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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - The Michigan Daily - 3A
ON CAMPUS
LGBT panel to
share coming-
out stories
The Office of Lesbian Gay Bisex-
ual and Transgender Affairs is spon-
soring a panel discussion on coming
out today from 6 to 8 p.m. in room
2105B of the Michigan Union. Pan-
elists will describe their own expe-
riences coming out to friends and
family.
Poet to grace
'U' with prose
Christopher Merrill, world-
renowned poet and director of the
International Writing Program at the
University of Iowa, will read selec-
S tions of his work today at 7 p.m. in
the Rackham Amphitheatre. The
event is part of the English Depart-
ment's Zell Visiting Writers Series,
co-sponsored by the Modern Greek
Program.
What will
MCRI mean for
women?
Paralympic champion speaks on rehab
Five-time gold medalist
emphasizes importance of
exercise for blind, disabled
By Deepa Pendse
Daily Staff Reporter
Denmark has six gold medals to its
name - one from the Winter Olympics
and five from the Paralympics.
Skier Anne-Mette Bredhal, who spoke
at the Michigan League last week, owns
five of those.
Bredahl suffers from retinitis pigmen-
tosa, an incurable disease that slowly
destroys the retina.
Problems with her vision had ham-
pered her coordination since she was
young.
"I was the clumsy kid in school," Bre-
dahl said.
At 22, she lost her eyesight completely.
Bredahl didn't let her handicap keep
her from making history in Denmark.
In 1994, Bredahl took home Denmark's
first gold medal in the Winter Paralym-
pics.
In paralympic skiing, a guide skis
ahead of the competitors and instructs
them on directions. In the biathlon,
which includes skiing and target shoot-
ing, the rifles have a signaling system
using sound.
Bredahl was also Denmark's first
blind clinical psychologist. It was dur-
ing her studies at a Danish university
that she was introduced to skiing. She
fell in love with the sport and began to
train competitively.
Becoming active after years of leth-
argy due to blindness improved other
aspects of Bredahl's life.
"When I experienced how good it felt,
I got more and more confidence," she
said.
Bredahl now works to encourage other
handicapped people to get involved in
sports. She stressed the importance of
treating people individually and finding
the right sport for them.
"Ifa person is not fit, it leaves the per-
son more disabled than he or she needs
to be," Bredahl said.
A good match can help people feel
successful, she said.
"It can be really good for you or (it
can be) devastating," she said. "In order
for it to be a good experience, you need
to have small victories along the way."
Fifth-year Kinesiology student
Nicole Coleman came to the lecture
because of her interest in working
with disabled children. Coleman, who
teaches dance to autistic children, said
she recognized the importance of indi-
vidualized attention.
Kinesiology Prof. Dale Ulrich, who
organized the lecture, said he sees a dif-
ference in children who are active in his
own research.
"They are more willing to speak up
and ask for help and have a lot more self-
confidence," he said.
The University has several disability
research initiatives through the Division
of Kinesiology.
The initiatives include the Center
for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of
Children, the Center for Motor Behav-
ior and Pediatric Disabilities, the Office
of Special Education and Rehabilita-
tive Services and the Center for Human
Motor Research.
World Series
safety plan eyes
threats big, small
UP IN SMOKE
Officials prepare for
anthrax, nerve gas,
bombs, unruly fans
Kathy Rodgers, president of
Legal Momentum, a women's rights
advocacy group, will discuss the
Michigan Civil Rights Initiative and
the effects of the passage of similar
laws in other states. The lecture will
be held today at 4 p.m. in the Rack-
ham Assembly Hall.
CRIME
NOTES_
Thief raids
unlocked safe
in dental school
An undisclosed amount of
cash was stolen from a safe in a
dental school office, the Depart-
ment of Public Safety reported.
The theft, reported Monday at 10
a.m., may have gone unnoticed
for weeks.
