LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 11, 2001- 3 Faculty to air concerns on bylaw changes Burglar discusses p stealing purse in West Quad room A female West Quad resident said a man entered her room and took her wallet from her purse while she was in bed Saturday afternoon, according to Department of Public Safety reports. When she confronted the man, he fled the room. The resident said she believes some- one involved in the robbery was in the hallway during the incident. She said the person might have been in her room 40 minutes before when she was asleep. While she was half asleep, she heard a voice say "just take the purse."~ The man is described as an 18 to 19- year-old black man with short hair, a thin build and dark complexion. He was wearing a black, long-sleeved sweater or t-shirt. Police were unable to locate the sus- pect or conclude if the incident is con- nected to other larcenies. DPS is conducting an investigation. Bus driver spots suspect in home invasion incident A University commuter bus driver said a person on his bus Sunday evening fit the description of a sus- pect involved in a home invasion incident, according to DPS reports. The bus driver contacted DPS while driving on Catherine Street and made a stop at Fuller Field to drop the suspect off with Ann, Arbor Police. DPS issued a crime alert last week for one or possibly two home invasion suspects. Beer bottles break street lights near West Quad Beer bottles thrown from West Quad Residence Hall damaged several street lights along the South Side of the Michigan Union on Thursday after- noon, according to DPS reports. Police received a report of one broken light last Monday. DPS had no suspects. Subway employee reports stolen pop A person alerted police of a larce-, ny from the Subway restaurant in the Michigan Union Friday after- noon, DPS reports state. An unknown person had walked up to the drink dispenser and had taken some without paying. DPS had no suspects. Gifts for charity missing from charity collection Several gifts designated for charity were discovered missing Thursday afternoon, DPS reports state. The items were stored in the mailroom and were taken sometime Wednesday night. DPS did not report having any sus- pects. Vandals cause $20,000 damage to Rackham R Contractors for Rackham Graduate Building said the basement area had been vandalized Saturday morning, according to DPS reports. Police found a cyclone fence and a doorway had been destroyed. Several walls, floors; and countertops had been spray paint- ed. Damage was estimated between $5,000 and $20,000. DPS had no suspects. * Unattended wallet stolen from Grad A woman told police her wallet was stolen from a Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library second-floor study room last Tuesday morning, DPS reports state. She said she left her wallet unattended for 10 minutes. The wallet contained $105. DPS had no suspects. - Compiled by Daily StaffReporter Jacquelyn Nixon. By ShannPettypiece Daily Staff Reporter Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs Chair Moji Navvab is expected to ask the University's Board of Regents at its meeting Thursday to not approve proposed changes to the bylaws for the Board in Control of Intercol- legiate Athletics. The members of SACUA said they are against the changes proposed by University President Lee Bollinger because they would make the bylaws inconsistent with current practices at other Big Ten institutions and more time is needed to clarify the bylaws intent. "Yes, there has been discussion, but discussion between us and the president, because of time, was never finished," said history Prof. Rudi Lindiner. SACUA has met with Bollinger on several occa- sions to discuss the proposed bylaw changes, but as several members said at last week's meeting, they do not believe what is written in the bylaw changes being proposed is a reflection of Bollinger's intent. "I got the impression he hadn't carefully read them over," said John Riebesell, a natural sciences professor at the University's Dearborn campus. "I don't want him to be requesting this to the regents when he hasn't read them carefully." Members of SACUA said if Bollinger's true intent for changing the bylaws is to bring the Board in Control closer to the current practices at other Big Ten institutions, he would have appointed a faculty member as chair. "We are concerned that if the president wishes to bring us in line with the Big Ten then we should be in line and the chair should be a member of the fac- ulty," said Medical Prof. Charles Koopmann. The University is the only school in the Big Ten without a faculty member as chair of the Board in Control. Koopmann said having a faculty member as chair of the Board in Control would be a crucial element in strengthening faculty representation, since the chair would have control over the agenda. Representatives from the Michigan Student Assembly will also be at Thursday's regents meeting to oppose the proposed changes to the bylaws. "For these changes to be made to Board in Con- trol without consulting the groups it affects is just moving way too fast," said MSA President Matt Nolan. Bird's eye view Roundtable explores issues of sexism seen on campus By Jordan Schrader Daily Staff Reporter Sexual harassment and the subtle ways it is perpetuated were the subject of a roundtable discussion yesterday sponsored by several student activist groups. The focus of the talk was how sexism is experienced on campus and actions students can take to stop it. "Even if we name billions of inci- dents of sexual harrassment, for each one there would be millions more that are just taken for granted," said LSA sophomore Agnes Aleobua. Sexism is a product of the small things that surround people every day, participants said, citing offenders rang- ing from T-shirts to local publications. One major source of subtle sexual harassment, many said, is the Greek sys- tem. T-shirts given to inductees of the campus chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi fra- ternity were among the ways they said fraternities promote sexism. The shirt features a drawing of sperm racing toward an egg and the slogan "Only the Strong Survive." "To have those male and female sym- bols ... it reinforces the male aggres- siveness and female submissiveness gender roles and perpetuates sexual harassment," said LSA junior Audrey Lance. Other participants agreed, saying the shirts marketed the fraternities as sexist "Push us in the right direction rather than kick us while we're down." -Justin Bright Interfraternity Council executive vice president organizations. Another example of fra- ternity sexism, they said, was a banner for the campus chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity with a picture of a Playboy bunny on it. Several fraternity