0 NATION/W MASCOT Continued from Page 1 TORLD I __ . ._ the Indian Princesses and Boy Scouts of America. Bellecourt said many people go to colleges, like Florida State University, University ofIllinois, University of North Dakota and University of Utah with mascots, like the Fighting Sioux and the Seminoles, which are culturally and spiritually offensive. The fans wear war paint, which is not true Native American paint. These are also insensi- tive to the culture because typically markings are very spiritual and sacred to Native Americans. Bellecourt said the Illinois mascot, Chief Illiniwek, distorts their beautiful, traditional and spiritual dance. Some college students root for teams like the Cleveland Indians, home of the mascot they refer to as "Wahoo' which some say is a racially insensitive. Fox said people need to be more cul- turally sensitive. To become more aware, she said people should "take classes about Native American issues and edu- cate yourself. People need to erase all the cowboy and Indian images that they grew up with' At the University of Northern Col- orado students responded to a local high school team called the "Fightin' Reds" by creating the "Fightin' Whites" cam- paign, which raised Native American cultural awareness throughout the nation. Through this campaign they also raised over $100,000 for scholarships for Native American students. "Having Fightin' Whites' is great. People don't realize how stupid it is to have Native American mascots, but if they put another race up as mascots, it puts things in perspective," Fox said. The problem with cultural ignorance goes beyond just sports teams' mascots, she added. As a Native American, Fox said she has encounters people all the time who are culturally unaware. She recalls one specific incident where she felt offended. "There was this guy that I worked with this summer. Somehow we got into a conversation on Native Americans. When I said that I was a Native American, he asked, 'Are you?' and said 'You don't have a wide bridge on your nose. If you were Native American you'd have it."' MSA Continued from Page 1 semester saw a packed chamber with constituents speaking for and against the resolution. Many constituents urged the rep- resentatives to vote on the resolu- tion because they said the war on Iraq affects the students on campus, addressing some concerns about the resolution. "This resolution is entirely rele- vant. If we go to war, the money is going to come from us, the educa- tion budget," said LSA sophomore Matt Hollerbach, a member of Anti- War Action!. LSA junior Mike Medow said the resolution is similar to resolutions passed at other universities. "We have to do this locally because they aren't hearing us on the national scale. That's why other universities and cities have passed anti-war resolutions," Medow said. Some constituents opposed to the resolution said it does not represent every student on campus. "Does the resolution speak for the entire student body? It's not about pro- or anti-war. It's about 'are we going to be able to influence Bush?"' LSA Rep- resentative Paul Scott said. LSA representative Pete Woiwode said MSA should be voting yes on this resolution. "We are elected to make deci- sions on students' behalf. This is obliviously a student issue because every student would be affected if a war should happen," Woiwode said during the debate. MSA Election Director Collin McGlashen, speaking against the resolution, said passing the resolu- tion will be detrimental. "I'm afraid that people will be asking for a refund if this passes. I don't want this campus to feel that their student government isn't tak- ing care of them as they should," McGlashen said. "In my opinion, the fact that MSA passed this resolution shows that MSA should focus on working on issues that directly affect stu- dents," LSA representative Sarra Nazem said. MSA also elected its new chairs for various committees, only chaired by elected representatives, such as the Budget Priorities Committee and commissions, which may be chaired by students at large such as the Peace and Justice Commission. KNOW OF NEW. WHY NOT.i.AME. IT WTIH U$s? NEWS IN BRIEF 8AGHDAD Iraq Iraq blames U.S. for document alteration The Iraqi government accused Washington yesterday of taking control of a U.N. master copy of Baghdad's arms declaration in order to tamper with it and create a pretext for war. The White House dismissed Iraq's accusation that it altered the docu- ments. Specialists at the CIA and other U.S. agencies began poring over the 12,000-page declaration, in which Baghdad is supposed to "tell all" about its chemical, biological and nuclear programs. American officials said much of the material appeared to be recycled versions of earlier docu- ments. U.N. inspectors have said Iraq's earlier declarations were incomplete. The United Nations was beginning its own analysis of the mammoth declaration, a process offi- cials say could take weeks. Inspectors stepped up their search yesterday, fanning across Iraq on surprise mis- sions to 13 sites - the largest number of inspections since the U.N. operation resumed two weeks ago. One team moved in on a uranium mining site 250 miles west of Baghdad. President Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, spoke of war and sacrifice in a meeting with top lieutenants, men U.S. strategists hope will abandon the Iraqi strongman in the event of war. A NEW YeRK Appeals court upholds federal death penalty A federal appeals court upheld the federal death penalty yesterday, firmly rejecting a lower court's conclusion that it was unconstitutional and declaring that only the Supreme Court can change "well-settled" law. The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached deep into history to show that Judge Jed Rakoff found no new legal territory when he ruled the death penalty amounted to the "state-sponsored murder of innocent human beings" because so many death row inmates are later exonerated. Rakoff's July ruling was issued in a case involving two men charged in a drug- murder conspiracy. The appeals court noted that European nations from which the United States derived its laws recognized in the 1700s that capital punishment carries the risk that innocent people will be executed, which abolitionists have argued since the 1800s was a reason to shelve the death penalty. Since then, the appeals court said, the Supreme Court has recognized that risk but repeatedly left the death penalty intact "because our judicial system - indeed, any judicial system - is fallible." 0 U 0 CONCORD, N . Settlement fails to charge abusive priests The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester reached an unusual set- tlement with prosecutors yesterday, avoiding criminal charges and admit- ting it probably would have been con- victed of failing to protect children from sexually abusive priests. "The church in New Hampshire fully acknowledges and accepts responsibility for failures in our sys- tem that contributed to the endanger- ment of children," Bishop John B. McCormack said at a news confer- ence. "We commit ourselves in a public and binding way to address every weakness in our structure." The church also agreed to the rare step of giving state prosecutors over- sight of its policies, including an annual audit. Attorney General Philip McLaugh- lin said he was confident in winning a conviction had the case gone to trial. WASHINGTON Fed leaves interest rates untouched The Federal Reserve, noting encouraging signs that the economy is working through a "soft spot," left interest rates unchanged yesterday and signaled that November's rate cut may turn out to be the last one needed for recovery. The Fed decision to leave its benchmark for overnight bank loans at a 41-year low of 1.25 percent means that Americans will be able to keep borrowing at the lowest interest rates in decades on everything from auto loans to home equity loans. Because of the Fed decision, banks' prime lending rate, the benchmark for millions of consumer and busi- ness loans, will remain at 4.25 per- cent, its lowest point since May 1959. RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinian court asks for official's release. A Palestinian court ordered the release yesterday of the alleged cen- tral figure in an arms shipment intercepted at sea by Israel, but a senior Israeli official suggested' the man would be pursued if freed. Fuad Shobaki a senior financial offi- cial in the Palestinian Authority, has been held in a Palestinian lockup in the desert oasis of Jericho since May. Israel alleges he was the mastermind of the arms ship- ment on board the Karine A, which was captured by the Israeli navy in the Red Sea in January Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at first denied the 50 tons of arms were meant for the Palestinian Authority, but he later backtracked on the denial. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. -Ie The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. 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. 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