Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellog Blvd W St. Paul, MN 55102 Minneapolis X St. Paul HISTOWCAL SOC\E^ „J His $00.87° .02239393 FEE,. mis Minnesota Daily WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22.2006 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SINCE 1900 WWW.MNDAILY.COM Forum form mirrors campus K - toterSt 3' nt .Hsv? • ' •Minnesota Student Association EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is the last of a three-part series that looks at issues affecting student government. Today’s article examines racial and sex diversity In MSA. BY JP LEIDER jpleidei@mndaily.com At the highest levels of gov­ ernment, elected and appointed officials are challenged to rep­ resent viewpoints and back- grponds different from their pwn. On a campus of almost 29,000 undergraduates of many back­ grounds and ideologies, repre­ sentatives in the Minnesota Stu­ dent Association regularly face the tame challenge. According to fall semester’s undergraduate enrollment sta­ tistics and the results of a Daily sw-vey. MSA's racial makeup -closely resembles that of the un- Ylergraduate student body. In the survey, compiled ear­ lier this month. 47 of MSA's 53 active members at the time re­ sponded to questions about their age, sex and race. Despite other groups having roughly proportional member­ ship in MSA, no representative identified himself or herself as ► See MSA Page 7 The Forum consists of 36 percent women and 64 percent men. UNIVERSITY HISTORY SAFETY Fire safety stressed mtt tttt BY MEGAN KADRMAS mkadrmas@mndaily.com A rental property fire that broke out early Sunday morn­ ing left the house uninhabitable and the tenants stunned. Andy Cary, a political science sopho­ more, was the only one home when the fire started, but was not aware of the blaze until he heard his neighbors shouting. The tenants of 1117 Eighth St. S.E., all University sopho­ mores, said they had disabled the smoke detectors in the house. This was a big mistake, which could have cost them a lot more than their house, said Minneapolis Fire Marsha] Dave Dewall. According to the National Center for Injury Preven­ tion and Control, about half of home-fire deaths in the United States occur in homes without working smoke detectors. “When (one of the tenants) realized that the house was on fire, he said he could see the flames. In my opinion, and with ► See FIRE Page 5 Minneapolis code requires a smoke detector on each floor of a dwelling. LEGISLATURE State reps see U requests in person m.iG . ' BRIE COHEN. DAILY Members of the House committees for Higher Education Finance and Capital Investment visited Tuesday with students in the Carlson School of Management as part of their tour of the University. The talk quickly turned into a debate about an on-campus stadium. The tour focused on funding for facilities but also touched on the proposed stadium. BY AIDAN M. ANDERSON aandefSon@mndaily com University lobbyists spent Tuesday morning ferrying state politicians across campus in an effort to bolster support for this year’s bonding bill projects. Twenty members of Min­ nesota's House committees for Higher Education Finance and Capital Investment visited the $Urersity to see the faces and places of the projects for which state funding has been request­ ed. Despite the tour’s focus on academic facility expansion, questions about the proposed on-campus stadium quickly arose when Rep. Alice Haus- man, DFL-St. Paul, asked Uni­ versity President Bob Bruin- inks for his thoughts on strat- ► See TOUR Pages Duhng a stop at a class, students disapproved of a $50 stadium fee. Alumni overcame discrimination for U education EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is the jast in a four-part series that features promi­ nent black figures at the University in honor of Black His­ tory Month. Although the University is home to more than 1,700 black students, it wasn't always this way. Between the two world wars, the University was a place where black students came, but weren't always welcome. Today’s profiles feature two alumni who attended the University during that period and fought through discrimination and adversity to obtain their education. C00Y BUCKALEW, DAILY PHOTOS Former Gophers boxer and football player Donald "Biir McMoore received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the University in 2000, but faced discrimination as a student. ► See MCMOORE Page 6 Although the University has come a long way. "There's always room for more progress." Bill McMoore said. BY EMMA CAREW Donald “Bill” McMoore The University’s athletics depart­ ment might have been considered radical for accepting black athletes during the late 1940s, but Donald “Bill” McMoore at times found the department less than welcoming. McMoore was born and raised in south Minneapolis, graduated from South Minneapolis High School and came to the University in 1947. “He was one of the premier ath­ letes in the Minneapolis public schools," Daryl McMoore, Bill's son, said of his father. ecarew@mndaily.com Barbara Cyrus After more than 60 years, Barbara Cyrus, a 1938 Minneapolis Central High School graduate, is able to speak pleasantly about the discrimi­ nation she faced while attending the University. At that time, being a black stu­ dent on campus was rare, but being a black woman on campus was even rarer. Growing up in south Minneapo­ lis. Cyrus said, she was “never self- conscious about being black" even though hers was the first black fam- Debate over Muhammad cartoons, free speech comes to U BY ELIZABETH GIORGI egiorgi@mndaily.com Cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that ap­ peared in a Danish newspaper have raised political concern all over the world. On Tuesday a fo­ rum at the University addressed the controversy. Al-Madinah Cultural Center hosted a forum titled "Freedom of Speech or Moral Responsi­ bility: Critical Discourse on the Cartoon Conflict,” to address the cartoons and their relevance to freedom of speech and moral responsibility in the media. Panelists spoke to about 50 people in Rapson Hall. "Discussions of this type are indispensable.” said forum speaker and Macalester College professor Ahmed Samatar. Samatar said the cartoons are a result of arrogance and racism in Denmark and that there was a lack of protection for the Muslim minority in this incident. The cartoons were reprinted in several European nations in order to defend Denmark, but al­ WEDNESDAY ALL YOUR NEWS - BRIEFLY ^ WEATHER HIGH 34° TODAY: Mostly cloudy THURSDAY: 27°: mostly sunny CAMPUS FORUM TO FOCUS ON FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES TO ADDRESS the foreign policy questions of the year as well as the questions students might have about how they can get involved, the Minnesota International Cen­ ter will have a forum tonight to address the possible challenges and trends in U.S. foreign policy. PAGE 3 ^ SPORTS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS AFTER A 9-1 START to the Big Ten season. Minnesota's women's basketball team has dropped its past four games. The Gophers now are trying to sort things out before the postseason. PAGE 4 PURDUE COMES TO WILLIAMS THE GOPHERS MEN’S basketball team plays Purdue at 8 tonight at Williams Arena. Minnesota will try to avenge a 72-55 loss Jan. 14 to the Boilermakers. PAGE 4 > EDITORIALS ft OPINIONS MATCHES TO MUHAMMAD WHAT IS THE LINE between be­ ing simply incendiary and inspinng debate? PAGE 9 > DAILY HISTORY 54 YEARS AGO TODAY FEB. 22, 1952 THE DAILY WROTE: "A report on the 'practice of brotherhood' in Amenca will be given here today by a 'liberal' California author. Carey McWilliams, an editor of The Na­ tion,’ a libera! magazine, will speak on 'Amenca s Problem' at con­ vocation. ... Private citizens have protested McWilliams' appearance on campus, declaring that the au­ thor-lawyer has 'red affiliations' and is 'an enemy to reaction.'' > DAILY POLL VOTE ONLINE AT WWW.MNDAILY.COM WOULD YOU PAY a student fee for an on-campus stadium? ONLINE MEDIA TO LISTEN to Radio K news broadcasts, go to www.mndaily.com. Alumna Barbara Cyrus attended the University after graduating from Minneapolis Central High School in 1938, when being a black student on campus was uncommon. She said she learned the ropes with a mail-order book. ► See CYRUS Page 6 After the University. Cyrus was a newspaper reporter and an active member of the civil tights movement. so to stress that those countries value their freedoms of speech, he said. The reprints were a sign of ar- ► See PANEL Page 6 Another forum today will discuss Mu hammad from a histoncal perspective. CONTACT THE MINNESOTA DAILY (612) 627-4080 news@mndaily.com CORRECTIONS errors@mndaily.com 2301 University Ave. S.E Minneapolis. MN 55414 INDEX DAILY REVIEW......................... 2 EDITORIALS & OPINIONS...... 8 SPORTS................................... 4 CLASSIFIEDS........................... 10 CROSSWORD............................ 13 DR DATE................................... 13 NETWORK................................. 13 VOLUME 107 ISSUE 97 t - DAILY REVIEW Wednesday, February 22,2006 the Minnesota Daily An Independent Student Newspaper, Founded In 1900. 2301 University Ave. S.E. 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One (1) copy of The Minnesota Daily per person is free at newsstands in and around the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota Ad­ ditional copies may be purchased for $.25 each United States Postal Service: 351-480 j“Another Tuesday«9Kj suocegrfufly completed." Car bomb attack in Baghdad kills 20 At least eight others were killed and more than 30 were injured in attacks in Iraq. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A car bomb exploded Tuesday on a street packed with shoppers in a Shiite area of Baghdad, kill­ ing 22 people and wounding 28, police said. It was the deadliest bomb attack in the Iraqi capital in a month. Terrified children screamed and several women wailed for their dead, crying, "the terror­ ists, may God punish them.” Shattered bits of fruits and veg­ etables from vendors’ pushcarts lay scattered on the street amid pools of blood. At least eight other people were killed and more than 30 in­ jured Tuesday in bombings and shootings elsewhere in Baghdad and in attacks on beauty parlors and liquor stores — symbols of Western influence — in Baqou- ba northeast of the capital The car bombing occurred shortly before 5 p.m. in a Shiite corner of Dora, a predominantly Sunni Arab district of Baghdad and one of the most danger­ ous parts of the city — rocked almost daily by bombings, am­ bushes and assassinations. Police Maj. Gen. Mahdi al- Gharawi said the bomb was detonated by remote control and an Iraqi suspected of triggering the device had been arrested. Claims of early arrests in bomb­ ing cases often prove prema­ ture. Another policeman, 1st Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razaq, said the blast apparently was aimed at a police patrol but missed its tar­ get. killing and maiming shop­ pers strolling with their families along a street lined with appli­ ance shops and fruit and veg­ etable stalls. It was the deadliest bombing in Baghdad since Jan. 19, when a suicide attacker blew himself up in a coffee shop, killing 22 people and injuring 23. The Dora bombing was the second major attack in as many days against a Shiite target in the capital. Twelve people died Monday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt on a bus in the heavily Shiite dis­ trict of Kazimiyah. At least 969 Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence this year and at least 986 have been wounded, according to an Associated Press count However, large-scale attacks against civilians have declined in recent weeks amid widespread public criticism, including from Sunnis clerics and others sym­ pathetic to the Sunni-dominated insurgency. Some Sunni insurgent groups are believed to be holding back to give Sunni Arab politicians a chance to negotiate concessions from Shiites and Kurds during talks on a new government However, talks among par­ ties that won parliamentary seats in the Dec. 15 elections have bogged down becadse of fundamental differences among Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians. U.S. officials believe a gov­ ernment capable of winning the trust of all communities is es­ sential so the United States can hand over more security respon­ sibility to the Iraqis and begin sending the 138,000 American troops home this year. DAILY BRIEFS Health experts’ worries swell as more bird flu reported - - GENEVA (AP) — The un­ precedented spread of bird flu to 14 more countries in the past three weeks brings the disease closer to millions of people, giv­ ing it many more chances to mutate into a global outbreak, international health experts said Tuesday. Fourteen countries — from In­ dia to Nigeria and Egypt to France — have reported their first cases of birds infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu since the beginning of February, the World Health Organization said. “We’ve never seen so many outbreaks of the same virus in so many different regions." WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng told The Associated Press. “Our concern obviously is that humans could potentially come into contact with birds in­ fected with H5N1, which would mean populations worldwide are potentially at risk.” WHO says it remains difficult for humans to catch H5N1. The agency has confirmed 170 hu­ man cases, including 92 deaths, since 2003 — mostly in east Asia. But WHO experts fear that the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person and set off a flu pandemic. Many of the recent outbreaks were in Europe, where wild birds have tested positive for the disease. Tests confirmed Tues­ day that three dead swans found in Hungary were infected with the H5N1 strain, making it the seventh European Union nation to confirm the disease in birds. The 1,000-year-old Tower of London moved its famous six ra1 vens inside for protection. Brit­ ain so far has been spared, but wardens were taking no chances — legend holds that the British monarchy will fall if the ravens ever leave the Tower. “It’s purely precautionary.” Derrick Coyle, the tower’s Yeo­ man Raven Master, said Tues­ day. The'zoo at Paris’Jardin des Plantes also closed its aviary on Tuesday and another on the (51/s outskirts took measures to keep its flamingos from mixing with wild ducks. But poultry cases in India. Egypt and Nigeria are causing international health authorities more concern because of the close contact chickens and other domestic fowl can have with peo­ ple who keep them around their homes, increasing the chance of the disease jumping the species barrier. “At the moment we don’t have very good information about how extensive these out­ breaks are," said Cheng. So far. she noted, there have no human cases reported in those countries or Nigeria nor in Western Europe. In western India’s Navapur district, where nearly 800,000 birds are to be killed after an out­ break of H5N1 in poultry, farm­ ers distraught over their losses asked how they would survive. “It is a question of livelihood for 5,000 families,” said Ghulam Vhora, a member of a Navapur poultry farmers association, af­ ter his 30,000 birdswere killed. “We are all jobless.” WHO said the 14 countries that have had outbreaks since the beginning of February — in order of reporting — are Iraq, Nigeria, Azerbaijan. Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Iran, Austria, Germany, Egypt, India, France and Hungary. STATE Pawlenty aims to find sex offenders who slipped off radar ST. PAUL (AP) — Gov. Tun Pawlenty said Tuesday he wants to go after 1386 predatory offenders — most of them guilty of sex crimes — who have failed to register with state authorities. The governor wants to post their profiles online, pay local law enforce­ ment officers overtime to find them and enlist the public’s help in tracking them down through a “Most Wanted” campaign. “If you are out of compliance, you had better get into compliance because we are coming to get you,” Pawlenty said in a prepared statement. Under state law, some 17,000 predatory offenders — including sex offenders, murderers and kidnappers — must report their ad­ dresses and other information to parole officers, local law enforce­ ment or the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. NATION Bush says ports deal will stand despite complaints WASHINGTON (AP) — Brushing aside objections from Repub­ licans and Democrats alike, President George W. Bush endorsed the takeover of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports by a stateowned business in the United Arab Emirates. He pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement. The president on Tuesday defended his administration’s earlier ap­ proval of the sale of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation to Dubai Ports World, despite concerns in Congress it could increase the possibility of terrorism at American ports. The sale — expected to be finalized in early March — would put Dubai Ports in charge of major shipping operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. WORLD Hamas pragmatist appointed prime minister; Israel doesn’t rule out peace talks GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian president ap­ pointed a Hamas leader considered a pragmatist as die next prime minister Tuesday, and Israel's acting leader said he was not ruling out the possibility of peace talks. The Palestinian news agency released a picture of President Mahmoud Abbas handing Ismail Haniyeh the official letter of appointment Tuesday. Haniyeh, who will be the first Hamas premier, has five weeks to form a government Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Ohnert said Tuesday he was not ruling out the possibility of future peace talks with the Palestinians despite Hamas' overwhelming victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections. Serbian officials say war crimes fugitive Mladic "' found, authorities negotiating surrender BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) — Gen. Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, has been located in Serbia and authorities are negotiating his surrender, security officials said Tuesday. Mladic, considered the most ruthless commander of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, “has not yet been arrested," one official who is close to the operation to find ^lladic told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not entitled to speak to the media. Another security official, also demanding ano­ nymity because of the sensitivity of the information and fears of jeep ardizing negotiations, confirmed that Mladic's “hiding place has been discovered in recent days.” A HILLEL present: CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS The Minnesota Daily solves for complete accuracy and corrects its errors im­ mediately Corrections and etarffleations will always be printed in this space. 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Guest: ELSON Science HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE MINNESOTA DAILY FREELANCE ARTICLES: Contact freelance editor Emily Kaiser at ekaisei@mndaily.com. FREELANCE AUDIO/VIDEO: Contact A/V editor Michael Larsen at mlarsen@mndaity.com. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: E-mail submissions to letters@mndaily com. GUEST COLUMNS: E-mail submissions to Editorials and Opinions editor Karl Noyes at Knoyes@mndaily.com. All submissions are welcome, but there is no guarantee of publication. itery iater 3000 Jurtesy of MPAC) MPAC Events planr T Wednesday, February 22,2006 Forum to focus on foreign policy issues Organizers hope students will look beyond media for policy information. BY ELIZABETH OIORQI , egiorg@mndaily.com According to foreign policy expert Tom Hanson, there are two things students need to know about foreign policy: how it impacts them and how they can plug in to the issues. To address the foreign poli­ cy questions of the year as well as the questions students might have about how they can get in­ volved, the Minnesota Interna­ tional Center will have a forum tonight to address the possible challenges and trends in U.S. foreign policy. Hanson is the program sec­ retary for the St. Paul-Minne- apolis Committee on Foreign Relations and will be the main speaker for the event. Hanson said attendees of the event can expect a program that will focus on foreign-policy issues beyond the media obsession with Iraq and Iran. Hanson said that although it may sound cliche, Univer­ sity students are living in “an increasingly globalized world” and there are tremendous op­ portunities for them to obtain ^ WHERE TO GO FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES IN 2006 — APPARENT CHALLENGES AND UNDERLYING TRENDS WHEN: 6 p.m. today WHERE: Hubert H. Humphrey In­ stitute of Public Affairs Cowles Auditorium 30119th Ave. S. ► Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. ► Cost is $5 for students and members of Minnesota Interna­ tional Center and $15 for the public. knowledge about the ways in which they can become in­ volved. “There are new uncertain­ ties, and threats, in a way, with terrorism, outsourcing ... Stu­ dents have to ask themselves how they plug into this interna­ tional world,” he said. Hanson said he plans on ad­ dressing issues including the economic ties between the Unit­ ed States and China and the dy­ namics of the increasing global population in India and China. The program gives students the opportunity to be globally responsible, Hanson said. Too often people get locked into their own “echo chambers" and these types of programs give an opportunity to see outside-of that, he said. MIC President Carol Enge- bretson Byrne said events suiTi as the forum provide students with the chance to obtain in­ creased educational opportu­ nities and feel empowered by their knowledge. She said Hanson is a trusted authority in the foreign policy field and his presentations are always done with thoughtful communication. Byrne said that too often people get their knowledge about foreign affairs through “short sound bites” in media, but by attending events such as this one, people can start to get “beyond die headlines.” Angela McLaughlin, MIC special events manager, orga­ nized today's event. She said Hanson is a good speaker for the event because he is an inspiring person. McLaughlin said she often jokes that she “wants to be like Tom when she grows up,” be­ cause he has been such a leader in his field and has been able to accomplish many things in his career. Global studies junior Chelsea Allen said she would be more interested in a program that ad­ dresses the state of the war in Iraq or the issues of North Ko­ rea, because “it is an area of the world we tend to ignore." A BLOGGER'S ENTRY Thursday 9:47 p.«(l|^ soaked walkingYesterdayt I got between classes- Today-i I dodged another shower by using the Gopher Way- :-) ■/ Stay warm and dry in the Gopher Way, the university’s tunnel and skyway system connecting many campus buildings. The routes may twist and turn, and sometime jump to different levels, so take time to familiarize yourself with the system. See the PTS Campus Walking Guide for estimated walking times and a map of the system. You can also download maps online. Campus walking safety tips: • Obey traffic signals and signs. • Cross within marked crosswalks. . • Drivers are required to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, but do not enter it if a vehicle is too close to stop safely. • Wear reflective colored clothing at night to make you more visible. For the 244iour on-campus FREE Escort Service, call 612-624-WALK (9255). ft 4^ Melissa Biology student CONTACT US CHck www.parkondtrarts.umn.edu Call 612-626-7275 E-mail parkingOumn.edu > ^gns V 0 TED LIKE A MOVIE ... IN BOOK FORM iiT Junior fine arts student Amanda Fuller reads Rarig Center. CODY BUCKALEW. DAILY ■In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote on Tuesday in the Iranian envoy acclaims Moscow talks ‘constructive’ Some Russians are concerned that Iran is using the talks to stall and avoid sanctions. MOSCOW (AP) — A top Ira­ nian negotiator on Tuesday said "constructive" nuclear talks in Moscow offered hope of ending a diplomatic standoff, but some Russians voiced concern that Iran was using the talks to stall for time and avert international sanctions. The talks centered on a Kremlin compromise proposal, backed by the United States and the European Union, that calls for uranium for Iran’s nuclear energy program to be enriched in Russia to prevent it from be­ ing diverted for atomic weap­ ons. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel for a nuclear reac­ tor or fissile material for a bomb. Iran says it is pursuing peaceful nuclear energy but Western na­ tions fear it is seeking an atomic weapon. “In our belief, the trend of negotiations was positive and constructive,” Iran’s chief ne­ gotiator, Ali Hosseinitash, told state-run Iranian television as he left Moscow after two days of meetings. “There are elements in these negotiations that give us grounds for hope that we will reach an agreement,” Russia's Interfax news agency quoted Hosseinitash, the deputy sec­ retary of the Supreme National Security Council, as saying. “There are elements in these negotiations that give us grounds for hope that we will reach an agreement.” ALI HOSSEINITASH deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council The negotiations ended without any visible progress, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declined to label them a failure. ”1 would be cautious about using the term ’failure’ or 'set- Spon* orvd by H»r°’<* g. Mlck»V »mith Sunday, February 26, 7:15 pm Coffman Union Theater latto am/ HamerTtashen will be served' Watch the fireworks as U of M Professors debate the merits of these famous Jewish holiday foods Peftm/fag tte (atte Jonathan GewirU t Anatoly Ifberraan Ve&mflng the tfawentaxh-- MJ Gilbert ( Art Moptman IBMBHnpjdu FREE for students! Only $5 for non-students / AvelSE - 612-379-4026 -hillel inn h NO COVER! lies Drink FME 10P-11P| DJ GUS 9P-CL 1/2 Price App't & $1.00 off everything 3p-6p M-Th * Monday 20« Wing's: 4p-10-p Tuesday FREE TACOS: 4p-6p $2,001 ,-10p , IP . - t* -J SPcnfft View]! I • Three 61" HD DIF's ‘ 1 & U t.v.'s ih w I ' IfORT • Made-from-scratch cooking 1 Nightly Dinner Specials from $6.95 • Kitchen open daily until Midnight '12 Wasl 612.3 m Avenue S.E. • Stadium Village, U of M &kxm Ji Sotenf Fool, dar foosball & Golden Tee back’ as long as the negotiations have not finished,” he said in televised remarks. U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Tuesday on a visit to Moscow that “from what we know ... no new ground was broken," but added that he thought broad cooperation among countries in pressuring Iran was working well. “I think the momentum is with this coalition," Burns told reporters. Russia's atomic chief, Sergei Kiriyenko. who is set to visit Iran Thursday for further talks, said that. “Russia will do everything possible to offer Iran an oppor­ tunity to get out of this difficult situation in a peaceful, construc­ tive way." But a senior Russian lawmak­ er expressed frustration. “Unfortunately. Iran so far has not shown sufficient good will.” Konstantin Kosachev, head of the lower house of par­ liament's foreign affairs com­ mittee, was quoted as saying by news agencies. Russia’s offer is seen as the final opportunity to ease interna­ tional concerns over Iran's sus­ pected nuclear weapons drive. Iran has insisted on its right to maintain domestic enrichment despite international calls for it to stop. The U.N nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic En­ ergy Agency, is to hold a March 6 meeting that could start a process leading to punishment by the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions on Iran. Russia, which has strong eco­ nomic ties to Iran, is building the theocracy's first nuclear power station and is anxious to avoid sanctions and eager to win pres­ tige by helping find a solution. China, which like Russia has resisted strong measures against Iran, joined calls on Teh­ ran to freeze enrichment. “We hope Iran can restore its moratorium on all activities related to uranium enrichment and create the conditions for the solution of the nuclear issue through negotiations.