Friday, April 15, 2005 Opinion 4 Jasmine Clair's last column t oat4tt! Weather Arts 5 U' student makes beats for big- name stars t~a58 LOW- 42 TOMORROW: f ":llf l One-hundred-fourteen years ofeditorialfreedom www.mzhkiandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXV, No. 120 ©2005 The Michigan Daily 22 students targeted in p U Bursley Residence Hall, Zeta Beta Tau among buildings searched by AAPD By Karl Stampfl Daily Staff Reporter Police announced yesterday that they raided 15 buildings on and around campus on Wednes- day in the culmination of a six-month undercover drug bust, unearthing a sales ring that stretched from Bursley Residence Hall to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity to 13 off-campus houses. Of 24 suspects, 22 were University students and one was an alum. The Ann Arbor Police Department assisted the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforce- ment Team in the operation, which unearthed a reported 34 pounds of marijuana at an estimated worth of more than $100,000, five guns, $13,000 in cash, six cars, small amounts of various nar- cotics and assorted other property valued at $100,000, The Ann Arbor News reported. Charges for delivery of drugs and possession with intent to deliver were levied against 22 peo- ple, the paper reported. Overall, police issued charges for 24 misdemeanors and 32 felonies. The names of the suspects have not yet been released. Yesterday, 11 people were arraigned, warrants were released for five others and police are still looking for five more, NBC's Local 4 News reported. Other charges include running a drug house. Police found four places where marijuana was grown indoors with a capability of producing 15 to 20 pounds of the drug a year, The Ann Arbor News reported. University officials did not return phone mes- sages asking them to comment on the Univer- sity's involvement in the investigation and any University action that might be taken against the students. Zeta Beta Tau President Josh Banschick said police searched one room of the fraternity and did not make any arrests, but he would not com- ment on what was found. One fraternity member is currently under investigation but has not been charged. Banschick said the media have distorted Zeta Beta Tau's level of involvement in the police raid. "A lot of what was shown on the news and written in the papers was a very skewed por- trayal," he said. Banschick discounted a local television report that said fraternity members shouted obscenities at the media. "They took some shots of guys from far away, )t bust about a 100 yards away, and claimed the guys were screaming obscenities, which is absolutely false," he said. Banschick described a video available last night on www.clickondetroit.com, Local 4's website, that showed a fraternity member talk- ing on his cell phone from a long distance that appeared to be out of ear-shot. News producers bleeped out what he was saying in an attempt to make it seem as though he was shouting obsceni- ties, Banschick claimed. "They falsely censored him from a distance that was impossible to hear from," Banschick said. "At the time, I was on the phone with See BUST, Page 7 OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE F' ' File-sharing suit focuses on Intemet2 High-speed network, originally developed at the University, is mostly used by researchers but has capacity for large-scale file sharing By Chris Gaerig Daily Arts Writer The Recording Industry Association of America - the group responsible for the production and distribution of 90 percent of the legal music in the United States - will again ratchet up its presence on many college campuses. The RIAA announced this week that it would be filing copyright infringement violations against 405 stu- dents from 18 campuses across the country. There are currently no University students among those that will be facing charges. The target of this slew of lawsuits is the Internet2 application i2hub. Internet2 is a high-speed network on campuses across the nation, including the University, where it was originally developed. Unlike most file-sharing applications, not all students are able to utilize i2hub and Internet2. Some of the specifications for use are "at least 10M bps switched access to a 100M bps departmental net- work," the network must support multicast services and "worksta- tions must be able to sustain high bandwidth applications" according to the University's Internet2 site. Internet2 is currently being utilized on campus primarily for research. Alex Ade - who worked on the Visible Human Project - said that he had not heard of illegal file sharing across the net- work. He said VHS consists of staff and researchers who have little interaction with the student body on the network. i2hub - a program much like Napster that runs exclusively on Internet2 - makes sending and receiving files on the high-speed network easy and efficient. The peer-to-peer application is easily downloadable and usable by anyone with Internet2. "Downloading from i2hub via Internet2 is extremely fast - in most