2A - Monday, February 7, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, February 7, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom e wdcilban Dailij 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115ext.1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com SAY CHEESE! U. of Georgia mascot dies Big Bad Bruce, the Uni- versity of Georgia's bull- dog mascot died on Friday, according to a Feb. 4 arti- cle in the student newspa- per The Red and Black. Officially named Uga VIII, the dog was the school's eighth bulldog mascot. He started as the school's mascot on Oct. 16, 2010 and was diagnosed with lymphoma early last month, according a Feb. 4 Red and Black article. The 1.5 year-old bull- dog was the third Univer- sity of Georgia mascot in three years, according to the Red and Black. Russ, Big Bad Bruce's father, will temporarily fill in as the mascot, the Red and Black reported. PRINCETON INSTALLS ONE OF THE LARGEST SOLAR FIELDSATACOLLEGE Princeton University recently announced it will be home to one of the big- gest solar collector fields at any college in the coun- try, according to a Feb. 4 article in The Daily Princ- etonian. The solar field will be installed by summer 2012 at the earliest, accordingto the article. The field con-b tains about 5.3 megawatts and will be responsible for producing about 5.5 per- cent of electrical power at the university, The Daily Princetonian reported. The field has a lifetime of about 30 years and r the University will fund the solar field partially through . New Jersey's Solar Renewable Energy Certificate program, the article states. - CAITLINHUSTON AND JOSEPH Dance Marathon hosts a charity b LICHTER MAN Feb. 5, 2011. 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Snow takes a Drunks destroy backtset y back seat bulletin boards WHERE: Lot C-3, 400 East WHERE: West Quad Resi- University Ave. dence Hall WHEN: Friday at about WHEN: Saturday at about 2:30p.m. 3 a.m. WHAT: The rear window WHAT: Two intoxicated of a parked Plants Opera- students tearing bulletin tions vehicle was damaged board postings off the walls when snow fell from the were issued MIPs, Univer- roof of a nearby building, sity Police reported. University Police renorted. Beating the Blues CAPS workshop WHAT: A CAPS session will offer strategies to help students deal with sadness and understand depression. W.HO: Counseling and Psychological Services WHEN: Today at 4:15 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, room 3100 Soloist performance WHAT: Karen Brunssen, co-chair of the Department of Music Performance at Northwestern University, will givesaperformance. Brunssen has performed with Chicago Opera The- atre. No tickets are required. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Tonight at 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall CORRECTIONS * An article in the Feb. 3 edition of The Michigan Daily ("MSA approves winter2011 budget") incorrectly stated the status of the Israel study abroad resolution. MSA passed the resolu- tionunanimously. SAn article inthe Feb. 6 edition of The Michigan Daily ("Students fight viruses in village")mis- identified Sonia Gupta. Gupta is a senior at Yale University and the founder of United Against Infectious Diseases. . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. SMany billboards and posters are becoming dig- ital and interactive, The Wall Street Journal report- ed. Companies like Google have begun pilot programs that allow users to download smartphone applications and ringtones through the Wi-Fi powered advertisements. The No. 9 Michigan hockey team lost its third-straight game on Saturday, marking its longest losing streak since November 2009. D FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS MONDAY Researchers at MIT's AgeLab have developed a jumpsuit that can mimic the effects of old age for the wearer, The New York Times reported. Agnes, the name of the suit, is designed to help marketers and developers create products that appeal to an older age demographic. EDITORIAL STAFF Kyle Swanson ManagingEditor swanson@michigandaily.com Nicole Aber. 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The Packers won the first two Super Bowls with Vince Lombardi coaching Bart Starr, and captured another with Brett Favre in January 1997. The Steelers trailed 21-3 before halftime. Ben Roethlisberger got them within 28-25 midway through the fourth quarter with a touchdown pass and a nifty 2-point conversion. The Packers answered with a field goal, giving Roethlisberger one last chance. Needing to go 87 yards in 1:59 with one timeout left, Roethlis- berger couldn't make it across midfield. I As the Packers ran out the clock, fans chanted, "Go Pack Go!" Rodgers - who was named the game's MVP - wound up with the ball, bouncing up and down. He hugged Clay Matthews Jr. near midfield as confetti shot out of cannons and silver stream- ers dropped. "This is a great dayto be great, baby," Jennings said. "We've been a team that's overcome adversity all year," he added. "Our head captain goes down, emotional in the locker room. Our No. 1 receiver goes down, more emotions are going, flying in the locker room. But we find a way to bottle it up and exert it all out here on the field." This was only the second time Pittsburgh lost a Super Bowl. The Steelers still have the most wins with six, and are tied for the most appearances with eight. The crowd at Cowboys Stadi- um was 91,060 paying attendees, or 103,219 counting "creden- tialed attendees." It fell short of the record. Rodgers was named MVP. Green Bay led 21-17-after three quarters, but the Packers were without cornerbacks Charles Woodson and Sam Shields and receiver Donald Driver. The Steelers had the momen- tum, the experience and the crowd - tens of thousands of fans twirling "Terrible Towels" and making things tough for Rodgers to bark out signals at times. But on the first play of the fourth quarter, with Pittsburgh possibly driving for a go-ahead touchdown, Rashard Menden- hall fumbled on a hit by Clay Matthews Jr. The Packers took over at their own 45. Jennings caught his second TD pass of the game to give the Packers a 28-17 lead with 11:57 to play - theirthird touchdown fol- lowing a takeaway. The Packers' final points came on a 23-yard field goal by Mason Crosby with 2:07 left. VISIT From Page 1A son for us to know." Kendrick said in her experi- ence working for the University of Michigan Health System, there haven't been any cases of homo- sexual patients reporting differ- ential treatment. She , describes a situation in which one of her patients treated at the hospital was thankful to have his partner there during a medicalemergency. "His gratitude was based on just the care that we delivered and the fact that he was able to be there with his partner during a time of desperate need," Kendrick said. Prior to the implementation of the new health care regulation, homosexual individuals were sometimes banned from visiting their partners, even in cases of life or death. In these instances - which often occurred in states where gay marriage is illegal - same-sex partners were not permitted visi- tation rights because they didn't legally qualify as family. Parent said the University Hospital has never denied any- one these rights because patients define who their family members are. In addition, visitors designat- ed as family are allowed to stay at the patient's bedside 24/7 as part of the UMHS patient visitation policy. "Family does not have to be a blood relative; family is whoever they define as their support person or as their support people," Parent said of the UMHS policy. UMHS is also makingstrides to get rid of the word "visitor" in its written visitation policy, accord- ing to Parent. "We have gone a step further saying that a parent, a spouse, a same-sex partner or a child of an adult patient should not be called visitorsbecause we are not visitors in the lives of our loved ones," Par- ent said. This distinction between being called a "visitor" or "family" can have a great impact on .family members during emotional times, Parent said. "When my daughter was ill a few years back, I would never want to be termed as a visitor in my daughter's life," she said. "My identification badge would say 'visitor,' but now at Mott, all of the identification badges say 'parent' or 'grandparent' or 'spouse.' It's saying you are family, so we're not going to kick you out, even when visitinghours are over." U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Holds Public Comment Meeting on Great Lakes Study in Ann Arbor On March 8, from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest, located at 1275 S. Huron St., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is holding a public scoping meeting to gather input on the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS). The public is invited to attend and provide comments on GLMRIS. Identical presentations about the study will be given at 2:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m., each followed by the comment period. The purpose of GLMRIS is to evaluate a range of options and technologies to prevent the transfer of aquatic nuisance species, such as Asain carp, between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River through aquatic pathways. The public scoping comment period will end on March 31, 2011. If you plan to make an oral comment, please register on the GLMRIS Web site. Comment can also be submitted electronically through the Web site. For additional information and meeting locations, visit www.glmris.ani.gov. THE ORIGINAL 512 E. William (734) 663-3379 UM Students, Faculty, & Staff CUSTOMER APPRECIATION Lunch Buffet M-F ll-2pm $2 OFF our Lunch Buffet With Beverage Included. Just Present Your U of M l.D. Offer Expires: 2/18/2011 Cuban leader urges end to hunger strike Woman fasts for 10-days to demand husband's freedom HAVANA (AP) - A leader of Cuba's Ladies in White opposi- tion group said yesterday that she will urge a colleague to end a 10-day old hunger strike she launched to demand freedom for her jailed husband, saying the protest could be counterproduc- tive. Laura Pollan told The Associ- ated Press she plans to travel to the home of Alejandrina Garcia, near the central city of Matanzas, to deliver the message personally. The Cuban government on Friday released one of 11 politi- cal prisoners still held follow- ing a 2003 crackdown on dissent that swept up 75 dissidents, and the Catholic church announced another release is imminent. Garcia has been on a hunger strike since January28 to demand freedom for her husband, Dios- dado Gonzalez, another of the remaining 2003 prisoners. Gonzalez and another political prisoner joined the protest from behind bars on Tuesday. "We will talk to her about putting aside the strike," Pol- lan said Sunday before a protest march by the Ladies in White, which is comprised of the wives and mothers of some of the jailed political prisoners.