The Michigan Daily - michiganclaily.com
Friday, April 4, 2008 - 3
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, April 4, 2008 - 3
NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
In March, Obama
raises $40 million,
doubles Clinton
Barack Obama raked in $40 mil-
lion in March, leaving Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton and her $20 million in
the fundraising dust and stuffing
his campaign treasury so he can
outspend her in the crucial Penn-
sylvania primary.
His haul in new donations also
buttressed his argument to Demo-
cratic superdelegates thathe has built
a vast network of donors and volun-
teets that they wouldn't want to lose
by denying him the nomination.
Obama has attracted nearly 1.3
million donors, largely through the
Internet.
He has raised $131 million in just
the first three months of this year
to $70 million for Clinton. Repub-
lican John McCain's campaign has
not revealed his March fundrais-
ing, but he has been far behind the
Democrats, raising less than $23
million in January and February
combined.
BAGHDAD
Prime minster
pledges to continue
crackdown
Iraq's prime minister pledged
yesterday to expand his crack-
down on Shiite militias to Baghdad,
despite a mixed performance so far
against militants in the southern
city of Basra.
The U.S. ambassador, mean-
while, said that despite a "boatload"
of problems with the Basra opera-
tion, he was encouraged that the
Shiite-led government was finally
confronting extremists regardless
of their religious affiliation.
Iraqi forces launched a major
operation March 25 to rid Basra of
Shiite militias and criminal gangs
that had effectively ruled the city
of 2 million people since 2005. But
the offensive stalled in the face of
fierce resistance from the militia-
men and an uprising across the
Shiite south spearheaded by the
Mahdi Army of anti-American
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
HAARE, Zimbabwe
Opposition party's
offices trashed
Intruders ransacked offices of
the main opposition party and
police detained foreign journalists
yesterday in an ominous sign that
President Robert Mugabe might
turn to intimidation and violence
in trying to stave off an electoral
threat to his 28-year rule.
Earlier, Mugabe apparently
launched his campaign for an
expected run-off presidential
ballot, even before the official
results of Saturday's election were
announced, with state media por-
traying the opposition as divided
and controlled by former colonial
ruler Britain.
Five days after the vote, the Zim-
babwe Electoral Commission still
had not released results on presi-
dential election despite increasing
international pressure, including
from former U.N. chief Kofi Annan,
who recently mediated an end to
Kenya's postelection violence.
BUCHAREST, Romania
NATO supports
missile defense
NATO allies gave President
Bush strong support yesterday for
a missile defense system in Europe
and urged Moscow to drop its an-
gry opposition to the program. The
unanimous decision strengthened
Bush's hand for weekend talks with
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said it was "a breakthrough
document on missile defense for
the alliance." At Bush's first NATO
summit in 2001, "perhaps only two
allies gave even lukewarm support
for the notion of missile defense,"
Rice said.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
U ,S,, D E A7
4,012
Number of American service mem-
bers who have died in the war in
Iraq, according to The Associated
Press. The following deaths were
identified yesterday:
Army Sgt. Dayne D. Dhanoolal,
26, Brooklyn, N.Y.
REPORTERS
From Page 1
student-athletes on March 26, Uni-
versity Provost Teresa Sullivan
echoed Kolarik's and Mathews's
comments, writing, "We have also
learned from several students that
they were misled into giving inter-
views to reporters who claimed
they were preparing a tribute to a
faculty member who was a focus of
the series."
Prof. Hagen said students who
were approached by reporters told
him they were under the impres-
sion the newspaper was preparing
a tribute to him.
"I heard that indirectly from the
students, that the only reason they
talked to them was because they
were told it was a tribute to my
retirement," Hagen said.
Daniel Okrent, who was the
first public editor at The New
York Times from 2003 to 2005, in
which he wrote columns indepen-
dent of the newspaper critiquing
its coverage and addressing ethi-
cal issues at the newspaper, said
that although he hadn't read The
News' series, based on journalis-
tic principle, it would be unethi-
MARTHA COOK
From Page 1
and we have regular doors which
most girls keep open."
