Ryan Kartje: Michigan fans shouldn't assume A p f g * rthat Jim Harbaugh would choose to fill an opening here over better options PG elsewhere. oPAGE2B Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 29,2010 michiandaiyco >m -.. - . - ....... .Q.... ....... j........ PATR' NG C MPi S POICE Year after probe, DPS Oversight Cmte. appears to follow statute Student, faculty reps now elected, body meets more regularly By STEPHANIE STEINBERG Daily News Editor Members of the University's Department of Public Safety Over- sight Committee are now being properly elected, more than one year after a Michigan Daily inves- tigation found representatives on the advisory board were being elected illegally. The committee - which is com- prised -of two faculty, two staff members and two students - addresses grievances filed against the University's Department of Public Safety. Last November, independent lawyers told the Daily that representatives on the com- mittee were not being elected in accordance with Michigan statute Public Act 120. The law states that faculty, staff and student representatives must be elected by their respective constituencies. At the University, however, the Michigan Student Assembly had historically appoint- ed the two student representa- tives. In addition, the committee's bylaws state that faculty members must be elected every two years, but at the time of the investigation the faculty members on the com- mittee had held their positions for nine consecutive years. After a series of reports, MSA and the Senate Advisory Commit- tee on University Affairs - the leading faculty governing body - revised their respective elec- tion processes to comply with the statute. In February, faculty members were allowed to nominate their colleagues to the committee and then subsequently vote in a fac- ulty-wide election. The following month, the student body elected its two student representatives on the committee for the first time in more than a decade. Law School Prof. Richard Fried- man, an Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law, is one of the new faculty members who was elect- ed to the committee last spring. Friedman, an expert in Supreme Court history, said he didn't active- ly campaign for the position but was nominated by his peers. "I don't know if I particularly wanted it ... I was asked to serve, and so I like to say yes when Ican," he said. Friedman, who was selected to be chair of the committee in July, is working to ensure that the com- mittee complies with the state stat- ute and carries out its role to act as a check on the campus police. "The statute could be open to interpretation to what the precise function of what the committee is, but I think it makes it very clear See COMMITTEE, Page 3A MAXcOLLINS/Daily Rich Rodriguez at the press conference following the Wolverines 37-7 loss the Buckeyes Saturday. For more coverage of The Game, see SportsMonday, inside. It's time for the Rich Rodriguez era to end COLUMBUS - About midway through Saturday's game that wasn't a game, it became painfully clear that the writing was on the wall. or rather, the writing was on the Twitter feed. @jayfeely:Kills me watching Michigan struggle like they have the last three years!! Not even competitive in Big Ten games. Time for a change @jayfeely: @SBreastonl5, (Alan) Branch, Gabe Watson all (of) us are beside ourselves watch- ing this shell of what Michigan used to be. @SBreasto- n15: Yikes! Smh (shaking my head) The same debate has gone on for months, RYAN KARTJE Rodriguez sat uncomfortably in his press conference after the Wolverines' seventh straightloss to Ohio State - this time a 37-7 shellacking - that debate had finally reached its breaking point. So there he sat, on edge like we'd never seen him before, furi- ously insisting that he could do what he's been saying he would do for three years. "I took this job to make us the best program in America, and sometimes it takes a little longer to mold the program the way you want to mold it," Rodriguez said. "That doesn't mean you can't do it. Im not deterred one bit. "I think the worst is behind us. I know it is." But after an utter embarrass- ment like Saturday - which, he's right, was the worst of his tenure - that plea doesn't mean quite as much as it did after his slew of previous disappointments. Since his hiring, since 3-9, since 5-7,I have remained firmly in Rodriguez's camp. The cup- board had been bare, injuries had decimated his team, he didn't See KARTJE, Page 3A almost years now, but never had Michigan football alumni like Jay Feely