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CRIME NOTES Led by several members of the Michigan Student Assembly, a petition drive was launched to reform the University's meal plan options. The meal plans at the time were set by meals per week, and petitioners wanted to change that to one set number forthe year. LSA freshman Rob Rielly, a Michigan Student Assembly member and one of the leaders of the push, said the current meal plans were unfair to students. "Right now, you get 13 meals a week, two meals a day and if you don't eat one of those meals you lose it," Rielly said. "What we're pushing for is spreading those Ian changes meals out. You get 400 meals for the year, and you can budget your meals however you want." Ten years ago this week (Feb. 13,2004) Jennifer Gratz, a plaintiff in the 2003 Supreme Court case against the University's affirmative admis- sion policies, spoke at the Univer- sity amid alarge-scale protest. Gratz was hosted on campus by the University's chapter of the College Republicans, who had asked her to talk about her experience and perspective dur- ing the court case and as one of the organizers for a statewide ban on affirmative action. --SHOHAMGEVA Newsroom y34-41-4115opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@ichigandaily.com Display Sales dailydisplay@gmail.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com PhatographylSectian photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classifed@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com LSA students Danni Xia and Ben Casaceli model local designs at the Shei Fashion show at the League Saturday. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Repeat offender WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Friday at about 1:40 a.m. WHAT: A visitor who had already been asked to leave was found in the building by hospital security, University Police reported. It was an accident. WHERE: Lot SC-16 WHEN: Thursday at about 8 a.m. WHAT: A service vehicle suffered minor damages, University Police reported. The incident was classified as accidental. Snyder leadership lecture WHAT: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will speak about leadership practices. WHO: Campus Information Centers WHEN: Today at 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business Digging Letting more International yourself a hole than the cold in student WHERE: Couzens WHERE: 305 W. Liberty Residence Hall St. discussion Chamber music concert WHAT: A combined student, faculty and staff chamber group will play three pieces. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center CORRECTIONS A Feb. 7article "Students brainstorm changes for Trotter" misstated Angela A biodun's name. It appeared as AngeluAhiola in the original version of the article. In addition the same article misstated that MESA is a student organization. 0 Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. On Saturday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department would extend several new rights to gay couples, Reuters report- ed. Added rights include spousal privilege and eligibil- ity for more federal benefits. The Michigan hockey team gave Penn State its first-ever Big Ten win on Saturday. The Wol- verines lost 4-0 and saw junior forward Alex Guptill suffer a right shoulder injury. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY Sage Kotsenburg, a 20 year old represent- ing the United States in men's slopestyle, won the first gold medal of the 2014 Winter Olympics Saturday. Saturday's event marked the first slopestyle has been offered at the Olympics. 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WHO: Counseling and Psychological Services WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. to 1p.m. WHERE: CAPS Office, Michigan Union Next step uncertain in Woody Allen assault allegations Director's adopted daughter first leveled accusations in 1992 NEW YORK (AP) - A week bracketed by op-ed letters of accusation and denial of child molestation left little clarity and scant hope for resolution in a bit- ter saga that has haunted Woody Allen and the Farrow family for more than two decades. The back-and-forth between Allen and his adopted daugh- ter, Dylan Farrow, breathed new fire into a long dormant scandal, but what happens next is uncer- tain, with the possibility of legal recourse and continued scrutiny in the weeks and months ahead. Farrow, in her most detailed account yet, alleged in an open letter published Feb. 1 by The New York Times that Allen "sex- ually assaulted" her when she was 7 years old at the Farrows' Connecticut home, renewing a charge against the movie director H-S that was first leveled in 1992. word on this entire matter." Allen responded in a letter But the rampant debate posted online Friday night by the sparked by Dylan Farrow's accu- Times that insisted "of course I sation will likely continue to did not molest Dylan." He instead stir questions over the alleged claimed the young Dylan had molestation, how claims of sexual been coerced and misled by her assault are publicly weighed, and mother, Mia Farrow. The two the legacy of Allen's acclaimed acrimoniously separated after work as a filmmaker. Farrow discovered Allen was Filing criminal charges would having an affair with her adopted be difficult for Farrow. In Con- daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who necticut, Farrow had until age was 