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ON CAMPUS
Cause of gender-
specific leadership
styles up for debate
Virginia Ota, who has conducted
research on differences in leadership
style due to gender, will discuss her
work in a lecture today from noon to
1:30 p.m. at the Center for the Educa-
tion of Women. Ota will offer her evi-
dence on the male/female debate as well
as an overview of the research findings
concerning the topic that were collected
in the last 15 years.
Photographer uses
images to protest
capital punishment
The University chapter of Amnesty
International, in continuation of its Juve-
nile Justice Campaign, will sponsor an
event with Toshi Kazama tonight from 7
to 9 p.m. in the Vandenberg Room of the
Michigan League.
Kazama, a New York-based profes-
sional photographer, interviews and pho-
tographs juvenile death row inmates with
hopes that his work will aid in abolishing
4 the death penalty and the high levels of
violence in American society. The event,
called "The Kids on Death Row," is free.
Concert features
Music faculty
The School of Music presents a free
faculty chamber concert tonight at 8
p.m. in the Britton Recital Hall. The
concert will consist of string and piano
quartet performances by violist Yizhak
t Schotten, cellist Robert DeMaine, pia-
nist Katherine Collier and violinists
Yehonatan Berick and Lara Hall.
Panel to discuss
professional options
for female workers
The Institute for Research on Women
and Gender invites the community to
learn about the vast array of career oppor-
tunities that matter to women's health,
from environmental advocacy to medi-
cine, tonight from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in room
2239 of Lane Hall. The discussion will
feature a panel of professional women,
including Tracey Easthope, environmen-
tal health director of the national envi-
ronmental group Ecology Center.
CRIME
NOTES.
Studio 4 site of
pushing, punching,
projectile bottles
Two men reported to the Ann Arbor
Police Department early Sunday morn-
ing that they were assaulted at Studio 4.
One of the victims, a 30-year-old man
from Ypsilanti, said he was at the night-
club when someone came up to him and
started pushing and yelling. According
to reports, the bouncer intervened, but
then a stranger punched the man in the
face, causing him to fall backward.
The man's friend said he tried to
help him, but was pushed and struck
with a bottle that was thrown from the
crowd.
Neither man was seriously injured,
and there are currently no suspects.
No way out: Exit
sign found missing
A Department of Public Safety offi-
cer reported that an exit sign was stolen
from Mary Markley Residence Hall on
Sunday night. There are no suspects at
this time.
THIS DAY
In Daily History
University to build
bubble chamber
March 8, 1963 - To better study
atomic particles, the University plans to
build the largest "heavy liquid" bubble
chamber in the world at its Willow Run
research facilities.
But in order for it to be fully opera-
tional, the bubble chamber must be used
in tandem with a high enerev narticle
State police to
drop out of anti-
terror ntork
LANSING (AP) - State police officials said
yesterday the agency will drop out of a data-col-
lecting system that came under fire for sharing
and collecting personal information between par-
ticipating states.
The Michigan State Police said it will stop par-
ticipating in the federally funded Multistate Anti-
Terrorism Information Exchange, or MATRIX,
when the pilot project ends March 18.
The program collects data, including driver's
license and criminal history information, and shares
access with participating states. It was intended to
make it easier to exchange information between law
enforcement agencies across the country.
The Michigan State Police said the lack of
participating states diminished the value of the
project. When the state joined the pilot project
in December 2003, it was one of 13 participat-
ing states and the network represented about half
of the country's population and half of reported
crime. Four states will remain after Michigan
leaves - Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut and
Florida, a MATRIX spokesman said.
The Michigan State Police also said it is getting
out of the system because it is worried about future
funding and unrealistic expectations.
"The need for law enforcement investigators
to access legally available information sources
for criminal investigations continues to be a criti-
cal goal," said Michigan State Police Lt. Colonel
Peter Munoz, deputy director and commander of
the Field Services Bureau.
Munoz said the state police will be receptive
to future offers to share information among law
enforcement agencies across the country.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued last
summer to stop Michigan from participating in the
MATRIX. The group argued that the MATRIX
violates Michigan's Interstate Law Enforcement
Intelligence Organizations Act. The law prohibits
state police from participating in interstate intel-
ligence gathering without legislative approval or
outside oversight.
Kary Moss, executive director of the ACLU of
Michigan, said public records were merged in the
system with databases owned by Seisint Inc. Those
databases include details on property and business
filings and other personal information.
