2A - Thursday, March 31, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com a he fiiipan 49at-11 420 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@gmailcom PROTESTERS CALL ON CONDI rr ____ U Baseball may pastime, but so: students have f bats to play al sport on campu The Michi Association was fall 2009 by fou shared a com for the game. It recognized as a; nization in fall2 There are n countries repre club's 150 acti according to senior Nirmit A founder of MC added that dive tral facet to the goal - to bring A wicket good time be America's types of people with differ- Lanka. The to me University ent cultures, backgrounds culminate wi lattened their and languages to participate day's final - ai lesser-known in a common activity. India played s - cricket. Matches in the Cricket Lanka. Yester gan Cricket World Cup can last up to ed 40 people organized in eight hours, but in an effort Residence Hal r friends who to expand outreach and watch the se mon passion increase participation, MCA between India was formally plays a modified version of "I cannot student orga- the game that lasts around prior to the g 010. one hour, Agarwala said. attending our ine different He added that to encourage events," Agar' sented in the students to join, the club's excitementi ve members, tournaments are free to par- into one room Engineering ticipate. contain my er kgarwala, the The club also hosts view- then. I hope1 A. Agarwala ing events for the Cricket passion to mar rsity is a cen- World Cup, which were held coming month club's weekly over the past six weeks in g together all Bangladesh, India and Sri -BR, tournament will th this Satur- E} i WA match in which p'D d against Sri C crC XX) day, MCA host- i4AN in North Quad 1l at 4:15 a.m. to mi-final match and Pakistan. do anything same or prior to club'sviewing wala said. "The is compacted s, and I cannot xcitement until to expand this ny others in the hs."' 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There will be War painting and how it is 9 p.m. WHAT: A staff member a short presentation and tied to Abraham Lincoln's WHAT: A student reported reported that a keyboard refreshments. The dining presidential campaign. his unattended laptop was was stolen from a computer hail will be closed for the WHO: William L. Clements stolen, University Police on the first floor, University day because of the event. Library reported. GPS was used to Police reported. There are WHO: Office of the Presi- WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. locate the culprit, who was no suspects. dent WHERE: William L. Cle- arrested for the theft as well WHEN: Today at 3 p.m. ments Library, Great Room as possession of marijuana. WHERE: North Quad Resi- Check bouncer dence Hall As many as 59 million more carry-on bags made their way onto airlines in 2010, The New York Times reported. The increase may lead to a need to charge customers more money in order to provide more security to screen the carry-on bags. Tonight is the last chance to see Claire Denis's "White Materi- al" at the Michigan Theater. The heartbreaking film is about a coffee plantation and a civil war in Africa. . >FOR MORE, SEETHE B-SIDEPAGE 3B President Barack Obama declined the invitation to throw the first pitch at The Nation- als' opening baseball game tonight, CBS News reported. Instead, he will be replaced by five flag officers from each military branch. EDITORIAL STAFF Kyle Swanson Managing Editor swanson@michigandaily.com Nicole Aber ManagingNews Editor aber@michigandaily.com SENIORNEWSEDITORS:BethanyBiron,DylanCinti,CaitlinHuston,JosephLichterman, Devon Thrsby ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS: Rachel Brusstar, Claire Goscicki, Suzanne Jacobs, Mike Merar,MicheleNarov,BriennePrnsak,KaitlinWilliams Michelle ewittrand opinioneditors@michigandaily.com Enily Orley EditrialtPagetditrs SENIOR EDITORIALPAGE EDITORS:AidaAli,AshleyGriesshammer,HarshaPanduranga ASSISTANT EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS:Eaghan Davis,HarshaNahata, AndrewWeiner. 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WHO: The Prison Creative Arts Project WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Vandenburg Room Biden: Talks on budgetI are making progress I 6 Ne~ - g av( WA Presid "good budge ernme congr work. $33 bi the ne ably le deman "Th all tht and w omy, t ernme report Capito leader The aotiators work to ence plan would end up where GOP leaders started last month Ad shutdown of as they tried to fulfill a cam- paign pledge to return spending government for agencies' daily operations to levels in place before President SHINGTON (AP) - Vice Barack Obama took office. That lent Joe Biden reported calculation takes into account the progress" yesterday in fact that the current budget year, t talks to prevent a gov- which began Oct. 1, is about half nt shutdown next week as over. essional negotiators began The $33 billion figure, disclosed on a proposal for around by a congressional aide famil- Ilion in spending cuts over iar with the talks and indirectly xt six months - consider- confirmed by Biden, who used a ss than tea party activists measuring stick tied to Obama's nded. budget instead of acurrent spend- ere's no reason why, with ing freeze, is well below the $60 at's going on in the world billion-plus in cuts that the House 'ith the state of the econ- passed last month. But it does rep- hat we can't avoid a gov- resent significant movement by nt shutdown," Biden told Senate Democrats and the admin- ers after a meeting in the istration after originally backing a 1 with Senate Democratic freeze at current rates. s. Under Biden's math, the White tentative split-the-differ- House is conceding $73 billion in cuts from Obama's requests, which contained increases never approved by Congress. Republi- cans originally wanted $100 bil- lion in cuts using the same gauge. Tea party-backed GOP law- makers want more. With a tea party rally set for Thursday on Capitol Hill, it's unclear how many of the 87 freshmen Repub- licans elected last fall could live with the arrangement between top Democrats and House Speak- er John Boehner, R-Ohio. Both sides said the figure under consideration is tentative at best and depends on the out- come of numerous policy stands written into the bill. