news@michigandaily.com NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 9, 2004 - 3A SynS 0 Markley resident reports sexual assault in room DPS reports show that a University student was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance in her dorm room in Mary Markley Residence Hall Wednesday night. The assault is classified as third degree criminal sexual conduct, involv- ing forced sexual penetration, and is a felony charge that can have a maxi- mum of 15 years in prison. Suspicious person reported lurking near UGLI The staff of Shapiro Undergraduate Library reported a suspicious person near the main entrance of the library early Thursday morning after he reportedly frightened them. The person was described as a male, 5-feet-10 inches tall and weighing about 200 pounds, with a dark com- plexion, dark hair and wearing a dark- colored jacket. The Department of Public Safety was unable to contact the subject because he left before they arrived. No damage was caused in the incident. Man accused of forging check while riding in taxi Comerica Bank reported to DPS that a man tried to cash a forged check to Yellow Cab Thursday evening. The suspect was identified as Tierra Devon Webster, and arraigned on charges of forgery, another type of forgery called uttering and three counts of financial transaction device possession. Another suspect was taken into custody with Webster for five outstanding warrants. Two suspects caught urinating off of bridge DPS officers observed two subjects urinating off the Central Campus Recreation Building footbridge onto Washtenaw Avenue after the officers completed a traffic stop Saturday morning. Both suspects were arrested and given minor in possession of alcohol citations, and one suspect was charged with urinating in public. MIP given, car window smashed in at parking lot DPS reports indicate that a subject was given a minor in possession of alcohol citation early Thursday morn- ing in the Church Street carport. Authorities later released the subject. About thirty minutes later, a victim filed a report with DPS after someone smashed the window of their car and stole unknown items. There are no suspects in the case, but DPS said it could be connected to the MIP incident. They are both cur- rently under investigation. Keys, book bag stolen from MLB * auditorium According to DPS reports, a book bag and keys were taken from Audito- rium 3 in the Modern Language Build- ing sometime between 10 and 11:30 a.m. Thursday. No further information is known at this time. West Quad bathroom door found in courtyard A bathroom door was found in the West Quad Residence Hall courtyard after being torn off of a stall in a bathroom on the fourth floor of Lloyd House Thursday. The value of the door was estimated at $125, and DPS has no suspects in the case. Laptop stolen from Business School building A staff member reported that his Sony Vaio laptop was stolen from the Business Administration building on Thursday. The computer was in his office, which was unlocked at the time. DPS does not have an estimated value on the laptop. Phone card More than 800 vote at Union during caucuses By Victoria Edwards Daily Staff Reporter Students traditionally turn out to vote in lower numbers than other age groups, but this week- end's Democratic caucuses drew about 845 voters to the Michigan Union. Gov. Jennifer Granholm made a brief appear- ance at the Michigan Union Saturday at 10 a.m., along with an entourage of elected officials - including U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Dearborn), state Sen. Liz Brater, state Rep. Chris Kolb (both D-Ann Arbor) and Ann Arbor mayor John Hieftje. At the Union caucus, voters cast the most bal- lots for Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who received 261 votes. He was followed closely by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean with 224 votes and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina with 141. Kerry won the Michigan primary with 52 percent of the vote, followed by former Ver- mont Gov. Howard Dean with 17 percent. Many of the students who voted Saturday said their main concern was that President Bush would not be re-elected. "I'm voting forKerry.... I like (Kerry's) stance on the Patriot Act and his chance of electibility. I think the most important issue is beating Bush. I hate that man," LSA sophomore Ben Rattner said. A voting site was established at the Union due to the efforts of College Democrats member John Cherry and Dingell's wife Debbie to make the voting process easier for students. "We found out there was no site on campus ... and we talked to party officials from different areas about the need to have a caucus site on campus," said Cherry, an LSA freshman. Debbie Dingell emphasized the importance that students play in the political process, adding, "You can't complain about the country unless you get involved." LSA freshman Nicole Dupois said she has remained politically active in this election season by campaigning for Dean. "I went to Iowa with a group of students going door-to-door. I think the people we do meet are really enthusiastic to see us. People appreciate the effort we put forth - even those who don't vote for a Democrat," Dupois said. She added that she is campaigning because she feels "Dean brings a fire back to the Democratic party. He's really a true Democrat - I love that about him." LSA freshman Erika Malinoski, who is cam- paigning for retired General Wesley Clark, said she believes his biggest strength is his ability to unite the party and country. "The underlying problem is how divided we are. We need someone to unify the party, and I think that person is Wesley Clark,"she said. Besides the need to beat Bush and get the Republicans out of the White House, the