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said T uesday. Sergei Markov, a Kremlin- connected political analyst, said Tuesday that Iran appeared to be deliberately stringing Russia along in the hope of avoiding Se­ curity Council action. “Iran will seek to drag out the negotiations, because while they are ongoing, the possibility of re­ ferral to the U.N Security Coun­ cil and the possible implementa­ tion of economic sanctions are almost zero." he was quoted as saying by Interfax. YIKES! TSPORTS www.mndailv.cofn/sectKXis/sports Wednesday, February 22,2006 BASEBALL New infield will be key in quest for Big Ten title BY ROBERT MEWS rmewsemndaily.com Unfamiliar places and faces — that's what Minnesota's baseball team will face this season to achieve a familiar place — its fourth Big Ten title in five years. The Gophers were unable to col­ lect a fourth consecutive Big Ten Championship last season due to multiple injuries. StiD, getting back to championship form will take time with a tough schedule, revamped infield and a new home location this season. Minnesota starts the season playing at Florida State. The Semi- noles are ranked 14th in the nation and they don't lose much at home — an all-time winning percentage of .835 at Dick Howser Stadium. The competition doesn't get any easier from there. They play Ari­ zona, Notre Dame and 25th-ranked Nebraska at home for the Dairy Queen Classic March 3 through 5. “That’s tradition for Minnesota,” first baseman Andy Hunter said. “We like to just come out and test ourselves right away and kind of see where we stand." Coach John Anderson said the same. “It gets our players attention earli­ er in the year,” Anderson said. “1 don't think you’re getting any false expecta­ tions for certain players when they’re playing against great competition.” That added pressure may be tough early on given that Minne­ sota is replacing half of its infield. Starters Matt Fornasiere (short­ stop), David Hrncirik (third base) and Jake Elder (catcher) are gone. “The left side is going to be dif­ ferent because 1 got used to how the ball comes across differently," Hunter said of the two infield de­ partures. “We have a lot of guys that can play and it’s just a matter of seeing where all the pieces fit in.” One of those pieces most likely will be All-American junior college trans­ fer Dan Lyons piling at shortstop. At Iowa Central, he batted .435, with 48 RBIs and 27 stolen bases. Hunter keeps a formidable play­ er at first base with his eight home runs and 47 RBIs from last season. Third base will most likely will be filled by Joe Maciej. Maciej came on late last season and hit for .432 and a .705 slugging percentage. “Based on what I’ve seen in fall and winter practice,” Anderson said, “I’m confident that those guys are ready to step in there and com­ pete at this level, especially as they get more experience.” The catcher position may be a little different though. “Behind the plate is wide open right now," Anderson said. “Four guys competing for that job, and I'm not sure anybody's grabbed it” Kevin Carlson started at catcher for the pro-alumni game, but John Artt and Jeff DeStnidt played there as weft Anderson said he hopes to have the position figured out by the end of March. * For the pitchers, a sustained re­ lationship with who is behind the plate may be the key to gaining comfort in their commands. “You know, each catcher that you throw to, it’s always going to be dif­ ferent” pitcher Cole DeVries said. “It’s more of a comfort thing and just getting used to how you and the catcher interact with one another.” DeVries is the only returnee from last season with 10 or more starts. He started 13 games and threw three complete ones on a way to a 3-6 record with 57 strikeouts. DeVries said he’s added a two- seam fastball to his arsenal that in­ cludes a changeup and a curveball. Junior pitcher John Gaub was named preseason Big Ten Pitcher of the Year. Gaub led the Gophers with 65 strikeouts, seven saves, and a 2.08 ERA last season. As for the outfield. Anderson said the team has speed and depth. “We have some speed in the out­ field,” Anderson said. “Ifs probably the most talented outfield group we’ve had.” All those variables will come under the Metrodome roof this season. Minnesota usually plays its games at Siebert Field, but that will not be the case this season. Anderson said he likes the Me­ trodome. “It's a hitter’s park," he said. “It's a line-drive hitter’s park. It’s a gap- to-gap park. It's a big park. There's no cheap home runs." He also added that those equa­ tions and the Gophers speed translate into an advantage that could make the Metrodome a formable home. “I think the facility is a great match for this team," Anderson said. MEN’S BASKETBALL Confident Gophers take on Boilers L J *3^ CHARUE KNUTSON, DAILY Senior forward Zach Puchtel, left, and sophomore center Spencer Tollackson double­ team Iowa’s Greg Brunner duhng Saturday’s game at Williams Arena. Minnesota takes on Purdue tonight at Williams Arena. Minnesota has won its past three home games, all against opponents ranked in the nation’s top 20. BY C.J. SPANG cspang@mndaily.com The last time Minnesota's men's basketball team took on Purdue, the Go­ phers were coming off a pair of humbling home losses to Northwestern and Wis­ consin. They subsequently were blasted by the Boilermakers 72-55 on Jan. 14. Tonight's 8 p.m. game at Williams Arena features a transformed Minne­ sota squad; a confident team that has won three home games in a row — all against top 20 teams. “Well, you know home court advan­ tage is always nice,” senior guard Vin­ cent Grier said. “But, we got a lot of con­ fidence going on some ranked teams wins. Hopefully, we can build on that" Since that loss to Purdue, the Go­ phers (13-10,4-8 Big Ten) have juggled their lineup, inserting three former re­ serves into starting spots. The result? Not only a few upset wins, but it also1 has given Minnesota more depth, and that was something it certainly didn't have the luxury of earlier this season. Just seven players played more than one minute for Minnesota in their early season loss to Purdue, compared to nine against Iowa on Saturday. “With the way coach (Dan Monson) is throwing new guys in the mix and ev­ erything, I really think it's making guys have to step up if they want to play and if we want to do well," sophomore cen­ ter Spencer Tollackson said. “I really think that (Monson) did a good job with that, and we’re playing better because of it, and certain guys are playing better, and that’s really what we need right now.” Tollackson lost his starting role after playiiy? Illinois, but has played well in his reserve role. He scored 10 points off the bench Saturday against Iowa, sparking the Go­ phers’victory. . Senior guard Maurice HargroW also lost his starting job before the game against Indiana, but still has been a key contributor, especially in the Gophers’ Feb. 11 win against Michigan State when he scored 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting. And while the Feb. 8 game against Penn State wasn't as huge, sophomore forward Dan Coleman’s performance was. Coleman scored 16 points off the bench after losing his starting job be­ fore the game at Iowa. “I think (the depth) is huge," Mon­ son said. “We’ve got some guys that have proven they can play at this level, with experience coming in and giving us good minutes — and I think our last three wins, one person off the bench has been a key.” The key for the Boilermakers has been senior forward Matt Kiefer, who is averaging 12 points and 7.4 rebounds per game, and as Tollackson describes, “is the heart and soul of that team.” Purdue (9-15, 3-10 Big Ten) has struggled, losing seven of their past nine games and are a dismal 0-11 on the road this year. That’s not a good statistic consider­ ing Minnesota has been unbeatable at home as of late. “We’ve been dictating everything as far as the intensity and the energy level (at home),”Tollackson said. “As much as we do have to control (Kiefer), I think we’re kind of just more concerned about ourselves and need to control ourselves at this point” WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Minnesota hoping to regain stride by postseason The Gophers, after being ranked 11th on Feb. 7, have dropped four-straight games. BY EMILY WICKSTROM ewickstroni@mndaily.coiii On Feb. 7 Minnesota's women's basketball team looked poised to make another deep NCAA Tournament run, ranked 11th in the country and on a sev­ en-game winning streak. Two weeks later, the picture is entire­ ly different The Gophers (17-8, 9-5 Big Ten) are on a four-game losing streak, a slump longer than any of Minnesota’s seniors have experienced before. “We need to start playing well and clicking as a team so we can go into the postseason ... clicking on all cylinders,” senior guard April Calhoun said. “That way we're able to accomplish some things that we came into this season hoping to do.” It may be easier to find positives had recent games been more competitive, but Minnesota hardly has been close, getting blown out three times. During the losing streak, the only game the Gophers were within 20 points of an opponent was Sunday's 67-61 loss to ninth-place Wisconsin. Minnesota coach Pam Borton said the slump should be no cause for pan­ ic, however, citing the Gophers tough stretch of schedule. The Gophers played Michigan State, Purdue and Ohio State, the three top- ranked teams in the Big Ten, in consecu­ tive games and faced the Spartans and Boilermakers on the road in front of hos­ tile crowds. “It’s not so much of a big deal when Oosses are) spread out on your sched­ ule," Borton said. “But we were dealt these cards. “Have we handled it extremely well? No, but we have faced adversity as a bas­ ketball team every year, and we've just got to get better from it” “We’ve played a lot of play­ ers this year, and some of those kids’ strengths are not defense.” PAM BORTON women’s basketball coach As Minnesota has faced tougher com­ petition, Borton also has appeared to shorten her rotation from what used to consist of 11 players and plenty of min­ utes for the reserves. In Sunday’s loss at Wisconsin, only six Gophers scored, and Borton went with her starting five as often as possible. Borton also has made it clear she has not been happy with Minnesota's de­ fense, which has given up more than 60 points in each Gophers loss. “It’s not just these last four games; TOM HAFNER. DAILY Senior guard Shannon Bolden, left, dives in an attempt to tie up a Wisconsin player Sunday at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. Bolden has been a solid contributor on the defensive end for Minnesota this season. > it’s been all season," Borton said. “We’ve played a lot of players this year, and some of those kids' strengths are not defense.” Senior guard Shannon Bolden, eas­ ily the Gophers’ best and most consis­ tent defender, now is taking on a great­ er role, playing at least 30 minutes in three-straight games after being able to rest her legs in early-season Minnesota blowouts. Whatever the reason for Minnesota's recent slide, it appears Gophers players realize they have to figure things out quickly as a season that started with promise begins to slip away. “We need to get back to our mentality of Minnesota basketball," senior guard Shannon Schonrock said. That’s play­ ing tough defense, finding a way to get it done and also playing better together." MEN’S HOCKEY After a two-game return, Chucko goes back to the ranks of the injured Sophomore forward Kris Chucko sprained his ankle Saturday against Denver. BY CHRIS LEMPESIS dempesis@mndaily.com Friday night’s contest against Denver at Mariucci Arena marked a return to the lineup for Minnesota's men's hockey forward Kris Chucko. Chucko had missed the Feb. 10-11 series at Michigan Tech with a separated shoulder suf­ fered Jan. 28 at Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Saturday's contest against the Pioneers marked a return to the injured list for the sophomore. But this time, it’s a different injury. Chucko suffered an ankle sprain late in the third period of the Gophers' 5-1 win and will not be accompanying the team to Anchorage, Alaska, this weekend for Minnesota’s series against Alaska-Anchor- age “Yeah, get to stay home again this weekend,” said Chucko, who has four goals and nine assists (13 points) in 30 games this season. “It’s kind of been a frustrating year that way.” Both Chucko and coach Don Lucia said Tuesday there is no definite timetable for his return. “(The doctors) said it’s a tough injury to get over," Chucko said. “It’s not really (going to be) anytime in the next couple weeks. I’ve heard." The injury occurred when Chucko fell after crossing the Denver blue line, an injury he called a “freak accident” “It didn’t hurt when I fell," Chucko said. “But 1 was trying to get back up. and I just got shoved as I was getting up, and my foot stayed planted, and it just bent wrong." But. it just felt like it bent wrong, and it turns out it “I want to get back as soon as possible. But, right now, even that (getting back for the start of the playoffs) we don’t know.” KRIS CHUCKO sophomore forward was wrong." Minnesota has two regular- season series left before the Western Collegiate Hocki-v Association playoffs. But even getting back for the first round of the playoffs could be dicey. Chucko said. “I want to get back as soon as possible," he said. “But right now, even that (getting back for the start of the playoffs), we don't know. They're just trying to take it day by day, and hope­ fully it gets better faster than usual." As of Tuesday’s practice, two new line combinations had formed because of Chucko’s injury: ♦ Senior forward Andy Ser- tich replaced Chucko on the Gino Guyer-Mike Howe line. ♦ Sophomore forward Tom ‘ '1*1 replaced Sertich on the Evan Kaufmann-Justin Bostrom line. I 5Wednesday, February 22,2006 music ctub Tbur ► from Page 1 JAMPACKED WEEK fclF>cz Ironic K/luSaicroEaf Electro Acoustic Concert 11:15am, Free. Netiabels Seminar 12:30pm Free. egy for funding. "I have to tell you as I stand here today, we’re going to push hard to get a vote on this,” he said. “We really need you to act on this bill and give us an up or down decision.” During a tour stop at a Cin­ ema as Ideology class, Hausman asked a group of 15 students whether they approved of a $50- per-semester fee for the stadium. None responded in favor. Later in the morning, how­ ever, representatives received a much different response from a class of 30 Carlson School