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said: "There's no agreement on a num- ber for the spending cuts. Noth- ing is agreed to until everything is agreed to." Biden agreed: "There's no deal until there's a whole deal." A protestor shouts at the broadcast of the Ohio House floor debate on Senate Bill 5 on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio House gives 'okay' to collective bargaining limits Earthquake in Japan possible cause of radiation in U.S. milk FDA says milk is still below level of concern and will drop quickly WASHINGTON (AP) - Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from Washing- ton state, the Environmental Pro- tection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration said yester- day, but federal officials assured consumers not to worry. The FDA said such findings were to be expected in the com- ing days because of the nuclear crisis in Japan, and that the levels were expected to drop relatively quickly. Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex began leaking radiation after it was damaged by a devastating earth- quake and tsunami earlier this month. Results from a March 25 milk sample taken from Spokane, Wash., showed levels of radio- active Iodine-131 that were still 5,000 times below levels of con- cern set by the FDA, including lev- els set for infants and children. "Radiation is all around us in our daily lives, and these findings are a miniscule amount compared to what people experience every day," said Patricia Hansen, senior scientist.at the FDA. "A person would be exposed to low levels of radiation on a round-trip cross- country flight, watching televi- sion, and even from construction materials." EPA said it was increasing the level of nationwide monitoring of milk, precipitation and drinking water. Spokane, a city of 208,000 resi- dents, is located more than 300 miles east of the Pacific coast. Kim Papich, spokeswoman for the Spokane Regional Health District, said the agency was aware of the EPA report and preparing to issue a statement to residents. "This is not a major health con- cern," Papich said. The United States had already halted imports of dairy products and produce from the affected area of Japan. Other foods import- ed from Japan, including seafood, were still being sold to the public but screened first for radiation. Japanese foods make up less than 4 percent of all U.S. imports. The FDA has said it expected no risk to the U.S. food supply from radiation. Protesters call out representatives for bill that would ban worker strikes COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Labor stronghold Ohio assumed center stage Wednesday in the battle over collective bargaining rights for public workers as the state Legislature was poised to send to the governor a bill that was in some ways tougher than that seen in Wisconsin. The measure awaited likely passage in the Republican-con- trolled state Senate on yesterday evening after itearlier cleared the GOP-led House on a 53-44 vote. Chants of "Shame on you!" quickly broke out from onlook- ers in the House balcony after the vote there. About 150 protesters then fil- tered into the Senate chamber, singing "We shall not be moved" and shouting "Power to the peo- ple!" Unlike Wisconsin's mea- sure, the Ohio legislation would extend union restrictions to police officers and firefighters. But the overall response by protesters in the Rust Belt state, despite its long union tradition among steel and auto workers, has paled in comparison to Wis- consin, where protests topped more than 70,000 people. Ohio's largest Statehouse demonstra- tions on the measure drew about 8,500 people. That difference has been attributed to Madison's labor legacy and the proximity of the populous University of Wiscon- sin campus to the state capital. Standing in the Ohio State- house Rotunda after the House vote yesterday, union steelwork- er Curt Yarger said he saw the bill as "a preliminary attack on working people." "I shouldn't have any disillu- sion that I'll be next in the pri- vate sector," said Yarger, 43, of Mansfield. Leo Geiger, a Republican who works as a sewer inspec- tor for the city of Dayton and didn't attend protests because he couldn't take the time off, said he's "deathly afraid that this is going to affect me, my family and the entire state of Ohio in an incredibly negative way." Geiger, 34, called the bill and the way it has moved through the Legislature "completely un- American" and said he believes it has more to do with "political payback" than the budget. "I find this to be loathsome," he said last night. "I find this to be disrespectful to Ohioans and disrespectful to the process of Democracy." Yesterday, an estimated 700 people went to the Ohio State- house to hear the debate. The Ohio measure affects safety workers, teachers, nurses and a host of other government personnel. It allows unions to negotiate wages but not health care, sick time or pension ben- efits. It gets rid of automatic pay increases, and replaces them with merit raises or perfor- mance pay. Workers would also be banned from striking. Republican Gov. John Kasich has said his $55.5 billion, two- year state budget counts on unspecified savings from lifting union protections to fill an $8 billion hole. The first-term gov- ernor and his GOP colleagues argue the bill would help city officials and superintendents better control their costs at a time when they too are feeling budget woes. State Rep. Robert Hagan, a Democrat from Youngstown, took issue with the notion that the bill was aimed at saving money. 0 0 A il,