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NEWS BRIEFS
DETROIT
Some charities feel
burned by statewide
smoking ban
The organizers of some of Mich-
igan's charity gaming events say
they're feeling a financial pinch
because the state's smoking ban
is driving gamblers who are also
smokers away from bingo parlors
and charity card games.
Gaming is a big moneymaker
for Michigan's nonprofits, pouring
tens of millions of dollars into good
causes - from Little League teams
to marching bands to Lions Clubs -
and far outpacing traditional fund-
raising.
But the Detroit Free Press
reported Saturday that statewide
charity gaming revenue for the
third quarter of2010 was $45.5 mil-
lion, down about 25 percent from
the $61.8 million collected during
the same quarter in 2009, accord-
ing to figures from the Michigan
Lottery.
Some charity gaming organizers
blame the state's ban on smoking
in most public places, which took
effect May 1.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
U.S. Supreme Court
to hear Calif. prison
crowding case
In a case pitting states rights
against the power of the federal
judiciary, the U.S. Supreme Court
will hear arguments about a feder-
al court order requiring California
to release inmates from its over-
crowded prisons.
At issue during today's hearing
is the medical and mental health
care delivered to inmates in the
nation's largest state prison sys-
tem.
Eighteen other states have
joined Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger's administration in urging the
justices to reject the order as over-
reaching and arguing that it poses
a threat to public safety. Attorneys
general elsewhere fear they could
face similar legal challenges if the
decision survives.
A 2005 ruling by a federal judge
in San Francisco found that an
average of one inmate per week
was dying in California prisons as
a result of medical neglect or mal-
feasance.
WASHINGTON
With leaked cables,
Obama forced to do
damage control
Thereleaseofmorethan250,OOO
classified State Department docu-
ments forced the Obama adminis-
tration into damage control, trying
to contain fallout from unflattering
assessments of world leaders and
revelations about backstage U.S.
diplomacy.
The publication of the secret
memos and documents ampli-
fied widespread global alarm
about Iran's nuclear ambitions
and unveiled occasional U.S. pres-
sure tactics aimed at hot spots in
Afghanistan, Pakistan and North
Korea. The leaks also disclosed
bluntly candid impressions from
both diplomats and other world
leaders about America's allies and
r foes.
Isaly's Foreign Minister Fran-
co Frattini called the release the
"Sept. 11 of world diplomacy," in
that everything that had once
been accepted as normal has now
changed.
LONDON
Britain imposes
controls on lethal
injection drug
Britain imposed controls on the
export of a drug used in American
executions yesterday, following
pressure from death penalty oppo-
nents who sought to make it more
difficult for U.S. states to obtain the
sedative.
Secretary of State for Business
Vince Cable issued an order add-
ing sodium thiopental to the list of
items which must be licensed for
export - meaning that companies
i seeking to ship the drugs abroad
will be required to prove they are
intended for legitimate . medical
use, not execution.
"This move underlines this gov-
ernment's and my own personal
moral opposition to the death pen-
alty in all circumstances without
impacting legitimate trade," Cable
said in a statement.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports.
SACUA
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collectively contributed the larg-
est amount of money that they
ever have in the last fundrais-
ing campaign, he recognizes that
faculty may wish to contribute to
their own departments or areas of
interest rather than to the under-
graduate scholarship. May said
his office does not wish to "twist
SACHS
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noticing," he told the audience.
"What it does care about is the
concentration of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere, and those con-
tinue to rise fairly relentlessly."
He said he is frustrated by the
overall lack of importance given to
environmental issues.
He gave the example of a time-
specific goal detailed in 2002 to
eliminate biodiversity loss by 2010.
According to Sachs, "no one in the
world knew anything" about this
target.
"(This is an example of) how
lightly we are proceeding in the
most extraordinarily dangerous
matter on the planet," he said.
"And it's not as if we're taking cal-
culated risks; we're taking mea-
sures withoutthe slightest interest
in finding out what those risks
might be."
DEBT
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Evidence of greater stress on
students' finances is everywhere.
Applications for financial aid at
the University have increased as
well as national demand for infor-
mation about financial aid.
According to Margaret Rodri-
guez, senior associate direc-
tor at the University's Office of
Financial Aid, the University has
responded by increasing need-
based financial aid by 11.7 per-
cent this year and introducing the
Economic Hardship grant, which
has provided $500 support for in-
state students whose families are
experiencing financial difficul-
ties.
Despite these adjustments to
compensate for the rising costs of
college, increases in tuition can
often be an obstacle in overcom-
ing financial debt.
Michael Boulus, executive
director of the Presidents Coun-
cil, State Universities of Michi-
gan, said higher tuition rates are
the direct result of significant
drops in state funding over. the
last several years. The state leg-
islature allocated $316 million to
the University this year, a 2.8-per-
cent decrease from last year. Bou-
lus said decreases in allocations
have pushed the University to
raise tuition to cover operational
costs.
