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NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
After locking up
GOP race, McCain
gets Bush's backing
John McCain got a White House
embrace from President Bush yes-
terday, along with the party perks
that go with sewing up the Repub-
lican nomination. The endorsement
has baggage, though, remindingvot-
ers of the drawn-out Iraq war and
the nation's economic woes under
an unpopular GOP president.
Bush, who defeated McCain in
a bitter 2000 primary campaign
before winning the presidency, said
the Arizona senator's "incredible
courage and strength of character
and perseverance" carried him to
the nomination this time.
Those characteristics, Bush said,
are-what the nation needs in a pres-
ident: "somebody that can handle
the tough decisions, somebody who
won't flinch in the face of danger."
JERUSALEM
Rice convinces
Palestine to resume
talks with Israel
The moderate Palestinian lead-
ership agreed under heavy U.S.
pressure yesterday to resume
peace talks with Israel, dropping
a demand that Israel first reach a
truce with Islamic Hamas militants
acting as spoilers.
The announcement gave Secre-
tary of State Condoleezza Rice a
modest accomplishment for a brief
troubleshooting mission. It left
open the question of how both sides
will eventually confront Hamas
militants in charge of the 1.4 mil-
lion Palestinians - nearly half the
population - living in the sealed-
off Gaza Strip.
"The peace process is a strategic
choice and we have the intention
of resuming the peace process,"
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas said. He did not say when
talks would restart, but U.S. and
other officials predicted it would
be in about a week.
LANSING
Michigans jobless
rate drops in
December
Michigan's unemployment rate
improved in January.
The state's seasonally adjusted
jobless rate fell to 7.1 percent, or
three-tenths of a percentage point
from 7.4 percent.
December's rate originally was
higher but was revised down-
ward, state officials said yesterday.
Michigan's December rate was the
highest in the nation. The national
jobless rate in January was 4.9
percent.
State officials say January was
a relatively stable month for the
labor market. Total employment
rose by 33,000 and unemployment
fell by 19,000.
WASHINGTON
FBI admits to
improperly
accessing records
The FBI acknowledged yester-
day it improperly accessed Ameri-
cans' telephone records, credit re-
ports and Internet traffic in 2006,
the fourth straight year of privacy
abuses resulting from investiga-
tions aimed at tracking terrorists
and spies.
The breach occurred before the
FBI enacted broad new reforms
in March 2007 to prevent future
lapses, FBI Director Robert Muel-
ler said. And it was caused, in part,
by banks, telecommunication com-
panies and other private businesses
giving the FBI more personal client
data than was requested.
An audit by the inspector gen-
eral last year found the FBI de-
manded personal records without
official authorization or otherwise
collected more data than allowed
in dozens of cases between 2003
and 2005.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
3974
Number of American service mem-
bers who have died in the war in
Iraq, according to The Associated
Press. There were no deaths identi-
fied yesterday.
TENURE
From Page 1A
University doesn't discuss ongo-
ing tenure reviews.
Once they are evaluated at the
departmental and collegiate level,
tenure applications are sent to the
Office of the Provost and then the
University's Board of Regents.
The decision is not final until
approved by the regents, but deci-
sions are rarely overturned once
they reach the provost's office.
Faculty can appeal the board's
decision through the University's
grievance procedures.
In a letter sent to LSA Dean
Terrence McDonald before the
college's decision, more than
30 faculty members from the
Women's Studies department said
MCCUE
From Page 1A
Rhodes, who now teaches lin-
guistics at the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkeley, said McCue
didn't even have his GED when
the two began working to build the
program. But during their time
together between 1972 and 1986,
Rhodes and McCue successfully
incorporated Ojibwe into the vari-
ous other language programs at the
University. McCue also played a
major role in the researching and
writing ofRhodes's widely cited and
renowned Eastern Ojibwe-Chip-
pew-Ottawa dictionary, which
closelyexamines twodialectsofthe
complex Ojibwe language.
When Rhodes left the Univer-
sity ofMichigan in 1986 for a job at
Berkeley, he made sure before his
departure that the Department of
Linguistics kept McCue to keep
running the Ojibwe program the
two had created 15 years earlier. "I
went into the Dean and said,'Look
don't let this thing go. I don't care
he doesn't have all the requisite
degrees. He's the guy to keep the
TRIP
From Page 1A
Michigan State University
officials announced plans
to open a branch campus in
Dubai.
Though plans for this phase
of Coleman's trip have been
in the works for some time,
they weren't announced when
Coleman officially unveiled
her plans to visit sub-Saharan
Africa at February's meet-
ing of the University Board of -
Regents.
