The films, albums, TV shows, video games, songs and YouTube videos that topped the year. btEE3AITigan aiI Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, January 7, 2010 THE SOUNDS OF MEDITATION michigandaily.com UNGH IG HE R E DUATIO N Students, 'U' prepare for looming cuts instate funds MARISSA MCCLAIN/Daily Ypsilanti resident Tisha Moore participates in a Kirtan Yoga Chant in the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room on Main Street last night. Kirtan is a 500 year-old Indian yoga tradition, which involves chanting Sanskrit mantras as a means of meditation. SA M Us '() I Campus group pumore info at lclpregnanc cetrs Campus leaders met with state officials to discuss potential' funding reductions By TORREY ARMSTRONG Daily Staff Reporter Expecting dramatic cuts in state funding for higher education in 2011, University student leaders and administrators are devising plans to step up lobbying efforts as the University considers how to best cope with the anticipated loss. But until concrete funding lev- els are determined, students' plans to lobby legislators and adminis- trators' strategies to address the expected shortfall in their budget remain in limbo. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Gra- nholm discussed in October a possible 20-percent cut to state departments -like the Department of Education - which would result in $68 million less in state funding for the University. The measure would also further cut appropria- tions for many relying on public funding, including health care pro- viders, state police and higher edu- cation institutions. The directors of the state House and Senate fiscal agencies informed University students of the possible cut in a face-to-face meeting with Provost Teresa Sullivan, the Stu- dent Budget Advisory Committee and members of the University's Flint and Dearborn campuses on Dec. 14. Business junior Jason Raymond, chair of MSA's external relations committee, said the expected cut is pushing the task of keeping stu- dents informed of the University's budget process to the top of MSA's priorities. "I think the biggest thing last year that the University adminis- tration lacked was providing sub- stantial information to students so that they could understand the sit- uation the University was in," said Raymond, who also sits on the Divi- sion of Student Affairs Advisory Board. "We're going to ask them to start their information campaigns earlier, so students can then see that clearly the state isn't funding higher education." The campaigns will include meetings with students like the one with the House and Senate fiscal agency members held in December See BUDGET, Page 7A FemDems want city to pass law regarding disclosure of services at area clinics By BETHANY BIRON Daily StaffReporter FemDems, the Women's Issues Committee of the University's chapter of College Democrats, is working to implement legislation in Ann Arbor that would require pregnancy centers that don't offer or make referrals for abortions or birth control services to post dis- claimer signs. The potential legislation - is modeled after a city council bill that passed in Baltimore, Md. last year on Nov. 23. 2009. The new law requires the disclaimer signs to be conspicuously posted in the waiting rooms of limited-service pregnancy centers and to be eas- ily readable and written in both English and Spanish, according to the bill. LSA sophomore Brendan Camp- bell,co-chairofthe FemDems, said the group will soon begin working with the Ann Arbor City Council to try and develop a similar bill. Eventually the group would like to see the legislation move on to Washtenaw County and, later, the entire state, so that all women in Michigan will be provided with accurate information, he said. "The problem is that without these signs women can go into these pregnancy centers think- ing that they offer a full range of . options when in fact they don't," Campbell said. "It's not even about preventing the operation or the existence of these centers, so much as it's providing truth in advertis- See FEMDEMS, Page 7A Prof. beloved by students, colleagues alike dies at 59 'U' study sheds light on bone imaging Business, Public Policy Prof. Terrell was an expert on globalization By JOSEPH LICTERMAN DailyStaffReporter Business and Public Policy Prof. Katherine Terrell, described by colleagues as an intelligent and engaging professor and a support- ive mentor to her students, died Dec. 29 in the Dominican Republic as a ' result of respi- ratory compli- " cations. Terrell was 59 and is sur- TERRELL vived by her husband, Prof. Jan Svejnar, and their two children, Daniel and Laura - both of whom are Univer- sity graduates. Svejnar, a professor in the Business School and Public Policy School, did research work and co-wrote several books and scholarly articles with his wife. Terrell's teaching and research was focused on the impact of gov- ernment policies and the effects globalization has had on wages, employment and income equality in developing economies like Cen- tral and Eastern Europe and Latin America. Terrell consulted for many international organizations like the World Bank and the Organisa- tion for Economic Co-operation and Development. She was also a visiting researcher at a handful of institutions throughout Europe. Terrell taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell Uni- versity before coming to the Uni- versity of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 1984 before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan's Business School in 1996, eventually becom- ing director of the international business and economics Ph.D. program. She also began teaching in the School of Public Policy in 2001, later helping to create the Inter- national Economic Development Program. Students in the IEDP study a specific developing coun- try's economy for seven weeks and then travel to the country for spring break. For many years, Ter- rell acted as the program's faculty adviser, assisting students in the class to plan the curriculum and the trip. Alan Deardorff, associate dean of the School of Public Policy, said Terrell took a very hands-on approach with her students, often mentoring them far beyond the course. "She was very closely involved with (her students)," Deardorff said. "I think more than many of us would be. I think if I were teaching that course, I would be much more inclined to just leave the students totally on their own, but my impression is that she worked very closely with them and they really valued that." Public Policy graduate student Elizabeth Talbert was one of four students who helped plan the IDEP class trip with Terrell last year. She wrote in an e-mail inter- view that Terrell cared deeply about her students. "I was lucky to get to know her beyond the classroom through working with.her on this project," Talbert wrote. "In the fall, she had the four of us over to her house and cooked delicious Moroccan chicken. She had an amazing way of gracefully crossing between her professional and personal lives." T.H. Gindling, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County who worked closely with Terrell and collaborated on numerous schol- arly articles with her, described her as "a passionate and strong, careful researcher." Gindling - who accompanied Terrell on several trips to Hondu- ras and Costa Rica to present their research said Terrell always viewed the visits as a learning opportunity. See TERRELL, Page 7A Chemistry and Biophysics prof. researched water loss in bones By ESHWAR THIRUNAVUKKARASU Daily News Editor Chemistry and Biophysics Prof. Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy is an avid fan of The Magic School Bus, much like his children. Inspired by the science series' exploration of inaccessible envi- ronments, Ramamoorthy led his research team to analyze and probe the contents of bone. Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society last month, Ramamoorthy's study relied on solid-state nuclear mag- netic resonance imaging - the technology that led to the develop- ment and widespread use of mag- neticresonanceimaging(MRI)--to look closely at a sectioned piece of bovine bone and observe the results of removing water molecules from the makeup of the bone. Though solid-state NMR is not widely used in hospitals and other clinical settings, Ramamoorthy's study does have clinical impli- cations. Given that bone tissue undergoes water loss with age, Ramamoorthy said developing an understandingofthe atomic details inboneusingsolid-stateNMRcould lead to treatment of conditions such as osteoporosis. NMR imaging, Ramamoorthy said, highlights key structural fea- tures of molecules, using the mag- See BONE IMAGING, Page 7A WINTER RUSH TOREHAN SHARMAN/Daily Students go to Ulrich's Bookstore on South University to buy books and supplies for the start of winter term yesterday. The book- store offers both used and new books at varying prices for most subjects offered in LSA. WEATHER HI: 22 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 ore-mail TOMORROW L news olmichigandaily.com and let us know. ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Armed robbery in student neighborhood. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE WIRE INDEX NEW S - ..............................2A SPO RTS --.............................. SA Vol. CXXNo.68 SUDOKU.............. . ..... 3A CLASSIFIEDS -.....................6A (Q01N.The Michi. ...Daily........ .4A THE B-SlOE. . . .B michigandoilycom O I I N ..............4 H - I E .............1