4 2A - Friday, December 10, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY:, In Other Ivory Towers LEFT Sophomore guard Matt Vogrich (13) plays against Harvard at Crisler Arena on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. Michigan won the game 65-62. (SALAM RIDA/Daily) TOP RIGHT University President Mary Sue Cole- man spoke at the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meet- ing at the Fleming Administration Building on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daily) BOT- TOM RIGHT A band performs while participants at the Second Annual Kerrytowni Kindle~est at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market move around the event. KindleFest is inspired by the German Christkindlmarkt cultural tra- ditions and features artisans, farmers and retailers selling holiday decora- tions, traditional food, wine and beer. (SAMANTHA TRAUBEN/Daily) TUESDAY: Michigan Myths WEDNESDAY: Professor Profiles THURSDAY: Campus Clubs 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ KATIE JOZWIAK Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext.1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 smilovitz@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Office hours:oSun.-Thr.11am. -2a.m. News Tips news@miehigandaily.com Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Photography Department photo@michigandaily.com Arts Section artspage@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Onfine Sales Finance sports@michigandaily.com display@michigandaily.com classiffed@michigandaily.com onlineads@michigandaily.com finance@michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Thief loves Getting ugly in Clean tech stealing loveseat the UGLi symposium WHERE: Bursley Residence Hall WHEN: Wednesday at about 12:40 p.m. WHAT: A loveseat was stolen from the Living Arts Studio in the basement of Bursley Hall, Univeristy Police reported. There are no suspects. WHERE: Shapiro Undergrad- uate Library WHEN: Wednesday at about 5:30 p.m. WHAT: Two assailants kicked and punched a male student in the face, University Police reported. The victim suffered a bloody nose, and the perpetra- tors were taken into custody and released pending a war- rant. for stealing trees Weed uncovered WHAT: Speakers from China and the United States will discuss clean technology research, entrepreneurship oppor- tunities and legal issues. WHO: Erb Institute/Ross Business School and School of Natural Resources WHEN: Today from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Ballroom Winter dance performance WHAT: The ballet and lyri- cal dance group, Salto Dance Company, will perform with special guests EnCore and the Arabian Dance Ensemble. WHO: Salto Dance Company WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center, Arthur Miller Theatre Best of Best open mic night WHAT: The best perform- ers from previous mic nights will compete for a prize. WHO: University Unions & Arts Program WHEN: Tonight from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League Physics talk WHAT: Samuel C.C. Ting, professor emeritus of physics and winner of the Nobel Prize for discover- ing a subatomic particle, will give a lecture. WHO: Department of Physics WHEN: Tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Dennison Build- ing, rooms 170 and 182 CORRECTIONS " Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. Texas A&M University and a Dallas-area developer are building a 1.1 million- square-foot sustainable com- munity called the Urban Living Lab, Govtech.com reported. The city will cost about $127 million to build. Saturday's Big Chill hockey game is expected to break the record for the largest attendance at an out- door hockey game. The record was set in 2001 when Michigan played Michigan State in Spar- tan Stadium. FOR MORE, SEE THE BIG CHILL COMMEMORATIVE EDITION, INSIDE The Florida Board of Executive Clemency voted unanimously yes- terday to posthumously pardon singer Jim Morrison for inde- cent exposure and profanity charges he received at a 1969 concert in Miami, The New York Times reported. 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On-campussubcriptionsforfltermare$35.Suscriptonsmbepaid.TheMichiganDaily samember of The~ssiatedPressad heoiated ollegate Frnss. , 4 4 WHERE: Nichols Arboretum WHEN: Wednesday at about 3:30 p.m. WHAT: A pine tree was sto- len sometime between 9 a.m. Saturday and 5p.m. Sunday, University Police reported. The tree was worth $45. WHERE: Oxford Residence Hall WHEN: Thursday at about 12:45 a.m. WHAT: A bag of suspected marijuana was found after someone smelled pot, Univer- sity Police reported. MORE ONUNE Love Crime Notes? Getmore online at michigandaily.com/blogs/The Wire Senate votes to repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell' MATT GENTRKY/AP Virginia Tech students watch from the doorway of McBryde Hall on the Virginia Tech campus on Monday, April 16, 2007. Fe s: Virginla Tech v10ated law urn shootinS 17-year-old military policy remains in place after 57-40 vote WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicansblocked a major year- end push by Democrats to lift the military's ban on openly gay troops yesterday, dealing a huge blow to gay rights groups' hopes for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" any time soon. President Barack Obama instantly appealed to lawmakers to make another, last- ditch try before going home for the year. The day's dramatic events left the fate of the issue in limbo, with lawmakers eager to adjourn and still facing numerous other con- tentious issues. The Senate's 57-40 vote fell three short of the 60 needed to overcome procedural hurdles to lift the 17-year-old ban. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was the lone Republican voting to advance the bill, and Sen. Joe Manchin ofWest Virginia was the only Democrat to vote against it. The rejection was a defeat for Obama, who campaigned promis- ing to overturn the law and later called it one of his top legisla- tive priorities for the year. But in recent weeks the White House has done little to push the legisla- tion, focusingits influence instead on tax cuts and a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Obama wasn't giving up. He said the ban "weakensournational security, diminishes our military readiness and violates fundamen- tal American principles of fair- ness, integrity and equality." And he said repeal is supported by the military and the American people. "I urge the Senate to revisit these important issues during the lame duck session," he said. