The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com NEWS BRIEFS BAGHDAD r Despite crackdown, insurgents kill six U.S. troops Sunniinsurgents, resilient despite the five-week security crackdown in the capital, killed at least six more U.S. troops over the weekend. A Sunni car bomber hit a largely Shiite district in the capital yesterday, kill- ing at least eight people. The American military said four U.S. soldiers died and one was wounded when the unit was struck by aroadside bomb inwesternBagh- dad. During the ongoing security sweep in the capital and surround- ing regions, the battalion had found eight weapons caches and two road- side bombs and helped rescue a kid- nap victim, the military said. A fifth soldier was killed in an explosion in Diyala, an increasingly volatile province just northeast of the capital. A Marine died in fight- ing the same day in Anbar province, the vast, largely desert region that sprawls west of Baghdad to the Saudi Arabian, Jordanian and Syr- ian borders. WASHINGTON Sen. Leahy will subpoena White House officials The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said yesterday he intends to subpoena White House officials involved in ousting federal pros- ecutors and is dismissing anything short of their testimony in public. The Bush White House was expected to announce early this week whether it will let political strategist Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and other officials testify or will seek to assert executive privilege in pre- venting their appearance. The chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), last week delayed a vote on the subpoenas until Thurs- day as the president's counsel, Fred Fielding, sought to negotiate terms. But yesterday, Leahy said he had not met Fielding nor was he partic- ularly open to any compromises. PHILADELPHIA U.S. Airways still fading seats for 100,000 stranded passengers Thousands of weary travelers faced a third day waiting to reach their destinations yesterday as US Airways struggled to recover from the ice and snow storm that para- lyzed airports in the Northeast. Thea airline was still trying to find seats for 100,000 passengers systemwide whose flights were groundedbyFriday'sstorm,spokes- man Andrew Christie said. Many of the passengers were diverted to US Airways' hub in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday. DETROIT Poll: Most oppose Granholm tax plan A majority of Michigan residents polled said they oppose Gov. Jenni- fer Granholm's proposal for a new 1 tax on services and entertainment, a newspaper said yesterday. Granholm has proposed a 2 per- cent services tax to help close a $900 million deficit in Michigan's budget for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. Twenty-eight percent of 801 Michiganadultsinterviewedbytele- phone March 11 through Wednes- day said they support a 2 percent services tax, according to the poll by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, for the Detroit Free Press. Nine percent said they support a 1 percent tax, while 58 percent said they oppose a service tax. Five per- cent were unsure. - Compiled from Daily wire reports LOPEZ From page IA DAAP, on the other hand, has had consistently poor showings in MSA elections. Lopez said she isn't worried. Shesaidcampushasbecomemore politicized in the last year, particu- larly since Proposal 2 passed, ban- ning the use of affirmative action by public institutions in Michigan. "In light of Proposal 2 passing, in light of recent immigrant rights marches, in light of the growing anti-war movement, this campus has just gotten a lot more political," Lopez said. Lopez is also co-chair of the pro- affirmative action group By Any Means Necessary. She's been an active member of the group since her sophomore year at Cass Tech High School in Detroit. BAMN has often been criticized for its protest tactics, which include bringing middle and high school students to campus. Lopez said negative opinions of BAMN's public behavior over the past two years shouldn't hurt voters' views of DAAP, though, because the two groups aren't offi- cially affiliated. Lopez emigrated to southwest Detroit from Mexico when she was 4 years old. She said her heritage has made her aware of the impor- tance of integration. Lopez said she will concentrate on improving what she said can be a hostile environment for minori- ties on campus. She has experienced hostility for being Mexican, she said. Lopez said she felt uncomfort- able during a class discussion about the kidnapping of a soccer coach in Mexico during her freshman year. One classmate said the coach deserveditbecausehelivedinMexico. He said he hated Mexico when he visited it because he said the country is dirty, the people are dirty and the cleanest place was the local McDonald's. Her classmate wouldn't have felt comfortable talking like that if she wasn't the only Latina in the class- room, Lopez said. The first-time candidate is young- er than many DAAP members, but her fellow members said Lopez is more experienced and is able to deal with people whothink differently., "(DAAP vice presidential candi- date) Sarah Barnard has been there longer, but Maricruz is better cut- out to be a front man with the pub- lic and press," DAAP member Liana Mulholland said. Despite her politically charged past, Lopez's rhetoric seems unre- hearsed. She apologized for being unable to repeat her platform word for word. But Lopez has no problem explaining what she would do if elected president. "I've been to a lot of these (Uni- versity Board of Regents) meetings PROTEST From page IA phone began to chant "Justice for Iraq, justice for Afghanistan" as the crowd grew. She fell silent, though, when songwriter Joe Riley began performing folk music on the steps of the graduate library. He was followed by