LOCAL/STATE

The Michigan Daily - Friday, October I. 1996- 3

Animal or ans
discovere in
4e trash
A couple bags of animal organs were
discovered in garbage cans by a custo-
dian at the Art and Architecture
Building on Tuesday.
The reason the animal organs were in
the trash has not been determined,
according to Department of Public
Safety reports.
Some of the fluids in one of the bags
leaked onto the custodian's hands, and
,FS contacted Occupational Safety and
nvironmental Health officials, who
advised that there was no health risk.
OSEH officials disposed of the ani-
mal organs.
Homeless man
dumped in truck
A homeless man had a rude awaken-
early Wednesday morning when a
University refuge driver dumped him
into his truck.
The homeless man was sleeping in
the dumpster at Lane Hall when the
driver picked him up with the trash
from the site.
DPS reports said the man was con-
scious and was taken to the University
lymergency Room. He received no
injuries, according to DPS reports.
*'CR, stereo
systems stolen
VCR, stereo systems stolen from
locked rooms
A VCR ana two stereo-disc systems
were stolen from locked rooms in the
Medsport Physical Therapy Building
on Oak Valley Street.
The robbery was reported Tuesday
orning to DPS, but the caller said
bberies had occured at the building
several other times.
The stolen items include a $240
Sharp stereo-disc player, a $200 black
Toshiba VCR and a $2,207 black Sony
compact disc player. There was no sign
of forced entry involved.
Car taken from
Hill carport
A car was reported missing Tuesday
from the fourth level of Hill carport on
Hill Street.
A Toshiba laptop computer, worth
$1,300, and several school books were
inside the vehicle. It was stolen
between 4:30 and 6:35 p.m., according
to DPS reports.
Ann Arbor Police Department
ports indicate they did not impound
Me vehicle.
Caller reports
trespasser
A suspicious man stuck his head into
rooms at South Quad and asked for
football tickets Tuesday.
DPS reports said the caller did not
believe the man - who was wearing a
t k sweatshirt and dark pants - was a
iversity student.
Wallet, sign

stolen on campus
Two separate cases of robbery were
eported to DPS last Friday.
One incident involved the theft of a
"Welcome Parents" sign from the Art
d Architectiure Building on North
Campus.
According to DPS reports, the 8-
foot-by-4-foot sign was near the north-
west entrance of the building and was
removed between Sept. 27-30. DPS has
no suspects in this case.
,A wallet containing valuable items
was stolen last Friday from the Randall
Laboratory Building on East
University Avenue.
Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Anupama Reddy.

'U

charts new inforation superhighway

By Brian Campbell
Daily Staff Reporter
In collaboration with more than 30 other
research institutions, University scientists are
planning to make the Internet obsolete by develop-
ing a faster, more reliable information network.
"Today's Internet does not provide a service
adequate to support the applications universities
need to carry out their mission in education,
research and service," said Douglas Van
Houweling, vice provost for the University's
Information Technology Division.
Van Houweling said the new system, tentatively
titled Internet II, will carry information at a rate of
10 million characters per second - about 10 times

faster than the highest speeds currently reached on
today's Internet.
Eric Aueperle, president of the Merit network -
a non-profit corporation comprised of Michigan's
II public universities - said the idea for the pro-
ject began last year at a meeting in Monterey,
Calif., where representatives of academia said they
needed a more advanced system than private sector
offered to fulfill expectations for the future.
"We're attempting to formulate and direct the
plans for what higher education will need in the
coming years," Aueperele said.
Laurie Burns, associate director at ITD, said
Internet II will be a much better resource for
University faculty.

"Researchers on this campus depenid on the
Internet for their scholarly work. We've had
instances this past year where congestion has inter-
fered with accessingz critical data," she said.
"Anything we can do to open up the Internet and
make it possible for speed issues not to interfere
with their work will be helpful."
Initially, Internet II will be used primarily in
academia.
"At the beginning, Internet 11 will be dedicated to
those higher education and research institutions that
have the capability to help advance the technology
and applications involved," Van Houweling said.
But private firms - whose off-campus services
sometimes run as slow as 100 characters per second

__ ii be imv oled in sutrtnt up the new stem
"We expect to implemen the Internet (1i) in col-
laboration with the leadingi information technolo-
gy fifnms, so private firm xwill be imolved from
the beginning." Van I ouwelingz said.
Though researchers already anticipate the ben&e
fits of Internet I, the system is still in the eadlv
stages and won't be ready for at least three year,.
"Everything is in the planning stage so I don't
think anybody knows too much about what itS
going to look like:' said Gregory Marx, associate
director for online services at Merit.
The University play a lesser role in developing
Internet 11 than in the original Internet, its role w il
likely expand as the system develops.


