NEWS- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 3 CAMPUS Cinema prof. gives Labyrinth Lecture University of Southern California Prof. Martha Kinder will speak on the "Interactive Memoirs and Digital City Symphonies: Database Documentaries from The Labyrinth Project." Spon- sored by the Institute for the Humani- ties, the lecture will be today at noon in the Osterman Common Room of the Rackham Building. The Labyrinth Pro- ject, directed by Kinder, is an art col- lective and research initiative on the language of cinema and the interactive potential of digital media. Scholar to lecture on father's role in abortion Author and Wellesley College biilo- gy Prof. Adrienne Asch will speak today at 4 p.m. in the seventh floor conference room in the North Ingalls Building. Her talk is titled "The Role of the Father in Abortion Decisions." Asch specializes in disability rights, feminism and bioethics. The lecture, sponsored by the Uni- versity Life Sciences, Values and Soci- ety Program, is open to University faculty and graduate students with the organizers' permission. For more infor- mation, call 647-4571. Science fiction novelist to discuss book Students age 21 and older are invited to a book discussion with author Stanislaw Lem today at 7 p.m. in Room 1318 of Markley Hall. Law's book, "His Master's Voice," is about a mysterious signal from outer space. Snacks and sherry will be served. Lem has also written two other books called "Solaris" and the discus- sion is sponsored by the English Department. Hillel to offer class on hip-hop dance, Israeli pop University Hillel is sponsoring a hip- hop dance class to contemporary Israeli pop music today at 8 p.m. in Room 1429 of Hillel on Hill Street. The program is titled "Blend Hora and Hip-Hop and What Do You Get? Not Your Grandmother's Israeli Dancing." Hora refers to Israeli folk dancing. LGBT bureau seeks students to serve in mass meeting Students who would like to help educate others about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender affairs and wish to enhance their public speaking skills are encouraged to apply and attend the Speakers Bureau. The meeting is sponsored by the Office of LGBTA on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Room 3200 of the Michigan Union. Scholar holds talk on Japanese periodicals The Center for Japanese Studies Noon Lecture Series will feature Motohiro Kondo on Thursday at noon in Room 1636 of the School of Social Work building. Kondo is a professor of social and cultural studies at the Nihon University Graduate School in Japan and a CJS visiting scholar. He will speak on "The Development of Monthly Magazines in Japan." Lecture to examine German electoral system The European Union Center and Center for European Studies will sponsor Brian Gaines as part of its "Conversations on Europe" lecture series on Thursday at 4 p.m. in Room 2609 of the International Institute. Gaines is an associate professor of political science from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign. His talk is titled "Connections Between German Federal and State." Spring, summer study abroad fair to be held Those seeking to study abroad or , find other international opportunities Federal jury convicts publisher of spying for Saddam's regime CHICAGO (AP) - A community newspaper publisher accused of spying on Iraqi dissidents in the United States was found guilty yesterday of serving as an unregistered agent for Saddam Hussein. The jury took less than two hours to convict Khaled Abdel- Latif Dumeisi after the weeklong trial. "This sends an important message that people can't come to our country and spy on their fellow residents," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said. Dumeisi, 61, was convicted of failing to obey a federal law that requires agents of foreign governments to register with the Justice Department. Prosecutors maintained that the Palestinian-born Dumeisi spied on Iraqi dissidents because he was desperate for money and admired Saddam Hussein as the only true friend of the , Palestinian cause in the Mideast. They cited evidence of at least $3,000 in payments from the Iraqis to the debt-ridden publisher. The jury also convicted him of conspiring not to reg- ister, lying to an immigration officer and lying to a fed- [Shootin' Dice eral grand jury. Dumeisi faces up to 25 years in prison at sentencing March 30, but he is likely to get much less time under federal sen- tencing guidelines. Dumeisi was not charged with espionage, nor was he accused of terrorism. His tiny suburban newspaper, Al Mahjar, was full of articles critical of U.S. Mideast policy and praising the now-deposed Iraqi leader. Prosecutors launched the trial by showing a videotape of a speech Dumeisi gave at a birthday party in honor of Saddam at the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in New York. Prosecu- tors said the U.N. mission was a hotbed of intelligence agents. In the speech, he referred to Saddam as "our great leader" and "our inspired leader" and praised him for missile attacks against Israel, "the Zionist stronghold," at the time of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. AP PH Witnesses said Dumeisi received training in spying on a trip Publisher Khaled Dumeisi, shown here in a 2001video Image giving a speech on to Baghdad and even got a pen that was actually a combination Saddam Hussein's birthday, faces up to 25 years In prison for serving as an tape recorder and camera. unregistered agent of the deposed dictator. Faul OerFty powrseng leads ,fGM to recall80,0 cars HOTO DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. is recalling more than 800,000 cars because of a power steering defect that may have led to at least eight injuries, the