0 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, March 27, 2009 - 7 p The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, March 27, 2009 - 7 WANT TO MAKE FLASH GRAPHICS FOR THE DAILY TO LOAD ON THE INTERNET? E-MAIL GRACA@MICHIGANDAILY.COM At event today, Pandora founder to discuss his company's success Westergren will speak on North Campus at 3:30 p.m. By JOHN A. WEISS, JR. Daily StaffReporter The founder of the well-known and often-used Internet radio ser- vice Pandora will discuss the music resource's development and inno- vative business model on campus today. MPowered, the University's stu- d in noip nniiz. the michigan daily Pandora, a free online radio website, makes use of the Music Genome Project to tailor custom playlists based on users' preferenc- es like favorite song or artist. It also highlights lesser-known artists by playing songs with similar attri- butes to users' favorites. Westergren will be speaking at 3:30 p.m. in Stamps Auditorium on North Campus. A reception open to the public will follow. The event is part of a confer- ence for Entreprelliance, a national entrepreneurship organization of which MPowered is a member. It also will double as MPowered's Entrepreneurship Hour for the week, a one-credit seminar course in the College of Engineering that exposes students from across cam- pus to a variety of business leaders and innovators. This is the fifth annual Entreprel- liance Conference, the yearly con- vention for an organization that recognizes 40 top entrepreneurial universities as members. It is the first time it has been held outside of the East Coast, said Engineering senior Michelle Cheng, president of MPowered. The weekend long event will also feature two other speakers, Joseph Williams and Josh Linkner. Engineering senior Andry Supi- an, Vice President of MPowered, said the three speakers each rep- resent different types of entrepre- neurship. Supian described Williams as a "social entrepreneur." 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There are plans to regularly upload the budget, meeting minutes, agen- das and resolutions to the page. Students will also be able to log in through their Facebook accounts to comment on a new MSA blog. Mahanti said the website changes would help improve MSA's relation- ship with students and would make the assembly more transparent. "By starting with a new website, with documents, minutes, proposals, resolutions, budget stuff, everything and anything," he said, "having that there from the get-go is going to real- ly help us on that path." In addition to revamping the website's design, Mahanti and Rorro also want to use it to pro- mote and expand resources like the Blue Hiring Blue program, which helps students get jobs and internships. They also plan to hold a five-day job week, during which MSA would bring in student orga- nizations and representatives from the Career Center and companies to hold resume workshops, mock interviews, information sessions and forums. The pair also has plans in the works to help foster stronger rela- tionships between MSA and stu- dent organizations by matching up interested student groups with an MSA representative. The represen- tatives would meet with their des- ignated student organizations on abi-weeklormonthl hais and would attend some of their events. "It's just sort of a way to devel- op a closer connection to MSA, to show that we can actually help (student organizations) out," Rorro said, "We want to help out student groups with anything at all, not just funding." Additionally, Rorro said he and Mahanti want to make funding an easier process in itself by holding workshops to teach student orga- nizations how to fill out funding applications. Mahanti said that he and Rorro also want to reach out to the stu- dent body at large by holding office hours outside of MSA's loca- tion in the Michigan Union, like on the Diag and in Mason Hall. MSA representatives are already required to hold one office hour a week, but Mahanti said students don't typically take advantage of them because they aren't well publicized and aren't held in con- venient locations. "Outreach is really hard. People don't like to look at signs. They don't like to talk on the Diag, so it's inherently a difficult problem," Mahanti said. "But we've been doing our best with the campaign and moving forward to make sure we're out there as much as possible without annoying people." While Mahanti and Rorro said they plan to tackle larger goals like tuition and helping students find jobs, theywanttotakeimmediateactionto focus on more attainable goals. "MSA is a series of small victo- ries, and I think that if we go into the year looking at it like that, and if we start having these small vic- tories, then next year maybe we can have bigger victories," Mah- anti said. "But I think right now we can look at these small things and deliver on them, and then hush forward." College cost group endorses Obama's budget proposal Group says increased Pell Grant funding will ease burden on students' families By MALLORY JONES Daily StaffReporter Representatives from the Campaign for College Afford- ability issued a report yesterday explaining the group's support for President Barack Obama's budget proposal, which, if passed, would increase direct federal financial aid to stu- dents. In a conference call with reporters yesterday Christine Lindstrom, director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group's Higher Education Program, and a member of the Campaign for College Affordability said the federal student aid program requires dramatic reconstruc- tion. "This is a stepping stone. The Obama budget takes into con- sideration that this is an initial investment," Lindstrom said. "More needs tobe done." Obama's budget proposal calls for an end to the Federal Family Education Loan Program, which provides subsides to banks that loan to students. Instead, all federal student loans would be issued through the Department of Education's Direct Loan Pro- gram, according to the report, Obama's Budget: Supporting Students, Not Banks. The Department of Educa- tion predicts an increase of $5 billion to the Federal Pell Grant Program in the 2010- 2011 school year, taken directly from money previously given to banks. In Michigan, 181,767 students received Pell Grants. Obama's proposal would provide for an additional 9,172 recipients in Michigan and increase the average total awarded by $114, according to research by U.S. PIRG. In 1977, the Pell Grant covered 77 percent of the total cost of college for low-income students according to research by U.S. PIRG. Today, the grant covers 35 percent of the total costs. Obama's proposal attempts to safeguard the program from falling behind the rising costs of tuition, Lindstrom said. She said she thinks the change will allow the grant to stay useful for years to come. "Specifically, the budget actu- ally proposes indexing (the Pell) grant to inflation so it increases by inflation plus one each year after," Lindstrom said. "That's currently not how the Pell Grant works and that will help the Pell Grant stay viable." The average tuition for a four- year public university in Michi- gan increased by 11 percent between the 2006-2007 to the 2007-2008 school years. In the report, Campaign for College Affordability officials also expressed their support for programs to help students who have graduated repay their debt. Robert Brandon, of the Campaign for College Afford- ability, said on the conference call that high debt discourages college graduates from enter- ing typically lower-paying, yet extremely important career fields like teaching and social work. 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