2A - Thursday, October 1, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Thursday, October 1, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Off the Beaten Path WEDNESDAY: Campus Clubs FRIDAY: Photos of the Week The great alcohol divide Students today know Division Street as the road that runs parallel to State Street, but not many real- ize its name used to mean something. In 1903, the city of Ann Arbor literally divided the town by prohibiting the sale of alcohol in all estab- lishments east of Divi- sion Street, and allowing it to the west, according to the Ann Arbor District Library's website. "The dry line was what they called it," said Wystan Stevens, a 1970 University graduate and lifetime Ann Arbor resident. John MarwilAnnArbor historical expert and his- tory lecturer at the Univer- sity, said binge drinking on campus is nothing new, hence the implementation of the line. "There was really quite serious drinking on this campus for a really long time in the late 19th and early 20th century," he said. "Drinking habits in the country involved an extraordinary amount of drinking of hard liquor and whiskey." The beginning of the temperance movement at the University began in the mid-to-late 1800s when students and University officialsbeganto notice the negative effects of alcohol among students. At a temperance meet- ing held at the Washtenaw County Courthouse in 1845 - documented in the book "Ann Arbor The First Hundred Years" by OW. Stephenson - a senior at the University said it was "the duty of every inhabit- ant of the village to exert an influence in favor of order and strict morality; and that to make this effi- ciently they should neither make, use, nor vend intoxi- cating liquors." Like many other college campuses during the tem- perance movement, the University became a place of great concern and con- troversy over consumption of alcohol. Stevens said it led to vis- its from radical speakers and pro-temperance activ- ists like Carrie Nation, a famous pro-prohibitionist who was known for her ruthless antics that includ- ed stealing rum bottles from bars and smashing bottles of hard liquor. Eventually, the division lost meaning. But the name stuck. "There was kind of a general loosening up of the rules around here, about the time the Vietnam War protest got started and people weren't going to tolerate restrictions on liberties, especially if not universally applied," Ste- vens said. -BETHANY BIRON CHANEL VON HAB5BURG-LOTHRINGEN/ Daily A street sign at the intersection of South Division and East Huron Streets. 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WHO: Museums Theme Year WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Alexander G. Ruth- ven Museums Building . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Get more online at michigandaily com/blogs/the wire U.S. and world powers enter talks with Iran Judge rules in favor £ n T A. - - . Washington official: U.S. may seek face to face talks with Iran GENEVA (AP) - The U.S. and five other world powers go to the table with Iran today to demand a freeze of its nuclear activities, and a senior U.S. official said Wash- ington may seek rare face-to-face talks with Iranian diplomats. The official, who spoke on con- dition of anonymity because of the private nature of the talks, briefed reporters in Geneva. Such a move would reflect Washing- ton's determination to get results at today's meeting between Iran hope, reflecting both sides' desire and six world powers. to talk, despite a spike in ten- In addition to the United States, sions over last week's revelations the countries include members by Iran that it had been secretly of the U.N. Security Council and building a new uranium enrich- Germany. The U.S. delegation is ment plant. headed by William Burns, the Ahead of today's negotiations, under secretary of state for politi- the State Department stressed its cal affairs, and Iran's chief nego- hope that the session would open tiator is Saeed Jalili. the door to more in-depth dia- Even as they prepare for new logue about ways Iran could alle- talks today with Iran on its nucle- viate concerns that its emerging ar program, the U.S. and its allies nuclear program may be secretly are contemplating new and tighter developing nuclear weapons. sanctions on Tehran, in a clear sig- If Iran is willing to address the nal of expectations that the nego- nuclear issues, then there likely tiations may again end in failure. will be subsequent meetings, The fact that the meeting is State Department spokesman P.J. taking place at all offers some Crowley said in Washington. "That process will take some of \aIA time," Crowley said. "We're not onnrAoon 9/11 tapes 4 going to maze a snap juugment on today. We're going to see how that meeting goes, evalu- ate the willingness of Iran to engage on these issues." Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, asked in New York what Moscow hoped from the talks, said: "To have a start that has a continuation." Chinese diplomats have also been urging Iran to negotiate with the six powers, U.N. dip- lomats said, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Hellerstein cites national security in ruling NEW YORK (AP) - A judge cited national security concerns in ruling yesterday that the CIA does not have to release hun- dreds of documents related to the destruction of videotapes of Sept. 11 detainee interrogations that used harsh methods. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said he believed he had an obligation to let the CIA director decide what should be released when it pertains to meth- ods used to make uncooperative detainees divulge information. "The need to keep confidential just how the CIA and other gov- ernment agencies obtained their information is manifest, and that has to do with the identities of the people who gave informa- tion and who were questioned to obtain information," the judge said from the bench. He ruled after reviewing in private 65 of roughly 580 docu- ments sought by the American Civil Liberties Union, including 53 field reports to CIA head- quarters about interrogations. An ACLU lawsuit already has forced the release of legal memos authorizing harsh Meth- ods, including waterboarding, a type of simulated drowning, and slamming suspects into walls, techniques described by critics as torture. The judge said he expects to order the release of six pages of written notes from a CIA field officer who spoke about the interrogation videotapes with a CIA lawyer, but he gave the government two weeks to sub- mit new arguments opposing the release. He said it was only impor- tant that he decide whether the issue before him was a fit subject for intelligence gathering, not whether it was legal. "If so, my job is to defer to the extent appropriate - and that is substantial - to the decision of the director of the CIA," he said. CIA Director Leon Panet- ta had told the judge in court papers that releasing documents about the agency's terror inter- rogations would gravely damage national security. The judge said he believes he would have used the same rationale to rule against pub- lic disclosure of the videotapes documenting new harsh ques- tioning techniques if the CIA had not -destroyed them in 2005. A criminal investigation into why the videotapes were destroyed continues. The judge, who presides over thousands of lawsuits filed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said he reached his conclusions in the CIA case after more "agony of decision-making" than any other area he has ruled upon. He said he studied earlier judicial rulings and concluded "there has been a reluctance on the part of the courts to interfere with the dis- cretion conferred by the mandate of the statutes on the CIA." The judge, though, said that the CIA has to obey laws, and he cautioned: "We have to square what we do in the gathering of intelligence with who we are as a people." ACLU lawyer Alex Abdo, who argued in the Freedom of Infor- mation Act case, said he was dis- appointed. "We were surprised at the level of deference to continue to main- tain the secrecy of a program the president himself has declassi- fied," Abdo said. "This is a new level of deference to the CIA's decision to withhold information about an interrogation program the whole world knows about." He said the ACLU would review its options before deciding whether to appeal. Government lawyer Sean Lane declined to comment. The government has said 92 videotapes were destroyed, A including interrogations of al- Qaida lieutenant Abu Zubaydah and another al-Qaida leader. The destruction was revealed nearly two years ago. The administration of Presi- dent George W. Bush had said some tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of the gov- ernment questioners while the Department of Justice was debat- ing whether the interrogation tactics were legal.