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Symposium to
address genoncs
research today
Recent discoveries related to the
-tiuman Genome Project as well as
other genomic research will be present-
.,d in a genomics symposium today.
The goal of genomics research is to
:determine the position and function of
all genes for a particular species.
Of the few organisms whose
genomes already have been mapped,
humans are not one of them. However,
a number of University researchers
ve predicted that the Human
enome Project may be completed as
early as 2010.
The talks begin at 8:15 a.m. and con-
clude at 4:30 p.m. All lectures/discus-
sions will be conducted in the Dow
Auditorium of the Towsley Center at
the Medical School.
Real, 3D image
echnology to be
opic of lecture
The future of holography is the 'sub-
ject of a lecture being given by EECS
professor Emmet Leith this afternoon.
The lecture, titled "Image Formation
through Highly Scattering Media using
Electronic Holography," will being at
4:30 p.m. in room 1200 of the EECS
building.
lesearcher to
',talk about the
origins of sex
The notion that sex in animals
evolved as a result of parasite evasion is
controversial - so the Institute of
Social Research is expecting a large
turnout for this afternoon's presenta-
on, titled "The Parasite Theory of
exuality: The Current Position."
Proponents of the hypothesis con-
tend that physiological differences
between the sexes make infection
less likely in one than the other,
ensuring the ultimate survival of the
species.
Visiting zoologist William Hamilton
of Oxford University will deliver the
special lecture in room 1324 of East
all at 4 pm.
Id tools can be
used for current
veseach
Jerry Urquhart of the Center for
,Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences will
talk about gleaning information from
the environment in a lecture titled
ginswering ecological questions with
aleoecological methods."
Urquhart will discuss the growing
repertoire of tools - usually used to
,reveal the ecology of the past - that
rcn be used to study current ecological
conditions.
Urquhart's lecture will take place on
Tuesday, in room 2003 of the Natural
Sciences Building at noon.
Giant extinction
vent rivaled
dinosaurs end
Paleontologist and author Richard
;x amback will discuss the single most
-Bbtense extinction event in Earth's his-
jory next Tuesday.
The Permian Extinction, as it is
P lled by scientists, marks the end of
the Paleozoic era 250 million years ago
When reptiles were dominant. Many
scientists believe the Permian
Extinction was grander in scale than
even the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinc-
tions that wiped out the dinosaurs
about 65 million years ago.
Bamback, of Virginia Polytechnic
, Ipstitute, will deliver his lecture at 8
p.m. in Rackham Auditorium.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
David Bricker
Shooting victim at EMU in good condition
By Stephanie Hepburn
Daily Staff Reporter
YPSILANTI - Aaron Patterson, a
25-year-old Eastern Michigan
University sophomore who was shot
twice in the chest Monday, was
released from St. Joseph's Hospital
yesterday at 12:49 p.m.
Patterson was released in good con-
dition.
EMU spokesperson Pamela Young
said police believe Patterson was target-
ed specifically.
"Police believe the victim may have
been acquanted with the assailants,"
Young said. "The investigation is ongo-
ing, tips keep coming in, but not every-
thing is concrete yet.'
Young was shot outside the Margaret
Wise residence hall on Eastern
Michigan's campus.
"All we know is that Patterson was
approached or just shot by two sus-
pects," Young said. "Patterson ran or
walked after being shot, and someone
drove him off in the car that he had been
previously driving, a Ford, white
Expedition Jeep."
According to John McAuliffe, chief
of EMU's Department of Public Safety,
police are looking for two suspects who
fired between two and five shots at
Patterson, two of which entered
Patterson's chest.
The suspects were both male. One is
described as 6-foot-2 with a thin build.
He was wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt
and baseball cap. The second suspect
was 170 pounds, wearing a white tank
top and black shorts. The assailants fled
on foot.
State police arrived on the scene with
a tracking dog, but were unable to
locate the suspects.
"Patterson decided to leave the
UIniversity Tuesday. We are unaware of
the reasons behind this decision,"
Young said.
Eastern Michigan's security levels
have maintained their normal status
since the shooting.
"We have a strong safety program
here at Eastern Michigan," Young said.
"This was an isolated incident and that
made aill the difterence. Something like
this 11asn't happened in six years. This is
not the norm."
First-yier student Mike Papsidero
said that t wo days after the shooting, the
campus ha calmed down.
"Everything is back to normal.
