LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 3 CAMPUS Sexual assault victims discuss experiences Sexual assault victims will be able to share their experiences today in a dis- cussion sponsored by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. The event will be hosted in the Michigan Union Ballroom from 7 to 9 p.m. Support services will be made available. Medical School students hold classical concert Medical School students will play selections of classical music this Thursday in the main lobby of the Uni- versity Hospital. The event begins at 12:10 p.m. and is sponsored by the Borodin Society. 'U's affirmative action defense lawyer to speak Maureen Mahoney will speak about one of the University's U.S. Supreme Court cases, Grutter vs Bollinger. Mahoney was the chief author of the brief filed on behalf of the University, and she also spoke in the hearing before the Supreme Court. The event will take place at the Power Center for the Performing Arts tomorrow from 4 to 5:30 p.m It is sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women U.S. ambassador to Slovakia to give lecture The U.S. ambassador to the Slovak Republic, Ronald Weiser, will give a lecture titled "Central European Transi- tion: Opportunity for American Diplo- macy and Business." Weiser is a Business School graduate and founder of McKinley Associates, a national real-estate company. The event, the 37th Annual William K. McKinley Memorial Lecture, will take place today in Hale Auditorium in the Busi- ness School at 4:30 p.m. Scholar to lecture on education in democracy Barbara Holland will give two lec- tures titled "Strengthening the Role of Education in Democracy" and "Com- munity-Building: Progress, Patterns and Predictions" in the 2003 John Dewey Lecture. Holland is executive editor of the Metropolitan Universities journal. The event is sponsored by the Edward Ginsburg Center for Commu- nity Service and Learning, Arts of Citi- zenship, Office of the Vice President for Research and the School of Educa- tion. It will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Thurs- day at the Alumni Center. Panel to discuss issues related' to disabled students The Council for Disability Concerns will discuss the opportunities and rights of disabled students in an event titled "Investing in Ability." Then-Uni- versity President Harold Shapiro estab- lished the council in 1983, a year after the University observed the Interna- tional Year of Disabled Persons. The event will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Henderson room of the Michigan League. It is spon- sored by the Office for Institutional Equity, Human Resources and Affir- mative Action. University dancers to perform trios Mira Kingsley and University dance grad Alexandra Beller will perform three trios titled "Waiting for Chekhov or a Bit of Rope," "The Women in Question" and "Room to Die." Kingsley and Beller's theater work sold out in New York City in 2002. The show will be at the Betty Pease Studio Theater in the Univer- sity Dance Building, 1310 N. Uni- versity Court. Tickets will be sold for $8 at the door beginning at 6 p.m. The event will be at 7 p.m. today. Space is limited. Anime films to run at free event Full-length Japanese animation films chosen by the audience will be shown at the Underworld on 1202 S. University Ave. Admission is free, and i t + .k0 0m 11 xyll+,-a Y111 P nrn~ 0-~L fA m \ Afternoon at the library 'U' alum, historian discusses experience with int'l war tribunal BRENDAN 0'DONNELL/Daily Ann Arbor resident Tami Tu Dyer and her 3-year-old daughter Karin Dyer read and play in the children's section of the Ann Arbor Public Library yesterday afternoon. The trip was a family affair that include Karin's sister Ashley. Criminal charges included as topic 'in new sex ed. cl*asoses By Adam Supernant Daily Staff Reporter Called to be an expert witness in the trials following the Bosnian war of the 1990s, Robert Donia has testi- fied against seven Serbian and Croat- ian war criminals at The Hague during the past six years. The University alum brought his experiences on how history can be used or abused in international law yesterday as the annual DeRoy Visit- ing Professor in Honors speaker. Donia ended up testifying at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia through a series of coincidental circumstances. Hailed as one of the most signifi- cant challenges facing international law in recent history, the Netherlands- based ICTY aims to prosecute those responsible for violating international law during the Bosnian war, including Slobodan Milosevic, the former presi- dent ofYugoslavia. Serving as an expert witness for the prosecution, Donia testified against Serbian and Croatian criminals charged with genocide, murder and other war crimes. The uniqueness of his position is that since all of the trials were suc- cessfully appealed, the focus of the trial would be factual evidence while the appeal would be based on the more specific points of interna- tional law. Given Donia's background as a leading historian of the region, his work centered on testifying in the actual trial rather than the appeal. "If historians and lawyers were lined up on opposite ends of the field, John Madden could say these teams don't like each other," he said. Expert witnesses for the defense would often omit certain pieces of fact, Donia added. They would attempt to legitimize the Bosnian war by arguing Serbia and Croatia's claims to the area have been longstanding and that Bosnia and Herzegovina was and still is part of medieval Croatia. Another defense argument was that the Balkan people as a whole were "inherently incapable of possessing superior organizational skills," based on the argument that while fast food was prominent in Western Europe and America, food preparation takes much longer in the Balkans. "I think it's somewhat unexpected that history is such a part of interna- tional law trials. It seems peculiar that he is testifying at the war crimes tri- bunal," Law School student Scott Ris- ner said. While many war criminals have been tried and sentenced to prison terms, the trial is moving along at what Donia calls a "glacial pace." "I thought it was very interesting how (the war criminals) are afforded all the rights of American citizens in the trial. How long it's been going on is insane," LSA