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'rl.o ,.x Six million Chinese workers began A siege of a prominent Catholic Hundreds of re the largest ever census, going church in Baghdad Sunday resulted to watch while door-to-door for information about in the deaths of 51 Iraqi worship- 18, were execu the most populated country in the pers and seven Iraqi commandos, Somalia. A gro world. For the first time, citizens will after assailants detonated suicide controls much be counted in their homes rather vests during their hostages' rescue and is linked to than at their registered residency. mission. them of being! T T 1 111111 L 111 sidents were forced After turning himself in to Saudi Dilma Rouseff, 62, was elected the two girls, ages 15 and Arabian authorities, Jabir al-Fayfi, a first female president of Brazil. She ted by firing squad in previous detainee in Guantanamo was the preferred successor of for- up, al-Shabab, which Bay and former member of al Qa- mer President Luiz Inacio Lula da of southern Somalia eda, may have provided informa- Silva, despite never holding elected al Qaeda, accused tion that helped find mail bombs office. She will be sworn into office spies. on two U.S.-bound cargo planes. on January 1. 1 1 1 1r1TTTTT1 s quotes of the week "You'd be amazed how many times I take a picture with a very pregnant woman and then she immediately gives birth." FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, during a speech in Canton, Ohio Satur- day, after Ohio Rep. John Boccieri was given the news that his wife was going into labor. "I wouldn't call this a Sputnik moment." P.J. CROWLEY, spokesman for the U.S. State Department, on the announce- ment that a new supercomputer developed by a Chinese company now holds the title of fastest computer, which was formerly held by the U.S. State Depart- ment of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. "Drugs that are legal cause at least as much damage, if not more than, drugs that are illicit." WIM VAN DEN BRINK, a professor of psychiatry and addiction at the Uni- versity of Amsterdam, on a recent study that suggests alcohol is more dan- gerous than other illegal drugs, including ecstasy and LSD. the rules on the cheap the first date on a budget By MALLORY BEBERMAN ven before Prohibition was enacted in Michigan in i918 and ratified at the federal level less than a year later, University of Michigan students were limited in where they could and could not drink alcohol. According to James Tobin, a his- torian who has written extensively about the history of the University, Division Street in downtown Ann Arbor was once more than just another street. In 1856, in response to a student riot at Hangsterfer's Hall on the corner of Main Street and Washington Street, city officials established a "dry line" along Divi- sion Street - which already had that name - that prohibited saloons east of there from serving alcohol. The riot erupted after Hangster- fer's refused to serve alcohol to two rowdy University students. Students stormed into the saloon the next evening, slashing open beer kegs and driving the saloon owner into the streets, according to Tobin. The dry line, Tobin said, was "some sort of gentleman's hand- shake agreement between bar own- ers and city officials." He added that this agreement appeased Ann Arbor residents, saloon owners and University offi- cials alike. "The University officials would have said, 'Look we don't want these students to be able to roll out of bed and go into a bar. We want there to be some sort of buffer zone between the campus and the saloons,' " he speculated. But even prior to Prohibition, stu- dents publicly demonstrated their opposition toward it as it gained popularity in the country. Accord- ing to the Downtown Ann Arbor Historical Street Exhibit Program's website, University students orga- nized a rally on State Street in 1902 to demonstrate against the preach- ing of Carrie Nation - a temperance movement leader. In 1903, the dry line went from a "gentleman's agreement" to actual law when the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil voted to make it permanent. But come 1918, when the state of Michi- gan enacted Prohibition, the dry line' would be the least of student's wor- ries.t Students at the time reacted simi- larly to how one might expect them to react today. "I think students were accus- tomed to drinking and there was a fair amount of alarm and outrage about Prohibition," Tobin said. "People were immediately thinking about ways to get around it." on the other hand, Tobin said that University faculty tended to support Prohibition. "Some of the faculty were clergy- men so they had typical conservative Christian views about drinking," he said. "So they were in favor, as a body, of Prohibition." No. 281: Today is the last day you can make Christine O'Donnell jokes. Nevermind, keep making them. No. 282: No one cares how many jobs offers you've gotten. No. 283: We're already sick of looking at your costume profile pic- ture on Facebook. Change it back. D ating is a typical part of college life, but without the proper preparation, dates can seriously weigh down your wallet. So, before you go on your next date, here are a couple ways to avoid dropping too much cash for a nice date. Before it gets too cold out, take advantage of the scenic sites around campus. A stroll around Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum can be very roman- tic. And, most importantly, it's free. As for other (indoor) pre-dinner entertainment, consider going out for drinks and appetizers in places with specials. Bar Louie offers Happy Hour on weekdays with inexpensive drinks and half priced appetizers. Then, consider eating dinner somewhere that has specials too, like Sava's dollar burger nights on Mondays. Finally, instead of shelling out upwards of $10 a person on movie tickets, consider renting a'movie from Askwith Media Library. It's free, and watching a movie at home is way cozier than going to a theater. Have advice for life on the cheap? Let us know E-mail onthecheap@umich.edu. by the num bersCOURTESY OF BBC.COM Percentage of the vote that Dilma Rouseff, pres- The percentage of voting abstention this The number of people in millions that Dilma ident-elect of Brazil, won against her rival. year in Brazil, where it is mandatory to Rouseff said during her victory speech she plans vote. to bring out of poverty.