NEWS The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 3 * ON CAMPUS Shell Oil to host mock pit stop Shell Oil Company is hosting "The Shell Pit Stop Challenge" today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m in the James Duder- stadt Center on North Campus. Students will be able to compete in teams in changing a tire on a Shell- sponsored Formula One Ferrari racing car. Shell representatives will also be on hand to answer questions and give infor- mation about the recruiting program for students interested in technical, science and business degrees. For more information contact Habiba Ewing at (713) 241-4654. UROP to display student research The Undergraduate Research Oppor- tunity Program is sponsoring the 17th Annual UROP Spring Symposium today at 4:30 p.m. in the Michigan League. The symposium will feature more than 600 posters displaying research done by current UROP students over the 2004-05 year. Prized pianist to perform tonight The University Musical Society is sponsoring a performance by composer and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Sol- zhenitdyn will perform with the Cham- ber Orchestra of Philadelphia tonight at 8 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. Ticket prices range from $10 to $56 and can be pur- chased at www.ums.org. CRIME NOTES Man attacks reporter, kicks out patrol car window A homeless man was arrested Monday night after attacking a newspaper reporter, arguing with police and kicking out the window of a patrol car, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department. The 44-year-old reporter from Tole- do, Ohio, was eating an ice cream cone at about 7:30 p.m. on the 300 block of South Division Street when the home- less man walked by and bumped him. The victim said the homeless man then began to punch him. Police said the homeless man fought with them when they arrived, claiming the reporter provoked him. When the per- petrator was subdued, he was placed in the patrol car where he kicked out a window. The man could be charged with assault, resisting arrest and malicious destruction of property. Money nabbed from snack bar A caller reported that $260 was taken from the snack bar in the South Quad Residence Hall, according to ,the Department of Public Safety. V Although there are no suspects, the money was stolen sometime between Saturday and Monday. THIS DAY In Daily History FDA approves drug to prevent cancer in animals April 13, 1982 - The Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to the anti-cancer drug tricyclic nucleoside phosphate this past week. For 13 years, University medicinal chemistry Prof. Leroy Townsend refined the drug and proved it to be very effective against certain cancers in animals. Despite earning approvalfrom the FDA, it was not known how tricyclic nucleoside phosphate worked. However, "two of the most common anti-cancer drugs were developed in the 1950s," Townsend said. "And there's still a raging controversy 30 years later about how they act." Approval from the FDA gave the National Cancer Institute, which coor- dinated the tests, the ability to start testing the drug on humans. These tests would determine which types of human cancer, if any, the drug would be most effective against. Toyota plans to build new facility near A2 The deal is expected to add about 700 new jobs., and the state will receive $60 million in tax revenues over the next 20 years (AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. has signed an $11 mil- lion deal to buy 690 acres from the state for a research and development center that is expected to add 400 new jobs, the automaker said yesterday. Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Toyota vice president Akihiko Saito announced the agreement at the Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, which is Toyota's North American research and development center. The new facility will be located nearby in Washtenaw County's York Township. Toyota officials said they hope to close the deal and begin building the facility next spring. They expect the $150 million facility will employ 400 people by 2010. Granholm said it will create about 300 indirect jobs. Michigan gave Toyota a single business tax credit worth $38.9 million over the next 20 years as an incen- tive, Granholm said. The state will get a net gain of $60 million in tax revenues from Toyota in that time, she said. Kentucky was among the states vying for the facility, she said. "For me as governor of the state of Michi- gan, the greatest return on our investment are the 700 jobs, good jobs, high-paying jobs, that will be created by this investment," Granholm said. The state estimates the Toyota employees will make an average of $1,588 a week. The state also gave Toyota an adjacent, 10- acre parcel for $1 on the condition that Toyo- ta will make the property into a public park, according to the state Department of Manage- ment and Budget. Granholm said Toyota's decision to build the center in Michigan reinforces the state's position as a leader in automotive research and development. Granholm said the state has 200 automotive research and development facilities that employ 65,000 people. "It sends a strong signal that Michigan is open for business from across the globe," Gra- nholm said. Saito said the Toyota Technical Center, which employs 700 people, is outgrowing its Ann Arbor campus. The facility, which opened in the early 1990s, develops vehicles built for the North Ameri- can market, such as the Avalon and Camry sedans. Yasuhiko Ichihashi, president of Toyota Technical Center USA Inc., said Michigan was the best place for the company to expand. He also said the site, which used to house the Ypsilanti Regional Psychiatric Hos- pital, is large enough for Toyota to expand. Granholm and state lawmakers conveyed the site to Toyota in September. An Oakland County devel- oper, DPG-York LLC, sued, saying it outbid Toyota for the land. DPG-York had offered $25 million. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the state's action in February, saying the state had a right to consider other factors besides the price offered, including whether use of the property would attract skilled jobs. DPG-York attorney Stephen McKenney ques- tioned yesterday's announcement, saying the legal case isn't over because DPG-York has appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court. "The governor's announcement is far more political than it is legal," attorney Stephen McK- enney said. But Granholm said she is confident because the Court of Appeals has upheld the deal. Toyota Technical Center general manager Bruce Brown- lee said Toyota also believes the agreement will be upheld. