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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
A PEEK AT THE FUTURE
Forget tuition:
OSU tickets
break bank
COURTESY OF THE
ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
Artists' renderings of what
the inside of Michigan Sta-
dium would look like after
the completion of proposed
renovations to the 79-year-
old bowl, including luxury
boxes and club seating. The
- University Board of Regents
is scheduled to vote on the
controversial proposal at its
meeting on Friday.
ELECTo 2006
For a change, students turn out
Road to Columbus
paved with scams,
outlandish prices
By DAVE MEKELBURG
Daily StaffReporter
If you plan' to go to the
Michigan-Ohio State game
this Saturday, you may have to
make a few sacrifices.
Sell your car. Sublet your
apartment and live in the Grad
Library for a while. Drink'
Milwaukee's Best instead of
Bell's. Save on tuition by tak-
ing next semester off.
On stubhub.com last night,
the cheapest ticket for sale at a
flat price was $550. The most
expensive was $4,500. The
site had a ticket up for auction
at $330, but that price is sure
to rise by the close of bidding
on Thursday. Ebaycom listed
tickets as high as $10,000 per
AN ARM AND A LEG
The most expensive ticketson several
websites as of last night:
$4,500
stubhub corn
$10,000
ebaycom
$1,375
ebay.com
$850
thediag.com
$2,745
tickco.com
$3,095
ticketsnow.com
ticket for a pair of club-level
seats.
A mere 550 bucks seems
like a bargain to Engineering
sophomore Michael Berger.
He has been hunting for tick-
ets for a month, mostly on
ebaycom and craigslist.com.
"Everything before was six
or seven hundred," he said.
"Now you can find tickets for
four or five hundred each, and
they seem to be coming down
further."
The price drop is probably
due to increased supply, said
Berger, who's seen a rash of
tickets go up for sale recently.
"I think people are realiz-
ing that they have to get rid of
them," he said.
OSU sophomore Alex Hall
said the wait to validate tick-
ets in the student section for
use by non-students was more
than an hour long yesterday
morning.
A search for "Ohio State
See TICKETS, page 7
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Turnout higher
than 2002
midterm
By JAKE HOLMES
For theDaily
Even without P. Diddy
warning them that they must
either vote or die, young vot-
ers cast ballots in record
numbers during last week's
midterm elections.
Exit polls show that the
percentage of registered 18-
to 29-year-olds who voted
was about 24 percent nation-
ally. That adds up to just over
10 million votes, up signifi-
cantly from the 2002 mid-
term elections.
In 2002, just 20 percent
of eligible young voters cast
ballots.
And across the nation, vot-
ers under 30 cast 13 percent
of the total ballots, compared
with 11 percent in 2002.
At campus precincts, vot-
ers fell just below the nation-
al average. The average voter
turnout across the 11 pre-
cincts on or near campus was
23.6 percent.
Voice Your Vote co-chair
Jonathon Kendall, though,
said the turnout was impres-
sive for midterm elections.
"I was very pleasantly sur-
prised," Kendall said. "The
gubernatorial elections are
obviously a lot harder to get
people excited about."
Though youth voter turn-
out was up nationwide, Ken-
dall said those figures only
tell part of the story about
See TURNOUT, page 7
BY THE NUMBERS
Percentage of Campus precincts
voters under
30 who voted
Dtemocrat:
Percentage of Campus precincts
registered
voters who
cast ballots:
Number of 2002
ballots cast in
the six main
campus
precincts:
National
National
2006
NAEN'S TENN IS
Maravic takes Big Ten title
By ANTHONY OLIVEIRA That was the sound of nationally - brought the Knowing that Bubenicek
Daily Sports Writer junior Matko Maravic, who title back to Ann Arbor after had finished a grueling
is from Croatia, claiming the a 10-year absence. three-set match less than
Yesterday at the Varsity BigTensingleschampionship Maravic constantly put two hours before, Maravic
Tennis Center, just three (6-3, 6-2) with a cry of "come the pressure on a fatigued forced the Hoosier to run
things could be heard from on" in his native language. Bubenicek. Although cross-court, setting up many
the courts: giggling from old It worked. Indiana's Bubenicek kept up early, unforced errors.
women, a few grumblings David Bubenicek's final shot Maravic broke his serve in After finishing the first
from middle-aged men and fell wide. the sixth game of the match. set 6-3, Maravic never
one youthful shout. By topping the field of From there, everything went slowed down. He appeared
"Dobar?" 64, Maravic - ranked 25th Maravic's way. See TENNIS, page 7
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What's
eerie
about
Erie?
Researchers
probe lake's dead
zone
By JESSICA
VOSGERCHIAN
Daily StaffReporter
Year after year on Lake
Erie, families motor around
in pontoon boats and fisher-
men haul in catch-of-the-day
specials, while the lake's eco-
system struggles to survive.
Scientists say part of
LSA senior Alex Smith looks for passersby in the Diag yesterday to talk about the Military Commissions Act,
which suspended the writ of habeas corpus for enemy combatants. Members of Anti-war Action, a group Smith
founded, dressed as detainees and erected tombstones to protest the act.
FIGHTING APATHY:NOT
YOUR PARENTS' PROTEST
Donald Scavia, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, is studying a dead zone
in Lake Erie that is disrupting the lake's ecosystem.
Lake Erie's ecosystem suf- to treat the problem, and the zone isn't under control -
fers from a dead zone - an dead zone was thought to it's growing.
area of the lake that, lacking be under control. But sur- University researchers
enough oxygen, cannot sus- veys of the lake's ecological are trying to find out why.
tain wildlife. health conducted over the By disrupting the lake's
Years ago scientists tried last five years show the dead See DEAD ZONE, page 7
Campus has only
one group devoted
to war protest
By CHRISTINA HILDRETH
Daily News Editor
On a campus that once was
a bastion of anti-war activ-
ism, few students have loudly
opposed the war in Iraq since
it began more than three years
ago.
There have been scattered
protests,assorted bumper stick-
ers and occasional canvassing,
but a largely apathetic student
body has expressed little inter-
est in replicating the storied
demonstrations of the 1960s.
Yet not everyone is docile.
There is a small, devoted group
of protesters willing to forsake
sleep and free time - though
not yet class or exams - to voice
dissent.
Two of these, LSA seniors
Alex Smith and Mikhail
"Misha" Lomize, are members
of Anti-war Action, a fledgling
student group devoted to per-
form exactly what its name pre-
scribes. They and about eight
other re members are dili-
gently Working to foster apeace
See ACTIVISM, page 7
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