'U' screens students
for depression

Up, up and away
Two special shape balloons, "Arky," in the shape of Noah's Ark at left, and another balloon at right, "Mi Casa, Shoe
Casa" in the shape of The Little Old Lady in The Shoe, lift-off during the 25th annual Kodak Alburquerque International
Balloon Fiesta yesterday.
Sierrvpresdent targets 'yh

By David Rossman
Daily Staff Reporter
Stressed out by school? Feeling blue
about gray days? You're not alone.
About 17 million Americans suffer
from some form of depression each
year.
While feeling down may be a passing
phase, constant feelings of stress and
loss of self-esteem could indicate clini-
cal depression - a highly treatable ill-
ness for which free screening was pro-
vided across the country yesterday.
Sponsored at the University by
Counseling and Psychological Services.
National Depression Screening Day
aimed to help students, faculty and resi-
dents of Ann Arbor evaluate their mental
health.
The site evaluated 14 students dur-
ing the five-hour event in the
Michigan League. Patients filled out a
20-questiorn survey and then evaluated
their answers with one of the profes-
sionals.
"We see whether they have depres-
sion, and then CAPS can provide brief
psychotherapy to students," said Jerry
Dowis of CAPS. "People can get help
- it's quite a treatable problem. We're
here for people who don't know where
to reach out for help."
Developed five years ago by a
Harvard University psychiatrist,
National Depression Screening Day is a
nationwide effort that seeks to inform
people about the signs and symptoms
of depression, and set patients on a
course for treatment.
National Depression Screening Day
attracted more than 80,000 people last
year.
Mental health institutions in commu-
nities across the country pay a nominal
fee to use the services provided by the
National Depression Screening Day
office, and set up their own sites any-
where from grocery stores to universi-
ties.
"The local places implement the
screening, and we take care of the
national publicity," said Joelle Reizes,
assistant director of National Depression

Screening Day. "The screenings occur in
various settings organized by local men-
tal health professionals."
Dowis attributed yesterday's low
turnout to the site's location this year, as
opposed to its location in the Michilgan
Union where more students participat-
ed in previous years.
"I noticed an advertisement. airl
immediately decided to take advanta :
of the service." said a student, wOM
declined to give her name. "I realizoe
that depression is treatable, and ir'.j
good that National Depressicr
Screening Day is offered."
For some, the thought of going to 1t
hospital or clinic to be diagnosed witih
depression is embarrassing or scare,
Reizes said.
"Depression is a very prev alent ill-
ness, but many people do not recei'0
treatment. =
"They feel that it's really a personil
weakness,' she said.
When the tension and stress from Iif
persists, psychologists say people with
clinical depression cannot simply pu.t
themselves out of it. Rather, proper
treatment helps a majority of those wlto
suffer from depression.
Even better for students, year-round
psychological counseling and treatment
is available free of charge through CAPS'
located on the third floor of the Union.
"(CAPS) can prov ide brief psyv
chotherapy," Dowis said. "We havei
psychiatrist on staff who can pt-
scribe proper medication, and provide
help."
In addition, CAPS provides relax-
ation training and stress-management
workshops, as well as confidential indi-
xidual and group counseling.
"(Depression) is not a personal
weakness" Dowis said. "People can get
help.'
Sponsored on the national level by 2.0
mental health related institutions and an
educational grant from Eli Lilly and1
Company, National Depressidn
Screening Day expects to have evaluai-
ed 100,000 people this year -- includ-
ing stressed students.

