NEWS
The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 3
ON CAMPUS
Career Center to
hold meeting for
intern program
The Career Center will hold its annfu-
al Public Service Intern Program mass
meeting tonight from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in
Angell Hall Auditorium C. The pro-
gram helps students with job-hunting
skills and assists them in obtaining an
internship in Washington, D.C. for the
upcoming summer.
Dance Marathon to
hold North Campus
mass meeting
Dance Marathon will be hold-
ing its mass meeting tonight from
8 to 9:30 p.m. in the East Room of
Pierpont Commons. The student-run
group raises awareness and money
for rehabilitation activities for chil-
dren, such as horseback riding and
martial arts.
New planetarium
to offer two free
showings
The astronomy department will be
holding two shows in the Angell Hall
Planetarium in Room 3118 tonight at 5
p.m. and 6 p.m. The event offers students
a chance to see what the sky looked like
before city lights and pollution obscured
the view.
CRIME
NOTES
Kitchen worker
burned during
lunch hour
A Kitchen worker in South Quad
Residence Hall was excessively burned
from steam during lunch hour yesterday.
The victim had to be transported to the
University Hospital Emergency Room
to have the wounds treated, according to
the Department of Public Safety.
Hospital's gold
section parking
lot gate broken
The gate arm for entry into the gold
parking lot of the University Hospital
was broken. A DPS supervisor speculat-
ed that the gate arm was broken off late
Saturday night or early Sunday morning,
because the gold section offers some of
the most sought-after parking locations
on campus. The incident was discovered
Sunday afternoon. She added that unfor-
tunately, incidents of this nature happen
quite frequently.
Fire extinguisher
used to vandalize
in Oxford Housing
The contents of a fire extinguisher
were expelled in the Vandenberg House
located in Oxford Housing on Sunday,
although there were no signs of a poten-
tial fire. There are no suspects at this
time. There was no permanent damage,
according to DPS.
THIS DAY
In Daily History
Beer Olympics
draw in 2,000
students
Sept. 20, 1981 - Engineering junior
Dan Lenhard didn't sweat it.
There was no doubt in his mind he
would be crowned champion of the
One-Minute Beer Marathon at Theta
Delta Chi fraternity Friday night.
"Three beers in a minute is ridiculous.
I can finish a six pack in a minute," Len-
hard boasted. "I knew I'd be champion."
It took him just 25 seconds to down
three beers and capture the title of the
University's fastest guzzler.
The contest in which Lenhard came
out on top was just one of the events in
the 11th Annual Theta Delta Chi Beer
Olympics. It was every partygoer for
himself at the sporting event, which was
Gas prices fall
after peaking
post hurricane
Despite the drop, the
cost of gas still remains
far above last year's prices
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) - The state-
wide average price of a gallon of self-
serve, unleaded gasoline tumbled more
than 20 cents during the past week,
partly because demand for fuel is wan-
ing as the summer driving seasonwinds
down, a spokesman for AAA Michigan
said yesterday.
"Basically, what we're seeing is a
return to pre-Katrina levels," said Jim
Rink, a spokesman for the Dearborn-
based auto club.
Gasoline prices in Michigan fell 20.4
cents per gallon, from a statewide aver-
age of $2.91 to $2.706, reported AAA
Michigan, which each day surveys
2,800 gas stations statewide. The aver-
age price fell 24.8 cents per gallon in
greater Detroit, from $2.883 to $2.635
per gallon.
Traverse City had the highest report-
ed prices on yesterday, with an average
of $2.842 per gallon, up from $1.899
last year.
Although fuel prices are falling, they
still remain high compared to a year
ago, when consumers in the Detroit area
paid an average of $1.866 per gallon.
Prices remain comparatively high for
various reasons, including the devel-
opment of Tropical Storm Rita, Rink
said. The storm posed an immediate
threat to Florida but rough projections
of its track raised the possibility that
the oil-producing and -refining Louisi-
ana coast could be targeted less than a
month after Hurricane Katrina devas-
tated the area.
Still, global demand appears to be
decreasing, which should help drive
down prices, he said.
The lower prices are welcome but
never can go down enough, said Ron
Cook Stallworth, a 38-year-old attor-
ney from Detroit. He filled up his
Cadillac at a gas station near down-
town Detroit during the lunch hour
yesterday.
"Had I known how ridiculously high
gas was going to be, I wouldn't have
bought the car I did," he said.
Stallworth said the summer's high
fuel prices led him to make some major
changes in his driving habits.
"This summer I drove a little less,
put off a trip or two. I'd try to do all my
errands at once," he said.
Despite last week's price drop, the
AP PHOTO
Gasoline prices have fallen in the past week, though they remain high compared with one year ago.
cost of fuel still seems high to Shyra
Livingston, 18, a student at Wayne
County Community College. She was
at the same Detroit gas station with her
mother, Jannise Livingston, 32.
"I'm glad they're going down, but it
still costs me a lot to fill up these cars,"
said the mother, who spent more than
$60 refueling her Dodge Durango and
her daughter's Honda Accord.
