Wednesday, December 8, 2004 'U' TO DEVELOP DEFENSES AGAINST ANTHRAX ... SCIENCE, PAGE 5 Opinion 4 Suhael Momin explains the liberal presence on campus Arts 8 New Bond game fails to five up to 'Golden' standard nutF Weather 33 TOMORROW: 48/ Sports 10 Depleted Wolverines down High Point one-hundredfourteen years ofeditorialfreedom www.micAhiandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan m Vol. CXV, No. 48 62004 The Michigan Daily Football player charged as flasher By Chris Burke Daily Sports Editor Just 11 days after starting offensive lineman Adam Stenavich was taken into custody for dis- orderly conduct, the Michigan football team is dealing with a second - and potentially much more serious - incident. At about 12:30 a.m. yesterday, redshirt sopho- more Larry Harrison was arrested on the 700 block of South Division Street after police say he exposed himself outside a window of a residence on that street. Starting tackle arrested for indecent exposure; police suspect more incidents According to Sgt. Matt Lige of the Ann Arbor Police Department, Harrison was charged with one count of indecent exposure and was released after paying a $500 bond. There have been about 13 cases of indecent exposure reported to the AAPD since August that police said Harrison may have been involved in. Harrison, a defensive tackle, was suspended from the football team. LSA junior Lauren Sogor, a resident at the house where Harrison was arrested, said no one in her house knew about the incident until police knocked on her door. "They said, 'We just got this guy. We've been trying to catch him for five months. He's been flashing himself over the city'," Sogor said. Harrison was not charged yesterday in any of the other occurrences, but an investigation is ongoing. "We have leads that we are following that would suggest that there is more than one inci- dent," Lige said. Sogor and her roommate, LSA junior Lisa Bakale-Wise, said no one within the house called the police, as Harrison's presence outside went unnoticed. Rather, the police told the tenants of the house that they arrested Harrison after spot- ting him on the front porch. "If he was out exposing himself to us, we didn't see it," Sogor said. "He saw us, but we didn't see him." Later yesterday, the three women who live at the house - Sogor, Bakale-Wise and Erin Strongfellow - released a statement to The Michigan Daily: "The Ann Arbor and University community and news media must be sure to look beyond this man's status as a University football player and address the reality of the crime: that this man has perpetrated a punishable sexual See ARREST, Page 3 Student heating bills set to rise By Laura Frank For the Daily To keep heating costs down, Kinesi- ology senior Leah Ketcheson and her seven roommates have instituted various heat-saving strategies around the house. She said her housemates turn down the thermostat during the day when they are out, and last year, they sealed the cracks around the windows. More money spent on heating bills "would mean less money for miscella- neous things," Ketcheson said. As winter begins, students are seek- ing the warmth of indoors. But this year, relief from the cold may be much more expensive. The cost of natural gas will be about 20 percent higher this year than last year according to Len Singer, spokesman for DTE Energy. Singer said the rise in fuel prices is primarily a result of limitations in sup- ply and increases in demand of fuel. On the supply side, the domestic pro- duction of natural gas has declined in recent years. "The natural gas is essentially run- ning out in the wells," Singer said. The new gas supplies being found are not as large as expected, and government con- trols and environmental concerns limit the amount of off-shore gas exploration, he added. Michigan currently relies on natural gas mainly from Western states, west- ern Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental regulations and limits on gas importation can raise costs and inhibit the development of new natural gas sources, especially hard-to-reach off-shore deposits. On the demand side, natural gas is now "the most common fuel used in home heating," Singer said. Demand for natural gas is high year-round due to its use in the production of electricity, and higher during the winter months. A typical home uses two-thirds of its total natural gas consumption between December and March. This year, mid- range customers will see their heat- ing bills rise from about $580 for four months to $690, or an increase of about $25 to $30 a month, Singer said. To deal with such costs, Ketcheson's landlord installed a system to help heat the house better and cleaned out the air See HEATING, Page 3 DREIDEL, DREIDEL, DREIDEL ---- U' on new dorm planning By Aymar Jean Daily Staff Reporter The University is at least one month behind in planning for the new residence hall set to replace the Frieze Building. Originally, administrators had expected to recom- mend an architectural design firm for the proposed } hall to the University Board of Regents at this