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University students bare all as they run through Ann Arbor in the annual Naked Mile on April 19, the last day of classes.
Ctudents shed clothes, run across campus
By Karen Talaski fiesta, complete with food and loud of the race was the number of people
DAILY STAFF REPORTER music. Of the participants, about 80 standing on the sidelines. The runner
Itisnotanightfortheweakhearted. percent weremale. said participants were sometimes
It takes courage, strength and LSA seniorMike Schwartzdecided fondled or photographed without their
stamina to make these 400 or so mara- to run after he realized that his early consent. He said, "It's fun, but at the
thonrunners to sprint throughcampus. December graduation would prevent same time dangerous when people are
Itis the Naked Mile, arite of spring his participation next year. there only to get some cheap thrill."
where the Ann Arbor streets fill with "It was a great way to relieve stress Other complaints came from mem-
Wre bodies, both male and female, to before my last final," Schwartz said. bers of the crew team, who chose to run
celebrate the yearly end of classes. He and a friend even took a victory lap ahalf-hour before the other participants
About5,000spectators attended this around the Law Library - both inside so their ritual would be undisturbed.
annualeye-opening event.What began and out - before heading home. Department of Public Safety offi-
as a crew team ritual to show team One runner who did not want to be cials said they received no complaints
spirit has turned into a neighborhood identifiedsaidtheonly negative aspect about the event.

Wednesday, May 4, 1994 - The Michigan Daily - 3
Carter picks Sanlo
to direct LGMPO
By David Shepardson observers expect Toy toeitherleave or
DAILY STAFF REPORTER transferto the counseling division.
The head of an AIDS surveillance There has beennofformal announce-
program in Florida has been named ment of Santo's hiring by Carter. He
director ofthe University LesbianGay has been e-mailing students and qui-
MalePrograms Office (LGMPO). etlypassingthe word. WolfsaidCarter
Ronni Sanlo, who counsels and had informed News and Information
tracks AIDS cases in northeast Florida Services and expected an official an-
for the state department of health, will nouncement in the University Record
becomeLGMPOdirectorMay25.She nextMonday.
was tapped by Associate Dean of Stu- She applied to become AIDS sur-
dents Richard Carter, who selected veillancedirectorin1987because,she
Sanlofrom three finalists, said, "I had seen so many of my gay
"I'm extremely excited to be ac- male friends die." She was the only
cepting this new challenge,"Sanlo said person to apply for the job overseeing
in atelephoneinterview fromherJack- northeast Florida.
sonville, Fla, office yesterday. Having learned "by the seat of her
The new $38,016position was cre- pants"todeal withtheepidemic, Sanlo
ated by the Dean of Students Officeas said that her experience and ability to
part of an ongoing restructuring of the adjust will benefitherin working at the
LGMPO office. The office provides a University.
variety of programs and services for She is an instructor at the Univer-
thegay community. sity of North Florida at Jacksonville,
LastJanuary, BillieEdwards, aco- where she teaches a course on sexual
coordinator of the LGMPO office, re- minorities and otherclasses on coun-
signed. Instead ofreplacing Edwards, seling. She willcompleteherdoctorate
the Dean of Students Office decided to in education atnorthFlorida this spring.
eliminate bothco-coordinatorpositions. A friend of Sanlo's in the women's
This stems from a series of recommen- studies department at north Florida saw
dationsmade over the past several years the job posting for LGMPO director
to streamline the office. and said to her: "This is thejob foryou."
The decision provoked criticism Sanlo, who calls the directorship "a
within the gay community because the dreamjob," will bring her family with
two co-coorinators had traditionally her in the move: her partner and her
represented both genders. 10th and I11th grade daughters.
JimToy,the outgoing co-coordina- Her most important goal is make
tor of the office and a member of the the gay and lesbian community a wel-
search committee, said he was pleased coming place.
with her selection. "She had a great "We mustbe a place of community
interview," Toy said."But in these sort where everyoneis welcome and no one
of things, it is all we have to go on." is discriminated against," Sanlo said.
Out of a pool of 110 applicants, six She noted that she would be among
finalists were interviewed April 11-12. the firstto take advantage of the change
From the interviews, the primarily stu- in Regents' Bylaw 14.06, which will
dent-search committee narrowed the guarantee same-sex couples medical
list to three finalists. and dental benefits and equal access to
Rodger Wolf, astaffassistantin the University family housing.
Office of Student Affairs who oversees The 14.06 task force recommenda-
most University searches, said a deci- tions are widely expected to be ap-
sion "has been made" on Toy's future proved by the University Board of
employment status, but he declined to Regents later this month.
comment further.
Toy, a20-yearveteranoftheoffice, Ro
declined to say whether he would re-
main in the office after May 25. Most
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Whistleblower to receive $1.3 M

By Bryn Mickle
ECIAL TO THE DAILY
Denied.
Last Friday, the University lost an-
other legal battle with former Univer-
sity researcher Carolyn Phinney and
moved closer to paying out a court
judgment of more than $1.3 million.
Phinney is the former Institute of
Gerontology (IOG) researcher who
sued the University after she suffered
*taliation for her reports of scientific
misconduct by her mentor, Marion
Perlmutter.
In 1989, Phinney suspected
Perlmutter of theft of her intellectual
properties and reported her suspicions
to IOG Director Richard Adelman.
Phinney alleged the pair then conspired
to punish and discredit her, in an effort
to discourage her pursuit of the matter.
Last May, a Washtenaw County
rcuit Court jury pronounced
erlmutter guilty of fraud and found
that Adelman was in violation of the
stateofMichigan'sWhistleblowerPro-
tection Act - a law designed to shield
stateemployees whoreport theirsuspi-
cions of the misuse of state and federal
funds.
Through agreements with Adelman
and Perlmutter, the University must
0 y all judgments against the pair.
either Adelman, norPerlmutter, were
punished for their role in the Phinney
case, and both are currently employed
at IOG.

After the initial verdict, the Univer-
sity immediately appealed the judg-
ment due to its "excessive" size.
In Friday's decision, Judge Patrick
Conlin disagreed with the General
Counsel's argument and struck Uni-
versity attorneys down on all their ap-
peals.
"The Court finds that there was
substantial competent evidence to sup-
port thejury verdict,"Conlin said in his
order to uphold the verdict.
Vice President forUniversity Rela-
tions Walter Harrison said the Univer-
sity will likely appeal the case.
"We have just gotten the judge's
opinion. We will then study it to decide
whether to appeal," Harrison said.
The University has 21 days to de-
cide whether to appeal.
Her latest victory in hand, Phinney
must now wait to see if the University
will file additional appeals and extend
their four-year legal battle, which to
this date, has cost the University more
than $135,000 in attorneys' fees.
"The state of Michigan taxpayers
are brunting the burden for (the
University's) illegal conduct," said
Phinney, who has accrued almost
$100,000 in interest on the verdict.
She added that a worst case sce-
nario, in which the University ex-
tends its fight for another two years,
might result in a check for more than
$2 million from the University -
almost double her initial $1.2 million

award.
Even if the University decides to
abandon its fight, the school still faces
additional payouts to Phinney. The
court must decide if the University, as
an institution, failed to protect Phinney
from retaliation and mishandled its
investigation of her allegations.
A guilty verdict in this second
case will probably not result in addi-
tional damage awards to Phinney, but
might force the University to pay all
of Phinney's legal fees - which have
exceeded $400,000.
Despite the long wait, Phinney said
she is confident of victory.
"They can't win," she declared.
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