Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 16, 1986 Crisis center moves ahead By MELISSA BIRKS Before coming to the University, The University's new Sexual Steiner spent 10 years lobbying for Assault Prevention and womens' rights issues through Awareness Center appears to be such groups as Planned Paren- making substantial progress in thood and the American Civil educating students about rape and Liberties Union. improving campus safety. But the SHE WAS brought to campus af- center will not be equipped to aid ter a year of activism that rape survivors until fall term at protested the University's lack of the earliest. concern about womens' issues. "There isn't a schedule of what The primary instigation for to do when, buta lot has been done creating a rape crisis center came so far," said art school senior in January of 1985 when 30 studen- David Lovinger, one of two ts sat in at the office of University student staff members. The center Vice President for Student Ser- opened last February. vices Henry Johnson. Johnson had "Looking on the outside, I'd been quoted in Metropolitan pleased, just from the fact that the Detroit magazine as saying that center started out with nothing. rape should be kept quiet on cam- We're talking about programs, pus. educational stuff," Lovinger said. The students demanded a rape DIRECTOR Julie Steiner said crisis center, as well as other the center plans to concentrate on safety devices such as better four areas: education, rape crisis, lighting, an escort service, and campus safety, and the Univer- emergency phones. sity's responsibilities when a Last May, the University women gets raped. allocated $75,000 for the center, The rape crisis operation, which and Steiner has been working with will provide direct counseling for campus safety officials to im- victims, is not yet operational, plement new programs. Steiner said. She added that she is The installation of 54 emergency currently creating a budget and phones is tentatively scheduled for evaluating what the center needs. August, according to Steve Mayo, The center, which Steiner hopes administrative manager at the will be functioning in the fall, will University's Telecommunications have a 24-hour rape hotline as well Systems. as counselors specifically trained THE PHONES are being in- to aid rape victims. The coun- stalled in conjunction with the selors will go with victims to switchover to the new University hospitals, assist them with phone system, but Mayo says they classes, and help file police repor- would have been put in anyway. ts. "They always had been planned. DESPITE the center's current It would have been done with or lack of equipment, Steiner said without a new phone system," said she has helped five sexual assault Mayo. survivors since her office opened Six to eight phones will be in February. Four of the women placed in "strategic" locations on were victims of acquaintance North Campus, such as bus stops assault, while the fifth was raped and parking lots. by a stranger, she said. The emergency phone system According to the Ann Arbor will cost approximately $500,000, Assault Crisis Center, more than Mayo said. They will be hooked up 60 percent of rape victims know to a computer at the Department their assailant before the attack. of Public Safety, and will trigger 12 percent of rapes actually occur an alarm when the receiver is on dates, the center wrote in a knocked off the base. pamphlet distributed at last mon- TO PUBLICIZE these im- th's Take Back the Night march. provements and raise awareness STEINER said she has coun- of rape on campus, Steiner hopes seled these victims, discussing to continue acquaintance rape their legal options and helping workshops begun last year by them with schoolwork. She would Lovinger and Kisch. not say if any of them filed suit. The workshops, which were seen "Each situation was handled dif- by 700 students, presented video- ferently, but all of them got coun- taped scenarios of potential date- seling through counseling ser- rape situations, with discussion af- vices," she said. See RAPE, age 13 *OO@@@@@e@eeee COUPON *e@@O@**e@@@*@@ON . w O wits tis enti a $ .0"" fan sot eot -1orfo2 "M " tickets - goodthrough 5/228 DAILY SALVADOR TWILIGHT ROOM WITH SHOWS A VIEW Call for shw times. Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Fried Fans Sunday's late afternoon heat didn't keep devoted fans from attending the University's baseball game against Ohio State University. Spending plan expected to pass WASHINGTON (AP) - Demo- cratic leaders predicted the House today will approve a $994 billion fiscal spending plan that sharply reduces President Reagan's military budget request and joins the Senate in embracing higher taxes. "I think we have enough votes to pass it," Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, said as the house began its second day of debate on the measure. The Senate on May 2 passed its version for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Earlier this week, Reagan told Republican congressional leaders the pending House package was "totally unacceptable." The plan, approved last week by the Democratic majority on the House Budget Committee, would: - Set Pentagon spending authority at $285 billion, com- pared with $301 billion in the Senate-passed budget plan and $320 billion requested by the president. - Add $7.3 billion in unspecified higher taxes to the $5.9 billion in minor tax increases Reagan has recommended. The Senate package assumes the same level of revenues but applies the in- crease to help finance Pentagon spending. The House would set aside $4.7 billion of the increase for reducing the deficit. - Leave a deficit of $137 billion, $7 billion below the $144 billion target required by a new deficit reduction law. The Senate plan carries a $144 billion deficit. - Restrain spending on most domestic programs including freezes and cuts of up to 20 percent in some cases. Through the end of the decade, domestic savings in the Senate plan would be about $12 billion greater. - Like the Senate plan, assume a full cost-of-living adjustment for federal benefit programs based on a projection of 2 percent inflation. I I Committee seeks changes in Nile Owl (Continued from Page 1) and advertising, would cost between $30,000 to $40,000. The largest addition, according to the committee, will be running two vans simultaneously on two separate routes from the Intramural building to the University Terrace. "If you run one system for a year at $60,000, if you have two, it will probably double," Weidenbach said. THE ADDITIONAL van, and the other proposed changes comes along with efforts throughout cam- pus to improve safety. Last year, lighted signs were put on top of the buses and their schedule was shor- tened from a bus every 30 minutes to every 20 minutes. The additional bus and expanded route were designed to accomodate more students during peak hours. In 1984-85, 33,594 students rode Nite Owl, in- cluding 24,000 women, according to Julie Steiner, UM News in The Daily 764-0552 director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. "At certain times of the year," Steiner said, "overcrowding is a problem." She said students are sometimes left behind at bus stops. ANOTHER problem addressed by the Committee is the absence of services during the spring and summer. "I do support the Night Owl during the spring and summer," said Johnson, "But whether we can af- ford it is a different matter." John Ellsworth, manager of transportation ser- -vices, declined to comment. "It's a fact that nationwide, there are more sexual assaults in the summer," said Leo Heatley, director of public safety. "I suppose there's a relationship of more people doing outdoor things." ACCORDING to Steiner, the committee will sub- mit a scaled-down route for the summer because there are fewer riders. "If it started up in spring, I don't know what kind of ridership (it would get)," Steiner said. "But we would be encouraging it." According to the committee members, however, more changes are needed. "While many have utilized the system for years, others have not fouond the service useful, and have noted areas that could use improvement," the committee said ina report.