2A - Wednesday, December 6, 2006 NEWS The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: Ten Spot TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes N vEs bxTHURSDAY: " ".3Explained FRIDAY: Before You Were Here One powerful job Behind the scenes at the University's power plant Walking past Palmer Field, you may have noticed two large smoke- stacks near an industrial-looking building. They're part of a power plant that provides 75 percent of the University's electrical energy and all of its thermal energy during peak seasons. Richard Wickboldt, the plant operations manager, supervises the plant's 32 employees. "I'm the captain of the ship, so to speak," he said, laughing. Charged with overseeing opera- tions at the plant, Wickboldt has varying duties vary depending on the day and the season. On a typical day, Wickboldt spends much of his time in meet- ings planning projects and coor- dinating staff efforts to make sure the power plantis running at maxi- mum efficiency. Wickboldt said the best part of his job is to empower the Univer- sity to fulfill its mission - literally.. He's fond of repeating the plant 's motto, "Powering the ideas of the future." He credits the power plant's success to the people who physi- cally maintain the plant's equip- ment and make it run. "The people here are very dedi- cated," he said. Wickboldt is tall and affable. A New York native, he came to Ann Arbor in February of 2002. He still speaks with a thick New York accent. Wickboldthelpsmakeimportant financial decisions like whether to buy energy from outside contrac- tors or produce it on-site during off-peak hours. What's the worst part of being plant manager? "I enjoy my job, but if I had to say something, I'd say maintaining finances," Wickboldt said. He said the rising cost of fuel and the state's struggling economy have made this part of his job more and more important. Wickboldt's work to improve efficiency in the plant hasn't gone unnoticed. Under Wickboldt's watch, the plant won an award from the Envi- ronmental Protection Agency in 2003 for its unusually high level of efficiency. One reason for the plant's effectiveness is that the heat it produces travels through under- ground tunnels to many campus buildings. The tunnels were dug by hand in 1914, the year the power plant was built. KATIE VANLONKHUYZEN rl C 4te ffii~igan Daili 413 E. Huron St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com DONNM.FRESARD ALEXISFLOYD Editor is Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 fresard@michigandaily.com floyd@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom office hours:Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m.- 2 a. 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Hospital valet dings up truck WHERE: University Hospital CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES WHEN: Monday at about 7:45 p.m. WHAT: A valet at the Universi- ty Hospital scraped the driver's side door of a Ford pickup truck while driving around the hos- pital's main circular driveway, DPS reported. Vandal breaks gate arm at parking lot exit WHERE: Thayer Car Park, 216 Thayer St. WHEN: Monday at about 9 WHAT: The electronic gate arm at the east exit of the parking structure was found broken, DPS reported. A driver may have maliciously broken the arm. Lecture on Native American history WHAT: A lecture about the influence of Manifest Destiny, Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark on Native Americans WHO: Robert Miller, a pro- fessor at Lewis and Clark Law School WHEN: Today from 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: 120 Hutchins Hall Film on hip-hop and rap culture WHAT: A free screening of "Beyond Beats and Rhymes," a documentary exploring sex- ism, homophobia and mas- culinity in hip-hop and rap, followed by a discussion WHO: Byron Hurt, producer of the film WHEN: Today from 7 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: 1324 East Hall Annual Latino cultural show WHAT: The 7th annual Latino culture show, show- casing music, dance, skits and other performances from the Latino community WHO: The Latino Culture Show, a student organiza- tion WHEN: Today from 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Room A, 3rd floor, Michigan League CORRECTIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. -Want to know more about a Universityjob?Emailsuggestions to news@michigandaily.com. Last week, Ford Motor Company announced that 38,000 workers would be accepting buyout proposals. The management program at the University's Ross School of Business helped Ford design their severance packages. "Bobby," Emilio Estevez's film about Robert Ken- nedy's assassination, has earned just $10 million world- wide since its release. "Happy Feet," an animated film about penguins released the same day, has earned more than $135 