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sick and dying that would
overwhelm the healthcare
system. By November, Uni-
versity Health Service will
be equipped with more than
50,000 masks. It will be pre-
pared to open an alternate
health-care system in the case
that the hospital exceeds its
capacity.
There are also plans to keep
the Universityrunningsmooth-
ly in the event that school build-
ings will need to be used for the
hospital's overflow. For exam-
ple, some classes may have to
become online correspondence
courses to free up space.
CMU received a total of $82,383,700,
or $4,116.71 per undergraduate, for fiscal
year 2007, while the University received
$325,796,300, or $12,792.88 per undergrad-
uate.
But at the state's three major research
universities - the University of Michigan,
Michigan State University and Wayne State
University - much of the state's money
goes to graduate education and research.
If McHugh's proposal were to be imple-
mented and money were allocated to univer-
sities on a per-student basis, the University's
instructional appropriations would likely
decrease while CMU's would increase.
But McHugh argues that the adoption of
his proposal would not necessarily result
in funding cuts for the University, because
more money could become available in the grams that it deemed wasteful or unworthy
form of research dollars. of state spending. Likewise, universities that
"I'm not proposing could demonstrate the
cutting U of M's or "I'm not proposing value of their research
any other university's would receive the fund-
funding, I'm propos- cutting U of M 's ing they need.
ing transparency," he Both Governor Jen-
said. or any other nifer Granholm, who
To achieve trans- is up for re-election
parency, the Univer- university's funding, in November, and
sity should be forced 'p rher Republican chal-
to justify why it needs m vrovosing lenger Dick DeVos in
so much more money transpare cy" November's election are
to educate an under- a ereluctant to support any
graduate than other drastic changes to the
state universities, -Jack McHugh higher education fund-
McHugh said. Legislative analyst, ing system like those
By making each Mackinac Center for Public Policy proposed by McHugh,
state university make their spokespeople said.
its case for receiving "While the formula
extra money for research, the Legislature may need some changing, a straight per-
could withhold funding for research or pro- student expenditure probably doesn't work
because of the nuances of the different uni-
versities' DeVos spokesman John Truscott
said.
Cynthia Wilbanks, the University's vice
president for government relations, echoed
those sentiments.
A formulaic approach to funding "tends
to mask the complexity of a place like the
University of Michigan," she said.
"U of M has suggested that a formula
just simply isn't able to capture the breadth
and depth of an institution like our major
research institution," she said.
The state should treat the University dif-
ferently in the appropriations process in
part because a University education is so
valuable, Wilbanks said.
"We're prepared year after year to articu-
late - by way of example - the difference
of a Michigan education," she said. "You
see it in some ways by the fact that 25,000
students apply to this institution."
SAPACgrown to provide
tial services suc
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crisis interventio
SAPAC programs. The organization
"We want to reach men with issues of Men Against'
consent and teach them about being a 'pro- to recruit men.
active bystander'," said
LSA junior Gerald Gor- "We want to reach
dinier, who coordinated
the event. "This is not men with issues
just an issue for women and
to solve. Men need to be of consent
involved, too" teach them about
SAPAC volunteers set
up games of "privilege being a'pr ctie
pong" during the hours
of high student traffic bystander."'
between 10 a.m. and 4
p.m. yesterday. They
hoped to entice passing - Gerald Gordinier
male students to volun- LSA junior
teer at the center, located - - -
at 715 N. University.
Throughout the day, about 400 to 500 of sexual violen
people stopped by. solution, organi
"I think the event was very successful "SAPAC isn'
and we will do it again on a wider scale Gordinier said.
next year," Gordinier said. stance that men
Since opening in 1986, SAPAC has problem."
e various free and confiden-
ch as a 24-hour crisis line,
irvivors of sexual assault,
on, workshops and training.
n has recently worked with
Violence Against Women
This year, SAPAC hired
its first male assistant,
Scott Pharp, to oversee
male activism.
"No one needs to
be a victim of sexu-
al assault," said LSA
senior Jenna Casey, a
SAPAC volunteer. "We
want to target men to
help them be a positive
influence against vio-
lence."
Starting off the year
recruiting male volun-
teers will help change
the traditional view that
men are simply the cause
ce and can't be part of the
zers said.
I about pointing fingers,"
"Men's activism takes a
can be a solution to the
Standoff in Ariz.
school false alarm
KATHLEEN GALLIGAN/Daily
Danny Polster, 10, enjoys the motorcycle sculptures by Sonny Dalton during the Arts, Beats and Eats in
Pontiac on Monday.
New book predicts Great
akes ecological tragedy
Book compares Great
Lakes to Aral Sea, which
has been reduced to a
quarter of its previous size
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - Peter
Annin recalls staring in fascinated hor-
ror at what had been the coast of the
Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, now a desolate
wasteland strewn with scrub brush and
corroded hulls of abandoned fishing
boats.
