2A - Wednesday, November 18, 2009

MONDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers

TUESDAY:
Off the Beaten Path

THURSDAY: FRIDAY:
Before You Were Here Photos of the Week
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Uniting to beat the Buckeyes

Few causes can unite students and
organizations across campus like
the Michigan-Ohio State University
rivalry.
While the Wolverines get ready to
take on the Buckeyes this Saturday,
the student-run Go Blue, Beat OSU
club has planned rivalry-themed
events throughout the week to build
school spirit.
Despite the diverse backgrounds
of organizations and students on
campus, LSA senior and MSA Vice
President Mike Rorro, who is part of
Go Blue, Beat OSU, said the club can
unite the entire campus under the
shared goal of beating the Buckeyes.
"(The events) can create a really
inclusive feel," Rorro said. "It's to
make sure this week is about the
unadulterated Michigan spirit."
Go Blue, Beat OSU is made up of
a wide-range of students, from stu-
dent government representatives to
performers to athletes, according
to Music, Theatre and Dance senior

Mike Michelon, who is helping orga-
nize the club's events.
"It's got this grassroots feeling,"
Michelon said.
He praised the club's efforts to
put on these events at a university he
says is traditionally not a "pep-rally
school."
The group was created before the
2007 Michigan-OSU game to facili-
tate a campus rally before the game.
Since then, the group has expanded
its reach to other events in the week,
in addition to the rally.
The first event, which took place
yesterday afternoon at Sigma Chi
fraternity, was a "car bash." Students
could pay to take swings at a car
emblazoned with OSU logos with
a baseball bat. Proceeds from the
event went to C.S. Mott Children's
Hospital.
There were also student perfor-
mances on the Diag yesterday.
Other events will include com-
petitions, like a pizza-eating com-

petition and a buckeye-smashing
competition, on the Diag tomorrow
from noon to 3p.m.
The events will culminate on Fri-
day at 6 p.m. with a rally on the Diag.
Football players and coaches are
expected to attend.
According to Rorro, the organi-
zation raised about $14,000 from
student organizations, student gov-
ernments and University depart-
ments to help sponsor the events.
"This is a huge opportunity for us
to come together not only as sports
fans but as a community, as a Univer-
sity of Michigan," Rorro said.
Even though the Michigan foot-
ballteamisreelingafter fourstraight
losses, Go Blue, Beat OSU members
say they don't think it will dampen
the events.
"This is the greatest rivalry in col-
lege sports," Rorro said. "If you win
it, the whole season is forgiven."
- ERIC PERKEY

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Door smashed Man intoxicated Museum

WHERE: Medical Profes-
sional Building
WHEN: Monday at 8 a.m.
WHAT: A male staff member
discovered a smashed window
in the main door entrance to
the building, University Police
reported. There are no sus-
pects.
iPhone stolen
from CCRB
WHERE: Central Campus
Recreation Building
WHEN: Monday at about 7:20
p.m.
WHAT: A male student
reported that his book bag
and iPhone were stolen from
the locker room after leaving
the items unattended for 45
minutes, University Police
reported.

in the library
WHERE: Shapiro Undergrad-
uate Library
WHEN: Tuesday at about 3:45
a.m.
WHAT: A male student was
found passed out near the
entrance of the building, Uni-
versity Police reported. He
was issued a citation for minor
in possession.

workshop
WHAT: A workshop to
discuss how indigenous
sources are represented in
museums in the Phillipines.
WHO: Museums Theme Year
WHEN: Today from
4 to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art,
Alumni Memorial Hall

Noise complaint Tribute to
RThprt Altman

Asylum Street
Spankers
WHAT: The Austin-
acoustic musical and theatri-
cal troupe will perform.
WHO: Michigan
Union Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
Thanksgiving
potluck feast
WHAT: The second annual
Thanksgiving potluck. All
are welcome free of charge.
WHO: United Asian
American Organizations
WHEN: Today
from 6 to 8 p.m.
WHERE: East Hall,
Math Atrium Room
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Officers found an intoxi-
cated 25-year-old man
impaled on metal spike
after tryingto leap over a five-
foot fence, the Seattle Times
reported. The man, who told
officers that he believed he
was a ninja, had allegedly
attacked another man before
injuring himself.
The Michigan-OSU
football game doesn't
revolve around score-
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money can be pock-
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Ahigh school teacher from
Minnesota was arrested
yesterday for robbing a
grocery store and a bank while
wearing a blue surgical mask,
myfoxdc.com reported. The
suspect stole Xanax and Oxy-
contin from the grocerystore
before arriving dia banrk.