This year, tuition rates
increased 3 percent for out-of-
state students and 1.5 percent for
in-state students. Though they
were the lowest tuition increases
since 1984, Boulus said the cost of
education is becoming too expen-
sive.
"We've lost our focus as a pub-
lic good. (Higher education is)
becoming more of a private good,"
Boulus said.
The increasing costs of college
have made financial aid a necessi-
anyone's arm" when it comes to
donations.
At the meeting, University
Provost Phil Hanlon continued
the discussion of the University's
efforts to help make the Univer-
sity more affordable for students,
compared to tuition rates at peer
institutions.
Looking at need-based finan-
cial aid, Hanlon said the Univer-
sity has been working to improve
"self-help" financial aid or loans
Sachs then offered a definition
of global sustainable development
and explained why it poses such a
challenge to policymakers.
"It is how to combine the eco-
nomic aspirations of the planet ...
with planetary sanity with respect
to the earth's ecosystems, the nat-
ural environment and the shared
biodiversityonthe planet," he said.
Sachs said he defines global sus-
tainable development as having
three broad objectives, "maintain-
ing growth, helping to rescue the
poor and helping to save the planet
from destruction."
He explained that the multi-
dimensional nature of the issue of
sustainable development is what
makes it so challenging for policy-
makers.
"We have a hard enough time
in our country achieving any one
goal, at least at this moment," he
said. "We're certainly not very
good at achieving multiple goals."
In addition, Sachs noted that
ty for students with unmet needs.
Those who do not receive suffi-
cient aid are forced to search for
other options to avoid debt.
"They're either opting out of
college completely or needing
to work now," Lindstrom said.
"While some work is a good idea,
too much has the opposite effect.
If you're working 30, even 40
hours (each week), you're actually
undermining (academic) perfor-
mance."
For students who cannot meet
universities' financial demands
with their available funds and
scholarship money, a recently
approved addition to federal stu-
dent loan options has improved
options for government aid. The
new income-based repayment
plan that became available last
year allows students to pay back
their loans based on their earn-
ings after graduation - instead
of a set amount per month for a
specified number of years.
Under most plans currently in
use, students repayctheir debtover
a period of 10 years. The income-
based payment plan often extends
the amount of time that students
are paying off existing loans but
protects them from defaulting on
their loan payment due to insuffi-
cient funds.
Lindstrom's Higher Education
Project advocates causes such as
the income-based repayment plan
to confront the growing need to
provide financial support to col-
lege students.
"We were able to take $40 bil-
lion away from banks and invest
it in more Pell Grant aid for stu-
dents," Lindstrom said. "Now we
need to pay attention to what we
can do to decrease the default rate
for recent college graduates."
New information about finan-
cial aid programs is always in
high demand, but as scholarships
and loans become more crucial to
students than ever before, web-
sites like finaid.org and fastweb.
and work-study options offered to
in-state students.
With this measure, Hanlon
said he feels the University has
reduced tuition costs of the in-
state students but could still offer
better financial aid options for the
rest of the students.
"I think that we would like to
do better, compared to some of our
peer competitors, particularly for
non-resident students and inter-
national students," Hanlon said.
the human population and indus-
try worldwide are growing at
alarming rates, which are placing
a strain on the environment.
"The boundary constraints are
not second order concerns, they
are not footnotes for complete-
ness," he said. "They are going
to be the essential questions for
humanity, even if Fox News and
The Wall Street Journal haven't
figured it out yet."
On this note, Sachs said that
the media's debate over whether
climate change is actually real is
irrational and a hindrance.
"To the climate.,scientists, this
debate about whether climate sci-
ence is real or not is so far from
reality in the science; it's the unin-
telligible and unimaginable to
them," he said.
"The science at the basic level is
not in doubt...what's in doubt is the
magnitude, the pacing, the timing
but not the basic science itself," he
continued.
com have expanded exponen-
tially, according to Michael Kan-
trowitz, the publisher of both
websites.
Kantrowitz said finaid.org
receives five million visitors each
year and fastweb.com has 50 mil-
lion registered users. He added
that the websites' free informa-
tion and planning tools satisfy a
new niche in today's market for
prospective college students, for
whom scholarship searches and
completion of the FAFSA are just
another part of the college pro-
cess.
LSA freshman Ainsley Losh
registered on fastweb.com to
find scholarships and said that
the website was beneficial to her
search process. She added that
the University didn't offer her any
financial aid packages when she
enrolled this year.
"Michigan offered me noth-
ing. I have a couple grants (and
the rest is) all savings that my
parents put away for me when
I was little," she said. "I have a
scholarship through Burger King
for a little bit of money. I looked
around a lot and applied for so
many scholarships, but that was
the only one I got."
