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NEWS BRIEFS
MIDLAND, Mich.
Granholm to join
Dow Chemical
board of directors
Dow Chemical Co. says former
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Gran-
holm is joining its board of direc-
tors.
The Midland-based company
said in a release yesterday that
the Democrat has a "demon-
strated track record" of cultivat-
ing public- and private-sector
collaborations that have laid the
groundwork for sustainable
growth for 21st century manufac-
turing.
The former governor also has
joined Pew Charitable Trusts as
a senior adviser to promote its
efforts to promote clean energy
policies and is a regular contribu-
tor to NBC's "Meet the Press."
She and her husband, Dan
Mulhern, are co-authoring a book
about governing Michigan. They
also have a two-year academic
appointment at the University of
California-Berkeley, where Gra-
nholm got her bachelor's degree.
WASHINGTON
NATO takes
control of Libya
air campaign
The United States welcomed a
partial handover for the Libyan
air campaign to NATO yesterday,
but the allies apparently balked at
assuming full control and the U.S.
military was left in charge of the
brunt of combat.
NATO agreed to take over
command of the newly estab-
lished no-fly zone over Libya,
protective flights meant to deter
Libyan strongman Moammar
Gadhafi from putting warplanes
in the air. That leaves the U.S.
with responsibility for attacks on
Gadhafi'sground forces and other
targets, which are the toughest
and most controversial portion of
the operation.
The. U.S had hoped the alli-
ance would reach a consensus
yesterday for NATO to take full
control of the military opera-
tion authorized by the United
Nations, including the protection
of Libyan civilians and support-
ing humanitarian aid efforts on
the ground.
DENVER
NASA probe to
end 12-year run
NASA's comet-hunting Star-
dust probe will perform one last
experiment before it shuts down
and ends its 12-year career.
Engineers at Lockheed Martin
Corp., where Stardust was built,
planned to command the space-
craft to burn its remaining fuel
yesterday. How long that takes
will tell them how accurate their
fuel calculations were, which will
help with the design of future
probes.
Spacecraft don't carry fuel
gauges because they don't work
in zero gravity.
Stardust was launched in 1999.
It completed its primary mis-
sion in 2004 by flying through a
cloud of dust and gas enveloping
the Wild 2 comet and capturing
samples.
PARIS
French thieves
steal three-carat
ring from Tiffany's
Police say three men pre-
tending to be customers stole a
4250,000 ($353,200) diamond
ring from the Tiffany & Co.
store in Paris' upscale Printemps
department store.
A Paris police official said yes-
terday's heist happened at around
1030 GMT. Three men posing as
customers asked to look at several
very expensive rings. They even-
tually decided on a three-carat
diamond set on a platinum ring.
The thieves took advantage
of a moment's inattention by the
sales person to make off with the
ring, also avoiding detection by
Printemp's security guards.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports
LSA-SG
From Page 1
Of the approximately 15,000
students who were able to vote
in the election, 2,521 cast ballots
- a turnout of about 16 percent
- which is an increase from the
2,290 votes cast in the fall 2010
elections, according to unofficial
results.
While Larkin and Laverty
earned the majority of votes, The
Every Three Weekly's fictional
candidate Karlos Marks - also
spelled Marx - came in second
place with 103 write-in votes.
Larkin and Laverty said they
plan to form an alliance between
students and their governing
body through measures like add-
ing a forum to the LSA-SG web-
site to obtain student feedback.
Lavertysaid lastnightthat she
and Larkin will establish con-
crete ways to facilitate dialogue
between LSA-SG and student
groups.
"(Jeff and I are) goingto actu-
ally outline how we're going to
attack these problems, make
them more tangible goals,"
Laverty said. "I think we need to
set deadlines for ourselves and
for the executive board that is
selected so that... representatives
are held accountable."
Laverty and Larkin said they
also hope to amend the LSA-SG
bylaws to make each representa-
tive responsible for a fixed group
of LSA students.
