IN BRIEF
Week of events celebrates
National Coming Out Day
University organizations are host
ing events throughout the week to
celebrate the 18th annual National
Coming Out Day.
National Coming Out Day is cele
brated every Oct. 11 to mark the an
niversary of the 1987 march in Wash
ington, D.C. for lesbian and gay rights,
according to the Human Rights Cam
paign. Each year since, thousands of
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
people and supporters have celebrated
the day in schools, churches and busi
nesses nationwide through work
shops, speeches and rallies.
The following events will take
place on campus this week:
Monday
• Queer Bingo in the EMU Fir
Room at 7 p.m. Free snacks are pro
vided and prizes will be awarded.
Tuesday
• National Coming Out Day rally
at the EMU Amphitheater at 1 p.m.
The rally will feature guest speak
ers, resource tables and the “coming
out closet.”
• Standing Committee LGBT Social
from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., providing
students with an opportunity to meet
with faculty, staff and students who
are LGBT and supporters in the Ger
linger Lounge.
• National Coming Out Day
dance from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the
EMU fishbowl.
Wednesday
• Screening of “TransGeneration”
from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the EMU
Board Room. “TransGeneration” is
a documentary series that follows
students changing genders at four
different colleges over the course of
a school year, capturing their
setbacks and triumphs as they bal
ance the challenges of academia,
campus life and family with their
gender changes.
• Screening of “Brother to Broth
er” in the EMU Fir Room at 6 p.m.
“Brother to Bother” is a drama that
looks back on the Harlem Renais
sance from the perspective of an
elderly, black writer who meets a
gay teenager in a New York home
less shelter.
Thursday
• “Coming Out,” a brown-bag
lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in the
Women’s Center, EMU Suite 3.
• “Guess the STR8 RA” in the Bean
West Lounge in University Housing
Bean Complex, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
— Brittni McClenahan
Pakistani villagers search
for survivors after quake
BALAKOT, Pakistan — Villagers
desperate to find survivors dug with
bare hands Sunday through the de
bris of a collapsed school where chil
dren had been heard crying beneath
the rubble after a massive earthquake
killed more than 20,000 people.
Pakistani officials said the toll
could go higher, and a provincial offi
cial in Kashmir said more than
30,000 died in that province alone.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf
called Saturday’s magnitude-7.7
earthquake the country’s worst on
record and appealed for urgent help,
particularly cargo helicopters to reach
remote areas cut off by landslides. Ri
val India, which reported more than
600 dead, offered assistance.
A Pentagon spokeswoman said
American officials were determining
what assistance could be provided.
The U.S.-led coalition in
Afghanistan said Washington had
not instructed it to provide help,
while a NATO spokesman said the
mission was not allowed to operate
outside Afghanistan.
Late effort to win Sunni
support for Iraq's charter
BAGHDAD, Iraq — With U.S. me
diation, Shiite Muslim and Kurdish
officials negotiated with Sunni Arab
leaders Sunday over possible last
minute additions to Iraq’s proposed
constitution, trying to win Sunni
support ahead of next weekend’s
crucial referendum.
But the sides remained far apart
over basic issues — including the fed
eralism that Shiites and Kurds insist
on, but that Sunnis fear will lead to
the country’s eventual break-up. And
copies of the constitution were al
ready being passed out to the public.
Though major attacks in the insur
gent campaign to disrupt the referen
dum have waned in recent days, vio
lence killed 13 Iraqis Sunday.
In one attack, masked gunmen in
police commando uniforms burst into
a school in the northern town of
Samarra, pulled a Shiite teacher out of
his classroom and shot him dead in
the hallway as students watched from
their desks, police said. A suicide car
bomb killed a woman and a child in
the southern city of Basra.
A U.S. Marine was killed by a road
side bomb in the town of Ramadi,
west of Baghdad, on Saturday, the
military announced.
NYC terror plot threat
remains unconfirmed
NEW YORK — A reported plot
to bomb city subways with remote
controlled explosives has not been
corroborated after days of investiga
tion, law-enforcement officials said
Sunday amid an easing sense
of concern.
Interrogations of suspects cap
tured in Iraq last week after an in
formant’s tip about bomb-laden
suitcases and baby carriages have
yet to yield evidence that the plot
was real, officials said.
“The intelligence community has
been able to determine that there are
very serious doubts about the credi
bility of this specific threat,” Home
land Security Department spokesman
Russ Knocke said. “This is after on
going review and analysis. ”
Homeland Security officials have
been skeptical about the threat
since it was publicly announced
Thursday, but officials who were
more assertive about the potential
danger last week also appeared to
be softening their assessment.
