2A - Thursday, January 7, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Professor Profiles Before You Were Here FRIDAY: Photos of the Week MOVIE SCREENING TOMS Shoes gives back A new campus organiza- tion uses students' penchant for shoes as a way to help children around the world. This year, the University has started its own chapter of TOMS Shoes - a non- profit organization whose mission is to supply shoes to children in need from devel- oping countries. For every pair of shoes purchased from TOMS Shoes, a pair is given to children unable to afford them. TOMS Shoes was origi- nally started in 2006 by an American traveler who was inspired by impoverished children he met in Argen- tina. His organization has since expanded to about 2,000 chapters nationwide, donating over 150,000 pairs of shoes to date. "People like to shop, anc people like to help," saic Maria Tecos, an LSA sopho more and a campus repre sentative for TOMS shoes. TOMS is a great way Tecos said, to do both a the same time. In countrie where walking is the maii mode of transportation children are often at ris of injuring themselves an( developing dangerous infec tions without the prope footwear. Maria said the University' chapter has adopted a uniqu mission by partnering wit] the Foundation for Interna tional Medical Relief of.Chil dren (FIMRC). The chapter' goal, this year, is to rais $39,600 to buy 1,000 pairs o Yoni Ki Baat, the multicultural women's organization, showed a screening of the award-winning lesbian romantic comedy "I Can't Think Straight" yesterday. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Chairs stolen Car without lock Public health Medieval Book WHERE: Vera Baits II d broken into lecture Exhibit WHEN: Between January and November 2009 WHERE: 933 Wall, Lot M-76 WHAT: According to Univer- WHEN: Tuesday Between 8 WHAT: Talk by.Dr. Timothy WHAT: An exhibit of two sity of Michigan Police, four and 11 a.m. Johnson. discussing the crises "bone books" made of horse shoes for TOMStormatch.The d new student group intends to d give the shoes to a FIMRC - clinic in Uganda. To raise awareness, the club also has fundraising , events like the annual Labor t Day Walk during which s TOMS supporters walk n barefoot across the Macki- , nac Bridge. One Day With- k out Shoes, another national d TOMS event, will be held - this April and participants r will forego wearing shoes to empathize with the children s in need. e For students interested in h the more intricate aspects of - the organization, TOMS is - also offering a 2-credit class s this semester on conscious ;e consumerism-. f - LA UREN SL UTSKY Google has entered the world ofe-commercehy cre- ating its very own web store. When launching the Nexus One on Tuesday, its first smart- phone, Google also announced the device would be available for sale on its Google-hosted wireless store, reported CNN. 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Keys Stolen WHERE: School of Dentistry WHEN: Between October 1st, 2009 and January 5th, 2010 WHAT: A set of building keys was stolen from the School of Dentistry, University of Michi- gan Police reported. Accord- ing to University of Michigan Police, a female staff member reported the keys building. The keys stolen were master keys to the Dentistry building. woman face throughout the world including HIV/AIDS, violence and genocidal rape. WHO: School of Public Health WHEN: 4:30 a.m. to6 p.m. WHERE: School of Public Health Building I, Room 1690 Ford's Economy Exhibit WHAT: A display of artifacts from the Ford Library and Museum collections relating to how President Ford dealt with the American Economy. WHO: The Gerald R. Ford Foundation WHEN: 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. WHERE: Ford Library skeletons, covered in hand- written texts and polished in gold leaf. WHO: Institute for the Humanites WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: 202 Thayer, Room 1010 CORRECTIONS . A Campus Event in yesterday's edition of The Michigan Daily inaccurately reported a music competi- tion at Hill Auditorium would feature the Life Sci- ence Orchestra. It in fact featured the University Symphony Orchestra. . Please report any error in the Dailyto corrections@ . michigandailycom. . 10 0 MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Get more online at michigand ay.conlhgs/the wire Republican gov. candidate calls , for revised r business tax -- 40 4 Rick Snyder proposes switch to fixed corporate income tax LANSING, Mich. (AP) - GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Sny- der wants to exchange Michigan's main business tax with a flat cor- porate income tax that would cost businesses less but could leave the state with $1.5 billion less in rev- enue each year. In unveiling his proposal Wednesday, the Ann Arbor busi- nessman adds his voice to those of other Michigan gubernatorial candidates who have called for changing the way Michigan taxes businesses. Under Snyder's plan, the Michi- gan Business Tax - which gener- ates $2.2 billion a year - would be eliminated. Instead, the state would examine what businesses list as federal taxable income and levy a flat 6 percent tax on that amount, raising about $700 mil- lion annually. Snyder said the state could make up the $1.5 billion lost by reducing what it spends on public workers' wages and benefits, scaling back about $30 billion in special tax breaks and making government run more efficiently. Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants to eliminate the 22 per- cent surcharge that was added to the business tax in late 2007 to replace an unpopular sales tax on services. But swapping the business tax for a flat corporate income tax would ignore half the business income in the state that comes from companies that aren't formed as corporations, Granholm spokes- woman Liz Boyd said. "The Michigan Business Tax is a balanced tax that was designed with the Michigan business com- munity," Boyd added. "It's designed to help them pay for services." Nearly all the gubernatorial candidates, Democrats as well as Republicans, have suggested doing something with the business tax - or at least the added surcharge. Democratic state Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith has called for elimi- nating the surcharge, although she would keep the main tax in place. But unlike Snyder, Smith would make up the lost revenue - and raise more - byextending the sales tax to services, replacingthe state's flat income tax rate with a gradu- ated one and eliminating $3 billion in business tax exemptions. On the Republican side, Attor- ney General Mike Cox wants to cut the Michigan Business Tax by 50 percent and then phase it out com- pletely. He said he'd make up the lost revenue by cutting the size of state government. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoek- stra also want to eliminate the tax. They say it's important to lower taxes to draw more businesses and jobs to the state. Cox, Bouchard and Hoekstra have pointed to changes in state government that could save money, but have not said specifically what they would cut to make up the $2.2 billion lost if the business tax is eliminated. The nonpartisan Sen- ate Fiscal Agency says the state already faces a deficit of up to $1.8 billion in the budget year that starts Oct. 1. Democrat John Freeman, a for- mer state representative, said elim- inating the business tax "would only exacerbate the budget cri- sis." He favors restructuring all of Michigan's taxes. Two candidates, GOP Sen. Tom George and Democratic Sen. Han- sen Clarke, have voted to eliminate the 22 percent surcharge, a change that would decrease business tax revenue by about $500 million a year. That tax cut has not been taken up by the Democratic-con- trolled House. 6 Danielle Lee Sutton, granddaughter of Percy Sutton, performs a ballet routine during his funeral at Riverside Church in New York, yesterday. Sutton praised, laid to rest, a Government leaders, activitists, celebrities gather to pay tribute to Sutton's legacy NEW YORK (AP) - Through his civic activism, business ven- tures and legal work, Percy Sutton touched many people's lives. . Thousands of them filled Riv- erside Church in Manhattan on Wednesday to say goodbye to Sut- ton, who died Dec. 26 at age 89. Beginning early in the morning, they lined up outside the church in frigid weather to get into the sanc- tuary, where the former Tuskegee Airman's legacy was recalled in a nearly four-hour-long service. Among those who spoke were Attorney General Eric Holder, Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Attalah Shabazz, one ofMalcolmX's daughters. Many recalled how Sutton had given them advice or had stood with them dur- ingstruggles - or had laid the foun- dation for their own success. Holder called Sutton "one of the nation's true heroes." "I admired, respected and worked for him," he continued. "The opportunities given to my generation were paid for by the hard work and sacrifice of his. Without him, there would be no me." Holder, a native New Yorker, con- tinued, saying, "Generations of other African American lawyers stand on his strong, broad shoulders." He then read a statement from President Barack Obama, who called Sutton's death "an enormous loss." "Percy's passion for justice began at an early age and never wavered," Obama said in a state- ment, recounting an incident when Sutton was beaten at age 13 for passing out NAACP leaflets in a white neighborhood. "It was an experience that gave him strength and determination to stand up for what he believed in." The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were among a group that escorted Sutton's relatives into the church. In a chapel near the main sanctuary, Sutton lay in a coffin, dressed in a Navy blue suit, white shirt and a tie. "The tallest tree in our forest has fallen," Jackson said of Sutton. "You've paved the way, Mr. Chair- man. Be at rest," Jackson concluded. Sharpton began his eulogy by recalling the 1999 police killing of Amadou Diallo. Sutton, then 79, laid down in protest outside police headquarters. "Even when he was a multimil- lionaire, a media mogul, owned radio stations, welcomed in the White House and any other place of significance, he laid down in front of police headquarters for a West African boy he never knew," Sharp- ton said. Bloomberg said city buildings lowered flags in honor of Sutton, and that a building that houses three Manhattan public schools would be renamed the Percy Ellis Sutton Educational Complex. "Whatever opportunities New York City gave to Percy, he repaid them a thousand times over," Bloomberg said. "Because of him, the doors of City University were opened to all students. Because of him, black radio became a fixture on the dial." U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel and for- mer New York Mayor David Din- kins alsoattended. They, alongwith Sutton and Basil Paterson, father of New York's governor, were known as the "Gang of Four," a quartet of black political pioneers. Stevie Wonder paid tribute by singing his 1976 hit, "As." Sutton, who was born in Texas, served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black unit, in World War II before coming to Harlem, where he launched a trailblazing career in civil rights, politics and broadcasting. He served in the New York State Assembly and was Man- hattan borough president. Through his Harlem law firm, which he founded in 1953, he rep- resented civil rights activists including Malcolm X and the slain activist's relatives - even in their darkest times. Sutton and Dinkins were attor- neys for Malcolm Shabazz, who at age 12 set a 1997 apartment fire that killed his grandmother, Betty Sha- bazz, widow of Malcolm X. Attalah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X's daughters, said Sutton was not merely her father's attorney. The two were "brethren," she said. "Even when things weren't on his side, he was always on yours. Am I right?" she said to applause from the sanctuary, which was filled to capacity.