LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 3A CR4IME Opening game keeps police busy Concerns over thrown marshmallows were not the only things keeping police officers busy during Saturday's opening football game against Central Michigan. Department of Public Safety officers arrested five people and gave 23 others citations during the game, DPS spokes- woman Diane Brown said. Those numbers are slightly above average, Brown said. "It was a little high for the first foot- ball game," she said. "But it was a pretty full crowd." Brown said one person was arrested for disorderly conduct, while the other four arrests were for minors in posses- sion of alcohol. The citations included three for public urination and 20 for having alcohol in the stadium, she said. According to DPS media log reports, one minor who was cited for alcohol was taken to the University Hospital Emergency Room for alcohol poisoning. Phone call leads to suicide scare DPS officers came to the assistance of a woman who spent an extended amount of time inside her parked vehicle on Fri- day afternoon. The officers found the woman after a caller informed them that her vehicle's windows were rolled up and the car was parked in a semi- enclosed structure. According to the DPS media log, the caller feared that the woman was attempting to commit suicide. But when police approached the vehicle it was dis- covered the woman had only been talk- ing on her cell phone. No other problems were found. East Quad window pane found damaged DPS is looking for two men seen run- ning away from East Quad Residence Hall down Willard Street early Saturday morning. The men, described as being white males approximately 6 feet tall and wearing light blue shirts and dark blue jeans at the time, were seen by a University Housing security officer throwing an object through one of the residence hall's windows at approxi- mately midnight, DPS reports state. DPS Lt. Jesse Lewit said the object, which was never found, broke a small pane of glass in one of the lounge win- dows off of East University Avenue. Camper scares walkers, packs up A homeless man was told by DPS officers on Saturday morning to pack up his makeshift campsite, built in a forest- ed area off Fuller Road near Huron High School. Lewit said the department had received a report from a frightened per- son walking by the campsite. After find- ing the man, police gave him 48 hours to gather his belongings and leave the area. Students given Welcome Week citations A total of 15 students started the new -academic year off by receiving MIPs from DPS officers on Saturday and Sun- day nights. Brown said seven of those MIPs were handed out Saturday. According to the DPS media log, those citations included four at East Quad, one at Mary Markley Residence Hall, and another near the Harlan Hatcher Gradu- ate Library. In addition, one man was cited while at University Hospital after allegedly being assaulted earlier that night. DPS is currently investigating the assault. Two students given citations Sunday were transported to University Hospital for treatment, DPS reports state. Officers arrest dancing man, 18 DPS officers on Friday morning arrested an 18-year-old man wanted on a bench warrant from the Ann Arbor Police Department. The man was found dancing on steps near a parking lot on Observatory Street known as Old Main Hospital at 5:11 a.m. DPS officers would not give the reason behind the man's bench warrant. Cyclists reminded: Register bicycles Anyone who owns and rides a bicycle in Ann Arbor is required to register it through the city clerk's office, according to University and city ordinances. In order to aid students who aim to follow city laws, DPS is holding several on-campus registration drives during the next month. The drives will take place today on the Diag from 11 a.m. to 4 VmCa n +t.e M f. n D na |No concert tickets here Officials request more energy regulations from Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal energy officials and governors from states darkened by last month's blackout said yesterday that self-monitoring of the nation's power grid by the electricity industry fails to protect the public, and they urged Congress to increase govern- ment oversight. "A system that relies on courtesy calls (to warn of power line problems) is clearly outdated," Ohio Gov. Bob Taft told a congressional hearing into the Aug. 14 blackout that cascaded within seconds from Ohio through Michigan and Canada and down New York state. An estimated 50 million people were affected and the costs in lost wages, productivity and other disrup- tions has been put into the billions of FOURIE Continued from Page 1A While the suggested therapy never took place, the idea of cooperative heal- ing and reconciliation stayed with Fourie for years and eventually resurfaced in the form of the Lyndi Fourie Founda- tion. Fourie is touring the United States to tell her story and create support for the foundation. "It's a mission for me to help other people become aware of how our preju- dices are ill-founded," she said. The proposed non-profit foundation will seek to bring together former vic- tims and combatants in the conflict over Apartheid and also provide diversity training to large companies in need of a way to deal with the shifting nature of dollars. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm told a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that the economic repercussions as a result of closed factories, businesses and other facili- ties in her state alone "will reach the $1 billion mark" and "we feel fortu- nate there was no loss of life." Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham joined the governors in urging Con- gress to set federal reliability stan- dards for the power transmission system and give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission clout to enforce the standards. FERC Chairman Pat Wood said he welcomed such a move and told law- makers that while his agency has jurisdiction over wholesale electricity race relations in South Africa. The organization was co-founded by Fourie and Mphahlele after the two met at his book signing in Cape Town in 1997. "We spent two hours discussing what our backgrounds were," Fourie said. "I understood completely how he could become so disillusioned," she added, noting that years of pover- ty and oppression had led Mphahlele down a violent path. Though he has given up violent means of addressing conflict, Mphahlele is still classified as a terrorist by the U.S. State Department and was not permitted to enter the country with Fourie. Fourie's came to the University because sociology Prof. David Williams, who met her during a trip to South Africa for research and thought that her markets and transmission costs, it has no power to address reliability. "Cur- rently there is no direct federal authority or responsibility for the reli- ability of the transmission grid," he said. After a 1965 blackout in the Northeast, Congress left it to a private group, the North American Electricity Reliability Commission, to establish grid standards. But NERC has no power to force companies to comply or levy any penalties to violators. "As long as compliance to these standards remains voluntary, we will fall short of providing the greatest possible assurance of reliability," Michehl Gent, NERC president, told the hearing. He said his organization for years had sought mandatory, fed- erally imposed standards. story should be told in Ann Arbor when he heard she would be in the United States. "I think Ginn's story is such a com- pelling one and it illustrates a level of humanity that literally takes our breath away," Williams said. "To think of her reaching out to them and working together: It's a mind-boggling story." Students present at the event were also deeply impacted, noting that Fourie's speech gave a deeper insight into the struggles of South Africans and the lasting effects of racism and hate. "It was different, but definitely worth- while," Rackham student Aleisha Lang- horne said of Fourie's speech. "It's not about just reparation or some money and acknowledgement that this hap- pened. There are still lasting effects." JASON COOPER/Daily Students line up around the corner of State Street and North University Avenue to get into Shaman Drum Bookshop yesterday. COUNCIL Continued from Page 1A . In addition, Trudeau said he feels that as a University alum still living in Ann Arbor, he is in a unique position to see the views of students and non- students alike. While Lax, an LSA senior has chosen to run as an independent in Ward 1, and Sheill is running on the Libertarian tick- et in Ward 4, the Green Party is sponsor- ing candidates Trudeau and Haug in Wards 4 and 1, respectively. Currently, the five-ward council has two Republican members and eight Democratic members serving on it. In choosing to run on the Libertarian ticket, Sheill, an LSA senior, acknowl- edged that he had reservations with Republicans and did not sympathize with Democrats. "Although I am aware that the Liber- tarians don't really have a chance to be elected to the presidency, I've always supported the positions and policies of the party, and I'd like to support (them) at the local level." But Sheill is no stranger to politi- cal activism. Currently a political science major, he is a member of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and helped to organize Hash Bash 2002, and he supports the de-crimi- nalization of marijuana. But, gaining a council seat against Ward 4 Councilwoman Marcia Hig- gins will not be easy for Sheill or Trudeau, who formerly maintained the Daily's computer system as infor- mation technology coordinator for the Board for Student Publications. The Republican has served on the council for two two-year terms and almost ran unopposed had Sheill and Trudeau not entered the race. Haug, a Rackham student who has been involved in politics with the Green Party since he arrived in Ann Arbor four years ago, feels the City Council can benefit from his concern with issues that major parties steer clear from. "In comparison to (1st Ward Democ- ratic Councilman) Bob Johnson, I'm a firm believer of bringing fresh, new blood into the political system whenever possible," Haug said. To strengthen their campaigns, Trudeau and Haug are pooling their resources within the Green party and working together for the Nov. 4 election, he added. "I don't think there is anything that [I bring] that another couldn't," Higgins said. "But what I have brought is a level of consensus and common sense on how to approach things." Current Councilwoman Wendy Ann Woods (D-Ward 5) said she feels any- one who is committed to Ann Arbor could make a good City Council candi- date. 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