2A - Monday, April 4, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, April 4, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: ;THURSDAY:FRIDAY: SOther Towers Questions on Campus Professor Profiles Campus Clubs Photos of the Week CMIA NV TPARADING POT RO"TC reinstated at Columbia Nl 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com The University Senate at Columbia University voted last Friday to overturn a ban on ROTC from campus. The ban had been in place since 1969, according to an April 1 article in The New York Times. The decision came after the Columbia University Senate created the Task Force on Mili- tary Engagement, according to the article. The task force was formed after President Barack Obama signed the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal act. Not all students and faculty are in favor of the change, but some Columbia University stu- dents spoke positively about ending the ban. "The conversation between the military and the university has traveled through an arc," Columbia University Student N. Rudy Rickner told The New York Times. "Veterans and people who come here to study have not always had the kind of interaction they should have had for the last 30 years. Now they will." FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SPONSORS LAW SEMINAR ON BOB DYLAN'S SONGS Tonight and tomorrow a group of scholars will discuss the influence of Bob Dylan's songs at a seminar called "Bob Dylan and the Law," organized by Fordham University's Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics and Touro Law School, accord- ing to an April 2 Associated Press article. Fordham University Prof. Bruce Green, one of the orga- nizers of the event, asked Dylan fans to write about how the law and Dylan's lyrics relate, according to the AP. 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CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Smoke detector doctored WHERE: West Quadrangle Residence Hall WHEN: Friday at about 2:30 p.m. WHAT: Synchronized detectors were damaged on an entire floor after a student disabled a smoke detector in a dorm room, University Police reported. Pills pilfered WHERE: Shapiro Undergraduate library WHEN: Friday at about 9 p.m. WHAT: Medication was stolen from a student's unattended backpack, University Police reported. The medication was not recovered, and there are no suspects. Mercury mess WHERE: Chemistry Build- ing WHEN: Friday at about 2 p.m. WHAT: Officals were con- tacted to clean up a small mercury spill, University Police reported. No one was harmed by the spill, and there was no damage. Street fight WHERE: Willard St. and East University WHEN: Saturday at about 2:15 a.m. WHAT: Three students were punched by three males on the street, Univer- sity Police reported. One suspect was identified. The case is still under investiga- tion. 'Beating the blues' meeting WHAT: A workshop will be offered to students that features information about depression and strategies for coping with difficult. situations. WHO: Counseling and Psy- chological Services WHEN: Today at 4:15 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, room 3100 Congo conflict conversation WHAT: Kambale Musa- vuli, of Friends of Congo, will sponsor a lecture about femicide, child soldiers and other prevalent issues in Congo. WHO: Center for Global Health WHEN: Tonight at 7p.m. WHERE: Angell Hall, Auditorium B Seminar on secular rights WHAT: A meeting for students interested in First Amendment rights, spe- cifically in regards to the separation of church and state. The group is intended to provide a community for secularists, atheists, humanists and non-theists. WHO: Secular Student Alli- ance WHEN: Today at 6 p.m. WHERE: Angell Hall, room 2271 CORRECTIONS " A March 29 article in The Michigan Daily ("Power outage causes State Street area busi- nesses to shutdown early")misquoted Lee Tillotson-Becker as say- ing "DTE was terrible." * Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com Yesterday was the anni- versary of the first cell phone call ever made, CNN reported. The call was made 38 years ago in New York by Martin Cooper, then general manager of Motor- ola's communictions system division. This Thursday, Michi- gan men's golfer, Lion Kim, will become the third Wolverine in the golf program's history to partici- pate in The Masters, the first major golf tournament of the year. FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY A New Zealand beer that is expected to be launched this Thursday has raised concerns because of its promotion as a "break- fast beer," Fox News reported. 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Thestudio assistant,who asked said to be threat to not to be identified by name, said Ai was going through customs at national security the Beijing Capital International Airport early yesterday when BEIJING (AP) - China two officials escorted him away, blocked one of its most famous leaving a traveling companion to contemporary artists from tak- board the flight alone. ing a flight to Hong Kong on yes- It was not clear whether the terday and police later raided his 53-year-old artist and architec- Beijing studio, the man's assis- tural designer had been detained tant said. or why he was barred from taking The artist, Ai Weiwei, is an the flight, the assistant said. Ai's outspoken government critic cellphone could not be reached and has been barred from going and airport police refused to abroad before. comment. China has launched a massive Police later arrived at Ai's crackdown on lawyers, writ- studio with a search warrant ers and activists, arresting and and took several staff members detaining dozens since February to a police station