"Student government is a
group that should be positively
affecting students, should know
what students want and should
work toward those goals," Lar-
kin said in an interview earlier
this week. "And I think we've
made great strides toward that
in the past year, and I want to
make it even better."
Amid the excitement of the
election, Laverty acknowledged
that the road ahead wouldn't be
entirely unchallenging or prob-
lem free.
"I think some of these are
actually going to be great risks.
We are making change to the
way our government works
and . functions," Laverty said.
"I think we have to also under-
stand that we might not get it
right the first time, but that
we're going to be learning as
this goes."
Despite this learning curve,
Laverty said she feels she and
Larkin will be able to improve
the lives of students on campus.
"I think it's going to be a great
year and a great opportunity to
really revive some of the focuses
of student government that have
been excluded in years past,"
Laverty said.
Fourteen candidates also ran
in the election to fill the nine
representative seats on LSA-
SG. While there were some new
faces in the race, there were also
five representatives running
for re-election, including LSA
senior Carly Goldberg, the cur-
rent LSA-SG vice president.
The new LSA-SG represen-
tatives include Carly Goldberg,
Ally Sherman, Arielle Zupmore,
Brandon Byrd and Melissa
Burns - who won re-election
- in addition to Justin Wag-
ner, Mitchell LaPoff and Megan
Pfeiffer.
The LSA-SG student body
election also included three bal-
lot questions, which considered
various issues related to campus
life and the impact of LSA-SG at
the University.
The first question, which
asked students whether they
would support an increase in
the student fee that is allocated
to LSA-SG, was passed. Accord-
ing to the online ballot, the cur-
rent $1.50 fee has been fixed
since 1998, and LSA-SG propos-
es raising the fee to $2.50 each
semester, ultimately generating
$14,000 more for student-run
organizations - including stu-
dent governments within each
college - at the University.
Ballot question two asked if
students want to take an intro-
ductory journalism class and
question three asked students
to rank what they thought the
LSA student government's top
priorities should be. According
to unofficial election results,
question two did not pass with
1,293 students voting against the
proposal and 990 for it. Students
ranked "providing more money
to studentgroups" and "increas-
ing sustainability efforts on
campus" as their top priorities
in question three.
RACKHAM VOTER
TURNOUT DECREASES
While the voter turnout of
Rackham Student Government
elections was lower than past
elections with 361 total votes
cast - a 4.63 percent turnout -
according to unofficial results,
many new additions were made
to RSG when the polls closed at
11:59 p.m. last night.
Last semester's RSG elections
had a 7.03 percent voter turnout
- a jump from the previous two
semesters.
In an uncontested race, cur-
rent RSG President Michael
Benson and Joshua Bow - cur-
rent Division III representative
and RSG academic affairs com-
mittee co-chair - will fill the
presidential and vice presiden-
tial seats, respectively, on the
first day of springterm.
Eleven candidates were also
elected to the open represen-
tative seats between the four
divisions of RSG: Biological and
Health Sciences, Physical Sci-
ences and Engineering, Social
Sciences and Education and
Arts and Humanities.
The Biological and Health
Sciences seats were filled by
Kaitlin Flynn and Serge Fari-
nas, Physical Sciences and Engi-
neering by Nina White, Anagha
Kshirsagar, Patrick Rooney and
Heidi Pedini, Social Sciences
and Education by Rob Gillezeau,
Anne Fitzpatrick and Marisol
Ramos, and Arts and Humani-
ties by William Hutchinson and
Grant Mandarino.
MFORWARD
From Page 1
Breaha Patterson wrote in an
e-mail interview early this
morning that more numbers for
the election would be available
today. Like Watson, she wrote
that she is satisfied with the
voter turnout.
"I would have liked to see a
higher turnout of course, we
think the elections are impor-
tant and strive to get as many
students as possible," Patterson
wrote.
For this semester's election,
the student governments also
brought back polling stations
- which had not been used in
10 years - in addition to online,
voting with the hopes of getting
more students to vote.
