Tuesday, February 1, 2005 Weather Opinion 4 Sowmya Krishnamurthy is selling her column 4v 4 REsIDENT EVIL 4 REDEF1INES SURtVIVA ouR :4.. ARTS, PAGE 8 News 5 Forecasting space weather W3 LOW: 17 TOMORROW: El2 Sports 9 Daniel Bremmer: Who's to blame for Cagers' losing streak? One-hundred-fourteen years ofedorialfreedom www.michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXV, No. 71 ©2005 The Michigan Daily RIAA prepares for legal action 'U' recieves more subpoenas for illegal music use By Breeanna Hare For the Daily Several file-sharers on campus are on the verge of lawsuits with the Recording Industry Association of America in a second round of legal action involving the University. As of Jan. 27, the University has once again been notified of impending lawsuits against ille- gal file-sharers, University Assis- tant General Council Jack Bernard said. The RIAA will be submitting a subpoena requiring the Univer- sity to release the identities of three individuals who may have illegally shared files over the University net- work, he said. The University will not release the identities behind the IP addresses until the subpoena has been proven valid, Bernard said. Once it reaches that point, he added, the Universi- ty's hands are tied and it is legally compelled to release the informa- tion. The individuals then must deal directly with the RIAA. The RIAA issued the newest round of lawsuits against 717 file- sharers nationwide Jan. 24 in the lat- est attempt to eliminate file-sharing. Sixty-eight of the total file sharers utilized networks at 23 universities across the nation. The RIAA's move is reminiscent of the lawsuits filed last January against nine University-affiliated individuals for the same infractions. All nine settled the dispute out of court for unspecified amounts. The RIAA lawsuits targeted indi- viduals who shared a large amount of copyrighted music through peer- to-peer networks, which allow oth- ers to download files from someone else's computer. The RIAA is only able to detect illegal file-sharing if the user is allowing other sharers to access his files. However, because of the ever- evolving technology of systems like See RIAA, Page 3 GEO votes to extend contract 'WE ARE NO LONGER INVISIBLE' Negotiations will continue until end offmonth By Carissa Miller Daily Staff Reporter In a move that echoed the develop- ments of its 2002 contract negotiations, the Graduate Employees' Organiza- tion voted last night to extend its con- tract with the University until Feb. 24. Through this extension, GEO members hope to continue negotiations with the University, which have been ongoing for the last few months. Aron Boros, a member of GEO's bar- gaining team, said GEO and the Univer- sity have been slowly moving through the 26 articles of the GEO contract since negotiations began in November. He said GEO is making small gains, but the bargaining team needs more time to push its demands. By a vote of 245:1, union members voted to support the bargaining team's recommendation to extend their con- tract and continue negotiations in hopes of coming to an agreement acceptable to GEO. If GEO members had not voted in favor of the extension, gradu- ate student instructors would go into work and future bargaining without a -contract, thus losing certain protections their contract affords, Boros said. "I am happy to go back to the bar- gaining table with the confidence of the membership and optimism of the future," Boros said. Prior to the meeting, University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said the University had asked GEO to consider an extension on the contract and was hopeful that the union would agree to a later deadline. "Bargaining is progressing, but it would be good to have more time to work through all the issues that are up for discussion," Peterson said. "I think (an extension) is a sign that the parties are still working together and are mov- ing in a positive direction." Peterson also said that it is quite nor- mal to extend the deadline and that it is hard to complete the bargaining in such a short time period because of the num- ber of proposals GEO has made, as well as scheduling obstacles. See GEO, Page 3 City delays plans for revamped Farmers Market EUGEN ROBERSON/Dai Walter Mosley gives the closing lecture at the 18th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium at the Rackham Auditorium yesterday. Mosley spoke about blacks being able to relate to the antagonism felt by the terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11 because they have faced oppression by the U.S. government. MLK speaker encourages activism Council to further discuss design to add vendor space By Leslie Rott Daily Staff Reporter Times change. But when it comes to Ann Arbor's Farmers Market, the city and farmers from around Michi- gan are split on how much change is a good thing. For more than two years, the city has been drafting a plan to