LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 14, 2003 - 3 CAMPUS' Party, live music to benefit African children and UNICEF Anyone looking for an excuse to try the huge tire swing hanging from a tree in front of the Jones House on South Forest Avenue will have the opportunity this Saturday. UNICEF and Amnesty International are hosting a fundraising party to help children in Africa and support human rights internationally. The event will begin at 8 p.m. Entrance is $5 and will feature live music. Chicago media agency will meet with seniors Graduating seniors who have yet to find a job are invited to meet rep- resentatives from Chicago-based media agency Starcom Worldwide. There will be a presentation in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union Monday and Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. RC students to give French poetry reading Students in the RC French pro- gram will read poetry by Jaques Prevert today in the East Quad Auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m. The poetry will be read in French, with subtitles and pictures. Prevert's poems deal with a variety of issues, including war, religion, language and the absurd, education and love. The event is free and hosted by the RC French program. Comedian and TV writer performs at the Trotter House Comedian Charlie Hill, a writer for the "Roseanne" show and a reg- ular on "The Steve Allen Show," will perform at the William Monroe Trotter House on Washtenaw Avenue at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The event is free and open to the public. Amazin' Blue sings in 'naked' performance A cappella group Amazin' Blue performs "Co-Ed Naked A Capella" at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Rack- ham Auditorium. The group will not actually perform naked and requests that you use your imagination. Tickets are on sale for $7 at the Michigan Union Ticket Office and from group members. New Yorker editor to offer tips on cartoon humor Learn how to decide whether something's funny by listening to Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, deliver the last of his lecture series at the University. The talk, titled "How to Create Cartoon Humor," will be held today at 3:30 p.m. in 4448 East Hall and is spon- sored by the Department of Psy- chology. Museum of Art hosts flute concert and tea ceremony Master of the Shakuhachi flute Michael Gould will perform a Shakuhachi flute concert Sunday at 2 p.m. in the University of Michi- gan's Museum of Art. Following the flute concert there will be a Japan- ese tea ceremony performed by Tea Master Yoko Watanabe at 3 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Museum of Art. Ann Arbor artist showcases pottery and paintings Local artist Kathleen Shea will display her works of pottery, water- colors and oil paintings today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and tomorrow from noon to 5 p.m. The event will be at 2820 Canterbury Road. Admission is free. 'U' Opera dept. performs twice in one night fOnera thatre nrnfessor iosh Maior Apple CFO lectures about company's marketing methods By Sara Eber Daily Staff Reporter Apple products may seem popular now, but a few years ago, the company was in a seemingly disastrous situa- tion. Fred Anderson, Apple's chief financial officer, explained the story of the company's returned success to an audience in Hale Auditorium yester- day, focusing on popular innovations in the digital lifestyle, particularly in music. "People thought we were in a death spiral - they didn't think we'd make it," said Anderson, who joined the company in 1996. He served as the premiere speaker in a year-long series sponsored by the Business School's High-Tech Club. In his speech, which was geared toward business students, he helped explain how a company can reinvent itself and turn profits around, despite many pessimistic predictions from experts. Just three weeks after joining Apple, Anderson was confronted with the company's $325 billion loss, which he attributed to a general decline in the computer industry and the company's poor connection with its customers. In order to turn profits around, Apple reorganized its leadership team and focused on reinventing its image. "Apple's an innovator, and we refused to mortgage our future," Anderson said. Master of Business Administration student Ben Silverman said Apple has "a great presence" in the minds of stu- dents. "Many students want to work at Apple and be associated with them," he said. Seven years since its pitfall, Apple is again a strong industry competitor, introducing new products each year. Apple is now the nation's No. 6 com- puter maker, with 3.48-percent market share, according to International Data Corp.'s latest quarterly figures. Dell is the country's top computer maker, with 26 percent of the market. Between the new OS X Panther sys- tem released this year and the new G5 processor - the first 64-bit personal computer - Anderson said Apple is building a system superior to Windows and evolving faster than its biggest competitor - the release of Microsoft's next upgrade, Microsoft Longhorn, has been delayed until 2006. Currently Apple is enjoying the suc- cess of the iPod, its most celebrated product. The iPod is an MP3 player that can hold up to 10,000 songs, and was recently developed for Windows users as well. This week, it was named Time magazine's Invention of the Year. Anderson predicts growth in the success of the iPod, which he says will translate into additional sales when customers shop for personal computers in the future. Complementing the iPod's down- loading