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WHERE: Helen Newberry
Residence Hall
WHEN: Monday at about 11
p.m.
WHAT: A passerby reported
that male skateboarders were
being noisy and disruptive
outside the residence hall. Uni-
versity Police reported that an
officer issued a verbal warning.

WHAT: Biographer Mitch
Zuckoff presents his trib-
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Altman through inter-
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Democrats promise jobs bill

United States,"Chin a offer joint
statement on climate change

Bill will seekto help
15.7 million Americans
who are out of work
WASHINGTON (AP) - House
Democrats are looking at swelling
deficits further, at least temporarily,
on a jobs-producing bill in response
to double-digit unemployment and
a sense within their ranks that the
party needs to do more to put peo-
ple back to work.
Butmanyofthe ideas onthe table
so far are extensions of last Febru-
ary's $787 billion economic stimulus
package - such as unemployment
benefits and subsidies to help the
jobless pay for health insurance.
They maintain the social safety net
for the 15.7 million Americans out
of work but they don't directly cre-
ate new jobs.
Aware that the February stimu-

lusbillhas notprevented unemploy-
ment from reaching 10.2 percent
and of public opinion polls showing
the free spending measure is losing
popularity with voters, Democrats
are wary of putting a stimulus label
on their new package.
"I wouldn't characterize it as a
second stimulus," House Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer said yesterday.
"I don't want to be as broad as that, I
want it to be very targeted on jobs."
House Democrats debated ways
to address job creation at a caucus
meeting Monday night, and Sen-
ate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., has promised colleagues
the chamber would take up a jobs
measure after it completes its health
care overhaul bill. That makes it
unlikely to pass into law this year.
Job-creating ideas include addi-
tional help for small business, more
road and bridge spending, and
extending business tax breaks slat-

ed to expire at the end of the year,
according to spokespersons for
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California
and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of
South Carolina.
A per-job tax credit for business-
es making new hires is also under
consideration, as is help for finan-
cially struggling state and local
governments. -
The White House announced
that Obama would host a jobs sum-
mit in early December but has thus
far stayed silent on whether legisla-
tion is needed.
But the drive comes as Demo-
crats are also responding to increas-
ing anxiety among voters about
rising budget deficits and debt. On
Thursday, the House is scheduled
to again approve pay-as-you-go
legislation requiring Congress to
offset new tax cuts or spending ini-
tiatives with spending cuts or new
revenues elsewhere.

Statement comes
weeks before
192-nation conference
in Copenhagen
BEIJING (AP) - A joint state-
ment by the U.S. and Chinese
presidents on climate change is
encouraging as pressure builds
in the last few weeks before a
192-nation conference in Copen-
hagen, but the language leaves a lot
unsaid, observers in both countries
said today.
The world's two largest polluters
talked yesterday of a joint desire to
tackle climate change, but failed to
publicly address the root problems
that could unravel a deal at the
Dec. 7-18 conference - mainly, how
much each country can contrib-
ute to emissions cuts and how the
world will pay for it.
The joint statement by Presi-
dent Barack Obama and Chinese
President Hu Jintao has positive

language about aiming for a com-
prehensive deal,"butitleaves alot of
room for different interpretations,
ranging from a real ambitious cli-
mate rescue deal to another mean-
ingless declaration," said Ailun
Yang, climate campaign manager
for Greenpeace China. "The real
test still at Copenhagen."
Three weeks remain before the
global conference that aims for
a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol, which required 37 indus-
trial countries to cut heat-trapping
greenhouse gas emissions.
The Copenhagen agreement
would require developing countries
such as China to curb emissions
growth as well.
In a joint statement, Obama
and Hu said Copenhagen should
produce a comprehensive agree-
ment that would "include emis-
sion reduction targets of developed
countries and nationally appropri-
ate mitigation actions of developing
countries."
Hu said nations would do their
part "consistent with our respective

capabilities," a reference to the now'
widely accepted view that develop-,
ing nations like China should be
required only to set goals for curb-
ing emissions, not accept absolute
targets.
Timothy Wirth, president of
the United Nations Poundation, a
charity group that promotes U.N.
causes, praised the U.S.-China
joint statement for saying a deal at
Copenhagen should include emis-
sion reduction targets by devel-
oped countries, but he stressed the
urgency of finding a final agree-
ment.
"Reaching a deal in Copenhagen
will be hard enough; leaving all the
negotiations tothelast minute could
make it unachievable," he said in an
e-mailed statement Wednesday.
Already, Obama administra-
tion officials acknowledge that the
Copenhagen talks are not expected0
to produce a final legal agreement.
White House aides said Sunday
that a fully binding legal agreement
would be put off until a December
2010 meeting in Mexico City.

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