Tuesday Arl1,20 A2003 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXIII, No. 132 TODAY: One-hundred-twelve years ofeditoriafreedom Partly cloudy with winds at 31 miles per hour from the south- west. HI: 84 Tomorrow: Gf ,, www.michigandaily.com 'The majoraco ation ar ov' FBI . 4*' f. .. U.S. says some forces wil start withidrawing Ylt 1 4° The Associated Press Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit fell yes- terday with unexpectedly light resistance, the last Iraqi city to succumb to overpowering U.S.-led ground and air forces. A senior Pentagon general said "major combat engagements" probably are over in the 26-day-old war. As fighting wound down, Pentagon officials disclosed plans to pull two aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf. At the same time, Iraqi power brokers looked ahead to discussions on a postwar government at a U.S.-arranged meeting set today. Secretary of State Colin Powell hinted at eco- nomic or diplomatic sanctions against Syria, saying the government is developing a weapons of mass destruction program and helping Iraqis flee the dying regime. Syrian officials denied the charges. Looting eased in Baghdad after days of plun- dering at government buildings, hospitals and an antiquities museum, and group of religious and civil opposition leaders met in the capital to plan efforts at renewing power, water, security and other vital services. American forces found prodigious amounts of Iraqi weaponry, French-made missiles and Russian anti-tank rocket launchers among them. And Army troops discovered thousands of microfilm car- tridges and hundreds of paper files inside a Baath Party enclave as the dead regime began yielding its secrets. In Tikrit, about 90 miles north of Baghdad, "There was less resistance than we anticipated," Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks told reporters, as American ground troops moved into the city after days of punishing airstrikes. American forces captured a key Tigris River bridge in the heart of town and seized the presi- dential palace without a fight as they rolled past abandoned Iraqi military equipment. "I think we will move into a phase where (combat) is smaller, albeit sharp fights:' - Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal They set up checkpoints to keep prominent regime figures from leaving, and a line of armored vehicles was parked in front of a bazaar inside the city. "We have had engagements, and we have defeated the enemy in every one of those engage- ments, said Capt. Frank Thorp, a spokesman at U.S. Central Command. The operation inside Tikrit, Brooks added, "is really the only significant combat action that occurred within the last 24 hours." Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal told reporters, "I think we will move into a phase where it (combat) is small- er, albeit sharp fights." With Saddam and his two sons dead or in hid- ing, his regime gone and his armed forces routed, U.S. commanders took steps to reduce American firepower in the war zone. A U.S. defense official said two of five aircraft carrier battlegroups in the region would soon be leaving, the USS Kitty Hawk returning to its base in Japan and the USS Constellation to San Diego. Each carrier has about 80 warplanes, including F/A-18 and F-14 strike aircraft as well as surveil- lance and other support craft. The Air Force already has sent four B-2 stealth bombers home. In a reminder of lingering hazards, two soldiers with the Army's V Corps were killed and two wounded when a grenade exploded accidentally See WAR, Page 2A Pfc. Joseph Berrigan guards a mosque yesterday as his battalion moved into Baghdad to secure part of the city. SPentagon* US WASHINGTON (AP) - Large-scale co bat in Iraq is finished, and the U.S. war co mander is sending warplanes and other for home, the Pentagon said yesterday, but remaining troops still face dangers. "The major combat operations are ov because the major Iraqi (fighting) units on ground cease to show coherence," said M Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of Pentagon's Joint Staff. Two of the five Navy aircraft carrier ba groups engaged in the war are heading ho forces remainz endangered izIa m- this week. Each has about 80 planes aboard, ican aircraft based at Incirlik, Turkey, flew m- including about 50 attack planes. McChrystal home Saturday to Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., ces said war commanders are reviewing the ending 12 years of enforcing a flight-interdic- the timetable for sending the Army's 1st Cavalry tion zone over northern Iraq. Division into Iraq. Another official said a deci- About 45 U.S. and British planes were ver, sion already has been made not to deploy the based at Incirlik; they did not participate in the 1st Cavalry. the war against Iraq because Turkey would not Iaj. The Air Force has sent home the four B-2 permit it. With the fall of the Saddam Hussein the stealth bombers that flew wartime missions, government, the need for "no-fly" zones over as well as F-117A stealth fighter-bombers and northern and southern Iraq had disappeared, ttle F-15C fighters, officials said. officials said. me With little public notice, the last two Amer- See TROOPS, Page 2A Reach out and touch someone 'U' harassment policy to be amended SACUA discusses changes to the University's sexual harassment policy By Victoria Edwards Daily Staff Reporter Changes to the University's sexual harassment policy that aim to remove the inherent conflict in student-faculty rela- tionships were presented at a Senate Advi- sory Committee on University Affairs meeting yesterday. Although the proposal is only in its draft- ing state, it resulted from a review the Uni- versity conducted on the sexual harassment policies of other academic institutions, said Valerie Castle, associate provost of academic affairs. "The main difference about this policy is that it does not include a blanket proposal. There is no single prohibition statement say- ing that faculty and students cannot