SPORTS UNHAPPY VALLEY: After arriving at Penn State in control of their destiny, men's basketball suffers setback. ) PAGE 8A NE IUt E TI) WEINTI THIEE YEARS I DIT'Ol ILIA L))EEDOM Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, February 28, 2013 michigandaily.com Y . . v CRIME Zaragon apt. implicated in off-campus sex crimes Alert sent after BY THE NUMBRS Feb. 15 survivor Sexalassaatistcs notified AAPD 5 By K.C. WASSMAN Crime alerts regarding sexual assault Daily NewsEditor released by UMPD this semester After it was reported that a student told a University employ- ee she was sexually assaulted on Sxa icnutrp t ' Feb. 15, University Police are now thOfieoSudnCnlct 01; saying that two other students during2011to2012academityear were also sexually assaulted by the same student in his Zaragon Place apartment. 21 According to a University Incidents of sexual assaultfreported to Police crime alert sent Wednes- UMPDasdoheragenicesin2011 day, the students reported they were sexually assaulted after being served alcohol and pass- ing out at parties that were thrown at the seventh-floor hours of operatIof heSAC cri apartment. lineat(74)36-3333.SAPACoffices The two students, who attend- arealsoope9a,rt5p.. lnay See ZARAGON, Page 5A through Friday frassstance PAUL SHERMAN/Daily Scott Cousino, chief executive of myStrength, and panelists discuss the online solutions that can promote mental health self-management for students at the Depression on College Campuses Conference at Rackham Auditorium Wednesday. Conference talks self-care E nE he xperts discuss Depression on College Cam- puses Conference focused on eed for mental healthful self-care. Throughlectures,workshops alth education and discussions, the conference aimed to raise awareness about By MICHELLE and teach coping mechanisms GILLINGHAM for depression. Daily StaffReporter The two-day conference started Tuesday, with an open- its eleventh year, the Uni- ing keynote address by Don y Depression Center's Vereen Jr., director of the University's Substance Abuse Research Center. Vereen said people - espe- cially young people - who are afflicted with depression try to treat themselves by self-medi- cating in order to temporarily escape the feelingofdepression. He cautioned that this behavior primes the brain for addiction if one self-medicates regularly, and added that young people are sometimes afraid to get help because of the negative stigma associated with addiction. "Our society tends to focus on the negative. We have a national institute on mental health, but they don't focus on mental health, they focus on disease," Vereen said. "People don't go around thinking 'What experiences can I engage in See SELF-CARE, Page SA Ini versit UNIONS LEO: 'U' won't e talk pay raises in negotiation KNOTS FOR MOTTS Union official addresses CSGto rally support By GIACOMO BOLOGNA Daily StaffReporter How are the Lecturers' Employee Organization's con- tract negotiations going? It depends who you ask. On Tuesday night Sociology lecturer Ian Robinson spoke at the Central Student Government assembly meeting encouraging representatives to pass a resolu- tion in support of the LEO as it tries to finalize its contract with the University on Friday. Robinson - a member of LEO's bargaining team - said he attended the meeting in the midst of faltering contract nego- tiations between the University and LEO, which represents about 1,500 lecturers at the three Uni- versity of Michigan campuses. The union's current contract expires in April. Robinson said LEO has made increasing the salaries of lec- turers the "centerpiece" of its negotiations this year, but the University has not been discuss- ing the issue. "At a certain point in the pro- cess, about three weeks ago ... (the University) basically said, 'Well, we're not interested in talking any further about this,"' he said after the meeting. Raising lecturers' salaries is an issue that LEO has dubbed "equal pay for equal work," and Robinson has authored a 57-page report on the issue that argues in part that tenure-track faculty, like assistant professors, make considerably more money than lecturers teachingstudents. "Basically they're saying ... this is a straight market transac- tion," Robinson said. "I just felt that's unacceptable and so in that sense, (negotiations are) going very badly." University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald, however, said nego- tiations have been progressing, and did not allude to any major disagreements. "The negotiations are continu- ing. The bargaining teams have See LEO, Page SA LSA sophomore Miranna Yamamoto sips hot chocolate and talks with LSA senior Sarah Kolschinsky at a MAP's No-Sew-Blanket-Making event for Mott Children's Hospital at West Quad on Wednesday. TECHNOLOGY Campus Internet outage caused byrouter m--ishap GOVERNMENT Feds set guidelines for private ed. loans CFPB follows Dept. of Ed. in setting guidelines By BEN ATLAS DailyStaffReporter The Consumer Financial Pro- tection Bureau announced last week that it would be looking into alternative options to make expensive private loan repay- ments more manageable for struggling students. The CFPB's announcement comes just two months after the Department of Educationan- nounced its Pay As You Earn stu- dent loan repayment plan, which will cap monthly payments for Federal Direct Student Loans at 10 percent of discretionary income. The CFPB's initiative targets private, rather than fed- eral, student loans. "Too many private student loan borrowers are struggling with unwieldy debt that pre- vents them from climbing the economic ladder," CFPB direc- tor Richard Cordray said in a statement. "We will be analyz- See LOANS, Page SA Malfunction in Chicago causes state-wide outage By AUSTEN HUFFORD Daily NewsEditor On Tuesday night, in the midst of midterms, Internet went down across campus. Service returned at 4:52 a.m. after about five hours. During the outage, the Internet was not connected to the University server, mak- ing CTools and Wolverine Access inaccessible to outside users. The problem stemed from Merit Network, an Ann Arbor-based Internet service provider for Michigan's public universities. "We've got all hands on deck; we're trying to figure it out," Merit CEO Donald Welch said during the outage. Welch was not immediately able to determine the source of the issue, but said Merit was experiencing "a lot" of prob- lems. He said the issue started at around 11 p.m. Michigan State University, Eastern Michigan University, Grand Valley State University and Washtenaw Community See INTERNET, Page SA WEATHER a HlI: 28 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail TOMORROW LO: 20 news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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