,News I 2A - Monday, March10, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Greeks give press the silent treatment ROTC SCRUBS The Interfraternity Council presi- dent at Penn State University, Abe Gitterman, recently issued a policy prohibiting all fraternity members from speaking to members of the press, the Daily Collegian reported. In an e-mail sent to fraternity members, Gitterman said the policy is meant to protect "the credibility and images" of the fraternity system. The policy asks for the IFC execu- tive board to be consulted before any interaction with the media. Critics of the policy are concerned about the limitation it might impose on the freedom of speech. "Just because you are the president of a fraternal organization doesn't give you the power to control what people can and can't talk about," said Melis- sa Melewsky, a media law attorney from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. STUDENT PRESIDENT KILLED University of North Carolina's student body president, Eve Marie Carson, was shot and killed l in what appeared to be a ran of violence, The Associate reported. Her body was found in ti early Wednesday morning, keys and wallet are missi car was found a mile away had stayed home that nigi her roommates went out, sa Chief Brian Curran. There was no sign of fort into her home, he said. Ther suspects. ICEBREAKER BANN TheUniversityofNebrask ly prohibited the playing ofA a popular game often used a breaker on college campuE Associated Press reported. Juan Franco, the Univers chancellor of student affair a campus-wide e-mail that t "is extremely inappropriate day and age in which we ar familiar with the Virginia'I ast week Northern Illinois University shoot- 7 sdom act ings." -d Press Fans of the game think the Uni- versity is overreacting. he street "The game is just a big-kid version and her of hide and seek. It makes you think, tng. Her and it's strategic," said Lance Parke, . Carson an Appalachian State student. ht while id Police PRAYING FOR FUNDING A $10 million state appropria- ed entry tion given to a Baptist university in re are no Kentucky was found to be unconsti- tutional after the school suspended a student for coming out as gay on ED MySpace.com, the Chronicle of arecent- Higher Education reported. Assassin, Judge Roger Crittenden ruled that s an ice- the appropriation was "a direct pay- ses, The ment to a nonpublic religious school for educational purposes," and is ity's vice therefore unconstitutional. s, said in The University of Cumberlands he game had intended to use the money to CHANEL VON HABSBURG-LOTHRINGEN/0 in this fund its new pharmacy school. It has Potential candidates for an honorary aviation serv in tis unditsnewpharacyschol.It as sciety within ROTC clean the M on she Diag. All e all too 30 days to file an appeal candidates ore required to clean the M and take rech and EMILYBARTON standardized entrance exam to join the society. 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Car stolen from Northwood parking lot WHERE: Northwood IV Community Apartments, Lot NW-43 WHEN: Thursday at about noon WHAT: A person reported a car was stolen out of parking Iriee A s r issued late at night in Arb WHERE: Nichols Arboretum WHEN: Friday at about 1:50 a.m. WHAT: Three people were cited with minors in possession of alcohol at Nichols Arbore- tum, DPS reported. They were released by police at the scene. Unknown man bothers students WHERE: West Quad WHEN: Saturday at about 3 a.m. WHAT: An unknown man was in West Quad harassing students, DPS reported. The man was escorted out of the building. Police warned him for trespassing. humor WHAT: A conference titled "The Serious Stuff about Humor: What is It? Why is It?" that looks at the science behind humor and comedy. Two writers from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" will also speak at the conference. WHEN: Today from Ito 5 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Theater Talk on race and gender in the presidential race WHAT: A lecture about the historical and current contexts for understanding the role of gender and race in the presi- dential election WHO: Institute for Research on Women and Gender WHEN: Today at 3 p.m. WHERE: Lane Hall, Room 2239 discussion WHAT: A panel discussion with Islamic scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and Uni- versity faculty on how the interpretation of the Qur'an is affected by those who inter- pret the work for the public WHO: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Hussey Room CORRECTIONS 0 A story in the Feb. 11 issue of the Daily (Cash shortfall slows down Washtenaw wire- less program) said the city of Ypsilanti created a free wireless network with a pri- vate donation. The network was created by Steve Pierce and Brian Robb. 0 Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. Students can now begin signing up for the Depart- ment of Public Safety's UM Emergency