Corona said the incident caught
residents of the 150-resident dorm
off guard.
"I thought it was very secure,"
Corona said. "We just had cameras
put in and saw bPS around setting
up cameras. Then this happens. I was
notexpectingsomethinglike this."
Donker said she thought Martha
Cook was targeted because it is an
all-female dormitory and residents
there have a reputation on campus
for being more conservative than
typical students.
Corona said many residents feel
like the burglary disrespected the
dorm's history.
. TheBuildingisnamedafterdonor
William Cook's mother. When Cook
donated the money for the building
in 1915, Cook envisioned that the
brick dormitory on South Univer-
sity Avenue would be, "more than a
place in which to live."
"We still talk about this and alot
ofthe girls are still reallyupset,"she
said. "Once people took the paint-
ing, it was a symbol of the building
and they took it away from us and
they destroyed it. They had no right
to do this." ,
cal to mislead interview subjects
about an article's subject matter
and then use information obtained
from them.
"If the reporters represented
themselves as doing a tribute to
this professor, then based on what
I know about the article, it's decep-
tive," said Okrent, who was an edi-
tor at The Michigan Daily in late
1960s. "It's simply deceptive."
Ann Arbor News sports colum-
nist Jim Carty, who collaborated
with Heuser and others the series,
said he thought the reporters'
intentions were made clear to the
interviewees.
"There was no mention of Prof.
Hagen's retirement," Carty said.
"We were very careful before we
began these interviews to make it
clear that we were not misrepre-
senting what we did."
Ann Arbor News Editor Ed
Petykiewicz echoed Carty's com-
ments about the reporting of the
first story. He said the staff was
told to "be clear, be direct, be care-
ful not to imply anything."
Petykiewicz said reporters
working on the story told him they
informed athletes they "were doing
a story about Prof. Hagen and that
they knew that he taught a lot of
SHOES
From Page 1
mails to customers, and Soles-
4Souls's "press arm," which
plans to connect with local
media outlets.
The launch of the program
will coincide with Soles4Souls
Barefoot Week, a nationwide
shoe collection effort.
Stulberg said he thinks the
University could play a major
role in helping the charity.
"Imagine if the school had a
one-day shoe drive," he said.
Stulberg said the health
benefits of wearing shoes are
vast, but often overlooked.
.According to the World
Health Organization, hook-
worm, a parasite that primar-
ily enters the body through
the feet, is a leading cause of
anemia and protein malnutri-
tion. It affects about 740 mil-
lion people worldwide.
"In the majority of hook-
worm cases, the initial trans-
mission occurs from the soil
to the feet because people
aren't wearing shoes," Stul-
berg said.
"Simply putting shoes on
people can help to solve a pub-
lic health crisis." F
athletes."
"I don't know what Chad Kolarik
would read into that or feel that
he was misled," Petykiewicz said.
"But we told the truth that we
were doing a story about Professor
Hagen."
Petykiewicz said the newspaper
has transcripts of all their inter-
views for the series, but added
that the newspaper doesn't release
interview records and transcripts.
According to Okrent, phrasing
an interview request in the matter
Petykiewicz instructed would be
ethically suitable, as long as there
is not any deception.
"If they ask about grades, it's up
to the athletes whether they answer
about grades or not," Okrent said.
"If they do not interview, they
won't get the interview."
Michigan hockey coach Red
Berenson said he thought the series
mischaracterized why student-
athletes took independent study
courses with Hagen.
Berenson said Hagen's courses
helped student-athletes "find a way
to make it."
"But to take that story and try
to flip it like players were trying to
take the easy way out, I don't think
that's true," Berenson said.
Several student-athletes inter-
viewed for the story said they felt
their words were misconstrued
and taken out of context.
Mathews said that although
he spoke highly of Hagen and
his courses in his interview, he
believed his quotes in the story
were misconstrued.
Mathews was quoted as saying
the class was not "terribly chal-
lenging" and that he was primarily
taught by Hagen's assistant, Steve
Pacynski.