cases, less than five minutes for a movie or less than 20 seconds for a song," accord- ing to the RIAA's official press release. RIAA President Cary Sherman said these lawsuits aren't simply a witch-hunt. "Internet2 is an amazing network that holds great prom- ise. We can't let it be hijacked for illegal purposes from the outset," he said. Although Sherman stressed that "college students are not the pri- mary target," he added that the RIAA has identified students at 140 unnamed universities across the nation for possible future litigation. For the time being, they are opting to only prosecute 25 students from each university. "Today's lawsuits are different in that we focused on i2hub, which is uniquely available on college campuses. Hence the focus on stu- dents in this round only," 'Sherman added during an online inter- view. The RIAA plans to send notices and warnings to the presi- See INTERNET2, Page 7 JULIA TAPPER/Daily LSA freshman Julie Haehnel blows a bubble at the Ann Arbor Reaching Out table on the Diag on Goodness Day yesterday. Church losing pull over Catholics Study shows that Vatican's positions on social issues are increasingly ignored in rich countries By Andres Kwon For the Daily While the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church man- dates that divorce, homosexuality, abortion and birth control are unacceptable, according to the World Values Survey conducted by the University's Institute for Social Research, not every Catholic agrees. According to political science Prof. Ronald Ingle- hart, director of the World Values Survey, most prac- ticing Catholics did not accept divorce 50 years ago. By 2000, however, only 6 percent of the Catholic respondents in the United States said that divorce was never justifiable. Attitudes toward abortion and homosexuality have fol- lowed the same pattern. Inglehart found that the percent- age of U.S. Catholics who believe that abortion is never justifiable fell from 50 percent in 1981 to 37 percent in 2000. The percentage of U.S. Catholics saying that homo- sexuality is never justifiable dropped from 60 percent in 1981 to 19 percent in 2000. This increasing approval of the "forbidden practices" is not a pattern unique to the United States or to Catholics. Inglehart said Protestants have witnessed a similar pat- tern. "Overall," he said, "although there has been only a slight decline in church attendance, there's been a major decline in the importance of religion in rich nations." Inglehart referred to secularization as an occurrence in developed nations, where the majority of people take survival for granted. In the developing world, on the other hand, he said that people who are economically insecure "seek a sense of security - that somehow (their survival) is in the hands of some benevolent being." See CATHOLICS, Page 3 New class criticizes U' admissions Heroes, friends emerge in Project Outreach Outspoken affirmative * action critic Carl Cohen to teach class By Amber Colvin Daily Staff Reporter A Residential College class titled "Race and University Admissions" will be taking a closer look at two 2003 U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding the University's race-conscious admissions process this fall. The mini-course will concentrate on the plaintiffs' position that race-based * admissions are unjust. Grutter v. Roinger challenged the a balanced discussion of the issue. Cohen said the course is a response to the University's supportive stance on affirmative action. "My view normally is that professors ought not take a position on matters of a controversial matter, but on this very com- plicated subject ... the University takes a very strong position," Cohen said. "So I thought it would not be inappropriate for me to speak vigorously for it to balance that controversial activity." The class will include visits from Jen- nifer Gratz and Barbara Grutter, the plain- tiffs from the two cases. Cohen said he asked the administration for permission to teach a course designed "You get out of the class what you put into it," said LSA freshman Breanne Vander Naald, one of 11 stu- dents who visit a group of boys at the Maxey every Tesday evening. "We are just going there to be a good friend and hopefully leave a positive impact." Maxey is a state juvenile facility where troubled youth, ages 12 to 21, are incarcerated by courts in order to obtain rehabilitation and re-entry into society by completing a court-ordered program, said Denise Thomas, activity therapy supervisor at Maxey. Maxey is just one of several facilities that students can visit when they enroll in the class. Students taking the course are required to do a project, but there is no other expectation beyond that. Vander Naald said the group started out doing ice- breakers and other activities with the boys, but said they quickly realized that they were not accomplishing what they had set out to do. The group decided that it would be nice to end the semester with a culmination of all the things that had been learned and said they felt the best way to do this IN . m RA I