Once the world's fourth-largest
inland water body, the Aral has shrunk
to a quarter of its previous surface area
in less than half a century - the result
of a Soviet-era decision to divert rivers
feeding the sea to promote farming in
that arid section of central Asia.
Annin visited the region while
researching his book, "The Great Lakes
Water Wars," published by Island Press
and scheduled for release Sept. 14. The
former Newsweek magazine correspon-
dent says he'd heard ominous references
to the Aral disaster while studying the
debate over Great Lakes water diversion
and wanted to see it for himself.
"It kind of defies the bounds of the
mind to grasp how dire the ecological
situation is there, Annin said in an
interview. "When you're standing on the
bottom of a sea bed where there should
have been water 45 feet over your head,
and instead there's none as far as the eye
can see, how do you describe that?"
Ecological and political differences
make it unlikely the Great Lakes will
suffer the Aral's fate, but the tragedy
still conveys a warning, Annin says:
"What it showed to me in a very surreal
way was that these giant lakes are vul-
nerable, they actually can be drained.
They are not immune to human destruc-
tion."
Annin's book comes nine months
after representatives of the eight Great
Lakes states signed a compact to ban
most diversions of water outside the
drainage basin, require each state to
regulate water use and establish a
regional standard for large-scale water
withdrawals. The Canadian provinces
of Ontario and Quebec pledged sepa-
rately to adopt the same policies.
But the compact still faces an uphill
climb, needing approval of legislatures
in each state and the U.S. Congress to
take effect.
* "The Great Lakes Water Wars"
describes the agreements and the con-
tentious negotiations that produced
them. But that's just the conclusion of
a story that began more than a century
earlier with construction of the Chicago
Sanitary and Ship Canal, which diverts
water away from Lake Michigan.
The book relates the history of that
still-controversial project and other
legal and political skirmishes that led to
the regional agreements. And it explains
how the Great Lakes were formed, their
unique characteristics and the threats
facing them, from the global water
shortage to exotic species and climate
change.
Annin, 43, who lives in Madison,
Wis., followed a variety of stories dur-
ing 11 years at Newsweek, including the
Waco standoff and the Oklahoma City
bombing. He eventually tired of "disas-
ter chasing" and narrowed his focus to
environmental jour-
nalism. "I kindo
His idea for "The jU
Great Lakes Water the boun
Wars" took hold after
a Canadian consulting mind to
firm called The Nova
Group ignited a fire- dire theE
storm in 1998 by pro-
posing shipments of situation
Lake Superior water
to Asia. Covering
a public meeting in
Chicago, Annin was auto
struck by the depth L
of feeling as ordinary
citizens described what the lakes meant
to them.
"I just thought, 'Wow, this is really an
enormous and complex issue,"' he says.
Looking into it further, he concluded it
was "so massive, so emotional, so com-
plicated a topic, it seemed to be a natu-
ral book."
Annin began developing the proj-
ect in earnest after leaving Newsweek
to become associate director of the
Institutes for Journalism and Natu-
ral Resources, a nonprofit foundation
that supports improved environmental
reporting.
His research took him from the Aral
Sea to the Canadian wilderness. And it
convinced him an era of political war-
ring over the Great Lakes, which make
up nearly 20 percent of the world's fresh
surface water, is under way.
Noah Hall, a Wayne State University
environmental law professor and one of
Annin's sources for the book, says he
initially considered the "Water Wars"
title hyperbolic but changed his mind
after reading it.
"Peter documents over 20 years of
fights over Great Lakes water and clear-
ly shows that those fights were just the
first round of what's going to be many
long battles," Hall says.
Those two decades began when
the region's governors and premiers
approved the Great Lakes Charter in
1985. Although nonbinding, it commit-
ted the states and provinces to manage
the lakes as one system and consult each
1t
e
:
c,
other about proposals for major with-
drawals.
The next year, Congress amended the
federal Water Resources Development
Act (WRDA), enabling the governor
of any Great Lakes state to veto any
planned diversion of water outside the
basin.
The law and the charter were inspired
largely by rumored schemes to pipe
huge volumes of Great Lakes water
long distances - perhaps to replenish
the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains
or relieve drought in New York City.
But while those grandiose ideas never
got off the ground,
f defies the region saw an
outbreak of small-
ds of the er-scale squabbles
in places such as
grasp how Pleasant Prairie,
Wis., Lowell, Ind.,
ecological and Akron, Ohio
,, - communities
is there. that straddle or
lie just outside the
- Peter Annin, basin boundary
but wanted access
nor of"The Great so Great Lakes
,akes Water Wars" water.
Those episodes
illustrate that "the front line in the
Great Lakes water war is really here at
home," Annin says. "Right along the
rim of the basin, there are a number
of communities that are facing either
depleted or contaminated groundwa-
ter supplies, or both. This is where the
tensions are going to lie in the foresee-
able future."
