~J~eather Tuesday February 4, 2003 ©2003 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXIII, No. 87 el-lrr& 4juuOa One-hundred-twelve years of edito rialfreedom TODAY: Snow showers during the day with winds up to 25 miles per hour and scat- tered flumes by night. HI: 35 LOW: 14 Tomorroaw: 2418 wwwmichigandaily. corn A2 brawl sends Pittsburgh Steeler to ER By J. Brady McCollough Daily Sports Editor Former Michigan football player and Pitts- burgh Steelers linebacker Larry Foote and three current Michigan football players were involved in an altercation that began at around 2:30 a.m. yesterday inside Pizza House on Church Street. The fight began when Foote, senior offen- sive lineman Courtney Morgan, junior run- ning back Chris Perry, an unidentified male and two females were joined at the restaurant by a second group of five to six males. A few minutes after the second group arrived at the restaurant, the two groups began to push and shove each other inside near the bar area, knocking over and dislodging a hostess stand in the process. A Pizza House employee who wished to remain anonymous said she began to worry "when some of the guys started getting con- frontational and posturing in that macho-guy kind of way." Employees called the police from the back of the restaurant. "I was standing there numb," the employ- ee said. After knocking over the stand, the brawl escalated outside on Church Street near Back- room Pizzeria. Ann Arbor police arrived on the scene soon thereafter, using pepper spray to stop the conflict and separate the two groups. Foote, who just finished his rookie season for the Steelers, was escorted away in an ambulance with an injured thumb. He was released from the University Hospital emer- gency room late yesterday morning, a hospital employee said. Lt. Greg O'Dell of the Ann Arbor Police Department said that it would be up to the city attorney's office to issue warrants for the play- ers' arrests. One of the men who was not asso- ciated with either football team was arrested and released soon after. O'Dell could not release any information about him. Both Perry and Morgan returned to Pizza House after the brawl, asking for a glass of milk to ease the pain that the pepper spray caused to their eyes. The police allowed Perry, Morgan and sophomore cornerback Markus Curry, who was also at the scene of the inci- dent, to drive away. The Pizza House employee said the hostess stand was repaired and that nothing else was harmed by the incident. "The only casualty was this little basket that we kept crayons in," the employee said. "There were crayons all over the place." Foote, a fourth-round selection in the 2002 NFL Draft, was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year for 2001. The Detroit native tallied 26 tackles for a loss his senior season and was named to the Football News All- America team. Powell will reveal new findings on weapons WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell will present pho- tographs of mobile biological weapons and transcripts of overheard Iraqi con- versations to convince allies that Sad- dam Hussein has potent arsenals in defiance of U.N. disarmament demands, an administration official said yesterday. Powell sifted through classified U.S. intelligence yesterday to choose what he will make public tomorrow to the U.N. Security Council. He is expected to display the photographs and refer to transcripts, an official told The Associ- ated Press. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), said he expected the evidence to show details of a transfer of technology from other countries and the relocation of weapons systems within Iraq. "He can go into a level of detail with respect to the present maintenance of the stock that he hasn't gone into before," Hunter said in an interview. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who like Hunter has received intelligence briefings, said he would not be sur- prised if Powell disclosed to the Secu- rity Council information that had not been made available to Congress. Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said he had not seen enough evidence to justi- fy war against Iraq. "At this point, I don't think it is compelling," he said. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain rallied anew to support the United States. "Show weakness now and no one will ever believe us when we try to show strength in the future," he said as he prepared for a meeting today with French President Jacques Chirac, who is reluctant to go to war at this point. As the administration sought to expand its network of potential coali- tion partners, Powell met with the king of Bahrain, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al- Khalifa, who then called on Vice Presi- dent Dick Cheney and planned to see President Bush at the White House. Bahrain, which provides a base for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, was the tar- get of long-range Scud missiles fired by Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War that reversed Iraq's annexation of Kuwait. DPS delves further in West Quad accident By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter A University freshman spent his second day at University Hospital yesterday after breaking his leg outside West Quad Residence Hall. LSA freshman Chase Metcalf, a member of the Michigan wrestling team, was in stable condition yesterday after a per- sonal injury that occurred at 7:45 Sunday morning. How the injury occurred is still in question. Department of Public Safety officers said that they were called to the scene and found a male student injured outside the building near Thompson Street. Officers said the student suf- fered a broken leg and added that they did not know if he sus- tained any other injuries. DPS officers declined to comment on how the injury occurred, stating that the incident is under investigation by DPS Criminal Investigations Unit. The incident remained under investigation yesterday, DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown said. "He had some injuries, and we have to investigate it," DPS Officer Janet Conners said. "It's