so openly discussed their dismay. And as Michigan coach Rich Experts: Student housing shields city from high foreclosure rates Sul st sal for. Desp rates ac Ann At foreclo County tors sa dent h( rplus of private reason the city has avoided higher foreclosure rates. udent housing Foreclosure rates in Michigan increased 17 percent from Oct. id to be at fault 2009 to Oct. 2010 and the state had the fifth highest rate of fore- A2 foreclosures closure in the country last month, according to the Detroit Free By DEVON COX Press. Roughly one in every 235 For the Daily Michigan householdswas in fore- closure in October. Monroe, Oak- ite rising foreclosure land and Livingston were among cross the state and nation, the Michigan counties that expe- rbor had one of the lowest rienced the highest foreclosure sure rates in Washtenaw rates in the state. and city officials and real- But in the four Ann Arbor ZIP y Ann Arbor's active stu- codes available for analysis, the ousing market may be one foreclosure rate was much lower than that of the state. In October, one in every 897 households in ZIP code 48105 was in foreclo- sure proceedings, followedby one in every 527 houses in ZIP code 48103 and one in every 360 hous- es in ZIP code 48108, according to RealtyTrac Inc. Ann Arbor's 48104 ZIP code, which contains the University's central campus and a large por- tion of downtown, experienced the highest foreclosure rate of the four Ann Arbor ZIP codes available for analysis - with one in every 322 households in fore- closure proceedings during the See FORECLOSURES, Page 2A TORE~HAN SHARMAN/Daily Cans of Four Loko at Strickland's Market yesterday. Party store owners say the alcoholic energy drink has been selling well since it was banned earlier this month. Area party store owners say Four Loko flyin off shelves As registration gets underway, LSA advising site adds online resources Students stocking up in light of ban, owners report By SARAH ALSADEN Daily StaffReporter Cans of Four Loko have been fly- ing off campus store shelves since the Michigan Liquor Control Com- mission banned the caffeinated alcoholic drink earlier this month, according to many area party store WEATHER HI 52 TOMORROW LO 28 owners. . Though some local party store owners have noticed only modest increases in sales of the drink nick- named "blackout in a can," many report dramatic spikes - with some stores like A & L Wine Castle on West Stadium Boulevard seeing a five-fold increase compared to sales before the announcement of the ban. Store owners attribute the uptick in sales to students stock- ing up on the drink before it disap- pears from store shelves. The beverage, which has been reported to have adverse side effects on consumers, contains as much alcohol as four beers and the same amount of caffeine found in three to four cups of coffee. David Breher, manager of the Main Street Party Store on North Main Street, said his store has experienced a 20-percent increase in Four Loko sales since the ban. Breher, who is opposed to the ban, said he thinks people will continue to purchase and consume alcoholic drinks, regardless of the See FOUR LOKO, Page 3A Updates include instructional YouTube videos By NATHAN RANNS Daily StaffReporter As students begin to regis- ter for classes today, they'll have more opportunities than ever to get advice on backpacking and fulfilling distribution require- ments - all without setting foot in an advisor's office. LSA's Newnan Academic Advising Center recently updated its online resources to offer stu- dents advice on how to achieve academic success. Timothy Dodd, director of the Newnan LSA Aca- demic Advising Center, wrote in. an e-mail interview that recent updates include changes to the Peer Academic Advising Office website, the addition of an aca- demic success strategies website and new YouTube instruction- al videos that guide students through using resources like Wol- verine Access. Dodd wrote that the advising staff has been "especially focused on developing (these) web-based resources over the past two years." He said the most recent See ADVISING, Page 3A GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail newsoa michigandaily.com and let us know. NIEW ON MICI IG A NDA ILY.COM Five Guys opening delayed until January. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE WIRE INDEX NEWS... . . . 2A ARTS ......A.........................5A Vol. CXXI,No.56 AP NEWS..............3A CLASSIFIEDS......................6A ©2010TheMichigan Daily OPINION................ .......4A SPORTSMONDAY.. 1B michigondailycom "" " " "