NEWS The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 3 * ON CAMPUS Pom Pon Club to * hold tryout meeting The Porn Pon Club is holding an informational meeting about tryouts today at 9 p.m. in room 2105 of the Michigan Union. All are welcome, but students who were involved in dance or cheerleading in high school are encouraged to attend. Prof to lecture on historical context of HIV epidemic Medical School Prof. Powel Kazanji- an will speak on HIV today at 3 p.m. in Auditorium I of the Henry F. Vaughan Public Health Building. He will be lec- turing on the HIV epidemic as it relates to past epidemics. Doctor to explore * discrimination against smokers Jennifer Stuber will speak on the negative attitudes attached to smoking in her lecture titled "Stigma and Smok- ing: Misguided Strategy or Public Health Achievement?" Stuber works with Columbia University and the New York Academy of Medicine research- ing discrimination and its relationship with poor health. CRIME NOTES H igh-schooler suspected of assault at CCRB A student was assaulted Monday night while playing basketball at the Central Campus Recreation Build- ing, the Department of Public Safety reported. The student was taken to the University Hospital emergency room to be treated for facial inju- ries at about 10 p.m. The suspect is believed to be a Pioneer High School student, but he fled the scene before police arrived. Police have been unable to locate him. Burning popcorn triggers fire alarm A fire alarm was set off in Alice Lloyd Residence Hall at about 10 p.m. Monday night, DPS said. An investiga- tion concluded the alarm was triggered by burnt popcorn. Car mirrors stolen on North Campus Two sideview mirrors were stolen from a vehicle parked in a North Cam- pus lot, DPS reported. The theft took place sometime early Monday morning. Police currently have no suspects. Flag thief hits South Quad Someone stole three flags from South Quadrangle Residence Hall sometime during the weekend, DPS reported. Police currently have no suspects. THIS DAY In Daily History Rent control voted down despite high student turnout April 5, 1985 - Ann Arbor voters resoundingly defeated a ballot proposal yesterday that would have instituted rent controls in the city. Many students, as well as Democratic city council mem- bers, supported the proposal. Despite higher-than-normal student turnout, the proposal failed by a two to one margin. Opponents of the proposal said rent controls would lead to higher property taxes for homeowners and the conver- sion of apartments into condominiums. The vote reaffirmed past opposition to rent control, said Jim Morris, a spokes- man for the anti-rent-control group Citi- zens for Ann Arbor's Future. Gory details of k illing spree come to light Woman on trial for murder tells investigators she helped fiance kill man FLINT (AP) - The 19-year-old woman accused in a series of mur- ders and robberies in southeastern Michigan told investigators that she helped drag Winfield Johnson after he had been shot so that her fiance could strangle him, a detective testified. Samantha Bachynski is charged with first-degree murder along with her fiance, Patrick Selepak, in John- son's Feb. 21 killing. Her preliminary exam continued yesterday in 67th Dis- trict Court in Flint and is scheduled to resume April 11, court spokeswoman Dena Altheide said. Bachynski and Selepak also face charges in Macomb County in the killings of Melissa and Scott Berels of New Baltimore. On Monday, Bachynski sobbed as Detective David Dwyre of the Gen- esee County Sheriff's Department testified about her statement. Dwyre said Bachynski told him that Selepak shot Johnson, 53, twice when he tried to escape from his Vienna Township home after learning that the couple, whom he had allowed to stay with him, were wanted in the Ber- elses' deaths. She then helped Selepak drag the injured man, and Selepak placed a bag over his head and choked him to death, Dwyre said Bachynski told him. Bachynski said she poked Johnson in the ribs with a knife to make sure he was dead and then helped Selepak wrap the body and put it in the vic- tim's truck, covering it with garbage and a mattress, according to Dwyre's account. Bachynski said she and Selepak had gone to the Flint gay bar where they met Johnson as part of a plan to find an older man to use for money while they hid from police after the New Baltimore killings, Dwyre testified. Selepak slept with Johnson while he and Bachynski stayed in his home and plotted his robbery, according to the account. Dwyre said Bachynski also told him about her role in the New Bal- timore killings, saying she helped choke Melissa Berels and injected Scott Berels with bleach up to a dozen times in several unsuccessful attempts to kill him. He finally died after she tugged on a belt wrapped around his neck as Selepak used his hands to choke him. Woman discovers she owns half a D*amond merchant held at gunpoint Police are searching for two men in connection with the robbery NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP (AP) - Two men were being sought after robbing a gem merchant of $250,000 worth of diamonds, Northville police said. The merchant, whose identity has not been released, was robbed at gunpoint yesterday morning in the parking lot of a motel in the Detroit suburb. Police say the suspects knew the man was carrying a cache of diamonds. "It appears they knew his travel plans and knew he had the dia- monds," Chief John Werth told The Detroit News. "He deals in diamonds locally. He's been coming here for about three years." The victim, of Karkur, Israel, wasn't injured, but one of the sus- pects stuck a semiautomatic hand- gun against his ribcage. The suspects fled in the merchant's rented red Mazda, which police located about 20 minutes later. Genesee County woman will sell the half acre, but wants back taxes MUNDY TOWNSHIP (AP) - Anna Rudolph recently learned that the quiet, unobtrusive folks down the road have been using her land. She can't exactly kick them off, however. Rudolph, 83, owns half of a 1-acre historic cemetery in Genesee County's Mundy Township, her daughter Mar- lene Brookman said she recently dis- covered. Rudolph, who lives two doors down from the cemetery, said she'd be happy to deed to the township her half of the cemetery, which is being restored by volunteers. Her daughter agreed - with a caveat. "The township cemetery," Brookn Journal for a rece mother has been pa all these years. Th be repaid." Township officia that Rudolph owr Hope Cemetery,, lished in 1836. I been unable to lo( ing that the towns other half. "It may turn out owns none of the c attorney Jack Belze Belzer said that if Rudolph, she deser sated, and paying f believes she has ovc be the best solution "She's certainly cemetery should have the measure of remuneration," he said. nan told The Flint Rudolph said she inherited about nt story. "But my 20 acres from her father in 1973. She ying taxes on it for thought she knew where the boundar- e back taxes should ies lay. But when Brookman, an auditor, ls say it's possible looked over her mother's deeds, she ns part of Mount concluded that her mother owned part which was estab- of the cemetery, where the family took n fact, they have walks and had picnics when Brookman cate a deed show- was a child. hip even owns the "I thought, 'Ooh, I've solved a mys- tery,' " she said. that the township For his part, Belzer said he still is emetery," township sorting out the cemetery's tangled r said. ownership history. f the land belongs to The ownership questions have come ves to be compen- up as the township is organizing a cem- her the amount she etery cleanup for May. erpaid in taxes may "We're going to clean up not only the physical grounds but also the legal entitled to some grounds," Belzer said. 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