Wednesday, January 5, 2005 News 3A University VP Lisa Tedesco resigns Arts 5A Scorcese's. "Aviator" takes flight _ _ _. .. ,. -.. - - ., iE iogxn :a3 g Weather HI:28 S23 TOMORROW: One-hundredfourteen years of editorialfreedom " V www.michkandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXV, No. 53 2005 The Michigan Daily Flasher faces new By Karl Stampfl Daily Staff Reporter Michigan football player Larry Harri- son was arraigned by a magistrate of the 15th District Court on four felony charges of indecent exposure Monday morning. He is expected to appear in court Jan. 12. "The penalty on each of these four charges is one day to life (in prison)," said detective Chris Fitzpatrick of the Ann Arbor Police Department. Harrison was previously charged with a misdemeanor count of indecent exposure. Police suspect Harrison - a 20-year-old sophomore - may be linked to 16 cases of indecent exposure dating from August to December, but he can only be identified in four cases. "In a lot of them, he was not able to be identified because he was concealing his face with a T-shirt," Fitzpatrick said. According to witnesses, Harrison repeatedly gained the attention of Ann Arbor women - sometimes by throw- ing rocks at their windows or standing on their porches - then proceeded to expose and fondle himself. The four alleged felonies all took place on the night of Dec. 6 and early morning of Dec. 7. Harrison was arrested and taken into custody by the police after a surveil- lance officer spotted him on a porch in Ann Arbor. The Dec. 6 case occurred at the 1300 block of Minerva Street and the Dec. 7 case occurred on South Division Street, Fitzpatrick said. Although there were only two incidents of indecent exposure on Dec. 6 and 7, Har- rison will be charged with four felonies because the women had seen him earlier. Harrison pleaded not guilty during the arraignment. He has been released on bond with conditions, but Fitzpatrick could not comment on what those are. Harrison's lawyer was unavailable for comment. The sophomore is currently registered for winter term classes. Harrison was suspended from the foot- ball team in early December because of the charges. He started at defensive tackle in seven games, recording 24 tackles, including one for a loss. The Wolverines played without Harrison during the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. New year, same result Defense may get new leader Gennaro Filice NUMiN BUT A "G" THANG PASADENA, Calif. - On the first night of the new year, Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said it best: "You score 37 points and it should be enough." Over the first 125 years of Michigan football, 99.9 percent of the time that point total was enough. In the program's first 1,152 games, Michigan lost just once when scoring more than 31 points - a wild 54-51 defeat at Northwestern in 2000. In the program's first 35 bowl games, Michigan never lost when eclipsing the 20-point mark. But in Michigan's 36th bowl game (game No. 1,153 over- all), played on the first day of the program's 126th year, the Wolverines threw a 37-spot on the scoreboard ... and fell one point short of Texas. The Longhorns racked up 444 yards of total offense and 38 points, leaving the Wolverines' defense (and defensive coordi- nator Jim Herrmann) exposed in front of a national audience for the second game in a row. This porous Pasadena effort was far from what anyone expected back in August. At the outset of the season, the defense was supposed to carry the Wolverines. With offensive question marks at quar- terback and running back, logic dictated that the Wolverines would go as far as Herrmann's 11 would take them. This was supposed to be the best Michigan defense since the Charles Woodson-led group of 1997 and possibly the fastest 'D' ever to don the Maize and Blue. In the first half of the season, Michigan's defense struggled with consistency - the unit's play differed from half to half. The Wolverines lost their first nonconference away game for the fifth straight year by giving up 21 points to Notre Dame in the fourth quarter. The next week, San Diego State came into the Big House and put a scare into the Wolverines, scoring 21 first-half points, only to be shut out in the game's final 30 minutes. But, for the most part, Michigan's erratic defensive play was overshadowed by its ability to produce turnovers (the Wolverines forced an astounding 19 turnovers through their first four games). Then, as the season went on, the takeaways rapidly decreased, and the defense showed its true (and unsightly) colors. In the season's final four games, Michigan forced just two turnovers while giving up an average of 458 yards and 33 points per game. The most disappointing aspect of this col- See ROSE BOWL, Page 7A I,-,Y ,LII K/D a1 Texas quarterback Vince Young (10) spins free from Michigan lineman Patrick Massey (94) en route to a touchdown during the Wolverines' 38-37 loss in the 91st Rose Bowl game on Saturday in Pasadena, Calif. .Court rules for 'U' in harassment case By Mark Osmond Daily Staff Reporter The Michigan Court of Appeals last month over- turned a lower court ruling in favor of former Music student Maureen Johnson, who claimed she was sexu- ally harassed by former visiting Prof. Pier Calabria in 1997. The prior decision would have required the Uni- versity to pay $435,000 to compensate Johnson. Johnson and her attorney Miranda Massie are review- ing their options for further litigation and have not yet decided whether they will attempt to bring the case to the state Supreme Court. During the hearings in November, the University successfully argued that it adequately responded to the alleged harassment Johnson faced and is there- fore not liable for the damages resulting from Cal- abria's misconduct. "We responded instantly and thoroughly to Ms. Johnson's complaint," University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said. "We were pleased that the court of appeals recognized this fact and overturned the lower court's verdict." University attorneys acknowledged Calabria's inap- propriate behavior in court, but maintained that the University's response to his behavior was sufficient because Johnson did not lodge another complaint against Calabria after she brought his conduct to the attention of University officials. See COURT, Page 7A Students' homes robbed over break Regents OK new. academic buildi*ng plans By Justin Miller Daily Staff Reporter The University Board of Regents approved a new academic building on Thayer Street last month that will house three academic departments currently in the Frieze Building after it is demolished next year. Three of the six departments currently housed by Frieze - Asian Languages and Cultures, Near-Eastern Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies - will occupy 60,000 square feet in the new building. It is expected to be completed just as Frieze is being torn down in 2006. This timetable ensures the departments will not be homeless in the interim. Plans are also being made to relocate the remaining departments housed in Frieze. The building will cost the University $18 million that will come from the Office of the Provost, the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and LSA investment earnings, according to the University. The cost of the new building is just a fraction of the $800 million See BUILDING, Page 7A By Abby Stassen Daily Staff Reporter Students returning from winter break may have had a nasty surprise waiting for them when they returned to Ann Arbor. Between Dec. 23 and Jan. 4, at least nine student homes were invad- ed, said Adele El-Ayoubi, head of crime prevention at the Ann Arbor Police Department. Some of the break-ins involve d forced entry, such as broken win- dows, but others resulted from students leaving their doors and win- dows unlocked. An unlocked window on the 800 block of Church Street led to a break- over break and DVDs and a laptop computer were noted missing after New Year's Eve. "We think it was mostly the home- less, because we had some cans left over in the basement and they took all of those," Cohen said. "It's a pret- ty unfortunate incident, but we're lucky that nothing else was stolen." The residents in several of the homes have not yet returned to Ann Arbor, so it is unknown if anything was stolen, El-Ayoubi said. She added that because many stu- dents were out of town, the break-ins were reported by other residents. One break-in was even reported by a snow-plowing agency, she said. Students were deeply saddened to hear about the tremendous suffering caused by last week ' devastating tsunami and will be meeting today at 6 p.m. in the Yuri .. i i i