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Both were introduced in early 2005,
and both are still in committee with no
movement.
The renewable energy standard port-
folio guarantees that a market for renew-
able energy will exist in a state, which
is expected to encourage investment in
renewable energy. Data from the Union of
Concerned Scientists and the American
Wind Energy Association indicates that
74 percent of new wind capacity was built
in states with a renewable energy portfo-
lio standard between 1998 and 2003.
Closer to home, none of the Universi-
ty's electrical power is renewably gener-
ated, said Bill Verge, associate director
for Utilities and Plant Engineering. Cur-
rently, the University generates some
of its power on campus at its Central
Power Plant at Huron and Glen streets,
just east of the Power Center for the Per-
forming Arts. It purchases the remainder
from DTE. Last September, Mayor John
Hieftje issued a green energy challenge to
the city calling for Ann Arbor to produce
20 percent green energy for municipal
operations by 2010.
The University is interested in using
wind-generated electricity and is explor-
ing the possibility of forming a purchas-
ing consortium of Michigan universities.
At a recent meeting, the University of
Michigan and Oakland University invited
other state universities and industry repre-
sentatives to get together.
"We wanted to help other universities
learn about wind," Verge said.
Additionally, the University has done
a preliminary study of wind potential on
University property.
Verge pointed out that wind alone
is insufficient to consistently produce
the amount of electricity the University
needs, particularly at present.
"The wind industry is very immature,"
Verge said. "One of the problems with
wind is that it's not blowing all the time.
Someone's got to fill in the valleys."
POW WOW
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American cultures at the pow
wow - a term that describes a
time to meet, dance, sing, visit,
renew old friendships and make
new ones.
University President Mary Sue
Coleman spoke on Saturday after
the Grand Entry, which marked
the beginning of the pow wow.
She stressed the University's
longtime relationship with the
Native people.
"We have no longer-standing
relations than (we have) with the
Native Americans," she said.
But the pow wow was not just
a way for Native Americans to
celebrate their heritage - it was
also a way to teach it.
LSA freshman Brooke Simon,
an incoming co-chair of the
Native American Student Asso-
ciation who helped organize the
event, said students and people
from the community attend the
pow wow and take the knowledge
from it to educate others about
Native American culture.
The powwow is NASA's larg-
est event of the year, outgoing co-
chair Brittany Marino said. It was
started 34 years ago by NASA as
a traditional pow wow to fund-
raise for the organization. Since
then, it has grown much larger.
"This event means a lot to
Native American students," she
said. "It is a chance to feel at
home, celebrate our heritage and
culture and strengthen bonds
within the Native American com-
munity," she said.
During the pow wow, which
was organized by six different
student groups, Crisler Arena was
buzzing with energy rivaling that
of basketball games. The event
offered a wide range of activi-
ties for attendants. One table was
dedicated to information about
getting involved in the movement
to protect health programs that
benefit Native Americans. It was
titled "Stop Bush from Eliminat-
ing Urban Health Programs."
An important part of the event
is the annual drumming com-
petition. The organizers of the
powwow decided that this year's
drumming competition would
specifically focus on Great Lakes
area drummers, vendors and
dancers.
"In past years, we'd been invit-
ing a largely national group of
vendors, dancers and drums,"
said Matt Stehney, a member of
NASA. "But we're within a rich
Great Lakes Native culture that
we're anxious to express. The
Dance for Mother Earth Pow
Wow carries an area-specific
dynamic that's a good fit for our
community."
Dancers in authentic costumes
accompanied the rhythmic and
vocal talents of competing drum-
ming groups. The floor was open
for visitors to join the dancers
in a large, slow moving circle.
Dancers of all ages dressed in
costumes with vibrantly colored
fabrics, headdresses, bells, belts
and beads.
Each drum group had between
nine and 15 men huddled around
a 2-foot-tall, tire-sized drum.
They beat the drum in unison
with leather-wrapped wooden
sticks.
Throughout each song, drum-
mers took turns singing verses
while the rest accompanied with
background vocals. Their sing-
ing was loud, bold and high-
pitched. Several men had to hold
their necks to produce the cor-
rect pitch. The strenuous singing
caused most of the men to break a
sweat by the end of the song.
