LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 24, 2003- 3 CAMPUS 0 Gay, Muslim man hosts discussion Faisal Alam will host a discussion on the experiences and identities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and Muslim community today at noon in Room 3909 in the Union. Alam, 25, is a self-identified Muslim of Pakistani descent. Gandhi's message explored through theater workshop A three-hour workshop, titled "Change," will examine Mahatma Gandhi's statement, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world" and its implications. "Change" will take place today at 3 p.m. in the Resi- dential College in East Quad. The workshop will involve participants in theatre and movement exercises that teach the need to consider foreign ideas and beliefs. 27th annual Folk Festival begins The 27th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival begins tonight at 7 p.m. and continues'through tomorrow night at the Michigan Theater. The show returns to its old venue due to renova- tions at Hill Auditorium. Tonight's show will feature Patty Griffith, a ris- ing star whose music is a blend of country, blues, gospel, soul and rock 'n' roll. Jeffrey Gaines, Erin McKe- own, Josh Ritter, Jeff Lang, The Way- backs, Billy Jonas and Seth Bernard will also perform. Tickets are $35 and $55 in advance at all Ticketmaster locations and at the door. Fitness seminar features free massages, food Local fitness, nutrition and medical experts will host a health fair titled, "Coach Me Fit," tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 2300 E. Stadium Blvd. Speakers will discuss weight, nutrition, strength training and various other topics. The event will feature free massages, personal fitness consulta- tions and snacks. Free registration is requested for the event. Call 477-9430 for more information. Natural history " museum hosts winter star show Some of the brightest stars are seen in the winter - at the Museum of Nat- ural History tomorrow students can view the constellations and planets of the season, many of which are subjects of Greek and Roman mythology. "The Stars of Winter" presentation begins at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. MLB to screen Anime all day The University Japanese Animation Film Society's monthly anime-a-thon will feature three new series this Satur- day. Students can catch fantasy come- dy "Megical Shopping District," boy-meets-android tale "Chobits" and "Read or Die," a series about a psy- chotic bookworm tomorrow between 5 p.m. and midnight in the Modern Lan- guages Building. Poor, globalization subject of lecture John Schwarz, a well-known author and lecturer on peace issues, will dis- cuss the effects of globalization issues on socio-economically-challenged communities. The free lecture will take place at 11:30 a.m. at the Memorial Christian Church on 730 Tappan St. Association spreads culture through dance The Huaren Cultural Association will host an estimated 20 University dance groups and organizations in an instructional dance workshop. The ,groups will teach guests moves from their respective ethnic dances. The workshop commences Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Michi- gan League. German artistic movement topic of "Graphic Visions" David Choberka will lecture on the works and history of the artistic movement in Germany on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Museum of Art. Chober- ka's lecture is titled "Graphic Visions: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings." Students mark 30' birthday of Roe v. Wade By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter Thirty years ago this week, former President Lyndon Johnson died of a heart attack just days before then-President Richard Nixon announced to the world that a cease-fire agreement had been reached in the Vietnam War. And sometime between those two events, the U.S. Supreme Court made their landmark 7-2 deci- sion in a case that started off with a single, pregnant woman challenging a Texas law forbidding abor- tion - but ended up with a ruling that legalized the practice across the country. On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of "Jane Roe," who sued the Dallas County, Texas District Attorney "on behalf of herself and all other women" because she felt that "Texas statutes were unconstitutionally vague and that they abridged her right of personal privacy, protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amend- ments," according to the majority opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun. Today, the debates surrounding Roe V. Wade have grown, and though the decision was upheld, many pro-choice advocates worry that a change in the Supreme Court membership could overturn the decision. "It's the 30th anniversary and what that means for people our age is that we've never lived without abortion being legal," said Rackham student Katri- na Mann, a member of Students for Choice, which is holding a conference this weekend in honor of Roe v. Wade about women's health care issues. "Young people in general don't see this as a