Friday, January 21, 2005 News 3 SOLE works on new campaign Weather Opinion 4 Sports 9 Elliott Mallen: King was no moderate Women's hoops loses 9th in a row C ie t aY t gi LOW 12 TOMORROW: 17/3. One-hundredfourteen years ofeditorialfreedom www.michzandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXV, No. 64 02005 The Michigan Daily mwI 'Ending tyranny in our world' Minority applicants lncrease 10 percent By Aymar Jean Daily Staff Reporter Hoping to reverse last year's precipitous drop in applications, the University has cause for optimism this year. So far, with the applica- tion deadline just over a week away, "We're it has received more applications certainly overall and from underrepresented on track to minorities than it had by this time receive more las ear applications The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has received 18,561 applications as of Jan. 17- a 13 percent increase from last year. The office has received 1,420 from under- represented minor- ity students, a 10.5 percent increase from the same date last year. Admis- sions staffers would this year than last year. - Ted Spencer University Director of Undergraduate Admissions Clockwise from top left: David Braun, Vietnam veteran and member of Veterans for Peace, stands along fellow protestors on the Diag during an anti-inauguration rally on Jan. 20, 2005 (MIKE HULSEBUS/ Daily); President Bush and first lady Laura Bush attend The Constitution Ball at the Washington Hilton following his inauguration (AP PHOTO); Luke Williams, Nasser Abouelazm and Ty Brooks sit on the road at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in front of a wall of riot police monitoring an anti-Bush protest during the inauguration (ALEX DZIADOSZ/Daily). Bush kicks off second term in inauguration. Protesters in D.C., A2 voice opposition not release information on what specific minor- ity groups saw an increase but said the numbers were consistent across racial lines. First-year applications from international students also rose 13.7 percent from last year, despite continual restrictions placed on immigration and shaky world opinion of the United States. "We're certainly on track to receive more applications this year than last-year," Director of Undergraduate Admissions Ted Spencer said. "Right now, it looks like we are doing better than we were last year, and that's about all that you can assess from the data that we have right now," he added. Last year, the University received a total of 21,293 applications, a number that was 4,650 less than the year before. Before that year, the number of applications received had been rising steadily. The University had also received 25 percent fewer applications from black students last year. Administrators hope that last year was an outlier in admissions trends. "These are things that we have not seen in the past," Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic affairs, has said about last year's numbers. This year's numbers, Spencer said, should fol- low the trend of increasing applications seen in the years previous to last year. From 2001 to 2003, the University received over 24,000 applications each year. So to return to those trends, the University would have to collect about 6,000 applications in the next few days. Whether that will happen is difficult to gauge. Likening admissions season to tax season, Spencer noted that many applications come in on the last day before the deadline. "We don't know what that trend may be," he said. "I think the good news is that it's up." The University is not alone in its desire to rebound from a steep decline in minority appli- cations: After the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court cases rejecting the University's point system but affirming the principle of affirmative action, several schools of comparable size saw a simi- See APPLICANTS, Page 7 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush embarked on an ambitious second term as presi- dent yesterday, telling a world anxious about war and terrorism that the United States would not shrink from new confrontations in pursuit of "the great objective of ending tyranny." Four minutes before noon, Bush placed his left hand on a family Bible and recited 39 tra- dition-hallowed words that every president since George Wash- ington has uttered. With .150,000 American troops deployed in Iraq at a cost of $1 billion a week and more than 1,360 killed, Bush also beseeched Americans for patience. "Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill and would be dishonor- able to abandon," the president declared in the first wartime inauguration in more than three decades. U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 80 years old and frail with thyroid cancer, adminis- tered the oath in his first public appearance in three months - a gesture Bush called "incredibly moving." Rehnquist's ill health may give Bush a second-term opportunity to nominate the Supreme Court's first new jus- tice in nearly 11 years. It was the first inaugura- tion since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the capi- tal was enveloped in a security blanket of thousands of police and miles of metal barricades. Snipers lined rooftops, while bomb-sniffing dogs toiled down below. Bush spoke before a shiver- ing throng at the West Front of the Capitol, the monuments of American government - Wash- ington, Jefferson, Lincoln - stretched before him on a snowy landscape. Sen. John Kerry (D- Mass.) who had battled Bush for the presidency, watched along with other lawmakers. The nation's 55th in'ugura-_ tion celebration began with a 40-minute morning prayer ser- vice at St. John's Church and ran See BUSH, Page 7 By Justin Miller and Kim Tomlin Daily Staff Reporters WASHINGTON, D.C. - Students who traveled to Washington to pro- test President Bush's second inaugura- tion were in the company of protesters from around the country who spoke out against Bush and, in some instances, resorted to more drastic measures. One violent clash occurred during an evening demonstration near the Penn- sylvania Avenue parade route. A group of protesters were angered by the long wait to enter the parade route - an area into which they said they had been told they would be allowed. After the line extended several blocks, some protesters began to push, lift and even break the eight-foot steel fence that separated them from police. To push them back from the fence, police began firing pepper spray. Some protesters left the scene red-faced, cry- ing with bloodshot eyes. "It felt like I stuck my face in acid," LSA junior Scott Cottrell said. "I don't even know how to describe it. It's like your face is on fire. Even after an hour and a half of medical care, it felt like I was still crying." Some that were sprayed through the fence doused themselves with water while professional medics came to the aid of others like Cottrell. With his eyes still closed from the pain, Cottrell had to be led by other pro- testers back to the subway station, onto See PROTESTS, Page 7 Collage Concert to bring 'U' musicians together By Alexandra Jones Daily Arts Writer Tonight at Hill Auditorium, the School of Music will present the annual Collage Concert. Since 1977, faculty and students have come together each year to create a sparkling, fast-paced display of some of the school's most impressive and unique talents. A typical Collage Concert - if there is such a thing - looks and sounds just as the name would imply. In an ordinary classical concert, a group or soloist would perform four or five full-length pieces cert so unique has as much to do with the visual aspect of the performance as the musical. Each performer is centered around the chorus and band or orchestra, but the imposing grandeur of Hill Audito- rium's stage is blacked out. A spotlight illu- minates only the group or soloist playing at that moment; immediately after that flashy snippet of a piece is finished, the light jumps to the next act. Aside from one inter- mission in the middle of the concert (after which applause for the first half's perform- ers is allowed), no breaks or applause are built into the Collage format. "The concept is so exciting because the yearly performance. "As the conducting faculty is preparing, we're seeing students we don't know and students we do know. We're seeing the overall body of talent that makes the School of Music so great," said Prof. Michael Haithcock, the school's director of bands. Each of the large ensemble conduc- tors will lead the band, chorus or orchestra in an excerpt at the concert. Haithcock will conduct "Overboard (Prologue)" from Asst. Prof. Susan Botti's composition Cosmosis. "It's a great showcase for the entire School of Music - back to back to back, the best See COLLAGE, Page 8 _. _.. .. .. _ _ .. s .. ..