NEWS
The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 20, 2004 - 3A
ON CAMPUS
'U' president
speaks on future
of school
University President Mary Sue Cole-
man will give a speech today at 3:15
p.m. in Rackham Auditorium. Her
speech will outline her priorities, ini-
tiatives and ongoing projects for the
school. The Faculty Senate will co-
sponsor the event. The speech will be
followed by a reception.
Forum explores
relations between
U.S., Saudi Arabia
A forum on relations between Saudi
Arabia and the U.S. titled "Crisis or
Opportunity?" will be held today by
scholars from the King Saud Univer-
sity and the United States. The forum
will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. at the U.S.
Palmer Commons Forum Hall Amphi-
theater at 100 Washtenaw Ave. The
event is free.
NOTES
Officer assaulted
at football game
One person was arrested for assault-
ing a police officer and resisting arrest
at Saturday's football game against San
Diego State. The officer was not hurt.
One person was also arrested for pos-
session of controlled substances, and
five minors were arrested and cited for
underage drinking at the game.
The Department of Public Safety
reported 11 citations. Four of these were
for possession of alcohol in the stadium
and three were for urinating in public.
Seven people were ejected from the
game, including three for unauthorized
entry, three for passing IDs through the
fence and one for throwing projectiles.
First-aid personnel treated 60 people.
Person jailed after,
gun found in car
Ani ndividual not affiliated with the
University was arrested by DPS early
yesterday morning after a handgun was
found in a vehicle on Monroe Street.
The vehicle was parked with its door
open in the 500 block of Monroe, and a
handgun was visible on the driver's side
floor near the seat.
DPS investigates
laser infraction
DPS sent an officer out to East Quad
Residence Hall Friday night to inves-
tigate one or more persons who had
reportedly been shining a laser pointer
out onto the sidewalk.
THIS DAY
In Daily History
Conference seeks
to prevent gov't
spying efforts
September 20, 1978 - Attorneys,
academics and concerned citizens from
across the country prepared to converge
on Ann Arbor at the Michigan Union
over the weekend for the first National
Organizing Conference to Stop Govern-
ment Spying.
The conference - billed as a "nuts
and bolts" organizing effort by Ann
Arbor coordinator Tom Shaker, a gradu-
ate student - was primarily concerned
with devising strategies to counter-
act domestic government spying and
harassment.
"The time for being shocked is over.
Now it's what you can do about it," Shak-
er said. "This is taking it a step further
than everybody just being appalled."
CORRECTIONS
An article on Page 1 of Friday's
Source says Bush, Kerry to have three debates
Bush carmpaign denies reports of tentative deal
NEW YORK (AP)-The campaigns
of President Bush and Democratic presi-
dent candidate Sen. John Kerry of Mas-
sachusetts tentatively have agreed to a
series of three debates that both sides
hope will give them momentum in the
closing weeks of the presidential elec-
tion campaign, a person familiar with
the debate negotiations said last night.
The agreement, not yet final, calls
for the presidential debates to be
spread over a two-week period begin-
ning Sept. 30.
Details of the debates were being
negotiated by former Secretary of State
James Baker III for Bush and attorney
Vernon Jordan for Kerry. It was not
clear when any agreement would be
announced. The Bush campaign denied
that there was a deal.
"No deal has been reached. Reports
of a tentative agreement - I don't even
know what that means - are false,"
said Nicolle Devenish, communica-
tions director for the Bush campaign.
She said Baker had told his staff there
was not a deal.
But a person familiar with the debate
negotiations said there was a tentative
deal for three debates but that some
details were still being worked out. The
person spoke on condition of anonym-
ity since the agreement is not final.
The tentative agreement also calls for
one vice presidential debate on Oct. 5
between Vice President Dick Cheney
and Sen. John Edwards of North Caro-
lina, Kerry's running mate.
The source said the two campaigns
have agreed on the dates and sites pro-
posed by the nonpartisan Commission
on Presidential Debates - Sept. 30
at the University of Miami in Coral
Gables, Fla.; Oct. 8 at Washington Uni-
versity in St. Louis; and Oct. 13 at Ari-
zona State University in Tempe, Ariz.
The co-chairmen of the debate com-
mission told representatives for Bush
and Kerry on Wednesday that they
must act immediately to finalize details
for the debates, with the first only two
weeks away.
The Kerry campaign agreed last
month to the commission's proposal
for venues, dates and moderators for
three debates involving the presidential
candidates and one for the vice presi-
dential candidates. However, the Bush
campaign would not commit to the pro-
posal.
With a guaranteed TV audience of
tens of millions of people, the debates
could have a major impact because of
the closeness of the race and the voters
who still count themselves as unde-
cided.
In a poll by the Pew Research Center,
29 percent of those surveyed said the
debates would matter in deciding how
they would vote. Some 68 percent said
their minds were already made up.
