NEWS The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3 CAMPUS Oldest member of 0 'Little Rock Nine' to visit campus The University's commemoration of Brown v. Board of Education continues with a lecture called "The Long Shad- ow of Little Rock" on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. The lecture will feature Ernest Green, oldest of the "Little Rock Nine," and the first black student to graduate from Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. The Little Rock Nine was the origi- nal group of nine African American students to attend Central High School under forced desegregation. Green later worked as assistant sec- retary of housing and urban affairs under President Jimmy Carter. Green is currently vice president of Lehman Brothers, an investment banking com- pany in Washington. Prof to discuss paper on literary, disability studies Prof. Tobin Sebiers, director of the in Comparative Literature program, will discuss his recent paper in the Osterman Common Room of the Rackham building. The title of his lec- ture is "Words Stare Like a Glass Eye: From Literary to Visual to Disability Studies and Back Again." Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, Sieber will talk about how to picture texts according to theories of visual culture. His paper uses disability studies as a connecting point between literary and visual studies. Sieber has received fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Mel- lon Foundation. In 1999, he was nomi- nated for a Pushcart Prize for "My Withered Limb," an account of grow- ing up with polio. Dialogue will examine Asian thinking processes Art history Prof. Marty Powers, Psy- chology Prof. Fiona Lee and business school Prof. Linda Lim will hold a dis- cussion titled "Do Chinese Think Dif- ferently?" at noon today in room 1636 in the School of Social Work building. Powers will review psychology Prof. Richard Nisbett's new book "Geogra- phy of Thought" that details how and why Asians and Westerners think dif- ferently. Lee and Lim will respond to his presentation. Panel to explore Brazil's politics and economy A panel of speakers will discuss the topic "Brazil: A New Global Leader" tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Hale Audito- rium of the Business School. Guests include Albert Fishlow, leading expert on the Brazilian economy and Busi- ness Prof. Katherine Terrell. Other speakers include Horacio For- jaz, executive vice president of com- munications at Embraer, one of the world's largest aircraft builders, and Nelson Silva, global commercial direc- tor at CVRD, the biggest iron ore min- ing company in the world. The panelists will address challenges Brazil faces in becoming a market power and the position of Brazilian businesses in the world's economy. Prize-winning poet to perform excerpts of work As part of the Visitor Writer's Series, the English Department will sponsor a poetry reading by Anne Carson Thurs- day at 5 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. Carson, who is the director of gradu- ate studies in classics at McGill Uni- versity in Montreal, has written several works, including "Plainwater", a book of poems. She has received many awards such as the Pushcart Prize for poetry in 1997 and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998. Activist speaks on experiences under dictatorship The International Institute will sponsor a lecture featuring Juan Mendez on Thursday at 4 p.m. in room 1636 in the School of Social Work building. Mendez is the direc- tor of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the Notre Dame Law School. SA native Argentinean, Mendez has Kerry's opponents wage last-ditch efforts to slow him Break a leg The Associated Press John Kerry's rivals tried yesterday to slow his brisk pace toward the Democratic nomination for president, with John Edwards and Wesley Clark searching for upset wins in two Southern states and Howard Dean beseeching Wisconsin voters "to keep this debate alive." As Edwards and Clark concentrated on Virginia and Tennessee, which hold primaries today, Kerry ignored his rivals and criticized President Bush on foreign policy and his stew- ardship of the economy. Looking ahead to Wisconsin, Dean said that despite earlier statements that he viewed the Feb. 17 primary as a do- or-die contest, he would stay in the race regardless of the outcome. "I've just changed my mind," he said. Before an audience in Roanoke, Va., Kerry scorned a White House economic report released earlier in the day that predicted the economy would grow by 4 percent and create 2.6 million new jobs this year. "I've got a feeling this report was pre- pared by the same people who brought us the intelligence on Iraq," Kerry said, citing job losses of more than 2 million since Bush took office. The Massachusetts senator also fault- ed Bush for policy failures on North Korea, AIDS, global warming and the Middle East peace process. Edwards and Clark were each hoping a strong showing in Tennessee and Vir- ginia would eliminate the other and turn the race into a two-man contest with Kerry, but polls showed Kerry well ahead in both states. Dean, the former Vermont governor who was once the race's front-runner, urged Wisconsin voters to prove the polls and the media wrong and use their "power to choose the strongest candidate to beat George W. Bush." "The media claims this contest is over. They say your voice and your vote don't count. They expect you to rubber stamp the choice of others. But you don't have to listen to them," Dean told an audience of about 300 at a downtown Madison hotel. Dean began a two-day tour and an aggressive advertising campaign in Wisconsin, a state he told supporters last week he must win to keep his candidacy alive. But yesterday, he said his backers had persuaded him to stay in the race regard- less of the results. He dismissed his own "obvious contradiction." Dean also began airing a 60-second biographical spot in some Wisconsin markets, his first advertising buy in the state in months. Kerry's winning streak - he handi- ly won contests over the weekend in Michigan, Washington state and Maine - is clearly taking a toll on his com- petitors. Aides to both Clark and Edwards said they expect their candidates to lose Virginia and Tennessee, even though both had earlier been opti- mistic about