Thursday, September 28,.2006 - The Michigan Daily - 9A
Owens denies trying
Sto kill himself
DALLAS (AP) - Terrell Owens has been
stirring things up for years, from edgy touch-
down celebrations to mean-spirited comments
about his quarterbacks and cries of being
underpaid. Yet the drama was always about
football, never matters of life or death.
Then came news late Tuesday that Owens
was taken in an ambulance to an emergency
room. Details from the police report that came
out Wednesday morning included words like
suicide, overdose and depression.
Within hours, T.O. insisted it was all a mis-
understanding - then brought the story back
to football.
He checked out of the hospital and made his
way to Dallas Cowboys headquarters in time to
catch some passes Wednesday afternoon, then
showed up to a packed news conference wear-
ing workout gear and his usual wide smile.
Owens seemed more amused than peeved.
He apologized for being a distraction, thanked
his friends for worrying about him and said he
felt so good that he expects to play Sunday in
Tennessee - regardless of the broken hand
that led to the pain pills which, in turn, led to
this latest saga.
"It was just an allergic reaction;' Owens
said. "It's very unfortunate for the reports to
go from an allergic reaction to a definite sui-
cide attempt."
Owens was hospitalized Tuesday night for
what his publicist, Kim Etheredge, called an
allergic reaction to medicine he was taking for
his broken hand. Then, the story erupted early
yesterday, when WFAA-TV in Dallas reported
details of the police report it obtained.
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increasing the amount of residential recy-
cling.
McMurtrie said he will listen to student
concerns.
"If a resident is frustrated that they can-
not recycle, they can call and we would be
happy to go out and talk to the (landlord)
of that place," McMurtrie said. "I haven't
gotten a chance to call University Towers,
but I will soon."
University Towers's lack of options has
prompted some environmentally con-
scious students to find other ways to recy-
cle their waste.
"I have to take my recycling to the LSA
Building," said LSA sophomore Karen
Wrenbeck, a University Towers resident.
Allied Waste Services provides recy-
cling for some locations - but at an extra
cost.
Recycle Ann Arbor, a 29-year-old non-
profit organization, promotes local recy-
cling efforts.
"People have been recycling for a long
time," said Melinda Uerling,the program's
executive director. "When we talk about
the benefits (of recycling), we are talking
about saving natural resources."
She said off-campus landlords have no
excuse for not offering recycling services.
The average person disposes 4.4 pounds
of waste a day, according to the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency. That's 229
million tons of waste each year in the
United States.
"If we recycle, we can cut those num-
bers in half," said Lacey Doucet, a neigh-
borhood action network coordinator with
the Ann Arbor Ecology Center, Recycle
Ann Arbor's parent organization.
According to Doucet, not all landlords
make it difficult for students to recycle.
"There are definitely some awesome
landlords willing to do their part," she
said.
Campus Management Inc., which owns
more than 325 housing units near campus,
is one.
The company works with Recycle Ann
Arbor to ensure each of its properties has
recycle bins. Recyclable waste is picked
up once a week free of charge.
"It is up to the landlord to help stu-
dents to recycle, but at the same time,
it is not my obligation or any landlord's
job to make their tenants recycle," Cam-
pus Management co-owner Chris Heaton
said. "I just make it easy for them to do
because it makes sense. The taxpayers of
Ann Arbor pay for recycling, so it is at no
cost to us landlords."
Various campus groups work to inform
students on the importance of recycling
and how to recycle. Clubs such as Enact,
an environmental group, focus on getting
students involved in conservation efforts.
Doucet started a volunteer . program
called Eagle Leaders to get volunteers to
go out and educate the residents of Ann
Arbor.
Tracy Artley, recycling coordinator
for the University, sets up a table during
move-in week and offers pamphlets as
well as advice on how to recycle on- and
off- campus.
"Seventy to 75 percent of the questions
asked (of volunteers at the tables) about
recycling have to do with students who
live off-campus wanting to know how
they can recycle," Artley said.
Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Agency adviser to presidents George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford,
spoke about the challenges the United States faces in the Ford Presidential Library on North Campus yesterday.
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teacher Bob Storteboom of Grand
Rapids said. "He really laid out how
the world has changed since his ten-
ure. ~
Scowcroft said the University has a
vital mission to accomplish in terms of
national security.
"The University needs to work
to prepare young people to assume
responsibility in national security,"
Scowcroft said. "Students need to
learn about the world and its complex-
ities and how they can make a world
that is better not only for America, but
for all people."
