Tuesday January 20, 2004 02004 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan ThDAY: One-hundred-thirteen years ofedtorinalfreedom Sunny with strong winds throughout the day 19 Vol. CXIII, No. 79 Tomorrow.- wwwmichigandailycom Two students die In weekend car accident By Adhiraij Dutt Daily Staff Reporter Members of the University community are mourning two students who died in a car accident while returning home from a ski trip Sunday afternoon in Ontario. Business School senior Joseph Hadeed and LSA jun- ior Erin Tierney died in the accident and LSA junior Kathryn Tetreault was hospitalized with a broken col- larbone after their car skid into oncoming traffic and was hit by a truck. Hadeed and Tierney became good friends after joining the debate team at Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township. Tetreault and Tierney became close friends after living in the same residence hall freshman year. Tierney was a responsible, organized and punctual per- son who rarely missed work, LSA senior Sean Smith said in a written statement. "The amazing thing about her, though, was that in spite of these qualities which seem to make for a rigid person, she was the warmest and most easily-loved person to any- one who came in contact with her," Smith said. "She was always quick with her wit, but quicker to be there for anyone who ever needed it. One time I sprained my knee, and although she wouldn't miss work if she had the bubonic plague, she drove me to class and sat in the car with a magazine until it finished, tak- ing her whole day off for me. That was the kind of per- son she was." Tierney's top priority was starting a family, Smith said. "She wanted to one day have her own (family) and would have been a fantastic mother," he added. Hadeed was friendly and always eager to help others and respond to people's needs, Business School senior Ryan Hoadley said. Hadeed and Hoadley became close friends after they were in the same pledge class at Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity. Hadeed, Tierney and Tetreault were part of a group of 11 people returning from a ski trip at the Blue Mountain Resort in Canada. "The trip was organized by Delta Sigma Pi. Everyone was a B-School student except for the two girls," Busi- ness School senior Mark Ostroth said. The three students were the last to leave the resort after the other eight people left between 11 a.m. and noon. They were supposed to leave at 12:30 p.m., Hoadley said, although he wasn't sure of the actual time they began their six-to-eight hour drive back home. "The two girls were sick so (Hadeed) offered to drive their car home for them," Hoadley said. He added that the roads were icy and that snow was blowing across the roads, making for difficult driving conditions. The students' friends heard about the accident Sunday r. See DEATHS, Page 7A Comeback Kerry wins owa Caucus resultS ull h o suprses as race yy }rtegins to narrow By Andrew Kaplan '7 Daily Staff Reporter ~ \~' 4 Although five presidential candidates competed in the Iowa Democratic caucuses yesterday, only four of those contestants say they have emerged with relative victories. After two candidates who had lagged in the polls until recently took first and second place in the voting, U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt's (D-Mo.) campaign came to an end and presumed national front-runner Howard Dean suf- fered a major setback. Capitalizing on last-minute campaign drives before the caucuses, U.S. Sen. John Kerry from Massachusetts, trailed closely by John Edwards of North Carolina, gath- ered the support of more caucus-goers than expected. Kerry leaves Iowa with the greatest number of delegates representing him in an upcoming statewide convention - garnering 37.6 percent of the 3,000 state delegates. Delegates attending the statewide convention will then nominate repre- sentatives to the Democratic National Convention in July, where they will each push to make their candidate the Demo- cratic nominee for the presidency. Kerry, who lagged behind counterparts former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and retired Gen. Wesley Clark in polls conducted last year, has added new life to his campaign See CAUCUSES, Page 8A Presidential candidate John Kerry, who surprised the country by winning the Iowa caucuses, addressed Iowa residents at a rally held in the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on Sunday night. Caucuses brhz pocess to 44Jef By David Branson Daily Staff Reporter With their focus on individual partici- pants, the Iowa caucuses may represent democracy in action, but they are far from the one person-one vote ideal. In the Iowa caucuses there are no ballots. People crowd into schools, auditoriums, school cafeterias and churches for the chance to raise their hand in favor of their candidate. Polk Countr6's Precinct 45 elected three delegates who will be represented at the democratic grparticipants Democratic National Convention this July. Residents of Precinct 45 included Drake University students living in dorms, seniors living down the street and several families. All told, 199 Iowans arrived to throw their support to their favored candidate. In a caucus, however, people divide them- selves into preference groups according to their candidate. If the number of people in a group supporting a candidate is less than 15% of the total caucus attendance, the can- didate is considered "nonviable" and group members are given the option to realign with See VOTING, Page 7A Speaker explores racism, poverty link By Karen Schwartz " Daily StaffReporter Class difference is not just a black- and-white issue, Prof. Lani Guinier of Harvard Law School explained yester- day to an audience of more than 3,000 at Hill Auditorium. Guinier discussed the role of race and poverty as interdependent variables in the fight for equalityate as the keynote,| speaker at the 17th Annual m Reverend Dr. Martin Luther, King Jr. Sympo-. sium Memorial Lecture.