have a relationship. In our policy, we will make an attempt to remove the conflict inherent in fac- ulty and student relationships, if we can" Cas- tle added. She said that if the University can success- fully manage the relationship, the student can progress with his or her academic career. But for the implementation of their propos- al, communication between faculty members and students must be altered. Castle said that faculty members must dis- close the relationship with their administrator. Once the administrator has been informed, it is his or her responsibility to work with the faculty member and student to manage the conflict. "It is the administrator's job to remove the real or perceived conflict that occurs because of the relationship, to protect the student, the faculty member and any third party involved," Castle said. But Castle added that if the administrator cannot remove the faculty member from a position of supervision over the student then the student faculty relationship is pro- hibited. Castle said that at first the policy was criti- cized because there was no blanket statement prohibiting relationships between student and faculty. But Castle said the administration realized that option was not realistic because with a blanket statement, there is no acknowl- edgement of the diversity in terms of age and education within the University. "It doesn't acknowledge that student and faculty are consenting adults. And oftentimes we can remove the problems inherent in these relationships and obvious conflicts if we can remove the faculty member from a superviso- ry position. ... We don't want the faculty member supervising the student in a relation- ship," Castle said. But University of Michigan at Dearborn Associate Biology Prof. and SACUA member John Riebesell said he has some grave con- cerns about the proposal. "It disturbed me, I think people with reason to keep it secret will not come out, and people that already have the relationship out in the open will," Riebesell said. See SACUA, Page 3A Three-year-old David Degavio of Birmingham admires the their tank at the Detroit Zoo yesterday afternoon. polar bears playing in AATU ends student services due to lack of MSA funding Completed gene map .." may offer :1 I By Carmen Johnson Daily Staff Reporter A student-run counseling service estab- lished in 1968, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union says it will end its student services due to lack of funding from the Michigan Student Assembly. The AATU provides services for students and non-University Ann Arbor residents experiencing housing trouble. The AATU has been operating on $20,000 received last year from MSA. But AATU says MSA has refused to negotiate a new tenant service contract and it no longer has the funds to serve students after this year. Previously, MSA has given between 5 and 10 percent of its budget to the AATU - funding which the AATU heavily relies on. AATU Executive Director and LSA senior Amy Ament said the group has met every condition required to receive the funding. "We have submitted monthly reports on our services, but MSA has even refused to meet with us to negotiate a new contract," Ament said. "...(The Michigan Student Assembly) has even refused to meet with us to negotiate a new contract." - Amy Ament Executive director, Ann Arbor Tenants Union informed decision in the fall on whether to fund the non-profit organization. "We have had many complaints from stu- dents that the AATU is an ineffective serv- ice," Mironov said. "Because we are giving such a big proportion of our budget to the AATU, it's important that the money is used effectively." Mironov added that Student Legal Ser- vices, an administrative department, can han- dle students' problems with housing. Located at the William Monroe Trotter House on Washtenaw Avenue, Ament said the AATU informs students of their tenant rights when having difficulty with landlords. manycures By Erin Saylor Daily Staff Reporter Ushering in a new era for potential sci- entific advances, a group of scientists from around the world announced yester- day in Washington that they have mapped a complete sequence of human DNA. "This is really a landmark scientific accomplishment," said Prof. Miriam Meisler of the University's Human Genetics Department. A rough draft of the human genome was announced in 2000 but Meisler said it still had a number of holes in the sequence. But the new and completed sequence reaches an accuracy of 99.9 percent and scientists say the code is as complete as it will ever be. "What we've got now is what we'll have for all eternity," Francis Collins, head of the National Human Genome AFrF' Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, announces the successful completion of the human genome project in Bethesda, Md., yesterday. the Department of Human Genetics at the University from 1984 until 1993 before becoming head of the NHGRI, which leads the consortium of the 16 interna- tional institutions, involved in the com- pletion of the DNA sequence. Beginning in 1990, scientists hoped to complete the project of sorting though the 35,000 genes in a genome in 15 years, said Meisler. Completing the project ahead of sched- ule and under the $3 billion budget, the sequence took less than 13 years to fin- ish and cost $2.7 billion. "Many thought that it was not feasible when the project began," Meisler said. "In fact ... they had to develop a lot of this knowledge could revolutionize med- ical treatments. Meisler said the next step is to try and understand the function of all the 35,000 genes in an effort to identify genes that effect disease. "Before we had a more complete knowledge of the gene sequence, we had to look though all the genes to find the ones causing the disease, which was very time consuming," Meisler said. She added that it took 10 years to iden- tify the gene that causes Huntington's disease. Having full knowledge of the human genome sequence could also contribute to the development of drugs to target i I