There isn't even more security than
before the shooting," Papsidero said.
"People talked about it on Monday,
but no one is really talking about it
anymore, which is weird. ... but so
many people have other things going
on that this incident didn't have the
biggest impact."
First-year student Jennifer
Cantwell said she was shocked by the
shooting.
"It wasn't dark. It happened before
six," Cantwell said. "I still feel pretty
safe. There are lights everywhere.
Police are always around."
A candlelight vigil took place yester-
day outside an eatery near the scene of
the shooting. Students said they have no
tolerance for the violence.
Antione Sharpless, a vigil organiz-
er, said that words of police and the
presence of faculty at the vigil reas-
sured students that they are safe on
campus.
"DPS reassured us that this was an
isolated incident," Sharpless said.
"Violence is not just limited to a certain
group of people. EMU has zero toler-
ance to violence."
Groups denounce
domestic violence
By Neal-Lepsetz
For the Daily
Sixty-five white T-shirts hung on a
clothesline and gently swayed in the
wind in front of the Ann Arbor City
Hall and Police Department yesterday.
Each shirt represented a woman in
Michigan who was killed by domestic
violence in 1996. The clothesline
wrapped around a tree, under which lay
a stone commemorating the "The Great
Peace March" of 1980 and dubbing it as
"The Peace Tree."
The shirts were included in a nation-
al event called "Stop All Violence
Everywhere" Day, sponsored by the
American Medical Association
Alliance to combat a major health crisis
- violence.
Focusing on domestic violence in
particular, the organization hopes to
increase awareness and the options
available for victims.
"Maybe this will be the first step to
ameliorating the situation," said Zena
Brovins, former president of the
Washtenaw Medical Society Alliance.
Pamphlets were handed out and
placed in women's restrooms and doc-
tor's waiting rooms around Ann Arbor.
The issue hit close to home recently
with the murder of LSA senior Tamara
Williams by her boyfriend. According
to statistics compiled by the AMAA,
three to four million women are bat-
tered each year by husbands and part-
ners, making it the most common
cause of injury to women in the United
States.
One woman passing by the T-shirts
told her story of domestic violence. Ten
years ago, Dawn Hester moved back to
her hometown in Michigan from
Colorado to escape an abusive marriage.
Hester said her husband was a "con-
trol freak" and didn't allow her to have
friends. Constantly getting fat lips,
black eyes, and even held at gunpoint,
Hester said she snuck out to prevent
him from finding her.
"It still affects me," Hester said. "I
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the keynote speaker and student coordi-
nator of peer education for SAPAC.
DeVaney, an LSA senior, said working
with survivors is challenging, but worth
the effort.
"It's different to do this kind of work
because you don't see immediate results
- you have to be committed long term,"
DeVaney said. "I'm hoping the vigil will
remind people that domestic violence is
an ongoing problem."
In her speech to the crowd, DeVaney
drew on her own experiences to encour-
age others to "end the silence.'
"I remember SAPAC reaching out to
me ... it was like the bursting of a dam"'
she said.
DeVaney told the crowd to "never ever
ignore violence."
"We must reclaim the silence as some-
thing ... powerful and chosen;' she said.
Interim SAPAC Director Sarah Heuser
was the opening speaker. "We invite the
spirit of those lost in the struggle, the spir-
it of those still involved with the struggle,
and spirit of those who will struggle"
never experienced violence until I got
married." Hester said she still experi-
ences sleeping problems and gets
scared if anyone raises their voice at
her.
Hester stayed with her parents for
awhile. She got a divorce and moved to
Ann Arbor when she realized her hus-
band also had moved to her Michigan
hometown.
Hester now does data entry for the
Ann Arbor Police Department, where
she sees people every day arrested for
domestic violence.
"I wish there was something I could
do," Hester said. "There's a lot of us out
there."
Hester later discovered that her ex-
husband remarried and was beating his
second wife as well.
"The part that gets me angry (is) the
women that don't get away... You can
always get away," she said. "I'm just
sorry that one girl who died last week
couldn't get away"
Among the resources handed out was
a list of agencies that provide assistance
to individuals dealing with domestic
violence. In Ann Arbor, places like
SAFE House and the SOS Crisis
Center provide counseling and shelter
to victims.
In addition to violence against
women, "SAVE Today" participants
tried to make people aware of the
amount of child abuse cases in the
nation. According to AMAA statistics,
nearly two million children are abused
and neglected each week - 1,000 die
as a result of the abuse.