perti- nent issue because it's always been legal in our life- time and they have the perception that it always will be legal." Mann said she hopes the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade will not only help spark discussion about the lack of health care available to pregnant women, but also bring attention to the decision's significance. "It's hard for us as young people in this campus and for those of us who didn't grow up while it was illegal to know what it was like," she said. "We want to try to imagine what that experience was like and think about how we can keep it from reoc- curring." While students now may not understand the cli- mate surrounding abortion issues in the 1970s, Laura Kaplan, the conference's keynote speaker, said she remembers the struggle well. Kaplan was a volunteer for the Chicago-based underground abortion service the Jane Collective, which started in 1969 and disbanded soon after the Supreme Court decision. "It was the best-known secret in Chicago," Kaplan said. "You knew about it if you needed it. I think there was sort of this passive acceptance of the group by the powers that be. Law enforcement certainly knew about it." "What made Roe v. Wade possible was really the growth of the women's movement and the voices of women, marching in the street, speaking out. There. were full-page ads taken out in the New York Times with prominent women stating their names, saying they had an abortion," she added. "It's different now. Women's choices aren't valued, and abortion is often pictured as something a women does out of expediency." Mann said the majority of this weekend's con- ference - co-sponsored by Students for Choice, Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance, the Undergraduate Women's Studies Association and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, as well as several other organizations - will focus on trying to bring together the pro- life and pro-choice movements that have resulted from Roe v. Wade. "We are trying not to create divisions. What we are trying to do is heal some divisions by taking some steps to begin thinking about how to come together and support women and their families," she said. "They have one type of strat- egy (for helping women) and we have another, but I think if we work together better, if we could conjoin those strategies, we could move light years past where we are." Students for Life member and LSA junior Diana Hester, who spent Wednesday in Washington par- ticipating in the national March for Life rally, said that while she does not agree with the Roe v. Wade decision, she also believes that pregnant women must be better supported before the decision can be reversed. "I think it should be overturned, but only if other things are put in place for women," Hester said. "We have to make sure we are looking out for preg- nant women." I I Art exhibit celebrates life of pre-Holocaust painter By Afifa Assel For the Daily Music senior Mudhillun MuQaribu sits with alum Donna Pettway, who holds her child while listening to a lecture about the struggle for integration yesterday in Rackham Auditorium. Haddad hearings to be open, federal Finding purpose in life and rediscovering how to live were the main themes Charlotte Salomon expressed in her enlightening pre-Holocaust paintings. A two-day conference celebrating the life and paintings of the Jew- ish artist commenced yesterday at the Alumni Center. Joanne Leonard, a member of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, which sponsored the conference, was the driving force behind the event. For the past few years, Leonard has utilized various grants to bring visual culture exhibits like Saloman's to the University. "This conference is a culmination of Joanne Leonard's work on visual culture," said IRWG director Barbra Guteck. Mary Felstiner, a historian who wrote a biography of Salomon, said the artist's work captures the spirit of an impor- tant period in history, one that is difficult to bring back. "Usually you can find information about most people born in 1917, but in Charlotte's case, her whole subcul- ture was killed off by the Nazis," Felstiner said. Griselda Pollock, the keynote speaker from the Uni- versity of Leeds in England, said Salomon's paintings depict Salomon struggles. "Charlotte faces the question of how to live with the unlivable - she is discovering life through her art," Pollock said. For many, the lessons of Salomon's work are still rel- evant today.",""1" "It is about the trauma - the details - of an emo- tional experience. She does something extraordinary with her suffering," Pollock said. Salomonis" tt rg'° tylri5nt-t-traditional"-she- combines text, images and music in a transdisciplinary "it is about the trauma --the details - of an emotional experience. She does something extraordinary with her suffering." - Griselda Pollock University of Leeds keynote speaker work that she ultimately envisioned as a theatrical pro- duction, Pollock added. Prof. Nannette Salomon from the College of Staten Island said, "Charlotte's work looks like children's art, but