The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 5A LAROUCHE Continued from Page 1A "At the final College Democrats' meeting (last semester), non-student people in the LaRouche movement were being extremely disruptive," said LSA junior Ilya Rusinov. "The sup- porters are literally cultists." Despite what he calls a media smear campaign, Abdul Muhammad, a Michigan LaRouche campaign coor- dinator, remains steadfast in his sup- port for the candidate. "(Opposers) make up excuses to deny him adequate voices in debate. It's getting to the point where they can't slander him anymore," said Muhammad, a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement. Robinson, who serves as the inter- national chairman of economic and political group Schiller Institute, founded by LaRouche, spoke highly of his accomplishments. In her book, Bridge Across Jordan, she writes, "Aware that the miseries befalling mankind were in no way limited to just blacks in the United States ... Mr. And Mrs. LaRouche built a movement, taking up where Dr. King had left off. They realized ... there must be an universal image of mankind, which transcends all racial differences and barriers." Starting Aug. 28, Robinson traveled the United States, Asia and Europe, speaking in countries including Iran and India. "She has such a sense of purpose, and it is very admirable," said LSA freshman Karen Spangler, who attend- ed the discussion. In addition to speaking across the nation for the Schiller Institute, Robinson also wrote an autobiograph- ical account of her life and involve- ment in the fight for civil rights. After her trip to Michigan, Robin- son will return to her home in Georgia before beginning another series of trips in which she will continue to speak about challenges people face to be "mentally free." "A voteless people is a hopeless people, whether you are one or one million" Robinson said. The event was sponsored by the LaRouche Youth Movement and the University's Student Chapter of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored Persons. "We were interested in the civil rights movement, her past and her views on voting in the presidential election next year" said Erin Johnson, president of the University's chapter of the NAACP. What is art? New legislation aims to libntQ rev £'e Patriot Act ANNE KOUZMANOFFIDaily Elementary school children examine artwork at the Romanov Collection exhibit in the University's Museum of Art yesterday. CONNERLY Continued from Page 1A The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight for Inequality By Any Means Necessary said it wants to stop Connerly's cam- paign as early as possible. "We're not waiting for them to get this on the ballot," BAMN member Kate Stenvig said. BAMN plans to drum up support during its national conference here next month. It also will continue picketing businesses of Connerly's supporters in Michigan. "We are going to mobilize a mass movement," Stenvig, LSA senior, said. "Wherever they are, they'll be met." But BAMN's aggressive tactics have turned off many people in the Universi- ty community. When Connerly spoke at the University in July, BAMN members heckled him during his speech on the Diag and Department of Public Safety officers escorted them away from the rally. Recently, they picketed Connerly ally state Rep. Jack Brandenburg's (R- Harrison) business. When Brandenburg went out to speak with them, he said he found them to be insulting. But Stenvig defended BAMN's protest methods. "I think we've shown that building a movement and going on the offen- sive is the way to win," Stenvig said. "I think we need to be aggressive in order to win." CRIME Continued from Page 1A opportunities for theft - we wouldn't leave belongings unattended." Oxford Housing resident advisor Erica Elden said she agrees that the new safety procedures do take away much of the opportunity to commit crimes in the dormitories. "I feel the new precautions will take (the burglary statistics) down. The door lock takes the responsibility off of the students to lock their own doors it's good. ... I think taking away the opportunity to commit burglary is a good way to stop it," said Elden, an LSA junior. Although the University has made recent alterations to its budget, the security measures will not be affected. "There will be no cutting down of (residence) hall security. Programs to install cameras and door locks will continue. There were dollars set aside when the original proposal was approved," Brown said. She added that follow-up statistics for the spring and summer semesters have confirmed that residence hall bur- glaries have decreased, which she were a result of these new security meas- ures. These reports are released annually by DPS at the beginning of the follow- ing school year. Besides crime statistics for the pre- vious year, they also include safety tips as well as definitions of the types of crimes that may occur on campus. PATRIOT Continued from Page1A "He's making this a key piece of the campaign platform;' said David Swan- son, press secretary for Kucinich's presidential campaign. "We do not need to strip ourselves of the Bill of Rights to protect ourselves against ter- rorism." If passed, the Kucinich-Paul bill will roll back 10 main points of the 2001 Patriot Act - including secret proper- ty seizures, expanded grounds for deportation of terrorist suspects and a broadened definition of domestic ter- rorism. The bill also seeks to mandate a review period before Congress can enact new sections of the 2001 act and challenges federal policies calling for local law authorities to enforce immi- gration law. "The local law enforcement doesn't really have that power, but they've been asked by the federal government to do those things in their communi- ties," Wagenheim said. "That's