NEWS The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 5A Exibit gives experience of dicnmination to all M U"EUM "We had the students sit down and basically yelled at them, telling them Continued from Page 1A no matter what they do, they will the mindset of closet gays and les- never attain the American dream," bians and shows how hard it is to Hernandez said get out of the closet because of the After experiencing the strong restrictive mindset and the deroga- emotions of each room, the students tory slurs they go through so often. within the tour groups meet after- There are so many different types wards with Amora and counselors of things you experience that you to discuss and process the feelings don't necessarily hear or see." they encountered while touring the To Wayne State University freshman museum. Don Magtivang, the LGBT room was "There were varying opinions one of the most memorable because of from the students, from shock to the confrontational method it used with crying. A lot of people were ready the students on the tour. to change their own behavior and "(The museum) made me take a step become more cautious of what they back and think about whether or not I say or do," said Amora. do any of this stuff and it makes you LSA freshman Megan Magrum, an more aware of the things going on actor in the Women's room, said, "I around you." hope the students leave with a real- The Latino American room also ization of the absurdity of the pres- evoked strong emotions from students. sures of society, which even society The students within the tour group sometimes doesn't see." were asked to come into the room, According to Lederman, the with each person representing a differ- museum expects that more than ent Latin American country. 150 students will tour the room. According to Museum Coordinator They are hoping to make the Rogelio Hernandez, after stepping into museum an annual event. the room "America," the students were Minority groups that were not all forced to wear brown bags over their represented in specific rooms were heads. They were all called "Spics," given a wall for students to look effectively losing all the specific Latin through so as not to leave any American identities they carried. group out. CRIME Continued from Page 1A occur because students leave their res- idences or cars unlocked, Oates said. "There is a criminal underclass in this town that preys on students," Oates said. "We could impact crime in this city significantly if we can get students to lock their doors." Students living on and off campus tend to leave their doors unlocked and don't keep valuables concealed. This is particularly a problem in off-cam- pus housing, where a large number of students are living together. "Students don't pay particular attention to who is going into large residences, and they become easy vic- tims unnecessarily so," Oates said. "When there are five, 10, 15 students in dwellings, doors are left open and people will steal." Oates attributes this to students not knowing who else lives in their residences and to large residences usually have many people entering and exiting frequently. Oates added that more than 50 per- cent of thefts from cars occur because the vehicles are left unlocked. "We've got a police department that works very hard," Oates said. "We have regular crime strategy meetings with University police where we go through recent crime trends." The AAPD and Department of Pub- lic Safety use these Wednesday-morn- ing meetings to determine how to best allocate police patrols in order to respond to crimes that are occurring around the University. "Our meetings with them help," DPS Capt. Joe Pier- santi said. "We share information on crime trends, suspects and crime sta- tistics. If we see a certain trend, I show them to all the police bureau supervisors and we decide how to, deploy." DPS also divides the University into three districts and assigns offi- cers to specific districts and to specif- ic buildings within those districts, Piersanti said. "We try to open the lines of com- munication between officers and stu-, dents and officers and faculty," he added. In the effort to increase safety and: decrease crime, the AAPD tries to focus on apprehending individuals who have a prior criminal record because those individuals tend to repeatedly commit crimes and have outstanding warrants, AAPD Sgt. Jim Stephenson said. "What we are doing is taking a more active approach in going after fugitives," he said. "We are making a push to focus on those with a known criminal history." The AAPD has also offered a $500 reward for information that leads to an arrest of the attacker who stabbed a University student on Sunday. Anyone with information can call AAPD Detective Robyn Gillen at 994-2529. LAURA SHLECTER/Daily LSA sophomore Rachel Lederman and LSA freshman Andrew Wong direct the Boxes and Walls presentation at Hillel yesterday. RIAA Continued from Page 1A for numerous reasons, and not always because of the recent lawsuits. LSA senior Mark Bonges downloaded an average of two songs each day during his freshman year, but his activity has since waned. Programs like Kazaa can often cause computing problems, frustrating users enough to delete the programs. Even if the lawsuits fail to stop pirated music online, RIAA hopes to precipitate a discussion on file-sharing. "Now they are far more likely to at least think about the impact of their actions' Sherman said. If administration officials find the subpoenas legally viable, they will release the names of the students. Those students would then face a lawsuit by RIAA. Most cases are settled out of court, with settlements averaging $3,000, RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said. But copyright law allows "statutory damages" ranging from $750 to $150,000 per downloaded song, Sher- man said. The severity of sharing can increase the settlement. The 532 users subpoenaed shared an average of 837 songs per person. ABORTION Continued from Page 1A Alycia Welch, co-organizer of the University's V-Day College Campaign, said that Bush's actions have contributed to discussion the abortion debate. "With Bush's recent policies on abor- tion, particularly concerning partial birth abortions and his new quest to obtain the (University)'s hospital records on abor- tion procedures they have provided for women, Roe v. Wade is losing its hold," said Welch, an LSA junior. Roe v. Wade was the 1973 Supreme Court case that drew on a woman's right to privacy in order to legalize abortion. But while student feminist groups agree that abortion is a central issue that candidates should address, they do not concur on whether one candidate would represent all of their concerns. In a written statement, Erin Stringfellow, an executive board mem- ber of Students for Choice, said, "(John) Kerry is definitely a better candidate than Bush, but it would be a mistake to elect Kerry and assume women's freedoms will be preserved. "We can't lose sight of our long- term goal to ensure that all people - women and men - have the freedom to make healthy and responsible deci- sions, and that will take a lot more work than electing a Democratic presi- dent." Hardikar said that although Kerry has said he will support a woman's right to have an abortion, it is possible that his position will become more centrist in an effort to appeal to a wider range of voters as the November gener- al election approaches. Although abortion may become the central women's issue of the election, the students said there are other issues at stake that are important to women voters. "Choice is not just about abortion," Hardikar said. "Reproductive rights have to become more of a health issue because it has been proven that in coun- tries where women's reproductive health is protected, their general health is bet- ter," she said, referring to contraception. Welch said another issue candidates need to address is violence against women. "(Kerry) was one of the original co- sponsors of the Violence Against Women Act, which has provided over $1 billion if you've got ambition, pl We set high standards. We want people who share them. 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