The AMAA, consisting of physi-
cians' spouses, works to support and
raise funds for community health pro-
jects. Beginning in 1995, "SAVE
Today" occurs on the second
Wednesday of October and is part of a
month-long campaign against violence.
"I'm glad to see all the exposure,"
Hester said before she left. "We didn't
have this where I'm from."
Heuser said.
Ken Blochowski, LGBTA interim
director, spoke about the lack of domestic
violence progratns and cited new statis-
tics on violence in the LGBT community.
"It could have been all too easy for us
to ignore this opportunity given the
opportunities we've had together in
recent weeks," Blochowski said. "It is
especially important for us to recognize
Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
and we are pleased to have played a part
in that."
Lore Rogers, legal advice director at
SAFE House, reminded the crowd that
their "awareness of domestic violence
was tragically increased two weeks ago"
with the death of LSA senior Tamara
Williams.
Rogers talked about typical abuses and
excuses, as well as differing counseling
options.
Many in attendance said the vigil was
the first they had attended.
"One of my friends is in SAPAC and I
wanted to support what they stand for,"
said LSA senior Roger Huang. "(The
vigil) is something different I haven't
experienced."
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LOWUS BROWN/Daily
Colleen Mulligan looks at a "now hiring" sign hung outside Brueggers Bagels on North UniversIty Ave Many Ann Arbor
businesses are looking for help, and a low local unemployment rate is making employees scarce.
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unempoyment hits 2 perCent
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By Peter Meyers
Daily Staff Repo. ter
Among Ann Arbor's coffee shops,
book stores, T-shirt shops and restau-
rants, the owners are hiring.
Unemployment in Ann Arbor
dropped to a record-breaking 2.1 per-
cent in September. In fact, local
employers are having trouble filling
their open job positions.
"It's a double-edged sword," said
Nathan Voght, a site selection analyst
with the Washtenaw Development
Council. "We're obviously happy that
the economy is doing so well. It's a
problem in the sense of finding
employees."
Economists generally agree that
the ideal rate of unemployment is
about 5 percent.
Businesses around Ann Arbor are
especially having problems finding
part-time workers. "Everybody is
short. It certainly is a job-seeker's mar-
ket," said Thomas Heywood, director
of the State Street Association.
Vinod Sharma, general manager of
Bruegger's Bagel Bakery, said "stu-
dents would rather eat than work at
lunch."
In addition to the enormous
"Bruegger's Fresh Bagel Bakery:
Now Hiring!" sign that hangs in front
of his shop, Sharma said he has gone
to great lengths to attract more stu-
dent workers. Starting wages at
Bruegger's have risen to $6.50 or $7,
he said, well above the minimum
wage of $4.75 an hour.
Voght said that wages are up
throughout the area. "You can expect
to pay (employees)10 to 20 percent
more in this county than you would
somewhere else," he said.
Sharma also tried to make his busi-
ness appealing to student workers in
other ways.
"Parking is always an issue,"
Sharma said. Because of this,
Bruegger's now maintains an
employees-only parking lot. He also
tries to be flexible with scheduling,
he said, so students can work their
jobs around classes.
But some students still are looking
for work. Engineering sophomore
Amanda Paige is searching, but has-
n't yet found a job she wants.
"I'm looking for one that will fit
around my schedule, that's not exces-
sively labor intensive, but not where
you sit on your butt for hours and
hours," Paige said.
Heywood said Ann Arbor has
some unusual conditions that make
finding workers difficult. Most
employment is in the retail and ser-
vice industries, which requires a lot
of "human capital," he said. This
increases the labor demand.
Heywood also said Ann Arbor is
unique because University students
made up most of the labor pool. "You
don't have a lot of part-time help
because you don't have a lower socio-
economic class" he said.
Economics Prof. Charles Brown
said ultra-low unemployment hits
some businesses harder than others.
"Fast food places are used to high
turnover," Brown said, adding that
these businesses worry less about
their employees being lured away
by. other employers. "But if you're
hiring one person in a context
where you're going to be training
them for a period of time, then
things get worse."
Brown also characterized the low
labor market as a place where the,
overall stakes of being in business are
higher.
"On the one hand, it becomes more;
difficult to produce a product of good
quality, but the rewards for doing so
increase" Brown said.
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