2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 30, 2006 NATION/WORLD BURRITO Continued from page 1A angry, the owners decided to make the best of the situation by trans- forming the forced name change into an interactive marketing strategy. When the contest ends April 10, Lowenstein and Herrick will com- pile their favorites and determine the winner through a final round of in-store and online voting. "The whole reason behind this promotion is to get other people's opinions," Lowenstein said. "But we also get to educate customers so they don't think we were bought out or that the food is different." The restaurant has a strong local fan base. Students said they would continue to buy their burritos at BTB regardless of its name. University media relations intern Ryan Sosin, who eats at BTB sever- al times a week, said the restaurant will not lose customers as a result of the name change. He submitted his own idea for a name: "SCC Bur- rito:" "People will still call it Big Ten, it just won't be (written) on any- thing," Sosin added. Sosin questioned why a corpora- tion as large as the Big Ten Con- ference would target a business that sells $4 burritos. "They have millions of dollars, but they wanna mess with a little burrito joint?" Sosin said. "They're worrying about the trademarking of a place where you can fit about eight people. The Big Ten Conference has bigger fish to fry, like getting a bas- ketball team in the Final Four." Sosin is not alone. Lowenstein said many people have expressed outrage, indiffer- ence and disbelief at the Big Ten Conference's actions. In addition to providing advice on trademark law, several law students - including third-year law student Michael Murphy - have offered to work on the BTB case pro bono. "To take what you learn in class and apply it to the legal troubles of Big Ten Burrito is pretty fun," Mur- phy said. Murphy said although there seems to be a consensus that BTB has a valid defense, debate has aris- en over whether it is in BTB's best interest to pursue a case against the Big Ten Conference. "Big Ten Burrito definitely has a case, but it's one of those things where they probably can't afford to make it in legal fees," Murphy said. Lowenstein said even if BTB had gone to trial and won, there would be no way to recoup the $100,000 to $200,000 in legal costs. "At this point, we thought, we can change the name now and make sure it's legal," Lowenstein said, "and never have to deal with this again." 0 A Turkish man holds a baby as he watches a solar eclipse at an ancient Roman theater in the Turkish Mediterra- nean coastal resort of Side, Antalya yesterday. Thousands gather in teminple to witness eclipse Senate approves new lobbying limits The Senate passed an election-year ethics package yesterday that was heavy on disclosing lawmaker contacts with lobbyists but light on outright prohibitions - and with no independent office to police it all. The legislation would bar lawmakers from accepting gifts or meals from lob- byists or moving quickly to lobbying jobs after retiring. But members of Con- gress could still use corporate jets for the price of a first-class ticket and accept free lodging, travel and meals from non-lobbyists. "Trust is the foundation of our democratic government," Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said moments before the Senate voted 90-8 for the first lobbying overhaul bill in a decade. "With the public opinion of Congress at an all-time low, we have to do a better job of retaining that trust and that confidence." The vote came just hours after a U.S. District judge in Miami sentenced former lob- byist Jack Abramoff, whose influence-peddling activities spawned the Senate action, to five years and 10 months in prison on conspiracy and wire fraud charges. The legislation also seeks to restrain earmarks, those thousands of special projects that make their way into legislation. Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) went to prison this year after using the earmark pro- cess to help defense contractors who had given him bribes. UNITED NATIONS UN demands that Iran suspend enrichment The U.N. Security Council demanded yesterday that Iran suspend uranium enrich- ment, the first time the powerful body has directly urged Tehran to clear up suspi- cions that it is seeking nuclear weapons. Iran remained defiant, maintaining its right to nuclear power but insisting that it was committed to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and had no intention of seek- ing weapons of mass destruction. "Pressure and threats do not work with Iran. Iran is a country that is allergic to pres- sure and to threats and intimidation," Iranian Ambassador Javad Zarif said. He later added that "Iran insists on its right to have access to nuclear technology for explicitly peaceful purposes. We will not abandon that claim to our legitimate right." The 15-nation council unanimously approved a statement that will ask the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to report back in 30 days on Iran's compliance with demands to stop enriching uranium. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas government formally takes power Hamas formally took power yesterday, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swearing in 24 Cabinet ministers, including 14 who served time in Israeli prisons. Soon after the ceremony Canada announced it was suspending aid to the cash- strapped Palestinian Authority, and other nations were expected to follow suit. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the United States is look- ing for ways to get humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, but "we are not going to provide funds to a terrorist organization. And we are not going to provide U.S. funds to a Hamas-led government." MIAMI Abramoff gets nearly to six years in prison Assuring the judge he is working to become "a new man," disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced yesterday to nearly six years in prison for committing fraud in the purchase of a fleet of gambling boats. He will remain free while helping prosecutors with a vast bribery inves- tigation involving members of Congress. Abramoff, 47, and former business partner Adam Kidan, 41, received the minimum under federal guidelines: five years and 10 months. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A caption on page 3 of yesterday's edition incorrectly identified a dancer as Elana Jacobs. The dancer pictured was LSA freshman Suzanne Santopolo. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com 0 Total solar eclipse casts an eerie blue glow across the sky and sea SIDE, Turkey (AP) - Thousands of skygazers gathered in an ancient temple of Apollo and let out cheers yesterday as a total solar eclipse turned day into twi- light, casting an eerie blue glow across the sky and the Mediterranean Sea. NASA astronomers handed out protec- tive glasses to hundreds of Turkish chil- dren before the eclipse cut a dark swath across the sky - a band that stretched from Brazil, across West Africa, Turkey and Central Asia, then disappeared at sunset in Mongolia. The last total solar eclipse was in November 2003, but that was best viewed from sparsely populated Antarctica. Yes- terday's eclipse blocked the sun in highly populated areas. In Ghana, automatic street lamps switched on as the light faded, and authorities sounded emergency whis- tles in celebration. Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq were summoned to mosques during the eclipse for a special prayer reserved for times of fear and natural disasters. In the Turkish resort of Side, a crowd of 10,000 cheered and whistled as the moon took its first bite out of the sun. When the moon masked the sun and Venus suddenly appeared in the blue glow of the darkened sky, another loud cheer went up. "It's one of those experiences that makes you feel like you're part of the larger universe," said NASA astrono- mer Janet Luhmann who witnessed the eclipse from the ruins of an ancient Roman theater just a few hundred feet from the temple of Apollo. 0 PRIMARY Continued from page IA the surprisingly strong showing of for- mer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The Washtenaw County chapter of the Dean campaign's offshoot, Democracy for America, has endorsed Warren. Like Dean, Warren has drawn heav- ily on student activists and other young people, courting students with a new campus group, Students for Warren - the product of a Facebook.com group of the same name. She's earned the endorsements of Students for Choice, an abortion-rights group, and the Stonewall Democrats, an arm of the College Democrats that advo- cates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans- gender issues. Warren's campaign is conducting an absentee ballot drive to ensure that sup- porters who leave Ann Arbor this summer will still vote for her in the August primary. The campaign aims to sign up 500 students to receive absentee ballots wherever they may be in August, said RC senior Claire Schreiber, an executive board member of Students for Choice, which is working to collect names and addresses for Warren. This doesn't mean that Greden has ignored the student demographic. After drawing the ire of many students two years ago with his support of a couch ban ordinance, which would have pre- vented students from having couches on porches, Greden has reached out to them. He now calls the handling of the couch ban his biggest mistake during his tenure on the council and holds a seat on the Council's new Student Relations Committee. He worked closely with the Michigan Student Assembly to pass an ordinance delaying the signing of new leases on a property until 90 days into the previous lease period over the objec- tions of many local landlords. Greden also plans to conduct an absentee ballot campaign. His campaign will send likely primary voters that will include an absentee ballot application. Will student support make a difference? Most students will be out of town dur- ing the primary, and neither campaign seems to be experiencing a groundswell of student support. Still, if the Warren campaign can gar- ner even half of the 500 student votes it hopes to pick up from its absentee ballot drive, it might. Past Democratic state representative primaries in Ann Arbor have seen rela- tively low turnout - usually somewhere around 5,000. In a close election with so few voters, 250 votes could be crucial. Ann Arbor political observers are split over which faction will prevail. Dale Winling, a Rackham student and founder of the New West Side Asso- ciation, a group borne out of the Ann Arbor blogging community to represent the concerns of renters and students, said Greden's establishment credentials will give him an edge. "Greden's got more namerecognition,"he said. "Greden's got strong ties in the city." Washtenaw County Clerk and Reg- ister of Deeds Lawrence Kestenbaum disagreed. "In the primary, it's primarily activists, it's primarily people who are plugged in," he said. "Name I.D. is great in a general election - in a primary it doesn't matter." 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