automaker said yester- day. GM also is facing a separate government investigation into alleged failure of brakes, power steering and windshield wipers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said yesterday. NHTSA's investigation could affect more than 1.2 million vehicles. GM said it will recall 750,000 cars in the United States and about 55,000 in Canada - all made between Jan. 1, 1996 and Oct. 31, 1997. The models are the 1996 Buick Regal, 1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, 1997-98 Oldsmobile Cutlass, Chevrolet Lumina, Monte Carlo, Malibu, and 1998 Oldsmobile Intrigue cars. Also, some 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and 1997-98 Buick Regal cars are being recalled. Drivers have experienced intermittent losses of power steering when making left turns, especially at low speeds, GM said. Some drivers also experienced higher resistance when turning left, followed by stress directed toward the right that could pull the car in that direction, the company said. Eight injuries have been reported that may be related to the defect, the automaker said. GM will begin instructing car owners in February to bring the affected vehicles to dealers for repairs. NHTSA is investigating 2500- and 3500-series pickup trucks after receiving 19 complaints alleging loss of power brake or power steering. The alleged defect, which could affect 660,000 trucks, is blamed for at least two crashes and one injury. BRETT MOUNTAIN/Daily From left, Ann Arbor residents William Niebling, Alec McBean (14), Will Niebling and Anne Goldammer play a game of "Dancing Dice" at the Underworld on South University Avenue last night. Winning purse: Louis Vuitton maker awarded $38M in lawsuit PARIS (AP) - The maker of Louis Vuitton handbags and Moet champagne won a court judgment yesterday that orders investment bank Morgan Stanley to pay at least $38.5 million in damages for biased research that hurt LVMH's image and helped its rival Gucci. The Paris commercial court said E-MAIL Continued from Page 1 information about yourself is made public," Columbo said. Samuel Tedjasukmana of the Les- bian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs group said that he does not think that their groups' membership will increase due to the new e-mail privacy option. "Enlisting their names on our lists does not mean exploitation to the world, yet this new privacy may give many people more assurance in anonymity. We have many people who are in the closet still enrolled on our lists despite their closeted status," Tedjasukmana said. Tedjasukmana added that the group has been using a privacy server for the past year and might switch to the new Morgan Stanley had "considerably prejudiced" LVMH and helped Gucci, its own client. It was the first major ruling by a European court on conflicts of interest between research and investment banking services. LVMH, whose brands include Vuitton bags, the Kenzo and Givenchy fashion lines, Tag Heuer privacy options the University now offers. Some students said there were positive and negative aspects to mak- ing e-mail groups private. LSA junior Aazaz Haq said, "It's a combination. It'll help people conceal group affiliations, but if someone is looking for someone in a group it would make it harder to find them." Other students also had mixed feel- ings. LSA sophomore Henry Birdseye said, "E-mail groups can often reveal things about you, and if you're in a group of private interests then you might want to keep it secret. "I can't think of anythi~ng that shouldn't be hidden, but that might just be because I haven't thought about it. Unless it's a terrorism club," Birdseye added. LSA freshman Emy Lam said that there were two different aspects of the watches and Moet et Chandon champagne, had demanded $128.5 million in damages. It argued successfully that Morgan Stanley carried out a three-year cam- paign of "systematically erroneous and biased information" against LVMH while hiding its business rela- tionship with Gucci. private e-mail groups. "If someone knew that a person was in a controver- sial club, they might be ostracized. But for academic purposes, it would be nice to keep the groups public so that you can find people in your classes." While it is still unknown how many students will take advantage of the new feature, some students said they doubt- ed privatizing e-mail groups would boost membership to student organiza- tions. As of now, there hasn't been any criticism, Craig said. "It is an opt-in kind of thing, so if people don't care for it, they don't need to choose it," he said. "It's really too soon to tell how the user community will handle group pri- vacy since it just came into effect Satur- day morning," Craig added. For more information about the ITCS policy, students can log onto their web- site at www.itd.umich.edu. BROWN Continued from Page 1 Henderson spoke about Brown as the "beginning of the end" of racial' segregation that started a dialogue in the United States about race rela- tions. She added that fear is one of the roots of racism, a fear student pan- elist Paul Spurgeon said is often used to further misunderstandings and manipulate people. "We have to understand that fear can be corrupt- ed," Spurgeon, an LSA junior, said. Henderson charged students with the responsibility of being active and involved citizens as well as informing future generations of the struggle for equality in education. She also emphasized the impact young people have on making change. She also pointed to what she saw as a need for youth to make their voices heard on "anything that smacks of injustice." Cheryl said she was particularly impressed with the young people who spoke out about the Supreme Court cases last year regarding the