THE YEAR IN PH OTOS Looking back on the Fab Five The Statement, Page 4B The Statement, age 6B lltic4toan Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, April 2,2008 michigandailycom STEPPING OUT STATE ECONOMY Toyota to spend $100M at A2facility Exl Wi B Toyo that it over th the aut researc Arbor - 35 rese years. The] ta's cu square part of1 Nob engine versity Centra Labora the new perts say region According to the Japanese auto- maker's statement, the institute l1 benefit from will hire 10 researchers this year investment and add 20 more by 2010. in~e~ment Michael Flynn, a research sci- entist emeritus in the University's 3y CHRIS HERRING Transportation Research Institute, ManagingNewsEditor said it is not "terribly surprising to hear" that Toyota was pumping ta announced yesterday money intothe struggling Michi- would spend $100 million gan economy by establishing the e next four years to develop institute. tomaker's North American "Some might even ask why not :h headquarters in Ann three months ago," he said. - a move that could employ Flynn said the investment could archers over the next four quiet the auto industry's naysayers temporarily. project would expand Toya- "The auto industry is in trouble, rrent 100-acre, 500,000- but it's not going anywhere," he -foot facility in the northern said. "By investing in the area, it the city. helps to blunt the critics." uro Kikuchi, a mechanical The move, which comes just ering professor at the Uni- months before Toyota is slated to and director of the Toyota open its 1,000 employee, $187 mil- I Research andtDevelopment lion technical center innearby York tories in Japan, will direct Township, could spur future busi- institute. See TOYOTA, Page 3A CLIF REEDER/Dail LSA sophomores Dominick Young and Cordaye Ogletree perform at their probate for the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha late last night. The probate serves to celebrate and announce to campus new members of the fraternity. At last night's event on the Diag, the pair's performance included recitation of fraternity history, singing songs and dancing. Abstinence push missing from'U' RENEWABLE ENERGY IN MICHIGAN Last int s esatoutlte) cpraciclily of sustnble erergy sources. Creation of jobs uncertain While Harvard, Princeton groups gain speed, 'U goes without ByJILLIAN BERMAN Daily StaffReporter The University has student groups for everyone from squirrel enthusiasts to jet engine connois- seurs, but there's one population of students you won't find hand- ing out quarter sheets on the Diag - those who choose to remain celibate until marriage. While pro-abstinence groups at some of the nation's most presti- gious universities have garnered media attention in recent weeks, no such groups exist at the Uni- versity of Michigan. Students here claim that abstinence groups at other schools have misled stu- dents, paying more attention to the negatives of sex rather than the positives of celibacy until mar- riage. An article in the New York Times Magazine published last Thursday highlighted a group at Harvard University called True Love Revo- lution, which brings together stu- dents who abstain from sex before marriage. Harvard student Janie Fre- dell, the group's leader, said in the article that her group's mes- sage is especially important in an environment where the "hook up culture" dominates. According to its website, TLR is not religiously See ABSTINENCE, Page 10A With industry in its infancy, it's unclear how renewable energy will help economy By ELAINE LAFAY Daily StaffReporter One of the centerpieces of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's plan to replace lost manufacturing jobs - a bill passed last week by the Senate calling for alternative ener- gy sources for government build- ings - has som6 experts doubting whether the push for renewable energy could lend to job growth. Some are unsure about the eco- nomic impact of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's call for a 10-percent increase in renewable energy use by2015, because the strength of the industry is unknown. Trevor Lauer, vice president of retail marketing for DTE Ener- gy, said renewable energy jobs wouldn't be stable until manufac- turers of renewable energy tech- nology moved their facilities to Michigan. "They produce the actual blades and wind turbines in Michigan, and that's where you see a large percentage of manufacturing jobs open up in Michigan," Lauer said. An increase in the use of renew- able energy throughout the state would first bring construction jobs, he said. Rep. Aldo Vagnozzi (D-Farm- ington Hills) cosponsored a bill in the state House of Representatives last year that would require that 10 percent of energy come from renewable sources. "We'd have to build facilities and things like that which would create construction jobs and the ongoing job of running the systems," he said. But Lauer said the everyday maintenance of renewable energy facilities would ultimately create fewer jobs than a traditional power plant would. "There are more moving parts and pieces and a higher reliance on skilled trade involved with a con- ventional generating resource than a renewable resource," he said. Danielle Korpalski, an environ- mental associate for Environment See ENERGY, Page 10A ONE ESTIMATE A coalition pushinggreen energy in Michigan compiled estimates of potential job growth from the imple- mentation of certain technologies. 2,281 Number of jobsthat could comefrom bioenergy 6,644 Numberofjobsthatcould comefrom solar energy 24,350 Number of jobs that could comefrom wind energy soURcE:BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE MICHGAN STIJIEN AS EMY L UHS director: Health care should be required A CAMPUS PUZZLE APRIL FOOLS Bursley residents get prank messages At meeting, assembly discusses merits of insurance mandates By DANIEL STRAUSS Daily StaffReporter Speaking at last night's Michi- gan Student Assembly meeting, Robert Winfield, director of the University Health Service, sup- ported the idea of requiring all University students to have basic health insurance. MSA has asked the University to explore the specifics and feasi- bility of such a plan. UHS is study- ing the idea. During the meeting, Winfield said about 20 percent of college students nationwide are unin- sured, but that those numbers are skewed when split between public and private universities. He said 62 percent of the nation's private colleges and universities require that students have health insur- ance while just three percent of public colleges and universities do. "We're seeing a significant number of out-of-state students coming with underinsurance - grad and undergrad," Winfield said. The University doesn't require students to have health insurance, but it offers an insurance plan that costs $2,183 per year. That cost has increased noticeably in the past decade. In 1998, it was $621. If insurance coverage was mandated, the plan would increase the estimated cost of attendance for all students. This means health insurance could be paid for by financial aid. Stu- See MSA MEETING, Page 7A E-mail tells dorm-dwellers to leave asbestos- ridden hall By LINDY STEVENS Daily StaffReporter April Fools' Day is a time to be on the lookout for mischievous friends pulling harmless pranks. But for Bursley Hall residents, it was a time to be on the lookout for another place to live - or so they thought. An e-mail sent to Bursley resi- dents at about 3:10 a.m. yester- day notified them that a "severe" asbestos problem in the dorm would force officials to cjose it for repairs at the end of this week. The message, sent from Hall Director Carolyn Burns' e- mail address, had a subject line of "Urgent Housing Information." In an e-mail interview, Uni- versity Housing spokesman Peter Logan denied that Burns sent the message and called it "deliber- ately false." "It was nothing more than an April Fool prank" meant to con- fuse residents about "a problem that does not exist," Logan said. The e-mail advised residents to keep their windows open and wear protective masks to avoid exposure to the asbestos. The message said "90% of the.(dorm's) pipes were found to contain asbestos on the outside, and 50% on the inside as well." Around 3:50 a.m., less than an hour after the first message was sent, students received a second message from Burns' address, telling residents not to be alarmed, and that the earlier See ASBESTOS, Page 3A Rn RNcr/nailr Pranksters turned the Cube in Regents' Plaza into a Rubik's cube yesterday. Anoth- er Rubik's cube appeared on North Campus. WEATHER TOMORROW H: 53 GOT A NEWS TIP? LO: 35 Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail news@michigandailycom and let us know. 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