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SHAMAN DRUM
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which the task force ultimately
recommended. It was implemented
last November.
The purpose of the uBook pro-
gram is to make textbooks more
affordable by encouraging pro-
fessors to publish reading lists
on Ctools, where an integrated
exchange system allows students
to buy, sell and trade.
Task force members suggested
that making required readings
available in advance would help
booksellers avoid expensive early-
semester rush orders, potentially
driving down prices.
Pohrt said uBook effects have
been more harmful than helpful, as
it only causes more students to do
their textbook shopping online.
In the last two textbook rushes,
sales have been "pretty terrible,"
Pohrt said, adding that if textbook
sales are to be continued at all,
which is still in question, the selec-
tion would probably "specialize in
courses inthe humanities andsome
of the social sciences that are more
analogous to the kind of books we
sell on the first floor."
Pohrt also wrote in the Ann
Arbor Chronicle letter that Shaman
Drum will be vacating the second
floor, where textbooks are sold.
Pohrt applied for nonprofit sta-
Elizabeth Comer assists a customer with a book purchase at Shaman Drum on Feb.19, 2009.
tus with the IRS last March, and
while he's confident that it will be
approved, the application is still
being processed.
"What I wanted to do was give
my bookshop to the community,"
he said.
As a nonprofit, the store, rein-
carnated as the Great Lakes Liter-
ary Arts Center, would be eligible
to receive tax-deductible donations
and government grants.
Shaman Drum hosts a variety
of author events, readings, classes,
workshops, discussions and par-
ties. As the GLLAC, these programs
would be expanded. Pohrt said this
kind of activity makes the store
more likely to receive grants.
Pohrt opened Shaman Drum in
1980, and he considers ita valuable
intellectual and cultural hub in
Ann Arbor. He said the change in
business model is essential for Sha-
man Drum's survival. Above all,
he hopes that if he gives the shop
to the community, the community
will give back.
"If we're not supported, we're
not going to be here," he said.
FOOTBALL TICKETS
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money in state. That is also very
important during these economic
times."
Students will be able to pur-
chase season tickets beginning in
CANDIDATE
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Walker stressed the importance
of a balance between the rights
of students and the rights of the
University and the city as a whole.
He also said the University must
continue to bear in mind students'
individual needs.
"You cannot have one formula
that fits all students," he told audi-
ence members. "There needs to be
growth and development for the
student throughout (the educa-
tional) process."
CONSTRUCTION
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TENURE-ELIGIBLE FACULTY
The Regents approved University
Provost Teresa Sullivan's request
to grant tenure to faculty members
in the Center for Computational
Medicine and Bioinformatics.
Over 100 faculty members work
in the center, which was created
to foster interdisciplinary studies
in the two fields and grow rela-
SUSTAINABILITY
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Another member of SSI told the
regents that a director would be
necessary to manage the office's
activities, but that more planning
is needed.
"Decisions need to be made
about where the office sits, who
will lead it and how it will be
funded - until it pays for itself,"
he said.
Rackham student Aaron James,
an SSI member, stressed that sus-
tainability efforts will pay for
themselves.
"We have an opportunity to
simultaneously improve our
finances and our environmental
record," he said. "Green buildings
are not an added expense, they are
investments in the future of our
university."
James added that buildings
account for 98 percent of the ener-
gy use and greenhouse gas emis-
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 7
April, and the application dead-
line will be Friday, May 8.
The first game of the season,
a home game against Western
Michigan, will be on Saturday,
Sept. 5 at Michigan Stadium.
- The Associated Press and
Daily News Editor Jillian Berman
Walker's luncheon was the last
of the three finalists for the posi-
tion as dean of students.
On Tuesday Karen Boyd, for-
mer senior associate for student
life at the Georgia Institute of
Technology visited the Univer-
sity. Laura Jones, interim dean of
students and director of the office
of student life at the University of
Oregon, visited on Wednesday.
The three-day luncheon and
forum series has been a final step
in the search to replace former
Dean of Students Sue Eklund,
who retired from her position
last year.
tionships with other universities.
Faculty members who are granted
tenure will report to the dean of
the Medical School.
Sullivan said allowing tenure
for these individuals would help to
recruitthe highestqualified faculty
for future openings at the center.
"(This) will greatly improve our
ability to attract world class inves-
tigators," she said.
-Daily Stalf eporter Kyle
Swanson contributed to this report.
sions on campus.
Slottow said the University is
taking steps to achieve sustain-
ability, including changing from
the 1999 American Society for
Heating, Refrigerating and Air
Conditioning Engineers energy
standards - which the state of
Michigan currently uses - to the
2007 standards.
