2 - Tuesday, September 28, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com * MONDAY: * WEDNESDAY: MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Michigan Professor Profiles ccena enefits? THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week For many students on campus, scrambling to get to class while rocking out to their iPods and furi- ously texting their roommates about the strange smell in the refrigerator, being oblivious to the outside world and oncoming traffic, is a way of life. But students won't get rewarded for distractedly walking into traf- fic. Contrary to campus lore, getting hit by a University bus isn't going to result in a free meal ticket or free tuition at the University. Asked about the campus legend that if a University bus hits a stu- dent, the University will pay the student's tuition, University spokes- woman Kelly Cunningham said it's not at all true. "It is absolutely, positively not true!" Cunningham wrote in an e-mail interview with The Michigan Daily. And while Cunningham said she's positive the legend isn't true, she said she's not sure where the myth ever began. "I don't know how this one got started," Cunningham wrote. Though it's hard to trace the ori- gins of the long-standing legend, it's certainly not unique to the Univer- sity. Similar legends exist at other schools across the country, includ- ing at Ohio State University, Indiana University and University of Idaho. At Texas A&M University, the myth is so popular that a Facebook group exists called "I wanna get hit by a bus." The Facebook page says the group is for students "that want free tuition!" and it encourages its members to get hit by university vehicles saying: "Let's all go jump in front of those bigrigs." 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The University offers several services, like Night Ride and S.A.FE. Walk, so students don't have to walk home alone. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Pot possession in Male aggressively North Campus Grad. program the Big House asks for money career fair info session WHERE: Stadium Gate WHEN: Saturday at 8 a.m. WHAT: A male subject trying to enter the stadium to attend the game was discovered to be in possession of marijuana, University Police reported. He was not reported to be high at the time of the arrest. Patient attacks WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Saturday at 6:40 a.m. WHAT: A nurse was assault- ed by an elderly male hospital patient, University Police reported. The patient was being treated for a closed head wound and attacked the nurse with a closed fist punch. The case is still under inves- tigation. WHERE: 1114 State Street WHEN: Saturday at 6 a.m. WHAT: A male subject was read trespass after aggressive- ly asking passersby for money, University Police reported. He was reported to be panhan- dling and DPS intervened. No arrest was made. 7 dollars stolen WHERE: Duderstadt Building WHEN: Saturday at 12 p.m. WHAT: $7 were stolen from a female subject's purse while she was next to it studying in a third floor lab of the library, University Police reported. The female student noticed the money missing when she got ready to leave the library. No suspects have been identified. WHAT: A career fair will be held on North Campus, fea- turing over 230 companies looking to hire. WHO: Society of Women's Engineering and Tau Beta Pi WHEN: Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Pierpont Commons, the Duder- stadt, the CSE Building and EECS Building. WHAT: Information about the Science, Technology and Public Policy graduate certificate's effect on public policy will be discussed, accompanied by pizza. WHO: Science, Technol- ogy, and Public Policy WHEN: Today at 5 p.m. WHERE: Taubman Alfred Medical Library The canned pumpkin short- age - prompted last year by heavy rains and an increase in pumpkin popularity - is offi- cially over, USA Today reported. Favorable pumpkin harvesting conditions and extra planting efforts by Nestle helped to end the shortage. Several campus groups came together to change the name of the proposed gender-neutral housing option to "open housing" last week. If approved, the housing choice will go into effect Fall 2011. >FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 Women apologize more frequently than men, The Scientific American reported. The gender difference is not a result of a female predis- position. Findings showed that women, on a daily basis, found more things offensive than men did. 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Qantuma Museum presentation WHAT: A lecture by Dan Lanthrope of the University of Maryland will be held about quantum physics and other related phenomena, including superconductiv- ity and superfluidity. WHO: Center for the Study of Complex Systems WHEN: Today at 12:15 a.m. WHERE: West Hall, Room 340 WHAT: A lecture pre- sented by Nina Simon about museum exhibits that encourage visitor par- ticipation will be held. WHO: Museum Stud- ies Program WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Michigan Museum of Art in the Helmut Stern Auditorum MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Get more online atmichigandaily.com/blogs/the wire int numUMichCsStudents = 400; int numBVEmployeesFromUMich = 0; float chanceBVEmployeeFromUMich = numUMichCsStudents/ (float) numBVEmployeesFromUMich; Bazaarvoice If you can figure out what's wrong with the code, come talk to us at the Engineering Career Fair, Tuesday, September 28th. www.bazaarvoice.com/campus Mahmood Karzai, a U.S. citizen, says he will fix the tax issue in question KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The eldest brother of Afghan Pres- ident