2A - Monday, April 11, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, April 11, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom TUESDAY: Questions on Campus WEDNESDAY: Professor Profiles THURSDAY: ' FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week DRUM CIRCLE 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief BusinessManager 734-410-4110 ext. 1201 734-410-4110 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandailycom tmdbusiness@gmnail.com Notre Dame seeks to reduce accident fine 0 0 The University of Notre Dame is seeking to lessen the $77,500 in fines it incurred as a result of an accident in which a student died while filming a football practice from a hydraulic lift last fall, according to an April 8 arti- cle in The Observer. Notre Damejunior Declan Sullivan, who was a team videographer, was filming during a windstorm and fell from the lift on Oct. 27, 2010, according to the arti- cle. As a result of Sullivan's death, Notre Dame now uses remote controlled video cameras to film practices, The Observer reported. Notre Dame is engaged in discussions with the Indi- ana Occupational Safety and Health Administration regarding the fine for six violations the university was cited for, according to the article. 14-YEAR-OLD WINS COLLEGE AWARD Colin Carlson, a 14-year- old junior at the University of Connecticut, was awarded the Truman Scholarship this week, according to an April 9 Associated Press article. The Truman Scholar- ship provides $30,000 to the recipient for graduate study. Carlson is the fourth Uni- versity of Connecticut stu- dent to win the award since its inception in 1975, the AP reported. Carlson is double majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology and environmen- tal studies at the University of Connecticut, where he started taking classes when he was nine years old. After graduation, he intends to go to law school as well as earn a Ph.D. Colin Carlson, a 14-year- old junior at the University of Connecticut, was awarded the Truman Scholarship this week, accordingto an April 9 Associated Press article. The Truman Scholarship, which was created in 1975, provides $30,000 to the recipient to pursue gradu- ate school, according to the article. Carlson is double majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology and environmental studies at the University of Connecticut, where he first enrolled at the age of 9, the AP reported. 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Dow Building WHEN: Friday at about 7:30 p.m. WHAT: The building was evacuated by the Ann Arbor Fire Department after a student spilled half a gallon of Benzene on the floor, University Police reported. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Sticky fing WHERE: MichiganI WHEN: Friday at ab 9;30 p.m. WHAT: A 46-year-o not affiliated with th versity was arrested: an employee saw him several packs of gum versity Police reporte suspect was found ou the building. Garage crai WHERE: 616 Forest, Ave. parking structur WHEN: Saturday at: 2:45 p.m. WHAT: A 22-year-ol was found crawling o ground of the parking ture vomiting, Univer Police reported. The s who is not affiliated w university, was taken hospital for treatment ers Heroes of Union Peace panel gout WHAT: A conference will Id man be held that focuses on the e Uni- lives of four heroes who after advocated for peace during steal different time periods. , Uni- WHO: Rumi Club d. The WHEN: Today at 5 p.m. tside WHERE: Michigan Union wl Opera preview South WHAT: As an introduc- e tion to "Bond" - a Chinese about opera based on the "Mer- chant of Venice." Experts d and members of the opera n the company will hold a work- ;struc- shop on this traditional Chi- sity nese opera. ubject, WHO: Department of Com- cith the parative Literature, Depart- to the ment of English Language t. & Literature, Center for Chinese Studies WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: School of Social Work, room 1636 Law workshop WHAT: Toronto University Law Prof. Karen Knop will deliver a lecture called the "Tokyo Women's Tribunal and the Turn to Fiction." WHO: Center for Interna- tional and Comparative Law WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Hutchins Hall, room 116 Seminar to reduce stress WHAT:Participants will learn skills - like yoga and meditation - to limit their stress. 