The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, July 24, 1985 - Page 3
University Council discusses hearings or violent crimes
the student attacked the class's professor, professor also on the council, said that "if we works eternally slow," said Donald Rucknagel
By KERY MURAKAMI However, these sanctions would last two weeks make a mistake in suspending someone, we a professor of internal medicine.
he University Council stalled in its at the most, said Eric Schnaufer, a graduate can still go back. But if we make a mistake in After some discussion, the council agreed to
discussions on a code of non-academic conduct student on the council. Before the two weeks the other direction and the accused shoots consult the two members on the council most
yesterday when some members of the council were up, the University would be required to somehody or hums down a huilding it's too knowledgeable about law - Schnaufer, a law
questioned the fairness of suspending studenta hold a hearing with an impartial hearing judge. late. We can't go back. , student, and Susan Eklund, associate dean of
or staff for violent crimes before they have Schnaufer, who helped come up with the Hartman compared the procedure to protec- the law school - on the best way to protect the
been found guilty a the civil courts. plan, said that the hearing judge would decide tive measures in child abuse cases. She said University community while safeguarding the
The council had been working to fill out a if the accused is still dangerous, and whether that there, a social worker acta with the pelice rights of the accused.
slan after agree of the Uner the University should act further before the to do anything it takes to protect the child. Hartman and Winkelman agreed that the
this plan, after a memher of the University civil authorities take action. "If they have a reasonable reason to believe focus of the hearing should be to ensure the
community is accused of committing a violent Lee Winkelman, an LSA senior and chairman that the accused is dangerous," Hartman said, security of the University - not to establish
crime, a central coordinator would decide if of the committee, questioned the fairness of "they have to keep the parent away from the guilt or innocence.
ything, other than calling the police, should sending someone, and impeding his work at child Winkelman added, however, that the council
done to protect the University. the University, without knowing for certain if should recognize that its decision would im-
FOR EXAMPLE, the coordinator may the accused is guilty of the crime. "THIS IS THE only thing the University can plicitly judge the accused and could have an ef-
decide to har a student from attending a class if BUT ANN HARTMAN, a social work do in the face of a time when the court system fect on a civil court's decision.
f s^ City planners
hear South U
By CHRISTY RIEDEL
The Ann Arbor Planning Com-
mission last night heard a proposal
for a 13,000-foot expansion of the
Bagel Factory and Village Corner on
the corner of South University and
Forest Ave.
Under the plan, the first floors of
both stores will be expanded and a
second and possibly a third floor will
be added to the existing Village Cor-
ner structure. The Bagel Factory and
Village Corner would extend an ad-
ditional 10 feet into a sidewalk area on
both the South University and Forest
Ave. sides of the building.
VILLAGE Corner would use the 10-
foot expansion on the first floor and
the proposed second floor to increase
space to sell retail items.
"Village Corner will be a full-
service grocery store, basically,"
project architect Terry Alexander
Daily Photo by KATE O'LEARY said.
The expansion would provide an
enlarged, glassed-in eating area
Bagel Factory customers, Alexander
These shoppers get an early start on the sidewalk sales, which are now prominent features of the summer Art said.
Fair "IT'S KIND of a greenhouse ad-
dition for the Bagel Factory," he said.
Alexander said construction of the
third floor depends on whether the
d e am vets aiena owner of Village Corner can find a
renter for the space.
The commission also heard a
request for approval of a plan to con-
struct a 28,730-foot commercial
building on the southwest corner of
South University and South Forest.
The proposed building, which would
consist of one basement floor and two
above-ground levels, would house
several different businesses, said
project architect Victoria Hueter.
"IT WOULD be a whole variety of
service-oriented businesses," she
said. Although Hueter couldn't name
any specific operations moving into
the building, she said they would
probably include retail and food
businesses.
Hueter said the building plan in-
cludes 11,161 feet for an internal ar-
cade for pedestrian use. The plan for
the arcade was made at the request of
the city.
The building would also curve at the
corner of the two streets to accom-
modate pedestrians. Hueter said trees
and benches will be added along the
sides of the building facing the
streets.
- One item in the plan that still needs
to be ironed out is the city's request
for a connection between the building
and the nearby Forest parking struc-
ture. The city wants a passageway
between the two structrues to ease
pedestrian access to the parking
structure. Hueter said.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Those Americans who saw
heavy combat in Vietnam are still paying the price in
terms of income, marital status, hapiness and health, a
survey released yesterday said.
The two-year study by Columbia University and the
American Legion, the nation's largest veterans group,
said that combat vets earn from $3,000 to $4,000 less per
year than their non-combat counterparts.
0THE SURVEY of 6,800 vets, all American Legion mem-
bers, also found that those who were in intense combat
have divorce rates of up to twice that of those who saw lit-
tle or no action.
In addition, when asked, "taking all things together how
happy are you these days," the survey generally received
its most positive responses from those vets who saw the
least combat.
The same was found when the vets were asked about
their "life satisfaction" and "health."
0
"THOSE MEN with the most intense combat experien-
ces have suffered and continue to suffer social consequen-
ces," said Jeanne Stellman, a Columbia University
associate professor who directed the study with her
husband, Dr. Steven Stellman, an assistant vice president "n
of the American Cancer Society. Sta te
Steilman said the study found, however, that the degree
of combat seemed unrelated to a veteran's level of
educational attainment.
The survey mirrored several earlier Vietnam veteran
studies, including a 1981 report to Congress that showed
heavy combat with higher divorce - as well as arrest
rates - than those who saw little or no combat.
Part of the problem can be traced, at least in part, to
post traumatic stress disorder, a syndrome characterized
by flashbacks, nightmares and depression.
Experts estimate up to 500,000 of the 3.5 million
Americans who served in Southeast Asia during the Viet-
nam war now experience bouts of PTSD - the most ever.
Stellman said of her study, "We consider these findings
a 'tip of the iceberg'... because the men in the American
Legion are part of a group that has been re-socialized suf-
ficiently, both to join a social organization and to volun-
tarily.
LANSING (UPI) - The Corrections in escapes from minimum security
Department announced yesterday it prison farms.
is taking action to stema riding tide of Officials have attributed that
escapes from halfway houses. problem to overcrowding in the
In the current year, 23 percent of all prisons themselves which has forced
felons in halfway houses are escaping, the state to move as many inmates as
up from 17 percent last year, the possible onto farms.
department said. "That's a factor in halfway houses"
AS A RESULT, the department will as well, Johnson said.
launch a six-month pilot study beefing But, Johnson warned, "We're just
up staffing to prevent escapes and speculating in terms of whether you
catch those who do get free. can attribute all that increase" in
An additional 28 people will be hired escapes to the crowding problem.
an employed in Flint, Detroit and Department studies seem to in-
Grand Rapids at a cost of $914,000. dicate that those who escape from
Former Corrections Director Perry halfway houses commit more crimes
Johnson, now in charge of the halfway than those who serve out their terms,
house program, said he cannot ac- Johnson said. "By reducing the num-
count precisely for the increase in ber of escapes from the program we
escapes. can reduce the potential risk for the
THERE ALSO has been an increase public," he said.