NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 7, 2005 - 3A ON CAMPUS Prof will discuss ancient gender reversal expression Law Prof. Bruce Frier will host a free brown bag lecture at noon today discussing the lifestyle of the cinaedi, a group of males in the Roman Empire who pursued a life- style characterized by effeminate dress, makeup, hairdos and other aspects of gender reversal. The lecture will be held in the Rackham Graduate School's Oster- man Common Room. Speaker to tell *unsettling stories of shock therapy There will be a free lecture titled "The Unsettling Stories of Shock Ther- apy" at the School of Social Work in room 1644. The lecture is part of the Science, Technology, Medicine and Society speaker Series and will feature Case Western Reserve University Prof. Jona- than Sadowski. Art work of excons to be displayed at Duderstadt Center A multimedia exhibition showcasing art work by formerly imprisoned youth and adult artists in the Prison Creative Arts Project opens today in the Duder- stadt Center. An, opening reception at 6:30 p.m. will inaugurate the exhibit, and both the 0 exhibit and reception are free. CRIME * NOTES Omelet stolen from University hospital Hospital security reported the lar- ceny of an omelet at the University Hospital on Saturday around 11:15 a.m. The suspect was allegedly a patient in the psych ward that is cur- rently under investigation, according to the Department of Public Safety. Column in front of Union set on fire S 'A cement column at the Michigan Union, with fliers posted on it, was set on fire on Sunday morning around 4 a.m. DPS officers arrived immediately on the scene to extinguish the act of arson. The Ann Arbor Fire Department came shortly afterwards to pour more water on the fire. There are no suspects at this time. DPS investigates student's fall at Law Library While leaving the reading room at the University's Law Library, a student tripped and fell early Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. The student sustained an injury, but refused an ambulance. DPS was sent to advise the student and confirmed that a hospital visit was unnecessary. * THIS DAY In Daily History Soldier unaware * he is AWOL Nov. 7, 1943 - Officer Candidate Edward Hamilton returned yesterday to his room in the Law quadrangle and discovered an unpleasant surprise: He had been reported missing since last Wednesday. Hamilton is a student in the Univer- sity's Judge Advocate General's School. Five days ago, he had been informed that he was to be transferred to another loca- tion. Friends said this news understand- ably depressed Hamilton, who enjoyed his post here. Hence, his sudden disappearance from his room for five days was met with trepi- dation. The police department received a report describing Hamilton as "soldier Parents worry blogs are being misused Computer labs at Alaskan school will tighten control over which websites students can visit JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Some parents want the school district to ban students from using school computers to access blogs, or Web logs, where they say teenagers are glamorizing the use of drugs and alcohol, promoting parties and post- ing personal information. "Our biggest mission, I think, is to just genu- inely heighten the awareness - let parents know that this is going on," said parent Kathi Collum with Parents Unite, a newly formed Juneau parent- advocacy group. At least 300 Juneau-Douglas High School stu- dents are listed with sites under myspace.com, but parents also worry about postings on two others blogs, xanga.com, and livejournal.com. "Miller Light has waaaaay more taste then Bud Light," one 16-year-old from Juneau wrote on a blog, under a photo posted of him presumably drinking a beer. A 16-year-old Juneau girl wrote: "I wanna boy so drunk he doesn't talk Monday." "Our point is not to impede free speech or their ability to express themselves. We just don't want the school district to allow it to go on there (at school), and we want these kids to be safe," parent Amy Deininger told the Juneau Empire. Juneau-Douglas High School computer technician Barbara Kelly-Page said the school has been working on ways to better monitor Internet use on the school's roughly 500 computers. New software lets administrators monitor a cer- tain number of the computers. The school also has an Internet filter that blocks pornographic sites. Blocking individual sites would be difficult because of their number, which is increasing con- stantly, Kelly-Page said. Superintendent Peggy Cowan said the school board and the district are discussing possible solutions to the problem of easy access to the Internet at school. "The use and visiting of these kinds of blogs (at school) is strictly prohibited," Cowan said. The high school has yet to discipline students for breaking the rule, she said, but students could face detention, suspension or expulsion, depending on the infraction. Monitoring sites is difficult because the majority of the traffic to online journal sites is done outside of school, Juneau-Douglas business teacher Lesslie Knight said. She said some students believe these are personal journals. "As a district we can't discipline something they did outside of school," Cowan said. The blogs discuss everything from touting drugs and alcohol, to animosity toward parents, to cheating on tests. Parents also worried about teenagers who post provocative photos along with information about how the teen can be reached. Group members also worry about online party- networking through the sites. Police last weekend broke up an underage drinking party that had been advertised