The clashes also exposed weak-
nesses in the Great Lakes Charter and
WRDA that became more urgent after
The Nova Group's quixotic tankers-to-
Asia plan surfaced. The governors and
premiers agreed in 2001 to strengthen
the charter, setting off negotiations that
finally produced the compact.
Whether it will be ratified is far from
certain. Some environmentalists believe
its withdrawal provisions are too weak,
while business interests consider them
too tough.
Annin sees his book as explanatory
journalism rather than advocacy and
mostly avoids taking sides, but acknowl-
edges favoring the compact.
"There is no political will whatso-
ever to go back to the drawing board
now" he says. "This is the best shot the
Great Lakes basin has at managing its
waters."
Cameron Davis, executive director
of the Chicago-based Alliance for the
Great Lakes, hopes Annin's book will
help make the case for the compact.
But if nothing else, it should sound the
alarm for people who don't understand
how vulnerable the lakes are, he says.
Initial reports
said six gunman
were holed up
inside the school
GANADO, Ariz. (AP)
- A high school in north-
eastern Arizona was locked
down as a precaution yester-
day and there was no stand-
off with armed people inside
as earlier reported by police,
an FBI spokeswoman said.
A report that six armed
people were holed up at
Ganado High School on
the nation's largest Indian
reservation turned out to be
false after authorities said
they had evacuated students,
said Deborah McCarley, a
spokeswoman for the FBI.
"They are investigating the
allegations there was a student
or students that have or had
weapons on school grounds
today," McCarley said.
McCarley said she knew
of no weapons that were
found at the school.
Jim Benally, police chief
for nearby Window Rock,
had said a male was armed
with a gun, while five
females had knives.
Bennally could not be
reached by phone after it was
learned the report was false.
McCarley said the mis-
understandings stemmed
from poor cell phone cover-
age from the geographical-
ly remote area and people
making assumptions based
on limited information
that was available after the
school was locked down.
Selena Manychildren, a
spokeswoman for the emer-
gency services department
of the Navajo Nation, said
authorities reacted appro-
priately by locking down
the school.
"You have to take it seri-
ously," Manychildren said.
About six parents waited
for information at the Corn-
field Chapter House, which
is 15 miles from the high
school.
Marilyn Begay worried
about her 16-year-old son,
a Ganado high student, and
said the incident should have
school officials rethinking
campus security.
"I have brought this up
before," Begay said. "They
don't have enough security.
It's pretty sad that our kids
are not being watched."
Ganado, a community of
1,500 people, is 315 miles
northeast of Phoenix. The
Navajo Nation reservation
is located on 25,000 square
miles in northern Arizona
and New Mexico and a slice
of southern Utah - an area
roughly the size of West
Virginia.
Researchers learn they
will get state funding
Sixty-one companies
chosen to receive money
from Granholm's 21st
Century Jobs Fund
LANSING - Ramani Narayan sees
a day when his company has 100 people
using corn starch to create packing foam
that can be used to safely ship auto parts
and other products.
The Michigan State "These aw
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University chemical
engineering profes-
sor and the company
he works for, Lansing-
based KTM Industries
Inc., were among the
companies and research
groups that learned yes-
terday they would get a
share of $100 million in
startup capital from a
state investment fund.
With the $600,000
grant that will go to
fund more research at
recognize
the most p
and innov
job creatir
ideas Mic
has to offe
- Gov.Jen
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who put the
21st Century Jobs Fund in place with the
help of legislators, said the move toward
investing in high-tech companies marks "a
deep and broad-based effort to transform
Michigan's economy."
"These awards recognize some of the
most promising and innovative job creat-
ing ideas Michigan has to offer," she said
during a news conference.
David Canter, head of the investment
board that awarded the
ards .grants and loans Wednes-
day morning, said
some of around 3,100 jobs will
be supported or created
romising through the investments,
with more possible down
ative the road.
The largest share of the
money awarded - $47.5
higan million - will go to 25
proposals from compa-
nies and researchers in
life sciences.
Twenty-six propos-
nifer Granholm als totaling $37.3 mil-
lion deal with advanced
automotive materials
and manufacturing, while six proposals
totaling $9.3 million deal with homeland
security and defense and four proposals
totaling $8.9 million deal with alternative
energy.
Researchers and companies in Washt-
enaw County, home to the University of
Michigan, will get the lion's share of the
grants and loans. Proposals from the uni-
versity alone won $10.6 million, and other
groups got nearly $39 million more.
Michigan State and the
$1.4 million loan that will go to KTM,
Narayan sees his company growing from
20 employees and $2 million in annual
sales revenue now to 100 employees and
$40 million in revenue by 2010.
Sixty-one companies were chosen yes-
terday to receive money from the 21st Cen-
tury Jobs Fund, with 55 getting full funding
and six getting roughly 90 percent. All 61
may get full funding if another $1.2 mil-
lion is added to the fund.