Miers faces questions
about abortion, privacy
WASHINGTON — As doubts grow
about her abortion views, Harriet
Miers will face vigorous questioning
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on privacy rights and her qualifica
tions for the Supreme Court, the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee said Sunday.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said
President Bush’s pick to replace retir
ing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
must show she can handle compli
cated legal issues and has not cut
deals with the White House to over
turn Roe v. Wade.
Miers’ nomination has caused
division among conservatives, and
a leader of the right said he will not
be satisfied until it is clear whether
Miers, a longtime Bush confidante
who has never been a judge, would
overturn the 1973 landmark
abortion ruling.
“You can be an evangelical and
you can be self-described pro-life.
But it doesn’t tell us what she will
do about a decision like Roe that
has been set in stone now for over
30 years. And that’s the rub,” said
Gary Bauer, president of the Ameri
can Values Coalition.
New Orleans police hit
64-year-old man on tape
NEW ORLEANS — Two New Or
leans police officers repeatedly
punched a 64-year-old man accused
of public intoxication, and another
city officer assaulted an Associated
Press Television News producer as a
cameraman taped the confrontations.
There will be a criminal investiga
tion, and the three officers were to be
suspended, arrested and charged
with simple battery Sunday, Capt.
Marlon Defillo said.
“We have great concern with what
we saw this morning,” Defillo said af
ter he and about a dozen other high
ranking police department officials
watched the APTN footage Sunday.
“It’s a troubling tape, no doubt about
it. ... This department will take im
mediate action.”
The assaults come as the depart
ment, long plagued by allegations of
brutality and corruption, struggles
with the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina and the resignation last month
of Police Superintendent
Eddie Compass.
Guatemala declares
landslide areas cemeteries
GUATEMALA CITY — Dozens of
foreign tourists fled devastated lake
side Mayan towns on foot and by hel
icopter Sunday as Guatemalan offi
cials said they would abandon
communities buried by landslides
and declare them mass graveyards.
Villagers who had swarmed over
the vast mudslides with shovels and
axes digging for hundreds of missing
gave up the effort Sunday, five days
after Hurricane Stan made landfall on
the Gulf of Mexico coast, bringing
torrential rains before weakening to a
tropical depression.
More than 640 people died and
hundreds more were missing across
Central America and southern Mexi
co after a week of rains. In hardest-hit
Guatemala, 519 bodies had been re
covered and reburied. Some 338 were
listed as missing.
“Panabaj will no longer exist,” said
Mayor Diego Esquina, referring to the
Mayan lakeside hamlet in Guatemala
covered by a half-mile-wide mudflow
as much as 15 to 20 feet deep. “We
are asking that it be declared a ceme
tery. We are tired. We no longer know
where to dig.”
FBI may relax hiring policy
regarding drug use
WASHINGTON — The FBI, famous
for its straight-laced crime-fighting im
age, is considering whether to relax its
hiring rules over how often applicants
could have used marijuana or other il
legal drugs earlier in life.
Some senior FBI managers have
been deeply frustrated that they
could not hire applicants who
acknowledged occasional marijuana
use in college, but in some cases al
ready perform top-secret work at oth
er government agencies, such as the
CIA or State Department.
FBI Director Robert Mueller will
make the final decision. “We can’t say
when or if this is going to happen, but
we are exploring the possibility,”
spokesman Stephen Kodak said.
The change would ease limits
about how often — and how many
years ago — applicants for jobs such
as intelligence analysts, linguists,
computer specialists, accountants
and others had used illegal drugs.
Driverless VW wins
$2 million robot race
PRIMM, Nev. — A driverless Volk
swagen won a $2 million race across
the rugged Nevada desert Sunday,
beating four other robot-guided vehi
cles that completed a Pentagon-spon
sored contest aimed at making war
fare safer for humans.
The race displayed major techno
logical leaps since last year’s inaugu
ral race, when none of the self-driv
ing vehicles crossed the finish line.
Stanley the VW Touareg, designed
by Stanford University, zipped through
the 132-mile Mojave Desert course in
six hours and 53 minutes Saturday, us
ing only its computer brain and sen
sors to navigate rough and twisting
desert and mountain trails. The Stan
ford team celebrated by popping
champagne and pouring it over the
mud-covered Stanley.
“This car, to me, is really a piece of
history,” Stanford computer scientist
Sebastian Thrun said after receiving
an oversized check for the $2 million
prize, funded by taxpayers. He said
he did not know how he would
spend the money, but joked that he
needed to buy cat food.
—The Associated Press
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