NEWS The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 3 ON CAMPUS East Asian art on display at Museum of Art An exhibition of East Asian Art in the Alumni Memorial Hall of the Uni- versity Museum of Art features works never before displayed. The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and includes media ranging from tex- tiles to paintings and photos. Free screening of documentary on the Silk Road "The Silk Road," which was com- posed of several routes through the harsh Taklimakin Desert of Central Asia, allowed for a cultural exchange between Europe and the East. The UMMA will present a free screening of a documen- tary on the history of the trade route at 12:10 p.m. this afternoon in the Alumni Memorial Hall. Fortune Magazine staffers to speak Fortune Magazine photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee's collaboration during the summer of 1936 resulted in a literary and artis- tic examination of the lives of three families living in Alabama during The Great Depression. An exhibit featur- ing Evans's photos and Agee's writings will be on display from 10 a.m to 5 p.m today in the Alumni Memorial Hall of the UMMA. CRIME NOTES Cell phone stolen during Ohio State Football game The Department of Public Safety received a report on Monday that a cell phone was stolen from Michigan Sta- dium during the Michigan-Ohio State football game on Saturday. There are no suspects. Hateful message written on dry- erase board A residential hall advisor contacted DPS after finding a hateful message on a dry-erase board on the fifth floor of Couzens Residence Hall this past week- end. The message was racial in nature but was most likely not intended for the resident of the room, who is a white female. There are no suspects. CDs stolen from Student Activities Building DPS received reports that 30 to 40 CDs that were stolen from the Student Activities Building during the past week. The CDs are the property of the University radio station. There are no suspects. Hendrix seeks recount from mayoral race Challenger says there is enough evidence to suggest voter fraud in recent election DETROIT (AP) - Detroit mayoral chal- lenger Freman Hendrix announced yesterday he will ask for a hand recount of votes from the Detroit mayoral election, which he lost earlier this month to incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick. "It may be tempting for some to dismiss this as a complaint from a sore loser," Hendrix said at a news conference. "But there has been enough evidence ... to raise legitimate ques- tions about how the election was conducted and how the ballots were counted." A spokesman for the Kilpatrick campaign was expected to comment to The Associated Press on the request later yesterday. Hendrix announced his decision the same day that the city's Board of Canvassers certified the Nov. 8 vote; Kilpatrick got 123,140 votes, or 53 percent,to 108,600 votes, or 47 percent, for Hendrix, the secretary of state's office said. Unofficial{ totals earlier had Kilpatrick with 123,067 votes, or 53 percent, to Hendrix's 108,539 votes, or 47 percent. The secretary of state's office had been working with the city to prepare for the final vote certification and to identify problems with the count. The request for a recount will be made to the Wayne County Board of Canvassers. Hendrix spokeswoman Cathy Nedd said it will cost Hen- drix about $7,200 to request the recount, but she didn't know how much it would cost to conduct it. The request comes as Detroit is facing a budget deficit that's estimated to be as big as $300 million by next year. Kilpatrick spokes- man Howard Hughey said the recount could "But there has been enough evidence ... to raise legitimate questions about how the election was conducted and how the ballots were counted." - Freman Hendrix Kwame Kilpatrick's challenger in Detroit's mayoral race cost the city nearly $600,000. Following the vote, officials reported that at 17 of the city's 720 precincts, information from ballots used to test tabulating machines wasn't cleared before actual votes were cast, leading to some changes in the vote totals. And eight precincts weren't included in the initial vote counts because information from data packs wasn't properly delivered to the Detroit city clerk'soffice, state elections offi- cials have said. Election Day in Detroit included action in court as the Justice Department obtained an order for the secretary of state to preserve absentee ballots cast in the mayor's race, the applications to get them and the envelopes in which they were sent. The order was requested on behalf of the FBI. Ford chairman urges incentives for innovation Company urges Congress to increase tax credits for auto R&D WASHINGTON (AP) - Ford Motor Co. Chairman and CEO Bill Ford urged Congress yesterday to offer a package of tax incentives to drive innovation in the auto industry and make the nation less dependent on foreign oil. Ford, during a speech in Washing- ton, urged Congress to "dramatically increase" tax credits for research and development of alternative vehicles and consider tax incentives to help American manufacturers modernize their plants. He also urged investments in train- ing programs for American workers, the encouraging of consumers to buy fuel-saving vehicles and partnerships to build an infrastructure of gasoline stations offering ethanol. "Now, more than ever, I believe we must take action," Ford said. "If we put our heads together and keep in mind our shared interest in America's future, I'm confident that we can innovate our way toward the right solutions." Ford was scheduled to meet with White House officials later Tuesday. In September, he urged President Bush to convene an energy summit with automakers, suppliers, energy companies, consumers and the gov- ernment "to discuss our nation's ener- gy security and our role in helping find a solution." Ford, the great-grandson of Ford founder Henry Ford, said the incen- tives could build upon those includ- ed in the energy bill signed into law this year. The measure offered up to $3,600 in tax credits for consumers who buy hybrid vehicles and encour- aged the use of ethanol. Ford would need to show that the incentives are not corporate welfare and would help the nation's fleet of vehicles achieve higher fuel economy, said David Friedman, research direc- tor of the clean vehicles program for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "U.S. taxpayers can't afford to prop up companies that have basically done poor planning, but we can afford to do it if we get something out it," Fried- man said. "(Taxpayers) need to be guaranteed that they're going to get something out of this in terms of higher fuel economy, not just more hybrids on the road." Ford has launched a public cam- paign to describe its plans to produce 250,000 hybrids a year by 2010, 10 times the number it produces now. It currently has two hybrid sport utility vehicles on the market. It has also announced plans to produce 250,000 ethanol-capable vehicles in 2006, including the Ford F-150 pickup, Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car. Ford has struggled in North Ameri- can and faced challenges, along with other American automakers, by increased competition from