2 - Friday, March 25, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, March 25, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Questions on Campus Professor Profiles Campus Clubs Photos oftheWek 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 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gnailcom Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance fonance@michigandaily.com 0 6 6 CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Man fulfills Bleach blunder Travel workshop nacho craving WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Wednesday at about 6:45 p.m. WHAT: A man stole a bag of nachos from the cafeteria between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., University Police reported. An investigation is pending. Glass stand no longer standing WHERE: Northwood IV Apartments WHEN: Wednesday at about 9:30 a.m. WHAT: A glass umbrella stand was broken while a refrigerator was being moved into an apartment, University Police reported. The stand is valued at $30. WHERE: 2200 Bonisteel Rd. WHEN: Wednesday at about 4 p.m. WHAT: A gallon of bleach was accidentally spilled on a roof, University Police . reported. The liquid was promptly cleaned and did not cause any damage. Texter doesn't get the message WHERE: Bursley Residence Hall WHEN: Wednesday at about 11:30 a.m. WHAT: A student filed a complaint after receiving hundreds of unwanted text messages from a former roommate, University Police reported. An investigation is nendine. WHAT: University peer advisers and a travel agent from STA Travel will share tips abouttraveling abroad in Europe. Topics for discussion include transportation, budgeting, food, language barriers and staying safe. WHO: International Center WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: International Center, Conference room Artist talks oil WHAT: Visiting Chinese artist Wang Bing and University Professor Markus Nornes will discuss Bing's 840-minute documentary titled "Crude Oil." WHO: The University's Confucius Institute WHEN: Today at 3 p.m. WHERE: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Student play WHAT: A performance of School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior Louis King's senior thesis play, "Fat Men in Skirts," about the strange evolution of two people on a desert island. WHO: Basement Arts WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center Dance recital WHAT: MFA candidates Jessica Bonenfant, Sean Hoskins and Susie Thiel will showcase their choreography and perform solo works. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: Duderstadt Center CORRECTIONS 0 Please report any error in the Dailyto correc- tions@michigandaily.com. The growing rate of job- lessness in the U.S. may persist due to employ- ers' increasing tendency to exclude potential applicants with criminal records, Yahoo! News reported. Nearly 65 million Americans, or one in four, have a record. MUSKET, a student- run musical-theatre troupe, will perform tonight and this weekend at the Power Center. Expect hilarious songs, audience participation and utter pan- demonium. "> FOR MORE, SEE ARTS, PAGE 7 Rebecca Black, who released her hit single "Friday" last month, announced she will donate proceeds from her album sales to Japan, US Maga- zine reported. Her video has received nearly 40 million hits on YouTube. 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Gary Mikulich was arrested 500 miles away in the Upper Peninsula and charged with trying to use an explosive to damage the McNamara Fed- eral Building, which houses the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, immigration court and other agencies. A tool bag holding a metal cash box was discovered Feb. 26 and brought inside the building, but it sat until a Federal Protective Ser- vice officer decided to X-ray it on March 18, saw electrical compo- nents inside and summoned the Detroit police bomb squad, which blew it up miles away at a city park, the FBI said. "We're all a little shaken," said CatherineUGase, 49, who works for the U.S. Small Busi- ness Administration. "I can't imagine how that could have happened. I can't imagine why we weren't evacuated. . . . I was completely unaware of what was happeninguntil the all-clear was announced." The exploded materials includ- ed pieces of PVC pipe, a timer and black electrical tape, along with a handwritten note that read, "1. Turn Switch 2. Plug, in," agent Mark Davidson wrote in an affida- vit filed in court. The FBI is not calling it a bomb; all pieces are still being examined by experts, spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said. Mikulich, 42, lives in Kingsford in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He was arrested yesterday and is due in federal court today in Marquette, also in the Upper Pen- insula. An attorney has not been assigned. A call to his home was not answered. In the affidavit, the FBI said Mikulich has a history of threat- ening to harm agents. 