2A - Wednesday, November 3, 2010 MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Michigan Myths Professor Profiles Campus Clubs Photos of the Week Professor to presidential candidate The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ KATIEJOZWIAK Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 smilovitz@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gnail.com Students and Ann Arbor re: dents were abuzz with talk of t midterm elections yesterday, bu few years ago one professor caug a different type of election fever Business Prof. Jan Sven announced his candidacy become president of the Cze Republic in December 20( Though Svenjar was ultimat< unsuccessful in his bid for t. presidency, former Czech Pre dent Vaclav Havel endorsed Sv jnar for the position while. taught at the University. Svejr previously served as an econo: ic advisor to Havel and help develop plans for establishing free market economy in the cou try. According to a Jan. 3, 2008 ar cle in The Michigan Daily, Univi sity President Mary Sue Colem supported Svejnar's nominatii and promised he could remair CRIME NOTES Bookbag stolen WHERE: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library WHEN: Monday at about 1:10 p.m. WHAT: A male student's backpack was stolen on the fifth floor of the library when he left it unattended, Univer- sity Police reported. There are no suspects. The burning bus WHERE: LOT NC-37 1919 Green WHEN: Monday at about 3:40 p.m. WHAT: A bus driver reported a small fire on his bus, Univer- sity Police reported. The fire was caused by grease over- heating near a mechanism that controls steering. professor while campaigning. In order to bolster his campaign against incumbent Vaclav Klaus, 10 days before the election in Feb- ruary 2008 Svejnar announced he would give up his U.S. citizenship. Katherine Terrell, Svejnar's wife, told the Daily in a Jan. 29, 2008 article that her husband was willing to drop his American citizenship because he wanted to show his loyalty to Czech citi- zens. Terrell, a former Business and Public Policy professor, died of respiratory complications last December. "It was not easy because he has great attachment to the United States, the country that offered him a new home," Terrell said in 2008. Despite Svejnar's efforts, Klaus won with a final vote of 141-111 after a second election, which was needed to reach a majority of at least 140 votes in the Czech par- liament since the president is not elected by the public. Svejnar said one of the reasons he ran was to try to cut down the amount of bribery involving offi- cials in the Czech government. "There was an incredible amount of pressure tactics and corruption," Svejnar said in a Feb. 18, 2008 Daily article. Svejnar graduated from Cornell University and Princeton Univer- sity, and received degrees in eco- nomics and industrial and labor relations. His research concerns government policies on labor and capital markets as well as corpo- rate governance and performance. Today, Svejnar is the director of the University's International Policy Center and a professor of economics and public policy. PHOT Jan Svejnar, who ran for the Czech presidency in - STEPHANIESTEINBERG director of the International Policy Center. 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Schauer 0* From Page 1A by a three-point margin in 2008 to represent the south-central Michigan congressional district - which includes portions of Washtenaw County. At his watch party at the McCamly Hotel here, Schauer told his staff and supporters that they "almost pulled off a miracle" as Republicans throughout Mich- igan and the country made mas- sive gains in what many chalked up as an indictment of the Obama administration and the Demo- crats, who have controlled both houses of Congress since 2007. "It's going to be a tough, close loss," Schauer said before all the votes had been , counted. "But think of what you did in the face of a national tidal wave." Walberg won the Washtenaw County portion of the district with 49 percent of the vote, while Schauer claimed 47 percent. During his watch party at Daryl's Downtown Restaurant in Jackson, Mich., Walberg spoke early this morning after the elec- tion results were announced to thank his supporters. "(I'm) excited with the fact that the people of the seventh district turned around from the last vote two years ago and decided they wanted to with me again," Walberg said. Walberg added that he and Schauer had a "hard-fought cam- paign." "We ran two different cam- paigns," Walberg said. "I ran it on policy and record. He felt he had to run it on perception. I was proud of my record, and he couldn't run on his record because it wasn't selling any- where in the United States as we've seen tonight." Compared to the 2008 elec- tion, Walberg said the Republi- cans were able to put up a good fight this year. "The last election was very clear, the Democratic wave that went through. In fact, (it was) more than a wave, it was a tsu- nami," Walberg said. In an interview last night, Communication Studies Prof. Michael Traugott said Walberg's victory was consistent with the GOP's big night across the state, in which Republican Rick Snyder won the gubernatorial contest in a landslide, and a larger nation- wide victory for Republicans. "It's a big Republican night nationally," Traugott said. "There's a little Republican wave that's benefiting all can- didates, but it's also been a big Republican night in the state of Michigan, starting at the top of the ticket." Traugott explained, "There are some coattails and national swing involved in this." Walberg's victory mirrored races across the country as the Republicans captured 238 seats to reclaim the House of Repre- sentatives, which Democrats had controlled since 2006. And while the GOP remains the minority in the Senate, the Republican Party made large gains there too, netting 6 seats. Traugott said these Republi- can gains in the House and Sen- ate were the result of the Obama administration's and congres- sional Democrats' inability to improve the country's economy at a fast enough pace. "(Voters were) concerned that the Obama administration has not been able to push recovery in a faster way and not been able to get people back to work," Trau- gott said. Traugott added that the next two years are likely to be full of "gridlock" in Washington as the Republicans try to prevent Obama from pursuing his agenda. "Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) has made it clear in the Senate that (the Republicans) don't want to assist the Obama administra- tion in any way and they want to make him a one-term president," Traugott said. Traugott continued, "It'll be a little more difficult for the House Republicans when they take over control because they have a whole new responsibility for budgetary matters. (But), they're not going to cooperate with the President either." The atmosphere was somber here in light of the large Repub- lican gains. Schauer's staff and supporters could be seen fighting back tears as he addressed the 100 or so people assembled at the watch party. Schauer said he called Walberg about five minutes before taking the podium and congratulated him on a hard-fought win, urging him to continue to represent the people of the seventh congressio- nal district. "To the best damn group of volunteers, supporters and friends that I've ever known: thank you. Your compassion for others is inspiring to me," Schauer said. "Everyday when I walked into one of our campaign offices and saw you working hard, making the extra phone calls, that inspired me. You deserved victory, but we will fight another day." Schauer told the crowd that the highlight of his short, two- year tenure in the House was vot- ing to pass landmark health care reform earlier this year. "If that vote cost me my job, I'd sleep like a baby every night," Schauer said of the polarizing legislation. - Daily staff reporter Lillian Xiao contributed reporting from Jackson, Mich. MORE DAILY ELECTION COVERAGE ONLINE AT MICHIGANDAILY.COM I