2A - Monday, March 28, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com tC toian Oatim 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief BusinessManager 734-ala-a11n eat. 1252 734-415-4115 ext. 1241 areinberg@michigandaiycom tmdbasiness@gmnait~com 0 CRANES FOR JAPAN James Franco to teach at NYU James Franco will be returning to his alma mater, New York Univer- sity, next year to teach a graduate-level course on directing, according to a March 25 article in the Washington Square News. While the class will like- ly garner much attention among students, it will be limited to an enrollment of 10 to 12 students, WSU reported. As part of the curriculum, students will examine a Louise Gluck poem and alter it to make it suitable for filming. 'James has an amazing mind. And limitless ener- CRIME NOTES gy," John Tintori, chair of the graduate division of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television said in the article. "Our students will be fortunate to learn from him." RACIAL SLURS TARGET OBAMA AT U. OF KENTUCKY A University of Ken- tucky professor found a sign posted on the door to a building in the law school referring to Presi- dent Barack Obama in a racial epithet, according to a March 25 article in The Huffington Post. A Kentucky law student found a similar sign on the front of a bus shelter" on March 24, the article stated. The Huffington Post reported that campus police are investigating the matter to figure out if a student created the signs or a non-University affili- ate. University of Kentucky Spokesman Blanton said in the article that the per- son responsible could ber charged with third-degree criminal mischief.H H A LEY H OASRO/Da Two students make paper cranes in Mary Markley Residence Hall on Fri- -SARAHTHOMAS day to support relief efforts in Japan. 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Anderson Wine Merchants, which has WHAT: A student burned three students carrying a London School of Econom- will present their work as been open since 1617, will himself after a lamp fell person by the Law Quad, ics, will deliver a lecture part of the Zell Visiting close due to a lack of cus- onto his bed and started University Police reported. on international law called Writers Series. tomers and pressure from a smouldering, University An ambulance took the "UN Women: Fragmenta- WHO: English Language & Police reported. The stu- person who was being car- tion or 'Delivering as One?"' 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Shakespeare WHAT: The Propeller Theatre company will give a presentation on how the theatre company reinvents and interprets classic plays by Shakespeare like "The Comedy of Errors." WHO: University of Michi- gan Museum of Art WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: University of Michigan Museum of Art wz: ionign at p.m. WHERE: 3222 Angell Hall CORRECTIONS * An article in the March 16,2011 edition of The Michigan Daily titled ("1000 Voices lobbies LSA for entrepreneur classes") incorrectly identified a student-run business. The business is called The Bearon. . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. The Michigan hockey team secured a spot in the 2011 Frozen Four in St. Paul after defeating Nebraska-Omaha and Colo- rado College in the West regional last weekend. FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY A man who was attempting to flee the police in New York had his leg severed by a Subway train, The Associated Press reported. The man's leg was severed because he had stepped onto the track in an effort to escape the police. International air raids hit Gadhafi stronghold 0 Sirte, Tripoli bombed as rebels move toward takeover of capital , RAS LANOUF, Libya (AP) - International air raids targeted Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte for the first time last night as rebels quickly closed in on the regime stronghold, a for- midable obstacle that must be overcome for government oppo- nents to reach the capital Tripoli. A heavy bombardment of Tripoli also began after nightfall, with at least nine loud explosions and anti-aircraft fire heard, an Associated Press reporter in the city said. Earlier in the day, rebels regained two key oil complexes along the coastal highway that runs from the opposition-held eastern half of the country toward Sirte and beyond that, to the capital. Moving quickly west- ward, the advance retraced their steps in the first rebel march toward the capital. But this time, the world's most power- ful air forces have eased the way by pounding Gadhafi's military assets for the past week. Sirte is strategically located about halfway between the rebel-held east and the Gadhafi- controlled west along the Medi- terranean coast. It is a bastion of support for Gadhafi that will be difficult for the rebels to overrun and the entrances to the city have reportedly been mined. If the rebels could somehow overcome Sirte, momentum for a march on the capital would skyrocket.i An AP reporter at the front said the latest rebel advance dur- ing the day reached as far west as the oil port of Ras Lanouf, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) east of Sirte. After nightfall, Libyan state television confirmed air raids on Sirte and Tripoli. Foreign journalists who were taken by the regime to Sirte a few hours before the bombings began reported hearing at least six loud explosions and warplanes flying overheard. They were driven around the city and said it was swarmingwith soldiers on patrol and armed civilians, many of them wearinggreen bandanas that signaled their support for Gadhafi. In the contested city of Mis- rata in western Libya, residents reported