Game console
lifted from
Markley room
An X-Box and several games
were stolen from a room-in Mary
Markley Residence Hall over the
weekend, DPS reported. The door
had been locked for most of the
break..
Laptop swiped
from ISR
Building
A laptop was stolen from the
Institute of Social Research Build-
ing Monday at about noon, DPS
reported. The incident is currently
under investigation.
DETROIT (AP) - Security
threats large and small - from a
nerve gas attack inside Comerica
Park to the antics of drunken fans
- are on the minds of federal,
state and local officials rushing to
prepare for Saturday's start of the
World Series.
The successes of the All-Star
game at the ballpark last year
and the Super Bowl at nearby
Ford Field this February give law
enforcement and Detroit Tigers
officials confidence they can safe-
ly handle the World Series, too.
They've prepared for the worst,
conducting a drill on simultaneous
sarin nerve gas, anthrax bacteria
and bomb attacks at the stadium.
They're also hoping for the best.
"We had a couple of dry runs
... with the All-Star game and the
Super Bowl," said Detroit-based
U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy,
who chairs the region's inter-
agency Anti-Terrorism Advisory
Council. "We'll be able to get up
to speed very quickly."
Detroit is "the city in this
country that is best prepared to
host a major sports event," said
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's press
secretary, Matt Allen. "We have
been through this ... and come
out with shining colors."
Back in 1984, Detroiters were
embarrassed by disorders that
followed the Tigers' World Series
victory over the San Diego Padres.
One man died, dozens were hurt,
and the world saw a picture of
a beer-bellied teenaser holding
up a Tigers pennant in front of a
burning police car.
Don't expect anything like that
now, Allen said.
"Old, archaic perceptions of
our city are just that - the past,"
Allen said Tuesday. "People know
how to party, celebrate and show-
case our city."
But as fears of riots have faded,
other worries hardly imagined 22
years ago have emerged - like
international terrorism.
With that in mind, federal,
state, county and local authorities
carried out a disaster drill they
called Operation Perfect Game
ahead of the July 12, 2005, All-
Star game.
The May 2005 exercise cen-
tered on the response to coordi-
nated terrorist attacks, including
the release of sarin gas inside and
anthrax outside the ballpark, with
simultaneous car bombings.
"It went very well," said Ron
Smith, a spokesman for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity's Customs and Border Pro-
tection agency. "It gave everyone
a chance to explore" a range of
potential threats.
That and other exercises paid
off for the All-Star game and
will bear more fruit in this year's
World Series, he said.
World Series planning has
Tigers security chief Rick Fenton
rushing from meeting to meeting
this week, trying to keep every-
one on the same page.
"No one agency or one city
can plan these kind of events by
themselves," Fenton said.
Major League Baseball has to
be prepared for whichever teams
end up in the World Series, said
spokesman Patrick Courtney.
THIs DAY
In 'U' History
.
Hart to join
Mondale for
Diag rally
October 18, 1984 - Colo-
rado Sen. Gary Hart will join To play: Complete the grid so
Democratic presidential candi-
date Walter Mondale in a major and every 3x3 box contair
campaign rally on the Diag next
Tuesday, campaign staff mem- There is no guessing or
bers announced yesterday. j
Hart, who was a favorite for the Just use ogic to solve. C
nomination among young voters,
has signed on to help make the Difficulty: Hard
push for a Democratic president.
"This was (Hart's) big constit- 7 5
uency and just by coming here he
will let everyone know the caucus
is over and it's time for all Demo- _
crats to unite," LSA senior Sheri
Silber said.
Silber also heads up the cam- 8 6
pus's Mondale-Ferraro campaign
efforts. I
ABC News reported yesterday - . ..
that Mondale was trailing Presi-
dent Reagan in a poll by 10 per-
S centage points.
Another po11 released this
week by Louis Harris showed 7
that while Mondale is gaining,
he has failed to win the hearts of
young adults. The poll shows that
70 percent of people age 18 to 25 s
say they'll be voting for Reagan
come November.
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