"The Dubai trip grew out of
the invitation she received to
speak at the conference," Con-
nell said.
While most of the Univer-
sity's 12-person Africa delega-
tion will return to Ann Arbor
today, Mark Tessler, director
of the University's Internation-
al Institute, will accompany
Coleman to the U.A.E.
Today in Abu-Dhabi, capi-
tal of the Persian Gulf nation,
Coleman will meet with the
nation's Minister of Higher
Education, Sheikh Nahayan
Mabarak Al Nahayan, to talk
about "possible collaborations"
between the University and
colleges in the U.A.E., Connell
said.
Coleman and Tessler are
slated to tour the campus of the
United Arab Emirates Univer-
sity in Al Ain tomorrow.
CAMPERS
From Page 1A
"Wildlife is also kind of
interesting, just hearing ani-
mals come up to the tent," Fry
said.
This is the first time Pike
has held a charity camp-out.
Fry, the chair of Com-
edy Night, said he chose
the unorthodox fundrais-
ing method because it would
allow the rest of the frater-
nity brothers to be directly
involved in the fundraising.
Fry said Pike chose to raise
money for Michigan Reach
out! because of the relation-
ship between the two groups.
Members of the fraternity
mentor children in the pro-
gram.
"It has close ties to our
house - over 130 brothers
have been involved. It's also
a great charity for the Ann
Arbor community," he said.
"We can bring out all the
mentors and bring out some
of the kids."
Fry said living in the great
outdoors has had at least one
other added benefit.
"Part of the thing is that
we can't watch TV all week,
which is actually good,
because we're going to be a
lot more productive," said
Fry.
they "note(d) a concerning pattern
emerging in general in a number of
negative decisions in tenure cases
of women of color faculty across
LS&A."
The letter cited Smith's femi-
nist activism and her impressive
academic record - including a
nomination for the 2005 Nobel
Peace Prize - as accomplish-
ments that merit her receiving
tenure.
Smith declined comment, say-
ing she was disappointed with the
decision, but that she didn't want
to jeopardize her case for tenure.
Candidates in the six-year ten-
ure process are evaluated by a
tenure-review panel from their
department. In Smith's case,
because she is jointly appointed,
the panel consisted of two units
Ojibwe language program going,"'
Rhodes said.
Rhodes also said McCue was
courageous for advocating the
study of Ojibwe at the university
level, considering the prejudices
against Native Americans in the
United States at the time.
"He was really someone who
overcame the negative portrayals
in the society," Rhodes said. "He
lived through the period when it
was really bad to be an Indian into
the time when it was OK to be an
Indian."
Although McCue taught only
as a lecturer during his career at
the University, many of his most
recent colleagues credit him with
making Ojibwe scholarship a sta-
ple of language studies at the Uni-
versity and generating significant
student interest in the language.
American Culture Prof. Mar-
garet Noori, who teaches Ojibwe
language and literature, said the
University's Ojibwe program
- with about 150 - is much larger
than Ojibwe programs at other Big
Ten schools, which she estimated
to include about 10 to 25 students
each.
- one from the Women's Stud-
ies department and one from the
American Culture department.
The American Culture unit
recommended her for tenure, but
the Women's Studies unit did not.
Women's Studies Prof. Maria
Sanchez, who was also recently
denied tenure, said she doubts
that Smith's decision will be over-
turned.
"As I understand it, the provost
just rubber stamps the College's
decisions, so both Andrea Smith
and I understand that our careers
here are done," Sanchez said in an
e-mail interview.
Tensions over the tenure pro-
cess have run so high in the Wom-
en's Studies department recently
that the department has enlisted
the help of two third-party orga-
This interest, she said, is a prod-
uct of McCue's passion for the lan-
guage and genuine interest in the
well-being of his students.
"You just don't see people
dedicate that kind of focus to
undergraduate education at an
institution of Michigan's stature,"
Noori said.
McCue was also a favorite
teacher of many student-athletes.
Noori said one of the most mem-
orable moments of the past semes-
ter in McCue's class was seeing
football players including Jamar
Adams, Jake Long and Mike Hart
sing "Hail to the Victors" in Ojibwe
after McCue had taught them the
proper translation.
American Culture Prof.Vicente
Diaz said he remembered McCue
not only for his scholarship at the
University, but also for the cultur-
al scholarship he took part in out-
side of Ann Arbor's city limits.
"Hap was instantly recognized
as an important figure, and feted
as such in all the communities we
visited," Diaz said inan e-mail.