Hamid Karzai said he is not aware of a criminal investigation into his activities, an inquiry he claims is more about political dif- ferences with the U.S. than wrong- doing on his part. "I'm hurt, because instead of being praised for what I've done, I'm being attacked all the time for political reasons," Mahmood Karzai, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Dubai and has businesses in Afghanistan, told The Associ- ated Press in a recent interview that touched on corruption claims made against him. A federal criminal investigation under way in the Southern District of New York is now focusing on possible corruption involving Kar- zai, a U.S. law enforcement official said Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the ongoing investigation is in its early stages. The Wall Street Journal first reported the investigation Mon- day, noting that prosecutors are trying to determine if they have enough evidence to bring charges of tax evasion, racketeering or extortion against Karzai. Karzai said he is traveling to New York this week to amend his earnings on his U.S. tax returns to show profits from business deals not previously reported and says he will freely discuss his financial deals with American prosecutors. "Why should they charge me? I've already volunteered to cor- rect the problem. If they want to audit my taxes, they're welcome to do that," Karzai told the AP in the telephone interview last week. "I'm not involved in anything with the U.S. contracts. I'm not involved with any contract with the government. I'm not working for the government. So my activi- ties are completely private with private individuals," Karzai said. "So my picture is very clear. You'll never find anybody in the whole country who will say that I gave $10 to Mahmood Karzai for this or that favor. I do my projects here for developing. My whole life is open." Karzai said he has not met with investigators or prosecutors in the United States. He said inves- tigators in Afghanistan provid- ed a letter to his lawyer several months ago, saying that he was not the subject of any investiga- tion. Karzai said he's been unfairly targeted by U.S. officials because of disagreements the Afghan pres- ident has with the U.S. govern- ment over policy issues. "What I don't like about inter- national politics is that our family is treated like some kind of mon- archy," he said. "In other words, if there's some dispute on policy matters with my brother, they will attack me or Ahmad Wali (another of the president's brothers and a power broker in southern Afghan- istan) to make him weak. This is to me so un-American. "To crucify my rights for the sake of getting to my brother - this is an outrageous way of doing things." Karzai said he was prepar- ing to amend his tax returns to reflect rental income from his home in Maryland and to show a capital gains on the sale of prop- erty in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, which he held for eight months before making a profit. "There's nothing else in my life that will make me part of an investigation," said Karzai, who spends time in Afghanistan, Dubai and the United States. "If some- body else reported something on me and they want to investigate, I'm open to that. It is no problem. There are so many enemies of our family." Earlier this month, Karzai said he made at least $800,000 by buying and then quickly resell- ing a high-end Dubai villa using a loan provided by the chairman of troubled Kabul Bank. Karzai is a 7 percent shareholder of the bank, which is now being overseen by Afghanistan's central bank. Karzai, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, said the villa sale and the loan to cover for it were organized by Sherkhan Farnood - who has since resigned as Kabul Bank chairman - though it was listed in Karzai's name. He said he was uncertain about the terms of the loan - or even if bank funds were involved. Just months after he bought the property for $1.9 million, Karzai said he sold it for about $2.7 mil- lion. Again, he said, Farnood han- dled the deal. Karzai said that he has focused on development in Afghanistan, including $4 million he and five others invested in a residential project in Kandahar where 11,000 lots have been sold. They also have used proceeds from the sale of the lots to pay for roads, sidewalks, electricity service, a sewage sys- tem and water. He said the project, which could take a decade to complete, is gen- erating revenue for the Afghani- stan government - $2 million in fees and taxes already and the expectation of a total of $30 mil- lion in payments by the time the project is completed. Karzai said he was living on income he earned in the United States, including that from a res- taurant in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts. He said he recently sold some of his businesses, includ- ing another restaurant in Balti- more, Maryland, to employees. He said he also has sold a car busi- ness that he opened several years ago in Afghanistan, but remains part owner of a cement producer, which employees 1,500 people. Thirty-four investors, including Karzai, took a risk by investing in the cement business, which he said has lost between $900,000 and $1 million in each of the past three years. "I'm really looking forward to the day when my activities will be supported because I'm doing exactly what the United States intends to do in this country," Kar- zai said. "And I was encouraged in the beginning when my brother had a good relationship with the government, in the good old days. I was encouraged to do more and more. All of this has turned around now to the negative." U.S. investigating brother of Afghan pres. for corruption *