The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, February 22, 2010 - 7A 83-year-old Dingell to campaign again From Page 1A by the narrowest of margins we have missed again confronting the things we did in 1929," Dingell said. "We have severe economic problems in the nation, in this district and in this state, and they have to be addressed." Dingell also said he wants to work toward education reform, environmental efforts - including the protection of Michigan's Great Lakes - and health care reform, a cause he has been championing throughout his 54-year career. "The fact is that we have prob- lems in the state, where the gov- ernor is struggling with great difficulties with a recalcitrant group in the legislature, " Din- gell said. "We need to confront problems with the environment. We need to get a health insur- ance program passed for the benefit of these people. We have to move forward with the educa- tion of our people, with the pro- tection of the environment, with the clean up and protection of our waters and again, to save the Great Lakes." Dingell said he will be looking for the support of Michigan citi- zens to help him in his campaign and to help him be a leader on CYBERATTACKS From Page 1A having any involvement in the attack. An anonymous spokesperson from SJTU was quoted by Xin- hua News Agency - an official press agency in China - and claimed that The New York Times article was not "objective" or "balanced." "We were shocked and indig- * nant to hear these baseless alle- gations which may harm the university's reputation," the spokesperson said. University of Michigan spokesman Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an e-mail interview that the purpose of the joint institute between SJTU and the University is to give engineers the opportunity to better under- these issues. "I think it's time for all hands on deck. As I said, no one should or can walk away from this, and I intend to be in the forefront of continuing these efforts," Dingell said. Dingell added that his cam- paign and his potential reelection will not onlybe beneficial for him- self, but also his fellow Democrats, who are concerned about main- taining their stature in Congress and in the state. "We have much more to do," Dingell said. "And one of the things is going to be to run a great campaign to help some of the wonderful candidates that the Democrats are going to field to move this country forward, both in this Congressional district and state, federal and local levels, but also in other districts and in the state-wide offices that are going to be opening up this fall in the elec- tion." In an interview after Ding- ell's announcement, State Rep. Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor) said she is pleased to see Ding- ell running for reelection and is optimistic about the experience he will bring in helping to restore Michigan's troubled economy. "I think it's a great thing for us," Warren said. "I think in these challenging times, his breadth of experience and his focus on bring- ing jobs to Michigan and righting Michigan's economy is so impor- tant, so I'm thrilled that he's going back to Washington to keep fight- ing for us in the 15th Congressio- nal District." LSA sophomore Brendan Campbell, the newly-elected chair of College Democrats, said he is excited to be able to work with Dingell, since he has admired his work as an influential politician in Michigan as well as in Washing- ton. "Congressman Dingell has been for over 50 years one of Southeast Michigan's strongest and most forceful advocates in Washing- ton, and we're proud and excited to have him run for another term, and we're excited to work with him again in November," Camp- bell said. LSA senior Samuel Marvin, former chair of the College Demo- crats, mirrored Campbell's excite- ment and said he was honored that Dingell chose a College Dem- ocrats event as the stage for his announcement. "We're humbled that he would choose this location and this event to make the announcement, and we're thrilled that he's running for reelection," Marvin said. "Hes been a terrific supporter of this organization, and so we're thrilled that he would chose this audience, this time, to make the announce- ment." LSA senior Kalen Pruss, a mem- ber of the College Democrats, said she wasn't surprised by his announcement due to Dingell's extensive work in Michigan over the last few decades and said she is eager to see him extend his work in health care reform and other efforts that will benefit the state. "It wasn't unexpected because Dingell has served for a really long time," Pruss said. "But you know hopefully he'll continue to work hard to get us health care and (work) on the issues protecting his district." Sonya Suter, another College Democrats member and a senior in the School of Public Policy, said she is anticipating a good cam- paign for Dingell and that Dingell will continue to play a big role in helping to shape the state of Mich- igan. "I think we all look forward to another great election campaign, and I think he'll continue doing the great things as he has since the 1950s for the district," Suter said. HALFWAY From PagelA they thought about it, and student participation is what the RC's all about," Sherman said. Last Friday, Sherman and the East Quad Music Co-Op held an open mic night in the Halfway inn as their first collaborative event. During