2A - Monday, November 5, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.mirhigandaily.rem KARL STAMPFL DAVIDGOH Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-055 A loan no longer WE WANT GORE Following a trend of liberal arts colleges eliminating loans for needy students, Williams College, a presti- gious liberal arts college in William- stown, Mass., announced Thursday that it will replace all loans with grants. The decision will cost $1.8 million per year for the college of about 2,000 students. Williams is the third prominent liberal arts college to eliminate loans this year, following announcements earlier this year by Amherst College and Davidson College. Princeton Uni- versity was the first major American college to replace loans with grants in 2001. RESISTANCE TO RIAA The UniversityofOregonhas chal- lenged the Recording Industry Asso- ciation of America in federal district court, arguing that the association cannot require colleges to identify the registered user of an IP address caught sharingmusic illegally. The RIAA issues pre-litigation let- ters to colleges asking them to for- CRIME NOTES ward IP addresses caught sharing. Those users are given the chance to settle or take the matter the court. Those users are given the chance to settle or take the matter the court. The University of Oregon has argued that it cannot determine definitively whether the owner of an IP address was the one engag- ing in file-sharing. It argues that much of the sharing has been over open wireless networks or in dorm rooms where multiple people could have signed onto the Internet. OPEN SOURCE MATERIAL A University of Washington at Bothell professor assigned students in her environmental history course to edit an entry on wikipedia.org as a final project.. Wikipedia has been widely criti- cized as a research tool because any- one can edit entries. Martha Groom, the professor, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that was one reason she assigned the project. "Is there crap on Wikipedia? Sure there is," she said. "So let's be part of mak- ing it better." Many entries written by Groom's students were modified or reject- ed by Wikipedia administrators because they argued a specific point of view or because they overlapped information that was already posted elsewhere. RIOT PROTECTION Students at the University of Rhode Island have cried foul after residents of Wiley Hall, a dormi- tory at the college, were prevented from leaving the dorm after the Boston Red Sox won the World Series early Monday morning. Some were trying to take to the streets to join an estimated 700 others in celebration. Students questioned whether the Wiley Hall director had the right to make the decision, reported The Good 5 Cent Cigar, the campus news- paper. GABE NELSON stampfl@michigandaily.co CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom News Tips torrections letterstothe Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Online Sales Finance tm goh@michigandailyeom Offce housSun.-Thurs.t11o.m. - 2a.ms. newsFoicigadaily.ooo corrections~michigaedaity.ooe tothetaiy~micigandily.com photogmicigandaily.com artspagemicioodaily.ooo opiniongmichigandaily.com sportspmichigandaly.om display@,siieoogadaily.coe classified @n ichigandaily.coe osliseadsgsmicieodaily.coe financegmichigandaily.com J5NNIFER KRON Daily Ann Arbor resident Pat Horton volunteers at a Step It Up rally station on Saturday to encourage people to sign an online petition urging Al Gore to run for president. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES After game, MSU student caught in assault WHERE: East Quad WHEN: Saturday at about10:45 p.m. WHAT: A male student from Michigan State University was arrested for assaulting a male University student, the Department of Public Safety repoted. Reports indicate that the MSU student grabbed the victim. The suspect was (eleased. There were no inju- ries reported. being treated in the Emergency Room, DPS reported. DPS has no suspects. Blood Battle Sick student gets WHAT: The blood drives that pit University students against M IPin S. Quad Ohio State students to see who can donate the mostblood WHERE: South Quad begin today and last until Nov. WHEN: Saturdayat about 10:30 16. Today's drives will be from a.m. noon to 8p.m. at the Pendleton WHAT: A male student was Room in the Union, 2to 8 p.m. cited for minor in possession in the Blue Room of Stockwell after someone contacted the and 3 to 9 p.m. in the East Department of Public Safety Lounge of Bursley. because he looked ill, DPS WHO: Blood Battle said. He was taken to the hos- WHEN: For other times and pital after DPS arrived on the locations, visit www.givelife. scene. org WHERE: Various locations Gate arms smashed Talk on video WHERE: Parking Lot W-8, 510 gainers and Thompson St. m t i s WHEN: Tuesday at about 2:30 materialism p.m. WHAT: Both of the gate arms WHAT: Bart Simon, a sociol- from the lot were broken off, ogy professor at Montreal's DPS reported. DPS has no sus- ConcordiaUniversity, speaks nects_ on the close ties between computer gamers and their computers, as well as the mate- rialistic implications of the relationship WHO: Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society Pro- gram WHEN: Today from 4 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: 1014 Tisch Hall CORRECTIONS * An article on Friday's front page (New man on the ladder) incorrectly said Scott Boerma was the marching band director at each school he's worked at, including the University. He held the title Director of Bands and holds the same at the Uni- versity. . The same article misspelled Lamphere High School. " Thensame article said he was at Lamphere High School for four years and at Novi High School for six years. He worked at Lamphere for seven years and Novi for five years. ! Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandailycom. In honor of the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing, nearly 3,500 Chinese chil- dren have been named "Olym- pics," The Associated Press reported. In addition, more than 4,000 children are named for one of the games' five mas- cots, whose names translate into "Beijing welcomes you!" Michigan hockey forward and team captain Kevin Porter leads the nation in goals scored. He has eight goals after this weekend's series against the University of Nebraska at Omaha. >>FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY The DepartmentofPublic Works in Bristol, Conn. will randomly search the contents of trash bins to ensure that recyclable materi- als are not being thrown away by citizens, the Bristol Press reported. Throwing out recy- clables could lead to fines. 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