2A --Thursday, February 17, 2011 The Michigan Daily =,michigandaly.com 2A -Thursday, February 17, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom WEDNESDAY: FRIDAY: MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Questions on Campus Professor Profiles Campus________ Photos of the Week V PUPPET MAKING 420 Maynard.St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 eat 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigundiycom tmdbusiness@gmait.com Driving into the future Aa the automotive induatry rebounds from the receaaion and responda to demanda for more fuel-efficient vehi- cles, University students and fatuity are helping to create an environmen- tally friendly car of the future. Formed to participate in the EcoCar 2 Collegiate Advanced Vehicle Tech- nology Competition, members of the University's EcoCar Team are work- ing to design and build s car that mini- mizes gas emissions while maintaining performance and utility, according to Heath Hofmann, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the team's co-adviser. Sponsored by the US. Department of Energy and General Motors, the three-year competition features 16 cho- sen teams from various universities in North America. According to Hoffman, the first year of the competition is devoted to the design, modeling and simulation of the vehicle. The team will then receive a stock vehicle and spend. the next two years bringing its design to life by utilizing components and hardware either donated by the competition's other aponsora, such as A123 Systems and dSPACE, or obtained by the team through fundraising. Ultimately, the EcoCar team will bring its finished product to the Gener- al Motors proving grounds to compete against universities in various tests including miles per gallon, consumer acceptability and acceleration. According to Hoffman, the Ecu- Car team provides opportunities for students from all backgrounds to get involved, especially those interested in marketing and public outreach. "A lot of the competition of course focuses around engineering, but there's also a sort of abusiness aspect to it and also an outreach aspect to it," Hoff- man said. "We're not only interested in recruiting engineers to the team, we're also interested in business majors and communications majors." Rackham student Michael Woon, the team's student leader, said General Motors has often hired students who participated in the competition. "To get hired might be the initial incentive, but the reason you would want to stay in it is because you love what you're doing, the work is exciting, the people that you're with is a good group and you want to succeed," Woon said. - JENNIFER LEE Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@msichigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michiganedaily.com Sports Sectian sports@michigandaily.com Display Soles display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandailyomn News Tips news@michigan~dailyom letters to the Editor tothedaiy@michigandaily.ome Editorial Page opinion@michigandailyom Photognaphy Section photo@michigandaily.com Classitied Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finane@ichigandiy.com 0 0 0 CRIME NOTES People pegged Witness spots for possible pot hit and run CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES WHERE: Bursley Resi- dence Hal WHEN: Tuesday at about 11:15 p.m. WHAT: A student and guest were found in pos- session of suspected mari- juana, University Police reported. Driver reports day-old damage WHERE: 800 Block of East Washington WHEN: Tuesday at about S p.m. WHAT: A woman reported her parked car had been damaged at some point in the last day, University Police reported. There are no suspects. WHERE: M-18 Carport WHEN: Tuesday at about 11 a.m. WHAT: A witness reported a vehicle bump a parked' vehicle, causing minor dam- age before fleeing, Univer- sity Police reported. There are no suspects. Vehicle has a bad weekend WHERE: Lot SC-7, Eipke Drive WHEN: Tuesday at about 7:30 am. WHAT: A University vehicle woo damaged while it was parked during the weekend, University Police reported. LGBT student round table WHAT: A meeting to create unity between more than 20 LGBTQ-related groups on campus. Student orga- nizations interested in net- working with these groups are also invited. The group meets on the third Thurs- day of each month. WHO: Spectrum Center WHEN: Today at 6 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, room 3200 Conversation about Europe WHAT: A lecture by Uni- versity of Toronto Prof. Jeff Kopstein will address anti- Jewish riots in Poland. WHO: Center for European Studies, Department of Judaic Studies WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building, room 1636 Spirituality club meeting WHAT: The first meet- ing of a club chat aims to explore diseases of the heart and strategies to bet- ter oneself. WHO: Purification of the Heart Spirituality Club WHEN: Today at 5 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Parker Room CORRECTIONS ! An article in yester- day's edition of The Michigan Daily ("'1U' faculty retirmen tplan changes to save costs") incorrectly identified retirees' health care premiums as pensions. . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandailycom. HANSNIAHCHIN/Daily LSA freshmas Elips Marmaduke mates a pappet yesterday. It will be featured insa parade coiled Festifsols. I Despite thousands of new people moving into the Portland, Ore. every year, the city has not been able to significantly increase its racial diversity, National Public Radio reported. Port- land continues to be made up of about 80 percent white residents. 2 The University of Michigan's Health System has a program tailed Gifts of Art that pro- vides healing arts and music for bedridden patients at the hospital. s FOR MORE, SEETHE B-SIDE, INSIDE 3Violence broke out between hundreds of anti-government pro- testers, police and govern- ment supporters in Benghazi, Libya, BBC reported. Dozens of peole were injured dem- onstrations that took place yesterday. 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