Page 6-The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition-Thursday, September 10, 1992 SAPAC head selection spurs controversy on U-M campus " by Karen Talaski Daily Gender Issues Reporter The U-M community is split over the decision to hire Debra Cain as the new di- rector of the Sexual Ass it Prevention and ,Awareness Center (SAPAC). Committee -aenmbers and an ad-hoc group have protested the decision criticizing Cain's ensitivity to certain issues. Cain was hired after an extensive search o replace former director Julie Steiner, -who resigned in November. Kata Issari, a -SAPAC counselor who served as interim .director and was among the two final can- ':idates for the job, will continue her coun- eling duties at the center. Cain started as SAPAC director September 1. Before coming to the U-M, 'she spent 15 years as the executive director of Help Against Violent Encounters Now (HAVEN) - a non-profit sexual assault and domestic violence agency for Oakland County. Search committee member and ;Rackham graduate student Colin Leach expressed his shock at the decision to hire ,Cain. "I think Debra Cain has done a won- derful job at HAVEN. I don't think anyone would question that. "But the committee agreed by consen- sus that Kata Isarri was the first recom- mendation for the job," Leach continued. -"Debra has crisis intervention experience, -but she is centainly not a counselor." 'A~a student, I wanted someone who students would find approachable... SAPAC members and staff expressed discomfort with how (Cain) related with them.' -- Colin Leach SAPAC Search committee member wanted someone who students would find approachable," Leach said. "SAPAC mem- bers and staff expressed discomfort with how (Cain) related with them." "The committe felt that Kata was the best candidate to hire," Leach said. "No one had more experience in counseling that her." Cain was also accused in a letter sent over electronic mail by a group calling it- self the Committee to Preserve the Intregity of SAPAC of falling short of the job re- quirements because she did not receive her Masters degree in a social service field, but rather in administration. Search committee chair Delores Sloan replied to the message in a written state- ment supporting the appointment of Cain. Sloan said she was "proud of the way the search was handled and the appointment of Debra Cain." Interfraternity Council President Bruce Namerow, who served on the search com- mittee for the new SAPAC director, said the decision to hire Cain was the right one. "Debra Cain wowed us in the interview, and she is so qualified and so well known," Namerow said. Leach suggested in a meeting held yes- terday with Sloan and Hartford that "the best way to serve the people of the univer- sity was to take advantage of these two wonderful people (Cain and Issari)," by making them co-directors. Leach said he was concerned not only because of Cain's lack of experience, but because she will be responsible for SAPAC's back-up beeper. "The center is open from 9 to 5 week- days. But at night and on the weekends, the director as well as the counselors wear a beeper in case of an emergency," Leach said. "Debra Cain lives 45 minutes away in West Bloomfield and has no immediate plans to move to this area." Another concern was that Cain does not have experince working with students or people of ethnic diversity. 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