From the Daily: By stuffing our Thanksgiving break, the 'U' squashes students' time at home. ) PAGE 4 uueing co Joe Staplet takes on TI Lantern's Meisel. )' Sarah Palin's Alaska would be better without Sarah Palin. PAGE 5 I be 13id~i~a3an 0ai1j Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 24, 2010 michigandaily.com MICHIGAN STUDENT ASEMBILY Official says open housing unlikely to be option for fall Open housing group sign up, we have a marketing peri- od where we let people know what submitted proposal to expect, what we're offering. And prior to that we have to get the yesterday asking computer set, so that the rooms are all typed." for fall launch Newman said she had not seen the open housing proposal - By ROBIN VEECK which has been in the works for Daily StaffReporter months - though MSA represen- tative and Open Housing Initia- A University official told mem- tive member Allison Horky said bers of the Open Housing Ini- the report was sent out yesterday tiative at last night's Michigan before the meeting. Student Assembly meeting that it's "I haven't seen it. I haven't unlikely an open housing option received it," Newman said of the will be offered to University Hous- proposal at last night's meet- ing residents next fall. ing. "It's really hard for me to Members of the Open Housing tell you what the process will be Initiative submitted a proposal to when I don't know what it is. It's University Housing yesterday, ret- really hard to develop a response ommending that gender-neutral when you don't know what you're housing be offered in residence responding to." halls beginning next fall. Despite Horky said she was confused enthusiasm from various MSA by the meeting's developments members and others in the campus because she thought Newman was community, Director of Univer- in the loop throughout the propos- sity Housing Linda Newman, who al process. answered questions about resi- "Essentially, we've given the dence hall policies at last night's proposal to the administrators to meeting, was less than optimistic look through, and then we'll kind about the proposed timeframe. of sit down and talk. about all the "Well, typically we always do ideas and hopefully the students the room sign-up for returning will continue to be in the driver's students in late January," New- seat," Horky said. "The adminis- man said in an interview after last trators are really receptive to our night's meeting. "Before people See HOUSING, Page 3 ; : ! U II II ,. MAX COLLINS/Daily The first completed public art installation funded by the Public Art Ordinance yesterday. The program takes one percent from capital projects and sets the lunds aside for public art. This sculpture is located at West Park on the corner of Seventh Street and Miller Road and will be recognized at the park's opening this spring. " ItCThe costof culture:Ct brass at odds. over public art policy Ordinance requires one percent of cost of capital projects to be set aside for art By ELYANA TWIGGS DailyStaffReporter Following in the model of cit- ies like Seattle and Portland, Ann Arbor established a program to use city funds to promote pub- lic art three years ago. But with only one project completed and a controversial installation in the works, some city officials are say- ing the program may not be a wor- thy use of public money. The Ann Arbor Public Art Com- mission, started in 2007, is funded through the Chapter 24 Public Art Ordinance, which allocates one percent of every capital proj- ect estimate to the installation of a public art piece. Ann Arbor is the only city to have a program of this kind in the state. Margaret Parker, chair of AAPAC, said despite criticisms, the program is something the community needs. "You don't just stay alive by just by having a job," Parker said. "You need the things that feed your spirit and your soul." Public art, she says, is some- thing available to the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week to every person who visits Ann Arbor. "It is important for kids to see that their community values art," Parker said. "To have art in your community all the time really says that arts and culture and the spiritual end of communication is just as important as buildings and commerce and education." According to Parker, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Port- land and the states of Maine and Ohio all have seen rewarding results from their Percent for Art programs. She said that these cit- ies have been implementing the art programs for the last 30 years. The first completed public art piece funded through the pro- gram in Ann Arbor is located at West Park on the corner of Sev- See ART, Page 3 FRIENDS AND - FINALLY - FOOD UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM New clinic aims to provide consistent care for students Clinic for Crohn's, colitis patients is open every other Friday By CLAIRE GOSCICKI Daily StaffReporter University doctors Ellen Zim- mermann and Michael Rice, phy- sicians of internal medicine for the University Health System, have teamed up to offer medi- cal care to students with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in a new clinic located inside the Taubman Health Care Center. Often diagnosed in young adults, Crohn's disease and ulcer- ative colitis are two inflammatory bowel diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract and colon,"' respectively. While there is no cure for either condition, botl can be treated with medication, surgery or changes in diet accord- ing to the UHS website.' The clinic, which is open in the morning on the second and fourth Friday of each month, offers various treatment and therapy options exclusively to University stud _nts. The gastroenterology department of the University hos- pital also maintains general, mul- tidisciplinary and pediatric IBD clinics that are open throughout the week. Rice; who is a gastroenterolo- gist and IBD specialist, said the clinic provides consistent care for patients who are going through a time of large-scale change. "(College) is an unusual time of transition ... you no longer have the direct support of your parents or your gastroenterologist," he See CLINIC, Page 3 Students participate in the Muslim Students' Association's Fast-a-thon in West Quad yesterday. Participants fasted from sunrise to sunset and came together for dinner following the fast. All proceeds from the event went toward relief for Pakistan flood victims. CAMPUS SERVICES Online, Sweetland Center tries to keep that in-person feeling A GREENER UNIVERSITY Filling up without the tilt: New water stations offer quick pour, less hassle With SyncOWL, tutors comment on- papers in real time By SABIRA KHAN Daily StaffReporter Most students wouldn't imagine getting help on a paper from the . Sweetland Writing Center in their pajamas. But thanks to a new pro- gram from the tutoring hub, stu- dents can now get interactive help straight from their bedrooms. In an effort to become more accessible to students, the Sweet- land Writing Center introduced SyncOWL at the start of the fall semester. SyncOWL, an offshoot of the Online Writing Lab, allows students to "get the benefits of a face to face tutoring session with- outleaving (their) room (and) meet with a Peer Tutor online to get help with (their) writing," accord- ing to the program's website. SyncOWL allows students to have web conferences with Sweet- land Center's peer tutors and have their papers edited in real time. SyncOWL sessions use Google Docs, an online word-processing program that allows for both See SWEETLAND, Page 3 Bottle filling spots in Angell Hall, Union part of 'U' green effort By JORDAN ROCHELSON Daily StaffReporter Don't call it a water fountain. In many buildings across campus the spots where students cangrab a quick drink have been trans- formed into water refill stations. The refill stations, which are in the Michigan Union and Angell Hall among other locations, were created in an attempt to curb the campus community's use of single-usage water bottles and the effect this has on the environ- ment and are partof a larger cam- pus sustainability effort. Planet Blue, a University program that works to make the campus more environmentally friendly, is the organization behind the water refill stations. Andrew Berki, manager of the University's Office of Campus Sustainability, said the water refill stations have been very suc- cessful since they were installed earlier this fall. "We've had terrific response from the community on these See WATER; Page 3 WEATHER HI: 45 TOMORROW Lo 24 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Henning clarifies comments on Rodriguez firing. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE GAME INDEX NEWS ..................................2 ARTS.. . . . ........ 5 Vol. CXXI, No. 55 AP NEW S .............................3 CLASSIFIED S......................... 6 2010 TheMichigan Daly OPINION.............. .4 SPORT .....7 michigandoily.cvn, I