By Heather Kamins
Daily Staff Reporter
He is only 23, but University students
were lining the floor, walls and win-
dows of the Michigan League to hear
what the president had to say about
their future.
"It's our chance to say we can do it.
It's our chance to make a difference. It's
time to kick some ass. It's time to put
the nails in the
coffin of -m
Generation X,"
said Sierra Club It's t
President Adam
Werbach. put $$put
Werbach came e
to the University the of
to speak to stu- Genera
dents about
Capitol Hill and -
the environment,
as well as to SiernIC
motivate students
to vote in the upcoming presidential
and congressional elections.
"You are slackers, you're Generation
X. You think the world is all washed up.
You don't care. You're not going to do
anything," Werbach said. "Well, that is
a myth. I learned from art, music, fash-
ion, TV. Remember we've been sold
since day one. We can say we have no
substance. We can say that we are lame.
"But if we can learn in three seconds
to buy Nikes, then we can learn in three
seconds a message of substance, maybe
in three seconds a message of hope,"
Werbach said.
In order to change the image of
American youth and make a difference
for the future, Werbach said action must
be taken now.
"I truly believe that this movement
needs the injection of youth. Instead of
waiting, we need to say right now we
can make a difference. Right now we
can get in and do it," Werbach said.
The current aim of the Sierra Club is
to make a difference in the Nov. 5 elec-
tion. Werbach said that in 1994,
Congress began a "War on the

m
rig
a1

Environment," and in the last year cut
$34 million of environmental protec-
tion money. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-
Ga.) began a program, "Green Scam,"
in which the Congress members
"voted against clean water and then
pretended like they cared," Werbach
said.
As part of this program, members of
Congress were encouraged to attend
environmental
charities, clean
time TO rivers and pick
$ bO up trash.
S" N e w t
ils in Gingrich went
to the San
Diego Zoo and
in X ," a tiger threw up
on him,"
Adam Werbach Werbach said.
He warned
Cl ub president students not to
be afraid of the
government, but instead to use the
power they have to change it. He point-
ed to the environment as an example of
where the government has been "suc-
cessful."
"We have one example here of how
people working together actually made
a difference," Werbach said. "In the last
25 years things have actually gotten bet-
ter."
Werbach emphasized the importance
of speaking out against anti-environ-
mental action now.
"We are not going to take you selling
out our values. We are not going to take
you selling out our health," Werbach
said.
The Sierra Club's hope for change is
the 105th Congress, which will take
office in January of next year.
"I don't think it could be worse than
the 104th Congress. It was clear how
evil they were. The 105th Congress is
up in the air. I think there are going to
be some significant gains for the good
guys, but we still have a long way to
go," Werbach said.
Environmental Action (ENACT), a

campus environmental action group,
sponsored the event to promote politi-
cal activism.
"We want to get voters' information
on what's going on in the environment,"
said Joel Hoffman, an LSA and SNRE
sophomore. "We are trying to address
the campus crowd. (Werbach) is only
23 and he is heading up the oldest and
greatest endowed environmental orga-
nization, and he is able to make a dif-
ference."
Other students were impressed by the
notion of the Sierra Club president
being only 23-years-old.
"It is important that someone our
age, from our generation, is that influ-
ential. He is someone who can stand up.
It says a lot about our generation, about
how much we care about the environ-
ment," said LSA first-year student
Heather Wieczorek.


T Wh'agL LLNtd A
What's happening In Ann Arbor today

FRIDAY
12 "Chinese Christian Fellowship Coffee
House," sponsored by Chinese
Christian Fellowship, West Quad,
Wedge Room, 7 p.m.
J "Conversations with Courtney
Clixby," prog ramming spon-
sore d by Unions Network
TPIcviuicion channil 1 2A3 n m

noon
J Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers and Scientists, general
body meeting, 741-1908,
Michigan Union, Wolverine Room,
5 p.m.
SATURDAY
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Michigan Union Ballroom, 7-8 p.m.
beginning lesson, 8-9:30 p.m.
dance practice
J "Bread of Life - Liturgy of Holy
Communion," sponsored by
Lutheran Campus Ministr , Lord of
Light Lutheran Church, 801 South
Forest Ave., 10 a.m.
Q "Dell Dinner in the Dorm," sponsored
_by Hillel, Markley, 6 p.m.

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