SPORTS BUCKEYE BROTHERS NO LONGER: How three brothers from a Buckeye family made >n to maize and blue. PAGE 8A The University's graduate program in conducting: What it takes to lead an entire ensemble. PAGE 3B I e ic igan FIJ michigandaily.com MEDICAL MARIJUANA Owner of marijuana shop faces challenges LSA sophomore Rodney Hyduk steps behind the camera to film a group assignment for his Art & Design video compositing class yesterday. The students use motion tracking technology in front of a green screen in the Duderstadt Center to film a project about utopias. UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS School of d. modifies graduation requirements If city ordinance passes, medical pot owner's business will become illegal By ADAM RUBENFIRE Daily StaffReporter Though the office building at 202 E. Washington St. doesn't look notable from the outside, one of its tenants owns abusiness that is rather controversial. The business is a medical marijuana dispensary called the Ann Arbor Patient to Patient Compassion Club. The dispensa- ry's owner T.J. Rice sells several varieties of marijuana in addition to other products that contain cannabis. Since Michigan voters passed the Medical Marihuana Act in November 2008 through a bal- lot proposal, regulation of medi- cal marijuana dispensaries has been a recurring issue at Ann Arbor City Council meetings. Currently, the City Council is in the process of evaluating an ordinance that would establish rules for licensing the businesses. After a first reading of the ordi- nance was postponed last week, the City Council will have a first reading of the ordinance at its Feb. 7 meeting. Rice, also a convicted drug felon, said he possesses marijua- na for medical reasons. However, he said he isn't a registered medi- cal marijuana cardholder with the state. The Medical Marihuana Act doesn't refer to dispensary own- ers, leaving it up to individual cit- ies to decide whether a convicted drug felon should be allowed to own one. The current draft of the proposed city ordinance prohib- its felons from doing so. Rice, who is a cancer survivor, said he is in the process of obtain- ing a card butsees little use in the identification. "Cards aren't important at all," Rice said. When asked why a convicted See MARIJUANA, Page 5A Students gain experience through working at schools By BRIENNE PRUSAK Daily StaffReporter At the beginning of each semester, Bob Bain, an associ- ate professor in the University's School of Education, asks his students to write letters to their future selves to remind them of the teachers they want to be and the skills they want to uti- lize. He tells them what they're learning isn't preparing them for the moment, but for when they become teachers in 18 months. Through new programs and graduation requirements, the School of Education is helping students become the teachers described in their letters. Five years ago, the School of Edu- cation began implementing new graduation requirements, including participation in the Clinical Rounds Project as well as providing the option to take part in the Mitchell/Scarlett- U-M Partnership. The program requires students studying to become secondary education teachers to have classroom teaching experience in addi- tion to the education they gain through classes and textbooks. According to Bain, students in the Clinical Rounds Project are required to work in five dif- ferent schools, including public, private, urban and suburban schools, before graduation. This emphasis on classroom exposure See EDUCATION, Page 5A UNIVERSITY RESEARCH Student-launched satellite on course, has few sa By The built Alaska cessful Two future The satellite, called the Radio Aurora Explorer, or RAX, is tellite projects sponsored by the National Sci- ence Foundation and tasked with in progress investigating space anomalies called magnetic field-aligned CLAIRE GOSCICKI irregularities. According to Rack- Daily StaffReporter ham student Sara Spangelo, a member of the University's satel- University's first student- lite development team, RAX has satellite, launched from met many of its objectives. this past November, is suc- "We had some great success ly orbitinginspace. early in the mission," Spangelo glitches said. "In particular, we received our first beacons from the space- craft. That meant it was on, everything was fine and it was able to communicate." The team has been performing several experiments with the sat- ellite, Spangelo said, to satisfy the goals of research scientist Hasan Bahcivan of SRI International in California, the co-principal investigator of the project. James See SATELLITE, Page 5A Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, gives her keynote speech for the LSA Theme Semester on mater in Rackham Auditorium last night. Oceaorpe yvaEarle CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION * Bell Tower repairs to be completed in Sept. raises water awareness in talk Classrooms, offices not affected by building renovation By MELISSA MARCUS Daily StaffReporter The construction on the Bur- ton Memorial Tower on Central Campus will finish on time, a University official confirmed yesterday. "Work continues and the project is still scheduled to be completed by September 2011," University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an e-mail. The building, also known as the bell tower, has been under construction this past year as changes to improve its structure are being made. The construc- tion is projected to cost $1.6 million, according to a Sept. 15, 2010 University press release. Exterior work on the tower consists ofreplacing metal flash- ing and repairing the stonework. Interior work includes repairs to the concrete and steel struc- ture that supports the carillon. Other renovations include the replacement and waterproof- See BELL TOWER, Page 5A Lecture part of LSA Theme Semester on water By LEE SOVA-CLAYPOOL Daily StaffReporter oceans make up the major- ity of the world, yet most people don't think about the intricacies and importance of these bod- ies of water. But Sylvia Earle - renowned oceanographer, National Geographic explorer, author and activist - isn't most people. Students, faculty and envi- ronmental enthusiasts packed Rackham Auditorium last night to hear Earle's lecture, "The World is Blue," which was the keynote address for LSA's theme semester about water. Earle has a number of acco- lades, including more than 60 underwater expeditions, mul- tiple published works and being named "hero for the planet" by Time magazine in 1998 for her extensive underwater research. In her lecture, Earle empha- sized the importance of oceanic sustainability, increasing public See WATER, Page 5A WEATHER HI: 29 TOMORROW LO 25 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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