A LEGEND SPEAKS: BO ON THE GAME SPORTS, PAGE 8 ,A- Ad l E ilic i I1 il rnn Arbor, Mic www.michigandaily~com 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 \ 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 1 1111.1, 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 TODAY'S HI: 45 WEATHER 0 Lo34 GOT A NE WS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail news@michgandaily.com and let us know. Behind enemy lines: Your guide to surviving Sat- urday on the streets of Columbus. NEWS INDEXN NEWS...... Vol. CXVII,SNo.d4 EWS 02006 The Michigan Daily S UD O K U.. michigandaily.com OPINION. .2 ARTS .............. .3 CLASSIFIEDS. ..4 SPORTS...... .. 5 ..6 ..8 5 I