The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, December 11, 2009 - 7 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, Decemher U, 2009 - 7 REPORT From Page 1 other options at the University when it comes to reporting sex- ual assault. Jennifer Schrage, director of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, said she and her staff work closely with experts on campus to under- stand what survivors go through in a sexual assault to make the reporting process as open as possible. OSCR and the Sexual Assault Prevention Awareness Center have recently created a toolkit to make reporting an assault easier and dispel the cover-up culture. The toolkit also gives guidance to those working with the vic- tim to make sure they handle the issue in a sensitive manner. Schrage said the office pro- vides victims with all their options as soon as they enter the office and before the victim tells them anything to avoid creating a "re-victimizing experience for the survivor." "We really want this particu- lar student to be in the driver's seat because of what may have occurred. It's important for them to feel empowered and help them make the choices right for them," she said. Schrage said OSCR's process is a leader in the field. "I'm getting calls from all over the country for information on how we do our work in general," she said. Schrage added that though the University faces the same "conundrums" when it comes to these issues as many other institutions do, by working with SAPAC and other organiza- tions they hope University stu- dents will feel more comfortable reporting sexual assaults. "We know that, in the general population, one in four students are targeted with sexual vio- lence but only 4 percent go to the authorities," she said. "These are very discouraging numbers and we're doing our best to tip the scales." Crosby Modrowski, a SAPAC student volunteer, said that in her experience working with victims she hasn't heard of any instances of students being "shushed away" like those men- tioned in the report. "U of M's program is actually really good in terms of efforts to help in training and prevention," she said. "I truly believe that the University creates policies that help the survivor do whatever it is they want." Modrowski said SAPAC works together with DPS and OSCR to help achieve this. "Sexual assaults happenevery- where," she said. "If campuses try to have more progressive training and helping efforts like Michigan's, then there will be more reports and more reports is ultimately good because it allows the survivors to get the help they need." Student group helps high schoolers prep for ACT HAMMER From Page 1 third motion for a summary dis- position. The case has yet to go to trial after its two previous attempts were both denied by the court. "The University is doing everything it can to, delay and avoid trial, " Hammer said in an interview yesterday. He told the Daily that the Uni- versity's third attempt to get the case dismissed was originally scheduled for December 2007 and then again in March 2008. "What we're going to argue is that they've filed the motion twice before and it's been reject- ed twice before," Hammer said. "The appropriate thing is to schedule a trial." University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an e-mail interview that the hearing will evaluate the University's request for dismissal of Hammer's dis- crimination claim. He wasunable to comment on the logistics of the University's legal strategy. "The U-M remains commit- ted to inclusiveness and non- discrimination for all members of the university community," Fitzgerald wrote. If the University's appeal is denied, the case will go to trial, at which point the University could appeal again, further delaying the judicial process. "We really hope to geta trial in the spring," Hammer said. "And if there's any justice at all, that's what would take place." Prolonging the trial has come at a cost for the University, though. An article published in 2007 on Bloomberg.com report- ed that, as of Nov. 20 of that year, the University had already spent $208,236 on the case. The information was obtained through the Freedom of Infor- mation Act. Hammer said this figure has likely gone up in the last two years, and the University could be spending as much as $300,000 just to prevent a trial. "It's not only squandering money," Hammer said. "The more they delay, the worse they look because it looks like they're hiding something." From Page 1 method of learning basic math that you needed to get into college and do well on the ACT." Because of the success Universi- ty students have had in the college process and their previous success on standardized tests, Chanowski said he believed that University students could give back by help- ing disadvantaged youth do just as well in their application pro- cesses. Letters to Success is different from many of the other student organizations on campus. Cha- nowski said there won't be a table for the group at this year's Fes- tifall and donors to the program privately fund the group. Typical- ly, the cost for a student to take a prep course or hire a tutor to study for the ACT is around $2,000. But Chanowski said his group is tutoring 40 students for a total of $4,000. There is also an application pro- cess for prospective tutors. "I think what makes us really unique is that we are in no way a rasum6 padder," Chanowski said. "We screen students in the begin- ning, there's an application pro- cess. We don't want anyone who's coming here just to put that they helped disadvantaged kids or helped minorities in getting into college, we want kids who actu- ally want to see social justice, who want to see change before their eyes and that's why I think we're so successful." Chanowski said another fac- tor that makes the group different from others on campus is its part- nership with the School of Edu- cation. Chanowski worked with School of Education Dean Debo- rah Ball and Assistant Dean Henry Meares to create the program. Students in the course Educa- tion 118 can also participate in the organization and earn extra credit in the class for their contri- bution. Every student is also given an application to join the group as part of the course materials. In the future, Letters to Success may be a required class compo- nent. "We're providing an opportuni- ty that's really a win-win because the undergraduates are getting a really direct experience with what it looks like to try to help some- body else learn, which is the kind of thing I want the students to be learning," Ball said. "At the same time, they are doing something that's really useful for the high school students who wouldn't oth- erwise have a chance to get that kind of preparation for college exams." In order to qualify for free ACT tutoring, Willow Run High School students only need junior stand- ing and a commitment that they will attend every weekly tutoring session. Additionally, if they show a certain amount of improvement over the course their tutoring, the ACT registration fee will be paid for. "These are students who don't have access to any of the things that a lot of Michigan undergrads do have access to when they are taking the SAT or ACT," Ball said. School of Education junior Becky Thiel said that she joined the group because she wanted to volunteer and thought Letters to Success "felt like a really fun pro-. gram." She said the program makes it easy for University students to become ACT tutors by having accepted students attend an ori- entation with a Kaplan instructor and use a Kaplan ACT book as a curriculum for University students to follow with their high school students. "Inordertobereallyresponsible, when we have University students workingwith high school students, particularly kids who haven't done well in school and haven't been served well by schools, we want to make sure that what they're doing is really good quality," Ball said. "We wouldn't want someone going out and tutoring and then getting kids mixed up." Thiel, who also mentored kids while she was a high school stu- dent, said watching the improve- ment of the student she's working with has only made her more excit- ed about the program. "It's been really great to see him improve, especially in read- ing comprehension," Thiel said. "He was struggling with that a lot in the beginning so just to see how much he improved just over eight weeks was really encourag- ing. L;ate Brierty, another tutor and a junior in the Organizational Studies concentration, said that her student had improved over the eight weeks as well. She also said one of the most important things about the program was that the high school students not only gained a tutor but also acon- fidant. "One of the things that's really great about the program is since we are seeing the students every week they have someone they can go to with questions about ACT and with general questions about life as well," she said. Brierty said because herstudent has become more confident about taking the ACT, he's begun consid- ering'opportunities he wouldn't have considered before. "My student said that he wants to end up going to law school," she said. "Buthe islookingatschools in New York now because he's always wanted to move to New York and now he feels like he actually could go to school at one of them. He's. just a lot more confident about his ability to go to college." Ball said that an additional advantage of the program, aside from the effects of the tutoring, is the exposure that the high school students get to University stu- dents. "A side benefit is that students, a lot of whom may be from fami- lies where nobody's gone to college before, have a relationship during the semester with someone who's a University of Michigan student and can begin to imagine them- selves as somebody who can go to Michigan or who can go to col- lege," Ball said. WANT TO WRITE FOR THE DAILY'S NEWS SECTION? E-mail smilovitz@michigandaily.com to get started. sT U DE14NT tiO S 11G . IN C, Now Showing for Fall 2010-2011!! Studio, 1,2 & 3 Bedrooms Apartments!! 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