Ai Thursday January 2, 2004 02004 The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXIII, No. 85 TO~~DAY: aKe1Mr4uni aiY One-hundred-thirteenyears feditori&freedom Partly cloudy all day with winds from the west at 10 mph H% 15 J. I Tomnorrow: ai 3IC www.michigandaily.com liiiiiiiiiiiiim 1 .1 - 7mr- - - SAPAC planning to reorganize counseling By Aymar Jean Daily Staff Reporter Within the next week, the University will announce changes to its center for sexual assault prevention, reducing the size of the cen- ter and, according to executives in the Michigan Student Assembly, possibly inhibiting its ability to perform its mission. The Sexual Assault Prevention and Aware- ness Center, which provides education, crisis help and counseling to members of the Univer- sity community, will be increasing its collabora- tion with Counseling and Psychological Services, Vice President for Student Affairs E. Royster Harper said. The two counselors who currently work with SAPAC will be transferred to CAPS, allowing SAPAC to focus on education and prevention, said associate dean of students Stephanie Pin- der-Amaker, who is responsible for the two pro- grams. Harper said the relocation of SAPAC's coun- seling services would help both the center and CAPS "support each other clinically." By pro- viding both education and counseling, SAPAC may be running the risk of compromising both sets of the work, she added. Harper also said that these counseling servic- es exist to make sure that students and other members of the University community receive the support they may need. In addition, SAPAC will no longer administer its Crisis-line,Pinder-Amaker said. Instead, Safehouse, an Ann Arbor based group that offers a live, 24-hour hotline, will take over this responsibility. Currently, students who call SAPAC's Crisis-line must wait a few minutes while a volunteer is contacted. "The changes that we're implementing will provide more support for those who've experi- ence sexual violence," she said. All aspects of the program will remain as it is now for the rest of the semester. The University will begin to implement changes in the summer. But some believe the changes to the center may be more severe. A letter obtained by The Michigan Daily, sent to President Mary Sue Coleman by four senior officials in MSA, urged the president to resist this consolidation. MSA executives presumed that SAPAC's counseling services and on-campus, 24-hour Crisis-line may be cut. MSA Vice President Monique Perry said that she and the other authors of the letter have a source from SAPAC who confirmed the possible changes. Assembly President Angela Galardi, Student General Counsel Jason Mironov and Treasurer Elliot Wells Reid also signed the letter. "President Coleman, we call for an end to the rollback of student services. ... Take steps to rectify the damages that inhibit the best stu- dent services our campus can offer," the letter reads. SAPAC will continue to provide immediate crisis intervention for victims of sexual abuse - the current manager of the Crisis-line will assume this duty. If ongoing counseling is required, SAPAC will refer the invidual to a professional at CAPS. Pinder-Amaker said any student who may require regular assis- tance will be able to see that CAPS counselor on a regular basis. SAPAC currently provides individual and group counseling to victims of sexual abuse and their family, friends and partners. CAPS pro- vides 45-minute counseling sessions by appointment. To obtain an appointment, indi- viduals must complete a 20-minute confidential intake form. Michigan sophomore wing Lester Abram shoots over Iowa's Greg Brunner in Michigan's 90-84 win over Iowa last night. The victory put the men's basketball team at .500 in the Big Ten, with three wins and three losses this season. SInternet OUTSIDE WANTS IN voting not without glitches By Dakid Branson Daily Staff Reporter With the Feb. 7 state Democratic caucuses serving as the trial run for Internet voting in Michigan, the method's simplicity and effectiveness have been called into question. The process of applying to vote online is not difficult, but the system bogs down if errors occur. If the infor- mation a voter provides when applying to vote does not exactly match his or her registration information, the appli- cant's request for an electronic ballot is rejected. "Simple errors like a number or let- ter, or other registration errors, will result in rejec- tion," said a n Jason Moon, uIC spokesman for the Michigan Democratic Party. "If peo- ple are reject- ed, they are encouraged to reapply. ... If all else fails we encourage people to attend caucus sites on February 7." Currently, Internet and mail-in ballots are the only methods of voting before Feb. 7, but voting at a caucus site is rela- tively easy because a voter needs only proof of residency. "You can bring a cable bill ... any document with a name and address in that caucus zone, and you may vote at