8A - Monday, December 14, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com SMOKING BAN From Page 1A many said they expect to see a slight drop in revenue at first, they predict that after a while business will return as usual. Carmen Fernando, general man- ager at Ashley's Bar and Grill, said she thinks the smoking ban could actually have a positive impact on her establishment. "I don't think that the fact that there's not going to be any smok- ing in bars and restaurants is going to keep people from going out," Fernando said. "In fact, there have been some people who may not have come here before who may now be going out more to bars and restau- rants in the area because there is no smoking." Anna Kurtz, night manager at Caf6 Habana, a Cuban-themed res- taurant on East Washington Street, also said she feels the ban won't do much to hurt the restaurant. "I don't think it will be too det- rimental. I think when most people come out to eat they don't really want smoke floating around any- way," Kurtz said. Conor O'Neills Irish Pub Night Manager Eric Bodley said he is looking forward to the ban. He said not having smoke in the restaurant will improve the quality of health for himself and his coworkers. "I can't wait for it. Ever since I've heard they've been putting the bill through I've been excited about it," Bodley said. "The day after I work in the morning I feel like I smoked a pack of cigarettes myself and I don't even smoke." Despite the positive responses from various legislators and some RETENTION From Page 1A institutions are not currently hiring new faculty. She added that this fact is probably temporary, though. "And the reason is we have a very attractivefacultywhoaretheopinion leaders in their field," Sullivan said. "They do great research. They also are good with students. So they're very attractive to other universities. "So it's almost inevitable - as other universities get back on their feet, they're going to start looking at us again as a place to hire away from," she said. ' As a result of diminished com- petition for faculty, the University this year shrunk its retention fund Ann Arbor businesses, other state legislators have opposed the ban, arguing the ban gives the govern- ment too much control over busi- ness. Matt Marsden, press secretary to Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester), said Bishop opposed the ban because he doesn't feel that "it's the government's job to regulate business." Rep. DaveAgema(R-Grandville) said, quite simply, that the bill goes against American capitalism. "It's a legal substance and yet we're going to tell people they can't use it and where they can and can't use it," Agema said. "Ifthey want to really make it illegal, then fine, do that. But banning something that's legal and telling business owners what they can and can't do with their own businesses and their own clients? I don't think that's the capi- talist way." LSA senior TylertLeVasseur, who smokes, said he's opposed to the ban. He said that designating cer- tain restaurants or bars as smoke- free is sufficient. "I think that if you have certain areas that you can smoke and keep it separate, it wouldbe fine," LeVas- seur said. "And plus, if you're going to a bar you should expect there should be smoking. It's not like you're goingto the library and hav- ing people smoke in the stacks, it's a bar." LeVasseur said that he and his friends have stopped going to bars that have gone smoke-free, and with the impending legislation, he doesn't know what he's going to do. "Yeah, it's going to pretty much suck if you can't smoke in a bar, that seems ridiculous," he said. "I don't - a pool of money used to lure back faculty who are given offers from other institutions. "We cut back a bit on it, but it's because we think that we'll have fewer cases that we'll actually have to deal with," Sullivan said. Sullivan said she believes that when the economy starts to pick up, other universities will once again to try to persuade faculty away from the University - which means the University will have to up its retention efforts. Despite the positive hiring picture Sullivan described, she did say that one deterrent for potential faculty members has been the prospect of their spouse being able to find a job. "(It can be difficult for) dual career couples where one member know what I'm going to do. Hope- fully there will be some places that let it slide." While smoking a cigarette outside on State Street Saturday night, Ann Arbor resident Steph- anie Joy said that she thinks the ban will be harmful to the city's economy. "I think Michigan's economy is already in serious trouble and I think that the smoking ban is really going to mess up the bars around town because people like to smoke while they drink," Joy said. LSA junior Jack Coffey said there are some benefits to the ban, including its potential to help some of his friends quite smoking. "It will probably be better because a lot of my friends like to only smoke when they're drunk," Coffey said. "And now they won't be able to." Other students, however, said the ban wouldn't change the way they go out at night, including Art & Design sophomore Jennifer For- rest. "I don't like to go to places that allow smoke, so in that sense, if places no longer have smoking I would be inclined to go there more than before. But I don't think (going out) will change much for me," For- rest said. Bauer said that despite delay in passing the bill, she is very happy that it will finally be put into place. "It's a bit of an embarrassment that we're (the) 38th (state to pass a smoking ban), and I wish we had been much more progressive and done this sooner," Bauer