Monday, November 8, 2004 News 3A Event calls attention to Burmese plight i~ .i ic iA~P lI~L $.. A' T A .9" ' -X f . 0> TUE ' . 0C3CE r t .WE6i L ). S()RSM ND k P (;. 13. e1vit Weather Opinion 4A Daniel Adams is right, as always. 14: 42 J.WK 20 TOMORROW; 45/27 Arts 8A Jude Law's star- making performance as "Alfie." One-hundredfourteen years ofeditorialfreedom www.michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXV, No. 27 ®2004 The Michigan Daily LLECTIONS *Sftudents protest Bush's victory By Ekjyot Saini Daily Staff Reporter Shouts of "End U.S. Imperialism," "Republicans killed Socrates and tons of Iraqis" and "Forced democ- racy does not work" could be heard at the corner of South State and East William streets on Saturday afternoon. Disgruntled University students and Ann Arbor residents came together to bring attention to the war and other issues, such as gay rights and the economy, which they say have been lost in the aftermath of the passing election. The protests have been daily occurrences for much of the past week. They resulted from a student's "temper tantrum" over the outcome of the election, said LSA senior Jen Davison, who walked out to the intersection with cardboard and a marker hoping to publicly let out her frustrations. "I just wanted the general public to know I was dissatisfied," she said. Davison's initiative sparked inter- est by passing high school and Uni- versity students, who joined her efforts Wednesday. The protests attracted a group of approximately 20 people on Saturday afternoon. Solomon Garber, a high school stu- dent, felt that even though he could not vote he could still make an impact. "Just because we can't affect the system, the system affects us," Gar- ber said. Saturday's protest consisted of mem- bers from the local community. Henry Herskovitz, a member of Jewish Wit- nesses for Peace and Friends, an Ann Arbor group that holds silent vigils every Saturday to protest Israel's occu- pation of Palestinian territories, felt it was necessary for people to continue keeping issues in the public light even after the election. "It's very clear that the real pub- lic needs their voice heard. The Democrats do not represent the real people, nor do the Republicans," Herskovitz said. The students who were protesting said they are working toward creating an "open progressive movement" to address issues about which people feel strongly. RC senior Taylor Hales said there were many people who felt upset * after the election. See PROTESTS, Page 7A THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS City could face suit over pot proposal By Adrian Chen Daily Staff Reporter Ann Arbor resident and medicinal marijuana user Mark Rowland wants the Ann Arbor Police Department to follow the will of the city's voters. AAPD Chief Dan Oates issued a their own pot. Rowland said Oates should pay attention to Proposal C because of its wide support by the people of Ann Arbor. The proposal passed by a margin of 74 percent to 25 percent last week. "Once the voters make a decision, statement Thurs- day saying his officers will con- tinue to prosecute marijuana users and dealers even after the passage of Proposal C, which legalized medici- nal marijuana in the city. Local voters overwhelm- ingly approved the ballot proposal in last Tuesday's election. "It's a blatant disregard for law that has been "Once the voters make a decision, it's not up to the chief to tell the Ann Arbor police not to enforce the law" - Mark Rowland Ann Arbor resident and medicinal marijuana user it's not up to the chief to tell the Ann Arbor police not to enforce the law," he said. In addition to his complaint, Rowland said he plans to file..a class-action law- suit against the city and has con- sulted a lawyer. The plaintiffs in this suit will include medicinal marijuana users and those who voted for Proposal voted in by the citizens of Ann Arbor," said Rowland, who added that he had an aneurism in 1993 and now uses medical marijuana. He said he has filed a personnel com- plaint against Oates and City Attorney Stephen Postema in response to the statement. Postema said he had not heard about the complaint, while the AAPD Professional Standards depart- ment could not comment on whether a complaint had been filed. Rowland is a part of Fresh Start, a nonprofit group dedicated to establish- ing a cooperative garden in Ann Arbor for medicinal marijuana users to grow C, Rowland said. Chuck Ream, who led the fight for the passage of Proposal C as chair of the Washtenaw Coalition for Compassionate Care, says the city is interpreting a 23-year-old Ypsilanti case too strictly in order to justify continuing prosecutions against