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Additialc ieeye piukdupat tDihtutior$t. ius ciptontorfll terms rtis September.viaU.s.mal are $110.interterm(tanuarythrough Aprilis$11syearlong(September through April) is$195.Univers tyaffliates aresubject to a reduced subscription rate.On-campus seuiptiesr allemre$5.Subsipti ustbeprepaid.Theschigan Dailyisamemberof The AssoiatedtPressad Te ssciatd CllegiatePes. 6 Suspects dine Embezzlement in, walk out investigation Talk on sex and Faculty dance relationships performance WHERE: Nick's Cafe, North Ingalls Building, 300 Ingalls WHEN: Wednesday at about 1 p.m. WHAT: Three unidentified suspects dined in at Nick's Cafe and left without paying. Police arrived after the suspects left the area . WHERE: Wolverine Towers, 3001 State Street WHEN: Wednesday at about 12:30 p.m. WHAT: An investigation is underway about a male staff member of Wolverine Towers who is accused of misusing his departmental purchase card. The monetary amount is $500. Equipment . . damed n Theft in hospital waiting room power outage WHAT: A two-day sexual health lecture that will fea- ture local experts in the fields of sexual health and relation- ships. Topics tobe discussed are relationships, communica- tion, sexual heath and sex. WHO: University Health Service WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Colloquium, Ter- race, Room 3048, and Atrium, East Hall Ann Arbor Folk Festival WHAT: This 32nd folk festi- val with traditional and con- temporary artists. The festival will continue on Saturday night, beginning at 6:30 p.m. WHO: Michigan Union Tick- et Office and the Ark WHEN: Tonight at 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium WHAT: Faculty will perform a revival of modern dance classics and new creations. WHO: University Dance Company WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: Power Center Talk on space telescope WHAT: James Webb of the Observational Cosmology Laboratory will present a lec- ture about the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope. WHO: Department of Dance WHEN: Today at 2:15 p.m. WHERE: Studio A, Dance building CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. Swiss police located a marijuana field near Zur- ich by using Google Earth, The Associated Press report- ed. The plantation, measuring almost two acres, was masked inside of a cornfield. The find was part of a larger search that included the arrest of 16 people. The U.S. House of Repre- sentatives is currently con- sidering the Great Lakes Water Protection Act, which would commit more than $20 billion over the next fiveyears to contribute to the long-term sus- tainability of the Great Lakes "FORMORE,OPINION, PAGE4 A 17-year-old boy from Pennsylvanialost hisright hand and leg when he tried to muffle the sound of an exploding firecracker between his legs, The Associate Press reported. The boy had been playing with the firecracker, lighting and extinguishing the fuse several times. 0 0 WHERE: Electrical Engineer- ing Building, 1301 Beal WHEN: Saturday atabout 11 p.m. WHAT: An accidental power outage caused damage to an optical interface board. The entire system needs to be replaced, with an estimated cost of $5000. WHERE: University Hospital Emergency Room, 1500 East Medical Center WHEN: Wednesday at about 9 a.m. WHAT: A computer bag was stolen from the emergency room waiting room. The bag was recovered but the laptop and wallet that it held are still missing. ' art director leaves After 11 years, Steward to take job at Princeton By MALLORY JONES For theDaily One month after the opening of the newly renovated Museum of Art, Director James Steward plans to leave the University to take a job as the art director of the Princeton University Art Museum. Steward, who has served as the Museum of Art's director for 11 years, led the $41.9 million build- ing project. "I certainly feel very conflict- ed about it," Steward said. "I cer- tainly have been involved in the museum expansion from the very beginning and in many ways my blood, sweat and tears are in it." In his time at ,the University, Steward added 3,500 pieces of art to Michigan's collection. Provost Teresa Sullivan said in an e-mail interview that she wishes Stew-. ard the best at Princeton. "We are grateful for the vision- ary leadership of James Steward, under which the Museum of Art has become one of the most intel- lectuallysignificant and forward- looking university art museums in the country," Sullivan said. "During his tenure, the Museum has undertaken an energetic pro- gram of exhibitions, publications and outreach to enhance scholar- ship and encourage broader stu- dent engagement." Steward said that after years of planning and construction for the 53,000-square-foot addition to the University's museum, he would like to "see it come alive." He said that when he decided to take the job at Princeton, he made sure he would be in Ann Arbor for the opening of the museum. "I am really grateful for the experience I have had here," Steward said. "And we will have achieved something, I hope, real- ly important for the University." Steward said the size of Prince- ton's collection - which it's web- site numbers at more than 68,000 pieces, compared to Michigan's 19,000 - is one of the reasons he decided to take the position. He also cited the closer proximity to New York City and Philadelphia and the Princeton museum's larg- er staff as reasons for his move. "I was certainly offered a great opportunity to do some interest- ing things that I really also felt were going to build on the expe- riences I have had here," Stew- ard said. "When they came and offered me the opportunity in the end I felt I had to say yes." He also said the position would provide him with new challenges. The Princeton museum, with its broader historical resources, he said would allow him to use more of his art history background. "For me it was a possibility of going a little bit back more to my own training as an academic art historian. I think there is going to be a different set of things pos- sible to me there," Steward said. Provost Teresa Sullivan's office will lead the search for a new art director. Sullivan will appoint an interim director and will chair a committee that will conduct the search for and hire a new director. "Transition planning has already begun and the search committee will be formed very soon," University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham wrote in an e-mail interview. "The commit- tee will include representatives from the faculty, staff, student body and alumni." The renovated University of Michigan Art Museum will open to students on Mar. 24 and the public on Mar. 28. FLOIRIDlA SPRING1 BREAK ROOM PACK(AGES 4ADAY/3t NITS A DAY/5 NITS R8fDAY/7 NrITS Four vie for GOP top spot Ranking Senate "The situationis challenging,but 1 it's far from irreversible," McCon- Republican says party nell added, a dash of optimism in an otherwise stark assessment of must change where the Republican Party went wrong as he provided a road map WASHINGTON (AP) - After for how it can right itself crushing defeats in back-to-back He spoke to Republicans gath- elections, the top Senate Repub- ered in Washington to choose the lican warned Thursday that the next national chairman; four can- GOP risks remaining out of power didates are trying to unseat for- in the White House and Congress mer President George W. Bush's unless it better explains its core hand-picked RNC chairman, Mike principles to woo one-time faithful Duncan of Kentucky. The vote is and new loyalists. Friday. "The results of the two recent Implicit in McConnell's message elections are real, and so are the was the concern that the Republi- obstacles we face as a party," Sen. can Partyunder Bush strayed from Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told the its beliefs, resulting in drubbings Republican National Committee in two straight elections. on Thursday. "My concern is that While McConnell praised Bush unless we do something to adapt, as a man of principle, he said: "We our status as a minority party may can all agree, sad as it is, that he, become too pronounced for an easy wasn't winning any popularity recovery." contests. And history shows that unpopular presidents are usually a drag on everybody else who wears their political label." McConnell called forthe GOP to embrace its conservative principles - and resist diluting its message - to bring people back and attract new rank-and-file. Still, he added: "It's clear our message isn't getting out to nearly as many people as it should :.. Too often we've let others define us. And the image they've painted isn't very pretty." He acknowledged GOP fears that certain demographics from certain regions have shunned the party. And, he warned: "In politics, there's a name for a regional party: it's called a minority party." Just eight years after Republi- cans controlled the White House and Congress, the GOP finds itself out of power and trying to figure out how to rebound while its foe has grown much stronger.