for question- when online calls for protests ing, said the assistant, who was similar to those in the Middle among the group taken by police. East and North Africa began to A man who answered the phone circulate. Ai has been keeping an at the police station said he would check on the case, then hung up the phone. Subsequent calls to the number rang unanswered. Around two dozen uniformed and plainclothes police could be seen in and around Ai's studio yesterday afternoon. An Associ- ated Press videographer was told by police to stop filming and leave the area. Ai, an avant-garde artist who recently exhibited at the Tate Modern gallery in London, was stopped from boarding a flight to Seoul in December. That incident came shortly after he had been invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway, honoring jailed Chinese dissi- dent Liu Xiaobo. Liu is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion. Al said at the time that police had blocked him at the boarding gate and showed him a handwrit- ten note that said he could cause damage to national security by leaving. 70 RAHMAT GUL/AP Afghan protestors beat a burning ef figy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghani- stan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghans protest against Quran burning in Florida Increase in riots Press photographer at the scene. that those killed during the pro- kills 20, injures The Taliban said in a state- tests were unarmed demonstra- ment emailed to media outlets tors. multiple others that the U.S. and other Western "Afghan forces under the Adoptions of HI V-positive children on the rise among American parents "Stigma is steadily lessening" toward HIV/AIDS The immediate task might be coaxing a toddler into one more swallow of nasty-tasting medica- tion. Longer term, there are tough choices to be made about telling that child - and the surround- ing community - why those daily doses maybe needed for the rest of his orher life. While most adoptions present challenges, there's a distinctive set of them facing parents who decide to adopt children living with HIV. A twice-daily medication regi- men, lingering prejudice and fear, uncertainty about the child's lon- gevity and marriage prospects. Yet the number of U.S. parents undertaking HIV adoptions, or seriously considering them, is surging - from a trickle five years ago to at least several hundred. Most involve orphans from for- eign countries where they faced stigma, neglect and the risk of early death. "I can't think of a more signifi- cant way to make an impact than to do this," said Margaret Fleming, a 74-year-old Chicagoan whose nine adopted children include three HIV-positive first graders. "These kids were, in many ways, the modern-day lepers," she said. Ignorance and bias related to HIV haven't vanished in the Unit- ed States. But the stigma is steadi- ly lessening, especially compared to many of the other countries that are home to an estimated 2.5 mil- lion children with the disease. At forums and overthe Internet, parents who have adopted HIV- positive kids are offering advice and encouragement to those who might follow suit. In February, Bethany Christian Services - the largest U.S. adoption agency - unveiled a detailed educational package about HIV adoptions to help the growing number of interested parents make informed. decisions. "We didn't feel we could ethi- cally place these kids without some really solid education for these families," said Sara Ruiter, Bethany's international services coordinator. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a dem- onstration in a major eastern city yesterday, while the Tali- ban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Mus- lims worldwide, and in Afghani- stan many ofthe demonstrations have turned into deadly riots. Protests in the north and south in recent days have killed 20 people. Yesterday's protest in Jalala- bad city was peaceful, with hun- dreds of people blocking a main highway for three hours, shout- ing for U.S. troops to leave and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama before dispers- ing, according to an Associated countries have wrongly excused the burning a Quran by the pas- tor of a Florida church on March 20 as freedom of speech and that Afghans "cannot accept this un-Islamic act." On Saturday, U.S. President Barack Obama extended his condolences to the families of those killed by the protest- ers and said desecration of the Quran "is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry." But he said that does not justify attack- ing and killing innocent people, calling it "outrageous and an affront to human decency and dignity." Eleven were killed Friday when demonstrators stormed a U.N. compound, including seven foreign U.N. employees. A riot Saturday in south- ern Kandahar city resulted in nine deaths and more than 80 injured. The Taliban statement said order of the foreign torces attacked unarmed people dur- ing the protests, killing them and arresting some, saying there were armed people among these protesters, which was not true," the statement said. Sher Jan Durani, a spokesman for the government of northern Balkh province, where the first riots occurred, said there were multiple armed men among the more than 20 arrested. Afghan authorities suspect insurgents infiltrated the mob. In Kandahar, officials said 17 people, including seven armed men, have been arrested. The protests come at a critical juncture as the U.S.-led coali- tion gears up for an insurgent spring offensive and a summer withdrawal of some troops, and with Afghanistan's mercurial president increasingly question- ing international motives and NATO's military strategy.