1 i 1*Iiian 0)a i~jj Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, March 24, 2011 michigandaily.com RELIEF EFFORTS 'U' students, faculty band together to assist Japan Japan Student * Association, UMHS fundraise to support victims By ADAM RUBENFIRE Daily StaffReporter In Japanese culture, if a person folds 1,000 origami cranes, his or her wishes come true. And so, as they wish for relief for victims of the recent disasters in Japan, members of the Japan Student Association on campus have begun creating the small paper birds. The "1,000 cranes" project is just one of several relief efforts by the University community to help Japan after the country's recent string of natural and man-made disasters. Other student groups as well as the University of Michi- gan Health System have been bol- stering support for the victims of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 and a subsequent tsu- nami with 10-meter waves. The country is now facing a combined toll of more than 25,000 dead or missing people. Engineering junior Yoshiki Masada, president of the Japan Student Association, said the organization is engaged in a vari- ety of fundraising efforts to help victims of the disaster in Japan. It is alsoworking with several other campus organizations, including the Tzu Chi Collegiate Founda- tion and the Malaysian Student Association, to make the endeav- ors even more successful. "We don't see the point if everyone's just doing their own thing," Masada said. Representatives from sev- eral of the organizations have been collecting donations on the Diag and in front of the restau- rant Sushi.com to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Masada said. The groups' fundraising efforts have raised more than $5,000, he said. The organizations will also be selling bracelets and T-shirts that say "Pray for Japan" next week in Angell Hall. UMHS spokeswoman Kara Gavin said members of the health system are collecting medical supplies and bottled water to donate to relief efforts in Japan. She added that UMHS is asking all its departmentsto collect reus- able equipment such as crutches or spare supplies like injury dressings to send to Japan. See JAPAN, Page 5A ALDEN REISS/Daily University President Mary Sue Coleman talks to students and Ann Arbor residents after Coleman's monthly fireside chat at the Northwood Community Center yesterday. Coleman spoke with students about concerns regarding North Campus. Coleman talks North Campus issues at chat Students express concerns about Northwood housing By JOSEPH LICHTERMAN Daily News Editor University President Mary Sue Coleman visited the North- wood Community Center on North Campus for the first time yesterday to host her monthly fireside chat with students. About 20 undergraduate and graduate students joined Cole- man and E. Royster Harper, the University's vice president of student affairs, for the talk. Students discussed a variety of topics including the Michigan basketball team and the Uni- versity's switch to the Common Application, but the informal conversation was focused on several issues pertaining to North Campus. One of the issues was the new Northwood Houses - residence halls in the Northwood Com- munity Apartments that were designated for freshmen after about 500 more students than expected enrolled last fall. "In the last couple of years we've over-admitted students because our yields have been higher than we've predicted," Coleman said. "So, last fall, 500 students showed up that we weren't expecting ... This was something we had to scramble about." Undergraduate students and resident advisers living in the Northwood Houses - located within Northwood I and II - said they were surprised by how much they enjoyed living there. Still, they said several improve- ments could be made to the apartment-style residence hall. Engineering junior Ryan Lumley, an resident adviser See COLEMAN, Page SA UNIVERSIY ACADEMICS LSA concentrations change course requirements at introductory level MICHIGAN FOOTBALL Football ticket prices increase for students English, Spanish, physics majors to be altered in fall By RAYZA GOLDSMITH Daily StaffReporter Students looking to start ful- filling their Spanish, English or physics majors may find their concentration requirements are different than they originally anticipated. Beginning in the fall 2011 semester, the programs will have new concentration requirements. Most ofthe changes willbe to the concentration prerequisites, with some of the alterations regarding the number of classes a student will need before declaring their major. The Department of English Language and Literature pre- viously had two prerequisites classes for its undergraduate concentration - English 297: Introduction to Poetry and Eng- lish 298: Introduction to Literary Studies. However, the depart- ment decided to remove the poetry class as a prerequisite and instead make ita requirement for concentrators to take a higher level poetry class once they have already declared. See LSA, Page 5A Extra revenue will be used for stadium updates By PAIGE PEARCY Daily StaffReporter Mirroring the upward trend in the Michigan football team's performance, the price of stu- dent tickets is on the rise for the second straight year. Wolverine fans wanting to spend their Saturdays at the Big House this fall will have to shell out a heftier sum. Students will have to pay $240 - plus pro- cessing fees - for season tick- ets, which is about a 21-percent increase, or $43 greater than, the 2010 season ticket price. University Athletic Depart- ment spokesman Dave Ablauf wrote in an e-mail interview that the price increase was nec- essary because the season ticket price last year was below mar- ket value. "We benchmarked our sea- son ticket prices against all of our peers and found that we had fallen significantly below competitive market prices, both in student season tickets and general season tickets," Ablauf wrote. "We made a modest increase to the season ticket per game." The price bump is also due to an increase in the number of home games from seven to eight, including the first-ever night game against Notre Dame on Sept. 10 and the home game against Ohio State on Nov. 26, See FOOTBALL, Page 5A STAT E BU DG E T Gov. Snyder faces national criticism for EFM law, higher education cuts BY THE NUMBERS Michigan football season ticket prices per game Despite budget cuts, spokesman says governor 'values education' By HALEY GLATTHORN Daily StaffReporter Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has faced criticism from the University community and the state for his tax plans and pro- posal to cut 15 percent of higher education fundingsince his bud- get proposal was released last month. Most recently, the first- term governor has garnered national attention on MSNBC. The network's "The Rachel Maddow Show" aired a video titled "Michigan is Screwed" earlier this month condemn- ing several of Snyder's pro- posed policies. With more than 760,000 views on YouTube, the video discusses legislation that will allow the state to replace publicly elected officials with emergency financial managers appointed by Snyder's admin- istration if a city is in danger of bankruptcy or facing serious financial strife. Despite objections from Mad- dow and Michigan residents who claim the legislation is a threat to democratic princi- pals, Snyder spokesman Ryan See SNYDER, Page 5A $50 $40 $30 $20 2008 2009 2010 2011 YEAR G- Reglar seasonUickets - Sudentseasntickts GuRPIC BYSARAHuSQUIRE MICHIGAN ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA MSU OHIO STATE A comparison of Michigan student season ticket prices per football game to five other Big Ten schools in 2010. DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES WEATHER HI: 32 TOMORROW LO:19 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Recruit Burke named Mr. Basketball in Ohio MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE GAME INDEX AP NEWS.. Vol. CXXI,No.h116 NEWS ..... ©211 The Michigan Daily O P i INI O N.. michigondoily.com .A CLASSIFIEDS...... .5A SPORTS .............. .4A THE B-SIDE........ .6A .7A ..1B 4