NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 3, 2006 - 3A * ON CAMPUS Celebration to honor activist Magali Padilla The Trotter Multicultural Center will host the second annual Magali Padilla Memorial Celebration today from 7 to 9 p.m. in honor of the social activist and former University student, who died in a car accident in Jalisco, Mexico in July 2004. Ivette Perfecto, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, will deliver the keynote address. The event is free. Play to depict rape survivor's struggle University Women Against Rape will sponsor the performance of the play "Extremities" today in the Michigan League Undeground from 9 pm. to mid- night. The play tells the story of an attempt- ed rape in which the woman gains control of the situation, but remains vulnerable to the would-be rapist. Part of Take Back the Night, an annual series that educates the public on issues of sexual violence, the play is free but donations are accepted. Campus symphony to perform at Hill The Campus Symphony Orchestra will perform selected works by Brahms, Mozart and Barber at 8 p.m. today in a free concert at Hill Auditorium. Prize- winning soloist Lindsay Heller will also perform. CRIME NOTES Skaters slip into the night, away from DPS Skateboarders were reported boarding in the stairway of the Bio- medical Science Research building Saturday at about 10:30 p.m, the Department of Public Safety report- ed. An officer on the scene could not locate the skateboarders. Phone stolen from League A University phone on an outside wall of the Michigan League was stolen Thursday night. The phone will be replaced as soon as possible, according to DPS. Dogs go without leashes in Arb Three dogs were reported to be running without leashes in the Arb at 4:30 p.m. Friday, DPS reported. Car parts stolen in parking garage While a vehicle was parked in the Thompson Street parking garage last Monday, its lug nuts and hubcap cov- Carroll returns to U.S. O Ann Arbor native says her videotaped anti-U.S. comments in Iraq were made under duress BOSTON (AP) - Jill Carroll, the U.S. journalist held hostage for 82 days in Iraq, returned to the United States yesterday aboard a commercial flight to Boston. The 28-year-old Ann Arbor native was accompanied on the Lufthansa flight by a colleague from her employer, the Boston-based Christian Science Moni- tor, according to reporters on the plane. Carroll declined to comment while on the flight. She left the airport in a black limousine escorted by state police and arrived a short time later at the newspaper's headquarters. "She's meeting with her family out of the glare of the media spotlight," Monitor spokesman Jay Jostyn said, adding that Carroll had no plans to speak publicly yesterday. She was released Thursday after nearly three months in captivity. She was seized Jan. 7 in western Baghdad by gunmen who killed her Iraqi translator while the two were on their way to meet a Sunni Arab official in one of the city's most dan- gerous neighborhoods. Carroll left the Ramstein Air Base in southwestern Germany on Saturday after arriving from Balad Air Base in Bagh- dad. She strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying she had been repeatedly threatened. In a video recorded before she was freed and posted by her captors on an Islamist Web site, Carroll spoke out against the U.S. military presence. On Saturday, she said the recording was made under duress. "During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a pro- paganda video. They told me I would be released if I cooperated. I was living in a threatening environment, under their control, and wanted to go home alive. So I agreed," she said in a statement. "Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not." Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was held prisoner for more than five years during the Vietnam War, said yesterday that Carroll found herself in "a terrible, terrible position" and said Americans should view her taped state- ments critical of the U.S. military pres- ence in Iraq in that context. "We are glad she's home. We under- stand when you're held a captive in that situation that you do things under duress. God bless her, and we're glad she's home," McCain said on NBC's "Meet the Press." McCain said he would not take seri- ously anything Carroll said while she was being held captive. "I would not take them seriously, I would not any more than we took seri- ously other tapes and things that were done in other prison situations, includ- ing the Vietnam War," McCain said. Carroll, who has studied Arabic, attracted a huge amount of sympathy during her ordeal, and a wide variety of groups in the Middle East, includ- ing the Islamic militant group Hamas, appealed for her release. Aside from the short interview aired on Iraqi television upon her release, Carroll had otherwise not shown her- self in public prior to a brief appearance Saturday. The kidnappers, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had demanded the release of all female detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 or Carroll would be killed. U.S. officials did release some female detainees at the time, but said it had nothing to do with the demands. In the statement, Carroll also dis- avowed an interview she gave to the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Arab organiza- tion in whose offices she was dropped .off upon her release. She said the party had promised her the interview would not be aired "and broke their word." "At any rate, fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak freely. Out of fear, I said I wasn't threatened. In fact, I was threatened many times," she said. "Also, at least two false statements about me have been widely aired: One - that I refused to travel and cooperate with the U.S. military, and two - that I refused to discuss my captivity with U.S. officials. Again, neither statement is true." Pro-life group quits ive Right to Life leaves petition to define beginning of life at moment of conception LANSING (AP) - A group that wants to legally define a person as existing from the moment of concep- tion keeps plugging away on a petition drive targeting the November election - without the help of Michigan's dom- inant anti-abortion organization. A newly formed group called Michi- gan Citizens for Life, relying on vol- unteers and a modest budget, wants to spark a challenge to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. The American Civil Liberties Union has said it would file a lawsuit to block the constitutional amendment if it makes the ballot and voters approve it. The effort to give legal standing to embryos and fetuses in Michigan has picked up supporters across the state as an early July deadline to collect at least 317,757 valid signatures of Michigan voters approaches. "We're not there yet. But we can get there," said Cal Zastrow, a Citizens for Life leader who lives near Bay City. "It looks good." The petition drive has raised pub- lic awareness about what some call a splintering of Michigan anti-abortion forces. Right to Life of Michigan is not supporting the campaign, saying the proposal is technically flawed and not needed because the state already has a law on the books that could ban abor- tion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. 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