million. FOR MORE, SEE PAGE 5A On this day in1933, the 21st Amendment was rati- fied into the U.S. Consti- tution, effectively ending the prohibition of alcohol. Discovery set for night launch Mayans excited, uneasy about Gibson's film CAPE CANAVERAL (AP)- On Thursday night, Nature and NASA will collaborate in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle. There are countless engineer- ing and safety calculations behind Thursday's scheduled 9:35 p.m. blastoff, the first night launch in four years. But once the shuttle Discovery's three main engines light, it's all about the wow fac- tor. Take it from former astronaut Jay Apt. "In some ways it's sort of like an eclipse in reverse," Apt said. "It turns night into day. The birds wake up - not just because of the sound. You feel the heat wave." The shuttle launches in a northeasterly directly from Cape Canaveral, a bit east of the U.S. coastline, shutting its engines off and reaching orbit due east of northern Maine or New- foundland, according to NASA. Depending on weather and light- ing conditions, residents of the U.S. East Coast should be able to see some of the shuttle's fiery streak. 0 40 w*- per hour of Co0 instrn'ef Get Your MCAT Scores UP!! Stewart University Go to... www.stewartmed.org Headaches Hurt. But it wouldn't hurt to consider our research study. 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For more information, please contact: Michigan Head Pain & Neurological Institute 734-677-6000,option 4 'Apocalypto' may not reflect Mayan culture, some fear MEXICO CITY (AP) - Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians build- ing temples for a violent, deca- dent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construc- tion camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned. Some Mayas are excited at the prospect of the first feature film made in their native tongue, Yucatec Maya. But others among the 800,000 surviving Mayans are worried that Gibson's hyper-vio- lent, apocalyptic film could be just the latest misreading of their cul- ture by outsiders. "There has been a lot of concern among Mayan groups from Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, because we don't know what his treatment or take on this is going to be," said Amadeo Cool May of the Indian defense group "Mayaon," or "We are Maya." "This could be an attempt to merchandize or sell the image of a culture, or its people, that often dif- fers from what that people needs, or wants," Cool Maysaid. Gibson employed Mayas, most of whom live on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, in the filming of the movie, and says he wants to make the Mayan language "cool" again, and encourage young people "to speak it with pride." Just as Gibson's use of Aramaic in "The Passion of Christ" sparked a burst of interest in that language, some Maya are hoping "Apoca- lypto" will do the same for their tongue. "I think it is a good chance to integrate the Mayan language ... for people to hear it in movies, on tele- vision, everywhere," said Hilaria Maas, a Maya who teaches the lan- guage at Yucatan's state university. The film has been screened for some U.S. Indians, who praised the use of Indian actors. The Mayas haven't seen it yet, but like Indi- ans north of the border, they have seen others co-opt their culture, as in high-class Caribbean resorts like the Maya Coast and the Maya Riv- iera. But Indians are largely absent from those beach resorts, ,where vacationers tour mock Mayan Vil- lages or watch culturally inaccurate mishmashes with "Mayan Dancers" performing in feather headdresses and facepaint. Outsiders' views of the Maya have long been subject to chang- ing intellectual fashions. Until the 1950s, academics often depicted the ancient Mayas as an idyllic, peace- ful culture devoted to astronomy and mathematics. Evidence has since emerged that, even at their height, the Mayas fought bloody and sometimes apocalyptic wars among themselves, lending some- what more credence to Gibson's approach. Today's Maya are knownmainly for their elaborate rhyming jokes, a cuisine based on pumpkin and achiote seeds, and loose embroi- dered white clothing. They're largely peaceful farmers and masons who carry their goods on ubiquitous three-wheeled bicycles over table-flat Yucatan. "Our culture hasn't been destroyed, because the family is the base of it," says Maas. "Perhaps some material things have been destroyed, but the real basis of the culture is what a family teaches their children, and that survives, and has survived." 0 Program in Science, Tchnology and Society Distinguished Literature Science and the Modern World Stevin Shapin Harvard University Thursday 7 December 2006, 4pm Vandenberg Room, Michigan League Co sponsored by the EisenbergInstitute for Historical Studies For more information: www.mich.edu/umsts/ 0