Wednesday, October 12, 2005 S . - News 3 Northwest plans to meet with striking mechanics Arts 8 Fiona Apple shows 'Extraordinary' growth diir i6wuivaiv Sports 10 Vozza sustains injury, M' places fourth One-hundredfifteen years ofeditorial freedom www.mic/ngandaziy.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXVI, No. 10 ©2005 The Michigan Daily Death count passes 35,000 0 Pakistani authorities say 2 million were left homeless after 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Heavy rain and hail grounded helicopters and stopped trucks loaded with relief supplies yesterday, imposing more misery on hungry, shivering earthquake survivors as the United Nations warned of potentially lethal outbreaks of mea- sles, cholera and diarrhea. Dazed, desperate villagers fought over food packages and looted trucks as the first aid reached this devastated city in the mountains of Kashmir. The Himalayan region was hardest-hit by Saturday's magnitude-7.6 quake. Officials said the death toll from Pakistan's worst quake had surpassed 35,000, with many bodies still buried beneath piles of concrete, steel and wood. Mil- lions were left homeless after whole communities were flattened in the region touching Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Three days after the quake, survivors still were being pulled from the rubble of pancaked schools and houses by British, German, French and Chinese rescue teams. A Red Cross official said people could survive under the rubble up to five or even seven days. A 75-year-old woman and her 57-year-old daughter were rescued after 80 hours in the ruins of an Islam- abad apartment tower, and a teenage boy was freed in the northern town of Balakot. "He's alive!" rescuers shouted with joy as people gave the boy food and water and kissed him on the head. The air smelled of decomposing corpses. The U.N. World Food Program began a major airlift of emergency supplies, including high-energy bars to feed 240,000 people. NATO agreed to coordinate an airlift of aid supplies from Europe. Eight U.S. military helicopters based in neighboring Afghanistan shuttled 16 tons of food, water, medical supplies and blankets to quake-hit zones, the military said. Chinook and Black Hawk choppers flew 102 relief workers and others into the region and evacuated 126 people, said Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara, spokesman for the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan. In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said 25 to 30 more military helicopters would be in Pakistan within days. The Islamabad government also requested earth- movers, forklifts, bulldozers and trucks, spokesman Larry Di Rita said. The United Nations appealed for $272 million in donations, saying 2 million people were homeless. The United States pledged $50 million, Japan $20 million, Canada $17 million and Britain $3.5 million. Other nations donated more helicopters, money and supplies, including tents, blankets, medical aid and food kits. "We as a nation are going through a challenging time," Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said. "We are overwhelmed by the support we are getting both within the country and outside the country and are thankful to those countries, friends and individuals who have made our task easier." See EARTHQUAKE, Page 7 'Hotel Rwanda' hero receives award from 'U' By Christina Hildreth Daily Staff Reporters Last February, the Oscar-winning film "Hotel Rwanda" exposed millions of moviegoers to the horror of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In 100 days that year, Hutu militia killed almost a mil- lion people. Last night, students met the man who begged the world to take notice. "The world decided to run away. It closed ears, eyes and abandoned us," he told the crowd. Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film, delivered the 15th Raoul Wallenberg lec- ture last night to a crowd of more than 2,000 people at the Power Center. Rusesabagina won the Wallenberg Medal in recognition of his courageous actions, which saved 1,268 people taking refuge from the geno- cide in the Hotel des Milles Collines in Kigali. People hoping to hear the lecture started to form a line outside the Power Center at 5:30 p.m., said organizers, who expected to move at least 300 people to overflow rooms in the Michigan League where the lecture was broadcast live on television. Half an hour before the lecture started at 7:30 See RWANDA, Page 7 NOAH KORL~N/Daily TOP: Paul Rusesabagina talks with students at the Michigan League about his experiences during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. RIGHT: Rusesabagina accepts the Wallenberg medal. Study: Positive view of Columbus lingers * Even among some Native Americans, the explorer is seen as a hero, research finds By C.C. Song Daily Staff Reporter While Columbus Day has garnered criti- cism for celebrating a man who left a legacy of atrocities against the indigenous people of the Americas, a new study released by the University finds that the majority of the pub- lic still views the explorer in a positive light. Today marks the anniversary of Chris- topher Columbus's Oct. 12 landing in the Americas. Columbus is often lambasted for atrocities such as allowing fellow colonists to torture and enslave the native peoples on the island of Hispaniola, which lies east of Cuba. Howard Schuman, a research scientist at the University's Institute for Social Research and the lead author of the study, said the results show that many Americans are still unaware of the violence associated with Columbus's voy- ages to the New World. Schuman's research found that out of 2,000 people surveyed, 85 percent described Columbus in positive terms. The study found that, in contrast, students on college campuses are generally critical of the holiday. The study also shows that only 42 percent of Native Americans view Columbus in a negative light, a finding that surprised Schuman. "(Native Americans are) influenced by the rest of the United States's conventional think- ing about Columbus," Schuman said. Brittany Marino, an LSA junior and the president of the Native American Student Association on campus, said the general per- ception of Columbus should be corrected. "Columbus Day ... is the nation that I live See COLUMBUS, Page 7 Nonviolence may become a minor PIRATES OF THE DIAG Candidate's son pleads guilty to drunk driving * U RC prof and student work to establish a program for peace studies By Ian Herbert Daily Staff Reporter When Will Travers came to the Uni- versity as a 22-year-old freshman in the Residential College, he said a typical RC concentration in the social sciences was not for him - he wanted to major in nonviolence. He knew that Wayne State University offered a course called "Intro to Peace and Conflict Studies" and thought nonviolence "was as good a major as any." To realize his goal, Travers crafted an indlivirualiedr cnenntration he ulty members. Last Thursday, Travers held a meet- ing with about a dozen professors to presenthis final proposal. Travers said the responses he received from the professors who saw his presentation gave him hope that his nonviolence studies program may have a chance at the University. "The plan of action is to inspire peo- ple in this room to go make it happen," Travers said at the meeting. But Travers, who recently graduated, is leaving his project to pursue a new, life in California while RC Prof. Helen Fox takes the reins in pursuing nonvio- lence studies. In the past few years, Fox has taught a course titled "Nonviolence in Action," which Travers sees a one of the core Freman Hendrix's son plans to return to classes in the Business School (AP) - Stephen Hendrix, the son of Detroit mayoral candidate Freman Hendrix, was arraigned yesterday in a drunken driving case hours after facing a mis- demeanor domestic violence charge. Stephen Hendrix, 21, was arrested April 2 in Ypsilanti Township near Ann Arbor on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and was mailed to the wrong address. The Washtenaw County prosecutor's office and Pope's office confirmed the charges later yesterday. Freman Hendrix said after his son's arraignment on the drunken driving case that he learned of it yesterday. "I did not know of this until I was here," Hendrix said in a story posted on the Free Press's website. "Stephen is 21. If he could have kept this from me, he would have. Our kids don't want the wrath of their parents coming down on them for bad judgment."