Wednesday, October 27, 2004 TH A i ENDORSrrES O NJ"' ",- " . O II T 3' AE News 3 MSA comes out against Proposal 2 Arts 5 Holly Golightly keeps up the pace Sports 10 Braylon and Marlin create intense practice matchups One-hundredfourteen years ofedtorialfreedom -- - -- - --- -------------------- ------------------- - -- - -- --- - -- ---- M IM M " I I I I I I AIR I Al I Is No I A I I A a I I No III IN OR I ------- Now www. michikandaiy. com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXV, No. 19 62004 The Michigan Daily Debate airs views of all candidates mint MIULOtu5DllyU~LOI SLSA sophomore Beth Turk looks at shirts carrying slogans decrying sexualized violence. The shirts were displayed as part of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center's clothesline project before SAPAC's Speak Out event yesterday. Survivors speak on sexual violence By Alex Garivaltis Daily Staff Writer Third-party candidates may not have gotten their day in the sun during the televised national debates, but in a debate yesterday at the Law School, they all got to speak their piece. The debate, hosted by The Michi- gan Daily, afforded student representa- tives from the Democratic, Republican, Reform, Socialist, Libertarian and Green parties, as ble well as a represen- I 1 tative for Ralph Nader's campaign, of OppOrt a chance to air their e+t party platforms. equality Iraq took center If stage as LSA junior / Andrew Moylan, equality, v chair of the College Libertarians, said he be equall disapproved of the war but noted that _- the United States should be commit-n ted to restoring law and order to Iraq, arguing against set- ting a firm deadline for the withdrawal of troops. "It's clear we've stuck our nose into something that's very difficult to get out of," he said. The auditorium erupted with laughter when Jamison Ruth, a member of the Col- lege Democrats executive board, said "John Kerry is not pro-war, but I wouldn't call him anti-war either." Ruth, an LSA sopho- more, qualified his statement by saying. Kerry would have conducted the war with more moderation than President Bush. n equality :unity, not )f results. nt absolute we can all Spoor." )avid Wolkinson nember, College Republicans North, a member a Rackham student, argued that the inva- sion of Iraq was a "war of aggression" whose illegality was firmly established by the Nuremberg Trials, in which Nazi officials were tried after World War II. Tanniru was applauded after he called members of the Bush adminis- tration "war crimi- nals." Lively debate ensued when David of the World Social- David Wolkinson, member of the University College Republicans, addressed whether Bush's case for war is still adequate given the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. Wolkinson, a Law student, said Sad- dam Hussein's obsession with weapons of mass destruction and his willingness to use them against his own people jus- tified the war. In a rebuttal, Joseph Tanniru, presi- dent of Students for Social Equality and By Victoria Edwards Daily Staff Reporter Rape may be the biggest violation that can be inflicted on a woman. But for LSA junior Nicole Terwilliger, the anniversary of her rape four years ago is something she wants to celebrate, not for the act itself, but for the strength required in overcoming it. The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center's 18th annual Speak Out yesterday provided Terwilliger and other sexual assault victims and their friends an environment in which they could freely share their experiences. The largest turnout of students to date for a Speak Out attended the event in the Michigan Union yesterday, with a final tally of around 100, said SAPAC spokeswoman and LSA junior Lindsay Jolley. "With each passing year there is more aware- ness about the issues. It's really great that so many people came to support" sexual assault survivors, Jolley added. The speakers who chose to discuss their expe- riences, all of whom were women, were given the choice of speaking at either the media or confiden- tiality podiums. The podiums, side by side on the stage, gave victims who wanted more anonymity the choice to do so. "The goal was to give people an area to speak. A lot of times survivors don't have an area where they can express what happened and where they can be believed," LSA junior and SAPAC volunteer Caro- line Roberts said. Terwilliger, who chose to speak at the media podium, was one of several women who spoke about her experience with sexual assault. She tear- fully described the assault that occurred to her at a party during her senior year of high school. "I was raped by someone I'd gone to school with since seventh grade. I didn't know him super well, but I still didn't think he'd do that to me. See SAPAC, Page 7 ist Web Site editorial board, asked the Democratic and Republican representa- tives if they believed the current "vast political polarization" and "economic inequity" is good for the nation. Wolkinson emphatically delivered the Republican response. "I believe in equal- ity of opportunity, not equality of results. If you want absolute equality, we can all be equally poor,"he said. Wolkinson stated he See DEBATE, Page 7 Gay, transgender community critiques task force proposals By Ekjyot Saini Daily Staff Reporter "We're on a journey ... the closer we get to the end, the heavier our legs get to make those final steps," said Vice President of Student Affairs E. Royster Harper last night while delivering to a group of concerned University and community members the first report regarding the progress of the Trans- gender, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Task