of Management students, nearly all of whom showed support for the fees by raise of hand. Ryan Frailich, a public rela­ tions and psychology senior who met with the representatives during their lunch stop, talked about the on-campus stadium proposal. A strong sense of community would be enough to secure the student-financed portion of the stadium, but most students don't understand how the fees for a stadium would work, he told representatives. “(Student input) is some­ thing that they’re not going to hear when they're sitting around with a bunch of other legislators, they’re going to hear it when they talk to students," he said. The tour group also heard from several other students, in­ cluding Lindsay Novak, a junior in the Carlson School, and bio­ medical engineering senior San- thi Elayaperumal. Renovated and up-to-date facilities show students the Uni­ versity really cares about learn­ ing environments, Elayaperumal said. “It’s a good reflection of the BRIE COHEN. DAILY University Relations Officer Todd Iverson, left, and state Rep. Neil Peterson, R BIoommgton, walk to a Campus Connector bus Tuesday after visiting the Science Classroom Building. The House committees for Higher Education Finance and Capital Investment toured the University to hear about the need for growth and research. University of Minnesota," she said. “It’s just basically for a good environment to work and study in.” The Carlson School can en­ roll a limited number of students because of a lack of space, No­ vak said. “We're turning away quality students and they’re going out of the state, and we want to keep them here,” she said. The group of about 20 legis­ lators began their morning with coffee, bagels and a greeting from Bruininks at the welcome center at Jones Hall, a building renovated with state money. Seeing improvements made to campus buildings helps in making decisions on other proj­ ects, said Rep. Lyndon Carlson, DFL-Crystal. “In terms of the future, it shows you what can be accom­ plished,” he said. Representatives heard from Frank Cerra, senior vice presi­ dent of the Academic Health Center, who updated officials on the University’s ability to recruit the nation’s top researchers. The group toured lab space at McGuire Translational Research Facility and Nils Hasselmo Hall. Lab space is at a premium and a mirror facility to the McGuire building is needed to retain a leading edge in recruitment and research, Cerra said. While the University leads in terms of researcher recruit­ ment, states like California and Wisconsin are spending big money to bolster their own re­ search programs, Cerra said. “We’re in a race right now ... the engine that drives: that is the new knowledge engine of the biosciences inside this insti­ tution and Mayo ... and to com­ pete with people around us we need new facilities,” he said. Representatives toured the research labs and spoke with students and professors work­ ing on projects, including stem­ cell research. The tour of the Science Class­ room Building was cut short, but a quick stop at its entrance near the Washington Avenue foot­ bridge gave the legislators an idea of the traffic the location sees. The rotting wood sills, rusted entryways and crumbling win­ dow glaze illustrated the Uni­ versity's case for replacing the building. Fire ► from Page 1 The Whole Music dull Basement Level, Coffman Union U of M East Bank Campus *18+ with valid picture ID required. Valid U of M student ID will be required to receive student rate. my knowledge about fires, that’s almost too late,” Dewall said. These alarms are important, said Minneapolis Fire Inspections Coordinator Ben Foster, because they can be the first alert of a fire in the house. If a person is sleep­ ing or in a part of the house away from the fire, they might not be aware of the problem until the fire is out of control. A 2005 report by the National Fire Protection Association said 40 percent of fatal-fire victims nev­ er wake up. The probability of not waking up when there is a fire is much greater in homes where the smoke detectors are not working property or are not present Marie Van Cleve is a first-year student and a renter in the South­ east Como neighborhood. He said he knows he has smoke detectors in his house but never has tested them to make sure they work. Gift of Life: Bone Marrow Donor Drive Wednesday, February 22, 6 pm to 9 pm [ at Coffman Memorial Union | ‘BEFORE & AFTER THE SKLAR BRO’S SHOW!* Joining Gift of Life's international bone marrow registry is easy, No needles necessary, Just a swab of the cheek with a q-tip, This simple act could mean saving the life of a child with leukemia. ■On* who savos on* Itfo, It Is ai If one hod saved the entire world.* - Talmud Contact Hillel for more info: 612-379-4026 AT?TT hillel@umn.edu zVCil 1 httD://www.tc.umn.edu/-hillel “I think that what happened on Sunday is proof that students don’t know enough about the im­ portance of smoke alarms or the dangers of not knowing if they work," Van Cleve said. Foster agreed and said people seem to have a mentality that a house fire will never happen to them. Another problem, according to Foster and Dewall, occurs when batteries are removed from the smoke detector units, as in Sun­ day's incident “I know people who have tak­ en the batteries out of their fire detectors because they want to smoke in their home or because the alarm goes off a tot when food gets burnt" Van Cleve said. Dewall and Foster, who rec­ ognize why people disable their smoke detectors, think newer technology holds the solution. "There are detectors on the market today, and not very ex­ pensive ones, which have a button that you can push to silence a false alarm," Dewall said. “At least remember to replace the batteries after you are done doing whatever activity (the bat­ teries were taken out for)” if buy­ ing a new detector is not an op­ tion, he said. Ty Cullen, a political science sophomore who lives near the home where Sunday’s fire oc­ curred, and saw the blaze, said watching the house burn taught him a lesson. SMOKE DETECTORS The following guidelines set by the city of Minneapolis discuss the use of smoke detectors in rental properties: ► All dwellings are required to have a minimum of one smoke detector on every level and one outside each sleeping area. ► Detectors cannot be mounted in a corner area or within 3 feet of a door to the kitchen or bath­ room. ► The batteries on every smoke detector in each property must be checked each month. Minneapolis Warehouse District ioo -i£3 <3 Wednesdays SlBottlesCfttKce 'til midnight # Drink Free ’ 10pm-12am ★ ★ *2 SHOTS! (WE CALL ’EM) * * 1C WINGS Sri NOT GOING ON SPRING BREAK? "p S3MIS with Student ID RSDA ni ifmni iNi $500 starting Feb. BBlI We’ll Draw a Winner ‘Every’ Thursday! All You Care to Drink! at. Miller Lite taps! •Must be present .owin 2nd & q.f, ‘Always the ‘Best’ Specials, Always the ‘Most* Fun!’ for A&E SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS HOUSING MAINTENANCE CODE “Just looking at the situation and watching these guys lose so much was really eye-opening. Everyone needs to make a con­ scious effort to check their detec­ tors," Cullen said. Minneapolis code requires a minimum of one smoke detector on each floor of a dwelling. These alarms must be working properly. An off-campus housing packet distributed by the University suggests talking to the landlord if a detector is not working prop- erly.onnecting the batteries) isn't worth it.” Cullen said. “Burning the house down and losing all of your stuff is so much worse than having an annoying false alarm go offnow and again.” 6 Wednesday, February 22,2006 McMoore ► from Page 1 "I always wanted to go to the University,” Bill McMoore said, and following a stint in the U.S, Navy, he was able to do so with the tuition aid the Gl Bill award­ ed him. Once at the University, Bill McMoore studied health and physical education. He was also a boxer and a member of the football team. Joseph Mackey was one of Bill McMoore's boxing team­ mates and drove him to school every day. “1 was his roommate on road trips," Mackey said. Mackey said he remembered a train trip to Spokane, Wash., when the team was allowed to exercise and train in the luggage car. ”1 couldn't find a better guy," Mackey said, “He’s just a stand­ out person. He was a pillar of the University." Bill McMoore said his team­ mates accepted him. but when it came time for the boxing team to travel to Miami for a match, he was forced to stay home. "The coach informed me the day before the match that I couldn’t go," he said, “because they didn't allow mixed matches in the South.” University President James Morrill later offered him a pub- Panel ► from Page 1 rogance and a misuse of the free­ dom of expression. Samatar said. Minnesota Daily cartoonist and forum member Adam El- rashidi said it was arrogant for papers to reprint the cartoons and that it showed, “a lack of honor and talent." Elrashidi said there needs to be research done on all sides of an issue so cartoons are done properly and stereotypes are avoided. Another member of the fo­ rum, Star Tribune cartoonist Steve Sack, said racism distracts from the messages that cartoons are intended to portray and that the Muhammad cartoons lost their message because they were a failed use of freedom of speech. The point, the joke, would be lost in the disrespect” he said. Sack said the Muslim com­ munities’ cries for punishment of the cartoon artists might be extreme. It was an assignment he said. No one should be given a death sentence, but the editor should be held responsible. Electrical engineering gradu­ ate student Hakim Alhussien said there is not a common ground within the Muslim com- lic apology in the newspaper, as Morrill was not involved in the decision, Bill McMoore said. Morrill also stated that the University no longer would participate in contests in which black students were barred from competition, he said. Despite Morrill’s decision. Bill McMoore said, “There wasn’t much effort put forth to change things (on campus). That’s the way things had always been." Bill McMoore said that al­ though he had grown up in Min­ neapolis and always had wanted to attend the University, having had the experience, he wishes he would have attended one of the historically black universi­ ties or colleges of the South. “I think the experience one gets (at an all-black college), be­ ing part of the whole program, would be very important to me now, as an adult" he said. After his University days. Bill McMoore said he had difficulty getting a job in Minneapolis, so he took a job in Missouri for three years, then attended grad­ uate school in St. Cloud, which was “terrible; a very, very racist community." Bill McMoore, after vari­ ous teaching jobs, eventually became the director of physical education for the Minneapolis public school district. “It shows that perseverance pays off," Daryl McMoore said. £ ON THE WEB To watch the video, go to: WWW.MNOAILY.COM munity regarding what should be done about the issue. Alhussien said he attended the event because he wanted to seek additional opinions on the issue and what will be done in the future to address it. Forum speaker and Univer­ sity journalism professor Chris Ison said the forum was a posi­ tive way for people to discuss the importance of the issue. The foruth was an opportunity to demonstrate to the community that the violence was the response of a small group of people. The fact that this has caused so much tension around the world is an indication of how important it is that universities and communities be able to talk about it in a reasonable fashion." he said. Ison pointed out that the cartoons not only deeply affect­ ed the Muslim community, but also the journalistic commu­ nity, from a news standpoint. Editors had to decide whether it was appropriate to print the cartoons. Journalists need a guide to figure out how to deal with these issues and must remain inde­ “He never gave in. He didn’t let obvious setbacks and obvi­ ous discrimination and obvious racism deter him from what he wanted to do." When Daryl McMoore en­ tered the University in 1984, it was a much different school from the one his father attended, he said. “That infrastructure was there,” he said of the black stu­ dent union and other multicul­ tural centers. They had pro­ grams in place that provided an outlet for black students." Charles Self, former assistant Facilities Management direc­ tor, said he met Bill McMoore through mutual friends in the late 1950s. When they see each other nowadays. Bill McMoore reminisces about his former stu­ dents. “He tells me about some of the kids that he had, what they have done, and how he runs into some of them," he said. “He’s very proud of the kids that he has come in contact with and taught.” The University has changed and grown since the time when Bill McMoore attended. There are black faculty mem­ bers and there are institutions put in place to help black stu­ dents. And although the University has come a long way, "there's al­ ways room for more progress," Bill McMoore said. pendent of interest groups and religious groups, he said. The Muslim Student Asso­ ciation will have a similar forum today to discuss the figure of Muhammad from a historical perspective. The event will be at 6 p.m. in 310 Anderson Hall. Cyrus ► from Page 1 ily in the neighborhood. She said that even as a 7-year- old, she found the people there who were upset about their inte­ gration of the neighborhood “un­ stable.” The summer before she en­ tered the University, Cyrus stayed with a University student who helped prepare her for entrance exams. “We didn’t have counselors then, in high school," she said, “And if so, they didn't pay any at­ tention to you. The only reason 1 knew what you needed to get in to the University is because I sent away for a book, so I knew which classes to take." And so, Cyrus entered the University and attended class with some of her white peers from grade school and high school. "I was kind of surprised," she said of her former peers. “When I saw them at the University, all of a sudden, we didn’t speak any longer." The other people in Cyrus’ classes were not friendly toward her either. One person reached out to Cyrus, she said: a student from New York named Loren Brink. “He was the only person I remembered