said. "But I'm very happy that we took the action we did ... and we're moving forward now." of the couple will be here at the University and the other member of the couple looks around southeast Michigan and says, 'Where will I find a job?' Sullivan said. "It's not so much hiring the faculty member - its collateral issues for the faculty member." Despite the poor economy, fac- ulty members with young children want to come to the University because of Ann Arbor's highly ranked public school system, Sul- livan added. "The public schools are a hiring advantage for us," she said. "A lot of the schools we compete with are in areas where the public schools are so bad that part of their recruiting offer includes private school tuition for the kids." HALFTIME CANINE CLIFRE EDER/Daily A dog performs during the "Fly Ball" halftime show at the Michigan men's basketball game at Crisler Arena on Sunday. STUDY From Page 1A important paradigm," he said. Martinez said the study is not seeking to replicate COPD stud- ies conducted in the early 1980s, which found that people who have low oxygen levels at rest should get more oxygenvia prescription. The new study - The Long-term Oxygen Treatment Trial (LOTT) - is testing whether oxygen is a positive or negative treatment for COPD patients whose oxygen levels are adequate when resting but drop when exercising. The study will look at the effect of a 24-hour oxygen therapy on COPD patients. The University is just one of more than 21 sites nationwide being used for testing, four of them in Michi- APPLICANTS From Page IA through (from undergraduate school) and believe they won't be able to get jobs," Zearfoss said. The University's Law School, ranked No. 9Sin U.S. News and World Report's Best Law Schools, currently gets about 6 percent ofall applications to law schools nationwide, a number that has increased both as the nation- al pool of applicants has gotten bigger and as the University attracts more law students, Zearfoss said. Though the increase in applicants this year is currently at about 20 per- cent, Zearfoss said she expects that number to go down to 10 percent by the Feb.15 application deadline. With the increase in applicants, admission to the Law School will be even more selective this year, Zear- foss said, though the admissions office will not change its overall approach to reviewing applications. "We'll be applying the same gen- eral criteria and be choosier about who we admit," Zearfoss said. The Law School's acceptance rate is about 20 percent, but it is expect- ed to go down for this year, as the admissions staff aims to maintain the class size, Zearfoss said. Though the University Law School's jump in applications mir- rors a national trend, it is to a much higher degree than at other colleges across the country. According to preliminary end- of-year data from the Law School Admission Council, the number of applicants tonAmerican Bar Associa- tion law schools is up5 percent over last year. The data also show that total applications are up 6.5 percent, indicating that applicants are, on average, applyingto more schools. A rising interest in law school applicants is also evident in the num- ber of people taking the LSAT exam, thetestrequired for admissionto law school. During the 2001-2009 aca- demic year, there was a 6.4 percent increase in the number of test takers, according to the LSAC website. I The University of Illinois Col- lege of Law has experienced an even larger increase in applicants I SELECT SPACES LEFT FOR 2010 II. gan: William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, the Veterans Adminis- tration Medical Center, the Henry Ford Hospital and the University of Michigan Health System. Martinez said the project first officially began a year and a half ago, but just recently began patient treatment. The study is expected to be completed in 2013. According to Martinez, the new study is an example of President Barack Obama's new health care plan, which seeks to optimize ther- apy with evidence. "This is an ideal way to do it - what you have is an insurance com- pany working with an investigational agency to look into a very big prob- lem," Martinez said. "The investi- gation agency is running the study while the insurance company, Medi- care in this case, is paying for it." As ofthe beginning ofthis month, than Michigan, with a 44-percent increase from this time last year, according to Paul Pless, assistant dean for admissions and financial aid at the University of Illinois. Pless said he thinks this increase will be sustained throughout the entire admissions cycle and by the application deadline in March there could be a 30- to 40-percent increase from last year. Pess called this increase an "all-time high," adding that the school would most likely have to admit a smaller per- centage of applicants this year. "Coming out of undergrad, that certainly is more difficult for even the very talented students to find a jobso goinigtolaw school can make sense," Pess said. For comparison, the University of Chicago Law School and Boston University School of Law have seen increases of 12 percent and 10 per- cent, respectively. Officials in the office of admis- sions at both schools said the com- petition is increasing with the rise in applicants, as they are not going to increase the class size. But Yale Law School and Stan- ford Law School, both ranked in the top three by U.S. News and World Report, have not experienced large fluctuations in their application numbers for this year. Applications to Yale Law School are currentlyup2 percentrbutspokes- woman Jan Conroy was careful to characterize the number as prelimi- nary, saying "it's too early in the