members of the Interfaith Council, whose representatives included ministers from several congregations around Ann Arbor. AnnArborMayor John Hieftje also spoke, encouraging youth involve- ment and grassroots organization. LSA freshman Yousef Rabhi spoke on behalf of Campus Unite!, a coalition of six left-wing campus groups united against what they say is a University administration out-of-touch with student concerns. Rabhi said most students uninten- tionally invest in war by paying tuition to the University. He asked audience members to sign a petition urging the University to divest from military contractors. The rally was organizedby Mich- igan Peaceworks, an Ann-Arbor based anti-war organization. The eclectic crowd included young children, high school stu- dents, University students and war veterans. Tony Morgan, a member of Mich- igan Peaceworks, led the protesters in a march out the Diag to Main Street and back. "Are you ready to march?" he yelled into the microphone. Cheer- ing crowd members marched out of the Diag behind a dove cut out of bedsheets. Some held over their shoulders a banner about 50 feet long bearing the name of every American soldier killed in Iraq. Some students wearing green for St. Patrick's Day jeered the pro- testers as they marched down State Street.Others cheered as the march- ers walked by. "Y'all got a nice beat," said one man as he passedby. Police closed downtown streets from State Street to Fourth Street along East Liberty to create a path for the protesters. The march paused in protest in front of the Federal Building - the location ofthe Ann Arbor post office - on the corner of East Liberty Street and Fourth Street. Protest- ers danced to drums as passersby walked by a display of the faces of Michigan soldiers killed in Iraq. Throughout the march, protest- ers chanted slogans like "What do we want? Peace! When do we want it? Now!" and "This is what democ- Monday, March 19, 2007 - 3A racy looks like." One man stopped to thank an officer for providing the protesters with protection. National Guard Sgt. Robert Barn- er, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, took the microphone on the stepsofthe library and began to speakafter the protesters regrouped on the Diag. Barner described his experiences in Iraq, including that of a 21-year- old soldier whose head was split open by an improvised explosive device. Barner's wife and 6-year-old son stood with him on the steps as he spoke. For a brief moment, his son Rory Barner took the microphone to speak. "Peace is good. War is bad," he said. After Barner and his family left the stage, Morgan spoke again to the crowd, which had thinned out since the march ended. Morgan said it didn't matter how many people came to the rally as long as the protesters communicat- ed their message. The protest ended as Bob Mar- ley's anti-war song "Get Up, Stand Up" played through speakers on the steps of the library. Morgan encouraged members of the crowd to sing along. Several dozen obliged. i -.0-y i Mal U ml 1\l. \:111JJ lll .111160 and most of the time the president of MSA doesn't really say much," she said. "A DAAP candidate would be doing more than just sitting in on a regents meeting and reporting about the AirBus." i AMAKER From page IA for the 2003-04 season after it learned that $616,000 in loans to players had been made in the 1990s by booster Ed Martin. Four players - Chris Webber, Robert Traylor, Maurice Taylor and Louis Bullock - received the money in the largest financial scandal in NCAA history. The NCAA also rescinded one scholarship every year for four years beginning in 2004-05 and put Michigan on a four-year probation term. Despite these obstacles, Amaker led the Wolverines to three 20-win seasons. His overall record stands at 109-83, making him the fourth- winningest coach in Michigan bas- ketball history. But his teams managed just one winning conference record in six years, and that was a year when the Wolverines were postseason ineli- gible. Michigan finished 8-8 in the Big Ten each of the last two years. These middling conference results, as well as Amaker's inability to take Michigan to the NCAA Tourna- ment, played an instrumental role in his dismissal. Amaker is a native of Falls Church, Va., and played for Mike Krzyzewski at Duke University for four years. He then returned to Duke to work for Krzyzewski for nine years, until he was hired to be Seton Hall's head coach in 1998. After coaching the Pirates for four MCT disio 0II years, leading them to one NCAA Tournament appearance in 2000, Amaker accepted the Michigan job on March 29, 2001. Martin informed Amaker of his decision Saturday morning, but it was a longtime coming. "I've been evaluating the pro- gram over the last couple of years, because we just haven't been able to make the NCAA Tournament," Martin said. "So you monitor, liter- ally on a daily, a weekly basis. But I didn't make my decision until very, very recently." Amaker indicated that he would still follow the program and root for it from wherever he ends up. "Today Michigan lost a basket- ball coach," he said "But I never like to think that they lost a Michi- gan man, because that's how I feel about myself." He called theteam'sthreeincom- ingrecruits - KelvinGrady, Manny Harris and Alex Legion - early on i Saturday morning and encouraged them to still come to Michigan. He also e-mailed allseason-tickethold- ers, thanking them for their sup- port and asking them to continue providing it to the next coach. "I want to see this basketball program achieve the level that it deserves," Amaker said. "And I'm obviously disappointed that I won't be able to bea part of it when it's certainly going to reach that height. - H. Jose Bosch and Michael Eisenstein contributed to this report. 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