For the University, Michigan's
state budget deficit will likely
continue to take precedence over
additional funding. Currently,
Michigan is one of four states that
allocates more money to correc-
tions than to higher education.
Despite the apparent lack of
scholarships and high demand
for financial aid, both Boulus and
Kantrowitz said they don'tcexpect
increases in funding to lower uni-
versity costs any time soon.
"Seven-eighths of students
who apply for financial aid gradu-
ate with debt," Kantrowitz said.
"For the past two decades, loans
have absorbed the increase in col-
lege costs, while grants haven't
really kept pace. It's going to get
worse over the next decade."
Martin Phi~lbert
appointed dean
of the School of
Public Health
Toxicology prof. is
currently senior
associate dean for
research
By DEVON THORSBY
DailyNewsEditor
Toxicology Prof. Martin Phil-
bert, senior associate dean for
research in the School of Public
Health, has been named the dean
of the School of Public Health,
according to a press release
issued by the University yester-
day.
University Provost Philip
Hanlon said in the press release
that he's excited about Philbert's
promotion, which is still pend-
ing approval by the University's
Board of Regents.
"President Coleman and I are
very pleased that Dr. Philbert
is assuming this vital leader-
ship role in the School of Public
Health," Hanlon said in the press
release. "We are confident that
he will provide impressive lead-
ership for the School of Public
Health, strengthening an already
excellent school."
Philbert said in the press
release that he is excited to work
with faculty, staff and students in
the School of Public Health and
at the University as a whole to
further develop the field of pub-
lic health in Michigan and the
United States as well as around
the world.
"I look forward to working
with our talented and dedicated
faculty, staff, students and alum-
ni, with our collaborators across
campus, and with our external
stakeholders to find new and
innovative ways to bridge the
divide between scholarly discov-
ery and the widespread adoption
of the best public health practic-
es," he said in the press release.
Philbert will replace current
Dean Kenneth Warner, who is
stepping down from the position
in order to return to teaching
and research, according to a May
press release issued by the School
of Public Health.
Philbert received his bache-
lor's degree in biology and chem-
istry from the College of Arts and
Technology in Cambridge, Unit-
ed Kingdom in 1984, followed by
a Ph.D. in neurochemistry and
experimental neuropathology
from London University in 1987,
according to the press release.
Before coming to the Univer-
sity in 1995, Philbert worked as
an associate professor at Rutgers'
Neurotoxicology Laboratories,
the press release states.
Philbert began at the Univer-
sity as an assistant professor of
toxicology, and was promoted
over time to his current posi-
tion as senior associate dean for
research and professor of toxicol-
ogy.
Philbert's research projects
and interests include experi-
mental neuropathology and the
treatment of tumors of malignant
gliomas, according to the School
of Public Health website.
A number of deans at the Uni-
versity appointed in the last few
years have also been promoted
from jobs within the University,
including Medical School Dean
James Woolliscroft in 2007,
College of Engineering Dean
David Munson in 2006 and Col-
lege of Education Dean Deborah
Loewenberg Ball in 2005.
Philbert will officially take the
position on Jan. 1, 2011, according
to the press release.
SOCCER
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sey be returned.
"In the wild post-match cel-
ebration, someone wandered off
with Justin Meram's jersey (#9),"
Hoff wrote. "He really needs this
back."
"No one is going to be mad, Jus-
tin just wants the jersey back so he
can play," Hoff added, encourag-
ing anyone who had the jersey, or
anyone who knew about the shirt's
whereabouts, to contact an Ultras
executive officer.
Hoff said no one has yet to reply
to his e-mail or Facebook message
with any pertinent information
regarding the location of the miss-
ing jersey.
Athletic Department Sports
Information Director Jessica Poole
said she was not aware of the inci-
dent and declined to comment on
Meram's missing jersey when she
was contacted yesterday afternoon.
Players have two white jerseys -
a long-sleeved and a short-sleeved
- each valued at $70, according
to Hoff. Meram was sporting the
short-sleeved version in the game
against UCF.
Meram scored two goals in Sun-
day's game, when Michigan beat
South Carolina 3-1 in Columbia,
S.C. to advance to the Elite Eight
of the NCAA Tournament. The
Wolverines wore their blue kits on
Sunday, so the missing white jersey
wasn't an issue.
The No. 10 seed Wolverines
will face No. 3 seed Maryland on
Saturday in College Park, Md.
It's unknown whether Michigan
will wear blue or white uniforms
against the Terrapins.
If Michigan wins on Saturday,
the team will advance to the Col-
lege Cup - the final four of NCAA
soccer - that will take place on
Dec.10 and Dec.12 in SantaBarbra,
Calif.
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