2A - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 T M g D - h n y The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 91 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com rmgrein@michigandaily.com CRITTCAL PATRTOTTSM Celebrating Armenian culture For LSA senior Satenig Mir- zoyan and Public Policy senior Lorig Stepanian, co-presidents of the Armenian Students Cul- tural Association, membership in ASCA provides a welcoming place to celebrate Armenia's rich heritage, educate students .in relevant issues and connect Armenian students on campus. Mirzoyan said the approxi- mately 60 students involved with ASCA meet for the -opportunity to further immerse themselves in Arme- nian culture, despite the geo- graphical divide between the University and their ancestral home. 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A fire that broke out in a factory in eastern Pakistan after sparks from a generator hit chermicals killed dozens of people, a Pakistani police officer said. i atalfactorfiire s in Pakistani clties k1l85, injure dozens more Workplace it was impossible to tell if they were male or female, he said. conditions hamper Pakistani television showed a video of the five-story fac- escape efforts tory with flames leaping from top-floor windows and smoke KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) billowing into the night sky. Fire- - Factory fires that broke out fighters could be seen pound- in two major cities in Pakistan ing on the metal grates covering killed 85 people and injured doz- some of the windows and pulling ens more, including some who out smoke-covered bodies. had to break through barred Many of the workers were windows and leap to the ground injured when they jumped from to escape the flames, officials and the burning building, said anoth- survivors said Wednesday. er doctor at the hospital, Karar Workers recounted how their Abbasi. colleagues were trapped behind One was a 27-year-old preg- blocked exits, and firefighters nant woman who had to jump said that one reason why the from the second floor and was blazes were so deadly is that the now suffering complications buildings - a shoe factory in the with her pregnancy, said hospital eastern city of Lahore and a gar- officials. ment factory in the southern port An injured factory worker, of Karachi - lacked clear escape Mohammad Ilyas, speaking from routes. the hospital, said he was working Such safety issues are com- along with roughly 50 other men mon throughout Pakistan, where and women on one of the floors buildings also lack emergency when suddenly a fireball came equipment like alarms and sprin- from the staircase. klers and municipal rules are "I jumped from my seat as did rarely enforced. others and rushed toward the The most deadly blaze came windows, but iron bars on the in Karachi, the country's eco- windows barred us from escap- nomic heart. The head of the ing. Some of us quickly took tools emergency department at the and machines to break the iron Civil Hospital in Karachi, Tariq bars," he said. "That was how we Kamal Ayubi, said 60 bodies had managed to jump out of the win- been taken to the hospital so dows down to the ground floor." far. Some were so charred that His leg was injured in the fall. Others weren't so lucky. An Associated Press reporter saw a charred body partially hanging out one of the factory's barred windows. It appeared the victim tried to escape but couldn't make it through the bars. "There were no safety mea- sures taken in the building design. There was no emergency exit. All the people got trapped," said senior police official Amjad Faroogi. Fire fighters Wednesday were still trying to subdue the deadly blaze that broke out Tuesday evening, and Farooqi said they would need a few more hours to bring it fully under control. In Lahore, the fire swept through a four-story shoe fac- tory and killed 25 people, some from burns and some from suffo- cation, said senior police officer Multan Khan. The factory was illegally set up in a residential part of the city. It broke out when people in the building were trying to start their generator after the elec- tricity went out. Sparks from the generator made contact with chemicals used to make the shoes, igniting the blaze. Pakistan faces widespread blackouts, and many people use generators to provide electricity for their houses or to run busi- nesses. dismissal is under investigation DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) - A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first col- lege football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman line- backer tobe kicked off the team, he said. North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton acknowl- edges Kuntz was disciplined by the team, but says it wasn't because he is gay. Football coach Chuck Parsons told Kuntz in a letter that he was removed from the team for lying about the kiss. Kuntz, 18, and on a partial football scholarship, left the col- lege in southeast North Dakota this month after his dismissal from the team. "Football didn't work out, so there was no reason to stay," said Kuntz, who lives with his mother across the state in Dickinson. Kuntz said he and his 65-year- old boyfriend were in the press box at the game against Snow College in Pueblo, Colo., over Labor Day weekend. Kuntz was videotaping the game for the team. His Wildcats were downby more than 40 points when "the kiss just happened," he said. The team would eventually lose 63-17. "People around here aren't exposed to it," Kuntz said of homosexuality. "People expect gays to be flamboyant, not foot- ball players." A teammate apparently saw the kiss and told coaches, Kuntz said. When Parsons confront- ed Kuntz on the bus ride back to North Dakota, Kuntz told him the man he kissed was his grandfather. "I lied," Kuntz said. Later, he feltguilty about lying and came clean to his coach. In a Sept. 3 dismissal let- ter obtained by The Associated Press, Parsons told Kuntz he was being ousted from the team under the "conduct deemed det- rimental to the team" category outlined in guidelines in the team's player's manual. Parsons specifically noted the manual's section on "lying to coaches, teachers or other school staff." "This decision was arrived at solely on the basis of your con- duct during the football game; and because you chose not to be truthful with me when I con- fronted you about whom else was in the box with you," Par- sons wrote. "Any conduct by any member of the program that would cause such a distraction during a game would warrant the same consequences." Kuntz doesn't believe he was dismissed just for lying. "I know if it was a girl in the press box, or even an older woman, nothing would have happened," he said. "If it was an older woman, I would have probably been congratulated for it from my teammates." School officialstoldtheAPthat they were investigating whether this was the first such instance of someone being kicked off the football team for lying. John Richman, North Dakota State College of Science presi- dent, said other players have been kicked off the team for var- ious reasons, though he couldn't say whether any before had been booted specifically for lying. "I don't know of every single case where coach Parsons has had to discipline a young man," Rich- mansaid. Other behavior that the player's manual says could lead to dismissal includes criminal violations, fighting and repeat- ed absences or tardiness to class. Richman said he believes Kuntz's case was handled "fairly and consistently" by the athletic department. "I'm very confident that with the information that's been provided to me by our football coach, Chuck Parsons, by our athletic director, Stu Engen, that the thought process, the facts that were reviewed, have led them to an appropriate and the right decision in this case," Richman said Tuesday in an interview at the college. H,..,, .4 0 M 4