2 - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 MONDAY TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Off the Beaten Wh floss is made of s WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: Campus Clubs Before You Were Here FRIDAY: Photos of the Week 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 emdbusiness@gmait.com Though many may dread a visit to the den- tist, there is an entire museum on campus dedicated to the art of dentistry. Toothbrushes with heads greater than two inches in length, floss made from silk and examination chairs grand enough for aking fill glass cases along the walls at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry. According to the muse- um's curator, Shannon O'Dell, Dr. Gordon Sinde- cuse made a donation to create the museum more than 70 years after his graduation from the Den- tal School. The museum - located in the Kellogg Building CRIME NOTES - first opened in 1992 with its original curator, Jane Becker, O'Dell said. Since it first came into existence, the museum has had three curators and gone through a major renovation. The overhaul included the addition of display cases, a storage room and an atrium, which hous- es re-creations of den- tal offices from various decades. O'Dell said all the arti- facts in the museum are gifts from collectors and former Dental School fac- ulty. They range from tins of tooth powder - a pre- decessor to toothpaste - to vintage x-ray machines and antique microscopes. Along with the arti- facts, the museum show- cases the histories of their users and inventors. O'Dell said many of the museum's visitors are not dental students, but tour groups from Univer- sity museum classes. She added that she would love to see an increase in the number of visitors and partially attributes the lower attendance records to the museum's con- cealed location. O'Dell said the rarity of the museum is one of the things that makes it so interesting. "There are just so many stories to be told," she said. - JOELLE HECKER CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom C News Tips Corrections Letters to the Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Online Sales Officehours:oSun.=1Csa-Thrs.ta.m.-2a.m. 734-763-24s9 news@michigandaily.com corrections@michigandaily.com eothedaily@michigandaily.com photo@michigandaily.com artspage@michigandaily.com opinion@michigandaily.com sports@michigandaily.com display@michigandaily.com classified@michigandaily.com onlineads@michigandaily.com 0 An exhibit ofa dentist's office at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Macbook stolen Wind, tent Michigan's Best Finding grants WHERE: Hatcher break window Dance Crew for grad students Graduate Library WHEN: Yesterday at about 3:45 p.m.. WHAT: A student reported his Macbook laptop sto- len, University Police reported. The computer was valued at $1,500. There are no suspects. WHERE: Univer- sity Golf Course WHEN: Saturday at about 2:15 p.m. WHAT: The wind blew a large tailgate tent into a car window, University Police reported. The damage was valued at $1,000. Spools stolen Subject trips, from hospital sustains injuries WHAT: There will be tryouts for Michigan's Best Dance Crew, a com- petition that will take place in December. The grand prize for the win- ning crew is $200. WHO: University Unions Arts Programs WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Pendleton Room Workshop on negotiation skils WHAT: A workshop on improving nego- tiating skills in the workplace. Individual sessions are $15. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Center for the Education of Women, 330 E. Liberty St. WHAT: A workshop to help graduate students find funding for fellow- ships and dissertations. WHO: Teaching and Tech- nology Collaborative WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Shapiro Under- graduate Library Foosballpractice WHAT: University foosball practice is open to members and non-members. The mem- bership fee is $5 per semester. WHO: Michigan Union Billiards WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Billiards Room CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Dailyto correc- tions@michigandaily.com. While being transported to a Wisconsin hospital early Saturday morning, a prisoner escaped by taking off his shackled pants and flee- ing across the freeway, WCCO reported. He was found later that morning and was taken to the hospital to be treated for frostbite injuries. A new bill in the state Mouse could reverse a University policythatpro- hibits guns from being carried around campus. Classrooms and residence halls would still be gun-free, but places like the Diag and bus stops would not. oFOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 After only one shoe went missing from a store in Belgium, a one-legged man was designated as a sus- pect, metro.co.uk reported. The man and the shoe were quickly found. 