LOCAL The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 3, 2002 - 5 City Council votes for anti-war resolution By Christopher Johnson Daily Staff Reporter Voices arguing against the nation's movement toward war found a sympathetic audience at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting last night. Joining 21 other cities, including Washing- ton and Detroit, the council voted 7-1 in favor of a resolution against war with Iraq. Councilwoman Heidi Cowing Herrell (D-3rd Ward) pitched the proposed resolution as a means to support local representatives in higher government who oppose the war. "This is a question that concerns the whole nation," she said. "If we go to war there will be economic impacts on our community. There will be members of our community who will serve in the armed forces." The City Council received a large audience - a couple hundred community members - for the vote. Attendees filled every spot on the benches, parading signs of protest against the progression toward war. Several participants pre- sented arguments decrying the possibility of war, urging the council to take action. Stephen Boyce, an Ann Arbor resident who said he partici- pated in the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War and the war on drugs, described the senselessness of initiating a conflict with Iraq. "I've come to the humble conclusion that the whole foul lump is not worth the life of a single American citizen," he said. "There is nothing in this war that will help our people. There is nothing in this war that will expand our democracy." The new resolution presents several reasons for averting war, such as the loss of life on both sides of the conflict, the diversion of local tax money outside the community, the potential change in national policy toward preemptive strikes in other cases and the opposition presented by Ann Arbor's elected officials in Congress. "It is the people who are not in agreement at this time that we are trying to convince and the majority of (those who serve in) Congress that did not oppose unilateral action," Her- rell said. Most council members, including Margie Teall (D-4th Ward), expressed an emphatic approval of the resolution. "These are voices that need to be heard, and if we can be that avenue, I encourage it and support it," she said. Joan Lowenstein (D-2nd Ward) supported the proposal, but cautioned against continued resolutions regarding national policy. "I think the City Council can provide moral support in resolution," she said. "But our power to use resolution should be used sparingly." Mike Reid (R-2nd Ward), who cast the lone dissenting vote opposing the resolution, said Iraq presents too significant a problem for the federal government to leave unchecked. "We would be remiss if we expect actions in Iraq and the export of terrorism has not affected our day-to-day lives;" he said. "If we yield to the temptation of picking out one issue here, we will fall into the problem of addressing all of them." PATRICK JONES/Daily Ann Arbor resident Bill Thompson speaks in support of an anti- war resolution yesterday at the City Council meeting. The resolution was later passed. Search committee for next LSA dean in outreach stage it By Jeremy Berkowitz Daily Staff Reporter Almost eight months after former LSA Dean Shirley Neuman announced she was leaving the University of Michi- gan to become provost of the University of Toronto, a search committee chaired by sociology Prof. James House contin- ues to scourer the nation for Neuman's replacement. House said the committee, comprised of eight faculty members, two students and one LSA staff member, has been meeting since October and plans to con- clude its work in the spring. He added its goal is to have a new dean in place by the beginning of the 2003-2004 academ- ic year. The committee only has the power to nominate candidates to Provost Paul Courant, who will ultimately take one final candidate to the University Board of Regents for approval. "Obviously, it is everyone's goal to find a dean as quickly as possible, but no one is willing to speed up the process inappropriately," said chemistry Prof. James Penner-Hahn, a member of the search committee. House said the committee is in the process of laying out a position paper, which examines the various qualifica- tions it is looking for in a new dean. "We are currently in the process of outreach;" House said, adding the committee is now meeting with students and faculty members to gain their input in regard to the search. House said one of the current prob- lems with the LSA dean's office is the continuous turnover in the last five years. Since former Dean Edie Golden- berg stepped down in 1998, psychology Prof. Patricia Gurin served as interim dean for one year, Neuman had a three- year tenure and history Prof. Terry McDonald is currently serving as inter- im dean. Although House would not say whether McDonald is being considered, many faculty members said they think very highly of him. "He's doing a fine job within the con- straints of the budget;' political science Prof. Daniel Levine said. "He's a person who many of us have confidence in." One of the main objectives of the search committee is to find someone who is willing to devote a considerable amount of time to the position, around five or 10 years, House said. "There is a clear desire to get some- one who will be committed to the job for a reasonable period of time," he said. "If we were to continue to turn things over at the rate of one every two or three years, I think that's a little too fast." House said he thought internal can- didates tend to meet more of a criteri- on for commitment. He noted that the two LSA deans before Neuman, Edie Goldenberg and Peter Steiner, were previously professors at the University. Goldenberg and Steiner each served for approximately nine years. Neuman, who held the position for only three years, was previously a dean at the University of British Columbia. He added that Neuman was the first LSA dean to come from outside of the Uni- versity since the 1960s. But House said the committee will look at internal and external candi- dates, and stability will not be the only factor looked at. "We want to make sure ... that we try to get the best pos- sible person,"he said. Finding the distance between yourself and your family too expensive to cross this holiday season? The Essex Inn of Chicago has college-budget-friendly rooms from just $89. 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University Health Services, which regularly provides HIV-related services to the University community, will be organizing its second outreach event this week on Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Michigan Union with the help of the Black Student Union, said Yolanda Campbell, associ- ate director of health service at UHS. "At the Health Promotion Department of the UHS, we will be providing free HIV counseling and testing for every- one and we will be using the Orasure Test, which involves no needles or blood," Campbell said. "UHS produces and distributes materials on AIDS educa- tion and performs (more than) 1,000 tests each year," Camp- bell added. Other AIDS awareness events included a lecture and slideshow put on by the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs and the Museum of Art titled "World AIDS Day - Day Without Art" on Sunday and a poetry reading yesterday. "The lecture and slideshow showed how people used art to educate, make a political statement and a personal and artistic response to AIDS," LGBT Affairs Program Coordi- nator Kelly Garrett said. panels with 84,000 names - which 50 different countries contributed a panel - was present during the event.... The quilt is equivalent to 26 football fields." - Debbie Swartz University Museum of Art Education Program Manager Local poets commemorated those who died of AIDS by reading their own poems or works of others, said Debbie Swartz, program manager of education at the University Museum of Art. "A memorial quilt of 44,000 panels with 84,000 names - which 50 different countries contributed a panel - was present during the event," Swartz said. "The quilt is equiva- lent to 26 football fields." Sean Ulmer, University curator for modern and contem- porary art, and Pamela Reister, associate curator for educa- tion at UMMA, organized the event. 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