6 About 300 Salafi Muslims shout slogans during a protest in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, March, 13, 2011. The protestors demanded the release of terrorist suspects from Jordan's government. Hundreds of Jordanians stage California maternity center for Chinese mothers closed Women claim they were sent by their families to give birth in the U.S. SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (AP) - Authorities have closed three upscale townhouses that were operating as a maternity center for Chinese mothers payingthou- sands of dollars to give birth in the United States so the children would automatically gain citizen- ship. Police and city inspectors found seven newborns and two mothers when they closed the homes for building code violations on March 8 in San Gabriel, a suburb east of Los Angeles that is home to a large Asian population. The women, who were Chi- nese and Taiwanese nationals and spoke little English, told offi- cials their families had paid to send them to the United States to give birth, said city code compli- ance officer Clayton Anderson. He did not know how much was paid. The women stayed at the cen- ter before and after giving birth at local hospitals, Anderson said. The three homes, part of a five-unit condo development on a quiet residential street, had adjoining inside walls removed and had rooms divided so moth- ers each had separate spaces, Anderson said. The babies were kept in clear plastic bassinets in a kitchen con- verted into a nursery. "There was a woman there who said she was a nurse but she kind of scrambled away when we got there," Anderson said. The women and babies were taken to another location after the homes were deemed unsafe for occupancy because structural * walls had been breached. U.S. law automatically entitles children born on U.S. soil to citi- zenship, and it is not illegal for pregnant women to visit the U.S. to give birth. Women from other countries have long traveled to the U.S. legally on tourist or student visas and given birth, but this case is unusual in that it appears to involve an organized business, experts said. "The reports up to now have been about travel agencies abroad that specialized in this, but they send one person at a time here," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Wash- ington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies. "What this could suggest is ... they're taking it to the next step. Whoever is organizing this type of operation is buying or leasing a home to become a clearing house. That's a serious problem." Protesters spokesman Ziad al-Khawaldeh, 23. demand reform "We will not move an inch from here until our demands are to parliament, met," he said under pouring rain at the Interior Ministry Circle in Intelligence Dept. the heart of the Jordanian capi- tal. The district houses the Interi- AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - or Ministry and police, financial Hundreds of Jordanians set up and other government offices as a protest camp in a main square well as Western hotels. in the capital yesterday to press Protesters waved banners that demands for the ouster of the called for a "new Jordan, clean of prime minister and wider public corruption and corrupt officials." freedoms. "Intelligence Department, we The 500 protesters appeared want your hands off politics!" to be mostly university students they chanted. or unemployed graduates unaf- Al-Khawaldeh said two pro- filiated with any political party. testers were detained for ques- Many said they met through tioning, but that he did not know Facebook last month to launch a the reason. While one of them group called the Jordanian Youth was released hours later, the Movement. other remains in detention, he Group spokesman Ziad al- said. Khawaldeh said protesters Police officials were notimme- would remain outdoors until diately available for comment. Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit Al-Khawaldeh said the pro- departs. Other demands include testers want Prime Minister dissolving what is widely seen as Marouf al-Bakhit to be "instantly a docile parliament, dismantling replaced with a liberal govern- the largely feared intelligence ment that would quickly imple- department and giving greater ment reforms." powers to the people. Al-Bakhit, a former army The group changed its name general, is widely regarded as a yesterday to "Youth of March 24" tough military officer incapable - marking what members said of introducing changes demand- was the start of an open-ended ed by protesters. Those reforms demonstration. include an election law replacing "Today is the dawning of the a one seen as favoring the king's Jordanian revolution," said group loyalists and blamed for produc- ing a docile parliament, the only elected body in Jordan's govern- ment. Jordan's opposition also want to strip the king of some of his powers, specifically in appointing the prime minister. Instead, they want the premier to be elected by a popular vote. Protester Mohammed al-Qaisi, 23, said the protesters want par- liament to be dissolved and new elections to be held under a new election law, giving more propor- tional representation to Jorda- nians and reducing the number of votes in districts inhabited by tribesmen, who form the bedrock of support for the king. "Enough is enough," said al- Qaisi, an unemployed sociologist. "We don't want the king to go, but we wanthimto listen tous; We're fed up with al-Bakhit, with par- liament and with Jordan being a police state ruled by the intelli- gence department." Taxi driver Haitham Yas- sin, 29, said he joined the pro- test because "I want the king to know that I became a taxi driver because I couldn't find a job as an electronic engineer." "My degree went to waste," he said. "Still, I can barely make ends meet now. I have three chil- dren and I can't meet all their needs because prices are con- stantly increasing, while my sal- ary remains the same." A