How coach rebuilt New'Mercenaries' volleyball program game a letdown ** Sports, Page 10 Arts, Page 9 alle ii an 43atl Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, September 23, 2008 michigandaily.com NEAR-CAMPUS CRIME Suspects arrested after keg tap theft JENIFEKO/Daily LSA senior Jason Wu and LSA sophomore Anh Tran enjoyed a picturesque day on the Diag. Yesterday marked the beginning of fall. Man pulled out air gun when student tried to recover tap stolen at house party By TREVOR CALERO Daily StaffReporter Business School senior Mike Jiao just wonted his kegteap back. Instead, he got a gun pointed at his head. A party at a house Jiao shares with some friends on the 1100 block of Prospect Street was wind- ing down around 2 a.m. when four strangers wandered in and drank some beer, Jiao said. As he was sitting outside on the porch, he saw someone unscrew the keg tap, Jiao said. He said he then saw the four strangers - one SCENE OF THE CRIME of them with a bulge in his pocket - walk out of the house. Jiao said he left the porch to confront the strangers, whom he believed to have stolen his house's tap. "He started pushing me, and I didn't want to back down to get our property back," he said. "Then out of nowhere the guy pulls out what looked to be a real gun." One of Jiao's roommates, Col- lege of Engineering senior Jasem Yousuf, said he immediately grabbed his phone and called the police, who arrived shortly after. Det. Dave Monroe, of the Ann Arbor Police Department, said the suspects weren't hard to locate after they received the phone call. "They were leaving the area when the officers were respond- ing," he said. Monroe said the police arrested See BURGLARY, Page 7 STUDENT SECTION TRADITIONS BUILDING A HUMAN BLOCK 'M' With free T-shirts, students hope to give 'Maize Out' a new element By VERONICA MENALDI For the Daily Students attending Michigan football games learn a litany of cheers and songs, many of them traditions dating back decades. On Saturday, when Michigan plays Wisconsin, students and Ath- letic Department officials hope to add another tradition to the rep- ertoire by coordinating a hunian version of Michigan's iconic block 'M' in the middle of the student section. Volunteers from the Michigan Student Assembly will hand out several thousand shirts - some maize, some blue - to fans enter- ing certain rows. LSA sophomore Andrew Chin- sky, the plan's main student orga- nizer, said he hopes to see a blue block 'M' in a sea of yellow shirts. He said he's optimistic that stu- dents will do their part to create the block 'M'. More than 1,500 students had joined a Facebook group promoting See BLOCK 'M', Page 7 COLOR COORDINATION Penn State, pictured above, who began a trend in 2005 by having its20,000-plus person studentsection don white shirts to create a "White Out,"isgiving away white T-shirtstostudentsfor this Saturday'sgameagainst Illinois. Oklahoma gives some students sombreros and noisemakers when they walk into Memorial Stadium forhome games. Studentsoften come to games up to two hours early to male sure they get them. Colorado issued free black T-shirts to its basketball student section last season. PHOTO. DAILY COLLEGIAN; sOURCE: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ESPN 9 ' 9 0 GREENWOOD ST 1K" 0bko k o Prospect Street , ....... c O r-- GRAPHIC BY ALLISON GHAMAN Students: IM sports scoring rules sexist University of Pennsylvania bioethics Prof. Jonathan Moreno spoke at a panel yes- terday about the potential gains from stem-cell research. With proposal on ballot, praise for stem-cell research L!S for B Th versit affirm might takes durini intran If a cer te for on does t In at the ketbal frisbe points accom has ra studer assum help c peers. Ton LSA S sentat lution chang "If senttc LSA S appro A-SG reps call "Our governing body will voice our discontent." equal points for The more competitive league within the IM Sports System equal goals doesn't have any scoring dispar- ity. But the "B" league, in which y TREVOR CALERO teams are generally less experi- Daily Staff Reporter enced, has different scoring stan- dards for men and women. ose who opposed the Uni- In "B" level, the 2008-2009 y's use of point-based Intramural Rules rulebook ative action in admissions states, "Men score two points per bristle at the calculus that field goal and one point per free place on Mitchell Field throw. Women score three points g some of the University's per field goal and one point per nural soccer games. free throw." It goes on to say male striker on a co-edsoc- that "a 'three-point' shot made is am scores, his goal counts worth four points for a woman." e point. If a female player Benson said he grew frus- he same, it's worth two. trated by the scoring difference several other co-ed sports while playing IM soccer lastyear. University, including bas- After discussing the matter with 1, flag football and ultimate Kim Buddin, a fellow LSA-SG e, women receive more representative and vice chair of than men for the same the council's multiculturalaffairs plishments. The practice committee, the two decided the ised questions among some disparity should be addressed. nts, who say the policy "We didn't think it was fair tes that female players need that women have to adhere to ompeting with their male this rule," Benson said. "It's gen- eralizing that all girls aren't as morrow, Steven Benson, good as guys at sports." tudent Government repre- Benson said the rule's inequity ive, will introduce a reso- is particularly striking when a to the council that aims to scorer's gender changes the out- :e that.. come of a close game. it passes, a letter will be "It's frustrating when you're o the University that shows (up) by one and you end up losing tudent Government doesn't when a girl scores," he said. ve of this policy," he said. See IM SPORTS, Page 7 JENNIFER KRON/Daily LSA sophomore Kelly Mason dribbles around Rackham student Andrew Goodman- Bacon during an intramural soccer game yesterday. THE POINTS GAP W St( Ballot initiative lot initiative that would remove many restrictions embryonic stem ould loosen state cell research in Michigan. University President Mary Sue restrictions on Coleman, whose office co-spon- sored the event with the Institute emn-cell research of Medicine, said she chose to host an event on the topic because the By ELAINE LAFAY ballot initiative has made the issue Daily StaffReporter especiallytimely. "Michigan voters are trying to ntists extolled the advances educate themselves about it, so I ould come from embryonic wanted to provide this opportu- cell research yesterday at a nity," said Coleman, who supports sponsored by the Univer- embryonic stem cell research. "I he event comes two months hope they'll have a clearer under- state voters decide on a bal- See FORUM, Page 7 SOCCER BROOMBALL MEN 1 point pergoal 1 point per goal WOMEN 2 points pergoal 2 points pergoal 9 points per touchdown 3 points per field goal FLAG FOOTBALL 6 points per touchdown BASKETBALL 2 points per field goal 1 point per free throw 2 points per free throw Scie that cc stem forum sity. 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