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Office of the Provost accepted any one school or
college's request to change the official transcript.
Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic
affairs, said it is vital to preserve the uniformity of
transcripts.
"If we have a situation where (the School of)
Music had a certain kind of transcript, and LSA
another ... it would be a nightmare in managing
that on campus," Monts said.
According to Monts, there are no universities in
the United States that have inconsistent transcripts
among their schools and colleges.
Some universities, such as Indiana University,
have developed content transcripts - separate
documents that include additional experience
about a student's experience on campus, including
median grades.
University Registrar Paul Robinson said the
University could use content transcripts without
altering the way it formats official transcripts.
Although LSA faculty members voted to add
median grades on transcripts, Monts said not all
faculty in other schools share this preference.
"We're still looking at this - we're not saying
that we're not going to do it," he said. "(We're) try-
ing to do it in a way that's not disruptive to what we
already have"
Paige Butler, vice president of LSA Student
Government, said students have mixed opinions
about putting median grades on transcripts.
Before the LSA faculty voted on the resolution, a
similar proposal passed LSA-SG by a narrow mar-
gin. Butler said the close vote reflected conflicted
student opinion of median grades on transcripts.
LSA sophomore Andrew McIntyre said he
would welcome the change.
He is currently taking Psychology 111 and said
the class's curved grading system makes it very
difficult to earn an A.
"You can have a person who has a 90 in the
class, which is a fairly good score, but that might
not end up being an A," McIntyre said. "Even
though the person did relatively well in the class,
they don't earn a good grade because the class is
easy and everybody did well in it."
Prof. Brian Malley, who teaches the course, said
his grading system is motivated by a desire that an
A be meaningful.
MSA
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expelled from the election if he received five
demerits. In practice, demerits can be assigned
randomly among the party's candidates, as hap-
pened two weeks ago when MPP was accused
of removing an S4M campaign poster, a viola-
tion of election code.
Last Thursday, CSJ ruled that parties be
treated as a single entity in regards to penalties,
susceptible to expulsion with five demerits.
Essentially, a party's entire slate of candi-
dates could be disqualified for one incident.
SCP's complaint alleged that S4M members
visited dorms and Greek houses to sway stu-
dents while they were voting. In response, S4M
fired 10 complaints at SCP. The allegations
included charges that some of their campaign
material did not state that it was paid for by
the party.
MPP reworded one of its previous claims
that S4M tampered with its website. The elec-
tion board chose not allow MPP's complaint,
because it was too similar to their previous
claim. In turn, S4M rescinded its 15 complaints
against MPP.
MPP has appealed the charges to CSJ, and if
its appeal goes through, it would allow S4M to
push forward its complaints against MPP.
An LSA-SG representative, affiliated with
S4M, who was involved with the website attack
resigned as a result of the previous agreement
between S4M and MPP. The representative has
not yet been named.
Representatives from each of the three par-
ties met Friday night to broker a deal that would
allow the election results to go unchanged. The
deal entails the creation of an MSA select com-
mittee to reform the current election code to
more clearly define what constitutes illegal
election practices and resulting penalties.
The most contentious provision of the deal
stipulates that no S4M member may serve as
co-chair of the election reform committee.
This sparked controversy during a special
MSA meeting called by outgoing President
Jesse Levine last night.
Though the provision is informal and is not
in the official resolution, it still formed the bulk
of last night's discussion. Before the meeting,
only S4M members involved in the initial bro-
kering knew of the provision.
Once it was revealed to the assembly, Stu-
dent General Counsel Russ Garber stood up,
threw his copy of the resolution onto the table
and yelled "this is ridiculous!"
He then stormed out of the chambers. An
awkward silence followed.
MSA representative Laura Van Hyfte said
she understands that O'Brien accidentally for-
got to let party members know because he was
under a great deal of stress.
Yet she was still dissatisfied.
"I think that all the shareholders should be
notified," she said of the agreement.
Still, the resolution passed with only three
dissenters, and the committee will be created.
Committee members will be chosen at future
meetings, and the assembly hopes to complete
revisions to the election code before next fall's
elections.
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