0 2A - Monday, October 25, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, October 25, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom THURSDAY: FRIDAY: MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other vyTowers Michigan Myths WEDNESDAY: Professor Profiles THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week I CARTNG FOR THE CARTLLON 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 Police shoot football player Pace University football player Danroy "DJ" Henry was killed by a New York City policeman last Sunday morning after fleeing the scene of a bar fight, according to an Oct. 21 article in the New York Post. Henry, age 20, was driving football teammates Brandon Cox and Desmond Hinds in his vehicle when they were pulled over outside a bar by New York Police Department member Aaron Hess. Henry drove away, and Hess began firing shots through the windshield, according to the article. After the shots, Henry was pulled from the car by police and handcuffed, lying roadside for 15 minutes without medical atten- tion. Cox, who suffered a minor gun- shot wound, begged cops to lethim give Henry CPR but was refused permission, the article reported. do and it doesn't hold us back." UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA STUDENTS ANSWERQUESTIONS ABOUT HIJAB Members of University of South Florida's Sisters United Muslim Association spent last Wednes- day answering questions from the student body regarding hijabs, or head coverings, according to an Oct. 21 article in Tampa Bay Online. The goal of the event was to cre- ate an understanding of why Mus- lim women wear the hijab and to let their peers know that women do have a choice in the matter. SUMA President Ala Gebarin said in the article that she felt it was important to abolish stereo- types about the hijab, explaining that "it's something we choose to U. OF ALBERTA FRATERNITY INVESTIGATED FOR HAZING Officials are conducting an investigation regarding hazing in the fraternity Delta Kappa Epilson at the University of Alberta in Canada, according to an Oct. 22 article in the Toronto Sun. The article reports that the fra- ternity engaged in hazing in Janu- ary2009. Accordingto the article, the pledges "were made to eat their own vomit, locked in a ply- wood box and deprived of sleep." 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The construction started in September and, according to Site Superintendent Bob Leporowski, will end in November. CRIME NOTES Beating around Failed robbers at the bush construction site CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Climate change Poetry reading WHERE: Buhr Building WHEN: Thursday at about 9:45 a.m. WHAT: Several bushes with an estimated total value of $500 were destroyed, Univer- sity Police reported. Officers are investigating the incident as a case of vandalism but have no suspects at this time. WHERE: Law Quadrangle WHEN: Saturday at about 3 a.m. WHAT: Two University students were arrested after officers observed them on the Quad's construction site with stolen property includ- ing a sledge hammer and a large chain, University Police reported. Sign of damage party punch and poiicy talk WHAT: Roger Pielke, Jr., University of Colo- rado professor and author, will give a lecture about issues of climate change and policy concerns. WHO: Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Weill Hall, Room 1110 Depression workshop WHAT: An informa- tion session aboutsymp- toms of depression and ways to cope with it. WHO: Counseling and Psychological Services WHEN: Today from 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union WHAT: A reading by poet Yusef Komunyakaa who will read from his own work, which includes Talking Dirty to the Gods, Thieves of Paradise and Dien Cai Dau. WHO: MFA Program in Creative Writing WHEN: Today from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Voice recital WHAT: A free singing per- formance by students in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance voice department. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Tonight at 6:45 p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. California's Proposal 19, which would permit lim- ited posession and growth of marijuana for people 21 or older, will be included on Cali- fornia's Nov. 2 ballot, Silicon Valley Mercury News report- ed. The proposal does not propose to legalize use in pub- lic, when driving or around minors. The Michigan hockey team split its weekend series with the NCAA's best scoring offense, Uni- versity of Nebraska-Omaha. FOR MORE, SPORTSMONDAY, INSIDE NASA director Simon Worden discussed a new "Hundred Year Starship" program that would utilize alternative energy sources, such as electric and microwave power, to further explore the moons of Mars, news.com.au reported. 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Almost 150 people report sexual abuse in church documents SAN DIEGO (AP) - Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catho- lic priests made nearly 10,000 pages of previously sealed internal church documents public yester- day, revealing at least one previ- ously unknown decades-old case in which a priest under police inves- tigation was allowed to leave the U.S. after the Diocese of San Diego intervened. After a three-year legal battle over the Diocese of San Diego's internal records, a retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled late Friday that they could be made public. The records are from the personnel files of 48 priests who were either credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse or were named in a civil lawsuit. The 144 plaintiffs settled with the diocese in 2007 for nearly $200 million, but the agreement stipu- lated that an independent judge would review the priests' sealed personnel records and determine what could be made public. The files show what the diocese knew about abusive priests, start- ing decades before any allegations became public, and that