2A - Monday, January 25, 2010 TUESDAY: Professor Profiles WEDNESDAY: Before You Were Here THURSDAY: Campus Clubs FRIDAY: Photos of the Week SOCCER SPEAK The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief BusinessManager 734-647-3336 734-764-0058 smilovitz@michigandaily.com rmdbusiness@gnail.eom MSU Nikolai Wasielewski, a 19-year-old Michigan State University freshman, will stand trial for tossing fire- works into the front yard of a house in East Lansing last November, according to an article published by The State News on Friday. Police allege that Wasielewski and three other MSU students threw an exploding firework from their car into a friend's yard as a prank on Nov. 1, 2009, accord- ing to the article. No damage was done to the property, according to the article. Wasielewski, who ,claimed he is innocent, faces up to 15 years in prison. Mike Nichols, Wasielewski's attorney, told the State News that hisclient is innocent. "He didn't do anything wrong, he didn't do anything criminal," Nichols said in CRIME NOTES student on trial for prank the article. Wasielewski's three co- defendants agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges in return for a lesser sentence, which includes remaining on probation and performing community ser- vice, according to the article. HARVARD RECEIVED RECORD APPLICANTS A record-breaking 30,000 students have applied for admission to Harvard Uni- versity, according to an arti- cle in The Harvard Crimson. William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and finan- cial aid, told the Crimson that the number of received appli- cations represents a 5-percent increase from last year. Fitzsimmons said the increase is a result of more financial aid offered, the elimination of early-admis- sion and Harvard's newly- founded engineering school, according to the article. According to the article, admissionsto Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences increased substan- tially since it was created in 2007. Despite the increase in applicants, Fitzsimmons said Harvard will still continue its conservative acceptance rate, according to the article. Last year, the university accepted 7 percent of applicants, accord- ing to the article. U. OF CHICAGO TO HIRE 60 NEW PROFESSORS As many schools through- out the country are cutting faculty positions, the Univer- sity of Chicago plans to hire 60 tenure-tracked faculty members, according to the UniversityofChicago Maroon newspaper. The faculty body will grow 1 percent each year for the next five years as part of the university's expansion, according to the article. University of Chicago Pro- vost Thomas Rosenbaum told the Maroon that most of the new employees will be junior faculty members so that they may frise in rank over the years. The expansion is part ofuni- versity President Robert Zim- mer's plan to strengthen the university "across the board." Rosenbaum said in the article that the university wanted new hires in "par- ticularly exciting areas...with intellectual need and educa- tional impact." - CHRIS PHOTIADES 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:Sun.-Thurs.11a.m.-2a.m. news@michiganday.eco corrections@michigandaily.com Lothedaily@michigandaily.com photo@miehigandaily.com artspage@michigandaiy.com sports@michigandaily.com display@michigandaily.com classified@michigandaily.com onlineads@michigandaiy.com 01 Author Laurent Dubois gives a lecture on soccer at 1014 Tisch Hall on Friday. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES GPS and gift Bags stolen at Gay men's Volunteers in card stolen track meet health panel Action meeting WHERE: 1330 Block of Hill WHEN: Between Tuesday and Friday. WHAT: A GPS and a $25 gift card were stolen from an unlocked car, University Police reported. There are no sus- pects. MIP issued on University bus WHERE: Mitchell Field WHEN: Saturday at about 12:10 a.m. WHAT: A bus driver called DPS when an intoxicated male student tripped upon enter- ing the bus, University Police reported. The student was taken to the emergency room and given an MIP. WHERE: Indoor Track Build- ing WHEN: Friday at about 8:35 p.m. WHAT: Gym bags were taken from four male students at a track event, University Police reported. The bags were recov- ered, but cell phones and cash were taken. 'U' Hospital employee kicked WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Saturday at about 8:50 p.m. WHAT: Hospital security reported that a female patient kicked a hospital technician in the ankle. The female worker was uninjured. WHAT: A panel of experts from universities across the country will discuss the future of gay men's health. WHO: Department of Sociol- ogy, Schools of Social work and Public Health, Spectrum Center and University Health System WHEN: Today at 3 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building Fiction reading WHAT: World renowned author Joshua Ferris will be reading selections of his writing. WHEN: Today at 5 p.m. WHO: MFA Program in Cre- ative Writing WHERE: Helmet Stern Audi- torium, University Museum of Art WHAT: Volunteers in Action will hold its mass meeting tonight. The group will dis- cuss projects like tutoring students and making cards for hospitalized children. WHO: Volunteers in Action WHEN: Tonight at 6p.m. WHERE: Hillel Law lecture WHAT: Law Prof. Daniel Crane will speak on the dif- ferent approaches the U.S. and European Union are tak- ing to deal with banks that are supposedly too bigto fail. WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Hutching Hall CORRECTIONS " Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of canned beer. According to Yahodcom, Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in New Jersey made the first can of beer on Jan. 24, 1935. The company then con- ducted a market test by selling the cans in a Richmond, Va. store. University students Meryl Davis and Charlie White secured a spotin the Olympics by winning the gold medal in ice dancing at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. >>FOR MORE, SEE THE SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN, PAGE 2B 3Two New York men are suing the NYPD for $2 million after they were wrongly arrested and jailed for possession of crack cocaine, the New York Daily News reported. What the police thought was crack was, in fact, coconut fla- vored candy. 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She said the room where the. fire started as well as the hallway where the room was located, were damaged by fire - with minor water damages to other rooms in that hall: No other floors were affected. While she does not yet have an estimate as to the cost of dam- ages, Brown said some electri- cal and structural repairs will be required. "The fixtures in the hallway are all melted," Brown said. "But the student's room had the most dam- age. There's really no other way to describe how it looked than to say his room is destroyed." At 6 p.m. students in Cross Housewereallowedbackintotheir rooms, except for the students who live in the affected hallway, Brown said. University Housing is work- ing with those eight students to secure them temporary housing at various residence halls on campus. - Chelsea Lange and Managing Photo Editor Sam Wolson contributed to this report. WANT TO WRITE FOR THE DAILY'S NEWS SECTION? 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