just the normal course of some of the work we do. Photographs taken at the scene of the incident on Thomp- son Street show an open window on the residence hall's third floor, where Metcalf lives. The window is not broken, but two sets of four, long white markings are seen in the photo- graph just below the window. Each set is about the width of a person's hand. It is unknown how long the markings have been present on the building, and DPS officers refused to comment on their presence. Once at the scene, photographs show that DPS officers roped off the lawn area between the building and the side- walk. Within the area are a jacket and a sleeping bag marked as evidence, along with several other items. DPS y officers did not comment on the evidence, and it is unknown whom the jacket and sleeping bag belong to or See INJURY, Page 3 JONATHON TRIEST/Dail LEFT: Sgt. Paul Vaughan points to the third-floor window of a West Quad resident involved in an incident on Sunday. TOP RIGHT: Markings appear below the window. BOTTOM RIGHT: Evidence was scattered across the West Quad lawn. Passage of bill threatens funding for NSERS By Andrew McCormack Daily Staff Reporter The Immigration and Naturalization Ser- vice's controversial National Security Entry- Exit Registration System will soon lose all funding if a recent appropriations bill - already passed in the U.S. Senate - passes the House of Representatives. The program requires immigrants from specific, mostly Arab countries to submit detailed personal information like fingerprints to INS. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced the amendment to the bill that would cut the program's funding. "We must do more, especially at this difficult time, to uphold America's long and proud tradi- tion as a nation of immigrants. It is wrong to try to build a wall around our country to strengthen our security," Kennedy said in a written state- ment. "Terrorism is the problem - not immi- gration. We are strong enough to protect our borders and our people, and compassionate enough to welcome those who seek America's refuge and its promise." But many legislators have voiced different opinions on the issue. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Detroit), who voted against the bill, said in a written statement that NSEERS is a "key federal (agency) at the front lines of protecting our homeland." Greg Palmore, public affairs officer for "Everybody paralleled it to internment camps and what happened in Germany, but it's not like anyone 's being detained." - Greg Palmore Detroit Sector INS Detroit Sector INS, maintains that NSEERS is misunderstood. "Everybody paralleled it to internment camps and what happened in Germany, but it's not like anyone's being detained," he said. "People need to understand that this is to secure the interior of the United States." But some students have doubts about the fair- ness of the system. If the government is going to keep personal information on people from some countries, See NSEERS, Page 3 Lecturers consider unionizing for pay Sharp shooter Duderstadt criticizes current diversity plan By Jeremy Berkowitz Daily Staff Reporter If formed, union would guarantee the same pay to faculty and GSIs By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter The need for long-term job security coupled with the belief that their pay is below that of graduate student instructors' has spurred non-tenure track faculty at the University's three campuses to form a collective bar- gaining unit for lecturers and visiting and adjunct professors. If formed, the union would be one of a few representing non-tenure track fac- ulty across the country and second in Michigan, the first being the Eastern Michigan University Federation of Teachers. "Thi iall new.. ornn" cnir Inn Curtiss, a union organizer for the Michi- gan Federation of Teachers, which is working with faculty members at the Flint, Dearborn and Ann Arbor campus- es. "This kind of organizing is really something that has gotten off the ground in the last couple years, as universities have hired more and more of these folks." Union organizer Kirsten Herold, a lecturer in the English department, said she believes the union is necessary in order to give faculty members the same benefits given to graduate student instructors, as well as to add job security and increase pay. "There are a lot of folks who are run- ning around from two or three different campuses, spending half the day com- muting, teaching five or six classes a semester and still only end up making $20,000," Herold said. "In my depart- .CaiP EOP;OP 2a Former University President James Duderstadt said he is not fooled by the fact that the decline in campus diversity during the past six , years has been overshadowed by lawsuits regarding the use of race in admissions.n The Center for Individual Rights, a' Washington-based law firm, filed the lawsuits in the fall of 1997. Oral argu- Duderstadt ments for the cases are expected to be heard in front of the U.S. Supreme Court April 1. Officially, the University's minority enrollment increased from 20 percent during the 1994-1995 academic year to 26 percent during the 2001-2002 academic year, but the numbers of blacks which Duderstadt said are "seri- ously underrepresented," fell about 10 percent during the same period. In the Business School, the number of blacks dropped from 200 students in 1995- 1996 to under 100 last year. Duderstadt attributes the minority regressions to several possible reasons, including actions taken by his succes- sor Lee Bollinger, who served as Uni- versity President from 1997 to 2001. Duderstadt said Bollinger neglected many facets of the Michigan Mandate, a program established by Duderstadt in 1988 to improve diversity and the racial climate on campus. "The Michigan Mandate focused on outreach into various population cen- ters, high schools, middle schools, pro- viding financial support, academic support (and) changing the campus - See DUDERSTADT. Page 3 FRANK PAYNEII LSA junior Fitri Kusen plays a game of pool in the Michigan Union yesterday during Lady's Day, which allows women to play for free on Mondays. ' - a. .,