LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 6, 2003 -- 3A Suspect exposes himself while walking down Hill The Department of Public Safety spent part of Tuesday afternoon searching for a man -- described as a 30-year-old, 6-foot-tall white male of average build wearing a red base- ball hat, a dark jacket and work jeans - who witnesses saw expos- ing himself on Hill Street near South Forest Avenue at approxi- mately 1:15 p.m. Tuesday. DPS reports state the man was last seen walking down Hill toward State Street, but officers responding to the call were unable to locate him. The incident was turned over to the Ann Arbor Police Department, which is investigating, reports state. Man sleeping in UGLi taken to ER for alcohol, injury Shapiro Undergraduate Library staff discovered an elderly man passed out on the floor of the build- ing's first floor men's restroom Tues- day afternoon. Staff members called DPS officers, who woke the man. He was then taken to the University Hos- pital Emergency Room by Huror Valley Ambulance for intoxication and a minor injury. DPS reports did not state how the man was injured. Person decides not to report non- violent assault A woman in' the School of Den- tistry reported to police officers Tuesday afternoon that a classmate had walked up to her, grabbed her head, and non-violently shook it. After giving her statement to offi- cers, the woman called DPS again and stated that she did not wish to file a report after all. According to the incident log, the woman said she wished to resolve the conflict per- sonally. Victims receive harassing phone calls, post cards A woman working in the Legal Research, .Building n..gn pnroe Street reported Tuesday that a per- son had been repeatedly calling her at work and leaving her threatening and harassing voice mail messages. The victim said she has received 15 messages within a three-day period from the suspect. Another set of threatening messages was reported by a person in the A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center. The person complained of two harass- ing postcards, which were sent to the victim from New York. DPS officers could not determine who was sending the postcards or the reason they were sent, reports state. DPS investigates paintball mystery attack on Bursley Several doors in Bursley Resi- dence Hall became victims of an unknown paintball fiend early yes terday morning. DPS officers fol- lowed the suspect's trail, left on the third and fourth floors of the build- ing, but were unable to locate him, reports state. Couple's fight ends in assault, stolen property DPS reports state that a man pushed his girlfriend, a resident of Stockwell Residence Hall, after the couple had an argument Tuesday. The victim, who was not injured, said her boyfriend also damaged her vehicle and stole her personal prop- erty. DPS officers could not imme- diately locate the boyfriend. Daily protester alleges assault A caller reported that while taking a stack of Michigan Daily newspa- pers from the Student Publications Building, she was assaulted by a building staff member. The person took her papers, grabbed her arm and pushed her, she said. The report did not indicate the result of the DPS investigation. Passenger injures * himself after bus stnn suddenlv GRANHOLM Continued from Page 1A Also among Granholm's proposed education reforms in the House Cham- ber at the State Capitol are incentives to keep students in the classroom. "The responsibility of driving a car should be linked to the responsi- bility of attending school," she said. "I urge you in the Legislature to adopt legislation that will send a clear message to our students: 'If you don't show up in school, you shouldn't bother showing up at the secretary of state's office either,' because we won't issue driver's licenses to chronic truants." Another notable aspect of Granholm's speech included its bipartisan approach to proposing legislation. In addition to her stance on education, the governor took a politically neutral approach to eco- nomic stimulus proposals, health care programs and environmental and land use policies. As a result, Granholm's address garnered sup- port from Republican legislators as well as Democrats. "Her tone since Election Day has been bipartisan cooperation. Part of that is out of necessity. We have a Democratic governor and a republi- can Legislature," Sikkema said. "You're not going to make progress unless you find a common ground.". Granholm's environmental poli- cies included the creation of a Smart Growth Commission to curb urban sprawl and a proposal to limit the dumping of out-of-state and Canadian garbage in Michigan land- fills. Conscious of strong bi-parti- san support on these issues, the governor said her land use initiative would revitalize the state's urban centers while preserving water sources and farmland. "She wants to strengthen urban cen- ters," Sen. Buzz Thomas (D-Detroit) said. "I didn't hear anything in the initia- tives that she talked about that both par- ties can't find a common ground on." SEARCH Continued from Page 1A previously announced they had five or have constitutionalautonomy from certain kinds of interference with their operations from the state legislatures," University of Min- nesota Counsel Mark Rotenberg said. "If the Board of Regents decide they want to build a round building for $10 million, the state Legislature cannot say 'no we want a square building for 13 million dollars."' While Anfinson said he believes the University of Minnesota has a good argument, he added that the state constitutional provision that grants the University of Minnesota autonomy is open to many different interpretations. The plaintiff's inter- pretation states that in a situation like the presidential search, the leg- islature can intervene and tell the University how to proceed, Anfin- son said. "The constitution says the legisla- ture cannot tell the University who to pick," he said. "That power is given to the regents, but the process of