NEWS The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 10, 2006 - 3 ON CAMPUS Son of radicals to SJournalist to sekra t - aterspeoa read at LShaman fter screening of film about her life ----.----- v I A A A 1 Students of Color of Rackham will screen "The Agronomist" at 6 p.m. as part of their 16th annual conference. The film is based on the life experiences of award- winning journalist Michele Montas, for- mer editor in chief of Radio Haiti. The screening will take place on the 4th floor amphitheatee of Rackham. Trotter to hold workshop on partnership building The Trotter Multicultural Center will sponsor a workshop tomorrow at 6 p.m. to discuss the importance of partnership building. The workshop is geared toward organizations who want to apply for the Trotter Community Grant, which gives money to student groups putting on events to promote diversity. The workshop will take place in Wil- liam Monroe Trotter House, and anyone who is interested can attend. Three bands to jam in East Quad tonight The East Quad Music Co-op is host- ing a night of live music at the Halfway Inn in East Quadrangle Residence Hall tonight. The event features three bands: Slumber Party, Showdown at the Equator and Marie & Francis. The event begins at 9:30 p.m. The entrance to the venue is on Church Street between Willard and Hill. The cost for the show is $5. Author was raised by members of Weather Underground, studied as Rhodes scholar By Jack Russo Daily Arts Writer When Chesa Boudin was barely over a year old, both of his parents - David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin of the Weather Underground - were imprisoned for their part in the infamous Brink's armored car rob- bery, where two police officers and a guard were killed and the radical 1970s group lost the last shred of its romantic-outlaw image. Boudin was raised by Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, two fel- low members of the Students for a Democratic Society offshoot who resurfaced a year before the rob- bery. Boudin graduated from Yale as a Rhodes scholar in 2002. Boudin, whose story partly inspired River Phoenix's charac- ter in the 1988 film "Running on Empty," will come to Ann Arbor's Shaman Drum Bookshop to intro- duce his new book, "The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions - 100 Answers," today at 7 p.m. Boudin lived in Venezuela for one year. He was researching Latin American public policy as part of his master's degree from Oxford University. While in Venezuela, he studied President Hugo Chavez's use of oil to undermine U.S. influence. "Chavez fought to take control (of Venezuela's oil), to serve as a tool effective in making a multipo- lar world," he said. Boudin's story starts in the 1960s, when a more militant fac- tion of the student activist orga- nization Students for Democratic Society, the Weather Underground, was formed. His revolutionary background, he said, led to his writing the book. "Here in the U.S., we have a repre- sentative democracy where we elect officials to make decisions for us," Boudin said. "In Venezuela, there is a participatory democracy. It was amazing to see this. Opposition of parties are more polarized. Parties are more bitter rivals, and this was inspiring to me." "The Venezuelan Revolution" is an introduction to Venezuela's political processes during the last 10 years. "It's a wide range of information in an easy to read format," Boudin said. Another of his books is called "Letters from Young Activists," which he helped edit. The anthology was assembled for young people to express their visions of a better future, Boudin said. "If you watch mainstream media, (the) young seem apathetic ... dis- enfranchised," he said. "Given the opportunity, we have opinions and we've been given all kinds of prob- lems from our parents' generation." He is excited about returning to Ann Arbor. "My dad went to the University of Michigan, my grandparents met there and my brother got married there," he said. "For me, it's kind of like a second home." Tonight's reading will be followed by a discussion and book signing. CRIME New NOTES Biker T-shirt stolen tameOf Lexis Nexis simplifies search now Y w om IN V rV/n\/ I from ER patient A white T-shirt with a BMW motor- cyle emblem on it and $20 were stolen from a patient in the University Hos- pital Emergency Room Wednesday at about 5:30 p.m., the Department of Pub- lic Safety reported. Collagen implants lifted from hospital r Twelve collagen implants were reported stolen from a University clinic in Livonia Wednesday at 2 p.m. Wednesday, according to DPS. The value of the implants is estimated at $4,220. Police currently have no suspects but think the implants could have been sto- len as early as last month. Chemical reaction sets fire to garbage can A trash can was ignited in the Chemis- try Building on Wednesday, DPS reported. The fire started after someone threw a chemical wipe into the trash and the chem- icals on the wipe reacted with chemicals in the trash can. The fire was put out with an extinguisher before it caused any damage. III THIS DAY In Daily History Inaugural class selected for Residential College Feb. 10, 1967 - The University's Residential College at the University has chosen its inaugurating class. Two hundred students were awarded spots in the highly competitive program. They were selected from more than 1,600 applicants. The students first had to gain admittance to the literary college, and then file a separate application with the RC. The RC, which will open its doors next fall, is designed to be a "college within a college." The school will offer students the atmosphere of a small liberal arts institution combined with all of the _ j journalist released On third video, Ann Arbor native urges U.S. government to act quickly KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Kid- napped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired yesterday on a private Kuwaiti TV channel, appeal- ing for her supporters to do what- ever it takes to win