Alert System text messaging program by enter- ing their mobile phone num- ber into Wolverine Access. The system will send messages to students and faculty in the case of a tornado, shooter or chemical spill on campus. The No. 4 Michigan wom- en's gymnastics team beat No. 1 and three-time defending national champion Georgia on Friday. The Wol- verines are now 15-0 on the season. >>FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY Serbian prime minister Vojislav Kostunica dis- solved the government Saturday and called for new elections, Time reported. Kos- tunica wants the new elec- tions held on May 11, and said the government will function ip a reduced capacity until that date. I I Experts: Iraq war Will cost $12 billion a month in 2008 Israelto build homes in West Bank JL JL I (AP) - The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book. Beyond 2008, working with "best-case" and "realistic-moder- ate" scenarios, they project the Iraq and Afghan wars, including long-term U.S. military occupa- tions of those countries, will cost the U.S. budget between $1.7 tril- lion and $2.7 trillion - or more - by 2017. Interest on money borrowed to pay those costs could alone add $816 billion to that bottom line, they say. The nonpartisan Congressio- nal Budget Office (CBO) has done its own projections and comes in lower, forecasting a cumulative cost by 2017 of $1.2 trillion to $1.7 trillion for the two wars, with Iraq generally accounting for three- quarters of the costs. Variations in such estimates stem from the sliding scales of assumptions, scenarios and budget items that are counted. But what- ever the estimate, the cost will be huge, the auditors of the Govern- ment Accountability Office say. In a Jan. 30 report to Congress, the GAO observed that the U.S. will be committing "significant" future resources to the wars, "requiring decision makers to consider diffi- cult trade-offs as the nation faces an increasing long-range fiscal challenge." These numbers don't include the war's costto the rest of the world. In Iraq itself, the 2003 U.S.-led inva- sion - with its devastating air bom- bardments - and the looting and arson that followed, severely dam- aged electricity and other utilities, the oil industry, countless factories, hospitals, schools and other under- pinnings of an economy. No one has tried to calculate the economic damage done to Iraq, said spokesman Niels Buen- emann of the International Mon- etary Fund, which closely tracks national economies. But millions of Iraqis have been left without jobs, and hundreds of thousands of professionals, managers and other middle-class citizens have fled the country. In their book,"The Three Trillion Dollar War," Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Bilmes, of Harvard, report the two wars will have cost the U.S. budget $845 billion in 2007 dollars by next Sept. 30, end of fis- cal year 2008, assuming Congress fully funds Bush administration requests. That counts not just mili- tary operations, but embassy costs, reconstruction and other war- related expenses. That total far surpasses the $670 billion in 2007 dollars the Congres- sional Research Service says was the U.S. price tag for the 12-year Vietnam War. Although American military and Iraqi civilian casualties have declined in recent months, the rate of spending has shot up. A fully funded 2008 war budget will be 155 percent higher than 2004's, the CBO reports. JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans to build hun- dreds of homes in the West Bank and disputed east Jerusalem, drawing Palestinian condemna- tion just days before a visit by a U.S. general to monitor the trou- bled peace process. Housing Minister Zeev Boim said the new housing would include 350 apartments in Givat Zeev, a West Bank settlement just outside of Jerusalem, and 750 homes in the Pisgat Zeev neigh- borhood of east Jerusalem. Speaking to Israel Radio, Boim said the Givat Zeev construction initially began some eight years ago, but was suspendedbecause of fighting with the Palestinians. "When violence subsided, demand grew again and contrac- tors renewed their permits to build there," he said. The Pisgat Zeev construction, he added, "is inside Jerusalem's city borders." Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. It immediately annexed east Jerusalem and con- siders all of the city its capital. The annexation has not been rec- ognized internationally. The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem as parts of a future independent state. But Israel has said it wants to keep large settlement blocs, along with Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, under any final peace agreement. The construction "is consistent with our long-standing position that building within the large set- tlementblocs,whichwillstayapart of Israel in any final status agree- ment, will continue," said govern- ment spokesman Mark Regev said. 9 a, p