selection within reason, the leg- islature can dictate." As evidence in its favor, the school points to a 1999 Michigan Supreme Court ruling that gave state universities broad discretion in how they could follow Michigan's Open Meetings Act. The case cen- tered on a Michigan State Universi- ty presidential search. The conduct of the University of Michigan was also questioned after the presidential searches of 1988 and 1996, which hired James Dud- erstadt and Lee Bollinger, respec- tively. In a 1993 state Supreme Court decision on a lawsuit that newspa- pers filed against the University after the Duderstadt search, the court ruled that the University had violated the Open Meetings Act and Freedom of Information Act. As a result, four finalists in the 1996 search were interviewed at public meetings. The 2002 search for cur- rent President Mary Sue Coleman was not subject to such scrutiny because of the 1999 decision. Some speculate whether the Min- nesota ruling could have any bear- ing on the Michigan court revisiting its 1999 decision, if the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs. Detroit Free Press attorney Her- schel Fink said since the information acts are exclusively state laws, Min- nesota's ruling would not directly have a bearing on Michigan. But he added that over a period of time, if the court becomes more liberal and another opportunity arises, news agencies could possibly ask the court to reconsider its decision. "I don't see there being a differ- ent result at this time because, if DEBATE Continued from Page 1A We are going to go there and liberate these people." But Zahr disagreed with Singer's logic. "Who are we to decide what is better for the Iraqi people?" he said. Most students who attended the debate said they felt Zahr's arguments were well-articulated and better pre- pared than Singer's. "I think it's obvious (Zahr's) win- ning," Pharmacy student Ruba Odeh said. "His views are presented much more eloquently." Nursing senior Elise Erickson said Singer's arguments lacked both prepa- ration and intelligence. "His entire principle of going to war is based on some lust for death, power and ethnocentrism," she said. Amer Zahr, right, reacts to LSA sophomore Eric Singer during their debate on a potential war in Iraq. BUSINESSES Continued from Page 1A and performing other tasks. The company will enter its third year in August. "We are basically handymen rent- ed for a half-hour," Salter said. "The company got started because of supply and demand. We saw a service that was needed and started it with money made from jobs. It had a low start-up cost. Right now, we are looking at venture capitalist firms to expand regionally and then maybe nationally. We feel we have a service a lot of campuses can use but we want to perfect it here at Michigan before getting larger." LSA sophomore Jeffrey Wilcox became an entrepreneur at an early age by writing basic software for the Microsoft Windows platform while in sixth grade. "I got into entrepreneurship in middle school because I was a com- puter geek and saw a business opportunity," Wilcox said. "Three years ago, I got involved in a dot- com start-up. I also started a web software business entitled 'Jwpc Internet Solutions' that creates soft- ware to manage content on the web." Whether or not students are suc- cessful in entrepreneurship, they acquire skills and experiences that are applicable in running future businesses and in their daily lives. "I learned through experience all about marketing and customer sup- port," Wilcox said. "Running my own business taught me so much more than I could have ever learned in school. Staying in tune with business and industry, always refining my skills and competition have all taught me great lessons." Still, many students do not start their own businesses on campus, often because they believe they do not possess the necessary ideas or skill. RC junior Christian Shafer said he has no unique business ideas worth pursuing although he had the people skills to start a business. "It's probably pretty easy to start a business but difficult to keep it afloat because the market is so competitive and crowded," Shafer said. "Being a student is pretty much a full-time job, and so most students put aside their ideas to think about when they are done with school." Like Shafer, LSA freshman Hannah Kim said she never had any entrepre- neurial idea she wanted to do. "This is my first year so I haven't given much thought to starting a business," Kim said. "If I thought I could be successful and if I had the skills and friends to start a busi- ness, I probably would. I mean I really don't want to start one alone." SHUTTLE Continued from Page 1A created by fire, astronauts on the shuttle performed experiments on open flame. The unique properties of flame in zero- gravity situations made it ideal for his experiments. Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who died aboard the Colum- bia, performed more than half of his experiment. Faeth said he got back half to two- thirds of the data for his experiment but lost the samples collected by the crew. Faeth, who trained the Columbia astronauts to conduct his experiment, said he thought there would be a delay in scientific study in space while safety concerns about manned space travel are addressed. "We just have to live with that delay, because it's vitally important to return astronauts safely," he said. "There's nothing I could have learned that was worth the lives of seven fine people." Zurbuchen said he worried about sci- entific research in space for the next few years if manned space travel is put on hold during the investigation of the acci- dent. He said although most scientific studies in space take place on unmanned vehicles like satellites, he was worried about experiments that require human researchers. "There are University com- munities and research communities that will lose opportunities. This is a real worry,"he said. 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