"We have recently, in the last
week actually, formally adopted
the 2007 standards, which are 10
to 20 percent more efficient than
the 1999 standards that the state is
using," Slottow said.
Slottow called energy perfor-
mance extremely important to
the University, and added that he
is working with students to make
sustainability a reality on cam-
pus.
"We have been working with
the students," he said. "We are
making significant progress."
- Erik Torenberg
contributed to this report.
Clinton names special envoy to N. Korea
Secretary of state's
actions come amid
hostile rhetoric
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton named a special envoy for
NorthKoreaon todaybut warned the
communist nation that ties with the
United States will not improve unless
itstops threateningSouthKorea.
Amid a disturbing rise in belliger-
ent rhetoric from the North toward
the South and signs it may be getting
ready to test-fire a ballistic missile,
she urged Pyongyang to halt "pro-
vocative and unhelpful" gestures
and rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear
disarmament talks.
"North Korea is not going to get a
different relationship with the Unit-
ed States while insulting and refus-
ing dialogue with (South Korea),"
Clinton told reporters at a news con-
ference with South Korean Foreign
Minister Yu Myung-hwan.
"We are calling on the govern-
mentof North Koreato refrain from
being provocative and unhelpful
in a war of words that it has been
engaged in because that is not very
fruitful," she said.
Clinton, who also received a mili-
'tary briefing on the situation along
the demilitarized zone between
North and South Korea and dis-
cussed broader issues with South
Korean President Lee Myung-Bak,
praised Seoul for its democracy and
prosperity.
Shesaidthatwas "instarkcontrast
to the tyranny and poverty across the
border to the North" and commend-
ed the "people of South Korea and
your leaders for your calm, resolve
and determination in the face of pro-
vocative and unhelpful statements
and actionsby the North."
She declined to comment on intel-
ligence suggesting the North could
soon fire a missile but noted such
an act would violate U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1718, which was
passed after Pyongyang detonated a
nuclear device in 2006.
"The North should refrain from
violating this resolution and also
from any and all provocative actions
that could harm the six-party talks
and aggravate the tensions in the
region," Clinton said.
She demanded that the North fol-
low through on promises it made
to dismantle and verifiably disable
its nuclear weapons program dur-
ing negotiations with China, Japan,
Russia, South Korea and the United
States last year, saying Washington
is not willingto engage with Pyong-
yang until it does so.
Clinton said the new U.S. special
representative for North Korea, Ste-
phen Bosworth, a formerU.S. ambas-
sador to South Korea, would work
with South Korea, Japan, China and
others to look at ways to get Pyong-
yang back to the negotiating table
and deal with broader policy.
Bosworth will also deal with
North Korean human rights and
humanitarian issues, she said, prais-
ing him as "a capable and experi-
enced diplomat" who will report to
her and President Barack Obama.
En route to South Korea from
Indonesia on Thursday on her first
overseas trip as America's top dip-
lomat, Clinton surprised reporters
traveling with her when she spoke
candidly about a possible succession
crisis in North Korea and its impact
on restarting the talks.
Those comments marked a rare,
if not unprecedented, instance of a
senior U.S. official publicly discuss-
ing such a diplomatically sensitive
matter.
On Friday in Seoul, Clinton again
acknowledged concerns over a
potential power struggle to replace
ailingNorth KoreanleaderKimJong
Ii, but she stressed that the United
States was still addressing its con-
cerns to the existing governnent.
"As we look at planning and con-
tingency planning, we're taking
everything into account, but we feel
there is a government in place right
now and that government is being
asked to re-engage with the six-par-
ty talks, to fulfill the obligations that
they have agreed to," she said.
"And we expect them to do so,"
Clinton added, stressing that her
earlier succession comments had not
divulged any classified information
and that similar analysis could easily
be found in newspapers and online.
Kim,67,inheritedleadershipfrom
his father, North Korea founder Kim
Il Sung, in 1994, creating the world's
first communist dynasty. Last year,
South Korean and U.S. officials said
Kim suffered a stroke and under-
wentbrain surgery in August.
North Korean officials have
steadfastly denied Kim is ill but
state-run media made no mention of
Kim's public appearances for weeks
last fall, feeding fears that his sud-
den death without naming a succes-
sor could leave a power vacuum and
spark an internal struggle.
Kim's father had cultivated a
powerful cult of personality that
encompassed him and his son, and
recent dispatches in North Korea's
state-run Korean Central News
Agency have stressed the impor-
tance of bloodline and inheritance
in what is seen as references to the
succession plan.
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