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Lawmakers considering final
fate of Rosa Parks' remains
BY KEN THOMAS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Black civil
rights pioneer Rosa Parks would be
come the first woman to lie in honor
in the Capitol Rotunda under reso
lutions considered Thursday by
lawmakers.
Parks’ refusal to give up her bus
seat to a white man in Montgomery,
Ala., in 1955 led to a 381-day boy
cott of the city’s bus system and
helped spark the modern civil rights
movement. She died Monday in
Detroit at age 92.
The Senate approved a resolution
Thursday allowing her remains to
lie in honor in the Rotunda on Sun
day and Monday “so that the citi
zens of the United States may pay
their last respects to this great
American.” The House was expect
ed to consider the resolution Friday.
In most cases, only presidents,
members of Congress and military
commanders have been permitted
to lie in the Rotunda.
Parks would be the first woman
and second black American to re
ceive the accolade. Jacob J. Chest
nut, one of two Capitol police
officers fatally shot in 1998, was
the first black American to lie
in honor, said Senate historian
Richard Baker.
Parks also would be the second
non-governmental official to be
commemorated that way. The re
mains of Pierre L’Enfant — the
French-bom architect who was re
sponsible for the design of Washing
ton, D.C. — stopped at the Capitol
in 1909, 84 years after his death
in 1825.
The most recent person to lie in
repose in the Capitol was President
Reagan in 2004.
Officials with the Rosa & Ray
mond Parks Institute for Self Devel
opment in Detroit said at one point
that Parks would lie in repose at the
Lincoln Memorial. The National
Park Service, however, said those
plans were never formalized.
Lila Cabbil, the institute’s presi
dent emeritus, said Thursday the in
formation was released premature
ly and the foundation and the Parks
family were working with Reps.
John Conyers and Carolyn Cheeks
Kilpatrick, D-Mich., and the White
House to make arrangements to
have a viewing in Washington.
The Capitol event was one of
several planned to honor the civil
rights pioneer. Parks will lie in re
pose Saturday at the St. Paul AME
Church in Montgomery, Ala., and a
memorial service will be held at the
church Sunday morning.
Following her viewing in the
Capitol, a memorial service was
planned for Monday at St. Paul
AME Church in Washington.
From Monday night until
Wednesday morning, Parks will lie
in repose at the Charles H. Wright
Museum of African American Histo
ry in Detroit. Her funeral will be
Wednesday at Greater Grace Temple
Church in Detroit.
Officials in Detroit and Mont
gomery, Ala., meanwhile, said the
first seats of their buses would
be reserved as a tribute to Parks’
legacy until her funeral next week.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
put a black ribbon Thursday on the
first passenger seat of one of about
200 buses where seats will
be reserved.
“We cannot do enough to pay
tribute to someone who has so posi
tively impacted the lives of millions
across the world,” Kilpatrick said.
IN BRIEF
ASUO distributes
Halloween safety bags
Student government and other
campus organizations have been
distributing bags filled with con
doms, keychains, candy and infor
mational flyers in preparation for
Halloween weekend.
The bags are designed to “prevent
unnecessary behavior over the Hal
loween weekend,” ASUO Campus
Outreach Coordinator Cassandra Day
wrote in an e-mail.
Brochures will describe how to
throw a responsible party and dis
cuss students’ rights when dealing
with police.
The University decided to make
and distribute the bags after previous
Halloween riots, Day said.
The University “felt a responsibili
ty to show we do care about Eugene
community,” she said.
Bags will be distributed by
hand on campus and in neighbor
hoods with a high percentage of
student residents.
— Katy Gagnon
Miers withdraws Supreme
Court nomination
WASHINGTON — In a striking
defeat for President Bush, White
House counsel Harriet Miers with
drew her nomination to the
Supreme Court on Thursday after
three weeks of brutal criticism from
fellow conservatives. The Senate’s
top Republican predicted a replace
ment candidate within days.
Miers said she abandoned her
quest for confirmation instead of giv
ing in to Senate demands for docu
ments and information detailing her
private advice to the president.
Senior lawmakers on the Senate
Judiciary Committee said they had
made no such request. Instead, Re
publicans and Democrats said poli
tics forced her to withdraw, particu
larly the demands of Republican
conservatives who twice elected
Bush and now seek to move the high
court to the right on abortion and
other issues.
“They had a litmus test and Harriet
Miers failed that test,” said Sen. Ed
ward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,
“In effect, she was denied due
process by members of her own
party,” said Sen. John Warner, a
Virginia Republican.
Bush, beset by poor poll ratings,
an unpopular war in Iraq, high en
ergy prices and the possibility of
indictments of White House offi
cials, offered no hint about his
thinking on a new nominee. He
pledged to make an appointment in
a “timely manner.”
White House aides await
fate in CIA leak probe
WASHINGTON — Special Counsel
Patrick Fitzgerald huddled with his
legal team Thursday as two key
White House aides awaited their fate
in the CIA leak probe.
A spokesman for the prosecutor
said there would be no public an
nouncements Thursday. The term of
the grand jury that could bring indict
ments expires Friday.
The White House braced for the
possibility that Vice President Dick
Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis
“Scooter” Libby, could become a
criminal defendant by week’s end.
Bush’s top political adviser, Karl
Rove, remained in jeopardy of being
charged with false statements.
Libby and Rove arrived for work at
the White House on Thursday as
usual. Rove attended the daily meet
ing of the senior staff, but Libby did
not and was said to be in a security
briefing. Libby misses senior staff
about half the time because of intel
ligence briefings and other issues on
Cheney’s schedule, an official said.
—The Associated Press
Hip-hop: Fan-base is multigenerational
Continued from page 1
uate recorded his first Jewish rap
track, “Go Down Moses, Let My
People Flow,” adapted from a tradi
tional Jewish song. Gutstadt then
shared it with Ritterman, who be
came the band’s co-founder.
“We’re very excited to have
Jonathan back at Hillel,” said Ore
gon Hillel Executive Director Hal
Applebaum. “He was very involved
with Hillel and when we discovered
what he was doing with Hip-Hop
Shabbat, we invited him to come up
and perform.”
As a regular at Shabbat services,
Gutstadt credits his Hillel experi
ence as the foundation for the
group’s album.
OJG’s album includes the prayers
from an entire Shabbat service, ad
ditional songs and some “Passover
bonus tracks.” The group performs
at Hillels, synagogues and Jewish
community centers in the Bay Area
and has also played in Houston, Los
Angeles and Oregon.
All OJG members have lived in
Israel for an extended period of time
to get in touch with their roots and
traditions, said Ritterman.
“People from all generations can
come out to see us,” Ritterman said.
“Some of the most positive feed
back we’ve received has come from
people in their 50s, 60s and 70s. It’s
not unusual to see everyone out of
their seats shaking, dancing
and moving.”
OJG members have encountered
their share of people who weren’t
as receptive to their adaptations of
traditional prayers.
“We were at a (Reform Judaism)
summer camp in Oregon and some
people were offended and walked
out,” Ritterman said. “We’re actual
ly learning as we go and singing
these songs, we need to be careful
of how we sing it.”
For more information or to listen
to the group’s music, go to
www.hiphopshabbat.com.
Contact the people,
culture, faith reporter at
bmcclenahan@ dailyemerald. com