ROBINSON'S JOURNE HBO'S REIGN New Michigan defensive coordinator HBO proves why it's still the GregRobinson has seen NFL glary, colleg best with the coolly funny urity and everything in bedeen. series "Bored to Death." SEE FOOTBALL SATURDAY, INSIDE SEE ARTS, PAGE 5A 0 Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, September 25, 2009 michigandaily.com FIN AN CING YOUR EDUCATIO W ith vote, 'Promise' may return MICHIGAN'S NEXT TOP MODEL Hou rev sch The. ship sa a prop fully fi mittee Rep. (D-De Approp duced would Michig gram. party li the Cot The from W ference cation, to cut t arship. Rep. chair Approp in sup ise Sc intervi the on that C se committee may cot a coocrete plan for funding the verse Wednesday However, Bauer said there are many ways to increase revenue decision to cut to provide funds for the Promise Scholarship, like closing tax loop- olarship program holes, raising fees on beverages like bottled water by a penny or putting By NICOLE ABER a six cent sales tax on live enter- Daily Staff Reporter tainment. "Every single area is gettingcut," Michigan Promise Scholar- Bauer said. "So we're at a point now ga continued yesterday after where it's not like we could just go 'osal in the state House to take money out of one area and put and the grants passed com- it in another. We're really at a point where we have to raise revenue . George Cushingberry if we want to keep the Promise troit), chair of the House grants." priations Committee, intro- But committee Republicans like a bill yesterday morning that State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grand- fully fund the $120 million ville), who also sits on the House ;an Promise Scholarship pro- Appropriations Committee, dis- Representatives voted along agree with the proposal to generate lines to pass the bill within revenue by raising taxes. mmittee. Agema, who voted against Cush- bill represents a turnaround ingberry's proposal to reinstate Wednesday's vote in the Con- funding for the Michigan Prom- e Committee on Higher Edu- ise Scholarship, said that while he which resulted in a decision doesn't want to cut the program, he Michigan Promise Schol- he's not willing to vote on some- thing that does not have a solid Joan Bauer (D-Lansing), source of funding. of the Higher Education "It's not that we're against the priations Committee, voted Promise Grant," Agema said. "It's port of funding the Prom- just kind of a crazy thing you have holarship yesterday. In an to vote on something when you ew yesterday, Bauer said don't even know where the money's ly downside of the bill is coming from." ushingberry did not pres- See PROMISE, Page 7A MIA MARINO/Daily LSA freshman Kathryn Beaton gets her headshot taken by LSA junior Winnie Jeng for Shei Magazine's model search held yesterday at the Work Gallery on State Street. The magazine, which publishes annually in the spring, is also responsible for various movie screenings, fashion shows and other events on campus throughout the year. Rankings change a source of worry National Research Council overhauling methodology of long-awaited report By ESHWAR THIRUNAVUKKARASU DailyStaffReporter The success of university researchers is about to be quanti- fied, and that fact has officials at colleges across the country sweat- ing. Considered by many as the pre- eminent system for assessing doc- torate programs, the United States National Research Council report ranks 222 institutions nationwide over 61 different doctoral fields. The ratings attract a lot of attention because they come out about once every 10 years. But this forthcoming report is already four years late, as the last edition came out in 1995. Though the release of this version is expected in the very near future, nobody knows exactly when that publication date will be. The NRC, which recently released its ranking methodology, will be using survey data of par- ticipating universities from the 2005-2006 academic year. Applied to individual doctorate programs, the rankings rely on a wide range of criteria, which include the num- ber of publications and grants pro- duced by faculty, demographics like minority composition and cur- rent rankings. Averaging all departmental scores, the University of Michigan scored third overall on the NRC's previous list of rankings in 1995, behind the University of Califor- nia, Berkley and first-ranked Stan- ford University. In an interview this week, for- mer University President James Duderstadt, who is also a professor of science and engineering, said See RESEARCH REPORT, Page 7A FOOTBALL SATURDAYS Annual homecoming tailgate set to go green this weekend CAMPUS CRIME Diag incident ends in pepper spray All trash from event to be recycled, reused or composted By OLIVIA CARRINO For the Daily "Go Blue, Live Green" may become a reality on campus this weekend when