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IN BRIEF
Playwright joins student
group for rehearsal
The University’s Asian Pacific Amer
ican Student Union is hosting an up
and-coming San Francisco playwright
today. Artist Melinda Corazon Foley
will hold a rehearsal for her play
“Down and Out” from 4 p.m. to
6:30 p.m., with a performance
following from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in
115 Lawrence.
The play is open to the public, with
students and community members
encouraged to read and perform.
Foley, bom in the Philippines, has
worked with several organizations in
cluding Oakland’s La Pena Cultural
Center and San Francisco’s Asian
American Theater Company. “Down
and Out,” which focuses on the trials
of one family, has been submitted to
the San Francisco 2005 Hip Hop
Theater Festival.
— Ayisha Yahya
Senate gives PFC more
time to submit budget
The ASUO Student Senate on
Wednesday extended the deadline
for the Programs Finance Committee
to submit its budget to the Senate
for approval.
Initially due Wednesday, the PFC’s
budget has been slowtd by injunctions
the ASUO Constitution Court placed
against three of its members, which
prevented the PFC from legally holding
meetings to hear groups’ budgets.
The budget is now due Monday,
March 7 by 5 p.m.; the Senate will
review it March 9.
PFC Chairwoman Persis Pohowal
la apologized for the budget’s late
ness, saying “extenuating circum
stances” such as the injunctions,
the PFC exceeding its funding
benchmark and problems with
some PFC meetings’ audio tapes,
have slowed the process.
Senators granted the ASUO
Women’s Center about $668 in surplus
funds to allow representatives to
attend a conference in New Orleans on
March 11-13.
Also at the meeting, senators voted
to refer two resolutions condemning
the court’s recent injunctions to the
Senate Rules Committee for review.
— Parker Howell
James
Harrison,
co-counsel
to John
Gilmore,
presents his
opening
arguments
in a moot
court session
that was held
Wednesday
evening at the
Knight Law
Center. Wmm
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said, who earned his undergraduate
degree from the University in 1994.
“The judge can take you in so many di
rections; that’s why we’re practicing.”
The panel — made up of Weiner
man, Lessley, University law professor
Keith Aoki, University political science
professor Julie Novkov and a third
year law student — focused on search
and seizure laws when questioning
Harrison and Simpich about the case.
Many questions focused on whether
the right to travel in the United States
is an actual right and whether
anonymity when traveling should be
synonymous with such a right.
Harrison focused his argument
around the lack of available
documentation for the law that
mandates identification be shown
when traveling.
“Our best argument is the secret law
argument,” Harrison said.
Simpich argued as acting defense at
torney that the identification require
ment is in place because it is a funda
mental way of ensuring weapons and
other dangerous items will not make it
onto an airplane.
Panel members questioned the con
stitutionality of the government’s “No
Fly Lists,” lists that Simpich said are
part of the reason for mandatory
showing of identification.
But Harrison argued that searches
can be conducted to locate any
weapons, and it is not necessary to
know the name of the individual being
searched, saying Gilmore’s right to
travel in the country had been ham
pered by the identification laws.
“The best thing is to recognize that
ID-based security systems don’t
work,” Harrison said.
Panel members questioned where
the right to travel anonymously
existed in the constitution and also
questioned reasons behind the
government’s need for identification
of all travelers.
Novkov said the lack of administra
tive procedures about reviewing the
right to travel makes the case especial
ly difficult to win because nothing
concerning the right is on record.
“Gilmore’s going to have an uphill
battle,” Novkov said.
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