"I definitely think the par-
ties did a good job with visibility
and with the addition of poll-
ing stations, it at least put into
people's minds that there was
an election," Patterson wrote.
"... I think it actually gave voters
a chance to ask questions that
they might not have gotten the
opportunity to otherwise."
Hatcher, whose campaign
was centered on bringing the
campus community together
and making it more diverse,
said while she was disappointed
with the election's outcome, she
is looking forward to continu-
ing her work with DAAP and
is optimistic about next year's
elections.
"I'm a little bit disappointed,
but I guess that just comes along
with it," Hatcher said. "I really
hope that a lot of things that
(Watson and Campbell) said in
their platform, I really hope that
they get them done because they
really do have some nice points."
Out of 39 total representative
seats on MSA, MForward won 28
spots.
In opposition to the MSA par-
ties, the student-run satire maga-
zine on campus The Every Three
Weekly endorsed a campaign
students to write in a fictitious
presidential candidate, Karlos
Marks.
"The Every Three Weekly
supported Marks's campaign
because we were tired of the
usual uninspiring MSA can-
didates ..." The Every Three
Weekly editorial staff wrote in
an e-mail interview prior to the
election.
According to unofficial elec-
tion results, 55 percent of stu-
dents who cast their ballots
voted yes on a poll question on
the MSA ballot inquiring wheth-
er students would want to pay
a maximum of $4 per term to
have free copies of The New York
Times on campus. MSA planned
on using the ballot question to
assess student sentiment on The
New York Times College Reader-
ship Program, which had a trial
run on campus last week.
Also elected in the student
government elections is LSA
junior Ellen Steele, who won the
student position on the Universi-
ty's Department of Public Safety
Oversight Committee, an advi-
sory board that hears grievances
against the campus police. Steele
ran uncontested.
The second student seat onthe
committee will become open in
May. MSA plans to fill the posi-
tion with a write-in candidate
from thisweek's election.
6.8 -magnitude
earthquake shakes
Myanmar, kills one
FRATERNITY
From Page 1
cational programs for people
with disabilities. The event was
organized by LSA freshman
Paul Willar, the Pi Kappa Phi
philanthropy chair.
Willar, whose mother has
worked at the Cornerstone-Wol-
cott Center for 10 years, wrote
in an e-mail interview that he
wanted the dinner to help his
fraternity brothers understand
what it's like to live with a dis-
ability.
"This dinner is an opportuni-
ty for the brothers of our house
to not only experience what it
may be like to have a disability,
but realize how fortunate we
are for what we do have," Willar
wrote.
LSA senior and Pi Kappa Phi
member Sal Amodeo said the
dinner was also representative
of the fraternity's interests.
"When we're selling our fra-
ternity, we're advocating that
we're more than a social club,"
Amodeo said. "We do more
important things than party."
Willar wrote that about half
the Pi Kappa Phi brothers volun-
teer at the Eisenhower Center -
a local organization that works
with brain trauma patients - a
few times a month. He added
that he would like to see at least
75 percent of the fraternity
members volunteer.
"We pride ourselves in
being the only fraternity with a
national philanthropy associa-
tion," LSA senior and Pi Kappa
Phi member Saahil Karpe said,
referring to the non-profit orga-
nization Push America, which
also focuses on awareness and
philanthropy for people with
disabilities.
The center helped 2,472 peo-
ple with disabilities from Washt-
enaw, Livingston and Monroe
counties last year, according to
a pamphlet from the Ann Arbor
Center for Independent Living.
Sue Probert, a commu-
nity resource specialist at the
AACIL, said she was grateful
for Pi Kappa Phi's donation, and
that it will benefit the center.
Woman killed
after a brick wall
collapsed
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -
A powerful earthquake struck
northeastern Myanmar last
night, killing one woman and
shaking buildings as far away as
Bangkok. No tsunami was gen-
erated.