Group proposes making juries more racially diverse
N Proposal would allow half of those in the jury box have an identi- would prevent some unscrupulous people from employees. The jury, Casey said, included just
cal or similar racial appearance to their own. using racially biased tactics to win cases." one black and mostly whites.
defendants, plaintiffs to request If enough minority jurors weren't available At least one key lawmaker, however, said he "How's that a jury of my peers?" he said.
that half of jurors be of their race in some parts of Michigan, jurors could be has deep concerns with the proposal. Casey's group has until May 2006 to turn in
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LANSING (AP) - Parties in a criminal or
civil trial could be guaranteed that members of
their racial group make up half the jury under
a measure an organization wants to put before
state lawmakers or voters.
Ypsilanti-based People of Diversity United
for Equality received the go-ahead yesterday to
start collecting signatures for proposed legisla-
tion that supporters say would protect people
from racially biased jury trials. The Board of
State Canvassers approved the form of the peti-
tions to be circulated.
The measure, called the "Casey 50/50 Jury
Act," would let plaintiffs or defendants ask that
excnangeu rom otner parts of te state.
The state would provide transportation,
lodging and food for jurors who were required
to travel outside their home jurisdiction.
The group must collect 254,206 valid sig-
natures within a 180-day period to initiate the
legislation, which would first go the Legisla-
ture. The Legislature then would have 40 ses-
sion days to adopt or reject the proposal.
If rejected by the Legislature, which appears
likely, the proposal would head to voters in
November 2006.
"Certain races are being stricken off juries,"
said Roderick Casey, leader of the group back-
ing the initiative. "This is something we feel
Kepu kican Jep. iiiiamv an Xegenmorter
of Jenison, who chairs the House Judiciary
Committee, said it would be extremely difficult
and costly to transport jurors around the state
- and decide who falls under various racial
groups.
"This indicts all jury-able persons," he said.
"It implies that jurors would make decisions
not on the facts, but on race. I don't believe
that's been the case."
Casey, a 47-year-old retired janitor who is
black, said he proposed the measure partly
because of his own experience in the justice
system. He said he was charged with assault
and battery after a confrontation with hospital
the signatures.
In the meantime, many in the legal commu-
nity will be watching tomorrow as the Michi-
gan Supreme Court considers a related issue.
The court will hear appeals from two black men
jointly convicted of murder in Wayne County.
The prosecutor used peremptory challenges to
exclude some blacks from the jury.
Defense attorneys objected, claiming the
jurors were eliminated solely on the basis of
race.
The court will consider whether the con-
stitutional rights of Gregory Rice and Jerome
Knight were violated, regardless of whether
other blacks sat on the jury.
Granholm promotes plan to develop workforce
LANSING (AP) - Gov. Jennifer Granholm,
disturbed by Michigan's high unemployment rate,
said yesterday she wants the state's job training
programs to be faster and more effective.
She wants a worker training program to match
up to 30,000 workers with jobs in growing areas
such as health care by the end of the year. The
matches would come through the Michigan
Works program, a public-private partnership
with offices statewide.
To count toward Granholm's goal, the,
retrained workers would have to keep their new
jobs long enough to document that the match has
been lasting. The timeframe has not been speci-
fied but could be about a year, officials said.
Granholm also wants more employers to use
Michigan Works as a toolto find workers. She
wants the partnership to contact 35,000 employ-
ers to identify job openings.
"We need a seamless system of work force
development," Granholm said at the first meet-
ing of the Michigan Council for Labor and Eco-
nomic Growth. "We have the capacity here to
get people back to work."
The plan is part of the MI Opportunity Part-
nership that Granholm talked about in her State
of the State address last month.
Granholm said the partnership would seek to
match up to 40,000 workers with high-demand jobs
in 2006. The matches, in large part, could come in
addition to workers already placed by Michigan
Works - more than 59,000 last year - in a vari-
ety of jobs, many of them relatively low wage.
The retrained workers would take some of
the estimated 90,000 job vacancies that already
exist in Michigan, Granholm said. Many of
those jobs have higher wages and are in high-
demand fields such as health care, skilled trades
and high-tech.
Michigan has struggled to match the unem-
ployed with jobs that will be in the most
demand, Granholm said. The 75 council mem-
bers - including representatives from govern-
ment, education and private industry - were
asked yesterday to put aside differences and
work together to get the job done.
"So much can be done here in Michigan," said
Sharon Wenzl, a Tower Automotive vice presi-
dent and chairwoman of the economic growth
council. "When we put our focus on an area, a
lot can happen."
Gov. Jennifer Granholm speaks in her State of
the State address in Lansing last month.
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