through all these years,” Cyrus said. “We had the same three classes, and he walked with me (to them)." Because Brink reached out to Cyrus and befriended her, it caused some students around them to do the same, she said. One of her earliest University memories was a time when prom­ inent black singer Marian Ander­ son came to campus. Anderson was not allowed to stay in the Minneapolis hotels unless she used a back elevator, Cyrus said, so Anderson stayed with an instructor at the music school. As a member of the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, Cyrus was in­ vited to have tea with Anderson. “We sat around the floor at her feet” she said, “and talked to her, asked her questions about her life. I don't know if today people would be so very, very kind.” Cyrus said she still remem­ bers the saddle shoes and plaid knee socks she and the other girls wore and the antique furniture in the building. “It was really just a beautiful afternoon to spend with someone like her," she said. “I encountered her later on in life, but that was the first time and probably the nicest one.” The pleasant experiences at the University were contrasted sharply by more controversial events, such as the planned pro­ duction of George Gershwin’s musical “Porgy and Bess." Rose Oyamot, a library aide at the Hosmer Community Library where Cyrus recently volun­ teered for a year, said Cyrus told her about the scandal during one of their interviews. Cyrus had been cast in a role, Oyamot said, and also was help­ ing to produce the play. Members of the community found the play to portray blacks in a discriminatory light and pro­ tested the production, she said. In the end, the play was banned from production at the University, Oyamot said. “I had really hoped to be in theater," Cyrus said of her missed opportunity, “but it was not time for African women yet" Aside from a few opportuni­ ties for chorus line roles given to light-skinned blacks, there were always “ubiquitous maid roles,” she said, and she took one such role in high school After leaving the University, Cyrus was a newspaper reporter and active member of the civil rights movement. Her column, “Et Cetera,” was featured in the St Paul Sun and the Twin Cities Observer, Oya­ mot said, and discussed topics untouched by the major daily newspapers, mostly concerning the black community “She was outspoken and infa­ mous," Oyamot said. “1 find her very inspiring.” Cyrus said that during the 1960s when the Morrill Hall take­ over took place on campus, she was very concerned. “It was really very, very sad," she said of the students’ trials, which she left work to attend. “(The takeover) was never as dan­ gerous as the newspapers said.” People’s attitudes around the Twin Cities were such that they “thought nothing unpleas­ ant could happen to people at the University,” she said. And if bad things did happen, the victim of­ ten was blamed. Hosmer librarian Roy Wood- strom said Cyrus has been able to take the experiences from her life and offer today’s community many opportunities. Cyrus faced mistreatment, Woodstrom said, for being black and going to school, but she per­ severed and got through. During her year at Hosmer, Cyrus focused on bringing speak­ ers and musicians to let “people see the richness and the diver­ sity that we have in this neighbor­ hood,” he said. As an octogenarian, Cyrus has not let age stop her, Woodstrom said.. “She hasn’t stopped being an influence, hasn’t stopped being a mentor and hasn’t stopped brim ing an impact (to her commu­ nity)," Woodstrom said. WHO SAYS TRAVELING ON SINESSHASTOBEDULL. For more information call 612-713-4478 Loam how to REPAY your COLLEGE LOANS It's a job ttiat can take you anrwhere in the world Become pal of a team of specially trained warriors dedicated to figMinf for freedom. It's your chance to make a difference in your life and in the future of your country To find out more, visit Sf GOARMY COM or call I 888-676 ARMY ARMY 01 OlYi; Coffee Shop 4r Diner 26th & Nicollet Avenue beer a Wine menu! Free Wi Fi I hours 7am-Midnight daily Full menu Served all Day!^ \ * T* j;,tv to » FREE-LOVE CHICKENS SERVING NATURALLY RAISED CHICKEN EXCELSIOR BLVO. S HIGHNAY100 II 1C.A It IA K xi: i svoicii. Ii i r r Wednesday, February 22,2006 MSA ► from Page 1 Latino or Chicano. Two per­ cent of the undergraduate pop­ ulation identifies themselves as Chicano or Latino. Juan Rangel, treasurer of La Raza Student Cultural Center, said the survey seems to rein­ force old stereotypes. Rangel said that doesn't hold true on campus. “We find that we have more a direct relationship with the community — (we are) tutor­ ing in local schools and put­ ting on events on campus. We haven't really thought about MSA," he said. Rangel said that even if there were a sense of solidarity among nonwhite people, they still would be a significant mi­ nority in MSA. There is a natural tendency for student government to voice the concerns of a major­ ity of people, he said. “And if you look like at the majority of the population on campus, it doesn’t look like La Raza," he said. “For that rea­ son, it’s easier for us to go out and do our own projects. But we would like to have a closer relationship with MSA.” Student groups with at least 50 undergraduate members are able to petition for Forum representation. MSA President Emily Serafy Cox said Forum should reflect the diversity of undergradu­ ates. “Generally speaking, if your student body looks a certain way, you want its representa­ tive government to look a cer­ tain way." She said Forum’s makeup affects what MSA addresses. “If you had all one group of students, be they one gender or one ethnicity or all greek students or all art students, then you would get skewed things that they work on," she said. “I think that the issues that MSA works on cross these boundaries of ethnicity, race and gender." She said MSA deals with issues that affect all students, such as housing, tuition, trans­ portation and representation in the University. “We're dealing with students as students," she said. She said that while it has been an issue, she hasn’t heard concerns this year of people saying any specific groups are not represented in MSA. University student Elsa Kh- waja, a self-described human rights activist and former at- large representative who re­ signed from Forum last year, said she went into Forum want­ ing to offer a diverse perspec­ tive. She said that in her brief time serving on MSA last year, she noticed a lack of respect toward different opinions and ideologies. “There was disrespect and (there was) a lot of division because of the disrespect,” she said. “MSA should try to be a unified body; of course, there’s always going to be difference in perspectives, the problem was that people would make it so personal.” Khwaja said it’s not neces­ sary to have racial representa­ tion proportional to the make­ up of the University, as long as some does exist. “All I care about is that there is representation," she said. It’s not even necessary, Khwaja said, that the students serve on Forum itself, just that leaders of MSA recognize they “have to represent all students on campus with respect to the different ethnicities pres­ ent" Student leaders should keep in mind that they represent all students, not just those from their own background, she said. “A leader should think be­ yond their own desires for the * % ^ ^ <5, 4 Vi* %%££ ) V X- a r ^ „ CHARLIE KNUTSON. DAILYThe Minnesota Student Association Executive Board is the leadership of the MSA and is involved in many aspects of student affairs. group and should always be open to perspectives and al­ ways be open to all people," she said. Catherine Wang, the at- large representative to MSA’s executive board, said that while many ethnicities are un­ derrepresented on Forum, it is an improvement over last year. Encouraging cultural cen­ ters like La Raza to get a rep­ resentative on MSA is the best thing to do, she said. Wang said that through at­ tending culture center com­ mittee meetings put on by the Student Activities Office, she has made contacts and under­ stands the cultural centers’ re­ spective perspectives. “For the most part, gender issues and cultural issues are being represented on Forum, but there is room for improve­ ment," she said. "More student groups (should) have repre­ sentation on Forum so they can voice the opinions and is­ sues they are facing." Sex question While MSA's racial makeup resembles that of the under­ graduate population at the Uni­ versity, such is not the case for Forum's sex distribution. For undergraduates, there What io you qetwH«\you 900SU9M? E Law ^experts rtment School of■■ill U . of Iowa25X, UofMNS Ju»e OfTlceof USProba Oddi uuKtrs Sponsored by University Student Legal Service for more information, call 624-1001 is a 53 percent woman, 47 per­ cent man split. MSA’s makeup is somewhat more lopsided — Forum con­ sists of 36 percent women and 64 percent men. Kim Nguyen, a chemistry senior, said she was concerned with the results. Forum should be more rep­ resentative of gender and the • results make it seem like males care more about the group, she said. However, that could be caused by American culture, Nguyen said. “It’s the general society — there's more male involvement in the government,” she said. While men outnumber wom­ en in Forum, women hold more leadership positions in MSA. Serafy Cox said she was struck by the difference in the male-to-female ratio in MSA when compared with the Uni­ versity, but was unsure what could be done to address the issue. “When women are in lead­ ership positions, you’d think it would draw more women in, and I'm not exactly sure why it hasn’t,” she said. “But I think that you can’t just look at (the survey’s statistics) because there are so many women in leadership positions." RACIAL MAKEUP The charts below show the racial makeup of MSA compared with the race of University undergraduates. Asian/ Pacific Islander RACIAL MAKEUP OP MSA RACIAL MAKEUP OF UNDERGRADUATES SOURCE: UNIVERSITY, DAILY SURVEY SEX IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT Men are disproportionally represented in the Minnesota Student As­ sociation in comparison with the University undergraduate population. L 1 J UNIVERSITY MINNESOTA STUDENT, /f V jU^PERQRADUATES ASSOCIATION ' 47% SOURCE: UNIVERSITY, DAILY SURVEY v.-A. i>j lenr.e n.ii 'Turns ini* oetfinning j* ENROLL IN ARMY RQJP ★BECOME AN ARMY OFFrcEfT To learn more about Army ROTC's 28-Day Leader s Training Course call CRT Kemp at 626-1584. stop by the Armory Bldg, 2nd Floor, Rm 110, or visit www umn edu/arotc/ Watch out ror snouui ------------- M ( tIf|I 1 < f' • j i 8 EDITORIALS & OPINIONS The Editorials & Opinions department is independent of the newsroom.The editorial board prepares the editorials labeled 'EDITORIALS,' which are the opinion ofThe Minnesota Daily as an institution but not representative of Dally employ ’S' opinions. Columnists' opinions are their own. www.mndaity.com/sectKxis/opeiior Wednesday, February 22,2006 the Minnesota Daily OUR VOICE: Editor in Chief Editorial Editor Senior Editorial Board Member Editorial Board Members Contact EDITORIAL BOARD BRITT JOHNSEN KARL NOYES FRAN ZERR RAMLA BILE JENNIFER SELVIG KNOYES9MNDAILY.COM LUIS F. GARCIA YOUR VOICE: LETTERS AND GUEST COLUMNS The Minnesota Daily welcomes letters and guest columns from readers. Ietters@mndaily.com Fax: (612) 627-0159 Phone: (612) 627-4070 extension 3203 Letters and columns to the editor 2301 University Ave. S.E. Minneapolis. MN 55414 knoyes@mndaily.com Phone: (612) 435-2099 extension 3282 Look for online exclusive col­ umns at www.mndaily.com/ sections/opinion. All letters must include the writer's name, address and phone number for verification. The Daily reserves the right to edit all letters for style, space, libel and grammar. Letters should be no more than 300 words in length. Readers may also submit longer guest columns. Shorter columns must be between 415 and 435 words. Longer columns must be between 650 and 850 words. The Daily reserves the right to print any submission as a letter or guest column. EDITORIALS Searching for real beauty Women’s bodies in advertisements are unrealistic and promote low self-esteem. W ith the “the thinner, the better” trend continuing strong in Hollywood, it is hard for us to see where it will end. The ideal level of beauty has reached an unattainable level for most women, and it even is affecting young girls. Statistics show that one in four college-aged women use un­ healthful methods to lose or maintain their weight. Skipping meals, fasting, induced vomiting, laxatives, whatever it takes. More than half of girls as young as 6 have tried at least some sort of diet Low selfesteem in women likely is caused in part by the media buzzing on television screens and magazine pages. In fact wom­ en’s magazines have more than 10 times the amount of diet adver­ tisements as men’s magazines do. They are filled with beauty ads featuring not only products to improve one's looks, but usually also a large picture of a beautiful, young, extremely thin model The average model found in the pages of today’s magazines weighs 23 percent less than the average woman. It is no wonder many women have low selfesteem. No matter what body type a woman has, she always can try a diet or a new product to make herself look better. There is one particularly bright light shining on this situa­ tion. Last year, Dove’s real women have real curves ad campaign brought six more realistic bodies to the glossies. Although the product advertised was firming lotion, it still is a step in the right direction. The ad campaign got a lot of applause; however, it also got a lot of negative reaction. People complained that they wanted to see the beautiful models they were used to. The Campaign for Real Beauty, promoted by Dove and Girl Scouts of America, aired a commercial featuring young girls up­ set with something about they way they look. The commercial is opening awareness to the extreme problem of low selfesteem in young females. There are many other ways the advertising media could inte­ grate more realistic bodies Hopefully a normal size trend wiD con­ tinue to grow within the industry. Turn down the music, save your ears MP3 players pose a larger risk to hearing loss than considered. W