NEWS
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 3A
ON CAMPUS
Detroit Lions exec
{speaks on his
career
Tom Lewand, a University alum and
executive vice president of the Detroit
Lions, will talk with University stu-
dents and members of the Ann Arbor
community about his career today at
7:30 p.m. in 250 Hutchins Hall of the
Law School.
Lewand, who received a master's
degree at the University's Business
School, runs the Lions' day-to-day
operations, including negotiating play-
er contracts and managing the team's
salary cap.
Lecture examines
barriers for Asian
Americans voters
Glenn Magpantay of the Asian Amer-
ican Legal Defense and Education Fund
will hold a lecture today about voters'
rights at 7 p.m. in room 150 of Hutchins
Hall in the Law School. The lecture will
-examine what issues are important for
Asian Americans in this year's election
and what barriers the community faces
at the polls.
University center
celebrates birthday
The Center for the Education
of Women is celebrating 40 years
on campus with a keynote speaker
tomorrow at 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in
the Michigan League Ballroom.
Julianne Malveaux, an economist
and author, will give a lecture titled
"Making Room for Sadie: Race,
Gender and Access in Higher Edu-
cation and Society."
CRIME
NOTES
Syringes, camera
stolen from 'U'
cancer center
A caller reported to the Department of
Public Safety on Tuesday morning that a
plastic box with syringes, needles and a
,digital camera was stolen from the Uni-
versity's Cancer and Geriatrics Center.
Unattended candle
burns tabletop
A caller reported to DPS at about
5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning that a burn-
.ing candle that had been left unattended
damaged a table top in the International
:Institute on 1220 S. University Ave.
Caller asks to meet
DPS about theft of
cassette player
A caller asked a DPS officer to meet
'with them regarding the theft of a cas-
sette player. The caller said they would
'notify DPS when her or she arrived
home in the Northwood V apartments
and were able to meet with the officer.
DPS has no suspects in the cassette
player's theft.
THIS DAY
In Daily History
Botany prof claims
yellow color hidden
in leaves
October 14, 1934 - Botany Prof.
C.D. LaRue released a new paper
explaining why leaves change colors in
the fall. The paper, titled "The Fall of
a Leaf," claims that during the summer
leaves contain a green pigment, but also
a yellow one which remains hidden due
to chlorophyll.
Each fall some "mysterious alchemy
of nature, perhaps the oncoming of the
cool nights warns the leaves that their
end is near," LaRue states in the paper.
The green pigment is destroyed by a
layer of cells that forms on the base of
the leaf, cutting off the flow of water and
sugar, LaRue states.
Student's 1997 death stirs
talk on gender violence
By Alex Garivaltis
For the Daily
Tamara Williams, a Detroit native,
was poised to finish a general stud-
ies degree at the University in the
fall of 1997 when she was fatally
stabbed by her boyfriend.
Many women are killed by their
partners like Williams, but an
organization is proposing a plan to
reduce gender-based violence. Yes-
terday more than 80 students and
area residents honored her at the
Tamara Williams Memorial Lecture
in East Hall's first floor auditorium.
A sequence of local news clips from
the day of Williams's death set the
tone for the lecture, reminding the
audience of the profound effect her
murder had on the community.
The lecture, "Gender Based Vio-
lence Throughout Our World," was
delivered by Deborah Billings, a
University alum. Billings, a senior
associate in research and evaluation
for the international health organi-
zation Ipas, said "violence against
women is a problem that cuts across
disciplines."
Billings, who coordinates action
and intervention research on sexual
violence, abortion and reproductive
health, outlined a three-point "pro-
posal for action" aimed at a global
reduction in gender-based violence.
Her proposal takes careful note of
the public health risks and human
rights violations that accompany the
global problem of gender-based vio-
lence.
"(Gender-based violence) is one
of the most explicit manifestations
of gender inequi-
ty and inequality "(Gender-i
in the world ...