beneath, it is much more sophisticated." Salomon's work gained popularity two years ago when it was shown in New York for the first time. While all of Salomon's original paintings are currently in Amsterdam, individual presenters displayed slides of her work at the conference. Salomon was born in 1917 and grew up in Berlin. As the Nazis rose to power, Salomon fled to the south of France to live with relatives. There, her grandmother committed suicide, and shortly afterward, she learned that her mother's death when she was a child was also a suicide, not a tragic accident as she had been led to believe. In ain atf'eni, 'fc'pe with the triauma, Salomon painted her life story in 800 reflective paint- ings between 1940 and 1942, ending when she was sent to a concentration camp in France. She titled her work ' -eben Oder T ?I"titt tf i'teisinto "fL1Te or' Theatre?" appeals o '"DETROIT'(AP)"ANfederal appeals court has declined to review a decision by three of its judges that hearings for a jailed Muslim activist must be open to the public. The federal government had request- ed the review, contending that open deportation hearings for Rabih Haddad and others suspected of links to terror- ism would compromise the Justice Department's terror probe. The ruling Wednesday by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court-of Appeals stems from lawsuits filed last year by several Detroit area newspapers, the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), seeking access to Haddad's hearings. The decision contradicts an October ruling by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that such hear- ings could be closed to the public, the Detroit Free Press reported yesterday. Attorneys predicted the dispute would wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. "The stage is really set for a show- BASKETBALL Continued from Page 1 ical, hard-fought game. But the Wolverines would not recognize that winning the game would be big for the program. "If we win it will be a big win, but we will just have go forward to the next win," Pontiac native Lester Abram said. "But it will be no bigger than any of the other wins that we have won so far." Senior LaVell Blanchard, who in the past has forced himself to watch Michigan State celebrate winning the Big Ten championship, returned ques- tions to reporters like a tennis pro. "I'm not going to say anything," said Blanchard, who will probably get his last chance to beat the Spartans on Sunday. "I am just going to play the game, see what happens and keep my mouth shut." Even freshman Daniel Horton, a Cedar Hill, Texas native and one of the brasher members of the team, was playing dumb to the rivalry. It was not until the level of dominance of the rivalry was compared to Texas-Okla- homa in football that the point guard understood the one-sidedness of the past five years. "Obviously, I don't know because I am not from around here," said Horton, who is averaging 15.8 points per game. "But (my team- mates) say they want to win, just like any other game." But he feels that ignorance is bliss IOUrtrules d6Wi'iii Washhigton over which'appeals court is right," said Herschel Fink, an attorney for the Free Press, one of the newspapers that filed suit. Tre-Justi Departmit*t s decidixg whether to appeal Wednesday's ruling, a spokesman said. Haddad's lawyer, Noel Saleh of Detroit, praised the decision, saying closed hearings are bad for democ- racy. Haddad, 42, an Ann Arbor resident and Lebanese citizen, was arrested Dec. 14, 2001, the same day the subur- ban Chicago offices of the Global Relief Foundation were raided. Haddad is co-founder of the charity, which fed- eral authorities accuse of funneling money to al-Qaida. Haddad's early hearings were closed to the public, sparking the lawsuits. A three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled the hearings must be opened in August, though some parts of subsequent hearings were closed. ENCOMPASS Continued from Page 1 Though much of the show was com- prised of various cultural dances, Easley, one of the original members of the Black Ink Poetry Collective in Detroit, recited an original piece, and co-ed a capella group 58 Greene also performed for the audience. "What really makes the show come alive is that everybody enjoys what they are doing and you can see the pride they take in their culture, whether they are singing, dancing - whatever," LSA sophomore Andrew Block said. "It's so important that cultural leaders on campus work with groups like Encompass to reach out," LSA senior Rata Vaishya said. "I could have done the Indian dance, but I really wanted to do something to challenge myself, so that's why I'm in the Arabic dance sequence. Given all the problems facing different ethnicities today, it's really important to support one another, celebrate our differences and come together," she added. The show, which usually takes place in March, was moved up nearly two months due to renovations at Hill Audi- torium and a lack of affordable alternate venues. THE DAILY IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR A N , . m