Never one to lose sight of his
heritage or his culture, McCue
frequently participated in Native
nizational consultants to allevi-
ate the hostility, one of whom has
been working with the depart-
ment's chair since January.
Smith's supporters also claim
that instructors who work
between two different depart-
ments are less respected under
tenure procedures.
American Culture graduate
student Jessi Gan said relatively
new scholarly disciplines like
women's studies and American
culture may be more difficult to
evaluate than traditional fields
like math or English.
American Culture grauate stu-
dent Matthew Stiffler agreed.
"A joint appointment for a
junior faculty member in general
is a dangerous position to be in,"
he said.
American traditions and activities
throughout Michigan.
Punkin Shananaquet, who works
for the Gun Lake Band of Potawa-
tomi Indians in southwest Michi-
gan, said McCue would deliver the
opening invocation in Ojibwe each
year at the Dance for Mother Earth
pow wow, which is a gathering for
Native Americans from throughout
the Western Hemisphere.
Many of the people who studied
or taught with McCue offered one
final message for him in Ojibwe
- McCue's native language, to
which he devoted a lifetime of
scholarship and passion.
"Pane igo kaa pakwenmi-
go maampii kchi kinomage-
gamigong," they said, which
translates into "We will always
remember you at the University of
Michigan."
Services will be held at Mue-
hlig Funeral Chapel on 403
South Fourth St. in Ann Arbor, as
follows: a firstvisitation on Thurs-
day from 4 to 8 p.m and a second
on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The
funeral services will be held at
Muehlig Funeral Chapel on Satur-
day at 10 a.m.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 3A
Oficials in
Mich., Fla
consider new
primaries
WASHINGTON (AP) - Officials
in Michigan and Florida are show-
ing renewed interest in holding
repeat presidential nominating con-
tests so that their votes willcount in
the epic Democratic campaign.
The Michigan governor, along
with top officials in Hillary Rodham
Clinton's campaign and Florida's
state party chair, is now sayingthey
would consider holding a sort of do-
over contestbyJune. That's achange
from their previous insistence that
the primaries their states held in
January should determine how the
their delegates are allocated.
Clinton won both contests,but the
results were meaningless because
the elections violated national party
rules.
The Democratic National Com-
mittee stripped both states of all
delegates for holding the primaries
too early, and all Democratic candi-
dates - including Clinton and rival
Barack Obama - agreed not to cam-
paign in either state. Obama's name
wasn't even onthe Michiganballot.
Florida and Michigan moved up
their dates to protest the party's deci-
sion to allow Iowa and New HaMp-
shire to go first, followed by South
Carolina and Nevada, giving them
a disproportionate influence on the
presidential selection process.
But no one predicted the race
would stillbe very close at this point
in the year.
Ironically, Michigan and Florida
could have held crucial primaries
had they stayed with their tradi-
tional later dates. They may yet do
so if they decide to hold new con-
tests as Clinton and Obama compete
to the wire.
Clinton has been insisting that
the desires of more than 2 million
people who cast Democratic ballots
in the two states should be reflected
at the convention, which would help
her catch up to Obama in the race for
delegates. Obama has said he wants
the delegates from the two critical
swing states participate, too, but not
if Clinton is rewarded for victories
in boycotted primaries.
Now the Clinton campaign has
begun expressing openness to a do-
over. "Let's let all of the voters go
again if they are willing to do it,"
Clinton adviser Terry McAuliffe
said Tuesday night on MSNBC.
Man-made flood unleashed in Grand Canyon
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) - Four arcs
of water unleashed from a dam
coursed through the Grand Can-
yon yesterday in a flood meant
to mimic the natural ones that
used to nourish the ecosystem by
spreading sediment.
More than 300,000 gallons of
water per second were released
from Lake Powell above the dam
near the Arizona-Utah border.
That's enough water to fill the
Empire State Building in 20 min-
utes, said Interior Secretary Dirk
Kempthorne.
"This gives you a glimpse of
what nature has been doing for mil-
lions of years, cutting through and
creating this magnificgut canyop,"
Kempthorne said after he pulled
the lever releasing the water from
Glen Canyon Dam, upstream from
Grand Canyon National Park.
The water gushed from two of
four giant steel tubes in parallel
arcs into the Colorado River. By
afternoon, water poured from all
four tubes, creating a churning pool
beneath the sheer, sandstone can-
yon walls rising hundreds of feet.
The water level in thc Grand
Canyon rose 2 to 15 feet in some
places. After the flood ends Friday,
officials hope the water will leave
behind sediment and restore sand-
bars as it goes back to normal.
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