online. Five teenagers were cited for underage drinking and a 52-year-old woman was cited for furnishing alcohol to minors. Delphi workers gather to dicuss new strategy COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. (AP) - of the UAW and on the cell phone voice Facing the possibility of deep wage conces- mail of spokesman Paul Krell. sions and even job cuts, unionized workers Reporters were not allowed into the at Delphi Corp. met yesterday to exchange meeting at the UAW Local 1231 union hall information and discuss strategy. but afterward spoke with several attend- Hourly employees of other companies ees, including Tom Vis, a 32-year Delphi in the automotive industry also attended employee who described the meeting's the meeting to show their support for atmosphere as "apprehensive." Delphi workers and voice concerns that "Everything's up in the air because they may soon find themselves in the we don't have information," said Vis, 53, same position. an electrician at a plant in Wyoming, just "Anybody with any intelligence real- southwest of Grand Rapids. izes we are next," said Paul Baxter, 52, He said union workers know what Rob- a 27-year employee of General Motors ert "Steve" Miller, Delphi's chairman and Corp. who works at the automaker's Flint chief executive officer, wants to do, but Metal Plant. "Whatever they can get out they don't know what the UAW is coun- of Delphi's workers, they're going to try to teroffering. extract from us." The Troy-based company filed for The meeting took place at a United Auto Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy pro- Workers union hall in the Grand Rapids tection Oct. 8 after failing to reach a suburb of Comstock Park. Although the restructuring agreement with the UAW UAW represents most of Delphi's approxi- and GM, its former parent company. mately 34,000 U.S. hourly workers, the Delphi is GM's former parts division. union did not authorize the meeting. The automaker bought $14 billion in Rather, it was a grass-roots effort orga- parts from Delphi last year, or around nized by members of the rank and file who 16 percent of its total parts spending. say they are concerned about the lack of Delphi wants its union workers to information coming from their interna- accept pay cuts of more than 60 per- tional union. cent, a proposal that elicited an angry Telephone messages seeking comment response from the UAW and other were left at the Detroit-based headquarters labor unions. ELECTIONS Continued from page 1A "Vote your hopes, not your fears," Jackson said. "Re-elect your mayor." When voters elected Kilpatrick four years ago, at age 31, he became one of the city's youngest mayors. But after finishing second in the August primary and trailing Hendrix in the polls, he is at risk of becoming the first Detroit mayor defeated in a re- election bid since 1961. But Kilpatrick has gained ground on Hendrix as the election neared, according to a recent poll. That poll found 49 percent said they backed Hendrix, 39 percent said they backed Kilpatrick and 12 percent said they were undecided, compared with a 19-point gap between the two in Sep- tember. Yesterday, Kilpatrick, now 35, drew attention to his age during the stop at Hartford Memorial, which was one of six church stops planned for the day. He said his youthfulness is an asset in a city that has suffered the effects of the declining manufac- turing industry and is looking for a new way. "I'm asking you to trust what you raised," Kilpatrick said. "I'm ask- ing you to give me another chance to move this city forward." Hendrix, 55, had seven church stops on his agenda for the day, plus other events including meeting with residents at their homes. He said the final push is an extension of what he's done in nearly two years of cam- paigning, although the pace has been stepped up with only two days before the election. Ii I SAPAC Continued from page 1A addressing the needs of South Asian survivors of sexual violence. Wickliffe said there is very little information geared toward helping international students overcome the obstacles they face. "Beyond the language challenges for some students, fear of community shame, self-blame, and concern for confidentiality are just a few factors involved in making a decision to report sexual violence," Wickliffe said. The new programs were created after SAPAC supporters fought a battle with the University to keep the 24-hour cri- sis hotline as an on-campus feature. The University had proposed that the Washtenaw County's sexual assault and domestic violence service provider could handle the crisis line on its own. But a firestorm was ignited because stu- dents felt an on-campus crisis line was necessary in helping sexual assault sur- vivors feel comfortable enough to make the call. Because of resistance from students, SAPAC maintained its crisis line and the University appointed two counsel- ors to administer the hotline, moving them from the SAPAC office on North University Avenue to the Counseling and Psychological Services office in the Michigan Union. Although some believed relocating the counselors to the Union would not afford students enough privacy, Soet reiterated that the SAPAC office is still a "safe space" for survivors, friends and family to receive help. Soet, the new director of SAPAC, replaced Kelly Cichy after she resigned to pursue high school teaching. Soet volunteered at SAPAC from 1988 to 1989 and helped establish a summer program to educate the fresh- man class about sexual violence and alcohol and drug abuse. The Department of Communication Studies presents a Howard R. Marsh lecture on Democracy and the Media *i~~ gig