. Scowcroft's lecture was the seventh
William E. Simon lecture on Public
Affairs, sponsored by the Ford Foun-
dation: Simon was secretary of the
treasury during the Nixon and Ford
administrations. He founded the lec-
ture series in 1988.
Scowcroft served as the national
security adviser to Presidents Gerald
Ford and George H.W. Bush. Today he
is president and founder of the Scow-
croft Group and a prominent commen-
tator on international policy.
"President Ford was a very special
person to me;" Scowcroft said. "I would
come at any opportunity to pay homage to
him and his great work."
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tion in mind.
Gulari said the biotechnological field is
far from established in Michigan.
"Most of the field is based on the two
coasts," he said. "The middle states are
like a desert for biotechnology."
Gulari said Michigan has faced a prob-
lem in the past profiting from research
projects, because the companies that
have resulted have often been moved out
of the state by their private investors.
They take their jobs and other economic
advantages with them.
The 21st Century Jobs Fund is
expected to deter that fate, because the
state is the investor, and it is in its best
interest to keep the ventures within its
borders.
DIAG
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presenting.
"What they want to get across is
something similar to what we want to
get across," said Fadi Dawood, chair of
the Chaldean American Student Asso-
ciation. "I think that working together
with other organizations like we did
today just sheds light on how great this
country is."
Others some rejected this connection.
"Israel has a phenomenal record in
terms of immigration;' said Joshua Ber-
man, chair of the American Movement
for Israel. "To link the two is completely
inaccurate."
Meanwhile, on the north side of the
Diag, preacher Michael Venyah stood
trying to spread his provocative, fire-and-
brimstone version of Christianity. Venyah
has spent the last three days on the Diag
voicing his anti-gay agenda.
He pointed and yelled at one speaker for
using profanity.
"That man right there was cursing ear-
lier" Venyah said. "He doesn't deserve to
speak."
To try and tone down the debate, LSA
junior Jim Schreiber, a member of the Stu-
dent Steering Committee for the Universi-
ty's Expect Respect campaign, handed out
buttons and written pledgfs to "actively
respect all persons."
La Voz Latina co-chair Xavier Segura
said he saw how so many viewpoints
might cause confusion, but his group had
no choice but to rally alongside the Middle
Eastern groups.
"We had to play with the cards we were
dealt,' he said. "It's a difficult decision
when you try to speak for too many opin-
ions."
Still, many rally attendees had plenty
of opinions to share about YAF's planned
event.
"It's beyond offensive" said Ana
O'Hara, a legal immigrant from Peru who
will start at the School of Information in
the winter semester. "I can't quite label it."
Meanwhile, as a reporter from Span-
ish television channel Univision dodged
Palestinian flags, organizer Rama Salhi,
who is a member of several of the groups
at the protest, said she was satisfied with
the event.
"I'm very happy with the way it turned
out;' she said. "It showed the interconnect-
edness of all.issues, of all injustices."
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one-hundred-fifteen years
For Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006
ARIES
(March 21 to April 19)
At this stage in your life, you're trying
to figure out what you want to be when
you grow up. (Regardless of your age.)
That's OK - it's never too late to learn
something new.
TAURUS
(April 20 to May 20)
Continue to work to fix up, renovate,
redecorate orsimprove where you live.
jYou have a strong need to estahlish a
dependable anchor in the world.
GEMINI
(May 21 to June 20)
This is a time of fluctuation for you.
You're not sure aboutwhere you live or
even inhere you work. The inds of
change are blowing'in your direction.
CANCER
(June 21 to July 22)
Now more than ever before, you want
to stabilize your work scene. You want a
steady income, and you want it to be
reliable. You also want to like what you
do.
LEO
(July 23 to Aug. 22)
With Saturn in your sign now, life
takes a more serious turn. You're dealing
with serious issues. Actually, you're
staning to reinvent yourself!
VIRGO
(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)
It's important to know that you have to
let go of some things now - people,
places and possessions. This is not loss.
It's liberation!
LIBRA
(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)
You enjoy the company of others.
(Librans don't like being alone.)
Someone older might give you good
advice now. Be open to what others have
to say.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
This is a time of great achievement for
many of you. You see very clearly what
is working and what is not. Be prepared
to leave behind what no longer.cuts the
mustard.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
What you need to do now is prepare
for something. You see that great things
are ahead of you, but thtey are still
beyond your reach.bStudy, research,
travel and fill your databank.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22to Jan. 19)
You might be getting along on less
now because the income and assistance
from others istdiminished.aDon't worry.
This only makes you more self-
confident and resilient.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
Pannerships that aren't wokintg might
dissolve now. You are becoming more
focused on your external world and your
personal ambitions.