fighting between rebels and Gadhafi loyalists who fired from tanks on residential areas. MUZAFFAR SALMAN/AP Anti-Syrian government protesters shout slogans as they protest after Friday prayers a in Damascus on March 25, 2011. Gangs of armeed young -men roam Syria streets Supreme Court to take on Wal-Mart employment discrimination lawsuit Class action could involve up to 1.6 million women WASHINGTON (AP) - Chris- tine Kwapnoski hasn't done too badly in nearly 25 years in the Wal-Mart family, making more than $60,000 a year in a job she enjoys most days. But Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club stores in both Mis- souri and California: Men mak- ing more than women and getting promoted faster. She never heard a supervisor tell a man, as she says one told her, to "doll up" or "blow the cobwebs off" her make-up. Once she got over the fear that she might be fired, she joined what has turned into the largest job discrimination lawsuit ever. The 46-year-old single mother of two is one of the named plain- tiffs in a suit that will be argued at the Supreme Court tomorrow. At stake is whether the suit can go forward as a class action that could involve 500,000 to 1.6 mil- lion women, according to varying estimates, and potentially could cost the world's largest retailer billions of dollars. But the case's potential impor- tance goes well beyond the Wal- Mart dispute, as evidenced by more than two dozen briefs filed by business interests on Wal- Mart's side, and civil rights, con- sumer and union groups on the other. The question is crucial to the viability of discrimination claims, which become powerful vehi- cles to force change when they are presented together, instead of individually. Class actions increase pressure on businesses to settle suits because of the cost of defending them and the potential for very large judgments. Columbia University law pro- fessor John Coffee said that the high court could bring a virtual end to employment discrimina- tion class actions filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, depending on how it decides the Wal-Mart case. "Litigation brought by indi- viduals under Title VII is just too costly," Coffee said. "It's either class action or nothing." Illustrating the value of class actions, Brad Seligman, the Cal- ifornia-based lawyer who con- ceived of and filed the suitl10 years ago, said the average salary for a woman at Wal-Mart was $13,000, about $1,100 less than the average for a man, when the case began. Reports of security forces shooting demonstrators across the country LATAKIA, Syria - Gangs of young men, some armed with swords and hunting rifles, roamed yesterday through the streets of a Syrian seaside city, closing alleys with barricades and roughly questioning pass- ersby in streets scarred by days of anti-government unrest. The scenes in Latakia, a Medi- terranean port once known as a summmer tourist draw, were a remarkable display of anar- chy in what had been one of the Mideast's most tightly controlled countries. Syria has been rocked by more than a week of demon- strations that began in the drought-parched southern agricultural city of Daraa and exploded nationwide on Friday, with security forces opening fire on demonstrators in at least six places and killing dozens. A Damascus-based activist said residents of an impoverished hillside neighborhood of the capi- tal known as Mezah-86 reported that government forces were attacking demonstrators there last night. The activist said two residents reported hearing gunfire in the area as they spoke to him by phone. "I heard shouting, screaming, fighting and shooting," he said. One of the residents reported seeing security forces breaking into the home of at least one per- son who had attended an anti- government protest earlier in the evening, the activist said. His account could not be inde- pendently confirmed because Syria maintains tight restrictions on journalists and many areas have become unsafe in recent days. The government has also tried to calm the situation with con- cessions, and President Bashar Assad is expected to announce Tuesday that he is lifting a nearly 50-year state of emergency and moving to annul other harsh restrictions on civil liberties and political freedoms. Member of Parliament Mohammed Habash told The Associated Press that lawmakers discussed the state of emergency during a night session yester- day and Assad would make an announcement about the issue on Tuesday. He offered no further details. Ammar Qurabi, an exile in Egypt who heads Syria's National Organization for Human Rights, said there appeared to be diver- gent views within the Syrian leadership, with one branch that believes in a crackdown and another that believes in dialogue. He said Assad must address the people and show some trans- parency as quickly as possible. "People are askingthemselves, where is he? why doesn't he make an appearance?" Qurabi said. "Assad must choose whether he wants to go the way of the Moroccan king, who has pledged to sponsor broad constitutional reforms, or the Gadhafi way. Which is it going to be?" A top adviser to Assad offered the first hint of reforms in an announcement Thursday, say- ing the government had begun studying change to the emergen- cy law and other measures. That pledge did not stop protests from erupting in cities across Syria the following day. Some of the worst violence appears to have taken place in Latakia, a coastal city that is a mix of Sunnis living in its urban core and members of Assad's minority Alawite branch of Shiite Islam in villages on its outskirts, along with small minorities of Christians, ethnic Turks and other groups. 6 0