0 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 8, 2002 NATION/WORLD nti-war graffiti fades, removedHNESFINDBREF16' By Ricky Lax lowercase "t"s sandwiched between BWbut For the Daily two uppercase "A"s in the word "I won't denounce it, but it certainly "Attacking," Marylandsniper strikes middle schooler A" tcl ,ti i dnosn t hin and it is not a n rati-A tha As iocai anti-war sentiment grows, Ann Arbor's anti-war graffiti is slowly fading away. The message "Attacking Iraq is Ter- rorism" that appeared on walls of two local restrooms and a number of side- walks, now reads "Attacking Iraq is," on a USA Today dispenser and just "Attacking" on a construction truck, both of which displayed the full mes- sage two weeks ago. The original message also appeared on walls of the men's bathroom in the State Street Starbucks and the Border- s'and Liberty Street men's bathroom stall, where it has since been washed off, twice on the sidewalk at State Street and North University Avenue. Though it is now practically invisi- ble, the graffiti could be found on the connecting Maynard Street sidewalk in front of White Market last month. Both the stencil used to create the outside graffiti and the handwriting in Borders and Starbucks contained two Alan Hatfield, who sells hot dogs on the corner of State and North Uni- versity, said the graffiti near the stand appeared on Sept. 11 of this year. "People just look at it and go about their business," he said. Education junior Maran Maguran said the anti-war graffiti did not move her one way or the other. "I guess I'm just used to it," she said. Associate Political Science Prof. Robert Franzese said the anti-war graffiti "may actually get people to tune out and not pay attention, the same way negative campaign ads do." "I imagine the graffiti writers are drawing a parallel between the inevitable civilian casualties that any military strike would produce and the intentional civilian casual- ties produced by terrorism, by defi- nition," Franzese said. "Whether that parallel is warranted, is another question," he added. we would engage in." - Joseph Tanniru LSA senior LSA Senior Joseph Tanniru, a member of Students for Social Equal- ity, said "I don't think that graffiti and the defamation of buildings is a seri- ous response to the tasks required in the building a movement opposing the war. I won't denounce it, but it cer- tainly doesn't help and it is not a prac- tice that we would engage in." "When the graffiti actually causes physical damage to the buildings, then it is no different really from breaking windows at Citibank or Star- bucks - a form of action that substi- tutes pseudo-radicalism and pseudo-militancy for a real effort to build a movement in the broad masses of the population against war and all ISRAEL Continued from Page 1 In the case of the tobacco decision, former University President Lee Bollinger created the Tobacco Advisory Committee to investigate the costs of withdrawing from its tobacco stocks. "Our tobacco investments were less than one-quarter of one percent of the total. The total dollar amount of tobacco investments was estimated at $2.5 to $3 LIVE AND LEARN JAPANESE! 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Linguistics Prof. Noam Chomsky said in his new book, "9/11," pub- lished shortly after last years terrorist attacks that "Western powers could never abide by their own official defi- nitions of the term (terrorism)." Call- ing the U.S. battle a "war on terrorism," Chomsky says, "would at once reveal that the U.S. is a leading terrorist state, as are its clients." million," Peterson said, adding that the current investments are only in the hun- dreds of thousands. In a written statement to the Board of Regents in 2000, Bollinger said if the University maintained its tobacco stocks, it would be supporting an "organiza- tion whose practices are fundamen- tally at odd with our own mission of education and research and general- ly accepted standards of behavior." IRAQ Continued from Page 1 ate planned votes for Thursday, and the Bush-backed resolution was expected to pass by wide margins. Still, doubts lingered at home and abroad about Bush's plans. Even as he spoke, new polls revealed lingering unease among vot- ers about going to war, particularly if casualties were high or fighting dis- tracted attention from America's sag- ging economy. Democrats criticized Bush's insistence upon confronting Iraq alone if the United Nations failed to act. Bush hopes an overwhelming vote in Congress will persuade reluctant allies in the United Nations to adopt a tough new reso- lution forcing Saddam to disarm - by force, if necessary. The president said U.S. intelli- gence shows Iraq to be building manned and unmanned aerial vehi- cles that could be used to target the United States with chemical or bio- logical weapons. He said Iraq had trained members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida ter- rorist group, and that a "very senior al-Qaida leader" has received med- ical treatment in Baghdad. "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemi- cal weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists," Bush said. "Alliances with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints." On the anniversary of the first U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan, Bush tried to explain why Iraq should be the next front in the war on terror. BOYCOTT Continued from Page 1 the College Democrats has not official- ly taken a position, their executive board discussed the issue Sunday night and tentatively agreed to support the boycott, a member of the group said. Members of Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality said at a meeting last night that one member of the group made a verbal agreement to support the boycott, and although other members may disagree, they feel pressured not to back down on their decision. "It is an unfortunate reality that now we're in it. We can't condition- ally say we're in, we can't back out because it would be skeptical and further along the stereotypes of color," said