month's regents' meeting on Dec. 16. But the job has proven more challenging than anticipated, and administra- tors said the University is still looking for an architect who can design the look of the building while accom- modating the hall's many aspects. The new hall, part of a broad initiative to revi- talize residential life, will combine housing suites totalling 500 students' beds with academic offices so that upperclassmen can interact with professors from various departments. An architect has not been selected because the new building has many uses, said Facilities and Operations spokeswoman Diane Brown. The build- ing will incorporate both "residential and academic spaces" - offices and living suites. The architect will also have to preserve the facade of the Carnegie Library attached to the Frieze Building. Constructing a new, modern residence hall is essential to recruiting the best students and staying 0 A competitive in the academic world, administrators have said. The University has not built a new hall in over 30 years, and many students and administrators believe some of the current facilities are either out of date or in need of renovation. While construction of new dorms has been attempted in past decades, it MIKE HULSEBUS/Daily has always faced delays. Jen Rothstein, Alexis Frankel, Kirk Lazell, Kris Claphan, and Kate Geitner play dreidel at Hillel during the annual Flaming Menorah Party When Henry proposed extensive changes-to Uni- on the first day of Hanukkah yesterday. See FRIEZE, Page 7 Students nd common ground on Mideast conflict By Michael Kan Daily Staff Reporter University alum Arik Cheshin served in the Israeli army from 1995 to 1998 and saw his com- mander killed in action, a friend maimed by a land mine and two men in his unit severely burned by Molotov cocktails, a type of handmade bomb. Born in a Syrian refugee camp for Palestinians, LSA senior Carmel Salhi said he and his fam- ily can never return to their ancestral homeland because of the Israeli occupation. From soldier to refugee, the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cut across both sides of a decades-old clash that extends even to the lives of students at the University. While the casualties of the conflict resonate on the campus, the same Israeli-Palestinian division does as well. Whether it be guest speakers lecturing on the bias of media coverage of the Middle East or University discussions on divesting from Israel, the campus has been its own battleground for the conflict. Spearheading these efforts are the various Israeli and Palestinian advocacy groups on cam- pus, led by students like Salhi and Cheshin, who aim to educate the campus about their viewpoints on the conflict. The contrasting positions often mirror the tension in the Middle East. Yet in the past week, a renewed search to find common ground among the groups has begun. Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups met Thurs- day to listen to one another's perspectives in hopes of fostering cooperation with one another. Despite their differing viewpoints, they agree that coop- eration is the only solution that can achieve both sides' most vital goal - peace. Their desire for peace becomes most clear when the groups hold vigils. The frustration "Any time you recognize the human cost of conflict, you highlight the true driving force behind peace. - Carmel Salhi President, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality over the incessant violence and the necessity to preserve human life drives the groups to light candles on the Diag or fast for the victims, group leaders said. "Any time you recognize the human cost of con- flict, you highlight the true driving force behind peace," said Salhi, president of the pro-Palestin- ian organization Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. "We're saying that terrorism is wrong, and the killing of innocent people is not the right way to go. And the vigils are there to commemorate that. We are calling for an end to violence," said Cheshin, advisor to the Israeli Students Organi- zation and coordinator of the Israeli Community Ann Arbor. On Oct. 7, when an explosion in a Hilton hotel in Egypt near Israel's border claimed the lives of 35 people, around 40 members from the differ- ent Jewish groups on campus lit candles on the Diag. Out of coincidence, a SAFE vigil near the See CONFLICT, Page 2 Thefts of student property - spike during exam week By Leslie Rott Daily Staff Reporter During exam week, when students take their book bags - often con- taining thousands of dollars worth of electronics and other valuables - all over campus, police are warning students to take extra caution against "Thefts appear to increase during finals because this is the time thieves easily can thefts increase on campus during finals. One, she said, is that there are more students studying at locations that are accessible to the public, which become available for longer hours during finals. She added that students tend to be "more careless with their belong- ings, as they are focused on their LA I