Ifric i.. an I Ann Arbor, Michigan__ OUTDOOR HOCKEY GAME Ice hockey coming to Michigan Stadium Officials confirm rumors, outdoor game planned for December 2010 By ANDY REID ManagingSports Editor The Michigan Athletic Department is in the early planning stages of hosting an outdoor hockey game in Michigan Stadium, officials said yesterday. The game is planned for Dec. 11, 2010, Matt Trevor, the, Michigan hockey team's Sports Information Director, said in a phone interview yesterday. Early yesterday afternoon, Athletic Depart- ment officials contacted Michigan State offi- cials about playing a game in Michigan Stadium. The stadium, which is currently undergoing a 3-year, $226 million renovation, is scheduled to be completed by August 2010. "They're intrigued," Trevor said. "The planned opponent at this point is Michigan State, through an expressed interest in favor of playing an outdoor game at Michigan Sta- dium." But Michigan State Associate Athletic Direc- See HOCKEY, Page 7A Thursday, March 5, 2009 michigandaily.com PEDALS, PIPES AND PASTRAMI GIVING IN A DOWN ECONOMY Some delay donations in bad economy As crisis worsens, some donors ask to fulfill their donations over a longer time . By DANIEL STRAUSS Daily StaffReporter While the full impact of the eco- nomic downturn is still unclear, the University is starting to see a decrease in immediate payments by donors who have pledged money to Michigan. Accordingto University officials, the economic downturn hasn't forced donors to go back on their pledges, but many are taking more time to pay their pledged amounts. With donations stretched over lon- ger periods of time, the University may have to modify some programs because funding that was thought to be available for this year may not be available until later. This comes at the same time that the total amount of money donated to the University has declined along with the University's endowment. But Vice President for Devel- opment Jerry May said the vast majority of donors are fulfilling their pledges as if the economy were perfectly healthy. "Eighty-five percent of the cash- pledged goals have been paid," May said. "We've got a little over $300 million unpaid that people are making pledged payments on. We are only about 4 percent behind in terms of people's pledge payments, so 96 percent of people are paying their pledges on time." But May added that though few donors have canceled their pledg- es, there are some donors who have extended the period in which they make payments to fulfill their pledged donations. "No one has canceled their pledge," May said. "No one has said 'I pledged $100,000 in the cam- paign but I'm giving you $20,000 but I can't give you any more,"' "What we do have is some anec- dotal information that a handful of people - oh, let's say 10 to 15 - that say 'what I need to do is elongate my pledge, so I was going to pay it over the next three years, I now need to extend that to the next five,"' he said. See DONORS, Page 7A ANNA BAKEMAN/DAILY Christopher Reynolds plays the organ for the "Brown Bag Concert Series" at the School of Public Health yesterday. People are free to bring lunch to the room and listen to a free concert as a part of the series. The next performance is Wednesday, March 18. FINANCING YOUR EDUCATION Granhoim pitches cut to need-based scholarships From the Editor: On plagiarism Plan would trim need-based funds by 5.8 percent, boost merit-based monies By MALLORY JONES For the Daily Balancing the need to keep dealing with the task of keeping college affordable in the wors- ening Michigan economy, Gov. Jennifer Granholm's new bud- get proposal calls for a funding increase of $59.5 million to the Michigan Promise Grant, a merit- based scholarship program that gives students up to $4,000 to help pay for college tuition. The proposed budget also includes combining multiple existing. need-based programs into one fund, called the Michi- gan College Access Grants. Over- all, need-based programs would take an $18.8 million funding cut, or 5.8 percent, if this action were to be enacted. While the proposal reduces funding to need-based programs, the budget proposal would make more students eligible for fund- ing, according to Tiffany Brown, a spokesperson for Granholm's office. She said that with the new Michigan College Access Grant fund, students who were not pre- viously able to get money from the earlier programs will now have the opportunity to qualify for state aid. "We are tryingto streamline to make need available to more stu- dents," Brown said. At the University of Michigan, in the 2007-2008 school year 3,152 students received a total of $3,155,000 from the Michigan Promise Grants program, accord- ing to Pam Fowler, executive director of the University's Office of Financial Aid. Granholm's proposed budget would raise statewide funding for Michigan Promise from $80.5 mil- See SCHOLARSHIPS, Page 7A At the core of The Michigan Daily's relationship with readers is a trust that the stories in this paper are factual and original. An article that appeared on Page 2 of the Daily on Feb.'2, 2009, "In Other Ivory Towers," violated that fundamental trust. Written by a senior news edi- tor, this piece plagiarized an article from The Diamondback (Teleportation: Information? Yes. People? No., 01/30/2009), a blog post from The Chronicle of Higher Education (Freshman Retention Continues to Decline, Report Says, 01/22/2009) and an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (2 Universi- ties' Plagiarism Policies Look a Lot Alike, 01/28/2009). By nature, this feature is a com- pilation of news from sources across the country. While this particular piece cited these three sources, it inappropri- ately took complete sentences and phrases verbatim from them without using quotes. This implied the material was paraphrased when, in fact, it was not. Though this is the only inci- dent we found after reviewing the author's two years of prolific writing at the Daily, the author has resigned. We take plagiarism at the Daily very seriously. We also believe that when we violate the paper we owe you, the reader, our blog The Ed an explanation and a corrective which can be fot action. We hold other campus editorspage.blog institutions to this high stan- com/. dard, and we believe we should At the end of hold ourselves to the same stan- will provide reac dard, if not a higher one. ough, concludin Though this is a relatively our efforts in pr isolated incident, in the com- This is a regre ing weeks and months, we plan for us at the Dai to use it as an opportunity to opportunity, an improve our safeguards against seize that. plagiarism and our commitment to ethical journalism. We will be Q4 providing readers with updates about these efforts, which will include more thorough plagia- rism checks, mandatory training Gary Graca and technological safeguards. Editor in Chief trust between reader and news- These updates w ill appear on itor's Page, und at http:// gs.michigandaily. the semester, I ders with a thor- g summary of int. ettable incident ly. It is also an d we plan to 0y~4 Powwow won't return to Criler Arena next year Citing too much University involvement, campus group moves tradition to Saline By MALLORY BEBERMAN For the Daily The Ann Arbor Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, which has been a University tradi- tion since 1972, will be held outside of Ann Arbor for the first time in almost 20 years. Each April, Native Americans nationwide gather alongside University students and Ann Arbor community members to kick off the national powwow season with the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow. After refusing direct funding from the Uni- versity, the Native American Student Associa- tion decided to hold the 37th annual powwow in the neighboring town of Saline at the Saline Middle School on Apr. 4 and 5, instead of its usual location, Crisler Arena. SAM WOLsON/Daily See POWWOW, Page 7A People participate in last years Mother Earth Powwow in Crisler Arena. The event won't be held orrcampus this year. BY THE NUMBERS Granholm's proposed changes to merit-based and need-based scholarships. $59.5 MILLION 3,152 Granholm'sproposed fundingiocreasefor University students who received money Michigan Promise Grants from the merit-based Michigan Promise Grant during the 2007-2008 school year $4,OO Maximum amount offered by the merit-based Michigan Promise Grants $18.8 MILLION Proposed cut in need-based programs 3,399 Universoy students who received money through the need-based Michigan Competitive Scholarship during the 2007- 2008 school year WEATHER HI 58 TOMORROW LU 34 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail newspmichigandaily.com and let us know. NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Why Tom Izzo says he isn't shaving his head, yet. THEGAME.BLOGS.MICHIGANDAILY.COM INDEX NEWS...... 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