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October 12, 1995
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Peace Corps marks 35th anniversary
By Megan Schimpf
Daily Staff Reporter
In the early morning hours one day
35 years ago this week, a young senator
from Massachusetts asked students to
do something for their country.
"How many of you are willing to
work in the foreign service and spend
your lives traveling around the world?"
John F. Kennedy asked. "On your will-
ingness to contribute part of your life to
this country I think will depend the
answer (to) whether a free society can
compete."
At 2 a.m. on Oct. 14,1960, Kennedy,
on a campaign trip for the 1960 presi-
dential election, stopped in Ann Arbor
and presented the idea for the Peace
Corps to an audience of 10,000 in front
of the Michigan Union.
To commemorate the anniversary,
18 University Peace Corps Fellows will
polish the plaque on the Union steps
that marks where Kennedy stood to
announce the initiative.
The ceremony takes place at 5:30
p.m. today.
In 1960, the large crowd had been
waiting since 11 p.m. the day before -
27 hours - for Kennedy to arrive from
New York, where he had been in a
televised debate with Vice President
Richard Nixon.
"He couldn't possibly just go to sleep
- he had to address them," said Lora
Parisien, public affairs officer for the
Peace Corps. "They were there for him
- waiting for him."
Kennedy's short speech was peppered
with humor and serious intentions.
"I want to express my thanks to you
as a graduate of the Michigan of the
East - Harvard University," Kennedy
said. "And therefore I'm delighted to
come to Michigan, this University... I
come here tonight to go to bed. But I
also come here tonight to ask you tojoin
in the effort."
Kennedy signed the Peace Corps into
action March 1, 1961, by executive
order. Congress later passed a bill mak-
ing the corps a government agency.
"Wherever we can, we're going to
celebrate this year," Parisien said. "It's
a major event for us all year long."
The celebration kicks off with today's
ceremony.
"The United States Peace Corps
wanted us to do something to recognize
See CORPS, Page 7A
JONATHAN BERNDT/Daily
Bosnia
cease-fire
set after
2-day delay
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP)-After a48-hour delay, Bosnia's
warring parties agreed yesterday to halt
their desperate last-minute battles for
land and begin what many hope is
Bosnia's final cease-ire.
The 60-day truce, part of a U.S.-led
effort to bring peace to the Balkans,
was put off for two days while engi-
neers tried to restore utilities to Sarajevo
and armies battled for territory.
"I hope that this is the last day of this
war," said one Bosnian minister, Hasan
Muratovic.
The Muslim-led government and its
Croat allies seized two Serb-held towns
in northwest Bosnia before setting a
time for the truce to begin: one minute
aftermidnightThursday (7:01 p.m. Ann
Arbor time yesterday).
Still, Bosnian Prime Minister Haris
Silajdzic said the army would continue
fighting until then.
In the waning hours before the truce,
the government was reportedly still
advancing toward athird town, Prijedor,
in northwest Bosnia and Serbs were
rushing to expel up to 20,000 non-Serbs
remaining in northern Bosnia.
In contrast to dozens of cease-fires
that have failed since, 1992, all sides
appeared serious about making this one
work. The truce is to lead to negotia-
tions in the United States at the end of
the month. If they are successful, a
peace conference will be held in Paris.
"All conditions have been met, and
we have the security that tonight we
will have a cease-fire," said Antonio
Pedauye, the United Nations' chief ci-
vilian official for Bosnia.
The Bosnian government and rebel
Serbs said they would go along.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic
said his army "will cease all military
activities except defensive ones as of
midnight tonight."
His enemy, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic, said his side had
met all conditions for the cease-fire but
reserved the right to retaliate against
"vulnerable enemy targets" for any
cease-fire violations. That meant Serbs
could respond by shelling cities.
Former'U
prof. wins
NobelRize
NATIONAL
COMINGI
OUT WEEK
As a part of National Coming Out
Week, a "Coming Out of the Closet
Ceremony" was conducted on the
ss r~h HthrGa1atLiay
yesterday as students rallied ont the
Diag in support of the celebration.
The event, sponsored by the Queer
Unity Project, featured keynote
speaker Jim Sears, an author who
described advances in gay awareness.
Sears, a University of Southern
California professor, has written six
books and more than 100 articles
about gay men and lesbians. Story,
Page 7A.
Martin L. Peri receives
award for 1975
physics discovery
By Cathy Boguslaski -
and Michelle Lee Thompson
Daily Staff Reporters
A former University physics profes-
sor was one of two people awarded the
Nobel Prize in physics yesterday.
