46F c an'3at Ann Arbor, Michigan PARKING ON CAMPUS Neighbors oppose plans to add parking near hospital Monday, September 15, 2008 michigandailycom IN RIVALRY. A TURNOVER OF FORTUNES Res To St r bri Som Lower ed acr the Un ing a U two fr tures n cAl Car The structu 40,000 and po STRU sidents of Lower is near the Kellogg Eye Center between Wall Street and Maiden wn area say new Lane. Conceptual plans, the first step ructures would toward approval, are expectedtobe . presented to the University Board ng noise, traffic of Regents during the board's next meeting Sept. 18. ByANDY KROLL Thestructuresareacomponentof Daily News Editor the University Health System's 2005 "Master Plan," which lays out the e residents of Ann Arbor's Health System's potential expan- Town neighborhood, locat- sion for the next several decades. oss the Huron River from Residents opposing the strut- iversity Hospital, are fight- tures say increased vehicle traffic Jniversity proposal to build resulting from the buildings will 'eestanding parking struc- negatively impact the surround- near the University's Medi- ing environment and the health of npus. nearby residents. proposed site of the two The residents also say the struc- res, which will include tureswill"deaden" the atmosphere square feet of office space of the Lower Town neighborhood, ssibly a new transit center, See PARKING, Page 7A CTURAL PROBLEMS Notre Dame linebacker Brian Smith returns a Michigan fumble for a touchdown during Michigan's 35-17 loss tothe Fighting Irish Saturday. For Notre Dame, the win rep- resented a return to success after a 3-9 record last season. For Michigan, which dropped to 1-2 on the season, the loss was a reminder of the challenges the team faces. After lossMihigan needs to regaini some respect SOUTH BEND - Thought it was a match- up between the two winningest programs in college football history, this year's installment of Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry offered none of the usual glamour. Without high national ragings or marquee bowl- game hopes, Saturday's NATE SANDALS game between the Wolverines and the Fighting Irish was primarily a battle for self-respect. Notre Dame's senior linebacker Maurice Crum Jr. flat-out said that's what his team was playing for during the traditional campus pep rally the night before the game. Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz and his 1988 National Championship team were at the pep rally, too. But the next day it was this year's version of the Fighting Irish that made a statement. "Today was not Lou, it was not the '88 For more football coverage, see SPORTSMONDAY. team, it was those guys in that locker room stepping up and earning the respect that Mo Crum was talking about last night at the pep rally," Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis said. "I think you had a bunch of guys right there that stepped up and said, 'We want to make a See SANDALS, Page 7A GRAPHIC eALLISON GHAMAN Storms drench area, knock out power Ann Arbor escapes with minor damage, flooding, outages, By THOMAS CHAN For the Daily Heavy rain bombarded south- east Michigan this weekend, caus- ing some damage and flooding and knocking out power to thousands of homes in Washtenaw County. About three inches of rain had fall- en by noon yesterday, according to the National Weather Service. About 18,000 homes were with- out power in southeast Michigan yesterday evening, DTE spokes- man Len Singer said. About 5,000 of those homes were in Washtenaw County, he said. Ann Arbor suffered only minor damage besides the power outages, Sgt. Ed Stuck of the Ann Arbor Police Department said. He said there was some flooding on Plymouth Road near Common- wealth Boulevard, and at the inter- section of Geddes Road and Huron Parkway. There was also a fallen tree on Fuller Court near the Veteran Affairs Medical Center, he said.t University Police Diane Brown said there were no reports of water damage or flooding to University buildings. l',V The National Weather Service also reported a tornado travel- ing through parts of Livonia and . Plymouth Saturday night, causing- damage to two apartment building JER EMY CHO/Dai roofs. Ann Arbor resident Sebastian Goo gets soaked while walking near campus yester- See WEATHER, Page 7A day. This weekend's squalls dropped more than three inches of rain on the city. NORTH CAMPUS CHA LLENGE' Through games, engineers aim to build teamwork * CAMPAIGN 2008* GOP aims to tie Obama to economic woes in Mich. First-ever contest offers food, prizes to winning teams By ELAINE LAFAY DailyStaffReporter Engineering junior Huey Shann Sue inched forward through a maze of chairs, clutch- ing a spoon that held a tennis ball. "Go right - hard-core right," yelled Engineering junior Dane Reggia, her teammate. Blindfolded, Sue shuffled fur- ther into the maze. Reggia eyed her feet, stopping and redirect- ing her when she came too close to touching anything, an offense that would send them to the beginning again. Sue and Reggia were com- peting in the first-ever North Campus Challenge - a series of team-building games aimed at fostering collaboration among College of Engineering stu- dents. The University of Michigan Engineering Council, the col- lege's student government, put on the event in Pierpont Com- mons Saturday afternoon. UMEC's freshmen council, a subsection of the organization introduced last year, organized the challenge over the summer. UMEC President and Engi- neering senior Courtenay Holscher said many engineers in the College of Engineering were used to taking control of group "We want people to help each other do well." work during high school, doing much of the work on their own and allowing team members to add their names to the final copy. She said the competition was an effort to show students the importance of teamwork in a college atmosphere. "In engi- neering, both professionally and academically, a lot of things are team-centered," she said. "We thought this event would be a good chance to remind students See CHALLENGE, Page 7A Democrats say Bush, after 17 electoral votes to Repub- lican presidential candidate John not Granholm, to McCain in the upcoming presiden- tial election. blame for "If you like what Jennifer Gra- state's struggles nholm has done for Michigan," he says, "you're going to love what Barack Obama is going to do to By ANDY KROLL America." Daily News Editor Anuzis has two goals with his oft-recited slogan. First, he aims to Saul Anuzis, chairman of the directly tie Michigan's economic Michigan Republican Party, has woes - among them, the nation's adopted a new mantra in recent highest unemployment rate and a months, one he thinks will help continual exodus of skilled work- deliver Michigan's highly sought ers commonly referred to as the "brain drain" - to the governor- ship of Jennifer Granholm. He also hopes Michiganderswill think an Obama presidency would hurt the national economy to the extent that Granholm has, as he says, hurt Michigan's economy. Though Democrats have balked at Anuzis's blame of Granholm, noting that the Michigan Sen- ate has had a Republican major- ity throughout her time in office, Anuzis said he thinks the correla- tions work. "I believe that we can say this to See CAMPAIGN, Page 7A Michigan GOP chairman Saul Anuzis says U.S. under Obama would resemble Michigan under Jennifer Granholm. 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