some church leaders shuffled priests from parish to parish or overseas despite credible complaints against them. "We encourage all Catholics, all members of the community, to look for these documents," attorney Anthony DeMarco said at a news conference. "These documents demonstrate years and years and decades of concerted action that has allowed this community's chil- dren to be victimized, and it is not until the community looks at these documents that this cycle is ever going to be ended." At least one of the priests, Gus- tavo Benson, is still in active min- istry in the Diocese of Ensenada in Mexico, DeMarco said. In a 2002 interview with The Press-Enter- prise of Riverside, Benson said he ministered to children there but had not done anything inappropri- ate. It wasn't immediately known what Benson's position at the dio- cese is now. Donna Daly, a spokeswoman for the diocese, did not immedi- ately return a call yesterday and no one answered at the main dio- cese number. Maria Roberts, an attorney for the diocese, did not immediately respond to a message left with her office yesterday. In at least one instance, the files included documented abuse by a priest whose name had not before surfaced in any lawsuit or criminal case, the Rev. Luis Eugene de Francisco, who was originally from Colombia. Police investigated de Francisco for allegedly abusing children, but the diocese convinced authori- ties to drop the case if the priest would return immediately to his Colombian diocese and never return to the U.S. "In early August 1963, Father was placed under arrest by the civil. police of the City of San Diego for violation of the State Penal Code," then-Bishop Charles F. Buddy wrote the Colombian bishop in the Diocese of Cali. "At that time, arrangements were made between this Chancery and the civil author- ities of San Diego in which, if Father left the United States with the promise never to return, the charges against Father would be set aside by Civil Law." Buddy wrote that de Francisco had crossed the border at Tijua- na, Mexico, and was "directed to return directly to the Diocese of Cali." DeMarco said the papers in the files were the first time attorneys became aware of de Francisco. No one filed a lawsuit, the church never revealed the complaints and it's unclear what happened to the priest or if he is still alive, he said. Church files indicate he also served in Florida and Texas before arriving in the San Diego diocese, where he worked with migrant workers in the Coachella Valley about 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. "You have won a reputation as a zealous worker and devoted to the poor," Bishop Buddy wrote the priest in a December1962 letter. "On the other hand, the 'inci- dents' at Indio were more serious than first presented to me, espe- cially inasmuch as the police have made a record of them. You know how word gets around, so that you be certain that the police here will be on your trail. ... It will be more prudent and more secure for you to return to your own diocese." Another caseoutlinedinthefiles involves the Rev. Robert Nikliborc, who was sent to a psychiatric treat- ment facility in the 1950s after the diocese received complaints, then became director of a Roman Catho- lic residential facility for troubled boys called Boystown of the Desert in Banning, Calif. Boys who lived there filed lawsuits against Nikliborc and were part of the 2007 settlement, DeMarco said. The priest died while litigation was under way. In a 1956 letter written to Nikli- bore while he was at a "special retreat," Buddy referred to two incidents involving the priest without describing them, and said Niklibore must decide whether to stand with God or against him. Tropical Storm hits Honduras Tropical Storm Richard expected to head to Mexico TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Tropical Storm Richard lashed Honduras' Caribbean coast with heavy rain and wind and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane yesterday as it roared toward Belize and southeastern Mexico. Authorities warned of deadly floods and mudslides in Honduras and declared states of maximum alert in four coastal provinces. Lisandro Rosales, head of Hon- duras' Permanent Emergency Commission, said civil defense offices along the coast were pre- paring to carry out evacuations if needed. Ric} ard is likely to pass near tly Honduran island of Roatan, which is popular with tourists and div- ers, before approaching Belize and southeastern Mexico late yester- day, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Flor- ida. Hurricane warnings were issued for the coasts of Honduras and Belize, and storm warnings were in place for Mexico's south- ern Caribbean coast. Early yesterday, Richard was just off Honduras' coast, at a point about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Roatan and was moving west-northwest at about 10 mph (17 kph). Its maximum sustained winds strengthened to 70 mph (110 kph) and were expected to reach hur- ricane strength later yesterday, according to the hurricane center. Honduranofficialssaid rainwas falling on the eastern province of Gracias a Dios, where floods have been severe in the past. "Richard is travelingslowly par- allel to Honduras' Atlantic coast and causing rains since Friday night on the Caribbean seaboard," said Daniel Posas of Honduras' National Meteorological Service. "Bands from Richard are already provoking strong winds in Gracias a Dios province that will increase over the course of the day." The hurricane center said Rich- ard could cause "large, destructive waves" and storm surges of 2 to 4 feet above normal tides in Hondu- ras and Belize. The storm could bring 3 to 5 inches (7 to 13 centi- meters) of rain to northern Hon- duras and as much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) in some spots, which the center said "could produce life-threatening flash floods and mud slides.", UNIVERSITY OP MICHIGAN umich.edu/~gonorth :