'The danger with 'The Darjeeli g Li ited' The B-Side IIe c~ia :at Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, October 18, 2007 michigandaily.com LABOR STANDARDS Adidas under ire at WisC., Berkeley Athletic Department doesn't hold its apparel suppliers to high enough labor standards. signed contract with The Worker Rights Consortium, a labor rights watchdog group cre- Adidas in June ated by college administrators, reported last October that a facto- By ANDY KROLL ry in El Salvador subcontracted to Daily StaffReporter produce Adidas university apparel refused to pay about $825,000 in Adidas, the new provider of gear back pay and severance to workers for Michigan sports teams, is under after the factory closed. Another attack on other college campuses nearby factory manufacturing Adi- for several cases of labor malprac- das university apparel blacklisted tice and human rights violations. workers who protested to receive The labor standards in the Uni- their pay, the WRC reported. versity of Michigan's Adidas con- StudentsattheUniversityofWis- tract are nearly identical to those consin at Madison have demanded found in the contracts that those that Wisconsin terminate its con- universities have with Adidas. tract with Adidas because of the There is almost no change in labor incidents. standards from the University's University of Michigan Athletic previous contract with Nike. The Director Bill Martin said in July University has often come under that Adidas had agreed to let the attack from activists who say it See ADIDAS, Page 7A Council could cut lease law loophole 40 YEARS N RESIDENCE Residential College marks four decades of experimentation in East Quad By COLE MERKEL and SCOTT MILLS Daily StaffReporters Close to 400 Residential Col- lege alumni will descend upon East Quad this weekend. The alumni will join current RC stu- dents to revel in the college's his- tory and officially celebrate the 40th anniversary of its founding. Since it was founded in 1967, the RC has functioned as a small liberal arts college within the University. It has managed to survive even as similar colleges at other universities have failed. It has its ownbasic requirements, professors, courses and concen- trations. Students in the college are required to live in East Quad - a mixture of dormitories, fac- ulty offices and classrooms - for two years, which creates an envi- ronment that blurs the boundar- ies between school and home, class and recreation. TOP: RC students on a field trip to Kentucky in the early 1970s. BOTTOM: The RC planning committee in April 1967. For om .-2mva ..- . Sieta TOlorr , AT FIRST, AN EXPERIMENT The RC began as an experi- ment through which professors could study the learning process of undergraduates and how a highly personalized, controlled environment would affect learn- ing. Ted Newcomb, then a profes- sor in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, designed the program. Now, it exists not to test new ideas on students, said RC Director Charles Bright, but to improve the quality of trL education for RC stu- dents. A "Once a c place like this has been A around for a 0D while and gets established, the . A4 M experiments ! that work tend C to stay in place," he said. "And the experiments that don't work. we for- get as quickly as we can." When the RC opened its doors in the fall of 1967, about 1,500 students applied for admission. Out of these, 215 students were selected for the college's first class, which was designed to rep- resent a cross-section of the LSA studentbody as a whole. But because of the experi- mental nature of this endeavor, and because the students were self-selecting, they differed from their LSA counterparts, Bright said. "The students who chose the RC tended to be a little more rebellious, a little more creative, a little more free-floating and independent in their studies," he said. An integral part of the experi- ment was the implementation of the core curriculum -spe- cific classes all RC students were required to take in their first two years. RC Prof. Carl Cohen, a founder and one-time associate direc- tor of the RC, designed the cur- See RC, Page 7A RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS To view the complete schedule of events, visit www.rc.isa.umich.edu FRIDAY, OCT. 19,2007: " Exhibit opening 3 to 5:30 p.m. BC Gallery BC alum and artist Nancy Gildart will host a reception to open her RC-themed installa- tion exhibit "Bricks, Mortar, Spirit." " Parade and Convocation Circus 5:10 to 7 p.m. A parade featuring bagpipes and costumes will begin in the East Quad courtyard and move through the Diagto the Modern Lan- guage Building for the Convocation Circus. Several notable RC alumswill speak and a band will perform during the circus. " Concert in the Co-op 10:30 p.m.to1:30a.m. Performanceswill include Tyvek, Root Beer and Bad Party and the East Quad Music Co-op. The show will open with open mic opportunities SATURDAY, OCT. 20,2007 * Ribbon cutting ceremony 2:30 p.m. Ousideaof the RC Auditorium A ribbon cutting ceremonyfor the recently- announced RC Theatre renovations . Panel discussion about a liberal arts education 3 to 5 p.m. RC Auditorium Provost Teresa Sullivan, LSA Dean Terrence McDonald and RC Director Charlie Bright, former directors and students will discuss the value of aliberal arts education. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21,2007 " Closing Panel 10 a.m.to noon RC Auditorium A closing lecture titled, "Art, Politics and Ethics in the YouTube World" Waiting period likely to be shortened By DANIEL STRAUSS Daily StaffReporter The Michigan Student Assembly and the Ann Arbor City Council are in the final stages of modifying a city ordinance designed to pre- vent the fall housing rush. They are working to reduce the period land- lords must wait to show a property from 90 days into the lease to 70 days and closing a loophole that allows landlords to skip the wait FILM FEST KARAOKE RALLY period if current tenants sign a waiver. The ordinance was originally meant to give students more time to shop for housing. But since its ratification by the City Council almost a year ago, the ordinance has drawn some criticism from both landlords and students. Land- lords don't like the waiting period because they say it complicates renting properties. Students don't like the ordinance because, as ten- ants, they say they feel pressured to sign a lease before the waiting period has expired. Last week, the City Council's See LEASES, Page 7A The Ann Arbor Film Festival holds a glam rock karaoke rally on Liberty Street yes- terday as part of its campaign to raise $75,000. After the fundraising campaign hits certain goals, its members perform "Acts of Audacity," like the karaoke rally. At Diag rally, a call for the United MAKING THE WEB SAFER - c, Naiost-it -g'U' researchers aim to clean up Internet Nations to meet its anti-poverty goals By JOE STAPLETON Daily StaffReporter Students rallied on the Diag and all over the world last night to let the United Nations know that merely setting goals isn't good enough in the fight against pov- erty. The rally was part of a coordi- nated worldwide campaign called "Stand Up, Speak Out." Yesterday, rallies were held in more than 30 different countries to highlight the United Nations's slow prog- ress in achieving its Millennium Development Goals, which were set in 2000 to alleviate poverty and improve global health by 2015. Last year, more than 23 million people participated in the rally across the world. About 50 people attended the rally at the University, which was preceded by lectures from Univer- sity professors on topics related to global poverty such as sustainable agriculture and the World Bank. Lisa Treumuth, a co-chair of the Michigan Student Assembly's Peace and Justice Commission, See RALLY, Page 3A By AIMEE BOWEN Daily StaffReporter With spam, viruses and false identities clogging the Internet, going online can be a scary and dangerous proposition. Faculty and doctoral candidates from the University of Michi- gan and Wayne State University are working together to alleviate some of the safety concerns sur- rounding Internet use through a joint program, the Socio-Techni- cal Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions. The program is working to create technology to battle the evils of the online world but also to build a community that works together to overcome the issues created by the Internet. "It's working to make the Inter- net more safe and profitable for everyone," said School of Informa- tion Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason, the program's director. Part of the problem is that many Internet transactions rely on trust. 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