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'M' football
goes trick
or treating
Mn Madison
By RYAN HERRINGTON
DAILY FOOTBALL WRITER
Another Halloween approaches
and the question still remains for the
Michigan football team as it prepares
for tomorrow's games against No. 21
Wisconsin. What costume will the
Wolverines be trick-or-treating in
against the Badgers?
Unfortunately for Michigan fans,
a spoilers' outfit might be the best the
No. 24 Wolverines (2-2 Big Ten, 4-3
Sverall) can muster.With a .500 record
t the halfway point of conference
play, Michigan can still have an im-
pact on who plays in Pasadena come
New Year's, but will be hard pressed
to get there itself.
On the other hand, the Badgers (3-
1, 6-1) are expected to arrive in
princely garb, having made quite an
impression on the rest of the confer-
ence. Off to its best start in over 30
Sears, Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez
as people believing that the Badgers
can return to the Rose Bowl for the
first time since 1963. Among the be-
lievers is Michigan coach Gary
Moeller.
"They're a good football team,"
Moeller said. "They've come up with
a lot more offense than they have had
in the past. We'll have our work cut
iut for us, but we'll go in with the
ight attitude and play hard."
However, inexperience might be
the Badgers greatest opponent as the
Big Ten race tightens toward the
stretch. With the specter of the Wol-
verine game looming a week away,
the Badgers might have been thinking
a little bit ahead of themselves last
weekend in Minneapolis as they were
upset 28-21 by Minnesota, dropping
Weir first game of the season. Alvarez
believes his team has the mental
strength to bounce back.
"It's up to us now to put that game
(Minnesota) behind us and look for-
ward," Alvarez said. "(We need to)
look from the mistakes that we made
and hopefully get some good out of
that. The job doesn't get any easier."
As for the Wolverines, the road to
qasadena took an all but fatal detour
See FOOTBALL, Page 11

Prof. sues 'U' for sex discrimination

Political science department charged with
discrimination against pregnant women

By BRYN MICKLE
DAILY STAFF REPORTER
Women at the University who
think they have been discriminated
against may have a new champion for
their cause - Jill Crystal.
Yesterday, Crystal filed two law-
suits against the University and three
of its employees, lawsuits that could
change the way women are treated at
the University.
Crystal filed the suits on her own
behalf, as well as on the behalf of all

pregnant employees of the University
and all women in the political science
department.
One of the more serious claims
alleged that the political science de-
partment chair maintains an unwrit-
ten record of allegations of sexual
harassment and sexual misconduct.
This record is allegedly transmitted
verbally between outgoing and in-
coming chairs. Crystal also claimed
the department made deliberate at-
tempts to prevent written reports of

alleged sexual improprieties.
The twin suits stem from a Febru-
ary decision made by LSA not to
grant tenure to Crystal, who is an
assistant political science professor.
Crystal charged one of the reasons
she was denied tenure is because she
is a woman.
"I think this is part of a pattern of
sexism at the University," Crystal said.
Donald Kinder, current political
science chair, did not return phone
calls about the allegations. Arlene
Saxonhouse, former department chair,
had no comment.
In both suits, Crystal claims the

University, as an institution:
violated the Eliot-Larson Civil
Rights Act, when she was denied ten-
ure by LSA;
demonstrates a clear pattern of
discrimination against women in the
department of political science; and,
allows discriminatory practices
against pregnant employees.
Yesterday, Crystal and her attor-
ney filed lawsuits in both the State of
Michigan Court of Claims and the
Washtenaw County Circuit Court.
Crystal's attorney, David Cahill
See SUIT, Page 2

Crystal

HALLOWEEN SPIRITS

Survivors of sexual assault
share stories at S peak Ou t

By MONA QURESHI
DAILY STAFF REPORTER
Some of them came with their
partners and friends. Some of them
arrivedalone. But these students and
members of the Ann Arbor commu-
nity shared a special solidarity while
exchanging stories of sexual assault
and supporting one another.
The Sexual Assault Prevention and
Awareness Center (SAPAC) held its
seventh annual Speak Out in the
Michigan Union Ballroom last night
as part of the ninth annual Sexual
Assault Awareness Week.
An estimated 450 people attended
throughout the three-hour session,
which was complemented by displays
of artwork and poetry by survivors of
sexual assault.
Hugs, roses and carnations con-
soled survivors returning to their seats
after speaking.
Jennifer, one of the survivors who
spoke on a dais in front of the crowd,
said she was raped one month after
her 14th birthday by a close male
friend at a party held at her house. It
was late, she said, and her friend did
her a huge favor by making people
leave the home.
But when he began making ad-
vances and burning her body with lit
cigarettes, she asked him to stop. He
kept telling her she wanted it, Jenni-
fer said.
"Well, I did not want it and I did

