2A - Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-410-4115 ext. 1241 anweiner@niichigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com Redesigned MCAT adds almost three hours More than 40 percent of medi- UCLA students hold several court cases since. cal school admissions officers affirmative action bake sale The club charged Asian- think the revitalized Medical Americans $2.50 per baked good, College Admission Test will A chapter of Young Americans whereas White students were be harder than the current one, for Liberty at the University of charged $2, Latino students $1.50, according to a Kaplan Test Prep- California, Los Angeles hosted Black students $1 and Native survey featured in The Daily an "affirmative action bake sale" American students 50 cents in a Northwestern on Monday. last Friday, where items bore dif- "satirical representation" of its The new exam will be six ferent costs based on the buyer's stance against affirmative action, hours and 15 minutes, nearly race, The Daily Bruin- reported YAL chapter co-president Tyler three hours longer than its cur- Friday. 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WHO: Kelsey Museum of Archaelogy WHEN: Today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall Psychological Services will host the second in a series of events to address the top concerns of members of the University commu- nity struggling at school or work. WHO: Counseling and Pys- chological Services WHEN: Today from 4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union Multiple cases of polio have broken out in ~Syria, mostly among children, BBC News report- ed. The World Health Orga- nization says vaccinating the population has become more difficult since civil war broke out in 2011. N.Y.'s stop and frisk policy ruled an invasion of privacy Russia breaks Oly pledge with 100 df mpic -E Judges rule that 'passive' crime deterent is unconstitutional NEW YORK (AP) - A fed- eral judge's conclusion that New York City police officers some- times violate the constitution when they stop and frisk people has made officers "passive and scared" to use the crime-fighting tactic, lawyers warned a federal appeals panel Tuesday as they asked thatthe ruling be suspend- ed while it is appealed. The three-judge 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked plenty of questions but did not immediately rule in a case that may be affected in a major way by next week's mayoral elec- tion. Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio, who is leading in polls, has sharply criticized and prom- i 1 l i i l H-0 ised to reform the police depart- constitution. ment's stop-and-frisk technique, "That means constitutional saying it unfairly targets minori- stops are being chilled and that's ties. not good for the safety of the Attorney Celeste L. Koeleveld, community," she said. arguing for the city, said officers But lead plaintiffs' attorney are "hesitant, unfortunately" to Darius Charney for the nonprofit use the tactic anymore. legal advocate Center for Con- Attorney Daniel Connolly, stitutional Rights noted that the making legal points on behalf of drop in stop and frisks came even former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani before the judge ruled and said it and former U.S. Attorney Gener- was accompanied by a drop in al Michael Mukasey, told judges murders and other crimes. that city officers were "defen- And Christopher Dunn, asso- sive, passive and scared" about ciate legal director of the New using the technique. York Civil Liberties Union, said "This decision is bad law," it would be premature for the he said. "No one counts on fed- appeals court to staythe effect of eral judges to keep us safe on the the lower-court ruling because streets." the police department thus far Attorney Courtney Saleski, has not been required to make arguing on behalf of the Ser- any changes to the program. geants Benevolent Association, He said that if police officers noted that stop and frisks were on their own are engaging in down 50 percent in the first six fewer unconstitutional stops, months of this year compared "that's a good thing." with a year earlier. She said offi- During legal arguments that cers were afraid stops violate the lasted nearly three hours, two of the three judges seemed con- cerned about the manner in which Judge Shira A. Scheindlin reached her August findings that the police officers have system-, atically violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of people by wrongly targeting black and 5 4 6 Hispanic men. She appointed an outside monitor to oversee major 1 7 - 9 changes, including reforms in policies, training and supervi- sion, and she ordered a pilot pro- gram to test body-worn cameras in some precincts where most stops occur Circuit Judge John Walker said Scheindlin responded to the city and police department's staunch defense of the program 7 3 4 as if they were former Alabama Gov. George Wallace stand- 4 ing in a schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama in 1963 to block the arrival of two black students. He