Those undecided voters could make a
huge difference. Accordingz to a Nielsen
survey, 46.6 million people watched the
first debate between Bush and Al Gore
in 2000. The second and third debates
drew audiences of 37.6 million, and 37.7
million, respectively.
In 2000, Bush and Democratic nomi-
nee Al Gore debated three times in
90-minute sessions in October. Their
running mates debated once that month.
For the third presidential debate, Bush
and Gore answered questions posed
by undecided voters from the St. Louis
area during a town-hall session.
The three presidential debates
between Bush and Gore drew televi-
sion audiences ranging from 37 million
to 47 million people, according to the
commission, the first debate gaining
the largest audience. The vice presiden-
tial debate was viewed by more than 28
million people.
Tropical Storm
Jeanne leaves 90
dead, floods Haiti
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - Tropical
Storm Jeanne brought raging floodwa-
ters to Haiti, killing at least 90 people
in the battered nation and leaving doz-
ens of Haitian families huddled on
rooftops as the storm pushed further
out into the open seas yesterday, offi-
cials said.
Floods tore through the northwestern
coastal town of Gonaives and surround-
ing areas, covering crops and turning
roads into rivers. U.S.-backed interim
Prime Minister Gerard Latortue and
his interior minister toured the area in a
U.N. truck yesterday, but were not able
to reach many areas because of washed
out roads.
"We don't know how many dead
there are," Latortue said. "2004 has
been a terrible year."
Workers with the Catholic humani-
tarian agency Caritas Internationalis
picked up 62 bodies in pickup trucks
and counted another 18 at a morgue
in Gonaives alone, said Rev. Venel
Suffrard, the organization's local
director. Suffrard said he expected
the toll to rise.
The floods killed another 10 people
in other parts of the country, mostly in
the northwest, said Dieufort Deslorges,
a spokesman for the Haitian Ministry of
Interior.
A World Health Organization work-
er said he had toured parts of down-
town Gonaives and saw people pushing
wooden carts filled with cadavers.
"There is no life left in the center of
town," U.N. health worker Pierre
Adam said.
The deaths came four months
after floods killed more than 3,000
people on the Haitian-Dominican
border. In February, a three-week
rebellion ousted President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide and left about
300 dead.
Several people were reported miss-
ing and feared dead. Unlike the
Dominican Republic, much of Haiti
is deforested and unable to hold back
floodwaters.
At 11 p.m., Jeanne was 180 miles
east-southeast of the Bahamian island
of San Salvador, moving north near
8 mph. Storm-force winds strength-
ened to 60 mph and stretched up to
85 miles from its center.
Jeanne didn't appear likely to hit the
storm-battered southeastern United
States. It was expected to turn south
over the next two days and head back
out into the Atlantic, away from Flori-
da and other states that have been bat-
tered by three major storms already
this season.
Amarils Santos carries wood from her destroyed house in Ramon Santana,
90 kilometers east of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Saturday.
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MOVIE PASSES!
The Michigan Theatre seeks
high-energy, promotionally-minded
student interns to join our
Street Marketing Team.
You will distribute flyers in cafes,
dorms and other campus buildings
and on kiosks.
Please email Lee Berry at
lberry@michtheater.org
The University of Michigan Ninth Annual
ENERGY FEST
2004 m
Promoting energy conservation, renewable
energy, and a sustainable environment
Saudi Arabia and the US:
Crisis or Opportunity?
Religion & Social Transformations
in Saudi Society
Marcia Inhorn, Moderator
Abdullah Al-Askar (King Saud) - Question of Wahabism
Eleanor Abdella Doumato (Brown) - Saudi Religious
Education
Ibrahim Al-Beayeyz (King Saud) - Television in the Arab
World: A Liberal Medium in a Conservative Region
Dalal Al-Tamimi (King Faisal) - Saudi Women in Medicine
Saudi Politics
Susan Waltz, Moderator
Ibrahim Al-Muhanna (Ministry of Petroleum & Natural
Resources) - Saudi Oil Policy in a Dynamic International
Market
Gwenn Okruhlik (UT Austin) - Nation Building in Saudi
Arabia
Juan Cole (Michigan) - Saudi Arabia and Iraq
U.S.-Saudi Relations & the War on Terror
Mark Tessler, Moderator
Saleh Ai-Mani (King Saud) - Structural Changes in Saud-
American Relations
Othman Al-Rawaf (Majlis Ash Shura) - The Challenges of
Tuesday, September 21
Central Campus Diag:
11:00 to 2:00
Live Music from 12-1
Thursday, September 23
North Campus Portico Plaza:
11:00 to 2:00
Extremism & the War on Terrorism
Asaad Al-Shamlan (Institute of Diplomatic Studies) - The
Impact of the War on Terrorism & U.S. -Saudi Relations
Co-sponsored by CMENAS & King Saud University
Monday, September 20, 1-6pm
Forum Hall, Palmer Commons,
100 Washtenaw Ave
(next to Life Sciences Institute)
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