not like it," Jennifer told the crowd
last night. She said she feels guilt
about the incident in her heart, but not
in hershead. "I have to forgive my-
self," she said.
This notion of guilt and overcom-
ing guilt prevailed through the
evening. Beth, a survivor of incest
and of gang rape, said she used to feel
guilty because of what her brother
and friends did to her. Beth's brother
used to tell her that she was evil, and
she believed him, she said. She was
raped once more 10 years ago by an
ex-fiance.
But Beth explained her new phi-
losophy. "My abusers made me be-
lieve I was broken. But healing for me
has been a process to mean I'm not
broken. I'm just so excited about that.
I am whole. There is an incredible
power in me. I don't know what it is,",
she said.
Some survivors discussed the con-
cept that only bad girls get raped, but
the assault happened to them. "You
don't have to be from the back alleys.
You don't have to be provocative.
You don't have to be asking for it,"
one woman said.
Survivors also addressed the myth
that homosexuals perpetuate most
sexual assaults. One woman rose and
said, "As a lesbian and a survivor, I
know that (is not true)."
She said the University needs to
spend more resources and time work-

I have my life now.'
- Carmella
sexual assault survivor
ing on preventing sexual assault and
providing counseling services. "Why
was that money spent on guns and
arming people when all that's being
done is more harassment of people on
campus - particularly people of
color."
One woman recalled her first
husband's violation of trust through
abuse and her struggle to prosecute
him. "The court told me I could leave
my home. The court told me I could
go to a battered women's shelter," she
said. "I never expected the law
wouldn't defend me."
Counselor Kata Issari said this was
probably the largest number of first-
time speakers she has ever seen in a
SAPAC Speak Out. Issari said many
who spoke during the event gained
courage to speak after attending the
Speak Out for a few years.
Carmella brought cheers and loud
applause as she shared her strength
with the participants. She said, "That
fucking asshole, my uncle, may have
taken my youth in some ways. I have
my life now. I can control it. No
matter how freaking self-centered it
sounds, I love myself."

ANASTASIA BANICKI/Daily
A girl holds her mother's hand as she watches Pre-Med Club students
Halloween carol at Mott's Children's Hospital. See related story, page 5.

Ann Arbor City Council Elections A
This is the last in a series of Ann Arbor City Council candidate profiles. On Tuesday, Ann Arbor residents will elect one council member from
each of the city's five wards. The Daily will provide a preview of the election and voting information for students next week. ote H7

y JAMES NASH
AILY STAFF REPORTER
U 3rd Ward:
Haldon Smith (Democrat): In
his first campaign for elective office,
Smith espouses a mix of fiscal re-
straint and environmental activism.
This balance may be best illus-
trated in his
approach to
*leaning up
the Ann Arbor,
which leaks a
potential car-
cinogen into
the .zni1 The

port even a marginal increase in Ann
Arbor's property tax rate, Blackman
offers a simple answer, "No."
Blackman, who believes the coun-
cil should oversee rather than manage
city affairs, proclaims, "It's too easy
for govern-N
ment to jump
in and say,
'Let's raise a
taxes.
This can-
didate, who is.
president of
the Colonial
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label doesn't seem to bother him.
"I am an independent thinker,"
Nicolas says. "I don't always have
to follow the party line."
Ni colas
proposes lim-
iting city- ex-
p e ns es
through a
combination4
of wage
freezes and
employee at-
trition. "We
won't have to resort to a new tax,"
says Nicolas, who himself took a
salary freeze as a University em-
nloveae_ icolas, savs his sttusn a

Renken speaks in favor of pre-
serving police and fire services. And
she wants to build ties with the Uni-
versity. She has proposed a 3-percent
across-the-board cut in city spending
to balance the budget.
Renken's record of community in-
volvement dates back 35 years. The
Eastern Michigan University alum is
the president of the Friends of U-M
Hospitals and is active in the Habitat
for Humanity.
Brian Chambers (Green):
Although he has never run for
elective office, Chambers boasts a
long record of liberal activism.
In 107 he ioined Packard Road

"It is important to lessen the bur-
den that Ann Arbor residents have
because of the University."
Pat Burkard (Tisch): Burkard,
who ran for the Michigan House of
Representatives in 1992, could not
be reached for comment.
U Ward 5:
Kent Hyne (Libertarian):
Crime, taxes and regulation top
Hyne's agenda. Running in a ward
with no Republican candidate to split
the conservative vote, Hyne says his
candidacy has drawn much support
frnm Renublicans

Hyne says University-city rela-
tions have been dictated too much
by emotion.
Christopher Kolb (Democrat):
The party activist, who lost his first
election bid in 1989, figures his
chances are better this time. Be-
cause of a realignment of wards,
Kolb now finds himself free from
major-party opposition.
Still, he's taking nothing for
granted. "I'm taking the campaign
door to door," says the candidate,
who prides himself on being ap-
proachable to
voters.
Ann Arbor