PISCES
(Peb. 19 to March 20)
Continue to work hard even if at times
you feel overwhelmed. You can handle
this. Your reward for all this hard work
awaits you next year.
YOt yORNTODAY You're a roman-
tic. You have great taste. Others find you
alluring and magnetic. You often have
sexy escapades that others envy. (But it
can be an emotional roller coaster!) You
love beauty, and you admirestrengtt in
others. You're dogged about pursuing
your goals. Something you've been
involved with for the past nine years
might end this year. (Because it is time.)
Birthdate of: Naomi Watts, actress;
Brigitte Bardot, actress; Marcello
Mastroianni, actor.
Trade in poached
Indian tigers is
flourishing
NEW DELHI (AP) - Environ-
mentalists accused India and China
in a stinging indictment yesterday
of doing almost nothing to stem the
rapid decline of tigers in the wild,
saying the big cats will likely van-
ish completely within a few years
without government intervention.
Trade in poached Indian tigers
is flourishing across the border in
Chinese-controlled Tibet, where
organized crime groups sell them
for use in traditional medicines,
ceremonial clothing and .as sou-
venirs, according to two environ-
mental agencies, which secretly
photographed the trade.
Photos shown at a news conference
Wednesday showed dozens of tiger
and leopard skins openly on sale,
while in others, Chinese police offi-
cers laughed and posed with people
wearing clothing made of tiger skins.
The groups - the Wildlife Pro-
tection Society of India, and the
Environmental Investigation Agency,
a nonprofit British-based group -
accused the Indian and Chinese gov-
ernments of failing to stop the trade.
"In China, the police have decid-
ed to turn a blind eye to the slaugh-
ter of tigers in India;' despite tough
laws against trading in endangered
animals, said Belinda Wright,
director of the Wildlife Protection
Society of India.
She said India has not put
together an effective force to com-
bat poaching after 12 years of talk-
ing about it. "It is the politics in
India that is killing the tiger, the
petty agendas and personal rival-
ries," she said.
Kalpana Balkhiwala, a spokes-
woman for the Indian Ministry of
Environment and Forests, which is
responsible for tiger conservation,
said the ministry had no comment
on the report. Chinese officials
could not be immediately reached
for comment.
Both governments have received
copies of the report, Wright said.
Last year, Indian officials were
forced to acknowledge that poach-
ers had wiped out every tiger in
one of India's premier reserves,
and that Indian wildlife officials
had long exaggerated the number
of tigers across the country.
Gotti case ends in third mistrial this year
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge
declared a mistrial yesterday in
the mob case against John A.
"Junior" Gotti - the third time
in a year a jury deadlocked over
his claim that he quit the family
business.
"It's enough now: They got to
let go," Gotti told reporters, in
urging prosecutors to drop the
racketeering case so that could
move to the Midwest with his
family and go to college. "If
they let us alone, I'll leave. I'll
take my family and I'll go."
Prosecutors did not immedi-
ately ask for a fourth trial for
the 42-year-old Gotti, who has
become a fixture in federal
court in the past year as the
government tried three times to
prove he has followed in father
John Gotti's footsteps.
U.S. District Judge Shira
Scheindlin declared the mis-
trial, and told jurors it was "not
your failure" and acknowledged
"the case has its difficulties."
A relieved Gotti hugged his
brother Peter and other support-
ers, then wiped his eyes. "It was
a tough one," Gotti said. "This
one drained the life from me."
If convicted, Gotti could have
gotten up to 30 years in prison.
He is free on $7 million bail.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney
Michael J. Garcia said, "We are
disappointed by today's out-
come."
Three anonymous jurors who
spoke to reporters afterward
said the jury had agreed unani-
mously that Gotti was respon-
sible for two 1992 attacks on
Guardian Angels founder and
radio talk show host Curtis
Sliwa, including a shooting that
nearly killed him.
The finding was not enough
to convict him of racketeer-
ing because the jury could not
agree on whether Gotti had
quit the Gambino family by
July 1999.
If he did, in fact, quit the
Mafia by that date, the statute
of limitations for prosecuting
him would have expired.
The jurors said eight found
he had not quit; four believed
he had quit.
Prosecutors maintained the
Gambino family targeted Sliwa
to stop him from badmouthing
Gotti's father on talk radio.
Sliwa said he was left with
"the most miserable feeling in
the world," while Gotti was "the
luckiest person in the world."
Gotti's lawyers argued the
second-generation mobster had
years ago severed his ties to
organized crime and had no
role in the Sliwa attack.
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