biggest issues in the presidential elections are jobs and the economy in general, said Ilya Rusinov, former co-chair of Students for Gephardt. Another issue for students was whether they would cast votes in Michigan or absentee ballots for their home states' primaries. "I'm registered here (in Ann Arbor) because in Boston it doesn't make a difference," said Ratter, referring to the fact that he believes his home state will support Kerry. "I like to be a part of a swing state where my vote counts," he said. Recruitigfuture artists Prof: Disparities between whites and blacks rising EUGENE ROBERTSON/Daily Art and Design senior Robert Esmundo speaks with Jody Kingery-Page of the Ann Arbor Art Center at the Art and Design Career Expo Friday. STOMACH FLU Continued from Page 1A "I'm glad they're doing it, because I mean, who knows how much more it would have spread if it had gotten on food and stuff?" Islam said. Markley is also taking other measures, like asking students to swipe their own M-Cards, handing silverware to students and serving some foods, including salads, from behind a plastic- covered counter. Students are still required to either wash their hands or use a waterless hand sanitizer before entering the cafeteria there. Levy said that students beginning to recover should still avoid leaving their dorm rooms for three days after their symptoms have subsided, because they still have the virus in their system. OSEH is currently working to interview stu- dents who reported themselves as having been ill in the past week. Some tests were sent to the state's Department of Health. Those tests will take at least a week to return, Levy said. By Farayha Arrine and Ekjyot Saini Daily StaffReporters Sociology Prof. James House wore a suit and tie to Friday's panel discussion on racial dispari- ties in society at the Institute for Social Research. Although House attributed his formal attire to his respect for the event, he said many of his col- leagues of black descent wear a suit and tie every day to avoid discrimination. "They are less likely to be stopped by the police (when wearing a suit). It's that kind of burden of discrimination that people of even better socioeco- nomic status face," said House, who is also a research professor at the Survey Research Center. He said studying these scenarios is necessary because it documents and clarifies racial dispari- ties and where they tend to exist. Joining House were four other researchers addressing "the role of interdisciplinary research in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities" to an audience of about 80 people, mostly professors and researchers. The event was part of the 17th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. Researchers individually presented their find- ings on several aspects of the racial discrepancies that exist in the United States, with a focus on health-related issues. Panelist James Jackson, a psychology profes- sor, presented statistics comparing the socioeco- nomic status of the black community now and in the 1960s. He said the average unemployment rate in 2003 was 5.2 percent for whites and 10.8 percent for blacks. He cited similar examples regarding per capita income, infant mortality and household net worth, saying that in each case the disparities between whites and blacks had gotten larger since the 1960s. "My cousins are thugs and murderers because of the circumstances they are in. ... This is the case for many African Americans," Jackson said. Pamela Thornton, a research fellow at the Sur- vey Research Center, and epidemiology Prof. Ana Diez-Roux focused on the health disparities that exist for blacks. Thornton presented a study on how health affects everyday activities. Her research focused on walking, climbing and shoving snow. The research found that whites had an easier time with some of the activities than blacks, but the study also revealed that greater equality in this area existed between the two races in 1986. Diez-Roux said that the well-being of individu- als was contingent upon their residential environ- ments. She said factors such as diet, physical activity and smoking were strongly influenced by "neighborhood characteristics." Adding to these finding was sociology Prof. David Williams's discussion of the healthy immi- grant effect. He said that people who had immi- grated to the U.S. tended to be healthier than the native population. He added that as the length of the immigrants' stay increased, their health declined, joking that the American way of life was dangerous to one's well-being. Williams also showed data ranking countries by the overall health of their people. The United States ranked in the mid-20s in three of the surveys. "The U.S. spends more per person on medical care, and (despite this) even the (overall) white population lags behind," he said. Education Prof. Larry Rowley said he attended the event because he teaches a class on black social development. "(The panel discussion) has been comprehensive," he said. "It is additional fodder for my own teaching and research." David Nerenz, a doctor at Henry Ford Medical Center in Detroit, said he expected to hear more about the interdisciplinary aspect of research. Corrections: An article on Page 7A of the Daily on Feb. 2 should have quoted LSA freshman Ryan Fisher saying that the University is not able to prevent all hate crimes from occuring. An article on Page 1 of Friday's Daily should have quoted speaker Kate Michelman as saying that her most profound influence was her "pre-Roe abortion." An article on Page 7 of Friday's Daily should have referred to Diane Brown as the spokeswoman for the Department of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health. 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