mar- ijuana users. The case in question is Joslin v. 14th District Court, which states that any city law that prevents police from car- rying out state law is void. Currently, state law prohibits the use, sale or dis- tribution of marijuana for any purpose. See PROPOSAL, Page 7A ASHLEY HARPER/Daily Rackham student Heidi Liere and Urban Planning student Christian Kroll stop in front of the Gypsy Pond at the Music School on North Campus. This year's digital music installation involves mirrors encouraging viewers to look at their reflection. U' servers crash, taking out e-mail, website By Emily Kraack Daily News Editor Students trying to access online homework and e-mail yesterday were in for a rude shock, as the failure of two power backup units took down not only online coursework but much of the Universi- ty's Web gateway including IFS space, e-mail and Coursetools for most of the day. The technological failure occurred shortly after noon and was slowly resolved through the night, as University officials struggled to iden- tify and solve a problem which grew more com- plex throughout the evening. Kitty Bridges, associate vice president for IT Central Services, said initially that only one backup unit was taken out, affecting some but not all of the e-mail servers. After further investigation, she reported that both units crashed because of a power outage at the University's Arbor Lakes complex, which houses the headquarters for ITCS. The crash took out 23 servers, including all e-mail and many of the University-administered websites. Early yesterday evening, she said an electri- cian was trying to fix the problem. At that time, she estimated that all affected services other than IFS network file space would be back "soon." She estimated that IFS space would probably not be back until 9 p.m. last night, due to problems shutting it down once the server problems were discovered. "This seems like a straight-forward problem," Bridges said. However, she later said the problem was more complex. "It turns out that the damage was more extensive than we had initially anticipated," she said at 9:30 p.m. "We have system administrators at the data center bringing up the affected services." Bridges said that as of 6 p.m. last night, the cause of the outage had been determined and that IFS See OUTAGE, Page 7A U.S. forces raid Fallujah; Iraq in official state of emergency NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. forces stormed into western districts of Fallujah early today, seizing the main city hospital and securing two key bridges over the Euphrates river in what appeared to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the insurgent stronghold. An AC-130 gunship raked the city with 40 mm cannon fire as explosions from U.S. artillery lit up the night sky. Intermittent artillery fire blasted southern neighborhoods of Fallujah, and orange fireballs from high explo- sive airbursts could be seen above the rooftops. U.S. officials said the toughest fight was yet to come - when American forces enter the main part of the city on the east bank of the river, including the Jolan neighborhood where insurgent defenses are believed the strongest. The initial attacks on Fallujah began just hours after the Iraqi government declared 60 days of emergency rule throughout most of the country as mili- tants dramatically escalated attacks, killing at least 30 people, including two Americans. - Several hundred Iraqi troops were sent into Fallujah's main hospital after U.S. forces sealed off the area. The troops detained about 50 men of mili- tary age inside the hospital, but about half were later released. The invaders used special tools, pow- ered by .22 caliber blanks, to break open door locks. The rifle-like reports echoed through the facility. Many patients were herded into hallways and handcuffed until troops determined whether they were insurgents hiding in the hospital. Salih al-Issawi, head of the hospital, said he had asked U.S. officers to allow doctors and ambulances go inside the main part of the city to help the wound- ed but they refused. There was no con- firmation from the Americans. "The American troops' attempt to take over the hospital was not right because they thought that they would halt medical assistance to the resis- tance," he said by telephone to a reporter inside the city. "But they did not realize that the hospital does not belong to any- body, especially the resistance." The action began after sundown on the outskirts of the city, which has been sealed off by U.S. and Iraqi forces, and the minaret-studded skyline was lit up with huge flashes of light. 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