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ACADEMICS AND ATHLETICS
Proposals
take on
eligibility,
bowl perks

CHRIS DZOMBAK/Daily
Bill Ayers, a controversial figure during last year's presidential election, and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, field questions during an event at the Graduate Library last night.
Ayers pushes new activism

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'alum and wife politically active and question their
country's policies.
ell crowd that Ayers, known for his controver-
sial anti-war past and his supposed
ama alone can't ties to President Barack Obama,
discussed the newly appointed
create change president, social and criminal jus-
tice and his days as a member of
By NICOLE ABER the violent activist organization,
Daily StaffReporter The Weather Underground, at the
event.
r 300 people packed the After decades of work as an edu-
Hatcher Graduate Library cation policy expert and professor
ght to hear social and politi- in Chicago, Ayers was pushed into
ivists Bill Ayers and his wife, the national political spotlight last
line Dohrn, give an impas- fall when Republican vice presi-
call for Americans tobecome dential-nominee Sarah Palin raised

concerns about Obama's connec-
tion to Ayers, indirectly referring to
Ayers as a "terrorist." The most sig-
nificant connection the two shared
was time spent on a Chicago educa-
tion board in the late 1990s.
While Ayers said Obama's elec-
tion signified a new chapter in
American politics, it is not up to
Obama alone to solve all of the
challenges facing the United States
today. Rather, it is up to ordinary
citizens to respond to injustice in
today's society, he said.
"Lyndon Johnson, the most
effective politician of his gen-
eration, was not in the civil rights

movement. F.D.R. was not in the
labor movement. And Lincoln did
not belong to an abolitionist party,"
Ayers said. "They responded to
something on the ground. And it's
that something on the ground that
we have to pay attention to; that we
have to remember."
Ayers said that to create effec-
tive and lasting change, Americans
need to re-define their ideas about
activism and issues of social justice
as well as the United States' role in
the international community.
"The challenge to all of us is not
just to sit around wondering what
See AYERS, Page 7

Faculty body passes.
new oversight rules
for athletes, end to
paid bowl trips
By KYLE SWANSON
Daily StaffReporter
After more than an hour of
heated debate, the faculty Senate
Assembly approved a motion to
change who reviews student-ath-
lete eligibility and a motion urging
the University president to stop a
practice of funding bowl games
for members of a student-athlete
eligibility advisory committee.
Members of the Committee
on Academic Performance make
recommendations to the provost
as to whether a student-athlete
should be considered eligible. The
Athletic Department currently
offers committee -nembers reim-
bursement for airfare, hotel, ticket
and meal expenses if they want to
travel to a bowl game.

The practice came under heavy
criticism after a July 2007 inter-
nal University audit found that
the practice "may appear to be a
conflict of interest." Despite the
audit's findings, the University has
continued its practice of paying for
the committee members' trips.
University President Mary Sue
Coleman and Provost Teresa Sul-
livan have defended the practice,
arguing that because the provost
makes the final determination
on eligihility - not the commit-
tee memhers who received reim-
bursement for trips - a conflict of
interest doesn't exist.
A letter to the assembly from
Athletic Director Bill Martin
echoed Coleman's and Sullivan's
stances, stating a conflict doesn't
existbecausetheprovostisnotpro-
vided with tickets or reimbursed
for travel to the bowl games.
At the meeting, Statistics Prof.
Ed Rothman, chair of the Athlete
Academic Advising Committee -
which was created to look into the
student-athlete advising - gave a
See SENATE ASSEMBLY, Page 7

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ICE HOCKEY AFTERMATH
Fallout continues from ice clash