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was biting in his comments about Republican foes. "The other side may feel passionately that our military should sanction discrim- ination based on sexual orienta- tion, but they are clearly in the minority," he said. "And they have run out of excuses." But Republicans faulted him for the way the issue was brought to a vote, saying the procedure sealed the outcome. The 1993 law bans gay troops from publicly acknowledging their sexual orientation. A repeal provision was included in a broad- er defense policy bill and passed last spring in the House. More than 60 senators were expected to support repeal of the ban, including at least four Republicans. But GOP senators were united in demanding that the chamber vote on tax cuts first. They also wanted assurances by Reid they would be given exten- sive time to debate the defense bill, which contained other divi- sive provisions including one that would allow abortions at overseas military facilities. Two senators, Republican Collins and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, said they now would introduce a stand-alone measure to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." Its pros- pects are uncertain, though Reid indicated he was open to bring- ing it up before adjournment. If passed, it still would require House approval with time grow- ing short. Gay rights advocates were furi- ous about yesterday's events. "Instead of doing what is right, the world's greatest delibera- tive body devolved into shameful schoolyard spats that put petty partisan politics above the needs of our women and men in uniform," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. Democrats had said yesterday morning they remained hopeful a last-minute deal could be struck with Collins, believing her sup- port would persuade other GOP senators - namely Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski - to advance the legislation. Report says school failed to issue 'timely' warning of shooter RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virgin- ia Tech could be fined as much as $55,000 because it broke the law by waiting too long to notify students during a 2007 shooting rampage, according to a federal report issued yesterday. The U.S Department of Educa- tion had found in January that the school violated federal law with its response during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, but gave Tech a chance to respond to the finding in its preliminary report. In yesterday's final report, federal offi- cials rejected Tech's arguments that it met standards in place at the time. "While Virginia Tech failed to adequately warn students that day, we recognizethattheuniversity has put far-reaching changes in place since that time to help improve campus safety and better protect its students and community," U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. School officials won't face crimi- nal charges for breaking the law, the department said. The university disputed the find- ings, and spokesman Larry Hincker said the school likely will appeal if it is sanctioned. The school could be fined up to $55,000 and could face the loss of federal student financial aid. However, an expert on the law that requires notification of danger - known as the Clery Act - said loss of federal aid is unlikely. S. Daniel Carter, director of pub- lic policy for Security On Campus, said CleryActreviews are relatively rare: The Tech review was the 35th in 20 years. No school has ever lost federal funding, and the largest fine was $350,000 against Eastern Michigan University for failing to report the killing of a student in a dormitory in 2006. The department found that the university violated the Clery Act because it failed to issue a timely warning after a gunman killed two students in a dormitory early on April 16, 2007. The school sent out an e-mail about the shootings about two hours later, but by that time student gunman Seung-Hui Cho was chaining shut the doors to a classroom building where he killed 30 more students and faculty, then himself. Tech argues that the department didn't define "timely" until 2009, when it added regulations to require immediate notification upon confir- mation of a dangerous situation or immediate threat to people on cam- "Both the law and purpose- ful reasoned analysis require that the actions of that day be evalu- ated according to the information that was available to the university and its professionals at that time," Hincker said. "Anything else loses sightoftheunthinkable andunprec- edented nature of what occurred." But the report says the depart- ment has consistently stated that the determination of whether a warning is timely is based on the nature of the crime and the continu- ing danger to the campus. "The fact that an unknown shoot- er might be loose on campus made the situation an ongoing threat at that time, and it remained a threat until the shooter was apprehended," the report said. A state commission impaneled to investigate the shootings also found that the university erred by failing to notify the campus sooner. The state reached an $1 million settle- ment with many of the victims' families. Two families have filed a $10 million civil lawsuitagainstuni- versity officials. One victim's mother said she was glad theuniversity finally faced pun- ishment for its actions, but she took more satisfaction from the inclusion in the report of actions officials took to protect themselves that morning. Victims' families had long wanted those details included in a separate reportby the state panel. Former Gov. Sarah Palm to visit Haiti to aid humanitarian effort Palen to travel to Haiti this weekend with reverend JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - For- mer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to visit Haiti amid a period of political upheaval this week- end to aid humanitarian efforts in the Caribbean country. A Palin staffer confirmed yesterday that Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee and a potential 2012 presidential con- tender, planned to travel to Haiti with the Rev. Franklin Graham as part of the outreach of his Samaritan's Purse relief organi- zation. A spokeswoman for the group confirmed Palin planned to visit relief sites this weekend. A cholera outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti, a country that is still recovering from a devastating earthquake earlier this year and is in the midst of a disputed presidential election. Gunfire and barricades were reported yesterday in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, and the U.S. State Department reissued a travelwarning to the country and recommended against non- essential travel. Graham said he appreciates Palin's willingness to visit Haiti during such troubled times. "I believe Gov. Palin will be a great encouragement to the people of Haiti and to the orga- nizations, both government and private, working so hard to pro- vide desperately needed relief," he said in a statement. i I