..._. w -9 w w V w qp THE DAILY DISH 'U' prepares foi University Housing Dir By Doug Wern ALI OLSEN/Daily Students line up outside Scorekeeper's Bar & Grill on Maynard Street. arole Henry, the director of University Housing and vice president of Student Affairs, came to the University in June of 2004. She's played a vital role in the exten- sive housing renovations planned in the next ten'years. In January of 2005, the Board of Regents announced the plans for a new dor- mitory on campus in the current location of the Frieze Building. The dorm, North Quad, is scheduled for completion in 2008 and will be the first new dorm built on campus since 1967. The Michigan Daily: What developments for North Quad happened over the summer? Carole Henry: Throughout the summer, the architects have been working on trying to get the schematic design, the lasting model and still looking at those types of things. One of the main issues is where should be the main entrance for the building, and that's what we're still configuring, the whole layout. All that stuff is all really still in progress, trying to figure out where stuff fits in the building to maximize where we all con- nect. TMD: When you close Mosher Jordan next year, the freshman enroll- ment will still be going up. How are you going to fit everybody since North Quad won't be completed? CH: One renovation we did was on Northwood 3, which is now undergradu- ate apartments. That has really helped increased the capacity. We had one meet- ing with admissions not that long ago really :There's a lot of things we're a lot doing to make students under- under stand that you do not need ypear to find a place in September banne or October for the next yearj tive v qualit - Carole Henry comet University Housing Director TM done a talking about next year in terms of strategies Camp about the target of the freshman class. In terms CH of Mosher Jordan closing, we have made up spring that capacity in the rest of the residence halls. Dinin There's been a big increase in the capacity of ly ren Northwood 3, so we have more than made up comir the 480 beds in Mosher Jordan. We've spent the realiz last two years moving in that direction. rium a have a TMD: When will all the dorms have wire- and ch less Internet? CH: Right now, there is no plan for wire- TM less Internet. What our plans are is to gradu- becau ally add wireless to common areas and dining CH centers. The challenge for that is to see if every productivity will be better versus using wires. Unive What we've been informed is that it will be better with wires in the rooms. TM were TMD: What is the University doing to help CH with off-campus housing? (Ship CH: We (University Housing) provide a not di very thorough off-campus housing program. dence If you look at our webiste and the programs many we have, I can say it's one of the best - if not we h the best - in the nation. There has not been dorm a shortage of off-campus housing recently, bathr there's actually been a vacancy raise. There's stude Don't try this at home One writer's attempt at getting a fake By Jeremy Davidson / Daily Staff Writer n the state of Michigan, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase alcohol, consume alcohol or possess alcohol. The problem is, I'm Scottish, and I really like to purchase, consume and possess alcohol. A lot. And so I decided - like a lot of other under-21-year olds before me - that I would try to get a fake I.D. I'm not the kind of person who just throws caution to the wind (unless I'm drunk), and so before set- ting out to get a fake I.D., I thought I would explore my options. My first big decision was whether to try and get someone else's real I.D. or try and purchase one with my picture and a false birth date. A friend of mine had told me that using an I.D. with someone else's name and pic- ture on it was a more serious offense than using one with my own name and picture, because it constituted identity theft. How- ever, according to Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Diane Brown, my friend was wrong. I would only be charged with identity theft if there was proof of either intent to defraud for financial gain or proof that I had in fact attempted to use the I.D. to defraud for financial gain. Detective Sergeant Jeff Connelly of the Ann Arbor Police Depart- ment confirmed this as well, saying that use or possession of an I.D. that had been forged or using someone else's I.D. would be a mis- demeanor, punishable by a maximum 90 days in jail, and a $500 fine. In fact, only 32 states even have laws that directly prohibit the transfer of I.D.s, and my home state of Missouri isn't one of them. Unfortunately I don't go to school in my home state of Missouri, and Michigan does have a law that directly prohibits the transfer of I.D.s. See FAKES, page 6B .......... .. WHAT SETS YI A 9 WHAT MAKES Explore how renewable energy systems work in Michigan through these insightful seminars! 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