said reforms she ordered 6 as part of her findings were broad and of the kind that might result when the judiciary is fac- ing "total hostility on the part of the authorities." Landfill in Sochi violates no-waste promise to deliver 'clean' Olympics AKHSHTYR, Russia (AP) - Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned. As a centerpiece of its Olympic bid, Russia trumpeted a "Zero Waste" program that promised the cleanest games ever, saying it would refrain from dumping con- struction waste and rely on reus- able materials. But on a visit last week to Akh- shtyr, just north of Sochi, The Associated Press found that Rus- sia's state-owned rail monopoly is dumping tons of construction waste into what authorities call an illegal landfill, raising con- cerns of possible contamination in the water that directly supplies Sochi. The finding shows how little Russia has done to fulfill its ambi- tious green pledges. Its $51billion budget for the Olympics contains no provisions for treating con- struction waste. In a letter obtained by the AP, the 'Environmental Protec- tion Agency in the area where Sochi is located told the Black Sea resort's environment; council in late August that it had inspected the Akhshtyr landfill and found "unauthorized dumping of con- struction waste as well as soil from excavation works." The agency said it fined Russian Rail- ways, whose Sochi project costs billions of dollars, $3,000 for the dumping. It didn't order the dump closed. The EPA's Sochi representative visited the site earlier this month and insisted it was being cleaned up, villagers and activists who were present at that meeting said. The agency was unavailable for comment this week. The main health concern sur- rounding the landfill is to the water supply. Authorities confirm that Rus- sian Railways operates the Akh- shtyr dump without a license - but it wouldn't be able to obtain one even if it tried. That's because the village lies in an area where dumping con- struction waste and soil is for- bidden under the Russian Water Code. Moisture from the landfill seeps through porous karst rocks into underground springs that feed the nearby Mzymta River, which provides up to half the water supply in Sochi. "Water from here will be con- taminating Sochi's fresh water springs forthe next10 to15 years," said Vladimir Kimaev, a member of the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus. Boris Golubov, a geologist with the Russian Academy of Sciences, said it is impossible to accurately judge the impact of the Akhshtyr dump without a chemical break- down of the waste and a full geo- logical survey of the rocks. He said, however, that the landfill's location on karst is potentially hazardous. "Whenever you start dumping something or dig, you've got to think twice," Golubov said. Russian Railways is building the most expensive piece of Sochi infrastructure, a 48-kilometer (30-mile) highway and railroad link between the airport and the Alpine venues that has already cost the government 270 billion rubles ($8.5 billion). President Vladimir Putin was in Sochi this week to inaugurate a train station that serves as a hub for the link ahead of celebra- tions Tuesday marking exactly 100 days before the opening cer- emony. ays to go The press office of Russian Railways' construction unit, which is responsible for the road and manages the limestone quarry-turned-waste dump in Akhshtyr, told AP that it paid the $3,000 fine in August. The company blamed the dumping on a subcontractor, insisting that the waste management firm had "rectified the violations" - even after being told that AP had seen trucks dumping concrete and that the pit was still filled with con- struction waste. Outside the crater the size of three football fields, villagers complain that trucks continue to bring in construction waste by night and soil by day - as they have been doing for at least three months. Russian Railways isn't only dumping in the pit: Just outside the quarry's fence, aplotof land it leases is strewn with broken hel- mets, plastic tubes, foam sheets and tires. Residents say they have been complaining to authorities aboutthe dumping for months. "Authorities are telling us that this quarry is illegal and that it has been closed, but you can see that it's still here," said vil- lage chief Alexander Koropov. "We don't know what to do. We would like to petition God, but we haven't got his address. He's the only person we haven't petitioned yet." To compound Akhshtyr's problems, the village'swells dried up as the road project got under- way, depriving it of its own water source and forcing it to rely on weekly deliveries in large cis- terns. Local officials concede that wells began to go dry as soon as construction started, but won't place blame. Dmitry Kozak, the deputy prime minister in charge of the preparations for the games, has persistently dismissed claimsthat Sochi is failing on its green com- mitments. Speaking to reporters this year, he admitted "certain violations," but denied claims that trash still gets dumped in illegal landfills. 4