NEWS The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - 3 ON CAMPUS Parks remembered for courage, strength Witnesses of alleged abuses to speak tomorrow The Coke Coalition, a group that has accused the Coca Cola Company of human rights abuses in India and Colombia, will bring in eyewitnesses Amit Srivastava and Luis Adolfo to talk about the alleged labor abuses they say they have seen. They will be speaking today at 6 p.m. at the School of Social Work. Seattle AIDS activists will rally on the Diag A caravan from the Campaign to End AIDS will arrive in Ann Arbor on the Diag at .11:45 a.m. today. After the hour-long rally, they will continue on their way, stopping in cities across the United States until they reach Washington. Film to be screened for Native American Heritage month There will be a screening of "In the Light of Reverence" at the Wil- liam Monroe Trotter Multicultural' Center this evening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The film details the accounts of the Lakota, Hopi and Wintu tribes following the controversy over places such as Devil's Tower in Wyoming and the debates between the preservation or development of those lands. The film has been shown inter- nationally for the last decade and was directed over 10 years by Chris- topher McLeod and is narrated by Peter Coyote. CRIME NOTES Man found drunk inside University parking garage A male not affiliated with the Uni- versity was picked up for being openly intoxicated in the parking structure at 525 Church St. at around 10 p.m. Sun- day, the Department of Public safety reported. The male already had a war- rant out for his arrest. He also had an expired license. His bond was $300, but he was not able to post it, so he was escorted off campus and released. Fire extinguisher stolen from East Quad stairwell On Sunday night, a fire extinguisher was stolen from a basement-level stairwell of East Quadrangle Residence Hall, DPS reported. There are currently no suspects. The theft was reported at 11:19 p.m. Cash stolen from patient's room About $100 in cash was stolen from a patient's room at University Health Ser- vice, DPS reported. The alleged crime was reported Sunday night at around 5:30 p.m. There are no known suspects. Caravan broken into, property taken The passenger window of a Dodge Caravan was broken into at about 11 a.m. Sunday morning, DPS reported. Victims allege that personal property was missing. The crime occurred at 525 Church St. on the third level of the Church Street parking garage. THIS DAY In Daily History Portion of North Campus building collapses r Nation mourns, celebrates loss of civil rights movement hero in variety of ways WASHINGTON (AP) - Linking hands and singing "We Shall Overcome," old friends and Wash- ington's establishment remembered Rosa Parks yes- terday as a quiet, gentle woman whose courage in the face of segregation helped inspire generations. An overflow church crowd paid tribute to the woman whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus 50 years ago helped galvanize the modern civil rights movement. The two-day farewell and "homegoing" in Washing- ton also attracted tens of thousands who stood for hours for a glimpse of Parks's mahogany coffin in the Capitol Rotunda. In a three-hour memorial service at historic Met- ropolitan A.M.E. Church, Parks was celebrated by political, religious and civil rights leaders and other luminaries who spoke of the example she set with a simple act of defiance. "I would not be standing here today, nor stand- ing where I stand every day, had she not chosen to sit down," said talk show host Oprah Winfrey. "I know that." Winfrey, who was born in Mississippi during segregation, said Parks' stand "changed the trajec- tory of my life and the lives of so many other people in the world." Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson of the Afri- can Methodist Episcopal Church called Parks a "woman of quiet strength" who was "noble without pretense, regal in her simplicity, courageous without being bombastic." Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said Parks' refusal to give up her seat "was the functional equiva- lent of a nonviolent shot heard round the world." "She saw the inherent evil in segregation and she had the courage to fight it in its common place, a seat on a bus," said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) At the end of the service, the audience joined hands and sang the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome." Mourners reached into the aisle to touch her casket as it was wheeled out of the church. Afterward, Parks's casket was flown to Detroit, where a viewing began at mid-evening at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Former President Clinton and singer Aretha Franklin were scheduled to attend her funeral Wednesday. Parks, who died last Monday at 92, was arrested Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on demand, as required by law at the time. The incident inspired a boycott that vaulted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to prominence and sparked the civil rights movement that brought an end to for- mal segregation. Friends recalled that Parks was an active NAACP member before her arrest and had grown weary of laws and rules that separated the races in buses, restaurants and public accommodations throughout the South. Dorothy Height, president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women, remembered that Parks said at the time that she was "sick and tired of giving in to a system so unjust." "She said it in her gentle manner but with the same vigor of the prophets of old as they struck injustice," Height said. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said her legacy was so great that when former South African President Nelson Mandela visited Detroit in 1990, he led the crowd in a chant of Parks's name. The moment "made us realize that this is an inter- national phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide," said Conyers, who hired Parks to work in his Detroit congressional office. Her memorial brought together leaders of both parties, from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. Bouchard enters U.S. Senate race Oakland County sheriff one of the three Republicans challenging Stabenow in 2006 LANSING (AP) - Oakland Coun- ty Sheriff Michael Bouchard jumped back into the race for U.S. Senate yes- terday, crowding the field of potential Republican challengers to Democrat- ic incumbent Debbie Stabenow. Bouchard, a former state senator and sheriff of Michigan's second most is below 50 percent. Butlerrsaid Monday thatwBouchard was recruited by people who were "uncomfortable" with his candidacy, but that he is in the race to stay. "Michael Bouchard has clearly responded to the lobbyists and pow- erbrokers in Washington who have recruited him with the promise of financial support," Butler said in a statement. "These individuals are uncomfortable with my candidacy. "I have not spent years hanging out with and being entertained by Lansing and Washington lobbyists. I am an populous county since 1999, joins "(Stabenw)is a nice ministers Keith But- person. But she isn't what ler and Jerry Zandstra in 'd call an impact player" the Repub- lican field - Michael Bouchard, for the 2006 'B election. Oakland County Sheriff Bouchard, 49, in February backed out from a pos- lenger, publisher of1 sible Senate run, citing heart-related Politics, said Republic health issues. But he said earlier this in an awkward positio month he had addressed the health late entrance into ther issues and was again considering a is black, already has Senate run. by several of Michiga The Republican primary is in including Senate Majo August. The winner would take on Sta- Sikkema of Wyomin benow in the November 2006 general General Mike Cox. election. "If they desert But "We need someone who won't just talk Bouchard, it looks1 about problems or point fingers, but will deserting a blackc make things happen," Bouchard said. what kind of messag "(Stabenow) is a nice person. But she isn't lenger said. what I'd call an impact player." Ballenger noted t Bouchard, who served with Stabe- National Committee now is the state Senate, said he was Mehlman visited Flintin asked by Republicans inside and out- voters and has courtedl side of Michigan to run for the U.S. by saying the GOP sha Senate. He said homeland security and values on issues such a economic issues are among the most nomic opportunities, i important driving the race. tion and opposing gay Butler, a former Detroit City Coun- attended the Flint event cil member, is founder and senior pas- The Zandstra campa tor of the 21,000-member Word of Faith say it was building on International Christian Center Church in has gained in recent w Southfield. The Troy resident officially paign hired pollster S announced his campaign in April. East Lansing-based M Zandstra, from Cutlerville, has been on and Communications; leave from his jobs as a minister and as ued to receive endorse program director of a Grand Rapids-area "I welcome the sh think tank after announcing his candidacy what we promise willt in May. ed and highly conteste Stabenow leads both Butler and paign," Zandstra said Zandstra by at least 20 points in the "Bouchard better ge latest head-to-head polls from Lan- up his gloves, climb i sing-based EPIC/MRA. But Republi- bring his 'A' game on, cans think they have a chance to beat on the important econ her, noting that her job approval rating ing Michigan." independent, conservative Republican who, with Michigan grassroots party support, will go to Washington to fight the status quo," he said. Bill Bal- Inside Michigan ans could be put n by Bouchard's race. Butler, who been endorsed n's GOP leaders ority Leader Ken g and Attorney tler and flock to like people are candidate. And e is that?" 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The stay temporarily voids the Ingham County ruling, which explicitly refuted Cox's nonbinding opinion stating that Kalamazoo's policy of providing domes- tic-partner benefits was in violation of the 2004 amendment. The stay does not affect the University, Peterson said, because it restores an opinion that was never binding on the University in the first place. Despite the temporary setback, the ACLU remains optimistic it will prevail in the appeal. "We're confident Judge Draganchuk's ruling will be upheld," Kaplan said. The case could ultimately be decided by the Michigan Supreme Court, which could take up an appeal of the ACLU case Jackie Simpson, interim director of the University's LGBT Office. She said she views efforts to deny health-care ben- efits from domestic partners as "a direct attack on the LGBT community." "I wish they would find something else to do," she added. Julica Hermann, assistant director for educational outreach in the LGBT Office, said she was not deterred by yes- terday's ruling. "We need to continue to struggle," she said. Simpson's and Hermann's concerns are mitigated by the University's continued support of the LGBT community. "What I am convinced of is that (Uni- versity) President (Mary Sue) Coleman ... will continue to offer domestic partner benefits to her employees and will take it to court if necessary," Simpson said. Still, she said a ruling against domes- tic-partner benefits could deal a major blow to the University. "There could be a drastic decrease in the LGBT faculty and staff who work at the University," as well as the number of graduate students with families, she . . . . ............