one SOLE member at the meeting last night, adding SOLE is predominantly composed of non- minority students. Other members of student groups who have joined the boycott said they were reluctant about it and they felt it was a waste of time. "This boycott is making a non-issue a very divisive one. These student groups should certainly make better use of their time than to identify this as a top issue on campus," said an LSA student who wished to remain anonymous. But some students said they feel they have a responsibility to support groups who have already joined the boycott. "As far as the College Democrats A 13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded as his aunt dropped him off at school yesterday, bringing fresh terror to the Washington area where a sniper killed six people last week. Anxious parents streamed in to retrieve their children from the school, and police in neighboring Montgomery County hunting for the serial sniper rushed to the scene. Officials stressed that no link to the Montgomery shootings had been established, but many school districts in the area canceled outdoor activities. Another shooting yesterday that left a man critically wounded in the District of Columbia also was being investigated, but Washington police spokesman Kenny Bryson said there was "no link whatsoever" to the Maryland attacks. He said police believe the motive was robbery. "Whether they're connected or not, the fear has ratcheted up quite a bit;' Mont- gomery County Executive Doug Duncan said. The boy was shot shortly after 8 a.m. outside Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie. He was shot once, in the chest, and was in critical but stable condition and breathing on a ventilator following two hours of surgery, said Martin Eichelberg- er, director of emergency trauma service at Children's Hospital. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip Fourteen Palestinians killed in Israeli raid The Islamic militant group Hamas threatened new attacks yesterday after Israel fired a missile into a crowded Gaza street and killed 11 Palestinians. The United States said it was "deeply troubled" by the raid in which three other Palestinians died and 110 were wounded. Israel said its troops were searching for Hamas militants when they raided Khan Younis with 40 tanks backed by helicopters shortly after midnight yester- day. Most of the dead fell victim to a missile fired into a crowd. The Palestinians said they were civilians. Israel said most were fighters killed in battle. "Everyone should know that as our people were not safe in Khan Younis, so Israelis will not be safe in Tel Aviv," said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader. "We will strike everywhere." In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher couched U.S. criticism of the operation with a restatement of American support for Israel's right to self-defense. "We're deeply troubled by the reports of Israeli actions in Gaza over the weekend," he said. WASHINGTON Justices let Torricelli, Nichols rulings stand On the first day of the Supreme Court's new term, justices turned down appeal after appeal, disap- pointing more than a thousand peo- ple including Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and exonerated Olympic Park bomb- ing suspect Richard Jewell. Among the castoffs was an emer- gency request from New Jersey Repub- licans, who wanted to prevent Democrats from replacing incumbent Robert Torricelli on the Nov. 5 ballot for Senate. The high court's refusal to get involved means the Democrats can put former Sen. Frank Lautenberg on the ballot. The court also turned away assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, who is serving a jail term for~his role in helping a man die, and the son of singer Frank Sinatra, who wanted to stop his one-time kidnapper from profiting through a movie about the crime. Stockholm Medical Nobel Prize honors U.S., Britain An American and two Britons won the Nobel Prize in medicine yester- day for groundbreaking research into organ growth and cell death - work that has opened new avenues for treating cancer, stroke and other diseases. The prize, worth about $1 million, is shared by H. Robert Horvitz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and British citizens Sydney Brenner of the Salk Institute for Biological Stud- ies in San Diego and the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, Calif., and John E. Sulston who is retired from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Insti- tute in Cambridge, England. Collectively, their work provided the first solid evidence that cells in the body carry a "self-destruct" pro- gram to kill off excess cells. But sometimes the process goes awry. In cancer, abnormal cells fail to turn on their self-destruct pro- gram, so they grow into tumors. VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. Urine tests used to catch teen smokers Breath mints won't cut it anymore for students who have been smoking in the bathroom - some schools around the country are administering urine tests to teenagers to find out whether they have been using tobacco. Opponents say such testing violates students' rights and can keep them out of the extracurricular activities they need to stay on track. But some advocates say smoking in the boys' room is a ticket to more serious drug use. "Some addicted drug users look back to cigarettes as the start of it all;" said Jeff McAlpin, director of market- ing for EDPM, a Birmingham drug- testing company. Short of catching them in the act, school officials previously had no way of proving students had been smoking. Testing-students for drugs has spread in recent years and was given a boost in June when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed random testing of those in extracurricular activities. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. 406 6I The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $105. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscrip- tions must be prepaid. 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