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Wo MSU players ment yesterday that freshman
forward Andrew Conboy and
suspended for sophomore forward Corey Tropp
will miss the Spartans' final 10 reg-
ason, Kampfer's ular-season games and any playoff
games as punishment for their
ether apologizes actions against Michigan junior
defenseman Steve Kampfer in the
By GJON JUNCAJ final minute of Saturday's game.
Daily Sports Writer Kampfer fell to the ice and was
taken to.the hospital after Conboy
higan State hockey coach and Tropp struck him with their
omley suspended two play- sticks in separate attacks.
the remainder of this season "What happened near the end of
ir roles in an on-ice attack on the game this weekend is not the
igan player Saturday night. way in which we want our hockey
iley said in a written state- program represented," Comley

wrote in the statement. "We can-
not condone their actions. We felt
that we had to send a strong mes-
sage that this behavior will not be
tolerated."
The Central Collegiate Hockey
Association released a statement
yesterday expressing its full sup-
port for the suspensions.
"We feel that the measures taken
by Michigan State are appropriate
and consistent with the parameters
of the sanctions that were being
contemplated by the league," wrote
CCHA Commissioner Tom Anas-
tos, a Michigan State alum.
"That's unacceptable at any

level of hockey," Michigan coach'
Red Berenson said. "I alerted our
team today that there's going to be
emotion in these games. There's
physicality in the games. There's
frustration, there's the revenge fac-
tdr, a retaliation factor.
"But there has to be a moment
when your sixth sense controls
what you do. And that didn't hap-
pen."
Moments after Tropp was
ejected from the game, a 48-year-
old man from Jackson, Mich. con-
fronted him in the visitor's locker
room, according to Department of
See FALLOUT, Page 7

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CHRID LuMBAK/Daily
Prof. Ed Rothman speaks during the faculty Senate Assembly meeting yesterday.

LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES THE 'U' ADMINISTRATION
New academic community University alum Kang will be
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to focus on globalization

one of Ubamas closest assistants

In Global Scholars
Program, University
students will work
with others abroad
By JOHN A. WEISS, JR.
For theDaily
Undergraduate students will
soon have a new opportunity to
learn what a globalized 21st cen-
tury may look like without leaving
Ann Arbor.
Emphasizing a world in which
cultural, racial, ethnic and reli-
gious differences increasingly

impact politics and commerce,
LSA administrators announced the
introduction of a new living-learn-
ing community last week.
Based on the idea of promot-
ing intercultural competency and
informed discussion on global
issues, the Global Scholars Pro-
gram will bring together U.S. and
international students in an inter-
disciplinary curriculum. A pilot
program of the new opportunity
will begin in fall 2009.
KellyMaxwell, co-directorofthe
Program on Intergroup Relations,
said the new community is part of
the University's push for greater
emphasis on the impact of global-
ization in the LSA curriculum.

"As the world opens up, and we
have a greater need to identify with
and understand people from all
over the world, we want an empha-
sis that people would get that per-
spective," she said.
She said the program was cre-
ated with the mission of creating
world citizens.
"I think President Obama this
week in his inaugural address out-
lined a new relationship the U.S. is
having with the world, should have
with the world," Maxwell said.
"Global Scholars is coming at an
opportune time."
Unlike other living-learning
communities, which only accept
See COMMUNITY, Page 7

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ang, who bid for of the Obama administration in his
capacity as special assistant to the
2 City Council, president.
Kang's new
ll be president's position, with
duties simi- y
ight-hand man lar to those
of a personal
By JASMINE ZHU secretary,
Daily StaffReporter plages him in
-- - - - ~ the Execu- _
iversity alum and Ann Arbor tive Office of KANG
Eugene Kang has come a the President,
way since his unsuccessful which consists
ainst City Council member of staff who have direct contact
en Rapundalo (D-Ward 2) with the president. As the special
ity Council seat in 2005 as a assistant, Kang is titled as a third-
r-old undergraduate. level senior staff member.
w 24, Kang has been noted as Paul Dimond, a former special
f the most unlikely members assistant on economic policy to

then-President Bill Clinton said
that Kang's position in the new
administration means he'll be
side-by-side with President Barack
Obama during most of his daily
activities.
"He's the guy who's always
around him,' Dimond said. "He
does whatever the president wants
him to do."
Dimond, now chairman of the
board for McKinley, Inc. and an
attorney with Miller Canfield,
a law firm, said he was excited
to learn of Kang's role as one of
Obama's youngest and closest
advisers.
"It's about luck and seizing an
opportunity," Dimond said. "I
See KANG, Page 7

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