e all have heard it before:Turn down the music! Wheth­ er it was our parents trying to yeD at us over blasting rock during our younger years, or if it is a landlord, a neigh­ bor or even worse, police, loud muse gives some people a lot of pleasure and others a large annoyance. Although turning down the music makes sense to listeners when it affects people around them, it seldom is a concern when listening to personal music de­ vices. Exposure to musk or noise at high, such as 85, for longer peri­ ods of time have been proven to contribute to long-term hearing loss. MP3 players usually can reach levels even greater than this. For example, iPods in America can reach up to 115 decibels. Even listening at 60 percent of the maximum volume for more than two hours each day can negatively affect one’s hearing. In France and other European countries, laws have restricted iPod noise levels to 100 decibels. Because the sound coming out of personal musk devices often is sent directly through the ear canal with headphones, the effects can be even more detrimental than everyday loud sounds. Also important to consider is that those who use MP3 players have so much music available to them that often they listen for longer periods, or listen several times each day. This makes effects even worse. Volumes often are turned up higher to cover background noise. People are adjusting to greater volume, making dangerous levels sound normal to their ears. Students everywhere are embracing their MP3 players. For some a single day without it becomes boring. The harmful effects to hearing shouldn't stop people from lis­ tening, but it is something to keep in mind. Whether listening be­ tween classes, on the bus, or on the treadmill, keep the volume of your MP3 player below 60 percent of the maximum volume. This may seem too quiet for some, however. Foam coverings on head­ phones can help absorb the outside noise, and a lower volume might work. Just think about il The soundtrack of your life might help you through your days now, but is it worth hearing aids in the future? DEATHS IN IRAQ U.S. SOLDIERS: 2,276 —IRAQI CIVILIANS: 28,473-PLUS See the debate, sources and more at www.mndaily.com/iraq. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tlvAsHiproWAr — ACLRAS41IOI@MMDAILY.COM ©l Fir. 22, 2004 KL, General College facts Tuesday’s Daily editorial, “GC transfer policy pushes stu-. dents out,” asks what will hap­ pen to current General College students with fewer than 60 credits. It erroneously answers its own question by asserting that GC students who have earned fewer than 60 credits will be forced to leave the Uni­ versity at the end of this semes­ ter. The facts are: General Col­ lege students who were admit­ ted in fall 2005 (who would not be expected to have earned 60 credits yet) and who will not transfer to another college next year will be welcome to con­ tinue with us through the 2006- 2007 school year in our new department in the College of Education and Human Devel- optnenL At the end of two years (at which time all students are expected to have earned 60 credits) these students will need to transfer or get permis­ sion to continue in CEHD ei­ ther as undecided students or in a CEHD major program. Current GC students who were admitted in fall 2004 or earlier need to transfer this year or get permission from me to register with us for next year. I will examine and judge each case individually, taking indi­ vidual circumstances and past performance into account Incoming students admit­ ted for fell 2006 will participate in our curriculum for one year. All communication with these students clearly states this in­ formation. Decisions about adviser staffing in CEHD are still being worked on; therefore, it is un­ clear what ill-informed source the Daily could have relied on when it states that “much of the current advising staff will not move on to the College of Education and Human Devel­ opment." In fact, we have pro­ posed advising staffing levels in the new college with the assumption that 500 current students will continue in addi­ tion to serving newly admitted students. General College students should not be misled or fright­ ened by factually incorrect information in their campus newspaper. GC students, your adviser or I can answer any of your questions or concerns and do so accurately. Robert Poch assistant dean of the Genera! College Different viewpoints In a Feb. 15 letter to the edi­ tor, Christopher Finke wrote, “Any ban on images of Muham­ mad is merely a political move.” Not true. Depicting the prophets is banned in the Hadith (second­ ary source of Islamic Law) and also indirectly in the Qur’an. The Qur’an, like the Bible and Torah were revealed in Semitic languages. As Dr. Seyyed Hos- sein Nasr (professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University) said on PBS Re­ ligion & Ethics Newsweekly, “In Islamic history there have been some miniatures — Per­ sian, Turkish and Mogul India. Not Arab, because the Semitic people are especially sensitive toward images. Thou shall not make a graven image,’ God told Moses. But in the non-Semitk part of the Islamic world, there have been miniatures. First of all, the face is either covered or is completely stylized. And I don’t think (people) would have gotten excited in the Islamic world if something like that had been drawn in the Western press.” I hope this sheds light on the issue. Fedwa Wazwaz University staff member Sinking into madness I found your Feb. 10 edito­ rial castigating the publication of cartoons in Denmark to be particularly disturbing. It wasn’t the attempt to provide a moral equivalency between the cartoonists and rioters that was most ridiculous. It was the attempt by the writer to discuss free speech “within the boundaries of respect" and the admonishment to editorial cartoonists to “not mock inap­ propriately.” Just who defines “the boundaries of respect” or the appropriate level of mockery a cartoonist should abide by? Everyone has differing lev­ els of tolerance for an infinite number of offenses. Should newspapers, writers and art­ ists curtail their work to try to please everyone in all situ­ ations? Or just specific groups that for some reason are re­ garded worthy of special atten­ tion, treatment or respect not granted to others? Moreover, in mentioning the Islamic taboo on creating images of Mohammed, the writer implies that someone who does not practice a partic­ ular faith should be expected to live by the rules of said religion. How illogical a supposition. Yet the editorial makes this leap without the slightest hesita­ tion, of course all in the name of “sensitivity” and “respect” One can surely disagree with the decision of some cartoonists to depict a religious figure, but to call for any form of censor­ ship is madness. A better solu­ tion would be for the offended to voice their displeasure by boycotting the producer of the offense. As no one made Chris­ tians attend showings of “Piss Christ” no Muslim need read a Danish newspaper. That a university newspa­ per would editorialize for cen­ sorship indicates how far people have sunk into this madness. I think this is the ultimate destination for those that climb aboard the multicul- turalist sensitivity train. Dan Gallivan University graduate student FILM Is America ready for a gay-themed Oscars? Let’s focus on the actual performances themselves and not simply label the films. BY JUSTIN ROOD Guest columnist TOLEDO, Ohio (U-WIRE) — s this year’s Oscars ap­ proach, many are hung up on nominees and films that portray homosexual or trans­ sexual characters. With the film “Brokeback Mountain” leading the way, the three films that deal with homosexual or transsexual char­ acters have in total 10 nominees in the six major Oscar categories. Now, everyone seems to think this “new wave” of themed films that feature predominant homo­ sexual or transsexual characters is going to revolutionize the entire film industry in Hollywood. Ifs unheard of in the history of the Academy Awards. The reason­ ing behind this way of thinking is because “Brokeback Mountain" and the other films that featured homosexual or transsexual char­ acters and themes are being cel­ ebrated by the prominent awards for their “boldness." As a result every film released by the major studio systems in Hollywood for the awards season, will feature homosexual or transsexual charac­ ters and themes. Ifs unheard of for the Oscars to be awarded to films that feature predominant nonheterosexual characters and themes. This sim­ ply is not the case. In 1993 Tom Hanks won Best Actor for his portrayal of a homosexual lawyer in the film “Philadelphia.” In 1999 the winner for Best Picture was "American Beauty," and that film had scenes that featured homo­ sexuality between two males, even the next-door neighbors in the film were two male homosexual part­ ners. The Crying Game” received Oscar nominations in the Best Pic­ ture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director categories and it dealt with a predominant transsexual character. There have been countless films before this Oscar season. Films like “Big Dad­ dy” and “Chasing Amy” had char­ acters and themes of homosexual ity and lesbianism. No, this is not unheard of in the film industry in Hollywood and es­ pecially in tfie Academy Awards. During awards season lefs focus on how these films will forever change the landscape of making films. Lefs not focus on the ac­ tual performances themselves or the fact that these films aren’t just about homosexuality and trans­ sexuality. Remember, ifs unheard of for Oscar-nominated films and nomi­ nees to feature nonheterosexual characters. This column originally appeared in the Owens Outlook at Owens Community College. Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com. TECHNOLOGY Sanity in electronic separation For those of you without a cell phone, MP3 player or Internet, I applaud you. BY JOEL SCHILDOEN Guest columnist A few weeks ago I found myself in un­ charted water; I was checked into a hotel for an entire weekend! Now this might sound like a norjnal vacation to some, but I had to survive with a dead cell phone, no laptop, no MP3 player and worst of all my parents were along. With all of this newfound time on my hands (the first 30 minutes). I came up with a not-so-crazy idea: I think my generation would sponta­ neously combust if cell phones, the Inter­ net or iPods were wiped off the face of the earth. OK, OK. we definitely would survive, but I have to imagine there would be a lot of angry and confused young adults walking aimlessly around campus. I have to ask a few questions to those reading. How differ­ ent would your life be if a phone call were not a simple arm’s length away? That seem­ ingly simple call to a friend while walking out of class would cease. How would one stay occupied without constantly checking their Facebook profile or chronically check­ ing an e-mail account? Instead of listening Believe it or not, there was a time when we had to use our imaginations in order to stay occupied. I think the good old times need to come back. We need to relearn how to use our creative side, regard­ less of the new pictures on a friend’s profile. to a favorite tune, we might actually have to converse with total strangers. Now, I know there are people out there who choose not to own cell phones or iP­ ods or use the Internet, and others can safely balance the three in their lives. To you in these categories, you have my ut­ most respect. However, the rest of us (my­ self included) rely on these latest break­ throughs in technology to survive. Is this healthy? Is this why there are few sitcoms that continue for more than a couple of episodes? I may have found the answer to these after only an hour of watching reruns in my rundown, musty hotel room — I had to come up with a way to enter­ tain myself. Whoa, talk about a shocker. I found that those of us sickly attached to these items need them as forms of en­ tertainment. Believe it or not, there was a time when we had to use our imagina­ tions to stay occupied. I think the good old times need to come back. We need to relearn how to use our creative side, re­ gardless of the new pictures on a friend’s profile from last weekend's kegger or the ever-vibrating and rap-singing ringtones from our phones and players. So, for those of you without a cell phone, MP3 player or the Internet, I ap­ plaud you. For the others who can lead a successful life with that perfect balance of technology, I envy you. For the rest of us, I have a challenge. For an entire day. leave the cell phone and iPod turned off; after an exhausting day of classes, keep the computer in standby for the night. Yes. it may be hard, but I think this will help us all. Slowly, we will cut the umbilical cord between technology and ourselves, once again allowing our brains to entertain us. Our creativity will shine out and possibly steer us down new, brighter paths. But most of all, it may allow us to maintain our sanity if we were separated from them for one short weekend. 