- "Race masks and it sustains deep flaws in the way our society allocates opportunity and privilege to everyone," she said, point- ing to standardized tests and "incarcer- ation instead of education" as not limited to minority groups, but affects the majority of Americans across racial lines. "In fact, it is those high-stakes aptitude tests, along with many other ways in which we provide opportuni- ties to those who are already privi- leged, that has made higher education in this country a 'gift from the poor to the rich'," she said, using a phrase she said was coined by Anthony Carnavale, vice-president of Educational Testing Service. She added that this 'gift' is subsi- dized by taxpayers and enjoyed by the most affluent, citing Carnavale's research based on a Century Founda- tion study. The study found that among the 146 most selective colleges and universities in the country, 74 percent of the stu- dents come from the top 25 percent of the highest income bracket, while only 10 percent belong to the bottom half. "It is no accident, therefore, that some of the more wealthv suburbs off "We are not going to solve the problem of racism in this society if we don't also solve the problems of poverty in this society." ates from their high schools to the Uni- versity of Michigan, and yet Dearborn High School, which is working-class blue collar white, sends 5 percent of its graduates to the University of Michi- gan," she said. Guinier said there is a need to link class, gender and geography to race in order to create a deeper fundamental understanding of the relationship between race and social inequality. "We are not going to solve the problem of racism in this society if we don't also solve the problems of poverty in this society," she said. Guinier reviewed the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, - Lani Guinier Harvard Law School Professor but also criticized the ruling itself. "Brown v. Board of Education in some ways is both part of the solution but it is also part of the problem, she said, adding that the landmark decision, while providing for the desegregation of public schools and inspiring a gener- ation, only focused on the effects of segregation on black students. "The Supreme Court, under the influence of very well-intentioned racial liberals, focused on segregation and the way in which it damaged, the Court said, the hearts and minds of Negro children," Guinier said. "No doubt segregation was evil. And no doubt segregation damaged the hearts See KEYNOTE, Page 5A EUGENE ROBERTSON/DailyL University President Mary Sue Coleman and Harvard law Prof. Lani Guinier at the 17th examples of how social inequality is Detroit send Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium yesterday at Hill Auditorium. Affirmative action supporters honor MLK Day with renewed coalitions 50 percent of the gradu- Leaders of tomorrow By Aymar Jean Daily Staff Reporter Mounting opposition to an anti-affirmative action initiative affirmed its support of race- conscious policies yester- day as groups and lecturers across campus reflected on civil rights and the life of Martin . Luther King Jr. A high-spirited rally V, hosted by BAMN and a more subdued meeting of state leaders both sought to halt a ballot initiative Michigan. Participants in both events looked to perpetuate King's ideals - universal civil rights and equality of opportunity. The group they oppose, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, is running a petition drive to put the question of affirmative action on November's ballot. By July 6, the group must collect 317,757 signatures from registered vot- ers. If successful, state residents will vote on a constitutional amendment to ban the use of race, ethnicity, sex and other characteristics in the public arena. MCRI formally began its cam- paign last week. Opponents view the initiative as a direct affront to affirmative action and last summer's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding race- (D-Ann Arbor), along with various school administrators, ministers, political activists and student group leaders. Yesterday's holiday brought these coordina- tors together in the Michigan Union in an attempt to create an organized opposition to the amendment proposal propagated by MCRI and its sponsor Ward Connerly, a University of Cali- fornia regent and chair of the American Civil Rights Coalition. "We have to do what we can as public offi- cials to make clearer our opposition to this effort. It's very appropriate on Martin Luther King Day to initiate this effort locally," Brater said during the meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a I' :: mI