Friday, April 2,2004 News 3 Opinion 4 Sports 11 Diag prepares to blaze during Hash Bash New FEC rules would limit activities of political action committees Men's gymnastics heads to NCAAs Bob Dylan's historic Halloween performance released ... Arts, Page 8 One-hundred-thirteen years of editorialfreedom Weather HI- 47 LOW: 37 TOMORROW: 533 www.michigandaily com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXIII, No. 126 ©2004 The Michigan Daily 0 e 0 RYAN WEINER/Daily Michigan senior Bernard Robinson cuts down the nets yesterday sfter his final game for the Wolverines, a 62-55 victory in the NIT finals over Rutgers at Madison Square Garden. Wolverines topple Knights in By Dan Rosen Daily Sports Editor NEW YORK - The Michigan basketball team found a way to bounce back. After pushing aside the disappointment of being left off of the NCAA Tournament bracket just a few weeks ago, the Wolver- ines rebounded to win the NIT with a 62-55 victory over Rutgers at Madison Square Garden last night. "We're definitely on a high right now," freshman forward Brent Petway said. "Selection night we may have been on a low, but then we got that phone call (from the NIT) and we knew we had to go play some ball." The Wolverines made it interesting down the stretch against the Scarlet Knights. With 1:51 remaining, senior Bernard Robinson gave Michigan a 56- .48 lead with a pair of free throws. But the team hit just four of its next nine foul shots to let Rutgers get back within four with 18 seconds left. "We just knew we had to focus," Michi- gan guard Daniel Horton said. And that's exactly what th did, knocking down two free charity stripe with seven se clock to ice the win and the N The Wolverines were once the young backcourt of Dio Horton, the tournament's M combined for 27 points and e the night. Harris got things rolling ea man, who was later named to nament team, buried a three-p champiionshtp 9-2 Michigan run to start the game. The he sophomore Wolverines led by as many as nine in the bies from the opening stanza, despite shooting just 38 per- -conds on the cent from the field and hitting on just 6-of- IT title. 11 free throws. again led by Rutgers forward Herve Lamizana, a third- n Harris and team All-Big East selection, kept his team in IVP. The duo the game in the first half with an emphatic ight assists on shot-blocking display. The 6-foot-10 senior tossed aside five Michigan shots in the first rly. The fresh- 20 minutes, including an authoritative swat the All-Tour- of a Bernard Robinson dunk attempt. ointer to cap a See KNIGHTS, Page 10 In NI1 Blue learns new lesson: victory NEW YORK - Michigan was ahead 41-29 in the second half when it started. Rutgers's Ricky Shields hit a 3- pointer. Then, Juel Wiggan scored off an offensive rebound. Herve Lamizana nailed a jumper, and Shields did the same. In the blink CHRIS of an eye, Michigan was down 44- 43 and pro-Rutgers Madison BURKE Square Garden was alive. Goin' to Work Suddenly, every Michigan fan in the place was stuck in flashback mode, their mind wandering to losses at Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Indiana - games where the Wolverines played so well for so long, only to collapse in the waning moments. But last night, something strange happened: Michigan did- n't fold. Instead, the Wolverines tightened up their defense and rediscovered their confidence on offense. A layup by Michi- gan center Courtney Sims put the Wolverines ahead with 4:55 left, and five minutes later, the Wolverines found them- selves with something that had too often eluded them in regu- lar-season road games. Victory. Don't kid yourself- Michigan would not have won this game earlier this year. No way. The NIT version of the Michigan basketball team, though, was different than the regular-season version. After the win, senior Bernard Robinson said that Michigan had been capa- ble of a performance like last night's all year. And therein lies the difference: Regular-season Michigan couldn't get it done. Postseason Michigan played up to its potential. Regular-season Michigan would have imploded had it turned the ball over four times in four minutes, as the Wolver- ines did last night during Rutgers's run. But postseason Michigan found a way to get the job done - be it Dion Harris nailing a 3-pointer with all the Rutgers fans on their feet, or Daniel Horton racing back on defense after a turnover to get the Wolverines the possession back with a steal. The mantra all season for this baby-faced Michigan squad was that it takes young teams a long time to learn how to win. Well, consider the lesson learned. "As a coach and as a teacher, when you see your players and your students get better at the things that you've been coaching and preaching and teaching, there's nothing better," Michigan coach Tommy Amaker said. And the result of that knowledge spoke for itself last night. Victory. It's a word that hasn't accompanied the end of a Michigan See BURKE, Page 10 Police to step up prevention of hate crimes DPSplans to provide more comprehensive trainin~g, have officers specilize i preventing hate crimes By Melissa Benton Daily Staff Reporter LSA junior Stephanie Chang said she can't believe that only one hate crime was recorded by the Department of Public Safety in 2002. "If DPS had better reporting of bias incidents and hate crimes it could just be the first step towards finding the solution to the problem," Chang said. Chang is a member of Student Voices in Action - a group formed to protest recent University cuts and changes to stu- dent services. The group also wants DPS to start accurately recording hate crimes and bias incidents. SVA states that Michigan is the state with the fifth-high- est number of hate crimes reported yearly. SVA also said the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Affairs recorded 12 hate crimes and bias incidents last year and 26 in the previous year. DPS officials, on the other hand, claim that while they can make improvements, they already encourage people on cam- pus to report suspicious incidents. DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown said few hate crimes are reported. "We're always encouraging students to report suspi- cious incidents. We want people reporting all kinds of crime and incidents that people perceive as crime,"Brown said. A hate crime is "a crime which in whole or part is moti- vated by the offender's bias toward the victim's status," BUDGET CUTS Greeks drop out of coalition for student services REFLECTING ON A LIFETIME'S WORK By Andrew Kaplan Daily News Editor Citing dissimilar interests and frus- tration over tactics, Student Voices in P Action and the Greek Taskforce both said its members will no longer work alongside one another when engaging University administrators to protest changes and cuts to student services. Leaders of the Greek community said SVA's "rude" addresses to administra- tors and an agenda with little in com- mon convinced them to stop work- ing with SVA, while representatives of the new student activist group said the Greeks' mission proved too narrow for SVA's multifac- eted plan. The break marks "SVA said,' don't want with (admii we want yo our demanc our concern," said LSA junior Nate Stormzand, a member of the task force and president of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He described SVA's pursuits as mainly "financial." In recent meetings with Vice Presi- dent for Student Affairs E. Royster Harper, the Greek Taskforce has urged the administration to refrain from instituting a host of possible changes to the community, such as mandatory live-in advisors in fraternity houses and a deferred rush No we schedule. Stormzand said to meet the decision to break nistrators) from SVA followed /' a meeting with u to meet administrators at the 1 nWilliam Monroe Trotter House on Monday, which he Nate Stormzand said "lacked a sense psion President of professionalism and was rather rude." At the meeting, several students barraged administrators with demands for changes to programs and services, FOREST CASEY/Daily Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller speaks with visiting Prof. Mark Lamos yesterday at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater about his experiences as a University student in the 1930s, his beginnings as a journalist for The Michigan Daily and the current state of theatre In society. Renowned playwright discusses his past at U r -r Sigma Phi E By Donn M. Fresard Daily Staff Reporter A was not really accepted as an academic course - it was too close to life," he said. "Harvard had a course in playwriting ... they got rid of it, because they were embarrassed. "This place seemed, because of the Hopwood the end of a short-lived coalition between SVA and the task force - comprised of three to five members of Renowned playwright Arthur Miller said he was not interested in theatre when he came to the G