Martin L. Perl, who taught at the
University from 1955-63, received the
Nobel Prize for his discovery in 1975 of
the tau lepton, a super-heavy cousin of
the electron.
PerI is currently a professor at the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
He shares the discovery and $1 mil-
lion award with Frederick Reives of the
University of California at Irvine.
Vice President for Research Homer
A. Neal commended Perl for his ac-
complishments.
"I'm delighted that he won it," said
Neal, who did graduate research under
Perl, while the two were here. "He fully
deserves it. The discovery of the tau
lepton was a major breakthrough in the
field of high-energy physics."
Keith Riles, a University assistant
physics professor, said, "His discovery
came as a complete surprise to most of
us, even though he'd been looking for it
for a long time."
Perl was Riles' Ph.D. adviser at
Stanford.
The tau lepton is one of a third gen-
eration of particles, the elementary
building blocks ofmatter. Before Perl's
discovery, only two generations of par-
ticles were known to exist. Each gen-
eration contains two leptons and two
quarks.
The tau lepton led to the discovery of
the bottom quark in 1976 at Fermi Na-
tional Accelerator Laboratory. The top
quark, the third member of the quark-
lepton family, was discovered there
AP PHOTO
Nobel Prize winner Martin L. Perl works
in his Stanford lab.
earlier this year.
"It's in the same family as the elec-
tron, so that shows you how important
the study is," Neal said.
Perl is scheduled to attend the dedi-
cation of the new University Physics
Research Laboratory, which begins to-
day at 4 p.m. Although he had planned
to make an address at 10:30 a.m. tomor-
row, University officials are now un-
certain if he will be able to attend.
"He's under extreme pressure from
Stanford to be there to attend all of the
press conferences and events they have
planned for him," Neal said. "It will be
hard for him to get away."
In 1989, on the day before Goudsmit
visiting Prof. Norman Ramsey was
scheduled to come to the University, he
won the Nobel Prize in physics, but
came anyway.
Perl has also served as a Goudsmit
professor, making many trips to the
See NOBEL, Page 7A
Photos by NOPPORN KICHANANTHA/Daily
Computer glitches
delay 'U' paychecks
Simpson case spurs
discussion about race
By Stu Berlow
Daily Staff Reporter
About 40 reseachers in the College of
Engineering and possibly hundreds more
graduate students did not receive their
monthly paychecks for September after a
problem with a new software program.
"We have a new system and it's be-
ing debugged on-line," said student fi-
nancial operations manager Alex
Ma karewich.
"Our goal is to
have everything
corrected by the
end ofthis week."
D e s p i t e
Makarewich' s
pledge, some re-
searchers say
they've heard it
before.
assistance to students who are having
problems with the new system," said
Margaret Rodriguez, associate director
of financial aid. "We have short-term
funds to aid them with their financial
obligations."
Besides the office of financial aid,
the College of Engineering is involved
in coordinating an effort to ensure stu-
dents are not adversely affected by this
situation.
"As a depart-
ment, we've been
trying to aid the
id jstudents as much
as we can, but
lug ed there are limited
options," said stu-
dent services asso-
ciate Robin
X Makarewich Rennie.
By Courtney Stamm
For the Daily
Students and community members
used the recent O.J. Simpson double-
murder case as a springboard for a dis-
cussion of race relations in America
last night.
About 50 students and local residents
participated in an open forum on the
case - called "A Campus Divided" -
held in the South Quad cafeteria.
"I really hope we will begin to open
up and understand each other better.
That (understanding) is the major thing
beyond the O.J. trial," said Veronica
Smith, president of United Students for
Christ, which co-sponsored the forum
with Housing Special Programs and
University Housing.
"It's important to clear the air with
each other about our differences, not
just because of O.J., but because we
live together. On a campus, we should
learn about each other, beyond the ste-
reotypes," Smith said.
Charles Hawthorne, pastor of Labor
of Love Ministries and founder of USC,
discussed how the reaction to the ver-
dict has been divided along racial lines.
He cited a recent Detroit Free Press poll
of Michigan voters, which found 72
See SIMPSON, Page 2A
"Whaw
system ain
being debi
--Alex
AP PHOTO
Protesters argue outside the Rockefeller Center prior to O.J. Simpson's scheduled
interview with NBC last night. He did not grant the interview. Story, Page 2A.
Candidates answer safety concerns in race for 3rd Ward
By Maureen Sirhal
Daily Staff Reporter
supervisor, supports taking a
more personal interest in crime-
Arbor would not be what it is without the University."
"It is a power struggle," Grobbel explained. "Of
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