The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November , 2001 - 7A PROVOST Continued from Page 1A Courant, an economics and public policy professor, said he and his staff will use the next two months to regroup their office before he begins his duties as interim provost. "Mercifully, we have almost two months and we will have to figure out how to best configure that," Courant said. "Clearly I can't (be interim provost) and do what I do now, and the University still needs a budget." Courant said he is unsure whether he will put his name into consideration for the permanent provost position. "It's far too soon to say," he said. "It will be a hard and interesting job and I'm looking forward to the adventure and ... to serving this university well." White said he looked for a candidate who displayed both professional and academic excellence to fill the interim provost position. "The provost has to have very strong academic values and high academic standards," White said. Tedesco said she believes her time will be best spent aiding the regents in their presidential search. "Some of the most important work the regents do is select a president and they need the full support of the executive offi- cer that serves as a liaison between the regents and the Univer- sity," Tedesco said. White also created a new position designed to aid the inter- im president yesterday. White named Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Lester Monts to the position of senior counselor to the interim president for the arts, diversity, and undergraduate affairs. White said he chose Monts "in order to ensure continuity in these three cultural areas: arts, diversity and undergraduate education." Monts served on the President's Commission on the Under- graduate Experience for the past year, reviewing and writing recommendations to improve student life at the University. "I think the numerous years I spent working on undergradu- ate issues both here and at the University of California, and the interaction I had with deans, faculty members and students on the undergraduate commission have provided me with a kind of insight that will be useful to the president," Monts said. He said his goal is to broaden art and cultural awareness among students, while maintaining a strong commitment to diversity on campus. "I am not certain that we involve undergraduates to the extent that we should," Monts said. White said these changes made to the administration are meant to stabilize the presidential search and the University community. "The theme of my interim presidency is continu- ity," he said. GRADES Continued from Page 1A administrators. In addition, the AAUP said adminis- trators may be more likely to be influ- enced by alumni and donors than professors. If the AAUP's predictions are correct, the University may be heading down the same road as Harvard University, which has recently been under scrutiny for its alleged grade inflation policies. "This is Harvard's dirty little secret," The Boston Globe wrote Oct. 7. "Since the Vietnam-era, rampant grade inflation has made its top prized stu- dents - graduating with honors - virtually meaningless." At the University of Michigan, grade inflation is becoming a real issue, although it has not become as controversial of an issue as at Harvard, Brown said. "There is no question that the issue of . grade inflation is a very real one and an issue for the faculty members," he said. The First-Year seminars are the most prone to grade inflation, Brown said, because of their close atmosphere and high level of interaction with professors. "With freshman seminars, instruc- tors get to know students well, work intimately with them and (students) expect to get a very high grade and they are often very disappointed when they get a low grade," he said. "It exasperates a problem for faculty to be generous with their grading." But communication studies Prof.. Anthony Collings, who has taught a first-year seminar for several years, said his students have been pleased with their grades and his grading prin- ciples have not been compromised. Next Tuesday's AAUP meeting, which is open to the public, begins at noon in the Henderson Room of the Michigan League., the michigan c * ********************************** SPRING BREAK! Flight Concerns & Sail from Florida, spend 5 Day in Bahamas from $279! Includes most meals! Get Group - Go Free! springbreaktravel.com 1-800-678-6386 ***ACT NOW! GUARANTEE THE BEST SPRING BREAK PRICES! SOUTH PADRE, CANCUN, JAMAICA, BAHAMAS, ACAPULCO, FLORIDA & MADRIGRAS. REPS NEEDED... TRAVEL FREE, EARN $$$. 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"It's not as newsworthy when people defend themselves then when a child is shot at home," he said. The various studies that find the prob- ability of killing an attacker is much less than killing a family member are all conducted by the same authors, Lott said, and only measure the one out of 1,000 instances in which the attacker was actually killed by a gunshot. They do not take into account the instances in which guns wounded the attacker or scared him away. Lott also argued that gun control laws are very expensive, costing 50,000 annual hours of police time for the reg- istration of guns. "How many crimes could have been solved with 50,000 hours of police time?" Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie approached the other side of the issue, citing instances in his district in which children were killed by guns as support for stricter laws governing who can bear arms. "Dr. Lott's book is not supported by any academic study and never will be. If it was as simple as 'more guns less crime,' I would be all for it. But that's like taking a few tablets and waking up in the morning hoping to be thin. We need to be critical thinkers," Mackie said. He countered Lott's argument that gun control laws only inhibit law-abid- ing citizens from protecting themselves by saying, "Many people who commit horrible crimes have no criminal records." Mackie also disagreed with the statis- tic that 416 rapes a day could be pre- vented if women carry guns. "That's not how rape occurs, because the vast majority of rapes are perpetrat- ed by acquaintances," he said, adding that women will most likely not have a gun available to defend themselves when they are in the presence of some- one they know. First-year Law student Brian Brown said he was more persuaded by Lott's argument because "Mackie relied more on emotions and ad hominem attacks than numbers." Many students expressed concern over the implications of the Con- cealed Weapons Act passed last December, in which the Michigan Legislature began requiring county gun boards to issue a license to carry a concealed weapon to any adult without a criminal record, with limited exceptions. This law, Mackie said, makes it illegal for people to carry