use of race as a factor in University admissions policies. "The average age of the people in this country that have changed this nation was about 16, 17," she said, referring to the dedicated actions of ordinary people in the civil rights movement who made a difference. "They are you all sitting in this room and it's clearly the challenge we issue for this evening." She also discussed the value of education and its role as a founda- tion of the nation's democracy. "The bottom line is ... Brown v. Board was never about sitting next to white children. It was about hav- ing access to the resources that white children had access to. The resources were following those chil- dren and I'm sorry to say they still seem to be following those chil- dren," Cheryl said. LSA junior Jessica Taylor said she found the event informative and was impressed with the dialogue between the panelists, speakers and audience. She said she was especially inspired by the speakers' comments about the ongoing efforts to inte- grate society. "It's my motivation to do my part to ending the segregation ... ending the self-segregation they were talk- ing about," said Taylor a minority peer advisor in Mary Markley Hall. "It motivates me to keep doing what I'm doing," she added. Ann Arbor resident Donna Fre- und said she thought the dialogue did a good job bridging the gap between generations. "I think the concept of a dialogue is good because it's a generation that didn't live through it. I think the dialogue for them could be more meaningful for them than to the older generation because we remember it," Freund said. "I liked hearing the history of the decision itself because I remember the era. "We didn't even look at it from a distant context and how it fit in to the larger context because we were so close to it," she added. For Engineering senior Michele Goe, the event was a reminder of the need to promote the discussion on campus diversity. "It was some- thing I wished all students could attend, not just students who are in support but people who are apathet- ic to it," she said, referring to the court case. - Daily Staff Reporter Michael Kan contributed to this report. i MAD COW Continued from Page 1 LSA freshman Lindsey Trainor said she decided to cut back on meat, especially fast food. "I don't think it is a major threat yet, but it's a good habit to get into in case it gets worse," Trainor said. She added that she decided to primarily cut back on fast food because it seemed to her the most likely place contaminated meat could come from. Media coverage has expressed the same uncertainty about the safety of the food supply. Concerns of the effec- tiveness of current regulations and the possible spread of the disease to other farm animals have further caused con- sumers to wonder if their next meal is safe to eat. But University medical professors said little danger exists of anyone becoming infected with the disease. Epidemiology Prof. Arnold Monto said he thinks the disease is more of a veterinary problem. "The (large) number of flu deaths compared to the (few) num- ber of deaths from mad cow dis- ease doesn't even compare," he said. "I think (the disease) has had more of an impact on the economy than on public health." "The probabi people in the eat meat regi getting the di infinitesimall3 that it is infected. Even if you eat the meat of an infected cow, you still may not get the disease, he added. Because recent tests show that the food supply is not con- taminated with BSE, Wilson said proper meat preparation along with genetic factors resist the disease in most people. He also added that the spreading of the disease within cow herds should not be possible since current regulations prohibit cows from being fed cattle parts. Chances of other farm ani- mals contracting BSE are also low, he said. "It's not really clear if chickens or pigs can get it. ... As far as we can tell, the ground-up remains (of cows) are not being fed to chickens or to pigs. And even if they were, there is no evidence to show that they have the disease." But for most students, along with the risk of contracting diarrhea from E. coli, heart disease and cancer from meat, ltiy of even the recent discovery of mad cow disease hasn't deterred them U.S. who from enjoying a hamburger "I've continued eating meat. I ilarly, of haven't seen enough evidence to stop . e iseating meat;" LSA sophomore Greg 1 O is Haapala said, adding that he eats one y small. or two hamburgers a week. In fact, some students are con- - Mark Wilson vinced there is no real danger of . ks dying from mad cow disease. )idemiology Professor. "I get the impression the media is exaggerating it," LSA junior David Wintermute said. From what he has seen and heard, he said the chances of getting the disease are very slim. But he added that many news stories are trying to make the danger of BSE more shocking than it seems. "I see a news story exaggerating it by saying people should be shocked (about the danger of contracting the disease), but people really aren't shocked. The media :;:a r+ ;:a JOIN US FOR WINTERFEST! A STUDENT ORGANIZATION EVENT! TODAY FROM 4-8PM 2ND FLOOR MICHIGAN UNION But he added that the disease is difficult to destroy - in already-contaminated meat and there are possible worries that younger cattle still carry the disease, although he said the chances of more cattle getting infected are low. Epidemiology Prof. Mark Wilson said not only is there little danger of contracting the disease, but the media have overblown the entire situation, making the risk of contracting the disease seem much higher than it actually is. "The proba- * Over 125 Student Organizations Represented * Meet new people and get all the information you need to get involved!