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Mid- land-based think tank that supports free market policies, criticized the Toyota tax credit and oth- ers like it in a report yesterday. The center said that over the last 10 years, the state has said such tax credits would create 35,821 jobs, but they have produced only 13,541. The center said Michigan would be better served by broad tax, regulatory and education reforms rather than targeted tax credits. f But Department of Management and Budget Director Mitch Irwin called the Toyota deal "a model partnership between government and pri- vate industry." "Our collective success will yield benefits for a generation to come: new jobs, a stronger tax base and a park for all to enjoy," Irwin said. BUSES Continued from page 1 these changes, many students still feel that the night and weekend service is inadequate. "If it's as much a problem next year as this year, they should implement a change," Beyer said. She added that an "I think it express shuttle from Bursley Residence students' Hall would be a good idea. all want t Another concern that students have at the sar voiced is overcrowd- ing at the Bursley bus for a 10:0 stop in the morning. h ey wer Lehnan said he catches the bus at Baits a half hoi II, rather than trying to fight the crowd at they wou Bursley. He added ' that he almost missed have a pr some of his classes at the beginning of the semester because he was unable to get on a bus in the morning. The new University buses seat 32 to 39 people - depend- ing on the seat arrangement - and can hold a total of 80 passengers, but some bus drivers still reach maximum capacity and are forced to leave students behind at Bursley, said bus driver Karl Myers. "I think it's the students' fault. They all want to leave at the same time for a 10:00 class. If they were to leave a half hour earlier, they wouldn't have a prob- lem," Myers said. PAKISTAN Continued from page 1 views," she added. With this stronger identity, the government should then use this new identity to guide its policies since they would be acting in the interest of the people, she said. At the same time, the political leadership of Pakistan also needs to envisage a new future for the country as the current direction of the coun- Myers said it is not uncommon to leave anywhere from 20 to 50 students at the Bursley bus stop around 9:30 in the morning. But because classes start on either the hour or the half-hour, most students need transportation around the same time. LSA freshman Marina Abayev said 's the fault. They to leave me time )0 class. If e to leave ur earlier, tldn't oblem." - Karl Myers Bus driver she has learned to beat the crowd by leaving either before 9:45 or exactly at 10:00. "In between, those 15 minutes are insane. There are crowds of people, and it's totally packed," Abayev said. Abayev said that while some of the problem could be avoided by better planning on the students' behalf, it is unrea- sonable to assume that everyone will get to his classes a half hour early. LAWSUIT Continued from page 1 Caleb Weiner, a Law student and assistant to Reingold, said he empathiz- es with the plaintiffs. "If you hear the story and have any sympathy for prisoners' rights, it seems as though these (prisoners) are being treated unfairly," he said. Sullivan said the Parole Board's refusal to review the cases of "lifers" is detrimental to their rehabilitation. The complaint cites a number of instances in which parole was denied to "lifers" with admirable behavior records in prison. But Leo LaLonde, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Correc- tions, said parole is not being denied to all prisoners serving parolable life sentences. "Last year, 12 parolable life-sentence prisoners got parole, but some people think that's not enough," he said. LaLonde said the Parole Board is justified in being tough in its decisions. "Those judges could have given those prisoners a fixed term - 15, 25 years - but they didn't. They chose to give them life," he said. "Thirteen, 14 years later, our Parole Board looks to the order from the judge and it says life," he added. Sullivan said the Parole Board should at least examine the specific cases of the plaintiffs. "Some people should be paroled, others should not," he said. "If you kill someone and you don't do well in prison, you shouldn't be paroled. If you rehabilitate yourself, you should be reviewed for parole." Weiner agreed that the plaintiffs deserve to have their cases reviewed by the Parole Board. "(The complaint is) trying to get the treatment that the plaintiffs expected," he said. "It wouldn't guarantee that each of them would be released, but it would give some of them an opportunity to get released." Weiner worked specifically on the research for the motion for class certi- fication, a distinction which, if the Law School team is successful, would make a decision on the complaint apply to all parolable life-sentence prisoners who were sentenced prior to 1992 - not only the seven plaintiffs. But Weiner said that even if the class action were not approved, this case could still be helpful for those prisoners. "Even if a class isn't certified, other individuals situated similarly to the plaintiffs would likely benefit from a legal victory, because it would set a precedent, and the (Parole Board) would know that if it didn't change its course of action, more lawsuits would be on the way," Weiner said. Levy emphasized that University Transportation-had shown it was its high- est priority to do whatever it can to facili- tate getting students to and from their academic locations. LSA freshman Nick Sherman, a resident of Bursley, said that trying to get on the bus around 8:30 a.m. is not really a problem, and while he might not be able to fit on one bus due to overcrowding, he doesn't have a problem getting on another one. try has amounted to little progress, Siddiqa said. "Today there are a few questions we need to ask ourselves. Today, we need to revise our mission," she said. LSA junior Taha Qazi agreed with Siddiqa's views, saying the Pakistani government needs to incorporate the interests of the Pakistani people by decentralizing national authority. "Once they decentralize the authority, it will allow the economy to grow," he said. SAFE SEX Continued from page 1 vanilla, strawberry, banana and even fresh mint. Hiller's Market donated vegetables, which were used to dem- onstrate techniques. Students from the HIV/AIDS Resource Center were also present as part of their semester project. Their booth distributed informa- tional pamphlets ,about HIV, AIDS and support groups for people cop- ing with HIV or AIDS. Throughout the Diag, students walked from booth to booth, read- ing pamphlets, chatting with booth hosts and taking the free samples. The fair also featured safe sex trivia games, demonstrations and informational packets - all free for students. At the beginning of the fair, student groups handed out written prescriptions for emergency contraception - drugs that other- wise can be difficult or embarrass- ing to obtain. Rueble said Students for Choice invited 20 to 25 groups to set up booths around the Diag, and the turnout was great. She added that Students for Choice plans to hold the fair every year to spread safe sex awareness to all students. 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