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There are no suspects. WHERE: Alumni Memorial Hall WHEN: Yesterday at about 2:05 p.m. WHAT: A subject was injured after tripping over a restraining bar at the Univer- sity Museum of Modern Art, University Police reported. MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Get more onlineatmichigandaily.com/blogs/the wire - UN leader hopes US to act Colombia accused of spying in soon on global warming probe of Venezuelan killings 0 Deep divisions in Congress, bill unlikely before year's end SEATTLE (AP) - Just six weeks before a key meeting on climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moan said Monday he's hopeful the U.S. Senate will pass a significant bill to limit carbon emissions. With deep divisions in Congress onhowto dealwithclimate change, a bill is not likely before the end of the year. However, Ban told a news conference he still thinks the U.S. can come up with an ambitious measure that will encourage other nations to act on carbon emissions. "I'm very encouraged by the strong commitment by the Obama administration," he said. Ban is on a two-day trip to Seat- tle to promote action on climate change and U.N. initiatives on poverty, hunger and health, along with improving the perception the American public has of the U.N. He met earlier Monday with Bill and Melinda Gates, and later in the day received an honorary degree from the University of Washington. Ban has been pressing nations to commit to firm emission limits when they meet in December in Denmark to work out a new treaty to slow global warming, replacing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on carbon dioxide emissions. The meeting has been billed as a last chance to avoid the impact of catastrophic global warming. This week, the Senate environ- ment committee will take up its version of a global warming bill. The legislation would cut green- house gases by about 80 percent by 2050 and require more domes- tic energy to come from renewable sources. But with work still to be done on health care and deep divisions in Congress over how to deal with climate change, chances the Senate will pass a climate bill by the end of the year are slim. That means U.S. negotiators are likely to not have firm targets set before the Copen- hagen meeting. Ban said he plans to meet with Senate leaders to encourage the passage of the climate bill. By doingso, the Senate "can have a huge political impact for other negotiators of other counties," Ban said. Many developing countries, such as China and India, "are ready to make some political compromis- es only if and only when the United States is ready to do that." Ban said he's confident the Copenhagen meeting will produce a broad agreement, though many details remain to be worked out. That requires all countries "par- ticularly the developed countries and including the United States" to come up with ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gases, and to provide the financial support that many developing countries will need to reduce emissions. Allegedly helping investigate killings of eight Colombians CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's gov- ernment accused Colombia on Monday of using its state secu- rity agency to spy on' Venezu- ela while purportedly helping investigate the killings of eight Colombians. Venezuela sent a diplomatic protest note saying officials of Colombia's DAS state security agency were "detected carrying out espionage work and attempt- ing to bribe." Venezuela did not give details in its statement but said authori- ties seized documents referring to a conspiracy to destabilize its government. It also demanded the DAS halt the espionage. Colombia has offered help in investigating the slayings of 10 men - eight Colombians, a Venezuelan and a Peruvian - whose bodies were found in the Venezuelan border state of Tachira on Saturday. Venezue- lan authorities say relatives told them the men were kidnapped from a soccer field where their team was playing near the bor- der Oct. 11. The killings, which Venezuela says were likely carried out by one of the warring factions in Colom- bia's conflict, appear to be exac- erbating already hostile relations between Chavez's government and the U.S.-allied administra- tion in Bogota. Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez said it remains unclear what sort of armed group killed the men, or why. He said there are various hypoth- eses, including that the violence involved criminal organizations or guerrillas or militias. For more than four decades, Colombia's conflict has pitted leftist rebels seeking to topple the government against the military and far-right paramilitary fight- * ers. JoseMiguel VivancotheAmer- icas director of Human Rights Watch, called for Venezuela and Colombia to "work together to hold the culprits accountable and prevent more horrific atrocities like this." Venezuela's foreign ministry said its officials were taking vic- tims' bodies to the Colombian border town of Cucuta to turn them over to their families. The ministry cited "a lack of resources" on Colombia's part to pick up the cadavers. Colombian officials disputed that, saying Venezuela denied them permis- sion to fly in with Colombian air- craft to return the bodies to their families. One 19-year-old Colombian .survived the ordeal and was hos- pitalized in Caracas with a gun- shot wound to the neck. S0 Is I