Force. The task force, created last spring, issued a report in April discussing the climate on campus for transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay faculty, staff and students and also provided a list of rec- ommendations that should be implemented. Sug- gestions include rewording the University bylaws, Transgender issues prove hot-button topic at meeting greater education and training of the University community regarding transgender rights, creating accessible facilities for transgender students and reassessment of the Comprehensive Gender Ser- vices at University Health Services. Specific efforts suggested in the report to com- bat discrimination against transgender individuals' include establishing more unisex bathrooms and signs indicating the existence of these facilities. The report refers to the need for safer health care through UHS, including the provision of hormones needed to maintain sex changes and drawing up lists of staff specially trained in transgender health. University Provost Paul Courant opened the meeting discussing the creation of subcommit- tees that would oversee issues of education and visibility, health care and name changes for those in the gay and transgender community. Many present at the forum were concerned with transgender issues, the impact of upcoming elections and the lack of a public statement from University President Mary Sue Coleman regard- ing Proposal 2, which would ban gay marriages in Michigan. Andre Wilson, co-founder of Trans- forum, a group for the University's transgender community, made an emphatic point regarding the lack of attention being given to discrimination of the transgender community in health care. "(Health care) is a fundamental issue of dis- crimination. It is something that cannot take years down the line," said Wilson, a graduate student in the College of Architecture. He said that the University's MCare and GradCare health insurance plans exclude the transgender community. Law Prof. Bruce Frier, chair of the task force, made clear that many legal and financial issues complicate the removal discriminatory health care policies. He also went on to mention that the purpose of the task force was to assess the issues, not to create the policy and decide how it would be implemented. Concerns regarding the impact of Proposal 2, as well as the potential impact of the upcoming Uni- versity Board of Regents election, were addressed. Courant said the University will continue to defend against any possible challenge it may face regard- ing its policy toward the gay and transgender com- munity, especially affected faculty and staff who receive benefits. Some at the meeting expressed concern that support for work on transgender See TASK FORCE, Page 7 University capital fund completes first public offering BREAKING FAST TOGETHER Fast-A-Thon feeds students, A2 omnity By Michael Kan Daily Staff Reporter I By Adhiraj Dutt Daily Staff Reporter After six years and the contribution of about 80 students, the University's Wolverine Venture Fund completed its first initial public offering for the stock market earlier this month - boosting its capital to about $3.5 million and providing real-world investment expe- rience to business students. The sale of IntraLase, which devel- ops lasers for LASIK eye surgery, is the most recent activity of the fund, which operates out of the Ross School of Busi- ness and allows MBA students to gain experience in the venture capital pro- cess. Since the Fund was created in 1997, it has made 20 investments in 11 differ- ent early-stage companies, said Timo- thy Faley, the fund's managing director. IntraLase, which began trading on board with venture capital experience. "Other universities have venture funds, but we are the only school to let the fund be fully run by students," Faley said. The fund began with the involve- ment of six students, and nearly 80 have worked with the Fund in its short history. "It is a student-led fund. Students are making all the decisions. We do have advisors who are entrepreneurs and venture capitalists," said MBA student Tony Pandjiris, who is in his second year of working with the fund. "While the students are making the decisions, the advisors give the students their per- spectives on how to approach deals, and the students are able to discuss their conclusions with the advisors." The Fund is always searching for new investments. The students current- ly running the Fund are divided into C-... ..- tnmc.that rac'nr-.h ;nintmnnt From sunrise to sunset yesterday, more than 100 non-Mus- lim students gave up food and water as they participated in the Muslim Students' Association's third annual Fast-A-Thon. Participants not only raised money for the Ann Arbor Food Gatherers, who donate food throughout the community, but also caught a glimpse of the value of fasting in the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, when Muslims believe their holy book the Quran was revealed to the prophet Muhammed. As participants in the Fast-A-Thon, non-Muslim students observed the holy month for one day, in an attempt to both raise their awareness about hunger in the United States and combat misconceptions about the holiday. Fast-A-Thon co-chair Zeenah Khader said through fasting, non-Muslim students could discover the reality of both issues. "It gives students a day of purification and also lets students discover how those in need feel about having no food" she said. Local businesses also donated funds to the Ann Arbor Food Gatherers for every non-Muslim who fasted. The students' sacrifices came with another reward. though. I .