that precinct site," Moon said. The last day to apply to vote online or by mail is Saturday, Jan. 31 - a deadline that looms for voters forced to reapply as a result of application mis- takes. These simple mistakes could actually prevent applicants from voting on time due to the inconsistent response times for application rejection or acceptance. One of the largest problems for stu- dents is identifying where they are reg- istered to vote. For those who move frequently between home and school addresses, students are often unsure how they can find their registration information. Students still undecided after primary, caucuses By Donn M. Fresard For the Daily The stranger to Wash ington pushes a campaikn o f reform By Jameel Naqvi Daily Staff Reporter MANCHESTER N.H. - Moving on from soft-spoken finishes in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean continues to develop his image as the ideal Washington outsider set out to reshape the presidency. "We've got a strategy and a good organization to win everywhere and we're going to try to get as many delegates as we can everywhere," Dean told the Associated Press yesterday. One of the primaries Dean still hopes to clinch is Arizona's, which will take place next Tuesday. In his remarks made Monday before New Hampshire voters took to the polls, Dean repeat- edly portrayed himself as he has for the bulk of his campaign: the embodiment of a core demo- cratic value - the right to speak one's mind no matter how unpopular one's ideas. Compared to politicians such as Sens. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and John Kerry from See DEAN, Page 7A All that LSA junior Sarah Shepherd knows right now is that she doesn't want four more years of President Bush. "What's important to me in this election is making sure Bush doesn't win again," said Shep- herd. Shepherd has been following the Democratic primary campaign for months, but has yet to decide which candidate, she -will vote for in Michigan's upcoming caucuses. Shepherd is not alone in her indecision. After the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire pri- maries, and with the Feb. 7th Michigan caucuses rapidly approaching, many University students remain undecided. "Right now it's so hard to commit to some- one," said LSA junior Amanda Fox, who has applied to vote in the Michigan caucuses but is still undecided as to which candidate she will vote for. "I think I'll be able to decide once I look into it more and see a more personal side of the candidates." Shepherd noted that many students may wait until they perceive a clear frontrunner before put- ting their full support behind any candidate. "I think people tend to look for a winner in elections, and they tend to vote for who they think everyone else is going to vote for," Shep- herd said, adding that she has been leaning toward Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts since his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire elevat- ed him to front-runner status. She added that she believes voters should base their decisions on issues rather than electability, but admits that she is making an exception in this election; her support for Kerry is largely predicat- ed on her faith in him as a strong presidential candidate. LSA junior Paul Spurgeon, chair of Students for Kerry, said he has seen a surge of support for Kerry among students like Shepherd - students who now believe Kerry is the candidate most likely to defeat President Bush in November's general election. "Since the returns last Tuesday in Iowa, things have really been on the upswing for Students for Kerry," Spurgeon said. "I think this campus was undecided about who they were going to support until they were introduced to Kerry following the win in Iowa." Spurgeon also said the Kerry campaign has steadily gained members who previously support- See STUDENTS, Page 2A Climate cooling, warming both linked to fossil fuel emissions By Nala Moreira Daily Staff Reporter Atmospheric pollutants from fossil fuel burning may cause nearly as much global cooling as global warming, a University research team reported in the Jan. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Their findings add a new layer of complexity to the contentious subject of global climate change, dismissed by skeptics as a chimera invented by envi- ronmental alarmists. However, the cooling effects are insufficient to coun- porarily be masking the full impact of fossil fuel burning on the global climate, said SNRE Dean Rosina Bierbaum, who served four years in the administration of President Bill Clinton. The burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal emits suspended particles such as soot and sulfur dioxide, collectively known as aerosols, into the atmosphere. Aerosols have long been known to cool the climate, partially offsetting global warming caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which are also pro- duced by fossil fuel burning.