SUPERIOR STATEMENT 'M' hockey advances in the CCHA tourn after sweeping Lake Superior State this weekend in the first round at Yost. ALICE IN TWILIGHT-LAND Tim Burton's version of "Alice in ey Wonderland" forgoes timeless enchantment for tween appeal. }} INSIDE }} PAGE 5A E 11171c i H11 at Im Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, March 8, 2010 michigandaily.com FINANCING YOUR EDUCATION Coleman: 'U' tuition levels likely to rise next year University students and Olympic ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White pose in the Law Quad last month before traveling to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, where the pair earned a silver medal. University students Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates also competed in ice dancing at the Vancouver games. Wolverie ice dancers reflect on incredible'run at Olympics Officials looking for solutions to close expected $68M state funding shortfall By YLE SWANSON Daily News Editor LIVONIA, Mich. - In an inter- view following her testimony to the State Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education on Mon- day, University President Mary Sue Coleman discussed ways the University might cope with an expected drop in state funding - including possibly increasing tuition levels. Coleman acknowledged that the $22 million in cost-cutting measures she referenced in her testimony - which include infor- mation technology consolidation and cost sharing on employee health benefits - will not fully cover the expected $68 million cut next year in state appropria- tions to the University. "It'll be a combination I think of looking at tuition revenue, looking at alternative offerings we could have in the spring and the summer," Coleman said. "There might be slightchanges in the residency next year," she said, referring to the composi- tion of in-state and out-of-state students enrolled at the Univer- sity. However, Coleman said the change, if any, would be very minimal. Coleman said that becausethe University was expecting cuts in state appropriations, University officials began budgeting in such a way that the University would absorb the cuts over three years instead of taking the hit all at once. "In our three-year model ... we wanted to let students know about planning for more regular and modest tuition increases," Coleman said. "We're not talking about 10 percent, we're talking about less than that." Last year and the year before tuition increased by 5.6 percent. Tuition increased by 7.4 percent in the 2007-2008 academic year and by 5.5 percent the 2006-2007 academic year. Coleman said she wouldn't rule out the possibility of asimi- lar tuition increase next year. However, she said, there are still too many variables to pinpoint what tuition increase students may see next year. "I don't know what we're going, to do yet so I don't want (peo- ple) to sort of think that that's See TUITION, Page 7A Meryl Davis and Charlie White won silver in Vancouver By STEPHANIE STEINBERG Daily News Editor It's not every day that University President Mary Sue Coleman calls students on their cell phones. - But after University students and ice dancers Charlie White and Meryl Davis won silver medals in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games last month, Coleman did just that. "I was just listening to my voice- qpails after the free dance, and I came upon one that said, 'Oh, hi Meryl this is Mary Sue Coleman,' and I was a little shocked but very excited and honored," Davis said in an interview last week. Coleman wasn't the only one on campus rooting for Davis and White. Thousands of students watched the pair perform on tele- vision and offered support through emails, texts and Facebook status- es. Davis said she even got e-mails of encouragement from professors she had during her freshman year. And the support didn't stop at students and professors. Before the pair took off for Vancouver, Michi- gan hockey coach Red Berenson, Michigan men's basketball coach John Beilein and Michigan foot- ball coach Rich Rodriguez signed a large University of Michigan flag and gave it to Davis and White to take to the games for good luck. In Vancouver, Davis and White scored a 215.74 across their three dances - falling a few points shy of Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who won the gold with a total score of 221.57 points. In an interview after return- ing from the Olympics, Davis and White said that all the support they received throughout their career was a big part of the reason they skated so well at the games. See OLYMPICS, Page 7A STUDYING ABROAD SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF STUDYING Officials say 'U' students safe after Chile earthquake Students studying globe beiqg shaken greedily" as an 8.8-magntude earthquake struck abroad in Santiago Chile on Feb. 27. The earthquake left 12 Univer- say they felt the sity students studying abroad in Santiago dazedl but thankful for 8.8-magnitude quake their safety. According to John Godfrey, By LIZZY ALFS assistant dean for International For the Daily Education at the University, the dozen students participating in a LSA junior Jessica Carey-Webb, University study abroad program who is currently studying abroad at Pontificia Universidad Catdlica in Santiago, Chile, said she felt de Chile in Santiago have been in like she was "in a personal snow contact with University officials to confirm their whereabouts and safety. When the earthquake hit, many of the students were in cities out- side of Santiago, traveling on week- end trips during their winter break before classes were set to resume on March L The majority of the students were in Pucdn, which was about 230 miles southeast of the quake's epicenter. In an interview last Fri- day, Godfrey said he and other offi- cials were able to contact all the See CHILE, Page 7A ANN ARBOR TECH A2 vies to be G ogle Fiber test site ARIEL BOND/Daily LSA sophomores Rich Zukowsky and Amie Hsu study political science and economics in the Law Quad yesterday. The two said they pulled their chairs outside toenjoy the warm, sunny day. REGISTERING FOR CLASSES Student government pushes to make instructors post course info earlier Seas to b ti rch giant promises Communities, seeks to construct a high-speed, fiber-to-the-home )ring Internet 100 network that will provide Internet service 100 times faster than most mes faster than commercial offerings, according to the project's website. Google is other providers currently searching for one or more communities to test the technology, By DYLAN CINTI and Ann Arbor hopes to be one of Daily StaffReporter them. Ann Arbor City Councilmember officials are currently work- Christopher Taylor (D-Ward 3) is promote Ann Arbor as a trial working o prepare the city's appli- n for a Google-designed, cation fo+ the trial network. Each igh-speed Internet network. applicant must demonstrate why project, Google Fiber for its community would best serve as a trial site. Taylor said Ann Arbor's reputa- tion as a technologically advanced community places it ahead of other competing cities. Other cities vying to be a test site include Portland Ore., Grand Rapids, Baton Rouge, La. and Rochester, N.Y., according to The Associated Press. "Ann Arbor is a highly educated, relatively affluent community with a great amount of pre-existing Internet usage," Taylor said. He added that the network "would play a great role in uncap- See GOOGLE, Page 7A Resolutions propose syllabi be available during registration By MELISSA MARCUS For the Daily. Two bodies of the student gov- ernment are combining efforts to lobby students and faculty to help implement resolutions making more course information available to students earlier. LSA Student Government recently passed a resolution ask- ing professors and lecturers to make syllabi available online dur- ing registration and the Michigan Student Assembly passed a similar resolution last semester. In addi- tion MSA representatives who sit on the Academic Affairs Advisory Committee of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs - the leading faculty governing body - have raised awareness about the initiative to garner sup- port for it within the faculty com- munity. LSA sophomore Alex Levine, See COURSE INFO, Page 7A City ing to p locatim ultra h 1 The WEATHER HI: 52 TOMORROW Lo. 31 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM One Daily staffer's adventures in Oxford, England. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE WIRE INDEX NEWS .................................2A ARTS ..., . ....... . 5A Vol. CXX, No.104 SUDOKU.............................3A CLASSIFIEDS ............. 6A @200TheMichigan Daily OPINION ..... 4A SPORTSMONDAY. . ..lB mchigondouly.com 1* b