members attended the discussion, which was sponsored in part by the Interfraternity Council. They told the group that members of the Greek system had no intention to be sexist and considered the shirts and ban- ner to be advertising materials using familiar images to promote their organi- zations. ,f But IFC Executive Vice President Justin Bright, an LSA senior, said frater- nities are responsible for some sexist mentality on campus. "I do think we're at the root of the problem. I really encourage you to challenge us. Push us in the right direction rather than kick us while we're down," he said. Skewed coverage of fraternity issues in campus publications are also a source of sexual harassment, speakers said. The Michigan Daily "publishes arti- cles about the rape at Beta that are so victim-blaming it's incredible," said Lance. She referred to articles reporting that two Delta Delta Delta sorority pledges were allegedly raped at Beta Theta Pi. Lance took issue with one story quoting sorority members admit- ting they should have been more aware of their surroundings at the party where the rapes occurred, saying such a state- ment promoted the stereotype that women are responsible for being harassed. LSA sophomore and Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center mem- ber Suzanne Munday suggested manda- tory sexism workshops for student organizations. "If you require all groups registered with the University to go through these kind of workshops ... we would have a more well-educated campus on this issue," she said. A resolution expressing the major points made at the discussion was writ- ten by Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary member Jessica Curtin, a Rackham stu- dent, and accepted unanimously. BRETT MOUNTAIN/Daily Carl Bronni, owner of Bronni's Roofing, inspects the roof over what used to be the Bagel Factory on South University Avenue yesterday afternoon. 'U' profs. awarded $200,000 in research grants By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter Two professors in the University's electrical engineering and computer science department recently received a pair of grants totaling nearly $200,000. The grant money awarded to University Profs. Linda Katehi and David Blaauw by the Semi- conductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation is to be used to further their research. Semiconductors are crystalline substances that can conduct electricity better than insula- tors but not well enough to be considered con- ductors. For her efforts to design better receiver chips, which detect electromagnetic signals from the environment, and semiconductor circuits, which are used in computer chips and mobile phones,- Katehi received a contract for $112,500. "The research we are doing aims to reduce the cost (and) increase the complexity and speed of the semiconductor circuits that are being used in many applications," said associate research sci- entist Saeed Mohammadi, who is working with Katehi on the project. Besides mobile phones and computer chips, semiconductors are also used for transistors and memory devices. Mohammadi and Katehi are also trying to design more advanced filters for the receiver chips, so that the chips can detect signals of interest more easily. A major component of the project is finding a way to integrate the parts of a receiver- antennae, filters and the chip - to maximize design efficiency. "We achieve these goals by using very advanced semiconductor fabrication facilities from IBM and the one available here at EECS department," Mohammadi said. Mohammadi said the grant money will be used to help pay the fees required to access the microelectronic facility at EECS department as well as to support graduate students who are helping with the project. Associate EECS Prof. David Blaauw also received a grant from the SRC for his research on semiconductor circuits, totaling $84,000. The EECS department is well known for its semiconductor research by the SRC, which declared the Center for Automated Semiconduc- tor Manufacturing a center of excellence. In the third quarter of 2001, the SRC and NSF donated $9.6 million to semiconductor research. The SRC and NSF donated money to more than 40 colleges and universities across the country, including the University of Arizona, the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. The largest grant was awarded to Massachu- setts Institute of Technology professor Herbert Sawin for $397,500. The SRC and NSF are helping to fund a total of 92 research projects. State officials announce system to evaluate Michigan's schools LANSING (AP) - Six months after scrapping a of public hearin school accreditation plan because it focused too heavi- vote on the pla ly on test scores, Michigan Superintendent Tom letter grades - Watkins introduced a new plan yesterday that would and final grades grade schools on performance beginning in 2003. That's too i "We grade our students. Ultimately we're going to grade Watkins scrapp our schools," Watkins said. "Everybody knows what an Board of Educe 'A' is." Under that The new plan would still focus heavily on the Michigan accreditation Educational Assessment Program tests. But it also would met or exceed measure family involvement, teacher development time, content area. attendance, graduation rates and other variables. when they fou The plan is a long way from becoming reality. After a series tation. Car te ft ises; Camry, Accord favorite tar ets gs, the State Board of Education is expected to n in February. Schools would receive interim an A, B, C, D or F - in the spring of 2003 in 2006, officials said. ong for many critics, who question why ped the accreditation system adopted by the ation in 1999. plan, schools would have failed to earn if fewer than 25 percent of its students ded state standards in at least one MEAP Schools protested the plan last spring and out that hundreds would lose accredi- I DETROIT (AP) - The Toyota Camry and Honda Accord remained the most popular targets of car thieves in 2000 as auto theft in the United States rose for the first time in a decade, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The list of most stolen vehicles released today contains a mix of passen- ger cars and sport utility vehicles. Six of the 10 vehicles are from U.S. automak- ers, although the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord occupy the top two spots. They were followed by the Oldsmobile Cutlass, Honda Civic, Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee, Chevrolet full size C/K pickup, Toyota Corolla, Chevrolet Caprice, Ford Taurus and Ford F150 pickup. There were 1,165,559 auto thefts in 2000, compared to 1,152,057 in 1999, the NICB said, citing FBI statistics. Casual dining at its best! REWARD YOURSELF! 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