Opinion, Page 4A iGi i .JEE1) Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 12,2007 A LOSS BEFORE A MUST-WIN Smichigandailycorn BIG E DRINKING In anti-alcohol fight, colleges get creative New solutions to an old problem; at Iowa, more classes on Friday mornings By LISA HAIDOSTIAN Daily StaffReporter After years of largely unsuccess- ful attempts to discourage binge drinking on campuses around the country, administrators are look- ing for more creative ways to keep students from getting fall-down drunk. The University of Iowa is attempting to throw a wrench in the "Thirsty Thursday" routine - the popular practice of starting weekends a night early - by sched- uling more classes on Fridays. Only 14 percent of classes at the University of Michigan are held on Fridays, as opposed to 22 percent on Mondays and Tuesdays and 21 percent on Wednesdays and Thurs- days. University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham said there are no plans to schedule more classes on Fridays because those afternoons are generally used for other pur- poses. "Friday is a day where we have lots of lectures and public seminars and interesting things where we have people come and speak," she said. Along with more Friday classes, some schools are attempting to cut down on drinking by limiting alco- hol advertising on campus. The California State University system implemented stricter con- trols on alcohol advertising two years ago. The system's Fullerton campus even hired a student to take down advertisements and fli- ers that promoted drink specials at bars on campus. Taking an even more aggressive approach, Louisiana State Univer- sity worked with the Baton Rouge city council to ban "all-you-can- drink" specials or big drink spe- cials after 10 p.m. See ALCOHOL, Page 7A Wisconsin tight end Travis Beckum celebrates after scoring the first of four Badger touchdowns during Saturday's win over Michigan. Wisconsin handed the Wolverines their first Big Ten loss of the season. Michigan's loss may have hurt right away, but rival Ohio State also fell just hours later. Because of that, the two teams are still tied atop the Big Ten standings heading into this weekend's matchup. MORE ON THE LOSS " Loss stings more than players want you to think, Page1B " Mallett struggles mightily in relief of injured Henne, Page1B 9Jefense regrets wishing for more traditional offenses, Page 4B 0 Despite big play, Manningham struggles, Page 4B CLASS DAYS The percentage of classes meeting on different days at the University How admissions affect parenthood NYU prof says individualized process can hurt poor students By JAKE SMILOVITZ Daily StaffReporter The way the nation's most selec- tive colleges and universities pick their students has reshaped Ameri- can society, according to Mitchell Stevens, an associate sociology professor at New York University. In a lecture at the School of Edu- cation on Friday, Stevens discussed how privileged parents prepare their children for the college admis- sions process from an early age, giving those children an advantage when they apply to school. "The rules of selective college admissions have become essen- tially sets of instructions for how relatively affluent parents are rais- ing their children," Stevens said in an interview after the lecture. Stevens'sbook on the admissions process, "Creating a Class: College Admission and the Education of Elites," details the year and a half he spent working in the admissions office of an unnamed New England liberal arts college. He's also done other research in the field. "Admissions decisions have increasingly been made on the basis of measurable academic and extracurricular accomplishment," Stevens said. "Relatively privileged families have organized their chil- dren's lives to produce measurable accomplishment, and that has pro- found consequences for the nature of inequality in American society." Stevens highlighted the aca- demic community's contradictory demand for both universalism and individualism. This paradox cen- ters on the notion that everyone should have the same opportuni- ties but that everyone should be treated as aunique person, too. Stevens said the accepted solu- tion to this tension in admissions is called individualized consider- ation, which first uses astandard set of criteria for each applicant before See ADMISSIONS, Page 7A soURCE: UNIVERsITY OF MICHIGAN ALLISON GH AMAN/Daly ACLU President Nadine Strossen said the war on terrorism has resulted in a massive erosion of civil liberties. ACLU president: Defend the offensive NYU sociology Prof. Mitchell Stevens told an audience at the School of Education that the college admission process shapes how some parents raise their children. A FpREsE FIR EgArR Ms Tpush gun rights, group offrs a gun voucher h is Libertarians say guns mean a safer campus By JAKE SMILOVITZ Daily StaffReporter According to LSA sophomore Eric Plourde, the right to own guns is "the most attacked civil liberty." That's why his group, the Universi- ty chapter of the College Libertar- ians, is holding a raffle tonight for a $200 gift certificate toward the purchase of a gun at the Mill Creek Sports Center in Dexter, Mich. Gun control on college cam- puses became a national issue after the April Virginia Tech shootings, which left 33 people dead. "There's a lot of controversy because of Virginia Tech," Plourde said. "People who support gun control said they (guns) were too easy to get and people on our side said that if students had guns, they could protect themselves." Plourde is quick to point to examples of incidents when stu- dents defended themselves from assailants through the use of fire- arms. "We feel that people are safer when they can defend themselves," Plourde said. The University's chapter of the College Libertarians held a similar event in April of 2006; an alum in attendance won the gun voucher. Similar gun giveaways or raffles have sparked controversies on other campuses across the country. Three years ago, at the University of Illinois, protesters demonstrated as a conservative political journal on campus raffled off three guns. Last year, a conservative news- paper at Clemson University held a similar drawing for two rifles, including an AK-47. The Libertarian Party's plat- form argues that governments often interfere with a citizen's right to self-defense by passing gun con- trol laws that are justified as a way to reduce violence in society. LSA junior Chris Irvine, chair of the University chapter of College Republicans, said the event was not necessarily something his organi- zation would do, but he understood why libertarians would.' "My initial reaction was that the See GUN, Page 7A The Civil L that sh( anyone even ift hate. Nadi 17th an erson I Intellec more th torium. Stros Strossen says accusing the Bush administration and Congress of allowing a massive iateful speech erosion of civil liberties. "In fact, there have been so still free speech many First Amendment casualties of the war on terror that the ACLU By JULIE ROWE recently issued a special report Daily StaffReporter about them," Strossen said. She said the government is president of the American maintaining a "surveillance soci- iberties Union said Friday ety" by persecuting the press and e's willing to defend almost intimidating potential government 's right to free speech - whistleblowers. that speech is being used for "People self-censor, not engag- ing in expression that might be ne Strossen delivered the deemed offensive by the powers nual Davis, Markert, Nick- that be," Strossen said. Lecture on Academic and Strossen said controversial tual Freedom to a crowd of speech - including hateful rheto- can 300 at Honigman Audi- ric - should receive the same pro- tection from censorship as all other sen began her lecture by See ACLU, Page 7A TODAY'S WEATHER HlI: 58 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail LU: 40 news@michigandaily.com and let us know. ON THE DAILY BLOGS Maize it out MICHIGANDAILY.COM/THEGAME INDEX NEWS................................2A ARTS.. . . ..........5A vol. CXVIIINo.48 SUDOKU........................3A CLASSIFIEDS.. . .A........6A @ 7 TheMichiganaily OPINION............................4A SPORTSMONDAY................1B A