work that the FBI or the (Bureau of Citizen- ship and Immigration Services) should be doing." Aside from Paul, no other Republi- can has sponsored the True Patriot Act. But at the local level, leaders of the University College Republicans have expressed support for Bush's legislation. "The (Patriot Act) is a good piece of legislation," said Steve MacGuid- win, co-president of the College Republicans. "Just from speaking the party line and what I understand, the Patriot Act itself is not unconstitution- al, it's just bringing our current justice code up -with the times. In this day and age we have such a threat by ter- rorists, they can coordinate an attack in less than an hour." Although several challenges to the Patriot Act have reached Congress since 2001 - including a House repeal of the secret search clause - the Michigan ACLU was the first organization to dispute the act in court. "We have a lawsuit that we filed on one of the provisions - the first con- stitutional challenge to the Patriot Act on section 215," Wagenheim said, referring to a section of the act granti- ng the government access to classified personal documents, such as medical records and business files. To push repeals of the Patriot Act, the ACLU has appealed to municipali- ties to not assist the government in detaining aliens or terrorist suspects. Along with Ann Arbor, 160 cities have passed legislation ensuring "that local officials are upholding the constitu- tion," Wagenheim said. Along with the 19 other sponsors of the Kucinich-Paul bill, Conyers said the Bush administration overstepped its authority in pushing certain points of the 2001 act. "Time and again, the Ashcroft Jus- tice Department has demonstrated that it does not respect the constitutional rights and civil liberties of the Ameri- can public;' Conyers said in a written statement. "It is the Attorney General's shameful record that has forced those of us in Congress to take away those powers the department has not used responsibly." Because many terrorist organiza- tions monitored by the government are Islamic-based or of Middle Eastern origin, activists said the Patriot Act has mainly victimized Arabs and Muslims. Officials added that southeast Michi- gan, with its particularly high concen- tration of Arab- and Iraqi-Americans, has seen more civil rights violations as a result of the 2001 act than any other part of the state. "Certainly we have a large reason to be more sensitive,"Wagenheim said. "The Patriot Act ... has definitely affected our community especially because it was introduced after 9/11 and has been used against some in our community," said national CAIR spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed, refer- ring to the Arab and Muslim commu- nity. "Many people have been arrested without evidence or any connection with criminal activity - some have been deported." But Wagenheim added that the Patriot Act has come down hard on many ethnic groups. "I think on the west side of the state we're seeing that the Hispanic commu- nity is being targeted," she said. While early protests against the Patriot Act focused on protecting sus- pects of terrorism from civil liberties violations, recent arguments have accused the government of wrongly applying the Patriot Act to non-terror- ist issues. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Justice cites more than a dozen instances where federal intelligence officials have invoked the Patriot Act to resolve issues not directly related to terrorism. "The inspector general's report that came out earlier (last) month con- firmed our other concern - that these laws were being used in ways they were not intended to - things like drug trafficking," Ahmed said. AWAREN ESS Continued from Page 1A stages," said Carol Weng, chairwoman of Breast Cancer Awareness in USAC. "Hopefully, we will see everyone wearing a pink ribbon to support the fight against breast cancer," Weng, an LSA junior added. The American Cancer Society, along with USAC, is also hosting Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, a 3.5- mile walk on Oct. 11 that begins and ends at the Michigan Stadium. OThe fundraiser will raise money that will support research, education, advo- cacy and patient services. "Some of the highest priorities in research is to identify the cells that cause cancer to spread and find new innovative chemotherapy methods," Newman said. "We wanted to do something that involved people in the community to go out and get involved," local ACS volun- teer Christina Morrow said. "This will remind people to get the mammogram that might save their lives and will raise money for research." The Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority will be holding their fifth annual charity ball on Oct. 4th. The proceeds will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The Sigma Lambda Gamma and Delta Sigma Theta sororities sponsored yesterday's informational session. "We thought it was very important to commemorate the month, so we put out a program that was educational and entertaining," said Erin Hendrix, LSA senior and president of Delta Sigma Theta. "We are very committed to serv- ing the community." WiE FOR THE DAILY. CALL 76- DAILY TO.LEARN HOW YOU CAN. ULI E r - *I 0 010 "l oil qw 4ym'I. I Uline, the nationwide leading direct marketer of packaging and industrial supplies is coming to U of M, and we want to talk to you! We are looking for bright, energetic candidates for full-time positions in all locations and summer internships in our Chicago headquarters. Opportunities Include: - Merchandising/Marketing Advertising/E-Commerce - Accounting/Finance " Customer Service * Sales * Distribution Stop by our booth at the career fair to learn more about our growing company and the job opportunities that we have to offer.