The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, February 5, 2010 MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Professor Profiles Before You Were Here Campus Clubs I 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 smilovitz@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Officehours:sun.-Thurs.s11a.m.- 2a.m. I I News Tips Corrections Letters to the Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales v" " ;+ ,..734-763-2459 news@michigandaily.com corrections@michigandaily.com tothedaily@michigandaily.com photo@michigandaily.com artspage@michigandaily.com opinion@michigandaily.com sports@michigandaily.com display@michigandaily.com classified@michigandaily.com Website, michigandailyCom. LEFT Patrick McNicholas, University alumni, sells popcorn at the Michigan Theatre on Sunday. At the theatre's showing of "Cyrus," there were 1,700 people in attendance, the largest Sundance Film Festival audience in the history of the festival. (MIA MARINO/Daily) TOP RIGHT Four girls from the Paul Robeson Academy, located in Detroit, wait for their bus after watching a performance by Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Hill Auditorium on Monday. (SAM WOLSON/Daily) BOTTOM MIDDLE Recent law school graduates Jenna Selsky and Gina Rozman step outside to take a break after studying in the law library. (EMILY CHIU/Daily) BOTTOM RIGHT Governor Jennifer Granholm delivers her last State of the State address on Wednesday in the Capitol Building in Lansing. (MARISSA MCCLAIN/Daily) CRIME NOTES Drunk urinates Items taken from on the stairs locker room WHERE: Mary Markley Hall WHERE:Centrat Campus WHEN:Thursdayataboutiam. Recreation Building WHAT: A drunk student was WHEN: Wednesday at about caught urinating in a stairwell, 4p.m. University police reported. He WHAT: Between about 2 p.m. was taken to the emergency and 4 p.m. four thefts occured room and charged with an MIP in the Bell Pool's men's locker and possession of marijuana. room, University police CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Male student exposes himself WHERE: 1400 Block West Medical Center WHEN: Thursday at aboutl a.m. WHAT: A University bus driv- er reported that a male student exposed himself to the driver and passengers after leav- ing the bus, University police reported. The student was taken into custody for MIP and indecent exposure. reported. Three of the laren- cies involved the cutting of the mesh part of the locker and one victim left his items unat- tended. Stolen items including clothing, cash and wallets. Laptop swiped WHERE: Schembechler Hall WHEN:Wednesday at 10a.m. WHAT: A Mac laptop valued at $3,100 was stolen from the locker room between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., University police reported. Sex in the Past discussion WHAT: Prof. David Caron invites students to come discuss his essay, "Sex in the Past: On Queer Films in France, Taiwan and the Philippines." The essay is posted on the CTools site Gender, Race, and History. WHO: Spectrum Center WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall Speed dating WHAT: Come find some- one special just in time for Valentine's Day. WHO: Bi-Lateral WHEN: Tomorrow from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. for opposite gender dating (male-iden- tified students looking for female-identified students) and from 7 p.m. tol8 p.m. for same-gender dating (one group for male-identified stu- dents looking for other male- identified students and one group of female-identified students looking for other female-identified students). WHERE: Henderson Room, Michigan League CORRECTIONS . A correction in yester- day's Michigan Daily incor- rectly stated the position of Hamdan Yousuf He is a Rackham represen- tative on the Michigan Student Assembly. . A campus event in yester_ day's Michigan Daily incor- rectly stated the date of the Entrepreneurship Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneur- ship and MPowered. The event is tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Stamps Auditorium. . Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com. A poll on the MTV website shows that viewers want Detroit to be the next loca- tion for the show Jersey Shore. The same people from this season's show will move to a new location for next season. Detroit has received 65 percent of the vote. The Congo is in second place with 25 percent. The University received an 'A' for its practices in recycling and composting from the Sustainable Endow- ments Institute's 2010 College Sustainability Report Card. "FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 According to ABC News, Heinz has redesigned its ketchup packet to allow users to either sqeeze the ketchup out or dunk their fries into the packet-which is shaped like a shallow cup, mak- ing enjoying ketchup on-the-go much less messy. 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Getmote online at michigandaily.com/blogs/the wire Airplane terrorist giving ~ U. S. info to find his mentor House of Reps. faces tough vote* over $1.9 trillion additional debt Democrats say Obama was right to handle case as a criminal matter WASHINGTON (AP) - The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christ- mas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said yesterday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for days, providing information about his contacts in Yemen and the al-Qaida affiliate that operates there. His cooperation talking about U.S.-born Yemeni radical Anwar al-Awlaki is significant because it could provide fresh clues for authorities trying to capture or kill him in the remote mountains of Yemen. Al-Awlaki has emerged as a prominent al-Qaida recruiter and has been tied to the 9/11 hijackers, Abdulmutallab and the suspect in November's deadly shooting ram- page at Fort Hood, Texas. The law enforcement official would not say what information Abdulmutallab provided, but al- Awlaki himself said in a recent interview that he and Abdulmutal- lab had kept in contact. A senior U.S. intelligence official said al- Awlaki represented the biggest name on the list of people Abdul- mutallab might have information against. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive ongoing investigation. Abdulmutallab's cooperation with U.S. authorities is at the cen- ter of a political dispute in Wash- ington. Democrats say it proves the Obama administration was correct to handle the case as a criminal matter. Republicans accuse the administration of leaking details for political purposes. Abdulmutallab agreed to coop- erate after FBI agents flew to Nige- ria and returned to the U.S. with Abdulmutallab's family members. In a federal prison outside Detroit, Abdulmutallab's father and uncle persuaded him to cooperate with the FBI, according to a U.S. official briefed on the talks who also spoke on condition of anonymity to dis- cuss the ongoing case. A month before the attack, Abdulmutallab's father warned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that his son might be dangerous, a warn- ing that officials failed to connect to other evidence that intelligence officials had gathered. President Barack Obama has said the U.S. had enough information to prevent the attack. Al-Awlaki, who once preached in mosques in California and northern Virginia and posted fiery English- language Internet sermons urging Muslims to fight in jihad, said in an interview released Thursday that he taught the Christmas bomber and supported his efforts but did not call for the attack. "Brother mujahed Umar Farouk - may God relieve him - is one of my students, yes," al-Awlaki said in the interview, which Al-Jazeera reported on its Web site Tuesday. "We had kept in contact, but I didn't issue a fatwa to Umar Farouk for this operation," al-Awlaki was quoted as saying. Understanding Al-Awlaki's con- nection to Abdulmutallab and to al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula is a key to the U.S. investigation of the attack and its effort to disrupt other plots. On Nov. 11, British intelligence officials sent the U.S. a cable reveal- ing that aman named Umar Farouk had spoken to al-Awlaki, pledging to support jihad, or holy war. The cable did not contain Abdulmutal- lab's last name, an omission that made it harder for analysts to con- nect it to the warning his father would make one week later. The contents of the cable were described by intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonym- ity because they were not autho- rized to discuss the matter. There were other early warn- ings, too. A U.S. wiretap referred to a Nigerian being trained for a spe- cial mission. And another intercept mentioned "some type of operation on December 25th," Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said. Awlaki's family and many mem- bers of his powerful Awalik tribe deny the 38-year-old is a member of al-Qaida. They depict him as a vic- tim of Yemeni and U.S. persecution. The Yemen government, which is increasingly working closely with U.S. intelligence, is negotiating with tribal leaders, trying to per- suade them to hand over al-Awlaki, tribal members have said. Democrats passed the bill through the Senate last week WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing a politically excruciating vote, House Democratic leaders are counting on new budget deficit curbs to help smooth the way for a bill allowing the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper into debt over the next year - or about $6,000 more for 'every U.S. resi- dent. The debt measure set for a House vote yesterday would raise the cap on federal borrowing to $14.3 trillion. That's enough to keep Congress from having to vote again before the November elections on an issue that is feed- ing a sense among voters that the government is spending too much and putting future genera- tions under a mountain of debt to do it. Already, the accumulated debt amounts to $40,000 per person. And the debt is increasingly held by foreign nations such as China. Passage of the bill would send it to President Barack Obama, who will sign it to avoid a first- ever, market-rattling default on U.S. obligations. Democrats bare- ly passed it through the Senate last week over a unanimous "no" vote from GOP members present. To ease its passage, Demo- crats attached tougher budget rules designed to curb a spiraling upward annual deficit - project- ed by Obama to hit a record $1.56 trillion for the budget year end- ing Sept. 30. The new rules would require future spending increas- es or tax cuts to be paid for with either cuts to other programs or equivalent tax increases. If the rules are broken, the White House budget office would force automatic cuts to programs like Medicare, farm subsidies and veterans' pensions. Current rules lack such teeth and have commonly been waived over the past few years at a cost of almost $1 trillion. Skeptics say lawmakers also will find ways around the new rules fairly easily. Congress, for example, can declare some spending an "emergency" - a likely scenario for votes later this month to extend jobless benefits for the long-term unem- ployed. And, indeed, there already are exceptions to the new rules, such as for extending former President George W. Bush's middle-class tax cuts past their expiration a year from now. That would add $1.4 trillion to the federal debt over the next decade. In agreement with Obama's budget earlier this week, there is no exception for taxpayers in the two highest tax brackets whose marginal rates are due to rise by 3 percent or 4.6 percent to a pre- Bush maximum 39.6 percent next January. But some new White House initiatives, such as doubling the child care tax credit for families earning less than $85,000, also would have to live within the rules, as would continuing sub- sidies for laid-off workers to buy health insurance - unless law- makers make another exception. The so-called pay-as-you-go rules have been a mantra with conservative "Blue Dog" Demo- crats in the House, who insisted they wouldn't vote to raise the debt ceiling without them. "We don't have a choice," said Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. "We are on an unsustainable march toward a fiscal Armageddon." Obama's budget projects the government's debt doubling to $26 trillion over the next decade. It offers few solutions for seri- ously closing the gap other than promising to appoint a bipartisan commission to come up with a plan to address the problem.