4 2A - Monday, December 8, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4c sIdWIC4an allj 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.cor ANDREW GROSSMAN ELAINA BUGLI Editor in Chief Dusaness Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 grossman@michigandaily.com bugli@michigandaily.com Rivalry gets inappropriate A PACK OF LYRES Yale University's marching band has been suspended because of a prop used during the football game between Yale and Harvard University, the Yale Daily News reported. The prop, a wall, contained ele- ments that Thomas Duffy, director of Yale Bands, deemed "complete- ly inappropriate and highly offen- sive." Drum major Rosa Li, a Univer- sity senior, said in an e-mail to the marching band that the wall prop did contain "some genuinely inap- propriate things on it (i.e. more inappropriate than 'sucks') that I would have made y'all paint over, had I seen it." DECREASING TEXTBOOK WOES The Association of American Publishers and the Alternative Media Access Center - both part of the University of Georgia - recent- ly launched AccessText Network, an exchange network that will in 1974. work to ensure students with dis- abilities will have access to afford- STANFORD SALARIES SHRINK able textbooks, the Chronicle of Stanford University President Higher Education Reported. John Hennessy and Provost John The exchange will act as a Etchemendy are cutting their clearinghouse for publishers and salaries by 10 percent in light of campus disability groups to share the University's worsening invest- information on what is available. ment climate, the Stanford Daily reported. HARVARD ENDOWMENT TANKS The University's deans have also Harvard University's endow- volunteered to cut their salaries. ment fell 22 percent since June, the Hennessy and Etchemendy are Harvard Crimson reported. also considering cutting as much The loss amounts to more than as $100 million from the Univer- $8 billion, which is larger than the sity's $800 million budget over the entirety of the University of Michi- next two years. gan's endowment. "We now anticipate a need for Harvard President Drew Faust deeper, permanent reductions in and Executive Vice President the general finds budget, which Edward Forst wrote in a letter that funds most of our faculty and Harvard should be prepared for up staff salaries, central administra- to a 30 percent loss by June 2009. tive operations and non-research The decrease is the worse Har- expenses," Etchemendy wrote in vard has experienced since its an e-mail. endowment dropped 12.2 percent EMILYBARTON CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom News Tips Corrections Letters to the Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales tlassified Sales Online Sales Finance OfficehoursSun.-Thurs.t11 am. -2 a.m. news@michigandaity.com corecotions@michigandaily.com tohdaiy@michigandaily.com photo@michigandaily.comn atparna@michigandaily.com opinpion@michigandaily.com ortse@michigandaily.om doisplay@michiandaily.omn finance@michigandaily.com Derek Kauserud (front) of the Compulsive Lyres a cappella group performs in the group's fall show, held in East Hall on Friday. CRIME NOTES Young boy slips, Unconscious falls, cuts lip student taken to CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES WHERE: Rackham Graduate School WHEN: Saturday at about 12:15 p.m. WHAT: A four-year-old boy slipped and fell in the build- ing and cut his lip, University Police reported. His parents refused treatment for the injury. Student injures head at Yost WHERE: Yost Ice Arena WHEN: Sunday at about 12:25 a.m. WHAT: A University student slipped and fell on the ice and injured his head, University Police reported. He was taken by ambulance to the Univer- sity hospital to undergo treat- ment. .IUsplal WHERE: Yost Ice Arena WHEN: Sunday at about 12:10 a.m. WHAT: An ambulance was requested for a male University student, who was intoxicated and unconscious, University Police reported. He was taken to the University hospital for treatment. Minor cited at bus stop WHERE: 500 block, S. State street WHEN: Sunday at about 1:30 a.m. WHAT: A female student wait- ing atthe bus stop was cited and released for an alcohol posses- sion, University Police reported. Prof to talk on energy policies WHAT: Prof. Paul Portney of Arizona University will give a talk on energy problems fac- ing the country WHO: Center for the Study of Complex Systems WHEN: Tonight from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Ampitheatre, Rackham Graduate School Talk on science and religion WHAT: University Prof. Pascal Grosse will give a talk about neuroscience and religion from the seventeenth century the present WHO: Science, Technology and Society program WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Room 1014, Tisch Hall Gender support group meeting WHAT: A Gender Explorers meeting, which is a support group for transgender, trans- sexual, and genderqueer people WHO: English Department WHEN: Tonight from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Spectrum Center Free HIV tests WHAT: A counselor from the HIV/AIDS Resource Center will be on hand to conduct anonymous HIV tests WHO: The Spectrum Center WHEN: Tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Room 3200 " Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com. The Irish government has issued a warning against consuming Irish-produced pork products, The Associated Press reported. The depart- ments of agriculture and health recalled all Irish pork produced after Sept.1 after dis- covering contaminants in pig feed. The No. 3 ranked Michi- gan men's swimming and diving team won the col- lege division at the USA swim- mingshort course nationals in Atlanta this weekend. >>FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS MONDAY Up to 40 percent of house- hold energy consumption comes from appliances that are turned off, but still plugged in, according to the National Resource Defense Council. 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