I want to thank violence)
feminists around
the world for cre- the most E
ating the concept
of gender," she manifesta
said. enderin
One and a half
million Ameri- and inequ
can women are
raped or assault- in the woi
ed by an intimate
partner each
year, Billings -
said. She added R
that 33 percent of
American women
many nations, in
startling number
experiences with
which she said a
of women's first
sex are involun-
tary.
Billings participates in a broad set
of efforts aimed at curbing gender-
based violence on an international
scale. She
based
is one of
explicit
tions of
equity
ality
rld. "
Deborah Billin
esearcher at IF
has advocated major
change in medi-
cal and nursing
curricula around
the globe.
But yesterday
Billings empha-
sized that such
work is just the
tip of the ice-
berg. "There's no
one solution, and
we're not going
to find it anytime
soon," she said.
Williams's
gs daughter, father,
as and grandfather
were in atten-
dance.
murdered each year are killed by To end the lecture, the floor was
their sexual partners. ceded to any member of the family
Williams had pressed charges that wished to speak. After a brief
against her boyfriend but they con- pause, Williams's father took the
tinued to share Family Housing on podium.
North Campus with their daughter. "I didn't come prepared to give a
Billings also disparaged practices speech, but I appreciate you keeping
of sexual initiation widespread in my daughter's spirit alive," he said.
EUGENE ROBERTSON/Daily
Keynote speaker Deborah Billings discusses global violence against women
yesterday at the Tamara Williams Memorial Lecture In East Hall.
Historical library undergoes expansion
By Karl Stampfl
Daily Staff Reporter
The original act to found the University
in 1817, extensive documents on the history
of the state, curriculum plans dating back
nearly 200 years - the University was run-
ning out of space to house such material until
a 34,000-foot expansion was completed this
year that almost doubled the Bentley Histori-
cal Library's space, Director Francis Blouin
said.
"It came in the nick of time because we had
needed an expansion for 15 years," he said.
"We were jam-packed."
The library, located on North Campus,
houses a collection chronicling the history of
the state and the University. Most of the con-
struction project expanded the library's stacks
where such materials are stored, said Amanda
Carvell, a School of Information graduate stu-
dent who works for the library and uses its
materials for research.
Two-thirds of the expansion added storage
space, while one-third of the added area is
workspace for researchers, including addition-
al meeting rooms and computer terminals.
Larry Wagenaar, director of the Historical
Society of Michigan, said the library needed
the expansion.
"It's an outstanding collection of material,"
he said. "But when you're that full, you have
to be more critical than you ought to be when
you're archiving. You have to turn (historical
material) away that you don't want to."
Shelf space was at such a premium that
some materials were stored in boxes on the
floor, Carvell said.
Some materials had to be housed outside of
the library.
"Now we don't have to send people off-site
to find what they need," Blouin said. "It allows
us to reconfigure our space, and put away
some things from our collection that we stored
in the formerly cramped reading room."
The expansion - approved in 2002 by the
University's Board of Regents and begun in
June 2003 - was completed last week at a
Two-thirds of the 34,000-foot expansion added storage
space for the library's collections, while one-third
of the added area is workspace for researchers.
cost of $5.8 million. The library closed during
the summer of 2003 while workers renovated
it. This summer, construction began on an
addition to the building, which was then con-
nected to the original building this fall.
Plans for an addition dated as far back as
1978, when benefactor Alvin Bentley decided
to sponsor the construction of more space
because she liked the library so much.
After an architect drew up potential plans,
Bentley died unexpectedly at the age of 55,
before she could commit funding to the proj-
ect.
"I found the plans in a closet when I took
over as director in 1981, and we based the con-
struction on those designs," Blouin said.
Financial issues prevented the project from
getting off the ground before now.
"It's always a question of getting the right
money together to make sure the project's
done well," Blouin said.
The Bentley library's collection includes
60,000 printed volumes, 1.5 million photo-
graphs and more than 10,000 maps.
The library's design looks toward the future,
Blouin said.
Construction is not totally complete,
because 25,000 feet of storage space in the
library's south stacks lacks shelves. A project
slated for winter 2005 will add the necessary
shelves,
Construction also updated heating, ventila-
tion and air conditioning. A new fire detection
system was added to protect the documents.