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WHY DOESn'T CRILE at for cc?
Arena isn't meant for concerts
THURSDAY: FRIDAY:
)re You Were Here The Extremist
Crisler Arena is known for being
the home basketball court for the
men's and women's basketball teams
and little else.
Rarely, in recent years, has it been
known as a concert house. Crisler
once played host to John Lennon and
Yoko Ono, who performed in 1971 to
protest the jailing of John Sinclair,
who was arrested for attempting to
sell two joints of marijuana to under-
cover police officers. Sinclair's arrest
also served as the inspiration for
Hash Bash, a yearly rally supporting
marijuana legalization. The last con-
cert put on at Crisler was when Bob
Dylan came to town in 2002.
Sure, there's Hill Auditorium. But
other schools in the Big Ten that also
have concert halls, like Illinois and
Michigan State, use their basketball
arenas to host concerts, too.
So why not Crisler?
Athletic Department spokesman
Bruce Madej said the built
built to host concerts.
"For one thing, there's ni
ditioning, so that pretty mu
nates doing anything in the:
Madej said.
And because Crisler is
only practice facility availa
basketball teams, groups fi
ficult to schedule events the
the school year. The wrestl
aso uses the stadium.
Julie Morgan, program a
Major Events, a group that p
certs and performances at
versity, said Crisler's lack o
equipment made it easy forf
look elsewhere.
Because the arena doesn
stage, a crew or a product
groups and artists lookingtc
at Crisler would have to pro
own materials - a cost tI
couldn't handle, said Su
ding isn't director of the University Unions
Programs. Pile said many found it
o air con- more convenient to hold concerts at
:ch elimi- venues like Michigan Theater.
summer," Additionally, when the state bud-
get tightened in 2003, the University
also the decided to invest less money into the
ble to the Major Events Office - the group that
:nd it dif- once sponsored shows at Crisler. Pile
re during said that prior to cutting funding for
ling team the Major Events Office, the Univer-
sity lost about $50,000 because of the
dviser for concerts held at Crisler in 2002.
lans con- Now, student organizations like
the Uni- Big Ticket Productions, which is part
f concert of the University Activities Center,
groups to sponsor shows on campus - just not
at Crisler.
't have a The group receives funding from
ion staff, the University, but it's hardly enough
o perform to cover what it would cost to put on
vide their a show at Crisler, Pile said.
hat many JOE STAPLETON
san Pile,
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Comedy Free poke
performance tourname
Bob Dylan's 2002 performance at Crisler Arena
marked the last time an artist played there. Because
of a lackof stage equi pment, the venue has been used
for primarily athletic events since then.
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Six different actors play
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There," the biopic about
the legendary musician that
opens in Ann Arbor today.
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In Detroit, mayors to talk foreclosures Air travel baggage loss is
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City is nation's
hardest hit by
housing woes
DETROIT (AP) - This city at the
heart of a metropolitan area that
is among the nation's hardest hit
by rising foreclosures will host a
meeting of mayors from across the
country next week to address the
nation's housingcrisis.
The gathering, organized by
the U.S. Conference of Mayors,
includes discussions about the state
of the mortgage industry, ways
homeowners can avoid foreclosure
and strategies to keep foreclosed
properties from dragging down the
quality of life in neighborhoods.
"We're not talking about legisla-
tion," said Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick, who is hosting the one-
day forum next Tuesday. "We're
talking about finding a local solu-
tion toa national problem, and we'll
start with the conversation here."
Kilpatrick said the goal is to
create policy recommendations to
present at a Conference of Mayors'
meeting in January.
Next week's gathering is closed
to the press, but the mayors plan
to release a report on the economic
ripple effect of foreclosures on U.S.
metropolitan areas, with a focus on
cities in Arizona, California, Flori-
da, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada and
Ohio where the effects of increased
filings are prominent.
Mayors expected to attend
include Jerry Abramson from Lou-
isville, Ky. and Michael Coleman
from Columbus, Ohio, who both
are scheduled to speak about ways
to prevent foreclosures from hurt-
ing neighborhoods. Organizers say
Elaine Walker of Bowling Green,
Ky., Richard Kaplan of Lauderhill,
Fla., Brenda Lawrence of South-
field, Mich. and Douglas Palmer
of Trenton, N.J. - president of the
mayors group - also plan to par-
ticipate.
The Center for Responsible Lend-
ing, a Durham, N.C.-based consumer
advocate,isamongthegroupsinvited
to participate in the National Forum
on Homeownership Preservation
and Foreclosures. Executive Vice
President Deborah Goldstein said
cities can't afford to wait for action
in Washington or at the state level to
address the problem.
"The cities are just going to
feel the hit from the foreclosures
very hard," Goldstein said. "We're
alreadyseeingarise inforeclosures,
but it's going to get worse."
wThe analysis of foreclosure
activity in the nation's largest 100
metropolitan areas during the
three months ended Sept. 30 found
Stockton, Calif., had the highest
rate, with one foreclosure filing for
every 31 households. The Detroit
area was second, with one foreclo-
sure filing for every 33 households.
