2 - Friday, January 8, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, January 8, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Professor Profiles Before You Were Here Campus Clubs MORE ONLINE For more photos of the week go to michigandailycom CRIME NOTES LEFT Sondra O'Donnell, director of Sun Moon Yoga Studio, participates in a Kirtan yoga chant while Atmaram Thaitanya accompanies on the harmonium in the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room on Main Street on Wednesday. (MARISSA MCLAIN/Daily) CENTER LSA sophomore Tara Servati smokes a cigarette in front of the Zaragon Place apartment complex yesterday. Tara, an occasional smoker, expressed disdain for the upcoming University-wide smoking ban, which will take effect in July 2011. (SAM WOLSON/Daily) RIGHT Red Simmons, the first coach of the University's women's track team, looks at memorobilia from his time working in Michigan athletics. Simmons turned 100 years old on Monday. (MAX COLLINS/Daily). 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Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses a joint session of the state legislature as he gives his final State of the State address at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. on Wednesday. Schwarzenegger will be one of the defendents in the upcoming lawsuit, though the governor has said he opposes the state's gay marriage ban. Calif. Supreme Court to consider s a -meq- LA-ezx marriage ban ne,-xt wee Case to examine whether U.S. Constitution allows gay marriage bans SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The national debate over same-sex marriage will take center stage in a California courtroom next week at a closely watched federal trial that could ultimately become the landmark case that determines whether gay Americans have a right to marry. The case will decide a chal- lenge to California's gay marriage ban that was approved by voters in 2008, and the ruling will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. How the high court rules in the case could set the precedent for whether gay marriage becomes legal nationwide. "This could be our Brown vs. Board of Education," said for- mer Clinton White House adviser Richard Socarides, referring to the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in schools and other public facili- ties. "Certainly the plaintiffs will tell you they are hoping for a broad ruling that says that any law that treats someone differently because of sexual orientation violates the U.S. Constitution." The case marks the first federal trial to examine if the U.S. Consti- tution permits bans on gay mar- riages, and the challenge is being bankrolled by a group of liberal Hollywood activists led by direc- tor Rob Reiner. They retained two of the nation's most influential lawyers to argue the case - former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson and trial lawyer David Boies. The lawyers are best known as the rivals who represented George W. Bush and Al Gore in the "hang- ing chad" dispute over the 2000 presidential election in Florida, and have tapped the talent of their respective law firms in prepara- tion for the trial and plan to take turns questioning witnesses. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown are defendants in the lawsuit by virtue of their prominent posi- tions in California government, but both men opposed the ban and have refused to defend the suit in court. Schwarzenegger has taken no position on the case, while Brown filed a brief saying he agreed with the Olson-Boies team that gays have the same fed- eral constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The sponsors of the gay mar- riage ban, a coalition of religious and conservative groups, joined the case as defendants. Their legal team is being led by Charles Coo- per, a veteran trial lawyer who worked for the Reagan-era Jus- tice Department. Cooper is being assisted by a team of lawyers from his own firm, along with a Chris- tian legal group based in Arizona. Presiding over the case is U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, a Republican named to the bench in 1989 by the first President Bush.Walker,who has areputation as an independent thinker, was randomly assigned the lawsuit, put it on a fast-track to trial and has said lee thinks it raises serious civil rights claims. During a pre- trial hearing in August, the judge pointedly scolded Schwarzeneg- ger for remaining neutral "on an issue of this magnitude and importance." Walker says the case is so impor- tant that the court has taken the rare step of allowing videotaping of the proceedings so the public can watch. The trial, scheduled to start Monday, will air on YouTube every day. To prevail, Olson and Boies will try to prove that denying gays the right to wed serves no legitimate public purpose and that Proposi- tion 8 was motivated by legally irrelevant religious or moral beliefs or even anti-gay bias. The ballotinitiative, which passed with 52 percent of the vote, supplanted a California Supreme Court ruling that had legalized same-sex mar- riages. Boies and Olson say the ban is a blatant violation of Constitu- tional rights to equal protection and due process. Both men claim they were justified in opening fire at Kabul intersection RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Two former Blackwater contractors were arrested yesterday on mur- der charges in the shootings of two Afghans after a traffic acci- dent last year, according to a fed- eral indictment. The indictment unsealed hours after he arrests charges Justin Can- non, 27, and Chris Drotleff, 29, with second-degree murder, attempted murder and weapons charges. FBI agents arrested both of them without incident, said Peter Carr, a spokesman with the U.S. attorney's office in Virginia's eastern district. Both men have told The Associ- ated Press that they were justified in opening fire on a car that caused an accident in front of their vehi- cle, then turned and sped toward them. The indictment says the shooting at a Kabul intersection killed two people. At least one other person was injured. "I feel comfortable firing my weapon any time I feel my life is in danger," Drotleff said in a recent interview. "That night, my life was 100 percent in danger." Drotleff made a first court appearance yesterday afternoon and requested an attorney to be appointed. He was ordered held until a detention hearing next week. Officials said Cannon made an initial appearance in Texas. The arrests came a day after Xe, the North Carolina-based company formerly known as Blackwater, settled a series of federal lawsuits alleging that illegal activity by the companyledtothe deaths of dozens of Iraqis. Those killings and other problems in Iraq have strained relations between Washington and Baghdad and led to the U.S. govern- ment's push to increase oversight of contractors in war zones. U.S. officials have struggled to demonstrate that they have both the legal grounds and politi- cal fortitude to hold contractors accountable. Several Blackwater contractors hadbeen charged with 14 counts of manslaughter for their role in a 2007 shooting in Bagh- dad's Nisoor Square, but a judge dropped those charges last week. In another case, federal pros- ecutors have told a Seattle attor- ney they intend to charge another Blackwater contractor in the kill- ing of an Iraqi guard in 2006. The killings were among the violence cited by the lawsuits, which accused the company of cultivating a reckless culture that allowed innocent civilians to be killed. Plaintiffs' lawyers filed a motionlate Wednesdayrequesting the seven lawsuits be dismissed after the settlement was reached. The company said it was pleased with the settlement and ready to move on, declining to release its full terms. Xe declined to comment on Thursday's indictment other than to say that the men were fired4 and that the company "immedi- ately and fully cooperated with the government's investigation." Cannon,ofCorpusChristi,Texas., and Drotleff, of Virginia Beach, Va., were among four contractors fired afterthe shootingforfailingto com- ply with the terms of their contract withParavant, aXe subsidiary. Steve McClain, another former contractor who was with Cannon and Drotleff during the shootings, told the AP he spentabout 90 min- utes before a Virginia grand jury this week detailing hist recollec- tions of what happened. Cannon, Drotleff and McClain said in separate interviews with the AP over the past month that they were driving along a Kabul road on. the night of May5 when a speeding carslammed into thefirstvehicleof their convoy, causing it to flip. Cannon and Drotleff were traveling in another vehicle and got out to help. They both said the car that caused the accident turned and started speeding toward them. Fearing for their lives, both opened fire, with Drotleff emptying a 16-round clip. Cannon was unsure how many shots were fired.