capabilities is Apple's online music store, launched last April, which offers both Macintosh and PC users the ability to download songs for 99 cents. "The recording industry has experi- enced a 10- to 15-percent decline in revenue over recent years, and they say it's due to stealing music," Anderson said. "But it's really consumers saying they did not have a way to purchase music that was compatible to their needs. We came up with a new concept that more consumers wanted." MBA student Jose Lopez said he was eager to hear the inside story from Anderson. "This presentation was key - we've seen all the ads and the PR, and it's great to hear him talk about these things, especially when he almost shared too much inside information," he said. Apple has reversed its slump through new retail outlets and a larger advertising campaign. On Nov. 30, they will open their first international retail store in Tokyo, and currently have 70 stores around the country. Nevertheless, Anderson admitted they have not been very suc- cessful in converting PC users. "There has been no real market- ing effort and poor distribution, and now we're making changes to address that," he said. Silverman, a High-Tech club member, agreed with Anderson's assessment. Though he said the company has a "very uplifting pres- ence," he said that they historically have a problem reaching out to cus- tomers. AP PHOTO Tom Powell looks up to a tree in a neighbor's yard as another tree lays on another neighbor's house and a car in Hazel Park yesterday. In wake of store, crews begin.n repair on electrical lInes WOMEN Continued from Page 1 have suffered a lifetime of rape, battering, molestation and abuse," she said to the crowd. Fair echoed her comments in her speech."By and large, women in prison are there because of prior abuse." But Fair also offered hope for these women. "We're at a point in Michigan's history where we can turn things around." She identified the budget crisis as a possible source of clemency, saying, "Prisons are as much on the cut- ting block as any other program." Brooks recited a poem inspired by the women in the Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth. In the poem, a victim of abuse gave preference to the relative security of prison over "the hell" of spousal abuse. The piece decried the appalling medical conditions of the facility and presented a chilling portrait of the debilitating horrors of abuse. Audience members were selected to recite similar stories of real women in the prison from printed slips of paper. One recurring theme included in the stories was the cycle of violence that led women into a series of abu- sive relationships. In her film "Clemency," art and women's studies Prof. Carol Jacobson told the painful stories of 11 of these women. The women in the documentary recount- ed how society had failed them. "It's a man's world," said one inmate. "Put them in a skirt and let them get beat on." Alycia Welch spoke as a representative of the V-day campaign, which aims to stop violence against women. Welch reported how the effort raised $20,000 last year. The annual production of "The Vagina Monologues" is one of V-Day's many events. This year, V-Day will be donating proceeds from the campaign to First Step. At the event, V-day also presented RC student Coert Ambrosino, who performed a piece of slam poetry that addressed rape and the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy. Brooks said that these issues are relevant because "a large proportion of female prisoners in Michigan com- mitted crimes against abusers." "They are the victims of a misogynist society," Rosenberg said. "Battering is one place where law and justice don't meet." By the Associated Press Winds that knocked down trees and power lines, closed schools and halted boat traffic on the Great Lakes tailed off yesterday, allow- ing repair crews to restore service to most of 370,000 Michigan elec- tricity customers. Outages caused by wind gusts of up to 74 mph forced scores of school dis- tricts to cancel classes yesterday. A live power line fell across Inter- state 94 about 7 a.m. yesterday, forcing the closure of the freeway at Telegraph Road and a monster traffic jam near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The line was repaired by 10 a.m., DTE Energy spokesman Len Singer said. Consumers Energy Co. reported that 220,000 of its 1.6 million cus- tomers lost power Wednesday night or yesterday. As of 9:30 p.m. EST yesterday, 32,000 remained without power, including 5,000 in the Muskegon area, 4,200 around Pru- denville, 3,100 in Rose City and 2,700 around Harrisville. Service to most customers was expected to be restored by late Saturday. About 160,000 of DTE Energy's 2.1 million customers lost power dur- ing the storms. Service to all but 45,000 was restored by 9:45 p.m. yesterday, Singer said. Most cus- tomers were expected to have service restored by late today, he said. Reports of new outages dimin- ished yesterday evening as winds fell below 25 mph across most of the state, Singer said. "Now that the weather's settling down, we're making pretty good progress," he said. Winds gusting to 60 mph were reported Wednesday in Marquette and Alger counties in the Upper Peninsula. Six inches of snow fell in a 24-hour period ending yester- day morning at the weather service office in Marquette County's Negaunee Township. Stiff winds caused damage Wednesday night at a mobile home park in Munising. "Two trailers were starting to blow apart because of the strong winds," Alger County sheriff's deputy Matt Waldron said. 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