8 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 10, 1995
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'U' home to world's first cyberspace librar
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By Kristin Johnson
For the Daily
The days of sorting through library
stacks and consulting University librar-
ians are not gone yet.
The future of the Internet Public Li-
brary, the University's experimental
cyberspace library, is still under examina-
tion by its creators, users and students.
The system is the first worldwide library
resource sponsored by a university.
"The Internet Public Library began
as a phrase in my mind. It just came to
me," said Joseph Janes, an associate pro-
fessor at the School of Information and
Library Studies.
The Intemet library sprang from Janes'
seminaron information technology, which
he taught last semester. Janes and the
seminar's 35 students set out toexplore the
possibilities of an Intemet library.
This new resource remained after
the end of the original course. The
Internet library has enabled exploration
of current SILS issues, mainly a consid-
eration of librarianship in a digital age.
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By Frank C. Lee
Daily Staff Reporter
Ervin Dewain Mitchell Jr. --already
accused of being the Ann Arbor serial rap-
ist -has recently been connected to an-
other brutal rape of a 16-year-old high
school student in Inkster, Mich.
Mitchell, 33, has been charged with
three counts of first-degree criminal sexual
conduct and one count of attempted mur-
der. Prosecutors charged Mitchell with the
crimes on April 21 after DNA evidence
recovered from the May 1993 rape and
beating matched Mitchell's DNA profile.
The preliminary examination for that
sexual assault is scheduled for May 17.
Scientists fromthe Michigan State Po-
lice Crime Lab'sDNA unitin East Lansing
discovered the connection to the Inkster
sexual assault. These experts also testified
in March and established a possible link
between Mitchell and semen samples
found on four of five Ann Arbor victims.
The DNA evidence is the first direct
link between Mitchell and the Ann Arbor
sexual assaults because the three surviving
victims at the examination had been un-
able to name Mitchell as their attacker.
On March 9, Washtenaw County Cir-
cuit Court Judge Donad Shelton issued
a gag order prohibiting police, attorneys
and witnesses involved with the Mitchell
case from talking to the press to ensure
that the defendant receives a fair trial.
No charges were brought in the fifth
and the latest attack on an Ann Arbor
woman due to a
lack of semen left
on the victim,
leading the police
to suspect that a r
condom was used. -
On March 2,
W a s h t e n a w
County Prosecutor f
Brian Mackie
charged Mitchell «
with one count of __. A
first-degree mur- Mitchell
der and four counts
of first-degree criminal sexual conduct
spanning a two and half year period.
First-degree murder carries a manda-
tory sentence of life in prison without pa-
role. First-degree criminal sexual con-
duct could also carry a life sentence.
The trial for the Ann Arbor rape and
murder charges is scheduled for May 30
in Shelton's court. On April 27, the judge
ruled on 11 pretrial motions.
Shelton granted defense's motions to
hire a private investigator and an inde-
pendent DNA expert, as well as allow
the jury to view the crime scenes.
Motions to postpone the trial date, to
move the trial out of Washtenaw County
because of pretrial publicity and to sup-
press some of the evidence were denied.
At the March preliminary examina-
tion, DNA testimony convinced 15th Dis-
trict Court Judge Ann Mattson to find
probable cause for Mitchell to stand trial.
The judge's decision concluded three
days of testimony from more than 204w -
nesses, including statements from the t
rape victims and their families, law en-
forcement officials and medical personnel.
Mitchell remains in Washtenaw
County jail after his alleged involvement
in a Christmas Eve assault and attempted
purse snatching of an Ann Arbor woman.
The robbery trial has been recently post-
poned until the trial for the major counts
have been resolved.
The defendant was wearing a blood
glove at the time of his arrest on Christm
Day. DNA tests conducted on the glove
allegedly used in the robbery and
Mitchell's blood were the break police
needed in their investigation.