19 or 21 at the time. (Her date 20 to file charges. (She is now 28, of birth is uncertain.) married and living in Florida.) "I loved (Dylan) and hope In 2002, Connecticut extended one day she will grasp how she the cutoff to age 48, but that only has been cheated out of hav- covers crimes since the change. ing a loving father and exploited Exceptions can be made for the by a mother more interested in most serious sexual crimes. her own festering anger than Connecticut state prosecutor her daughter's well-being," said Frank Maco, who investigated Allen, who married Previn in the charges in 1993 but is now 1997 and has two adopted daugh- retired, has said he believes the ters with her. statute of limitations ran out on Mia Farrow has yet to com- the case years ago. ment on Allen's letter. Represen- Farrow could file a civil suit tatives for Farrow didn't respond against Allen. Though a suit to messages left Friday night and would offer the opportunity to Saturday. retry the case in civil court, it Allen ended his letter by would insure a drawn-out, very declaring it would be his "final public battle that would be taxing for all involved. The history of the case is clouded by a 1993 investiga- tion that was full of contradic- tions. Allen wasn't charged and a team of child abuse specialists from the Yale-New Haven Hos- pital brought in by prosecutors 3 8 concluded Dylan had not been molested. But Maco claimed there was "probable cause" for 7 charging him. In the custody bat- tIe, Judge Elliott Wilk concluded Allen's behavior with Dylan was "grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to pro- tecther." A disciplinary panel found that Maco may have prejudiced the 5 custody battle by makingan accu- sation without formal charges. 1 Maco challenged Allen's state- ment in the op-ed that he "very willingly" took a lie-detector 2 test. He said that Allen refused a request to take a polygraph from the Connecticut state police dur- 3 7 ing the investigation and that the test he took was administered privately. Maco said that he was "incensed" atAllen's letter, which said that the district attorney had been "champingat the bit to pros- ecute a celebrity case." sERGE CHUZAVKOV/AP Pro-European Union activists stand in front of a barricade of their tent camp to protect it, in downtown Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday. Protesters experience upset after months of non-violence Anti-government protesters build large tent camp in, Kiev square KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Thousands of people angered by months of anti-government protests in the Ukrainian capital converged on one of the protesters' barricades Saturday, but retreated after meeting sizeable resistance. Although the confrontation ended without violence, it underlined the tensions that persist as the protests slog through a third month with no sign of concession from either side. The anti-government protesters have set up an extensivetent camp ondowntown Kiev's main square and occupy three nearby buildings, including the city hall, that they use for operations centers, sleeping quarters and even an improvised library. They have also built extensive barricades of earth, bags of ice and refuse on the fringes of the area. About 2,000 people streamed toward the barricade near city hall at midday, blocking traffic on the capital's main avenue and placing tires in the roadway. IgorPolishchuk,oneofthe men placing the tires, said the crowd intended to show its peaceful opposition to the protests that have pushed the country into a political crisis and complained that police had done little against the protesters. "It's a critical mass in there, without control," he said. "The authorities aren't anywhere inside." Protesters from the anti- government side stood atop the three-meter (10-foot) barricade and members of the protest camp's self-defense marshaled, many of them carrying metal shields and protectingtheir heads with cycling or hockey headgear. After about two hours, the protesters' opponents pulled back, with the self-defense volunteers following, banging their shields with rods in an eerie imitation of the technique used by the country's feared riot police. After riot police violently dispersed two of the early protest rallies, crowds swelled - sometimes exceeding 100,000 people - and the protest issues expanded to denunciation of police brutality and calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych. The protests began in late November after Yanukovych backed away from an agreement to deepen ties with the European Union and pursue closer relations with Russia. A wide swath of Ukrainian society resents Russia's long dominance or influence on Ukraine and avidly supports integration with the EU as a way to bolster democracy and human rights. Many of the demonstrators who challenged the protesters' barricade on Saturday wore St. George's ribbons, a traditional Russian military emblem. Yanukovych's strongest support is in the Russian-speaking eastern part of the country. Yanukovych met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday on the sidelines of the opening day of the Sochi Olympics. No details of the meeting were made public. After Yanukovych shelved the EU deal, Russia agreed to a $15 billion financial aid package to Ukraine; his opponents fear that was a prelude to joining a trade bloc that Moscow is leading as a counterweight to the EU.