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But in our •m for sesend ily.com. www.mmlaily.OTm/seaions/opinion Wednesday, February 22,2006 9 THE DAILY Matches to Muhammad The line between simply being incendiary and inspiring debate depends on context and tact. A s Editorials and Opinions editor, 1 read every comment sent to the Daily concerning the Editorials and Opinions pages. The most common ques­ tions of the past two weeks Touched on my decisions to not publish the controversial Danish Muhammad cartoons and to con­ tinue to publish John Hoffs columns. Read­ ers have asked for explanations, and I am compelled to respond. This month, student newspapers at Har­ vard and the University of Illinois, among others, decided to reprint the cartoons that have attracted worldwide attention to their ability to inflame passions. While 1 always lean on the side of publication, I chose not to publish the Muhammad cartoons for several reasons. The goal of any serious, published opin­ ion is to inspire debate. A healthy debate already was under way in the Daily when other college newspapers decided to repub­ lish the Muhammad cartoons. From the start Daily readers decided to focus on the cartoon controversy and exchanges over freedom of speech, Islamophobia and me­ dia representation were and are carried out in the opinions pages. There was no need as editors of other college papers claimed to “inspire debate.” The publication of the Muhammad cartoons only would have hin­ dered debate bringing the focus not on the issues themselves but upon the administra­ tion at the Daily. CAMPUS KARL NOYES Editorials and Opinions editor Secondly, the cartoons were and are easily accessible online. Republishing the Muhammad cartoons would have taken the space reserved for fresh columns as well as been an act far outside the standard prac­ tices of the opinions pages. It is not the job of the opinions pages to present news but rather to provide an arena for debate. Like other issues, students seeking more depth could have found their information else­ where. Just as people can debate the prac­ tices at Abu Ghraib prison and the deaths in Iraq without visceral images, so can they debate issues surrounding the Muhammad cartoons. lastly, the republication of the cartoons frames the debate in terms,of the cartoons and misses the larger context in which the cartoons appeared. This is fine if an opinion piece says that, but it is a dereliction of duty if a newspaper chooses to frame the debate in this way. Sadly, many media outlets failed in presenting the deep emotional and eco­ nomic issues surrounding Muslims in Eu­ rope and basic beliefe. The publication of the Muhammad cartoons in the Daily would have been an incendiary act, an act not done to inspire debate but rather to incite hatred and need­ lessly disparage. This brings us to John Hoff. Hoff in his brief time at the Daily has provoked more response from the University readership than any other recent Daily columnist in my memory. So who is John HofP Hoff, to say the least has been many things; father, [Lump ster-diving guru, military psych tech, re­ porter, archivist, city counril member. But above aH. Hoff is an advocate activist this is the primary reason I hired him. From Aramark to Zerby, Hoff has ad­ dressed issues that are of concern to Uni­ versity students. Certainly Hoffs columns are mixed with a fleshy dose of ego, but Hoffs concern for the issues is readily ap­ parent Readers tend to love or hate Hoff, which I expected when I hired him. Unexpected, however, was the mass response a Hoff col­ umn tends to receive. Some have argued that Hoffs columns on local politician Paul Zerby and North Da­ kota were incendiary and held no value for the University community. I disagreed and published Hoffs col­ umns knowing that, though they were provocative and seemingly discombobu- lated, they were a value to the University community. Has Paul Zerby been good for students? Does North Dakota foster cul­ tural deficiencies? Does the University care more about Aramark contracts than about students? These are all important and de­ batable opinions Hoff has raised through his writing. How did I decide that republication of Muhammad cartoons is incendiary and Hoffs previous columns were merely in­ spiring debate? Unfortunately, such a straight question cannot get such a straight answer. I have made it my goal to publish guest submis­ sions and hire columnists with the best potential to inspire debate. The difference between an incendiary act and a debate- inspiring act can be blurred, and decisions have to be made based on experience. I have worked nearly four years in the Editorials and Opinions department having participated, witnessed and rea(J hundreds of topical dialogues. As I have pointed out there was no overwhelming need to publish the Muhammad cartoons. To have done so would not have been an act of freedom of speech but rather an act of sabotage. While Hoffs columns could have been a tad more tactfuL they needed to be published to in­ spire the debate they did. You as the reader place a certain level of trust in me that I wiD publish in a fair man­ ner. The opinions pages have reflected the extent the Daily readership is willing to participate. Submissions that respond in disagreement over something previously published are especially welcome and con­ sidered. There is no agenda here except for that of positive change and debate. If you feel your voice needs to be heard, please submit a guest column to my e-mail below. The Daily accepts comments at letters@mndaily.com Karl Noyes is the Editorials and Opinions editor. He welcomes comments at knoyes@mndaily.com. Ignoring the self-segregation Rather than attacking a columnist, student organizations should handle the truth. BY AYAH HELMY Guest columnist M aggie Habashy’s Feb. 13 column. “Self-segrega­ tion at Coffman Union," was truthful and tactful. She wrote that she believed Coffman’s second floor, which is filled with student groups, is not fulfilling its purpose: to bring different people together. She wrote of her feeling that instead of promoting awareness for different causes, these groups were furthering their ex­ clusivity. And as a person who's been here three years, she has enough experience to support her argument I put down the Daily that day. proud that someone was finally saying something about this. Unless you are involved with a certain student group, if you step foot in­ side their premises, you should be ready for some major discomfort Soon, though, I was hearing a buzz around me that the student groups mentioned briefly in the ar­ ticle were angry about it There was even talk of orches­ trating a meeting with the columnist 1 was appalled by this behavior. I expected the lead­ ers of student groups in general — specifically those mentioned — to gather their groups together and try to come up with a solution to make their student group more approachable. Naturally, if I feel uncomfortable go­ ing into a space, then why would I spend time trying to DOMESTIC POLICY understand what it is there for? This should have been a wake-up call, not a reason for them to attack a columnist from your campus newspaper. Give me a break! The reason this uproar, if you will, occurred is that people simply can't handle the truth. Once it is told, there is always an inherent defense in one's reaction. It is a person of character who can rise above the initial re­ action and ask why. This scenario briefly reminded me of the Seinfeld episode about truth when George's girl­ friend ends up putting herself in a mental facility because he told her she was pretentious. As much as people say. Tell me why; I want to know,” — they just don’t Wouldn't it just be easier if people could just give and receive truth without falling apart? A major flaw such as not fulfilling one's purpose seems important enough for truth. If your friend was going commando and her fly was down, wouldn’t you tell her? Surely you wouldn't leave her walking around for the entire world to see; in­ stead, you would fix the situation before any more dam­ age was done. If truth were such a bad thing, why do we strive for it and demand it from others? Wouldn’t relationships sur­ vive longer if one person slipped up one drunken night and didn’t tell their significant other about it? Wouldn't we sleep more soundly if our government continued to keep immense amounts of information from us? If truth is so damn good, why do we shy away from it when it faces us? If truth is a homeless man with no legs sitting on the sidewalk against a wall, then why do we turn our heads and look away when we see him? How can we fix something if we don't know what it is? We can’t just leave the big elephant in the room all the time. We need to speak up and take matters into our own hands. No wonder there are so many problems in the world. We see a commercial about poverty in Africa and we change the channel. We see a man handing out fliers about children being prostituted and sold into slavery by the hundreds of thousands in Uganda and we try to sneak past him without making eye contact If you make contact you have to take the flier from his hand. As for the student groups, I do agree with Habashy that even if a large “super group” was formed, people would naturally gravitate to “their kind,” whomever that may be. But the problem should be addressed either way. The fly should be zipped up before the problem gets any worse and the animosity between different stu­ dent groups deepens. I don't fully comprehend why these student groups got so riled up in the first place. Habashy did not list them and say "1 was egged when I walked into the follow­ ing places." She made a comment about a comprehen­ sive problem in our school community. She shouldn’t be faulted for that; she should be commended for bringing the issue to light. We should make poverty history. We should grasp that Uganda flier firmly. We should look the homeless man in the eye and apologize for his state of affairs. We should stare truth in the face. Only by doing that can we improve our situations and the situations of those around us. Ayah Helmy is a University student. Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com. Domestic spying is nothing new Spies and goons from intelligence agencies have a long history of spying on ILS. citizens. A lthough the rationale for expand­ ing police powers has shifted from communism to terrorism in recent years, the consequences are likely to be the same; Civic organizations that chal­ lenge our nation’s power holders will be subject to intense police scrutiny, harass­ ment and intimidation. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, the FBI waged a quiet war at home against citizens who questioned U.S. gov­ ernment policies. COINTELPRO was the FBI acronym given to counterintelligence programs (i.e., domestic covert actions) carried out by the bureau against po­ litical dissidents and their organizations. The expressed goal of COINTELPRO was to “misdirect, discredit, disrupt and otherwise neutralize" targeted individu­ als and political groups. Tactics the FBI employed toward these ends originally were adopted from wartime counterin­ telligence. and included everything from surveillance and media disinformation campaigns to home break-ins and frame- ups. A vast majority of the FBI's 2,300 sepa­ rate COINTELPROs were earmarked for the civil rights movement, Black libera­ tion movement, American Indian move­ ment. Chicano movement. Puerto Rican Independence movement, women’s movement, anti-war movement and the Old and New Left. COINTELPRO was officially discon­ tinued in 1971. shortly after the programs NATHAN PAULSEN Columnist were publicly exposed by a small group of patriots who burglarized an FBI field office and leaked stolen records to major media outlets. The life of Martin Luther King Jr. is illustrative of the horrors police are in­ clined to unleash when given the power to spy on U.S. citizens. While King and thousands of coura­ geous grassroots organizers were fight­ ing to put an end to Jim Crow segrega­ tion, the FBI was conspiring to pursue any means necessary to undermine their efforts. In the spring of 1962. King was placed on a list of poeple — at one point numbering 26,000 — that were pri­ oritized for detention in the case of a na­ tional emergency. Feai ’m^ (he growing strength of the civil rights movement, the FBI conducted around-the-clock surveillance on King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he led. They paid informants to infil­ trate the Southern Christian leadership Conference and facilitated physical at­ tacks on civil rights workers by feeding information to the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI also actively manipulated tensions between civil rights organizations to provoke splits and attempted to defame King by planting degrading stories about his personal life in the press. FBI agents even went so far as to send King a letter, complete with audiotapes of an alleged extramarital affair taken from a bugged hotel room, suggesting that he kill himself in order to avoid, public em­ barrassment. In light of Congressional investiga­ tions that uncovered an FBI plan to pro­ mote somebody “to assume the role of leadership of the Negro people when King has been completely discredited," one must wonder how much the bureau's impatience with King's continued popu­ larity might have contributed to his un­ timely death. The man responsible for "neutralizing" King summed up his experience: “No holds were barred. We have used (simi­ lar) techniques against Soviet agents. (The same methods were) brought home against any organization against which we were targeted. We did not differenti­ ate. This is a rough, tough business." The sheer scope of unconstitutional police actions — COINTELI’RO and otherwise — aimed at ordinary citizens because of their political beliefs is mind- boggling. Between 1960 and 1974, the FBI investigated more than 500.000 people and groups under the category of "subversive." without a single prosecu­ tion The CIA indexed more than 300.000 Americans and singled out some 7.200 people and 100 organizations for special attention. Between the mid-1960s and 1971. Army intelligence units produced files on more than lOO.