High gas prices put a damper on Shyra
Livingston's summer social plans.
"I didn't really get to hang out," she
said. "Once I put gas in my car, I didn't
have any money to go out."
Fuel prices affect not only the wallets
of motorists but also the bottom lines of
companies.
James Compau, sales and market-
ing manager of Grand Rapids-based
AAA Lawn Care Inc., said it's difficult
for a fuel-dependent business such as
his when prices "go through the roof."
The company uses fuel in its mowers,
tractors and other lawn machines, and
for the vehicles that haul the equipment
from job to job.
Lawn care is a highly competitive
business, so a lot of thought would go
into any price increases, he said.
Speaker urges int'l cooperation on environment
INDONESIA
Continued from page 1
But Katili-Niode said the governments of the
nations contributing to the pollution should intervene
to protect Indonesia's environment.
The decentralization of the government - regional
governments are autonomous - and the lack of human
resources, have made it difficult for the island nation to
monitor compliance with environmental policies.
"We have 70,000 islands, and no one has the time
and resources to look after them," Katili-Niode said.
Indonesia is currently receiving help from other
countries, especially Germany, to build a reliable
infrastructure - including labs to measure progress
toward environmental goals - to improve communi-
cation between national and regional governments.
"We try to give the regional governments some
technical assistance, as well as coordination assis-
tance," Katili-Niode said.
Indonesia pioneered the Environmental Perfor-
mance Rating Program, in which businesses par-
ticipate voluntarily in letting the government evaluate
how well they are complying with environmental
codes. The program is effective because the rating is
highly valued in Indonesia; companies that receive
bad ratings usually lose stockholders.
According to Katili-Niode, the program has been
adopted by Mexico and other nations.
Katili-Niode was invited to speak by the Uni-
versity's Center for Southeast Asian Studies after
she attended the United Nations World Summit last
week.
"I think it is a good opportunity to hear from an
alumni who is involved with the environmental issues
in Indonesia to talk to us," center Director Linda Lim
said. "We hope to build a relationship with Indonesia
in the environmental area"
The School of Natural Resources and Environ-
ment sponsored the event with the Center for South-
east Asian Studies and the Stephen M. Ross School
of Business.
"We have a number of collaborative projects in
other countries, and I hope to hear more of the techni-
cal issues and policy issues in Indonesia,' said Jim
Diana, associate dean of the SNRE.
AP PHOTO
Amanda Katili-
Niode lectures
on Indonesia's
environmental
crises in the
International
Institute yester-
day afternoon.
Tuition
for kids Of
veterans
at risk
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - The
family of U.S. Army reservist Kelly
Matthews, killed during the Persian
Gulf War, counted on promised state
assistance in putting his fourschildren
through college.
But a funding showdown has cloud-
ed the future of a program started in
1935 that provides a yearly $2,800
college tuition grant to children of
Michigan veterans killed in action or
permanently disabled.
"It's wrong. They guarantee you
something, then they don't do it," Kel-
ly's father, Sid Matthews of Buckley,
told the Traverse City Record-Eagle for
a story yesterday.
Money for the tuition grants origi-
nally was part of the state's general
budget. But the Legislature in 1996
ordered the Veterans Trust Fund, a $50
million kitty that provides emergency
assistance for veterans, to begin paying
for the tuition grants.
The added burden eroded the fund
to about $46 million. The smaller bal-
ance produces less interest, forcing
the board overseeing the fund to trim
even more, said its chairman, Edward
Florence Jr.
"There's a good possibility the
trust fund might not ever be able
to come back and do what it is sup-
posed to do: assist veterans who
have a hard time with an emergency
need," Florence said.
The board last week voted to stop
funding the tuition grant program,
which costs about $1.5 million a year,
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REGISTRAR'S BULLETIN BOARD
FALL TERM 2005
DATES TO REMEMBER
LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM FALL TERM-with only an
assessment of a $50 disenrollment fee and an $80 registration fee.
LAST DAY TO DROP CLASSES-with a reduction in tuition.
LAST DAY TO ADD CLASSES without school/college approval form.
Authorization required to drop, add, or modify any elections.
Web registration no longer available for FALL TERM.
BEGIN fifty percent reduction of tuition for complete withdrawals from fall term. The $80
registration fee will not be cancelled. This tuition adjustment applies only to complete
withdrawals from the term and not to classes dropped.
FALL STUDY BREAK MONDAY-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17-18
LAST DAY for fifty percent reduction of tuition for complete withdrawals from fall term.
The $80 registration fee will not be cancelled.
WITHDRAWING FROM FALL TERM results in no reduction in tuition or fees.
NOTE: Some units (Law, Medicine, Dentistry, Business Administration and Social Work) begin
classes on a different academic calendar and deadlines vary for those units. Please contact your
unit for their deadlines.
END OF TERM SCHEDULE
Classes End: Tu
Study Days: We
Sat
Final Examinations: Thi
Mc
Commencement: Su
esday, December 13
dnesday, December 14
urday, Sunday, December 17-18
ursday-Friday, December 15-16
onday -Thursday, December 19-22
nday, December 18
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