Wie iidligan Dail. Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, September 11,2008 michigandailycom * CAb CRIME NEAR CAMPUS Police say mugger targeting students AAPD suspects one robber responsible for two late-night muggings near campus this week ByKELLY FRASER and SARA LYNNE THELEN Daily Staff Reporters After two students were mugged late at night near campus earlier this week, police think a single man might be targeting students. Detective Richard Kinsey of the Ann.Arbor Police Department said yesterday that the rarity of mug- gings near campus make police think the two rob- beries were connected. He said a robber might be looking for students walking home from a bar or party. "I know how things go in the city, and we don't have many street robberies like this," he said. "If it is the same guy, he's going after lone people at night, so walk in groups," Kinsey said. Kinseysaid police are doing everythingthey can to apprehend the suspect, but wouldn't say whether the department has increased patrols or changed proce- dures since the robberies. He said he wouldn't want the suspect to know anything about the department's strategy. "My confidence is high that this guy will get caught," he said. University Police issued campus crime alerts after both robberies. In the first incident, an unknown man approached a University student sitting on his porch on Oakland Avenue near East University Avenue and Arch Street at about 3 a.m. Sunday. The man brandished a handgun and demanded the student's wallet. After the student gave the man his wallet, the man fled on foot. In a second incident, an unknown man approached See MUGGINGS, page 7A For an article about home invasions near campus, see Page 3A. ZACHARY MEISNER/Dai l Actor and Barack Obama supporter Kal Penn spoke on the Diag yesterday encouraging students to vote and urge their friends to register for the fall presidential election. Obama adviser lays U.S. Senate hopeful out foreign policy looks to upset Levin In lecture on campus, Rice details candidate's Iraq withdrawal plan By EMILY BARTON Daily News Editor In an effort to woo more Michi- gan voters, a, senior policy adviser for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign visited the Michigan League Wednesday to lay out the candidate's foreign policy platform. Susan Rice, currently on leave from a fellowship at'the Brookings Insti- tution in Washington, D.C., spoke to about 120 people. To begin, Rice explained Obama's plans to remove combat troops from Iraq in 16 months. "The next president of the United States is going to inherit from George Bush an unprecedented series of messes," she said. "The people who brought us this mess are not going to be the ones who fix it." When the foreign policy platform of Obama's opponent, Republican presi- dential candidate John McCain, came up, Rice slammed the Republican by comparing his positions to those of George W. Bush. "John McCain has been asked and said repeatedly in recent weweks that he would do Iraq all over again," she said. "I think most of you, however, would agree that we need to change course." See OBAMA, page 7A Hoogendyk tells College Republicans he's not the party's "sacrificial lamb" By BETH WITTENSTEIN Daily NewsoEditor State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk has his work cut out for him. The three-term Republican legis- lator from Kalamazoo is looking for a promotion to the U.S. Senate, but to get there, he has to defeat five-term incumbent Sen. Carl Levin. In a speech to the University's Col- lege Republicans chapter last night, Hoogendyk said people shouldn't count him out. "I wasn't drafted," he said. "Some consider me as a sacrificial lamb, but I, did this willingly because I felt called to and I felt it was something we could do," he told 100 College Republicans gathered at the Michigan League. Levin, a Democrat, is running for a sixth term after winning the last three elections with the support of 60 per- cent of voters. Hoogendyk, who has twice been voted the most conservative member of the Michigan House of Represen- tatives, said government is "becom- ing more and more socialistic, that believes they know all the answers and that they can provide all the things that you need." He said the federal government is See HOOGENDYK, page 7A CONTRACEPTIVE COSTS Student pushes Congress for cheaper birth control After delays, soccer facility nears opening AtUHS, cost of popular prescription doubled last week By LINDY STEVENS Daily StaffReporter After the cost of some prescrip- tion birth control doubled at Uni- versity Health Service last week, LSA senior Allyson Hoerauf head- ed to Capitol Hill to take matters into her own hands. On Tuesday, Hoerauf lobbied membersofCongress,includingSen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), to make the price of birth control more affordable for college students around the country. StudentsfromschoolsinCalifor- nia, Missouri, Illinois and Nevada also traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with their respective mem- bers of Congress and represent Planned Parenthood, a non profit organization that advocates for women's reproductive health. The push for new legislation responds to the Deficit Reduction Act, a Congressional measure that restricted pharmaceutical com- panies from selling their products at reduced prices to some buyers, including colleges and universi- ties. Originally intended to reduce Medicare and Medicaid costs when it took effect in January 2007, the impact of the DRA on college campuses is largely regarded as accidental, according to Lori Lam- erand, the CEO of Planned Parent- hood for Mid and South Michigan. "By all accounts it was truly an oversight, and it was not something that anybody intended," she said. The Prevention Through Afford- able Access Act, a bill introduced by presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), was designed to correct the mistake and restore affordable birth control at college health clinics when it was intro- duced in November 2007 The billwas read twice in the Sen- See BIRTH CONTROL, page 7A Fir co] By M Thot tened r tion ge field at1 comple use Mo Athleti A sr games to be ft son ope men's si with N "We it," sen said. " since I a little body." Cons footbal replacii before t cer co ing bot 'st match at new teams without a home field. Both squads have hosted games mplex slated for atEastern Michigan and Saline High School, while practicing at next month Mitchell Field and the Ray Fisher Stadium outfield. 4ICHAEL EISENSTEIN Though in the background of Daily Sports Editor the athletic-campus overhaul, the soccer complex's construction has ugh it's currently just a flat- been a difficult process, particular- sass of mud with construc- ly because it's being built on three ar on the side, the practice wetlands sites. the University's new soccer And in order to develop those x is expected to be ready for sites, the University has had to nday after a lengthy delay, apply for special permits, reorient c Department officials said. its plans and delay construction. econd field, intended for The Athletic Department first and originally scheduled applied for the Michigan Depart- nished for the Aug. 16 sea- ment of Environmental Qual- ner, should be ready by the ity (MDEQ) permits in the spring, occer team's Oct.1 matchup but the MDEQ asked Michigan to otre Dame. redesign its three-field plan when 're just waiting patiently for the wetland sites were discovered ior tri-captain Daniel Gray to be bigger than originally esti- We've been waiting for it mated. 've been here, basically, so Walking through the area, longer isn't hurting any- which is surrounded by commer- cial buildings, the Varsity Ten- truction on the new indoor nis Center and the Michigan Golf I practice facility, which is Course, Wolverine men's soccer ngtheoldsoccer field,began coach Steve Burns said he didn't the permits for the new soc- think the'law, which is intended to mplex were approved, leav- save vast areas of wetlands, should th the men's and women's See SOCCER, page 7A MAX cOLLINS/Daily Though it was originally scheduled to open Aug. 16, the new Michigan soccer facility is still under construction. It is now slated to open in early October. WEATHER HI: 79 TOMORROW L0: 58 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. ON T HE DAILY BLOGS 'U' scientists helped developed atom smasher MICHIGANDAILY.COM/THE WIRE INDEX NEW S ..............................2A -SU DO KU............................ 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