freshman Allison Kimmel said. Donia was drawn to studying the "The very existence of the court is a very interesting phenomenon. The workings of international law are something Americans have become more sensitive to in the past 10 to 15 years:' - Stephen Darwall Director, LSA Honors Program Balkans by "just a series of coinci- dences. I arrived as a graduate stu- dent (at the University) about five days after coming back from Viet- nam and wanted to learn the history of an area no one was particularly interested in." Donia said he fell in with a group of like-minded individuals and eventually wrote his dissertation in 1976 on Islam in Bosnia and Herze- govina. It was not until 1997, however, that Donia's knowledge came under the eyes of the tribunal at The Hague. "I was invited based on the aca- demic work I'd done 15 to 20 years before 1997," he said. Donia was invited to speak at the University by Prof. Stephen Darwall, director of the LSA Honors Program. "He came to our attention as both someone with a University of Michigan connection and as some- one with experience in human rights in international law and his- tory," Darwall said. "The very existence of the court is a very interesting phenomenon. The workings of international law are something Americans have become more sensitive to in the past 10 to 15 years." Since Oct. 1, the state has required school districts to educate students on penalties for having sex with minors LANSING (AP) - Sex education classes now include lessons in law, too. The state now requires school districts with sex educa- tion courses to include information on the criminal penalties for engaging in sexual intercourse with minors. In Michigan, it's illegal to have sex with anyone under the age of 16, even if it's otherwise considered consensual. But the change, which took effect Oct. 1, could trig- ger hearings on the subject statewide, Booth News Ser- vice reported yesterday. Sen. Alan Cropsey (R-DeWitt), added the language to the school aid bill after hearing from parents of teenage boys who became registered sex offenders after being convicted of having sex with their underage girl- friends. "It's not fair to be teaching'kids about sex education without also teaching them about the legal repercus- sions," Cropsey said. Cropsey said he was unaware that his one-sentence change in law could trigger hearings statewide on sexual education curriculum, although he said it would help raise awareness. Another state law requires two public hearings when- ever a district changes its sex education curriculum, said Brad Banasik, an attorney with the Michigan Associa- tion of School Boards. Technically, adding a new requirement will do that, he said. Some Michigan schools already include the criminal aspect in their health curriculum. Cheryl Blair, health coordinator for the Kent Inter- mediate School District, said sex education in her county already includes talks with prosecutors. "I think that students who are choosing to be sexually active aren't always aware there are legal consequences. They just think it's their personal choice," she said. Teen sex offenders are generally charged with third- degree criminal sexual conduct for engaging in sex with those ages 13, 14 or 15, or;fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct for sexual contact with those same ages, said Livingston County Prosecutor David Morse. A third-degree eonviction is punishable by upto 15 years in prison, although most people convicted of hav- ing consensual but underage sex don't end up behind bars, Morse said. A fourth-degree conviction, which also requires the person charged to be five years older than the minor sex partner, carries a penalty of up to two years. Sex with those under 13 is more serious, and could be charged as a first-degree felony, punishable by life in prison. InlUX of immigrants entering Michigan creates demand for more bilingual police officers MENNE DETROIT (AP) - When Jorge Casanas called Detroit police to report a hit-and-run accident, the response he got wasn't what he expected. "I dialed 911 to get help for my friend, who was bleeding from his shoulder, but they said something like 'no speak Spanish' and hung up," said Casanas, who doesn't speak English. "I tried it again, and again the same thing happened, until one of my friend's relatives who speaks English got through," the 60-year- old told the Detroit Free Press for yesterday's story. Detroit police officials say they don't condone that kind of behavior and would disci- Urdu. "The two things we talk about most when hiring at the Sheriff's Department are ... for officers that speak another language and candi- dates that know how to use comput- ers," said Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel. "For us, language is becoming as important an issue as technology." "It is vital that our officers be able to communicate with resi- dents," said Lt. Col. Peter Munoz of the Michigan State Police. In Dearborn, where roughly one- third of the city's almost 100,000 residents hail from the Middle East, several of the police department's 180 officers speak Arabic and Spanish. -f e i It also has cieny police officers nguage can who speak Japanese, Pol- ference ish, Italian and e and death. Maltese. Detroit police Lt. John Serda, president of the 120-member His- panic Police Officers Association of Michigan, said the number of first- generation Hispanic immigrants arriving in areas patrolled by offi- cers in the 3rd and 4th precincts has jumped. Most speak little to no English and Serda says he's worried the lan- anna harrierm n npnon rA itinn l "There is a barrier between offi- cers and citizens," said Lisa Alvara- do, an officer in Detroit's 3rd Precinct who said she uses her Spanish-language skills daily while on patrol. "A lot of people in the community don't come to the police for help because of the language issue," she added. STUDENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE OR ULCERATIVE COLITIS Please join Dr. Ellen Zimmerman Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, U of M for an special session discussing: Sugical Options for IBD Next Meeting will be Thursday, October 23rd at INTERNSHIP OPPORTUANITY RIGHT ON CAPULS! Interested in building, your resume while you're still in school? 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