NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7A BAMN Continued from page 1A shortly after the October rally. She added that BAMN's open endorsement of the use of violence along with its blind devo- tion to affirmative action and Marxist ideology, turned her off from its cause. But Ben Royal, a BAMN organizer, said Wittaniemi is an imposter who infil- trated BAMN and attended its meetings to gain inside information to be used against it. Wittaniemi is also a member of Young Americans for Freedom, a con- servative group that opposes affirmative action. Royal said the use of violence "has never been an issue for us," but declined to comment further. He added that BAMN uses middle and high school students in their campaigns to follow in footsteps of civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., who used children in his move- ments to end segregation in schools. "People are actually against BAMN because they know that BAMN is the only effective defense for affirmative action," Royal said. Shuster said while the majority of the members are supporters of MCRI, the group has attracted support from a hand- ful of members in pro-affirmative action groups like the College Democrats. But Bakale-Wise said she is skeptical as to how encompassing the new group truly is. She said of the organizations she has spoken to, "None of the very active, pro-affirmative action student of color organizations ... were contacted by this purportedly inclusive anti-BA MN orga- nization." Riana Anderson, president of the Uni- versity chapter of the NAACP, said her organization was never contacted to join the new group, although she was person- ally sent a facebook message to join the group online. At the same time, while the NAACP has publicly condemned BAMN, the chapter is not actively working to uproot the group from campus. "At this point we are simply trying to go about our purpose, instead of wasting time and energy to go against them," she said. The new group recently sent e-mails to the principals of various Detroit public schools whose students were involved in the October rally. The e-mails pointed out BAMN's violent history and called for the principals to prohibit the group from their schools. None of the responses they have received indicated the principals would make any changes, Shuster said. Mattie Majors, a spokeswoman for Detroit Public Schools, said she has not received any complaints relating to BAMN. MCRI Continued from page 1A words could be worse," said Waymire. BAMN is continuing to battle the proposal, even though the language was confirmed and canvassers expect it to stand. "We're willing to fight this on every front that we can," Massie said. BAMN appealed the Board's deci- sion to the state Supreme Court last Wednesday, but DeGrow is confident it will not deter the proposal going on the ballot. "This language and this act order this proposal to the ballot," DeGrow said. One United Michigan is focusing on educating people about what the proposal language really means in an effort to avoid the confusion and deception they say the MCRI purpose- ly created in the petitions. "We are focusing on informing the public about this proposal and the things it will do to Michigan," Waymire said. "We see them as equal opportunity programs." Massie said BAMN estimates 200,000 people of the 508,000 sig- natures on the petition that put the proposal on the ballot because the signature gatherers told them it was to uphold affirmative action. He estimat- ed 125,000 of them were black. Waymire said that efforts to exclude MCRI from this fall's election will be futile. "We don't believe there is any chance that the Court of Appeals will make any serious revisions, based on past precedent," said Waymire. If passed, the proposal would affect programs in state employment, education, contracting and university admissions poli- cies. Both Waymire and O'Connor cited results of a similar proposal implemented in California in 1998 as reasons to uphold the state's affirmative action programs. O'Connor said the California ban even affected engineering outreach programs that encourage middle-school girls to take math. Waymire said he believes women and not minorities, would be the most affected by the proposal because they have benefited the most from affirmative action programs. Waymire said leaders on both sides of the spectrum oppose the ban of affirma- tive action, including Granholm, Sen. Deb- bie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and both of their potential opponents in the 2006 election. One United Michigan is hoping this will encourage voters to oppose the proposal. "We think people will see these leaders are opposed to it," he said. Ballot language Below are the 96 words of the initiative on November's ballot that, if passed, would ban some affirmative action pro- grams in Michigan. The proposed constitutional amendment would: Ban public institutions from using affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes. Public institutions affected by the proposal include state government, local governments, public colleges and universities, community colleges and school districts. Prohibit public institutions from discriminating against groups or individuals due to their gender, ethnicity, race, color or national origin. (A separate provision of the state constitution already prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin.) HATE CRIMES Continued from page 1A istration will soon create a centralized hotline for students to report hate crimes. The number will allow University officials to monitor the severity and fre- quency of hate crimes on campus and build educa- tional programs to help change the "cold" climate on campus, Harper said. But the hotline is still not operational. Students don't know how to react to racial discrimi- nation or where to report it, Kao said. APIA Change, a student group intended to improve the campus's social climate, set up an e-mail list for people to report hate crimes. In the four months since the alleged incident, though, the e-mail list has only the michigan daily received about 20 e-mails - far below the number of incidents that really happen, Kao said. The stereotype of a studious Asian leads people to believe the group won't defend itself, said Khin Mai Aung, an attorney from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Thieves target Asian students because they think they are less likely to report the crime than other groups, Aung said at a hate-crime workshop held at the Law School on Friday. Amy Stillman, chair of the University's American Culture program, said people in positions of author- ity have a dismissive attitude toward hate crimes that discourages Asian victims from speaking up. "Sometimes you have a situation that students want to report to the authority, but (they) get the response that it's insignificant and they're misun- derstanding," Stillman said. Stillman reiterated the importance of reporting hate crimes. "The more we hear about, the more we can sta- tistically quantify," she said. Stillman said that she and a few other professors are reevaluating whether the University's Race and Ethnicity course requirement has accomplished its goal of raising awareness of discrimination. Some courses are seen as an easy way to fulfill the requirement, she said. She cited Introduction to Anthropology, in which about 700 students enroll each semester. "I'm not saying it's a bad class," Stillman said. "But students are not taught about various kinds of discrimination in the way they are in ethnic studies courses." MSA Continued from page 1A The new process also encourages stu- dents to value their committee positions, said Allison Jacobs, chair of the Commu- nications Committee. "If people have to apply, it makes them work harder," she said. Members worked to promote MSA and the new process by flyering at Festifall, holding a Diag day and having a strong presence at the New Student Convocation earlier this year. Walter Nowinski, founder of the Mich- igan Progressive Party, an opposition party formed to challenge the dominant Students 4 Michigan, said he supports the new committee application process. "They clearly need to get more students involved in the assembly because they are out of touch with what students are think- ing," Nowinski said. 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