4 2A - Friday, October 23, 2009 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Off the Beaten Path WEDNESDAY: Campus Clubs THURSDAY: Before You Were Here The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com GARY GRACA DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 graca@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom C News T ips Corrections letters to the Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Online Sales Finance Office hours:Sun.-Thurs.11.a.m. - 2 a.m. 734-763-2459 news@michigandaily.com corrections@michigandaily.com Lothedaily@michigandaily.com photo@michigandaily.com artspage@michigandaily.com sports@michigandaiy.om disptay@miciigandaity.com classaifiodaoichigaedaity. com otiieads@michigandaity.com TOP LEFT Protestors gathers on Oct.16 in front oflthe President's House in an attempt to prevent City Hall from stopping tailgates on State Street. (TOREHAN SHARMAN/Daily). TOP RIGHT Members of College Libertarians, hand out literature as part of Liberty on the Diag. (JAKE FROMM/Daily) ABOVE LSA sophomore Melwin Joseph observes the composition of a wall as part of an Introduction to Geology outdoor lab. (JAKE FROMM/Daily). MORE ONLINE For more photos of the week go to michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES Pranking police Wallet taken CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES WHERE: Campus Safety Ser- vices WHEN: Wednesday at about 10 a.m. WHAT: A subject unaffiliated with the University reported an emergency situation, Uni- versity Police reported. After investigation, University Police determined no emer- gency existed. The caller was identified and the prosecutor will review the case. Cashing in on 'U' WHERE: Campus Safety Ser- vices WHEN: Wednesday at about 10:40 a.m. WHAT: A check from the Uni- versity was fraudulently depos- ited in an outside account, University Police reported. The incident is under investigation. wniie on bus WHERE: North Campus area WHEN: Wednesday at about 7:45 p.m. WHAT: A student reported their wallet was stolen from their bag while riding the bus between 6:45 and 6:55 p.m., University Police reported. When the student got off the bus, their bag was open and the wallet was gone. iPod stolen WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Wednesday at about 2:45 p.m. WHAT: An iPod Touch was stolen from an unlocked, unat- tended office, University Police reported. The iPod was stolen between 3 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 21. Flash CS4 workshop WHAT: A class for beginners on using Flash CS4 that will build up to creating a simple anima- tion timeline. Basic familiarity with other parts of the Adobe suite could be helpful. WHO: Teaching Technology Collaborative WHEN: Today at 9 a.m. WHERE: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Film screening and discussion WHAT: A screening of "The Red Shoes," a film about a ballerina torn between her art and a lifelong love. Fol- lowing the film will be a dis- cussion with Daniel Herwitz, director of the Institute of Humanities. WHO: Arts on Earth WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Ampithe- atre CORRECTIONS . An article in yesterday's edition of the Daily (With new DPS program, victims will soon be able to text in tips) incor- rectly spelled the name of Department of Public Safety Director Ken Magee. . An article in yesterday's edition of the Daily (Emo- tional, one-goal loss takes toll on Coach Pankratz) mistakenly reported that coach Marcia Pankratz angrily asked a referee if he "wanted to take this into the parking lot" at the end of the game, with the outburst relating to the Wol- verines' 1-0 loss. An Athletic Department spokesperson told the Daily the next day that the overheard quote was misconstrued, inaccurate and taken out of context. * Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. Michael Jordan's son, Mar- cus could cost the Univer- sity of Central Florida $3 million, by wearing the shoes named after his father accord- ing to Florida's wftv.com. The younger Jordan wants to wear AirJordans, which are made by Nike while playing on the school's basketball team, but the school has contract with Adidas, whichsays athletes will wear that brand. Asian imported carp rep- resents 98 percent of the biomass in the Missis- sippi and Illinois rivers. ,FOR MORE, SEE OPINION PAGE 4A A Brookesville,Fla.manwas knocked down by a zonkey while he was painting a fence near the animal's enclo- sure, according to abeaction- news.com. The animal is a mix between a zebra and a donkey. 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AdditionalcopiesmaybepickedupattheDaily'sofficefor$2.Subscriptionsforfallterm,startingin September, viaU.S.lalre $.iWinter term (anuary through April) is $115, yearlong (September through ApriOis$195.Universityaffliatesaresubjectioareducedsubscriptionrate.On-campus subscriptionsforfalltermare35.Subscriptionsmustbeprepaid.TheMichiganDalysamemberof The Associated Pressand The AssociatedCollegiate Press. MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Get more online at michigandaily.com/blogs/the wireo ON THE WEB, ON TWITTER, ON FACEBOOK AND IN PRINT No matter the platform, the Daily keeps you connected to the news you need to know. Authorities announce charges in California marijuana ring case 18 suspects arrestedin SanFrancisco,but half remainatlarge SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Federal authorities in Califor- nia announced charges yesterday against 18 people they said oper- ated a lucrative marijuana-growing operation by converting Central Valley homes into high-tech pot nurseries. They estimated the value of the marijuana crop at nearly $100 mil- lion a year. All the suspects are from the San Francisco Bay area, but half remain at large, including several who authorities believe fled to China or HongKong. Nine were arrested early yester- day on drug and real estate fraud charges. All but one of them made initial court appearances later in the day. The remaining suspect already is in federal prison in Cali- fornia on unrelated charges, Thursday's actions brought to 34 thenumber ofpeople whohave been charged in an investigation dating to 2006 and 2007. Law enforcement agents previously discovered about 24,500 marijuana plants grow- ing inside 51 converted homes in Sacramento, Elk Grove, Lathrop, Modesto, Stockton and Tracy. The operation would have pro- duced nearly 11 tons of high-grade marijuana each year with an esti- mated street value of $96 million, said Gordon Taylor, who heads the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminis- tration's Central Valley office. He said the ring was one of the largest and most sophisticated indoor marijuana growing opera- tions in the nation. Prosecutors said the grow- ers bought homes for between $400,000 and $600,000, most in subdivisions that were new or a few years old. They knocked out interior walls, installed expensive ventila- tion and hydration equipment, and tapped power lines to grow thou- sands of plants. Agents said the growing systems alone cost tens of thousands of dol- lars for each home. Taylor called it "one of the larg-6 est, most sophisticated residential indoor marijuana growing opera- tions in U.S. history." "They came into our cookie-cut- ter residential neighborhoods and created cookie-cutter marijuana factories," Taylor said at a news conference. "It affected the real estate, mortgage and utility com- pany industries, not to mention the stigma it placed on the neighbor- hoods where hardworking people worked for years to save up enough money to buy one of these nice homes." 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