"When they put my words
together, they made it seem like I
was talking down," Mathews said.
Kolarik said he was unhappy
with the story because his private
academic information was pub-
lished in the article without his
knowledge or consent.
"I was taken advantage of,"
Kolarik said. "My GPA was on there
without my permission."
Carty said he and the other
Ann Arbor News reporters in the
series didn't inform anyone inter-
viewed for the story that they had
the student-athletes's academic
information, but defended their
decision to use the information in
the story.
He also said student-athletes
interviewed for the story weren't
notified that their transcripts had
been released - something he said
reporters working on the story
had been "up front about that all
along."
"We did not make it clear whose
transcripts we did or did not have,
and that was a decision we made,"
Carty said. "And we stand by it."
In The News' first story in the
series, Associate Psychology Prof.
Stephanie Rowley was quoted as
saying that she accepted one to
three independent study students
per year, and that her involve-
ment in independent study courses
"really can be intense, particularly
if they're spending time in an inde-
pendent research project."
After the series was published,
Rowley wrote a letter of support
to Hagen saying reporters didn't
tell her that her comments would
be juxtaposed against statistics
regarding Hagen's independent
study courses, only that the story
was "about independent stud-
ies."
"I feel badly that my words were
used as an indictment of John's
work," she wrote. "I didn't know
until much later what the story was
going to be about."
Dems to abandon primary do-over
Michigan party
officials expected to
vote down plan today
LANSING (AP) - Michigan
Democrats are expected to decide
today against holding a do-over
presidential primary election, The
Associated Press has learned.
The state party's executive com-
mittee is expected to hold a meet-
ing by phone to vote on a statement
saying any kind of election to
replace the results of the January
15 primary no longer is possible,
according to Democratic leaders
who spoke on condition of anonym-
ity because the discussions so far
have been private.
Michigan and Florida were
stripped of their Democratic
National Convention delegates for
moving up their primaries.
Presidential hopeful Hillary
Rodham Clinton supported holding
a second election so the delegates
could be seated, but rival Barack
Obsma feared problems.
State Democrats now hope the
two campaigns can agree on a way
to split Michigan's 128 pledged del-
egates so they can be seated at the
Aug. 25-28 convention in Denver,
Colo. Michigan also has 28 super-
delegates, elected officials and
other top Democrats who don't
have to commit to any candidate
before the convention.
Clinton won Michigan's primary,
but Obama and several others had
withdrawn their names months
before the election. Many Obama
supporters voted for Uncommitted.
The state . Democratic Party
already has pushed back the date
for choosing national convention
delegates to April 19, hoping the
matter can be resolved before del-
egates are chosen.
Democratic National Committee
Chairman Howard Dean and four
top Michigan Democrats who have
been trying to work out a way to get
the delegates seated are expected
to put out a statement today after
the executive committee vote.
In the statement, they're expect-
ed to say the DNC is committed to
seating Michigan's delegates at this.
summer's convention as long as any
agreement is supported by the par-
ty's two presidential contenders.
The national party chairman
issued a similar statement earlier
this week after meeting with Flori-
da Democratic leaders. He said then
that he was "optimistic" that Mich-
igan's delegates would be seated.
Today's vote will cap weeks of
frenzied negotiations to find a way
to hold a do-over Michigan elec-
tion. There was talk last month of
holding a June 3 primary run by
the state and paid for by private
Democratic donors. But Michigan
lawmakers declined totake up a bill
settingup that election.
Party officials then considered
holding a party-run primary or
mail-in election, which would have
cost the party millions of dollars.
But time is running out to hold the
election before a June 10 deadline.
So now the decision on how to
divide up the pledged delegates will
move to the Clinton and Obama
campaigns. The Obama campaign
has called for splitting the dele-
gates 50-50, regardless of Clinton's
Jan. 15 win. The Clinton campaign
so far has rejected that idea.
Information Meeting
Friday, April 4, 4:00 P.M.
International Center, Room 9
For more info visit www.peacecorps.gov or call 800.424.8580