The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com GOOGLE From page IA Vinology Wine Bar since Septem- ber. The McKinley Towne Centre office will expand the company's presence in Ann Arbor, but the space will not be Google's perma- nent home in the city. The company is describing the move as its second phase of expan- sion. City Council passed a resolution on Sept. 5 encouraging the com- pany to keep its offices downtown and offering support setting up the headquarters. City officials have offered the company 200 free parking spaces in city-owned lots. The spaces are worth an estimated $1 million for four years, The Ann Arbor News reported. Although the city owns the lots, the Downtown Development Authority maintains and sets park- ing rates. This has generated confu- sion as to how to folly v through on the pledge, with some questioning the city's right to offer the parking spaces. City Council member Joan Low- enstein (D-Ward 2) said she expects the issue to be resolved soon. While in the McKinley Towne Centre, the company expects to expand from between 70 and 90 local employees to 300 or 400 local employees. The McKinley Towne Centre has 50 parking spaces, which Google would share with other businesses. Lowenstein said the parking Google is asking for is a necessity. She added that the company is not asking the city for tax abatements. "The city of Ann Arbor will be able to benefit from the taxes they will bring," she said. Google has deep ties with the University. University President Mary Sue Coleman told The Michi- gan Daily in July that Google co- founder and alum Larry Page had first hinted about his plans to bring Google to Ann Arbor when she vis- ited him in California a few years ago. The University is also one of a handful of colleges working with the Google Book Project to digitize its library collection. The project aims to digitize the entire collec- tion by 2010. Google Book Search lets stu- dents comb the full texts of books in the public domain or materials that aren't copyrighted online through books.google.com or through the University's Mirlyn catalog. STORAGE From page 1A use a company that provides jobs to locals and is part of the local com- munity. "This Michigan connection is important," Kazanjian said. "Everybody in the Housing office knows me." There's another reason why a local company may be better. Unlike Collegeboxes, if students have a problem with storage or delivery, they can quickly talk to somebody at John's Pack and Ship, Levy said. Neuberger maintains that the mistakes at Harvard were a fluke. Monday, December 11, 2006 - 7A He said he has revised his compa- ny's strategies and expects this will improve customer service in the future. Levy said the Housing office doesn't plan to work with a nation- al company like Collegeboxes. "We feel much more comfortable that it is a local company," Levy said. EDITORS From page IA Bloomer said Stampfl will put more emphasis on the presentation of the paper's content than current Editor in Chief Donn M. Fresard did dur- ing his tenure. Bloomer, a former managing arts editor, held the position of manag- ing editor this semester and will hang on to the position for another year. News reporter Andrew Gross- man will replace Stampfl as manag- ing news editor. "I think he's really poised to con- tinue some of the things we've been doing in the news section," Stampfl said. Grossman said he plans to con- tinue thoroughly covering the effect on the University of Proposal 2, which banned affirmative action programs in Michigan. Imran Syed, an associate editori- al page editor, will take over as edi- torial page editor from Emily Beam and Christopher Zbrozek. Syed said he wants to bring in more diverse voices from the student commu- nity. He also held the position over the summer. Scott Bell will fill the manag- ing sports editor position, cur- rently held by Jack Herman. Bell, a senior sports editor and foot- ball writer, plans to maintain the changes Herman put in place. One area of focus will be placing arti- cles on major sports on the web- site earlier. Managing Arts Editor Andrew Sargus Klein will keep his position next year. The arts section will continue shifting its focus onto student musicians and artists, he said. Angela Cesere and Peter Schot- tenfels will take over for Mike Hulsebus and Alex Dziadosz as managing photo editors. Their goals include downsizing the staff and turning the depart- ment into a pre-professional venue for aspiring photographers, they said. The Statement, currently edited by James Dowd, will come under the control of Anne VanderMey. VanderMey, currently a news edi- tor, said she will give The State- ment a more distinctive voice and add more bite-size features, as in the "Junk Drawer" page. Bridget O'Donnell, the managing design editor, will keep her position for the coming year. ADMISSIONS From page IA The increase goes against what many were bracing for: a drop in minority applications due to worry that the ban could paint the Uni- versity as an unwelcoming place for minority students. After California voters passed a similar measure in 1996, minority applications to the UC system's flag- ship campuses dropped substan- tially. As of Dec. 4, 3,133 students had been admitted to the University for next fall, including 256 under- represented minorities. About 73 percent of the underrepresented minority applicants considered so far this year have been admit- ted, while 59 percent of white and Asian applicants have been accepted. Lucier said the University has been trying to encourage students to apply earlier in the cycle. Typi- cally, underrepresented minority students tend to apply later in the application cycle than white and Asian students. "We are pleased that our overall message has gotten out to all stu- dents," Lucier said. In late November, University Provost Teresa Sullivan said she is assuming the amendment will go into effect as scheduled. She said an enrollment advisory group is trying to work out the intricacies of how the amendment will affect this year's admissions cycle. University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham said the University makes a special effort to encourage minoritystudents to applyto the Uni- versity and has focused on getting all applicants to apply earlier this year. Administrators have been aggressively recruiting minority students in recent years. Univer- sity President Mary Sue Coleman regularly speaks at black churches to encourage potential students to apply. In April 2005, the University opened a facility in Detroit to house outreach programs both in the city and around the nation. So far this fall, the University has received 3.5 percent more applica- tions than it had at the same time last year. Saudi king: Mideast a keg of gunpowder' RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia's king warned Sat- urday that all of the Middle East is threatened by escalating conflicts around the region, from spiraling sectarian violence in Iraq to ris- ing tensions-in Lebanon to fighting among Palestinians. "Our Arab region is surrounded by dangers," King Abdullah said at the opening of a summit for leaders of the Arab nations around the Per- sian Gulf. "It is like a keg of gunpow- der waiting for a spark to explode." Palestinian factions are fight- ing each other, and Iraq is slipping into "the darkness of strife and mad struggle," a danger that also looms over Lebanon's diverse communi- ties, he said in a speech. The two-day meeting of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations is focusing on how to head off wider strife exploding from those conflicts or the nuclear standoff between a defiant Iran and the West. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman are also expected to discuss a U.S. advisory panel's recommendations on the Iraq war. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al- Faisal warned earlier this week that Iraq "poses a great challenge to the region, its security and its future" and called for "halting all forms of interference in Iraq" - an apparent reference to Syria and Iran. Each has ties with key factions in Iraq: Iran with Shiite Muslim par- ties that dominate the U.S.-backed government and have militias blamed for much of the sectarian bloodshed, and Syria with Sunni Arabs, who are the main force in the insurgency. But both Iran and Syria deny supportingviolence in Iraq. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE THAT MUCH TO DO NEXT SEMESTER. 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