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University has reduced energy use
ercent since1973 in campus buildings by 20 per-
cent since 1973 when conversation
By ANDY KROLL efforts began. The guide estimates
DailyStaffReporter that the campus has grown by 68
percent since 1973, but says energy
Michigan Student Sustain- use has only gone up by 34 percent.
Coalition, a statewide group There are about 50 coalition
pus environmentalists, is members at the University of Mich-
to get Michigan colleges to igan and 225 members statewide.
en on energy use and waste. This year, the coalition plans to
University of Michigan's work with the Michigan Student
rs are working to reduce Assembly's Environmental Issues
iversity's carbon emissions Commission to organize events
her environmentally harm- to encourage the state-to invest in
tices, according to Andrew renewable energy.
one of the group's leaders Chris Detjen, commission co-
chool of Music, Theatre and chair, said the two groups will be
enior. See GREEN, Page 3A
'It's just this crazy feeling that you've got all
these people looking at you. It's unreal."
- Engineering senior Jay Trzcnski
BENJI DELL/Daily
Business school students Lusa Zhov, Brian Hendricks, Stefanie Schostak and Dan Ketchel are starring in a reality show that features students from the
Ross School of Business and Ohio State's Fisher College of Business.
Michigan, OSU Squad" for an internship at Ford Motor dents."
Company, as well as a prize package Business school sophomore Lusa
B-school students face worth about $5,000. Zhou, one of the Michigan contestants
The show pits students from rival col- on the show, said she and her teammates
off in mtvU show leges against each other in marketing applied individually to be on the show
challenges over four roughly five-minute after receiving an ermail about it from the
By AMINA FARHA episodes. Business School's mass e-mail list.
Daily StaffReporter The first of the four episodes featuring The Business School selected 20 can-
University of Michigan students will run didates to go to a casting audition for the
The Michigan-Ohio State rivalry has Monday at 3 p.m. show. MtvU then chose the four students
beentakentoawholenewlevel:realityTV. Ross Martin, senior vice president who would make up the Michigan team.
Students from the University of Mich- and head of programming for mtvU, The team includes Zhou and three other
igan's Ross School of Business will be said Michigan and Ohio State had been Business School students: sophomore
competing against students from Ohio selected because of their business-savvy Brian Hendricks,juniorStefanie Schostak
State University's Fisher College of Busi- students, well-known rivalry and a "tre- and senior team captain Dan Ketchel.
ness on the third season of mtvU's "Quad mendous amount of interest from stu- See SHOW, Page 7A
Assault charges
against senior
are dropped
Senior had been accused
of assault, shouting
homophobic slurs
By KELLY FRASER
Daily News Editor
Charges against one of two students accused of
assault at the end of August were dropped yester-
day.
Engineering senior Michael Brown was
charged with two counts of assault with a danger-
ous weapon and two counts of aggravated assault.
after police received a report that he and his room-
mate yelled homophobic slurs and threw a dresser
drawer from an East Ann Street balcony at two
men walking by early on the morning of Aug. 28.
Steve Hiller, deputy chief assistant prosecutor,
said the Washtenaw County prosecuting office
determined the charges should be dropped but
would not provide any further details of the inves-
tigation.
Cody Williamson, Brown's roommate, pled
guilty to a reduced charge of an assault and bat-
tery misdemeanor last month.
Before the charges were dropped, Brown's case
had been postponed pending further investigation.
ANGELA CESERE/Daily
Ushers escort Engineering senior Jay Trzcinski from the Michigan-Oregon game at
Michigan Stadium last month after he threw hot dogs into the crowd.
Hot dog toss is illegal
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In a speech yesterday, University Librarian Paul Courant said education has a social good beyo
enriching the educated.
Education helps more than
the educated, Courant says
Hot-dog throwing
senior gets kicked out
of Big House,
handshakes at Ryan
By DAVE MEKELBURG
Daily NewsaEditor
As Michigan was beginning its
comeback in Evanston, Ill. against
Northwestern on Saturday, College
of Engineering senior Jay Trzcin-
ski walked to the front corner of
the Michigan student section with
an armful of hot dogs. At first, the
crowd didn't recognize him, but
soon murmurs began. Then the
crowd started chanting "Hot Dog
Man."
Trzcinski asked an usher for
permission, and then began tossing
the wieners into the crowd.
The crowd, as they say, went
wild.
When Trzcinski finished his
routine, a nearby police officer
shook his hand and laughed.
But that hasn't been what hap-
pened when Trzcinski has tried the
same stunt at Michigan Stadium.
If he does the same thing at
Saturday's game against Eastern
Michigan University, he could
face a $50 fine and be banned from
Michigan Stadium.
Trzcinski first made his mark
during halftime of last year's Mich-
igan-Iowa game when he tossed a
hot dog to a friend a few rows away.
Trzcinski said he saw how fired up
the crowd got when his friend made
the catch. So he decided totake it to
See HOT DOG, Page 7A
Library chief compares
higher ed to public goods
By ALESE BAGDOL
Daily StaffReporter
Education, according to Paul Courant,
the head of the University's library system,
does more than just enrich the educated.
It makes everyone else better off, too.
That's why the University of Michigan
subsidizes the tuition of in-state students -
so they can better contribute to the state's
economy, said Courant, an economist and
former University provost.
In a talk yesterday afternoon in Weill
See COURANT, Page 7A
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