NEWS Thursday, September 7, 2006 - The Michigan Daily - 7A FLU TUITION Continued from page IA Continued from page 1A 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 Continued from page 1A advocacy for su 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 rr L 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.