guns to class and in residence halls, but does not prevent any permit-holding gun owner from bring- ing their gun to a fraternity party or other such public places. Music sophomore Katie Conrad, who attended a college party in which a stu- dent from another university actually pulled a gun, said she is also disturbed by the new law. "I don't want to be shot on cam- pus. It's unsafe (to carry guns) - I don't care how many precautions you take." PARTIES Continued from Page 1A said. Every fall, fraternities and sororities conduct rush, which results in hundreds of new University arrivals flooding the social scene in addition to the clusters of freshman who leave their residence halls each weekend for house parties - often without knowing the host. "I've seen statements from victims who talk about their situations in high] school. But it's a different atmosphere (in college)," Piersante said. Drinks are stronger University students have more accessibility to hard liquor, and like- wise, the drinks are stronger. Students are often not knowledgeable about. what is in their drinks, Piersante said. "Where you may think you're hav- ing an orange juice with vodka, it's really Everclear," he said, referring to the grain alcohol which is almost 100 percent alcohol. Unlike bars, where the amount of alcohol in drinks is metered, drinks mixed at parties can be dangerous because the amount of alcohol is unknown. "If you go to a bar, the alcohol is measured so the bar can make a prof- it," Piersante said. "If you go to a fraternity party where a drink is mixed in a tub, one drink in that setting might be five drinks in another setting," he added. The environment at house parties can pose an additional threat because of the lack of any accountable super- vision. Ideally you should mix and moni- tor your own drink, Piersante said. Non-alcoholic drinks can also be drugged and should therefore be monitored. 'Their friends weren't there' Piersante, who works in DPS' criminal investigation division, said DPS recognizes that students study- ing in an institution deal with intense educational pressures and need a social outlet that may involve alcohol. If students choose to use this method to relax, they need to be more cau- tious when they attend parties, he said. "I've seen a pattern of some women putting themselves in an unfa- miliar setting and rather than leaving a party with their support group, they stay with strangers and they may experience blackouts ... and their friends weren't there to help them piece together what happened." Latresa Wiley, interim director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, said the relation- ship between the victim and the per- petrator can be either long-term or short-term to be classified as acquain- tance rape. "There are often issues with trust with stranger assaults there are more issues with safety," Wiley said. It may be difficult to report acquaintance rape because of trust issues, she said. "There is the issue of if someone will believe you. It may be said to be something like miscommunication. So in some ways there are some avenues in which people cannot move forward (after an assault)." Wiley said peer groups support and sustain certain ideologies and types of behaviors that impair safety for women. "There are ways in which men are socialized to treat women as second to men, and ways men view and objectify women. ... Sometimes the conversations men have with one another are perpetrations, but they're not being challenged," Wiley said. Wiley added that more men need to speak against these ideas social cul- tures have fostered. She said when alcohol is involved, the validity of an assault is ques- tioned. "If we even remove alcohol from the situation, there is still the poten- tial for that violation to take place.: Need for support Piersante said although mingling with new people is important, hav- ing a support network in place before a party is necessary, especial- ly when it's time to go home. Always give friends a safe escort to the residence - even if force is nec- essary, he said. "You should leave with your sup- port group rather than with a stranger," Piersante said At SAPAC, victims are provided opportunities for counseling, receiv- ing advocacy and medical and legal options, based on each victim's needs. An assault effects not only the sur- vivor, but those that are close to her, Wiley said. "We provide counseling for family and friends of the survivor and that can be one or two sessions," she added. Piersante said although psychologi- SEASONS Continued from Page 1A time of year, typically during the winter when the amount of daylight decreases, and shows full remission or change during other seasons. "It can occur at any age and nor- mally affects more women," Keon- fol said, adding that latitude and age also play factors in the onset of the disorder. "I know that students have a lot of stressors going on, and people sometimes get depressed. If a student is unable to function and enjoy pleasurable activities, they need to see a clinician." Professionals at Counseling and Psychological Services regard the various forms of depression, including SAD, as one of their top three concerns along with anxiety and relationship conflicts. Although CAPS clinical director. Jim Etzkorn did not know the num- ber of students on campus who suf- fer from seasonal affective disorder, he said, "My guess is that we do see an increase in depressive symptoms during the winter. (The weather) is compounded by the fact that people are in the midst of school work and overwhelmed with the stresses of school." Etzkorn added that there is a question whether people change their mood in the spring because of weather and an increase in sunlight or because it is the end of the school year. To help students avoid the winter slum, Etzkorn said, "Try to find something about winter that you enjoy. The people who see winter as a time that offers a change to be outside sledding, skiing or whatev- er are better off than people who hate it and spend all of their time indoors. "Sunlight is important. Arrange your schedule to be near a window and sunlight by not scheduling free time during the dark. Even on a cloudy day, being exposed to sun- light would be better than being buried in a classroom," he said. For this reason, many clinicians use light therapy to treat people with SAD, along with an examina- tion of stressors in the person's life and distortion that make life unnec- essarily difficult. "They makq these 'special light boxes, and the client is directed to sit in front of the box for a certain amount of time each day," Etzkorn said. "We don't have one here, but maybe they do at the hospital." Etzkorn also said meditation, good eating, sleep and exercise can help people pull through their depression. 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