'M' goalie Bryan Hogan hits his backyard rink in Highland, Mich. to prep for the Camp Randall Classic. PAGE8 hemIc I an 4aly Ann Arbor Michigan Tuesday, February 2,2010 michigandaily.com FIELD TRIPS AND FESTIVE TUNES PAIROWNG CAMPUS POLICE Faculty talk elections for oversight cmte. reps. SAM WOLSON/Daily A young girl from the Paul Robeson Academy peers out a bus window after watching a performance by Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Hill Auditorium yesterday afternoon. 33 Michigan middle and high schools, mostly from the Detroit area, attended the event. UNIVERSITY A DMINIST RATION Coleman says definitively she's not a cand te fr A pres SACUA considering changing election procedures for DPS oversight committee By ANNIE GORDON THOMAS Daily StaffReporter The University's leading fac- ulty governance body discussed holding faculty elections for the Department of Public Safety's Oversight Com- mittee at its NOTEBOOK weekly meeting yesterday. Members of the Senate Advi- sory Committee on University Affairs discussed how to seek nominations and how to conduct the voting process for the faculty's two seats on the DPS Oversight Committee - an organization meant to keep tabs on University Police and investigate grievances filed with the organization. On average, the group reviews two grievances a year. The committee recently has come under fire for the question- able election procedures used to elect committee members and apparent non-compliance with some of the state statutes meant to guide the group's activities. SACUA members reviewed how they hope to elect faculty members to the two faculty posi- tions on the committee. The talks included how theycwould go about nominating *candidates to be elected to the committee, how faculty would be able to vote and whether'write-in candidates would be allowed. Some of members of SACUA expressed concern about whether faculty members would really be familiar with candidates on the ballot, instead suggesting that a blurb or picture be published with each candidate's name. However, other SACUA mem- bers- said publishing an online University Record article detail- ing each candidate's background would likely solve the problem. SACUA members hope to start the nominating process by early next week, though such action is contingent upon authorization from Timothy Slottow, executive vice president and chief financial officer for the University. Slot- tow is also the executive officer responsible for the oversight committee. SACUA members said they See SACUA, Page 7 'U' president was widely rumored to be on short list for job By KYLE SWANSON Daily News Editor . In an interview with The Michi- gan Daily, University President Mary Sue Coleman said she is not a candidate for the NCAA presi- dency, though many news outlets are reporting she's still on First reported on the short list MtchiganDatycotn for the job. When NCAA President Myles Brand passed away on Sept. 16, there was much speculation over who would succeed him. At the time, many media outlets reported that Coleman was likely among those beingconsidered for the posi- tion. However, in an interview with The Michigan Daily last week, Coleman said she is not in the run- ning for the position. "I can tell you definitively, I am not a candidate," Coleman said. Though Coleman has never pre- viously stated that she would be interested in the job and has also never said she was being consid- ered for it, last week's statements marks the first time she explicitly stated that she isn't a candidate for the position. After a Board of Regents meeting in September, Coleman didn't say whether she was interested leav- See NCAA, Page 7 AFTER TH E QUAKE 'U' doctor reflects on trip to aid Haitian relief effort AN OPEN EXPERIMENT Kaz Soong operated on patients in four-tent hospital By CHELSEA LANGE Daily StaffReporter For Kaz Soong, an ophthalmol- ogist at the University of Michi- gan KelloggEye Center, the recent earthquake in Haiti affected him on a personal level. Soong had visited Haiti twice before, where he made close friends and fell in love with the culture. For those reasons Soong knew he had to go back to help the victims of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the coun- try on Jan. 12. "I had to go," Soong said in an interview yesterday. "I had to go, to look for my friends and also to help out with the carnage down there. And time was ticking very, very fast." On Friday, Jan. 22, Soong flew to Miami inhopesofgoingto Haiti with a team from the University of Miami, even though he had no definite plans yet. After one can- celled flight, Soong continued to call everyone he could to try to get down to the country as soon as possible. On Saturday, Jan. 23, Soong got a call telling him to be See HAITI, Page 7 STATE GOVERNMENT Mich. House and Senate pass ban on texting while driving ANSULTE/Daily LSA freshman Vidhi Kacharia works on a class assignment yesterday after being given general guidelines by Organic Chemistry 211 GSI Leslie Korson. After the guidelines were given out, Kacharia created her own individual experiment. Housing official responds to reports that students brought strippers into Markley If signed by gov., ban would make texting behind the wheel a secondary offense By BETHANY BIRON Daily StaffReporter State legislators are in the pro- cess of finalizing legislation to ban drivers from texting while operating their vehicles. The bill, which was recently WEATHER Hi: 33 TOMORROW LO 21 passed by both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate, would outlaw the use of cell phones for read- ing or drafting text messages or e-mails while driving. Under the law, texting or e-mailing would be a secondary offense, meaning that the driver would only be ticketed for texting after first being pulled over for another offense like speeding. Before the legislation can become law,the House and Senate need to agree on a final version of the bill to send to Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm for approval. State Rep. Lee Gonzales (D-Flint) introduced the bill to the House largely because of how the issue has impacted him on a personal level. Gonzales said in an interview last week that his daughter-in-law was driving to work one morning, and while slowing in a construc- tion zone, was rear-ended by a woman dialing her phone, total- ing his daughter-in-law's car. At the time, Gonzales' daugh- ter-in-law was four-months preg- See TEXTING, Page 7 Logan says situation may have violated res. hall rules By CAITLIN HUSTON Daily StaffReporter Though Mary Markley Resi- dence Hall is known for its wild behavior, some residents took it to another level when they hired strippers for a friend's birthday party on Friday night. LSA freshman Nick Bidwell said he was part of a group that met the strippers at the front door of Mar- kley, and then led them to their friend's room in Little Hall on the second floor of the residence. The group then progressed to the floor study lounge and a quad on the floor before returning to the origi- nal room. University Housing spokesman Peter Logan said a housing secu- rity officer and the floor's resident advisor were approached earlier that night by the resident whose birthday it was, who informed See MARKLEY, Page 7 Read the entire text of the A Community Living Standards on ;, iiyri GOT A NEWS TIP? 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