revamp Farmers Market. However, due to strong public opposition and concern, the plan has been stalled. Currently, the market is arranged in the shape of an "E," with three aisles branching off from the main aisle. Originally, the main change proposed was to eliminate the middle aisle and add another that connects the two out- side aisles to create a circular flow. This would allow customers to walk around the entire market - with the potential of increasing business for all vendors. However, due to the strong public presence of those opposed to the plan, at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting on Jan. 18, the council decided by a vote of 7-4 to "accept" rather than "approve" the Farmer's Market Master Plan, which outlines all the changes proposed to the market by Johnson Hill Land Ethics Stu- dio - the architectural team working on the project. "We agreed to use it (the Master Plan) as a basis for further discussion, while not approving anything specifically in the plan," Councilwoman Jean Carlberg (D-3rd Ward) said. But the architectural team was less optimistic about the vote. "It sounds like starting over to me.... It sounds like throwing $80,000 away," said Jamison Brown, director of design for JHLE. The changes outlined in the master plan would also add 29 additional stalls for vendors, while keeping all the current parking spaces, as requested by the city. Further proposed alterations include an increase in the overall usability of the space, improved water quality with the addition of a water recycling system and improved aesthetics. The hope of JHLE is that the market will no longer be used as a parking lot on nonmarket days, but rather as a func- tional space for everyone in the commu- nity to use. "Instead of a market in a parking lot, there could be a market in a park," JHLE wrote in the Nov. 10 draft of the master plan. See MARKET, Page 7 I By Karl Stampfl Daily Staff Reporter Author Walter Mosley told a story last night about how he almost backed out of delivering the closing lecture of the 18th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium because he did not welcome the responsibility. "I called my publicist and asked her to get out of coming here," Mosley said during his lecture in Rack- ham Auditorium. His publicist told him that she would not get involved because he had already made the com- mitment. Mosley did not want to come, he said, because he was aware of the risks of bearing witness, which would become the title of his speech. Bearing witness, he explained, is speaking out against cultural standards and for what you believe in. "When we stand up for ourselves to bear witness we are alone and vulnerable," Mosley said. "We are no longer invisible." Mosley, a black activist and author of the Easy Rawl- ins mystery novels, said he is dedicated to encouraging activism within the black community. With his book "What's Next?" - his response to the war on terror- ism - he tried to ignite a black peace movement. He said he believes black people have seen the negative side of America through their own oppression and are capable of changing the world for the better. After Sept. 11, Mosley, whose apartment overlooks the World Trade Center site, said he talked to thousands of black people on the phone about the events. While all displayed patriotism, horror and sadness, only one black person was surprised that someone would want to attack the United States. Unlike most white Ameri- cans, Mosley said, black Americans can understand the terrorists' antagonism toward the United States because of their own history of grievances with the See MOSLEY, Page 7 Speakers recall struggles in occupied territories By Rachel Kruer Daily Staff Reporter It was when his classmates began to spit at him that Rackham student Omar Halawa realized that he felt he could no longer live openly as a Palestinian in Kuwait. Overnight, Halawa went from rarely ever facing discrimi- nation to having to hide his Palestinian identity. "My mother told me that Iraq had invad- ed Kuwait. That's like someone telling an American your friendly northern neighbor, Canada, had just invaded," he said. Halawa was one of two speakers sharing his personal flict, LSA sophomore and Israeli Student Organization spokesman Orrin Pail said the event presented more of a one-sided view. Absent from the speakers' discussion was any credit to the Israeli government for granting Palestinians freedoms and education. "He presented only on side of the story, and his outlook on the future is very pessimistic," Pail said. In contrast to Hawala's story of living with a concealed identity in Kuwait, the other speaker, Rackham student Bashar Tarabieh has lived under territory occupied by the Israelis. Tarabieh shared his personal narrative of living in ASHLEY HARPER/ Daily Rackham students Bashar Tara- bleh, left, and Omar Halawa talk about their experi- ence in the .....: ,, . - a. z .a..