Homes and at least one bridge
were damaged in several vil-
lages along Myanmar's borders
with Thailand and Laos, accord-
ing to residents who spoke to an
aid agency.
There were also reports of
minor damage in northern Thai-
land, where a woman died when
a brick wall collapsed on her,
police Capt. Weerapon Samran-
jai said. Cracks spread in the
foundations of some buildings
in the province surrounding
the city of Chiang Rai, about 55
miles (90 kilometers) from the
epicenter. The spires fell off two
pagodas.
"The tremor was so strong,
and things fell down from the
shelves. It was very scary, and
we all ran out to the streets,"
said a 25-year old woman who
runs a mini-mart in Tachileik, a
Myanmar town near the border.
As is common in the country,
she spoke on condition of ano-
nymity because authorities dis-
courage talking to the media.
It was difficult to get a com-
prehensive picture of damage in
the country's remote northeast,
where communications, even
at the best of time, are sketchy.
The military-run government
also tightly controls informa-
tion.
Michigan college students
protest cuts to higher ed.
GoV. Snyder ties affordable for the state's
future workers.
plans to cut state "Tuition's been going higher
and higher and higher," said
university funding Cardi DeMonoco Jr., president
of the Student Association of
15 to 20 percent Michigan. "Whenwillthe legis-
lators realize this isn't the area
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - to cut?"
About 200 college students DeMonoco said the small but
waved flags from the state's 15 spirited crowd came from as far
public universities and held away as Michigan Technologi-
signs saying "Put the money cal University in the Upper Pen-
where our minds are" during a insula and as close as nearby
protest yesterday of proposed Michigan State University.
cuts in state aid to universities. Rep. Mark Meadows, an East
The students were the lat- Lansing Democrat whose dis-
est group to rally at the Capitol trict includes Michigan State,
against Republican Gov. Rick told the students he sided with
Snyder's budget and policy them.
proposals. Snyder wants to cut "Does anybody here think a
more than 20 percent of state 22 percent cut to education is
funding for the 15 universities too much?" he asked the crowd,
in the budget year that starts noting that other areas of the
Oct. 1. He has offered to limit budget haven't been cut as
the cut to 15 percent for univer- much.
sities that keep 2011-12 tuition Tuition and fees at public
increases below 7.1 percent. universities averaged $9,410
Students participating in the this academic year. They've
rally said tuition is already too risen 80 percent since 2002-03,
high. Some lost a state schol- far more than the 15 percent
arship worth up to $4,000 increase in inflation over that
when lawmakers eliminated period.
the Michigan Promise Grant Even without Snyder's pro-
in 2009, and many have had to posed cut, state funding for uni-
take out student loans. versity operations has dropped
Speakers at the rally said it's 12 percent over the past eight
hard to reconcile Snyder's goal years, or 37 percent once infla-
of reinventing the economy tion is taken into account,
with his plan to cut state aid according to the House Fiscal
that would help keep universi- Agency.
The governor has proposed
keeping funding for community
colleges as the current level in
the next budget, but he wants
to cut spending for university
operations by 15 percent, or
$222 million. He'd cut 5 per-
cent to 10 percent more from
universities that didn't keep
their 2011-12 tuition increases
to below 7.1 percent, giving $83
million instead to schools that
didn't exceed the limit.
Snyder, who holds bachelor's,
master's and law degrees from
the University of Michigan, has
frequently talked of the impor-
tance of higher education and
his support for universities.
But in his Feb. 17 budget mes-
sage, he said cuts are needed in
light of Michigan's estimated
$1.4 billion budget shortfall.
He challenged universities
to "implement reforms that
will keep tuition in check and
restrain spending."
University leaders say
they've decreased spending and
are being faced with the double
whammyoftryingto serve more
students with less state money.
Saginaw Valley State University
President Eric Gilbertson told a
Senate committee Wednesday
that the school in University
Center got $4,500 per student
in state aid 10 years ago, but just
$3,200 this year. That amount
would drop to $2,800 under the
governor's budget proposal.
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