cycle tonotice anythingdramatically." Conroy said Yale's application numbers have not been affected by changes in the economic climate. "They fluctuate during the cycle and we're not seeing any meaning- ful rise or fall that you could attri- bute to the economy at this time," Conroy said. Judith Romero, spokeswoman for Stanford Law School, also down- played the economy's effect on -applicants. She said Stanford Law School has consistently had about 4,000 applicants every year with an admittance rate of about 4 percent. But officials at several schools said admissions for other profes- sional school programs, like medi- cal school and business school, are not as affected by changes in the economic climate. Robert Ruiz, director of admis- sions at the University of Michigan Medical School, said most students applyingtomedicalschooltypically plan for it throughout their college career. d The medical school had a 2-per- cent increase in applicants this year, according to Ruiz. TheYale School of Medicine also saw an increase in applications - a record high - though the admis- sions office is not sure whether this increase is connected to the econo- my, said Richard Silverman, direc- tor of the admissions office. But while there has been an increase in the number of appli- cants, Silverman said he "wouldn't call it a surge," and that medical school admissions are not typically as affected byeconomic downturns as other professional schools, like law and business schools. "(There is a) more immedi- ate effect for law and business close to 150 people have been screened nationwide, while only 47 people have passed the screening, meaning they have the target oxy- gen level researchers are lookingfor in the study's participants. Here at the University, 25 people have been screened and only four people have passed. "It's hard to find people with the specific oxygen number, an oxygen saturation level between 89 and 93 percent, that also have Medicare," Clinic Coordinator Catherine Medrum said. Other screening factors include being at least 40 years old, having smoked at least 10 pack-years - or 73,000 cigarettes in a lifetime - being willing not to smoke while being a part of the study and having either Medicare A and B or aninsur- ance plan that will cover the cost of the oxygen and breathing tests. schools and not as much for medi- cal schools," Silverman said. "Aper- son can't decide to apply to medical school tomorrow." While law school. applications at the beginning of the admissions cycle are up this year, admissions officials at business schools like the Ross School of Business and Stan- ford Graduate School of Business said itis too early in the admissions cycle to know what the application numbers will look like for the year. The acceptance rate to the Ross School of Business MBA program is expected to remain the same this year at 23 percent, said Soojin Koh, director of admissions at the Busi- ness School. While the Stanford Graduahe School of Business has experienced an increase in applicants over the past several years, Lisa Giannangeli 9 marketing director of MBA admis- sions, also hesitated to attribute the trend to the economy. Giannangeli cited the school's application numbers in 1998, 2001 and 2009 as examples of their appli- cation numbers not directly corre- lating with the state of the economy. In 1998, when the economy "was very strong," the school received over 7,000 applicants - about the same number of people who applied for spots in the class of 2009 - but in 2001 applications were at "mid- level," she said. "Ifyoulook at our historic data and the natural ups aid downs, it hasn't been tied to what's been going on in the economy," Giannangeli said. The Stanford Graduate School of Business also does not release their application numbers before the application cycle is complete, Gian- nangeli said. While the economy is having less of an effect on applicants to medical school and business school, many University students currently applying to law school said they can tell that admissions to law schools across the country are becoming increasingly competitive. LSA senior Brian Rosen applied to 10 law schools this fall, a num- 4 ber that he said is becoming typi- cal, as more soon-to-be-graduates want to secure their spot in a law school amid the increased com- petition. "It's just an unknown kind of market...you don't know because so many people are applying this year, so you have to make sure," he said. But LSA senior Eric Berlin, who applied to 13 law schools this fall, said he applied to a relatively high number of schools, not because of the increasingly competitive nature of law school admissions, but because he wanted to keep his options open and not restrict himself to a few specific schools. Roth, who applied to eight law schools, said she applied to some schools she doesn't want to attend, because she needs "safety schools" in the competitive environment of law school admissions. Roth also said she is glad she will be continuing her education next year instead of going directly'into the workforce. "I'm happy I'm going for more schooling because of the economy and the job market," she said. PEN HOUSE EVENT Free food and drinks Enter to win a $200 Visa gift card' Reserve with no money down Sign and receive two free movie passes 734.998.4400 411 E Washington St. 4elevenlofts $38 MOVING KIT FAST FREE SHIPPING Student Moving Pack Includes: * 2 very large boxes * tape, packing paper *5 large boxes * marker & knife *9 medium boxes Environmentally Friendly Moving Kit consists of gently Ship used but sturdy boxes and packing paper ct.isting of dorm recycled newsprint. Colk ress to your 1-2 days from