the University's first zero waste tailgate takes place tomorrow at the 33rd Annual Go Blue Homecoming Tailgate at Oost- erbaan Fieldhouse. Every year the Go Blue Tailgate welcomes 3,000 alumni, students and friends to enjoy food, cama- raderie and entertainment. This year, the event is taking the whole production one step further. Zero waste means all materials at the tailgate will be reused, recycled or composted. This eliminates the need to send garbage to landfills. The Alumni Association in partnership with the Student Sus- tainability Initiative and the Uni- versity's Department of Refuse and Recycling is organizing the event. SSI is an on-campus group of lead- ers in government groups, envi- ronmental groups and individuals who want to make the University of Michigan a leader in sustainability. At the tailgate, all plates will be made from bamboo and all utensils will be made from corn syrup. Both are entirely compostable, as are the cups, napkins and trash liners that will be used. All compostable mate- rials will be transported to a local composting farm. See TAILGATE, Page 7A After one man resists arrests, police take action By KYLE SWANSON Daily News Editor Passers-by stood and watched as University Police confronted two men near the Diag yesterday in an incident that ended when one of the men was subdued with pep- per spray. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Diane Brown said University Police were called to the scene after reports that the two men were demanding money from students walkingin the area. "We received a report of two people on the Diag, or in the Diag area, who were aggressively pan- handling," Brown said, adding that the panhandling was not being carried out in a way that would be considered robbery. Once University Police arrived, the two men were read trespassing rights and were asked to leave Uni- versity property, Brown said. Brown said that while one of the subjects readily cooperated with officers and was escorted from campus peacefully, the other sub- ject - a 49-year-old man - resist- ed arrest. "We had reports of him aggres- sively panhandling and so we were escorting him off campus property when he resisted police instruc- tions and then ultimately resisted the police officer when he was told he was going to be arrested," Brown said. While resisting arrest, the subject - who Brown said was inebriated - began to fight with University Police. In response, police officers used pepper spray to subdue the man. Brown said he was then taken into custody and to the University Hospital because he was complaining of physical dis- comfort. See INCIDENT, Page 7A WEAVING A HISTORY L EA DING KIN ESIO LOGY University officials pick Zernicke as new School of Kinesiology dean If approved by the regents, new dean would begin in 2010 By VANESSA NUNEZ Daily StaffReporter University President Mary Sue Coleman and Univesity Provost TeresaSullivannamedRonaldZer- nicke the new dean of the School of Kinesiology on Monday. Zernicke's appointment, which is contingent on approval from the University's Board of Regents, will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2010. Zernicke has been the director of the University's Bone & Joint Injury Prevention & Rehabilita- tion Center since 2007 in addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engi- neering, the School of Kinesiology and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. In a press release issued ear- lier this week, Sullivan said she was very happy with Zernicke's appointment and looked forward to working with him. "President Coleman and I are extremely pleased that Dr. Zer- nicke is assuming the leadership of the School of Kinesiology at this time of dramatic change within the study of human movement," Sullivan said. Zernicke's appointment comes after two rounds of interviews that took place after Beverly Ulrich, the former dean of the School of Kine- siology, stepped down in 2008. In response to the selection, Ulrich wrote in a statement that she is very happy with Zernicke's appointment. "He combines strong and visionary leadership with a sup- See DEAN, Page 7A AARON AUGSBURGER/Daily Tatiana Calixto weaves a rug at the GIEU Symposium in the ballroom of the Michigan Union yesterday. She went with a group to Cusco and Chinchero, Peru, where the native people are known for rug weaving. WEATHER HI 69 TOMORROW LO: 54 GOT A NEWS TIP? NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail At Tufts, there's no sex in the dorm room news@michigandaily.com and let us know. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOG/THE WIRE INDEX NEWS................2A CLASSIFIEDS ...................... hA Vol. CXX, No, 4 OPINION ................4A SPORTS . .......... ....... A ©2009 The Michigan Daily ARTS... . .. A FOOTBALL SATURDAY.......1B michigandoiilycom