Asia and steep health care costs and high costs for raw materials. The automaker reported a third-quar- ter loss of $284 million last month, and Ford said he will complete a restructur- ing plan in December and announce "significant" U.S. plant closings in Janu- ary and layoffs affecting salaried work- ers and hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers. A day after rival General Motors Corp. said it would eliminate 30,000 jobs and close all or part of 12 facili- ties, Ford declined to provide details on his company's restructuring plan. "Restructuring alone won't bring success. It's something we have to do. We will address it. We have plans in place to do it," Ford said. "But frank- ly, that's not something the customer much cares about. The customer wants the latest and greatest technology. The customer wants leadership in tech- nologies that are going to make their lives better." THIS DAY .. , In Daily History Ann Arbor Police crack down on fraternities Nov. 23, 1991 - In an effort to reduce the consumption of alcohol by minors, the State Liquor Commission has pro- vided the Ann Arbor Police Department with funding to enforce alcohol policies on campus. Representatives from the Greek system say they are feeling pressure to curb alco- hol consumption at fraternity parties. "We are under pressure from the national system (and) the State Liquor Commission," said Cyndi Mueller, the judicial vice president of the Panhellenic Association. "A lot of sorority members are aware of the need for a policy." The Interfraternity Council has cre- BACON Continued from page 1A them from moral harm. With few exceptions, unmarried women were required to live in Uni- versity-approved all-female housing, where they were subject to strict curfews and dress codes, and where University officials could scrutinize their dates and visitors. These methods, Steneck noted,, were then common on campuses across the nation and widely popular with parents. But as the decade went on and the '60s approached, students grew increasingly discon- tented with what they saw as the University's intrusive approach to their personal lives. And Bacon, in particular, became a target of their pro- test. Chief among the students' complaints was Bacon's alleged practice of discouraging white women from dating men of other races. "None of this was new," Steneck said. "Dean Bacon was enforcing it at a time when the cul- tural mores were changing, the Baby Boomers were arriving on campus, and the students just weren't going to have this. It just no longer was rational or reasonable." Eventually, a group of Michigan Daily editors and other students, led by then-Daily editor Tom Hayden, gathered accusations and evidence from female alumni - including complaints that Bacon had severely punished women for visiting with black men after hours and had written to a white freshman's mother to inform her that her daughter had been dating black men - and in 1961 pre- sented them to the administration. Within months, the University established a committee, led by Law School Prof. John Reed, to examine its relationship with students. The committee's report recommended a sea change in the University's philosophy toward student life - beginning with the elimination of Bacon's position. In September 1961, after months of controversy and uproar from alumni, Bacon resigned from her post and took up teach- ing in the English department. "The Reed Report was the foundation of the place of students at the University today," Steneck said. "They felt wholesale change was necessary in the relationship between the University and students, including dismantling the offices of the dean of women and dean of men.... Dean Bacon's resignation, which was a forced resignation, was one of the first steps in that change." The Reed Report's recommendations spelled out the end of the administration's paternalism toward female students. Throughout the rest of the decade, the University would make most of its residence halls co-ed, abolish curfews and allow women to live off campus. And with the deans of men and women eliminated, the admin- istration's power to punish students for private infractions - a power Steneck said those offices had wielded absolutely and with little oversight - was severely reduced. Steneck noted that the upheaval in the Universi- ty's relationship with students in the '60s was one of the most powerful examples in the University's history of student-driven change. "I think there's a feeling on the part of students today that you couldn't make a difference," she said. "These students felt that they could, and they went out and did it. The University changed, and absolutely for the better." After the University Bacon continued to teach at the University as an assistant professor of English for seven years, taking two unpaid leaves to serve as the only white professor at the historically black St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C., according to a Michi- gan Today profile from 2002. After retiring in 1968, Bacon spent the next three decades writ- ing several books and traveling to more than 48 countries. She moved to the Chelsea Retirement Community in 1998. "She was very alert to the end," said Carol Peck- ham, director of resident services at the retirement home. Peckham, who knew Bacon for only the last three years of her life, described her as a voracious reader who loved classical music and the arts. "She was very articulate, with an excellent vocabulary - the kind of person who listened to NPR," Peckham said. Lindsay Helfman, an LSA senior who is writing her thesis on Bacon's role in the history of women at the University, interviewed Bacon in March. "Although she was 98, she still exuded the sharp, formidable charisma which marked her tenure as the last dean of women," she said. Hayden, the former Daily editor who led the campaign against Bacon in 1961, expressed regret upon hearing of her death. "I regret colliding with her and never seeking to reconcile," he said in an e-mail. Bacon never married, and she is survived by a niece, two nephews and longtime friend Elsie Fuller, among others. Bacon's memorial service will be held at Chelsea Retirement Community at 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 4. COKE Continued from page 1 Coke's lawyer, Potter, requested that all plaintiffs sign an agreement that would prevent them from using any evidence gathered from independent investigations conducted by universities. Collingsworth wrote in a letter to Potter dated "It's pretty obvious that if Coca-Cola wasn't that something would be found, they wouldn't afraid try to take legal measures to obscure the information," said RC senior and coalition member Clara Hardie. Potter vehemently rejected Collingsworth's implica- tions in a letter dated Nov. 16. "For someone I have known for more than a decade, and with whom I have had most cordial dealings, I find able interpretation of (your proposal) is that it is designed to preclude us from using in court any new evidence that is uncovered in the investiga- tion. As you know, it would be an ethical violation for me to agree to bury evidence that could assist my clients in trial." 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