"This foreclosure issue is the
ultimate tsunami, if you will, if we
don't get in front of it now," Kilpat-
rick said. "This is the single biggest
economic issue that we're facing
today in the city of Detroit."
To address the problem, Kilpat-
rick's administration is working
with mortgage lenders and local
nonprofits to get help for people fac-
ing foreclosure and get foreclosed
properties into the hands of new
homeowners. The Mortgage Bank-
ers Association also introduced a
public service announcement on
the issue starring Kilpatrick.
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study finds One of his son's clothes were
in the missing bag, said Sherman,
who was planning a trip to the mall
By JEFF BAILEY to buy some replacements. "Never
The New York Times a dull moment," he said.
Holiday travelers can expect
CAGO - Why do so many to feel the effects of six years of
gers get off the plane only airline downsizing in one way or
over that their baggage did another. About 27 million passen-
ke the trip with them? gers are expected to fly during the
rican Airlines started ask- 12 days surrounding Thanksgiv-
at question with greater ing, 4 percent more than last year,
y a year ago, and its search the Air Transport Association
wers led to, among other said.
ns, dirty printer heads. But there are fewer airline
kers at American found that employees to look after them, and
s that produce adhesive their bags. And to squeeze more
bags were often dirty. That flights out of the day, planes are
ar codes hard to read, lead- sitting on the ground for shorter
misdirected bags. Regular periods between flights. So pre-
of the printerheads helped, dictably, more bags fail to join
n with a clean printer, the their owners, particularly on con-
de readers are only about necting flights.
ent to 92 percent accurate, "There's a lot of opportunity
nise P. Wilewski, manager for failure," said Hans Hauck,
ort services for American manager of baggage operations at
American's headquarters in Fort
never hit 100 percent - 90 Worth. Since Hauck started his
t is acceptable," she said. job in September 2006, American
nes are fond of saying that has not met its bag-handling goal
ave a success rate of more in any month. As of late last week,
percent in getting luggage though, Hauck remained hopeful
destination along with its that he would make his November
And every big airline has number. A look at American's bag-
d up efforts to improve its handling operation, which is the
ons. biggest of all U.S. carriers, shows
the baggage problem is it is making lots of little improve-
worse. One in every 138 ments but still losing ground.
d bags was lost during the American misplaced 7.44 bags for
ne months of this year, com- every thousand through Sept. 30,
o one in 155 bags a year ear- the Bureau of Transportation Sta-
tistics reported, up from 6.04 for
Thanksgiving holiday, every thousand a year earlier. (All
torms moving across the but a tiny fraction of misplaced
y from the Northwest, is bags are ultimately reunited with
y shaping up as a difficult their owners.)
ime. And by the end of the All the other big carriers have
lose to 5 million travelers worse records so far this year, too.
ive been stuck scratching US Airways continues to struggle
eads at the luggage carou- with bag handling at its Philadel-
phia hub, three years and more
Sherman is one of them. than $12 million in improvements
ng with his wife and their after a Christmas 2004 meltdown.
old triplets last weekend, And Delta Air Lines is trying to
an, of Huntington Beach, improve bag handling at its big
checked five bags with Atlanta hub.
an Airlines at the John Save for a canceled flight, noth-
Airport in Orange County. ing quite disrupts a trip like a lost
bag. Mike Laitman of La Grange
Park, a Chicago suburb, bought
circus tickets for relatives arriving
from Missoula, Mont., last Satur-
day.
Then, he watched a missing bag
keep them all at O'Hare so long
they missed the show.
Baggage representatives for
Alaska Airlines "told us to keep
waiting," Laitman said, watching
his nephew ride the baggage car-
ousel. "We're out $70."
Lostbaggage is actually a worse
problem than reflected in the big
airlines' statistics. Smaller region-
al airlines misplace bags at a high-
er rate.
But they report their statistics
separately, even though many pas-
sengers travel on these regional
airlines for just one leg of their
trip.
Counting together American
and the regional airline it owns,
American Eagle, mishandled bags
rise to8.69 per thousand, or a total
of 639,146 through Sept. 30.
American Eagle had the worst
bag-handling record of 20 airlines
tracked by the Bureau of Trans-
portation Statistics during that
period, the agency reported.
American's baggage operation
at O'Hare International Airport
here, the airline's second largest
hub, is massive, with more than
seven miles of conveyers, hun-
dreds of workers and scores of
tractors pulling baggage carts.
Checked bags are immedi-
ately sent on a fast conveyer to be
screened by the Transportation
Security Administration and then
sent back to American's big bag
room.
There, bar-code readers direct
the bags onto piers that handle
one or more destinations. From
there, bags are placed on carts and
towed out to planes for loading.
Bags with unreadable tags are
left to circle the piers up to three
times before being hauled off and
manually placed in the correct
stack.
About 2 percent are misread
and dropped onto the wrong pier.
Then, it's up to a worker stacking
the bags on carts to notice the mis-
take. "He better," said Wilewski,
the baggage manager.