Tuesday, December 13, 2005 News 3 U' wins award from Ford Foundation for social justice Opinion 4 Sports 9 Sam Singer: Bombs over Teh ran Edelson: New threads cause of Varsity's troubles PETERJACKSON'S GORIlIIA-",'.uT.& . ?Jo4 AKI IH1I THr .i SCREEN 0 .. ART",1 GE 8 One-hundredfifteen years of edaorialfreedom www.michiandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol. CXVI, No. 47 @2005 The Michigan Daily THE SNAKE P IT MSA lost $15k more once By Karl Stampfl Daily Staff Reporter A telling quote from the Michigan Stud bly's Sept. 6 meeting minutes reveals that th lost at least four times the amount it origina to lose on last month's Ludacris concert. According to the assembly's minutes, eral Counsel Russ Garber asked, "What's t could lose if everything went wrong?" "Five-thousand-dollars loss at the end - worst-case scenario," said Eddie Lee, th resentative who organized the concert. The assembly ended up losing $20,000 o $15,000 more than Lee's initial estimate. "I'm not sure why I would say that," Le terday in an interview. "If I said that, I wa mistaken." MSA Rep. Rese Fox posted the min with commentary in her blog at fox4 com. MSA President Jesse Levine said he coul than it planned for Lee but said the discrepancy might have been the result of potential event sponsors that did not follow through with their sponsorship. ent Assem- "The five grand was in the context that we had all he assembly those sponsors," Levine said. illy planned Levine said organizers knew the concert was probably going to lose more than $5,000 before the MSA Gen- concert took place. Representatives have expressed the max we concern that this was not brought to their attention before the concert date. of the day "A lot of the planning was done during the sum- e MSA rep- mer," Levine said. "Eddie and I personally called almost all the reps over the summer to give them all n the event, the information. But communication still could have been better." ee said yes- Levine admitted the assembly made some mistakes s definitely in planning the concert. "This is not a perfect effort. There have been great utes along lessons learned from this experience," including the 4msa.blog. need for better advertising, he said. At the Dec. 6 MSA meeting, several assembly mem- d not speak See LUDACRIS, Page 3 Many fans plan to stay home for bowl game By Ian Herbert Managing Sports Editor Football bowl game If it seems like none of your friends are going to the bowl game this year, it's because they probably aren't. Bowl game ticket sales are down this year for Mich- igan, which will play Nebraska in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28. Marty Bodnar, the associate athletic direc- tor for ticketing services, said the Athletic Department has sold 147 student tickets and approximately 5,000 total tickets for the game in San Antonio Last year, when Michigan played in the Rose Bowl, the Athletic Department sold nearly 35,000 tickets, including 2,000 that were bought by students. But the Rose Bowl is a bigger game than the Alamo Bowl. The last time Michigan played in the Alamo Bowl, after the 1995 season, the University sold just more than 6,000 tickets. Bodnar said he thought the total Tickets sold Alamo 5,000 Rose 35,000 Ticket limit 10,000 25,000 At the 2005 Rose Bowl, the University received 10,000 extra tickets because Texas did not sell its allotment. The last time Michigan attended an Alamo Bowl -10 years ago in 1995 - about 6,000 tickets were sold. That year, the limit was 10,000 just like this year. SHUBRA OHRI/Daily Music junior Katie Biome works on her set design of an insane asylum as a part of her final project in the Frieze Building yesterday. See ALAMO BOWL, Page 7 Today's paper is the last Daily of the fall term. We will resume printing in January. As always, be sure to visit www.mhi/an diiily.Com for the latest news about the University. We wish you a great winter break and a happy new year. -The editors Champion of Google Project to leave 'U' By Jeremy Davidson Daily StaffReporter The University's Office of the Provost will be losing one of its "leaders and best" next year. University of Virginia President John Casteen announced last Friday that James Hilton, asso- ciate provost for academic, information and instructional technology affairs, will be taking the position of vice president and chief informa- tion officer at Virginia after he leaves the Univer- sity of Michigan in July. The president's office has not yet begun the search for Hilton's replacement. Since starting out as a psychology professor in 1985, Hilton has risen to take on two high-ranking positions simultaneously, which in the past have been held by two separate individuals - Univer- sity librarian and associate provost. "He is completely irreplaceable," said Jack Bernard, assistant general counsel for the Uni- versity. "The qualities of leadership he brings are unheralded." John Wilkin, associate University librarian, said Hilton has been a champion for using tech- nology to complement classroom learning. "James has articulated visions and directions at a very high level;' Wilkin said. "It has been won- derful having his voice and vision." The Google Print Library Project, which is still scanning the University library's books into its online database despite recent legal challenges, "He is completely irreplaceable. The qualities of leadership he brings are unheralded." -Jack Bernard Assistant general counsel for the University has been a chief concern for the University librar- ian and will continue to be an important issue for Hilton's successor until the project is completed. Wilkin said that though Hilton has been a strong advocate for the project, his departure will not hinder its progress. "We've set up (the project) operationally so that (it's) not affected by any change of staff in the library;" Wilkin said. See HILTON, Page 3 Football player. begins second trial EIf convicted, Harrison could anywhere from to life in prison spend one day By Nate Sandals Daily Sports Writer Judge Archie Brown is presiding over the trial, which is being heard by a jury selected yesterday morning. Jury selection took more than four hours for the trial that is expected to end Thursday or Friday. The defense raised most of the objections against poten- tial jurors before the 14-person jury was finally seated. The jury consists of eight women and six men. If convicted, Harrison - a former Michigan defensive tackle - could be sentenced to anywhere from one day to life in prison. Anthony Chambers, Harrison's defense Bars could stay open until 4 am Proponents of new closing time say it will give bar patrons a chance to sober up before leaving By Neil Tambe Daily Staff Reporter Party on. A new law that passed with unanimous support in the state House and Senate late last month would help bar-crawlers do just that. Larry Harrison's second legal battle began yesterday at the Washtenaw Coun- ty Circuit Court as a new jury convened to try him on a felony charge of sexual delinquency. S