NEWS The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 27, 2006 - 7A SCIENCE Continued from page 5A 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 Continued from page 1A 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. TRANSCRIPT Continued from page 1A 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 Continued from page 1A 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. 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