The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, January 15, 2010 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Professor Profiles WEDNESDAY: Before You Were Here THURSDAY: Campus Clubs LEFT Hip-hop artist KiD CuDi performs to a sold-out crowd at the Michigan Theater on Monday night. (SAM WOLSON/Daily) TOP RIGHT Students knit various pieces, as part of the Michigan Knitting Club or MichKnit on Monday. (MAX COLLINS/Daily) BOTTOM RIGHT A group of University students gather to see a concept version of the Chevrolet Volt at the Ross School of Business on Thursday. The Volt, an electric vehicle with an onboard elec- tric generator, has a range of 40 miles on pure battery power and is scheduled for launch later this year. (AARON AUGSBURGER/Daily). CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES NEED MORE PHOTOS? 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Traffic accident WHAT: UUAP on the Move is sponsoring a trip to Detroit to see the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. Tickets cost $50 including transporta- tion. WHO: University Union Arts and Programs WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: Fisher Theater Team will be holding prac- tice, which is open to both members and non-members. Member dues are $20 per semester. WHO: Michigan Union Bil- liards WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: Sports Coliseum Dogsledding Computer stolen in carport 1 According to Bangor Daily News, Bangor High School, located in Bangor, Maine, hassuspendedschool-sponsored dances after students failed to alter their dancing style at danc- es this academic year. School officials are opposed to the stu- dents' grinding, citing it as too sexual for aschool setting. Nearly 200,000 Hai- tians have HIV or AIDS and less than half of all people living in Haiti don't have clean drinking water on a regular basis, CNN report- ed in an article yesterday. FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4. According to Forbes. com, Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles are the top- grossing Hollywood couple at $162 million from June 2007 to June 2008. Other high-earn- ing couples are Keith" Urban and Nicole Kidman, and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. 4 WHERE: Medical Science Research Building WHEN: Wednesday at around 10:50 a.m. WHAT: According to Univer- sity Police, an iMac G-5 Apple computer was stolen from a computer lab. The computer is valued at $1,500.-There are no suspects. WHERE: M-22 Carport WHEN: Wednesday at about 7:40 a.m. WHAT: Two cars were in a traffic accident, which caused minor damages. One of the cars, a Cadillac, had minor damages to the driver's rear bumper, though the other car, a Pontiac,'was unscathed. There were no injuries. trip Folk-rack band performance at the Ark WHAT: The Ragbirds, a five- piece folk-rock group, will perform. Tickets are $15. WHO: The Ark WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark WHAT: A weekend trip to go dogsledding and snowshoe- log. WHO: Outdoor Adventures WHEN: Today until Monday WHERE: Upper Peninsula CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes?Get ore online af michigandaily.co/blogs/the wire WANT TO WRITE' FOR DAILY NEWS? Email berman@michigandaily.com College applicants face intensifying competition P acri decr as SAN lege app toughes sion to: and uni with de number As ca slash b ublic schools ping or cutting enrollment despite a surge in applications from high oss the country school seniors, community college students and unemployed Workers ease enrollment returningto school. . The increased competition states funding means more students will be plummets turned away, forced to attend pric- um t ier private institutions or shut out of college altogether. FRANCISCO (AP) - Col- Wilson Liang, a senior at San licants are facing one of the Francisco's Galileo Academy of t years ever to gain admis- Science and Technology, said he the nation's public colleges worries that enrollment cuts at the versities as schools grapple University of California will freeze ep budget cuts and record him out of its flagship Berkeley s of applications. campus. sh-poor state governments "I know the competition is very udgets, colleges are cap- high," said the 17-year-old Liang, Think you know where to find the Best Dessert? Do you have the Best Pick-up Line? Is your landlord the Best? Cast your vote in the Michigan Daily's Annual Readership Survey Poll! Vtefor the Best of Ann Arbor Voting extended to January 29th! Go to: http.//www.michigandailycom/best-2010 to Cast your vote today. whowouldbethefirstperson in his familyto attend college. "There are a lot of smart people out there." Collegesthatpreviouslyaccepted all qualified students are becoming selective, while selective schools are becoming more so. Most com- munity colleges have open-access policies, but demand for classes is so intense that many students can't get the courses they need. "We're hearing a lot of panic," said Gerna Benz, a partner at Cali- fornia San Francisco Bay Area Col- lege Planning Specialists. Benz said business at his Oakland-based college counseling firm has tripled over the past year. Benz is encouraging more fami- lies to consider private colleges, which may be more expensive but offer less crowded classes and the chance to graduate in four years, which is becoming a rarity at many public colleges. Applications to private colleges are holding steady, while public universitiesaround the countryare seeing record demand as cost-con- scious families look for good value, said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of-the American Association of Collegiate Regis- trars and Admissions Officers. Low-income, minority students could face the roughest road to admission because they often can't afford private colleges and don't have the resources or academic credentials to compete with stu- dents from wealthier families and better high schools, he said. The enrollment caps could also threaten President Barack Obama's goal of making the U.S. the leader in college attainment by 2020 and undermine the nation's economic competitiveness, college officials say. "We're reducing enrollment when we should be increasing it," said Scott Lay, president of the Community College League of Cal- ifornia. Experts say states should' increase access to college during a recession so that unemployed workers can train for new jobs. The University of Florida, which has about 35,000 undergraduates, is seeking to reduce enrollment by 4,000 students by 2012, said spokeswoman Janine Sikes. The chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, which has 114,000 students, recently told its Board of Trustees it must con- sider capping enrollment for the first time. "If you enroll someone and don't give that individual a reasonable path.to a degree or certificate in a reasonable amount of time, what kind of access is that?" said Chan- cellor Dan Klaich. Competition is particularly intense in California, where public universities are dealing with huge cuts in state support that have led to sharp tuition increases, faculty furloughs, course cutbacks and student protests. The state's 110 community colleges are struggling to accommodate a record 2.9 mil- lion students. The 10-campus University of California reduced enrollment of California-resident freshmen by 6 percent, or about 2,300 stu- dents, and is expected to shrink enrollment further this year even as a record number of applicants applied for admission for the fall of 2010, said Nina Robinson, UC director of student policy. "If we continue to enroll the same number of students as we have in the past, we risk affecting the quality of education for our current students," Robinson said. Getting into the flagship Berke- ley could be harder than ever for California residents because it plans to admit more nonresident undergraduates, who pay three times more in tuition. California State University, the nation's largest public univer- sity system with 23 campuses and 450,000 students, is seeking to reduce enrollment by an unprec- edented 40,000 students over two years. Before the state budget cri- sis, most CSU campuses accepted nearly all students who met the minimal qualifications. By Dec. 1, CSU had already received a record 610,000 applica- tions, a 28 percent increase, for fall 2010, which means large numbers of qualified students willbe turned away, said Jim Blackburn, CSU director of enrollment manage- ment systems. APRIL 5,2010 AT 7:30PM Tickets available atTicketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster TICKETS outlets, including Michigan Union Ticket Office and Macy's. Charge by Phone at 800-745-3000.