her release and saying "there is a very short time." Carroll was shown in the black- and-white video wearing an Islamic headscarf, sitting on a chair in front of a wall with a large floral design. She spoke to the camera in a firm voice, without weeping as she did on a previous video. "I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them what- ever they want as quickly as possible," she said, adding she was speaking on Feb. 2, nearly a month after she was abducted by armed men in Baghdad. "There is a very short time. Please do it fast. That's all." The 22-second video was aired on Al Rai TV, a private Kuwaiti channel. It included audio, unlike two previous videos of Carroll. The video was delivered ear- lier yesterday to Al Rai's Baghdad office and was aired in its entirety, Hani al-Srougi, an editor at the sta- tion, told The Associated Press. It was accompanied by a letter writ- ten by the 28-year-old freelancer. The newscaster said on the air that the station would hand the let- ter over to authorities but did not specify whether they would give it to Kuwait or American officials. The station said it would not dis- close the letter's contents. In Baghdad, a U.S. Embassy spokesman Dennis Culkin said yes- terday that American authorities routinely do not comment on such tapes, especially before they have been authenticated. In the tape, Carroll mentions the letter and suggests that her captors sent a letter in her handwriting pre- Join America's #1 Student Tour Operator i i i t i t i r t t Users can now search for congressional bills and laws by index number Thanks to a revamping of a popular electronic database, though, students may be able to locate the information they need quickly and efficiently. Lexis Nexis aims to make its Con- gressional database more accessible to first-time users by simplifying the basic search options and sorting the results by date and house. Launched last month, the redesign also adds a search-by-number feature "My big problem with the new interface is an oversimplified initial search screen," she said. "Most database users tell the pro- ducers they want something, but often the search screens are too simple." York recommends students skip to the advanced search screen, which, contrary to popular belief, is not more difficult to use, she said. "The advanced search is more informative and often as easy to use (as the basic search)," York said. Because the search combines mul- tiple categories on the first screen, York said it can be difficult to distin- guish between congressional commit- that allows users to search congres- sional bills and laws by their index number. The University is a Lexis Nexis subscriber, mean- ing all affiliates with a valid uniq- name have access to the site through the library's data- bas. With the rede- sign, the Universi- ty also has access to the database's U.S Serial Set Digital Collec- tion - an archive "The advanced search is more informative and often as easy to use (as the basic search)." - Grace York Coordinator, University library documents center tee reports and laws. The site's designers as well as professors hope students who would normally use Google or other basic search engines will be encouraged to use Lexis Nexis instead. Given that the rede- sign has only recently been introduced, Law School librarian Aimee Mangan said 'she hasn't noticed any changes in students' research techniques so far. But she added that Google users would probably find the new Lexis Nexis AP PHOTO Former French hostage Florence Aubenas, left, with Christian Science Monitor European bureau chief Peter Ford, right, addresses reporters on the Human Rights square yesterday in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris dur- Ing a demonstration organized by 'Reporters without Borders,' to support American reporter Jill Carroll. viously. It was the first report of any letters from Carroll. "I am with the mujahadeen (holy war- riors). I sent you a letter written by my hand, but you wanted more evidence, so we are sending you this letter now to prove I am with the mujahadeen," she said. Armed men abducted Carroll on Jan. 7 in Baghdad, killing her Iraqi translator. On Jan. 30, Al-Jazeera television broadcast a video showing Carroll weep- ing as she appealed for the release of female Iraqi prisoners. The name of the group that has claimed responsibility for her abduction, the Revenge Brigades, appeared on that video. . On Jan. 17, A1-Jazeera aired a video released by the Revenge Bri- gades showing Carroll - her head bare, and her long straight brown hair parted in the middle - and set- ting a Jan. 20 deadline for the release of all female prisoners in Iraq. The group threatened to execute her unless their demands were met. A producer at Al-Jazeera said the station did not receive any letters with the videos it aired. Late last month, the U.S. military freed five Iraqi women detainees, but American officials insisted the release was not linked to the demand by Carroll's abductors. The U.S. military was believed be holding about six more. It was unclear how many women were held by Iraqi authorities. Some 250 foreigners have been taken captive since the 2003 U.S.- led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and at least 39 have been killed. of over 325,000 congressional docu- ments dating back to 1789. Grace York, coordinator of the University library's document center, said the new format is easier for users who are unfamiliar with the search process but experienced researchers might have trouble adjusting to the slimmer search options. more accessible. LSA junior Scott Cederbaum, who uses the site as a political science and history major, said he is excited that the new search will eliminate unre- lated results. "I've always thought (Lexis Nexis has) been a pretty good resource for finding resources," he said. xperience at Gain real world FRESHMEN! m BUILo YOUR SOPHOMORES! JUNIORS! 0 RESUME!! I Hurricane Katrina belief t "%" Y 4 ~i ~t Vkt A$J. L AU.,L .:.:Lc'A,L r. tt G~ .