I 0 2A - Wednesday, November 21, 2007 MONDAY: TUESDAY: WDEAY In Other Ivory Towers Arbor AnecdotesEBE 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. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com CsF4L fl~idpan Oaily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com KARL STAMPFL DAVID GOH Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-336734-764-0008 stampfl@michigandaily.com goh@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Office hours: Sun-Thurs. 1 lia -2 a. 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Hand of statue broken in dorm WHERE: Martha Cook Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Monday at about 10 p.m. WHAT: A University employee accidently broke the hand of a statue while cleaning it, DPS reported. The police report called the statue "expensive," but it didn't specify avalue. Graffiti found on MIP issued in Kellogg Eye East Quad Cent r aWHERE: East Quad WHEN: Monday at about 4:30 WHERE: Kellogg Eye Center p.m. WHEN: Monday at about 8:30 WHAT: A student received a Wm a minor in possession charge WHAT: A caller said he saw after an officer became suspi- graffiti on the KelloggEye cious of her intoxicated behav- Center wall, DPS reported. The ior, DPS reported. The student words "Sicko" and "Twist" were was cited after nearly falling written on the building's wall. over and breaking material in an Maintenance came and cleaned art gallery. The officer on duty the wall shortly afterward. had been patrolling the gallery. WHAT: A performance showcasing Detroit-area stand-up comedians. Tickets for the event are $10. WHO: Comedians Russell Rabb, Nate Fridson, Kate Brindle, Ben Konstantin and Frank Roche WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: 314 E. Liberty St. Free arts, poetry exhibition WHAT: An exhibit with a set of ceramic arts and poetry on display WHO: Institute for the Humanities WHEN: Today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Space, Room 1010, 202 S. Thayer St. WHAT: A free poker tourna- ment for students WHO: Michigan Billiards Club WHEN: Monday at 5:45 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union Free billiards WHAT: Free games of pool WHO: UniversityUnions Arts and Programs WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union CORRECTIONS . Due to an editing error, a sentence in a column on yesterday's front page (Coach won, lost with integ- rity), "In fact, caught up in his emotions the day of Moeller's resignation, he declared he would not accept the top job," omitted the word "not." Mgoblue.com, the Univer- sity's official site for athlet- ics, launched a re-design yesterday. The website now includes weekly team sched- ules, video footage and inter- active user polls on the home page. SThe European Union levied a $110 million fine on Sony, Fuji and Maxwell for fixing the price of videotapes. A study found that the cartel was responsible for more than85 percent of videotape sales worldwide as recently as 1999. Six different actors play Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There," the biopic about the legendary musician that opens in Ann Arbor today. >>FOR MORE, SEE PAGE 5A In Detroit, mayors to talk foreclosures Air travel baggage loss is 0 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. Or CHI( passeng to discs not mal Ame ing th urgenc for ans problen Wor printer tags for made b ing toj wiping but eve bar coc 90 perc said De of airp here. "We percent Airli they h than 99 to itsc owner. steppes operati But getting checke firstnit pared t tier: The with s countr already travel t year, c will ha their h sel. Toby Trave1i 7-year- Sherma Calif., Americ Wayne getting worse, stats show ie in ever 138 But just four bags showed up in Chicago, where the Sherman's had bags is lost, come to spend Thanksgiving with family. 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.