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Yet as prime minister and Con- servative Party leader, he has gone on to do what many would have thought impossible: He has won two elections in a row, and despite never commanding a majority in" Parliament, has managed to nudge an instinctively liberal country ever further to the right. Now Harper looks set for a third term when Canadians go to the polls on May 2, and this time he is asking voters to give him a majority in the 308-member house; he has been loath to do that previously lest he be accused of right-wing overreach. Most polls predict he again will fall short, although one has said he will get his coveted majority this time. Either way, thanks to luck, a fractured opposition and a sharp, strategic mind, the 51-year-old prime minister has put a distinctly more conservative face on the nation of 34 million. He has gradually lowered sales and corporate taxes. He has forth- rightly promoted the potential of Alberta's oil sands, the world's second largest oil reserves, despite environmental objections. He has increased spending on the mili- tary and staunchly backed Israel's right-wing government. He has extended Canada's military mis- sion in Afghanistan. The only area that has not felt his conservative touch is the social one: he has said he will not tinker with Canada's liberal abortion and gay rights laws. Former colleagues of Harper say his long-term goals are to kill the widely entrenched notion that the Liberals - the party of MacK- enzie King, Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau - are the natural party of government in Canada, and to redefine what it means to be Canadian. "He's trying to dampen the idea that the Liberal Party is the party of Canada, that they invented the flag. You can be a patriotic Cana- dian and not be a Liberal; you can actually be a Conservative. That's a lasting contribution, and that is a change," says Ian Brodie, Harper's chief of staff from 2006 to 2008. Smoke trail from a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip toward Israel on Saturday. Hamas official appeals to Israel to halt rocket fire i Gaza Strip L H, rod JERI membe movemi the Isra escalati yesterd station Hamas fire ifI Gaza. As n )espite plea, militants had fired about 10 rock- ets and mortar shells at Israel, amas fired 10 police said, but Israel had not hit back. kets into Israel At a late afternoon meet- yesterday ing of Israel's Security Cabinet, made up of senior ministers, the military was told to "continue to USALEM (AP) - A senior operate againstterrorists in order r of Gaza's ruling Hamas to stop the (rocket) fire on Israel." ent made a rare appeal to .. Hamas' deputy foreign min- aeli public for a halt to the ister, Ghazi Hamad, delivered ing cross-border fighting the message to state-run Israel ay, telling an Israeli radio Radio. "We are interested in calm in fluent Hebrew that but want the Israeli military to is ready to stop its rocket stop its operations," Hamad said Israel ends its attacks on in Hebrew. Hamas refuses to recognize ightfall approached, Gaza Israel, but Hamad and other lead- ers of the Islamic militant group learned Hebrew during time spent in Israeli prisons. Other Hamas officials said they were in touch with media- tors in hopes of restoring calm. Israeli leaders sent mixed mes- sages yesterday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said if militants in Hamas-ruled * Gaza cease their attacks, so would Israel. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a more combat- ive tack. "If the attacks on Israeli citizens and soldiers continue, the response will be far harsher" than it has been, Netanyahu told his Cabinet. 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The president is putting Chi- cago in the spotlight again as he tries to recreate the grass-roots, start-up flavor of his first cam- paign and do what no incumbent president has done in decades: try to win re-election from a location outside Washington. A Chicago base also could reinforce a connection to a city that aides say keeps Obama grounded while he lives in the nation's capital. "Nobody is more eager to be out and nobody is more eager to be here than him," said David Axelrod, Obama's chief politi- cal strategist who left the White House this year to return to Chi- cago to work on the re-election and be closer to his Chicago- based family. "The conversation in Washington is completely dif- ferent than the conversation you hear out here." Obama's advisers hope a Chi- cago location could insulate his campaign from some of the Washington chatter and news leaks that often plague cam- paigns. A beyond-the-Beltway headquarters could allow them to offset the notion that Obama, who campaigned as an outsid- er above the partisan fray and promised a new approach to politics, has become the ultimate political insider. "Basing it in Chicago says, 'I'm not of Washington,' but if he doesn't spend time in Chicago, he is of Washington," said Paul Light, a public service professor at New York University. Obama's relationship with his town has evolved over the years. He was a community organiz- er, worked on a major voter drive and practiced law in his early days in the city.