the show, Sherman sat at a table and encouraged stu- dents to come up and write down suggestions on how to renew the Halfway Inn and bring back its personality. "The beginning is trying to see what the students themselves want to see," Sherman said. "It's not my vision; it's theirs." Sherman said when she ini- tially arrived in East Quad as a freshman she viewed the Half- way Inn as smelly and grungy, but as she spent more time there she was drawn more and more to the atmosphere. - She added that the dinginess was part of the charm that fre- quently attracted her and many of her fellow East Quad residents there. "(The Halfway Inn) had things going on every Friday from the East Quad Music Co-Op," Sher- man said. "And there'd be silly kids doing silly things down here and everyone hanging out, and the atmosphere just really embodied what I thought about the RC." In a Sept. 15 article in The Michigan Daily, University Hous- ing spokesman Peter Logan said Housing moved the cafe to the first floor to provide students with more dining options. He added that its previous location in the basement limited dining services. The lounge is still open to stu- dents 24 hours a day for study- ing or hanging out with friends. Despite this, Sherman said few students actually use the space, with the exception of the East Quad Music Co-Op. "What I want mostly is a bunch of student art all over the place. I want student murals and student submissions. I'd love to get one of those spray paint chalk walls," Sherman said. "I just want it to be a place where people can come and do things like this that they want to do and like hang out with people if they want to. Because in places where community fostered art is established, it just inspires people to get things done." She also said that she hopes by advocating for change like this within East Quad,.she will inspire students to work toward their own ideas for change within their residence halls and commu- nity. "Hopefully if people start to really get active in building the community and putting an active effort into revamping this Half-ass, then maybe they'll get inspired, and if they see some- thing they don't like, they'll say 'I can take an active role in this because this is where I'm liv- ing, and this is my community as well,"' Sherman said. School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior Matt Steele, a fourth-year member of the East Quad Music Co-Op, said he hopes to see the area restored because he has fond memories of hanging out in the space. "It's cool to get the East Quad kids more involved, and I remem- ber before they closed the Half- ass and the cafe, people were always down here hanging out and talking, and I would always go meet people down here," Steele said. "So hopefully that will come back because this is a better space than anywhere else I've been in the University to just hang out and get work done but also to meet with people." stand what it means to work in a "globalized engineering work force." According to Fitzgerald, there are no University students study- ing at SJTU this semester. Col- lege of Engineering Prof. Jun Ni is currently serving as dean of the Joint Institute and is the only University faculty member at SJTU at this time. Fitzgerald wrote that he doesn't have any new informa- tion regarding the details of the cyberattacks allegedly coming from SJTU. David Munson, dean of the College of Engineering, wrote in an e-mail interview that he had heard about the news reports accusing STJU of initiating the attacks but had no further infor- mation. "I do not have any indica- tion that the (Joint Institute) is involved in the allegations," Munson wrote. Munson wrote that the Uni- versity currently has more than 150 students from the Joint Insti- tute majoring in College of Engi- neering programs. He added that about a dozen University faculty members teach at the Joint Insti- tute and a few dozen University students study there each sum- mer. In 2005, University Presi- dent Mary Sue Coleman visited SJTU as part of a trip to China to strengthen the University's ties with faculty and students at Chinese institutions. During her visit, Coleman received an honorary doctoral degree from SJTU. Last November, Coleman announced she was planning to return to SJTU this summer, according to a Nov. 12 article in The Michigan Daily. "I'm going to be going to China again next June to solid- ify the relationship that we have there with several institutions," Coleman told the Daily at the time. The Joint Institute offers University students the opportunity to receive dual undergraduate and gradu- ate engineering degrees from STJU and the University's Col- lege of Engineering. In 2001, the University became the first non-Chinese institution to offer engineering degrees to students studying in China. According to a 2005 Univer- sity press release, more than 50 University faculty members vis- ited SJTU from 2000 to 2005, and more than 20 University professors taught summer class- es during that same time period. I CRIME From Page 1A,. he had no additional information other than what was sent in the e-mail. DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown said DPS is investigating the incidents, but that the depart- ment needs the help of the cam- pus community in order to find the suspect. 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