2 - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com a 2 - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Iw I e Midi gan Bai1 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmai.com PRESENTER ON PEACE A healing hospital While the majority of campus denizens are here to live and learn, there is a significant portion of visitors who are here for a different purpose - to be treated at the Uni- versity of Michigan Health System. Ranked as the 14th hospital in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, UMHS has top-ranked specialties in both adult and pedi- atric care. In 2010, the health system facili- tated nearly 1.8-million outpatient visits, according to the UMHS website. Of those who required an overnight stay, the hospital hosted 44,665 patients in its 885-bed facil- ity. There were also 79,206 emer- gency and urgent care visits to UMHS in 2010 - 1,000 less emer- gency room visits than the previ- ous year. Not only does the health sys- tem provide care for millions of patients a year, it also provides training for thousands of medical students. More than 22,000 staff members and medical students are currently involved in treating patients at UMHS. This includes those in office, research and medi- cal care positions. Additionally, UMHS embarked on nearly 1,500 survival flight missions in 2010, according to the UMHS website. 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CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Phone jacked Fire safety gets Science in 15 Film screening from student real messy minutes talk WHAT: "Reteaching Gen- study, coffee addictions der and Sexuality," a film may be linked to genet- WHERE: Shapiro Under- WHERE: Goddard House WHAT: Rosina Bierbaum, about LGBTQ youth, will be ics, TIME.com reported. graduate Library WHEN: Tuesday at about professor and dean of the shown. Participants who had high- WHEN: Monday at about 2 a.m. School of Natural Resources WHO: Spectrum Center consumption variants of one, 1:30 p.m. WHAT: An unknown and the Environment, will WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. of two genes studied drank WHAT: A student reported subject discharged a fire talk about science in a 15 WHERE: School of Social more coffee than individuals his cell phone was missing extinguisher in the hallway minute lecture. 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Opponents of the law argued the threat of physical punish- ment is needed to maintain classroom discipline. 0 S Former Libyan official pleads with country to avoid civil war Koussa devoted 30 years to serving Gadhaffi and Libya LONDON (AP) - The high- est profile insider to break with Moammar Gadhafi's regime since Libya's conflict began warned yesterday that the coun- try risked becoming engulfed in civil war like Somalia. Ex-foreign minister Moussa Koussa, making his first public statement since he fled Tripoli, quit his post and arrived in Brit- ain on March 30, called on Gad- hafi and the country's opposition to show restraint. "I ask everybody, all the par- ties, to work to avoid taking Libya into a civil war. This will lead to bloodshed and make Libya a new Somalia," said Koussa, who has spent almost two weeks at an undisclosed location in interviews with Brit- ish intelligence officers and dip- lomats. Britain's Foreign Office said Koussa is not being detained by authorities, but have repeatedly declined to discuss the details of his debriefings or comment on his whereabouts. The former Gadhafi loyal- ist read a prepared statement to the BBC's Arabic language tele- vision channel and did not take any questions. The BBC did not disclose where it had filmed Koussa. Koussa did not make any explicit criticism of Gadhafi, but said he had quit after he became increasingly concerned over recent events. He confirmed he now has no contact with the dic- tator's Tripoli regime. "My country lives in a difficult time. It's the worst. When the Libyans started to lose security and stability I decided to resign," Koussa said. Also an ex-Libyan intelligence chief, Koussa said that for more than 30 years had been devoted to his work for Gadhafi and con- fident he had been serving the Libyan public. "But after recent events things changed and I couldn't continue. That's why I took this decision. Not because I'm wait- ing for anything, but because I know that what I did to resign will cause me problems, but I'm ready to make that sacrifice for the sake of my country," Ioussa said. He rejected suggestions of dividing Libya between the rebel-held east and Gadhafi's strongholds in the country's west, calling instead for talks between the regime and opposi- tion. "We refuse to divide Libya. The unity of Libya is essential to any solution and any settlement in Libya," Koussa said, according to a translation provided by the BBC. "The solution in Libya will come from the Libyans them- selves, through discussion and democratic dialogue." Koussa also called on the United Nations to help deliver food, medicine and aid to the Libyan people. "We hope the Security Coun- cil will take a humanitarian responsibility," he said. Last week, Scottish pros- ecutors interviewed Koussa as a witness over the 1988 bomb- ing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people - most of them Americans. Libya acknowledged responsibility for the terrorist attack in 2003, and opposition leaders have long claimed Kous- sa was closely involved. Koussa acknowledged he had previously worked closely with overseas intelligence agencies as the West sought to return Libya to the international fold in the 1990s, following terror attacks that tainted the North African country's reputation. ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN/AP A volunteer firefighter sprays a fire on April 9 which began outside Marfa, Texas, and was carried by winds to nearby Fort Davis. The fire danger remains high in West Texas where firefighters are battling a blaze that's destroyed dozens of homes. T exasWIldfires ravage land, destroy 6 homes0 Fires total 654 this year in wake of severe drought LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Firefighters battled yesterday to contain several large blazes that have burned hundreds of square miles of rural Texas and destroyed dozens of homes since last week, getting rein- forcements from out of state as they struggled against some of the worst wildfire conditions in state history. One firefighter was in criti- cal condition at a Lubbock hos- pital with severe burns suffered while fighting a Panhandle wild- fire, officials said. Powerful winds that sent walls of flame through parched ranchland in and around the West Texas communities of Fort Davis and Midland, incinerating more than 60 homes during the weekend and killing livestock and horses, took pity by direct- ing the fires to largely unpopu- lated open spaces north and east of the cities. An overnight thunderstorm - a rare occurrence of late, with the state coming off its driest March since 1895 - gave crews the break they needed to begin containing a wildfire that had scorched about 110 square miles of rolling prairies about 175 miles west of Fort Worth. All of Texas is experienc- ing drought, and conditions are classified as extreme or excep- tional in 60 percent of the state, according to the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor map. Rain from last summer's Hur- ricane Alex led to particularly lush vegetation growth, said Mark Stanford, the operations director for the Texas Forest Service. A cold winter and the drought killed off much of that growth, and with fewer cattle grazing on Texas pasturelands, the dried remains have provided a perfect fuel for wildfires to consume, he said. Thus far this year, the Forest Service and fire departments have responded to 654 fires that have burned 916 square miles of land and destroyed 189-homes. That's a far cry from March 2006 - when wildfires burned more than 3,000 square miles, destroyed 413 homes and killed 12 people in the deadliest wild- fire month in state history. But Stanford said current wildfire conditions are even worse than five years ago. "We're in new territory because it's drier than it has been for '06, '08 and '09, but there is more fuel to burn,"Stan- ford said. The parched conditions are expected to last for several days, at least, but the 30-40 mph winds that have been fueling the western blazes are expected to drop into the teens and low 20s, he said. "And that makes a huge dif- ference," Stanford said. It'll be too late for those who watched the terrifying, fast- moving fires sweep through their West Texas communities on Saturday and Sunday. 9