. Trice rapped by him- self for roughly 30 minutes, completing only parts of several songs and taking time for various sala- cious, obscenity-laced tangential interludes. The tone for Trice's performance was set when he asked people in the crowd if they were drunk and responded to their cheers of affirmation by acknowledging his own inebriation. Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, helped conclude Trice's set, emerging from Touch- down's off-stage wings like a white-jacketed phoenix in time for his verse in the song "Love Me," one which he performs with Trice on the soundtrack to Mathers' movie 8 Mile. Following a lengthy speech, Mathers performed one more song before quickly exiting the bar, ignoring overtures from fans and media. In an oversized down jacket, his usual white T- shirt and a white stocking cap adorned with a black headband, Mathers paused after his entrance to acknowledge the crowd's chants of "(expletive) Benzino." The mantra referred to Eminem's public discord with rapper and entrepreneur Ray "Benzi- no" Scott, co-owner of The Source magazine. The two men have feuded since Scott criticized Eminem's mass appeal and flippantly disregarded Mathers' success. Reminding "Michigan" that he was on proba- tion, Eminem said, "I ain't touching that man. But Michigan's a big market," and the music giant implored those in attendance to ignore Scott and his upcoming promotional tour. See EMINEM, Page 2A Rappers Eminem and Obie Trice entertain a crowd at Touchdown Cafe in a surprise performance Saturday night.