2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 6, 2006 NATION/WORLD Duke lacrosse coach resigns * Controversy highlights racial tensions between students and residents D±R1A\, N.C. (AP) - Duke Un iversit s lacrosse coach resigned yesterday and the school canceled the rest of the season amid a burgeoning scandal involving allegations that three players on the highly ranked team raped a stripper at an off-campus party. Mike Pressler spent 16 seasons at Duke !,d on three Atlantic Coast Conference championships. Last year, his team appeared in the national championship game. "Coach Pressler offered me his res- ignation earlier this afternoon, and 1 accepted it.-said Duke athletic director Joe Alleva. I believe this is in the best interests of the program, the depart- ment of athletics and the university." The rape allegations have roiled the campus and the city, raised racial ten- sions, and heightened the long-standing antagonism between the privileged stu- dents at the elite university and the poorer people of Durham. The stripper is black and said her attackers were white. Investigators and witnesses have said the lacrosse players taunted her w ith racial slurs and insults. Students and townspeople have marched on campus and off in recent days, angry over the school's handling of the allegations and the team mem- bers' refusal to cooperate with police. Investigators have said the athletes are sticking together and keeping silent. No one has been charged. The lacrosse team's co-captains have denied that anyone was sexually assaulted at the party, as have attor- neys for the players. Earlier yesterday, authorities unsealed documents stating that hours after the alleged rape, a player apparently sent an e-mail saying he wanted to invite more strippers to his dorm room, kill them and skin them. It was not clear whether the message was serious or a joke. "The court released today a previously sealed warrant, whose contents are sick- ening and repulsive," said Duke President Richard Brodhead said in announcing the cancellation of the rest of the season. Last week, Brodhead suspended the team from play. The stripper, a student at a nearby uni- versity, has told police that she was hired to perform at a party at a house just off campus last month and was raped and choked three men in a bathroom. Inves- tigators are awaiting the results of DNA tests on 46 of the 47 team members. The Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler heads out to practice on the Duke campus last Wednesday in Durham, N.C. Pressler resigned yesterday. team's lone black member did not have to provide a sample. District Attorney Mike Nifong has said that he is "pretty confident that a rape occurred," but that he does not expect to file charges until next week. Duke, considered a national title contender before the lacrosse season began, had a 6-2 record with seven reg- ular-season games remaining before the scandal broke. The e-mail, according to an appli- cation for a search warrant of the player's dorm room, was sent from the player's Duke e-mail account just before 2 a.m. on March 14. Software runs Windows on Macs Wall Street reacts kindly to move aimed at upping market share SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Shares in Apple Computer Inc. surged yester- day after the computer maker unveiled software to help owners of its new Intel- based Macs run not only its own oper- ating system but also Microsoft Corp.'s rival Windows XP system. Wall Street is betting the move will help Apple grow its current worldwide market share beyond the current range of 3 percent to 4 percent by attracting more business and home users. "It makes the Mac the most versa- tile computer on the market," said Tim Bajarin, a tech industry consultant at Creative Strategies. Apple's new "Boot Camp" software, a "beta" test version available as a free download, lets computer users with a Windows XP installation disk load that system on the Mac. Users could then switch between the two operating sys- tems - using only one at a time - by rebooting, a process that could take a few minutes. Apple shares rose more than 8 per- cent in early afternoon trading. Bajarin said the move should lure Windows users who "had their eye on a Mac but knew they could not run their favorite Windows programs on an Apple-based computer." When Apple introduced its first computer based on Intel Corp. chips in January, the company said it had no intention of selling or supporting Windows on its machines, though it has not done anything to preclude people from doing it themselves. Apple said yesterday that stance remains true, yet the new software will ease Windows installation "by provid- ing a simple graphical step-by-step assistant application:' "Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many cus- tomers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple's superior hardware now that we use Intel pro- cessors," Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product mar- keting, said in a statement. Indeed, for months, hackers have been diligently working on pro- grams to let users of Intel-based Macs switch between the two com- peting operating systems. Apple turned to Intel chips, the same ones used to power most PCs using Windows, after saying its previous suppliers, IBM Corp. and Motorola Corp.'s spinoff Freescale Semiconductor Inc., couldn't meet Apple's needs for faster, more ener- gy-efficient chips. The Intel-based Macs continued to run Apple's own proprietary operating system. Because Windows is much more dominant, Mac users don't have access to many software programs written only for Windows. The switch to Intel chips lets users load Win- dows onto a Mac computer, without the need for emulation software that slows performance. But until yester- day, the user needed some technical expertise to pull it off. Ameii~'oi'ric ecnnlrn, ov Rie rch ann BAGHDAD Saddam dodges prosecutors' questions Saddam Hussein dodged questions from prosecutors cross-examining him for the first time yesterday over a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s. But he' acknowledged approving death sentences for 148 Shiites, saying he was convinced they tried to assassinate him. At times sharp and combative but often relaxed or even smiling, the former Iraqi leader declined to confirm his signature on documents. When prosecutors presented identity cards of children whose death sentences they said he signed, he maintained they were forged. "You can buy IDs like this in the market," Saddam said. "Is it the responsi- bility of the head of the state to check the IDs of defendants and see how old they are?" Standing alone in a black suit in the defendants' pen, Saddam refrained from the outbursts he has made in previous sessions. But he denounced the court as "illegitimate" and attempted to tap into Sunni resentment of the Shiite-led Interior Ministry, which many Sunnis accuse of backing death squads. WASHINGTON Bill would limit nonprofit contributions The House moved yesterday to limit the multimillion-dollar donations to non- profit groups that changed the face of American politics in the 2004 presidential election. Republicans said they were closing a huge loophole, but Democrats saw an effort to undercut their supporters. The legislation would require so-called "527" political groups to abide by campaign contribution limits. Donors would thus be able to contribute only $25,000 a year for partisan voter mobilization activities and $5,000 a year for direct expenditures on federal elections. That would be a radical change from donations in the 2003-2004 election cycle, when businessman George Soros gave more than $23 million to Democratic-aligned 527 groups such as Media Fund and America Coming Together, and Houston home- builder Bob Perry contributed more than $8 million specifically to help the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group that questioned John Kerry's Vietnam War record. ALEXANDRIA, Va. Moussaoui jury to hear Flight 93 cockpit tape The cockpit recorder tape from the Sept. 11 jetliner that crashed in Pennsylvania will be played in public for the first time - to the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing jury - the judge in the case ruled yesterday. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said the jury considering whether to execute Moussaoui could hear the recording from United Airlines Fight 93 and see a transcript of it. This cockpit tape has been played privately for the families of Flight 93 victims, but it has never been played in public. Prosecutors asked the judge to order the tape sealed and to keep the tran- script from the general public after it is played in open court, but she made no immediate ruling on that. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Video claims to show U.S. pilot's dead body A video posted yesterday on the Internet in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter. Parts of the video were blurry, and the face of the man was not shown. His clothes were so tattered it was impossible to tell if he was wearing an Ameri- can military uniform, but he appeared to be wearing military fatigues. The U.S. military condemned the posting and said that although reports of a Web site video "suggest that terrorists removed part of a body from the crash site, the authenticity of the video cannot be confirmed." - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A story in this week's SportsMonday (Love of the game drives program) misstated the record of last year's club baseball team as 12-3. The team finished 3-12. 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