(HH) Americans. The National Security Agency maintained reports on more than 75.000 U.S. citizens, including King, between 1952 and 1974 Nor were students immune to repres­ sion. According to congressional hear­ ings. “In 1970 the FBI ordered investiga­ tions of every member of the Students for a Democratic Society and of 'every Black Student Union and similar group regard­ less of their past or present involvement in disorders.'" In other words, the enormously popu­ lar movements of the 1960s did not sim­ ply collapse under their own weight. They were intentionally sabotaged by U.S. intelligence agencies working to protect the status quo against demands for social justice. Within this historical context, de­ bates about civil liberties are neither ab­ stract nor hypothetical. The COINTELPRO era of the 1960s and '70s should give every citizen reason to be suspicious of law enforcement in the post-Sept. 11,2001, world. The Patriot Act effectively rescinded laws created in the wake of the COINTELPRO scandal to safeguard Americans from overzealous policing, leaving us now only one short step from a return to the days of virtually unmitigated repression. Indeed, recent revelations that the Pentagon is gather­ ing volumes of intelligence on anti-war ac­ tivists while the National Security Agency continues to spy on L'.S. citizens without court order indicate that the rulers of this nation no longer are interested in main taining even the thinnest veneer of demo­ cratic governance. These are extreme and dangerous times we live in. If we do not begin de­ fending what remains of our democracy, we soon w ill not have a democracy to de­ fend. Nathan Paulsen welcomes comments at npaulsen@mndaily.com. RELIGION Setting the record straight on cartoons Some people’s views regarding the cartoons have been understanding. BY ADAM ELRASHIDI Guest columnist I t's been an interesting couple of weeks. I’ve been sitting back and keeping a close eye on ajl the attention focused on the cartoons that depict the Prophet Muhammad in the Dan ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten And, over the past few weeks in the Star Tribune and the Daily. I have seen and read people's opin­ ions on the matter. Some people's views regard­ ing the cartoons have been un­ derstanding, others have not. Some have looked at the issue with introspective contemplation while others have responded with ignorance that's fueled pri­ marily by what 1 see as a misun­ derstanding of the situation as a whole. As a Muslim and a cartoonist, I find myself in a rather unique position. Not only can I under­ stand how offensive and counter­ productive the cartoons are from a Muslim’s perspective, but I also can respect the right of Jyllands- Posten to print such material from the perspective of a journal­ ist and editorialist exercising freedom of speech. With all that noted, I have to say — in my own opinion — that while Jyllands-Posten surely had the right to print those depictions of Muhammad, it was in extreme­ ly poor taste, out of the bounds of journalistic conduct and was cre­ ated and printed with malicious intent The fact is the cartoons sim­ ply do not serve a purpose. They do not foster thought or discus­ sion or open dialogue regarding terrorism and its “relationship" to Islam. The cartoons further perpetu­ ate the stereotype that Islam is a violent religion and that Muslims are an angry people while this stereotype is untrue. Although it is unfortunate that the rash, violent and completely un-Islamic actions of a few have made some people believe the stereotype is true for the many, one should not look to the 15 seconds of footage on CNN or Fox News for their perception of Islam, but should go and actively acquire an opinion — whatever it might be — based on their own research of the religion. Though it certainly would be hypocritical of me to say ev­ ery cartoon I have ever done has been a thought-provoking, intellectual masterpiece, 1 can honestly say that — with the ex­ ception of series pieces — I have never made light of any person, quote or event not initially and predominantly based in truth. And while sometimes I have ar­ gued with my editors to push the envelope in an attempt to get people to critically consider an is­ sue, I'm always aware of my ethi­ cal boundaries as a journalist and my responsibility to my readers to produce accurate content The same cannot be said for those who made and published the Muhammad cartoons. Those cartoons show that, like a lot of people — both Muslim and non- Muslim — Jyllands-Posten realty had no idea of the type of person Muhammad was or what Islam is all about. Whether one agrees with a particular issue or not, one should at least take the time to obtain the relevant information about a topic before just taking what a so-called expert says as the truth about it. There are nu­ merous events this week cover­ ing the topic of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, and 1 en­ courage everyone to attend an event at 6 p.m. today at 310 An­ derson Hall. The bottom line is that, despite what you might hear. Islam is not a religion of violence and does not promote the idea that everyone should be forced to submit to its principles, likewise, the Prophet Muhammad was not a warmon­ gering militant but rather a patient and tolerant person. To everyone is their own belief. But don't just take my word for it: go find out for yourself. Adam Elrashidi is the Daily's car toomst. He welcomes comments at aelrashidi@mndaily.com. 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Dr. Date, is how should I finally put my foot down and break it off with this fake-blonde haired, first sex part­ ner, "girlfriend" of mine? Your Avid Reader, Needs to Dump the Trash Dear Needs to Dump the Trash It's funny that you think she's the trashy one .. Anyhoo. if you've wanted to break up with her for a while, she probably knows something is up. And no matter what the reason you give her. she probably is going to know it has to do with spring break, especially because you have a big trip planned with your buddies. Maybe just be honest with her. Tell her you can t promise to remain faithful to her while you're away, and that you just want to be up­ front about it before you hurt her. If she's just going to suspect that anyway, you might as well come out with it. Then at least you can enjoy your "babeage" quasi-guilt free. Whatever the way it is you do it, just make sure you actually do it before you leave. - Dr. Date Dear Doc. So, I have a serious question for you. My boyfriend and 1 have been dating for a year, and I love him very much: I don't foresee a break-up ever, really. But now. a couple boys that I used to have interest in are coming back to me wanting physical relationships. My problem is that I want to go ahead and take up these offers, despite a great sex life with my boyfriend, and having had a decent number of sexual partners in the past. I am not a cheater, but sometimes 1 sure would like to (tr)uck these guys (without hurting my boy­ friend. of course). It's no struggle not to cheat, but 1 do think about having sex with other guys. What's my deal. Doc? Sincerely. I’ve Got Naughty Thoughts Dear I’ve Got Naughty Thoughts, Well, if you're asking if you should go ahead and take them up on their offers, go ahead, but be prepared to lose your boyfriend. There's definitely not a way to do this "without hurting him" unless he didn't know, which would just end up hurting him more in the end because then he'd be dating a cheater and a liar But, if it's just the thoughts you're having that are troubling you, I wouldn't worry about it too much. No matter how many times some one says that they don't think about anyone but you, it's probably not 100 percent true. And that's OK as long as you don't act on it I guess my advice to you is to keep it in the thoughts and out of the pants, especially be cause you said it's not a struggle for you to do But. if the thoughts are totally dominating your brain and it's starting to affect your rela tionship. maybe it's a sign that you need other things right now. in which case you'd have to really evaluate how you feel about your cur­ rent relationship, of course. — Dr. Date Dear Dr. Date. 1 have a serious problem that 1 hope you can assist me with. 1 was seeing this very re­ served. insecure and controlling girl all through college (three years). I was never able to express who I truly was. both person­ ally and sexually. I am now 23 years old. and I am unable to initiate spontaneous, impromptu conversations with females. I am a very respectful person with your typical good-guy persona. I don't want to say or do anything that will offend them, nor do I want them to think that Tm only trying to hit on them when that's not my intention. I'm ex­ actly what Steve Carell described in "The 40 Year-Old Virgin." "I respect women so much that I completely stay away from them!" My biggest issue is that whenever I attempt to converse with a girl I'm attraaed to. 1 have no idea how to keep the conversation going. I haven't had sex in a year and a half, so sex or other future relations with that person are all that's on my mind, and it clouds any intel­ ligent thought. 1 cannot think of anything better to talk about than the interrogating questions like where are you from? Where do you live now? What's your major/classes? What year are you? As soon as those are done,-it's an awk­ ward silence, and I just kind of walk away. If I do mention something like the weather, which leads into a conversation, after a cou­ ple minutes I ll draw a blank or say something completely stupid and sound like a blabber­ ing idiot Either way. nothing ever comes of it because I don't know how to progress the conversation to the next level, so 1 have just stopped trying in hopes an interested female will talk to me. It's gotten so bad that I can t even approach a female that 1 feel may be interested in me I think that as soon as I mention my age. living at home, or what college Tm in. they'll be im­ mediately turned off. I have no problem talk ing to girls I have to talk to (e.g. at work), but 1 cannot for the life of me bring myself to talk to a girl in class or on the connector. Dr Date. Can you please give me some advice how I can initiate good conversations with females. Thank you very much. - waiting for female interaction Dear waiting for female interaction. It seems to me like you totally have the first step down, which is to have the courage to start talking to them I don't think the questions you ask them are lame ... I just think it's weird that you run out of things to talk about. Each answer they give you should spark a whole new conversation. Plus, you can think of things to say yourself, instead of making it such an interview process. Just try' actually listening to what they are saying and start conversations based off of that Try' to keep your mind off “what this could be" because that's just creepy, and focus more on "what do this girl and I have in common that we could talk about7" I bet you could find at least one thing that you have in common with pretty much any girl on the planet. Either way. you're not a journalist so don't act like you're interviewing them That will probably make them feel on the spot Remember, conver­ sations arc a two-way street. Dr. Date Need relationship advice? 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"■C' -? >• Student Service Fees Committee Recommendations for 2006-07 Funding Fees Groups 2005-06 Stu Fees Approved Revenue Per Sem 2006-07 Stu Fees Requested Revenue Per Sem 2006-07 Stu Fees Initial Rec Revenue Per Sem Aftjcan Student Association SI 0.000 $0.14 $21,000 $0.28 $14,136 $0.19 Al-Campus Elections Commissions SI 4.300 $0.20 $13,000 $0.18 S13.0X $0.18 AI Madinah Cultural Center S57.942 $0.81 $62,000 $0.86 S55.9X SO. 78 American Indian Student Cultural Center SI 5.533 $0.22 $30,000 $0.42 S2C.0X $0.28 Asian American Student Union S53.200 $0.73 $70,000 $0.96 S55.2X $0.75 Black Student Union S53.893 $0.73 . $60,000 $0.81 S49.3X $066 Boynton Healtti Service S6.487.255 $90.52 S7.1X.040 $105.97 $6,860,040 $102.23 Campus Atheists and Secular Humanists SB.588 $0.12 S8.0X $0.11 S&OX $0.08 Campus Conservative Cultural Program S30.0X $0.42 S12.8X $0.18 Community Chid Care Center S60.000 $0.79 S60.0X $0 79 S60.0X $0.79 Como Community Child Care $52,600 $0.69 $52.6X $0.70 $49,050 $0.65 Crisis Point S- $- $20,OX $0 28 $10.0X $0.14 Disability Student Cultural Center $27,736 $0.39 $27,962 $0.39 $22,962 $0.32 Entrepreneurship Club S- $(0.00) S2.0X $0.03 S2.0X $0.03 Event Partnership Grant Funds -- SAO $50,000 $0.67 S75.0X $1.05 S75.0X SIX Habitat tot Humanity S5.000 $0.07 $- $- $- HiUel: the Jewish Student Center $25,000 $0.35 $31,0X $0 43 S28.0X $0.39 Hmong Mkinesota Student Association $8,500 $0.12 S- $- La Razo Student Cultural Center t~.——:---- —--------------------------------------------—----------------- $36,443 $0.49 S42.6X $0 58 S39.6X $0.54 Learning Abroad Center $88,238 $1.16 $92,430 $1.21 $92/430 $1.21 Learning Abroad Center Released Balance $(8,000) S(0.20) $- MN Daily $497,740 $676 S550.0X $7 42 S52S.0X $7X17 MN International Student Association $59,600 $0.75 S70.0X $0.98 $42. IX $0.59 Queer Student Cultural Center $27,500 $0.38 $37,OX $0.51 $371000 $0.51 Radio K-Operating $135,000 $1 77 S143.1X $1.88 3143.1X $1.88 Rodo K-AM Improvement $81,OX $1.13 $6tj0X $1.13 Recreational Sports - Capital. Depreciation. Maint $1,725,000 $23.14 $1,725.0X $22.55 $1,726X0 822.55 Recreational Sports - Operational Fund $1,962,208 $25.75 $2,124,720 $27.96 $2X9.720 $27.61 Recreational Sports - Capital Planning Fund $700,000 $8 94 S7X.0X $9.18 $450X0 $5.68 St. Paul Board of Colleges $18,000 $0.25 $18.OX $0 25 $18X0 $0.25 Student Contact Resolution Center $151,000 $2.04 $201,574 $2.68 $201,574 $2.68 Students for a Conservative MDice S30.0X $0.42 $17,6X $0 25 Students for Family Values $5,000 $0.06 S34.7X $0.49 $- $ Student Service Fee Administration $41,495 $0.51 $90,237 $1.23 $90,237 $1.23 Twin Cities Stdt Unions - Operating $3,862,260 $50.80 $4,388,509 $57.92 $4,212X7 $56.45 Twin Cities Stdt Unions - Bond Repayment $3,716,516 $48.77 $3,716,516 $48.65 $3,716,516 $48.65 Twin Cities Stdt Unions - Capital. Depreciation. Maint $724,207 $9.50 $724,207 $9,48 $724,207 $9.48 University Student Legal Service $891,277 $11.73 $947,002 $12.44 $933,702 $12.26 Voices Merging $5,074 $0.07 $7,858 $0.11 $5,378 $0.07 The Wake Student Newspaper $90,850 $1 25 $113,888 $1.51 $1XX0 $1.31 Women’s Student ActMst Collective $26,000 $0 34 $30,OX $0.41 S28.5X $0.39 Total Student Fees $21,683,956 $290.82 $23,530,943 $322.67 A $22,606,661 $30949 Special Assessment Groups 2005 06 Stu Fees Approved Revenue Per Sem 2006 07 Stu Fees Requested Revenue Per Sem 2006-07 Stu Fees Initial Rec Revenue Per Sem Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow* $73,118 $4.13 $72,597 $4 13 $- $- Counci of College Boards $59,050 $1.06 $65,695 $1 28 $56,784 $1.11 Graduate » Professional Student Assembly $376,730 $11.53 $377,230 $11 88 $373,230 $11.74 IT Student Publcattons $15,950 $1.41 S24.0X $2.98 S17.6X $2.17 MN Public Interest Research Group* $78,181 $413 $76,880 $4 13 $76,880 $4.13 MN Student Association $147,400 $2.87 $131,539 $253 $131,539 $2.53 Student Emergency Loan Fund $- $- S24.0X $024 $- $-! Summer Cultural Programs $60,000 $7 41 $65,OX $9 20 $65.OX $9 20 Total Special Assessments $810,429 $32.55 $836,941 $36.35 $721,033 $30.86 •Refuseable/refundable funding mechanism Total for All Groups $22,494,3*4 $323.37 $24,367,886 $359.03 $23,327,594 $340 35 I