winning in their home region. A total of 151 pledged dele- gates are at stake in the two states. Edwards and Clark each have one win apiece, while Kerry has won 10 of the 12 contests thus far. I BRETT MOUNTAIN/Daily Nancy Heusel of Ann Arbor directs the dress rehearsal of Moon Over Buffalo performed by the Friends of the Michigan League dinner theater yesterday. The play, which opens on Thursday, includes a cast of alumni, faculty, students and community members. -i Kodak testing self-serving fim: developmient kosks in Detroit, Billions in tax refunds waiting to be claimed ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - The latest advance in old-fashioned pho- tography is coming soon: a self-serv- ice kiosk that can convert a roll of 35mm film into prints in as little as seven minutes. Eastman Kodak Co.'s Picture Maker film-processing stations will be test- marketed in Detroit this month, with a full-scale rollout set for later this year in pharmacies, supermarkets and photo-specialty shops across the United States and Europe. Last fall, the world's largest maker of photographic film unveiled an ambitious new strategy to accelerate its push into new digital markets. At the same time, it acknowledged that its tra- ditional photography businesses - a century-old cash cow - were in irre- versible decline. The kiosks appear designed to plug a gap between photography's old and new ways of creating images and per- haps even slow the faster-than-expected migration of shutterbugs to digital cameras. "It is very easy to believe that this. could change the trajectory in the decline of film," said Kent McNeley, general manager of Kodak's consumer output operations. The kiosks will allow customers to preview, crop, enlarge and tidy up their snapshots, then print only those they want - a benefit that digital camera users already enjoy. Instead of nega- tives, the machines also will store the photos on a digital CD. Digital cameras outsold film cam- eras for the first time in the United States in 2003, the Jackson-based Photo Marketing Association said. As a result, 200 million fewer rolls of film were processed last year com- pared with a peak of 781 million in 2000, it said. Photography analysts scoffed at Kodak's notion that film kiosks might alter those trends. "It would be nice if it happens but I wouldn't bet on it," said Ulysses Yan- nas of Buckman, Buckman & Reid in New York. Nonetheless, with tens of millions of film cameras still in use, "there is and there will continue to be a very big market for film," particularly in devel- oping markets in Asia and Latin Ameri- ca, Yannas said. The conventional photography busi ness still provides Kodak with the buk of its profits, so extending its life could prove vital as the company steers into digital waters. To complete the painful transition, Kodak revealed last month it is cutting 12,000 to 15,000 more jobs - or nearly a quarter of its work force - over the next three years. Kodak acquired the rapid film, processing technology from Applied Science Fiction Inc. of Austi*' Texas, for $32 million last year. More than 150 new patents used in" creating the film kiosk will makeif difficult for competitors to match;, Kodak said. "It is very easy to believe that this could change the trajectory in the decline of fihm" - Kent McNeley General manager, Kodak consumer output operations WASHINGTON (AP) - The IRS has more than $2.5 billion it could refund to nearly 2 million taxpayers who did not file a 2000 return. The lesson for taxpayers who earned too little to require a return: You could be missing out on a big refund. Those taxpayers, many of them stu- dents, retirees and part-time workers, have until April 15 to file a 2000 tax return or lose the refund forever. "The clock is running if you want to get your refund," said IRS Com- missioner Mark Everson. "Don't wait until it's too late." About half the taxpayers due a return could claim more than $529. In many cases, the individuals had taxes withheld from their wages or made tax payments as a self-employed tax- payer but had too little income to require filing a return. Individuals with income less than $7,200 and married couples with income less than $12,950 did not have to file a return in 2000. The income threshold was slightly higher for those age 65 and older. Dependents, such as students, had to file a return if they earned $4,400 or more, or had $700 or more in unearned income such as interest, div- idends or capital gains. Some may also be eligible for the earned income tax credit, which refunds a portion of payroll taxes to lower wage workers. In 2000, the credit was available to families with two children who earned less than $31,152 and families with one child who earned less than $27,417. Single taxpayers who earned less than $10,380 may also qualify for the credit. There is no penalty for filing a late return if you qualify for a refund, but the return must be postmarked by April 15 to beat the deadline for claiming the payment. Taxpayers seeking a 2000 refund must also have filed a tax return for 2001 and 2002, or else the IRS holds onto the money until receiving those returns. If the taxpayer has unpaid child support or delinquent federal debts like student loans, the refund will be applied to those outstanding bal- ances. Correction: City Councilwoman Wendy Woods questioned the findings of the Lam- berth Consulting study on racial profiling in Ann Arbor at a council meeting. This was incorrectly reported on Page 4A of yesterday's Daily. Complete the Questions below and turn in to either the CIC Desk at the Union or the Gift Shop at the League for a chance to win $100 or $75 gift certificate to the Michigan Union Bookstore or other great gifts! Name Email AddressUM ID # The first 50 to turn in a completed form at each desk will receive a free t-shirt! Which room on the third floor of the Michigan League was once a library? What student founded the Michigan Union? How many computers are located in the Cyber Lounge in the League Underground? What was the score to the first MI vs OSU football game in 1904? Two figures adorn the west entrance of the League. Name one of the titles of these two statues. In what year were women first admitted through the front doors of the Union without a male escort? Where was the barbershop located in the Union?