JOHN STIGLICH: EXTRA INNINGS ON BASEBALL TELEVISION OPINION, PAGE 4 TOSSED IN TALLAHASSEE ACTING, DRAMA ARE MONEY FOR ENF,'THE RICHES' SEMINOLES BOUNCE MEN'S HOOPS FROM NIT SPORTS, PAGE 9 ARTS, PAGES5 P tc446Fan 43atlV Ann Arbor Michigan www.michigandaily.com Friday, March1 b 2007 CAMPUS AFTER PROP 2 Committee wants more recruitment, outreach School of Music freshman Nate May, a member of Campus Unite!, chalks the concrete outside of the Fleming Administration Building yesterday afternoon. The coalition of campus progressive groups - including Michigan Student Assembly's Environmental Issues Committee, of which May is a member - held its first mass demonstration. A REGENTALA PROTE ST Coalition several Campus Unite! members addressed the board on a variety of demonstrates near issues, including the University's investment in military contractors Cube as regents and concerns over sweatshops. The rally's attendance peaked meet in Fleming shortly after 3 p.m. - which is when the regents meeting began By KELLY FRASER inside - with about 80 people in Daily News Editor attendance. Students covered part of the A coalition of six progressive Cube in cardboard signs statingthe campus organizations held its first coalition member groups' specific mass demonstration yesterday aims. The Cube's was wallpapered afternoon. with phrases like "Divestment The group, Campus Unite!, gath- from Halliburton" and "No Drop ered a patchwork of protesters into in Minority Enrollment.". a single rally outside of the Fleming Representatives from the mem- Administration Building yesterday ber groups took turns speaking to afternoon. the crowd about the central issue The rally was used as a staging of their organizations. Each speech event for the public comments peri- ended with students banging on a od of yesterday's University Board drum - with a peace sign paint- of Regents meeting, during which See PROTEST, Page 7 Task force paints broad strokes in final report By CHRIS HERRING and WALTER NOWINSKI Daily StaffReporters A committee formed in the wake of the passage of Novem- ber's affirmative actionban issued its final report yesterday, calling for the University to increase recruiting efforts and quicken the turnaround on admissions and financial aid decisions in hopes of preventing a drop in the enrollment of underrepresented minorities. The 19-page report was com- piled by the Diversity Blueprints Task Force, which was formed in November by University Presi- dent Mary Sue Coleman. The report does not contain one plan meant to single-hand- edly keep minority enrollment steady. Instead, most of the propos- als involve expanding the scope of programs and policies already used at the University or onesthat have been tried in other states with affirmative action bans. "Both California and Wash- ington state have done this," said Anthony England, associate dean for academic affairs, one of the committee's 55 members. "There is a lot of similarity between the things that we are proposing and what they did." The report says that the Uni- versity should work to improve its image among high school stu- dents, especially those who might not see themselves as future Uni- versity of Michigan students. The report urges the Uni- versity to "Expand engagement in targeted partnerships with underserved K-12 schools, on- campus high school counselor partnerships, and programs that provide college preparation and financial aid education." Senior Vice Provost Lester Monts, who co-chaired the com- mittee, said such partnerships will help the University not also attract a wider range of students; but they will encourage more stu- dents to think about attending college in general. "Many of the students we will be dealing with in many of our K- 12 projects and initiatives are not students who are going to come to the University of Michigan," Monts said. "But those programs will actually inspire students to want to attend college." In one of the more concrete proposals in the report, the com- mittee suggests increasing part- nerships with "underserved" schools that could serve as pipe- lines to the University. The report calls for the Univer- sity to offer financial aid packag- es to admittedstudents soon after they receive their acceptance let- ter because early financial aid offers increase the chances an admitted student will choose to come to Ann Arbor. "We are now makingour finan- cial aid awards (available) right after the admissions decision is made," Monts said. "In the past, there was a lapse in time, and we believe that we have lost students in that process." But this idea is not newt the University has been working to expedite financial aid decisions since it began using new financial See REPORT, Page 7 LSA junior Syma Kahn and LSA sophomore Blase Kearney of Campus Unite! work on signs on the Cube in Regents Plaza yesterday afternoon during a protest. ST. PATRICK'S DAY How your beer goes from grains to glass "I thought someone didn't like what I said about the Red Wings." -Prof. Andrei Markovits on his class being interrupted (he'd won the Golden Apple Award) What will be inside your brew tomorrow By DANIEL TRUMP DailyStaffReporter On St. Patrick's Day tomor- row, beer will be in a lot of glasses across campus. But what exactly is in the beer? relatively lightly to produce what is known as Pilsner malt. Greff said that this grain makes up the base of his beers and is 70 to 95 percent of the malt that goes into any particular brew. Special- ty malts, he said, are what give different beers their distinctive See BEER, Page 8 STOCKWELL OVERHAUL Dorm to receive $40m facelift Stockwell will get A/C, sprinklers, faster Internet By REBECCA GRAPEVINE Daily StaffReporter The University Board of Regents approved a $39.6 million renova- tion plan for Stockwell Residence Hall yesterday. The renovations are slated to begin at the end of the 2008 academic year and be fin- ished byAugustof 2009. Stockwell, named for the first woman admitted to the University in 1870, houses only females. Uni- versity Housing spokesman Alan Levy wouldn't say whether the dorm will remain that way after the renovations. "We are taking the opportunity See STOCKWELL, Page 8 Matt Greff, Arbor Brew- ing Company's head brewer, pu explained recently what has to happen to go from grains to glass. Wandering among the pub's brewing equipment, he. explained that beer starts Pro dnt with four essential ingredi- d ents: water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. Malted barley - malt for short - is barley that has been allowed to partially germi- nate. This creates enzymes in the grain. Heating the barley in a process that Greff called "kiln- ing" stops the germination. Thisiswherethebrewerbegins Pro to have creative control over his o min product. The barley can be kilned o ety TODAY'S HI:39 GOT A NEWSTIP? WEATHER LO: 19 Call 734-763-2459 ore-mail news@michgandaily.com and let us know. ANGELA CESERE/Daily f. Andrei Markovitz is rendered speechless yesterday afternoon after LSAjunior Andrew Bronstein, a co-chair of Stu- its Honoring Outstanding University Teaching, announces that the professor has won the coveted Golden Apple Award. ass turns golden for prof By TARYN HARTMAN Daily StaffReporter Political science and German f. Andrei Markovits was five nutes into his Sports and Soci- class yesterday when a voice interrupted him from the top of the lecture hail. "Excuse me, Professor Markov- its?" it asked. With a bewildered expression on his face, Markov- its looked in the direction of the voice. It belonged to LSA junior Andrew Bronstein, co-chair of Students Honoring Outstanding University Teaching. Bronstein and three other SHOUT members then descended See GOLDEN APPLE, Page 8 ON THE DAILY BLOGS Dispatches from the NIT michigandaily.com/thegame INDEX NEWS.............. VolCltIIlNott 1 DOK 2007 The Mich ganDaily michigandoily.com OP I N 1ON...... . 2 A R T S ....................................5 ............. 3 CLA SSIFIED ....................6......6 . 4 SPO RTS ............................ 9 0 A