)NE HUNDI )I EIGLTEEN YEARSOF EDITORILAL FPEEDOM Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, April 11, 2008 michigandaily.com CAMPUS CUISINE eal plans set for overhaul Meal costs will stay about $10 ameal. The changes are meant to aim- the same; Entree plify the meal plans and give stu- dents more flexibility in deciding when and how they want to spend with 'Dining Dollars' their meal credits, said Michael Lee, the University's director of Residential Dining Services. By IVY WEI The new standard meal plan, Daily StaffReporter 150 Block, offers students 150 meals to use at their leisure over Say goodbye to meal plans as the course of a semester, which you knew them. works out to roughly 10 meals per Next fall, the University will week. restructure the on-campus meal The deal also provides students plans available to students, scrap- with 75 Blue Bucks and 75 Dining ping plans that allocate a certain Dollars. number of meals per week in The 200 Block plan offers 200 favor of plans that grant students meals a semester - about 13 meals a fixed number of meal credits per per week - and provides 75 Blue semester. Bucks and 75 Dining Dollars to As a result of the change, stu- spend. dents will no longer be able to A third plan offers unlimited redeem unused meal credits at meals, 25 Blue Bucks and 25 Din- retail locations in the dorms, and ing Dollars per semester. Entr6e Plus will be replaced by Like Entree Plus, student will two separate credit programs be able to add more Blue Bucks or called "Blue Bucks" and "Dining Dining Dollars to their account Dollars." throughout the semester. Dining Dollars can only be used LSA freshman Zach White said at dorm convenience stories and he didn't like the changes. in the dining halls to supplement "I'm not too excited about the meal credits, while Blue Bucks meal plan changes," he said. "I will be a more flexible option like the flexibility and versatility resembling the current Entr6e of the current system, and I don't Plus system. Blue Bucks will also know how economically efficient be redeemable at dormitory din- the new plans will be for stu- ing halls and stores as well as dents." participating off-campus restau- The cost of each plan is subject rants. to change until the University With the change, the meal Board of Regents approves them. plans, mandatory for students The 150 Block plan is tentatively living on campus, maintain their planned to cost $1,685, the 200 average price from last year of See MEAL PLAN, Page 3 ONE SHORT Michigan hockey players were left consoling each other last night after losing to Notre Dame in overtime. Once favored to win the national.championship, Wolverines gave up three goals in the first period, but fought back to tie the game. Behind early, C"M'\.lfalls short in comeback bid In a year when Michigan always came through, the end was hard to see DENVER - Maybe we were just a little too spoiled, watch- ing Michigan get everything it wanted. College Hockey Showcase champions. Great Lakes Invi- tational champions. CCHA regular-season, then CCHA tournament champions. A trip to the Frozen Four. None of it was originally expected, but all of it happened. And then the Wolverines found out they were playing Notre Dame in the NCAA semi- finals, ateam they beat twice in the regular season. They were playing a team that completely folded in the CCHA Tourna- ment and slipped into the NCAA Tournament. Even though Mich- igan insisted it wasn't so, a maize-and- COURTNEY blue spot in RATKOWlAK the national champion- ship game was almost taken for granted. Game time. The Wolverines allowed two goals in the first six See RATKOWIAK, Page 8 Bl af due climbs back inexperienced Wolverines' improbable midseason run to ter crumbling, the top of the national rankings. The other ended Michigan's but loses in season one game early. "It's devastating," freshman Matt Rust said. "Just to see one shot end your season. I feel bad, By ANDY REID but I feel worse for seniors like Daily Sports Writer Chad (Kolarik) and (Kevin) Por- ter. They've given it their all, and NVER - None of the their one goal in college hockey igan hockey team's oppo- was to win a National Champi- this season have produced onship. It just sucks." any heart attack-inducing The January game was the ents as Notre Dame. Wolverines' first true test of o games againstthe Fight- the season. Six head-scratching ish - last night's 5-4 over- minutes in, (33-6-4) was down oss in the NCAA semifinals 2-0 and seemed dead on arrival. Jan. 18 3-2 thriller - were But the Wolverines clawed back g the year's most exciting. into the contest, capping off the e legitimized the young, See HOCKEY, Page 8 DE Mich nentsI as ma mome Tow ing Iri time l and a. amon One Schauer calls for more ed spending STUDENTS AIMING FOR SPACE Trying to build a satellite on the cheap State senator trying to win U.S. House seat west of A2 By MATT GALVAN Daily StaffReporter In a question-and-answer ses- sion with the University's chap- ter of the College Democrats last night at the Michigan League, state Senate Minority Leader Mark Schauer said he sympa- thized with students who were overburdened by student loans. Schauer is trying to unseat first-term U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Tipton), who represents the 7th Congressional District. The district is located just west of Ann Arbor and includes parts of western Washtenaw County and the cities of Jackson and Battle Creek. Schauer, a Democrat from Bedford Township, told the crowd that the federal govern- ment should revamp federal aid programs to make college more affordable and attainable. Unfortunately, Schauer said, college students are paying high tuition rates because the legisla- ture cut higher education funding due to a statewide recession. With an overall unemployment rate in Michigan at 7.2 percent - about 2 percent higher than the national average - and only 3.4 percent for college graduates, Schauer said investing in higher education is crucial to the state's economic recovery. "You are an economic develop- ment asset," said Schauer, adding that he supports revising schol- arship programs and increasing direct aid to students. Speaking before more than See SENATOR, Page 8 Cube-shaped spacecraft will take photos of Earth By ELAINE LAFAY Daily StaffReporter A team of students from the University's College of Engineer- ing is designing its own amateur satellite slated to launch into space next year to take pictures of the Earth. The project, called Michigan Multipurpose Minisat or M- Cubed, began last summer as the brainchild of three members of the Student Space Systems Fabrication Laboratory, a student aerospace design organization, said Engi- neering senior Kiril Dontchev, M- Cubed's project manager. The students plan to build a "cube satellite" weighing about two pounds that will snap pictures of Earth for about a year before incinerating in the planet's atmo- sphere. The satellite will attached to the back of a rocket launching out of Russia or Kazakhstan in Fall 2009 which will take it into space, said Engineering freshman Ken Gmerek, a member of the project's design team. Dontchev said programming a satellite to take pictures and send them back to Earth was a long and complicated process involving nearly a year's worth of designing. "You need a way to control it, a way to communicate with it, a way to power it," he said. He said the teamhas a consider- ably smaller budget than cube sat- ellites usually require, forcing the group to think creatively about the satellite's design. It will contain See SATELLITE, Page 3 State Senator Mark Schauer spoke yesterday to University chapter of the College Democrats. Schauer is running for Congress in the state's 7th Congressional District. WEATHER HI:46 TOMORROW Lo 34 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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