BULLDOGtr A G BEATDOWN Dena to sta, lw No. 6 Michigan outscored Ferris begin State 9-3 in last weekend's series. WbegNn 9InNSIDE Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, January 18, 2011 michigandaily.com MICHIGAN FOOTBALL Rodriguez's Michigan gear auctioned off for charity Former head football coach donates 473 Michigan items to Salvation Army By ADAM RUBENFIRE Daily StaffReporter WAYNE, Mich. - Just as the University community is looking forward to next football season with a new coach, many here are also hopeful for a new start - something that will now be pos- sible because of former Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez. After being fired by the Univer- sity's Athletic Department on Jan. 5, Rodriguez donated 473 Wolver- ine-themed items to the Salvation Army's Family Thrift Store in the. Detroit suburb, according to the Salvation Army's Maj. John Aren. On Saturday, 160 of those items were auctioned off during an event titled "Coach's Closet." Articles donated by the former coach range from University of Michigan T-shirts to hats and hel- mets to shorts and pants. Rodri- guez also autographed some of the items, but he did not attend the event. More than 300 people par- ticipated in Saturday's auction, according to Aren. The Salvation Army estimated that the total proceeds from all 473 items were $16,200. Of this total, $12,900 was raised from the "Coach's Closet" auction. Proceeds from "Coach's Closet" will benefit the Salvation Army's Romulus Adult Rehabilitation Center, which receives donations from the storethroughout the year, Aren wrote in an e-mail interview. "There's 100 men there who are counting on the funds," Aren, also the administrator of the rehabilita- tion center, said in an interview at the event Saturday. The rehabilitation center offers housing, work and therapy to assist individuals in re-entering society, according to the center's website. Without the sale of Rodriguez's donations, Aren wrote that the store probably would have sold only $1,200 worth of merchandise on Saturday. The donations came after a recent furniture store explosion that killed two Wayne residents. The same disaster response truck that responded to the store explo- sion three weeks ago was present at the event and served free hot chocolate to customers at the auc- tion. Aren wrote that this event could. not have come at a better time for the community. See RODRIGUEZ, Page SA Hear from people at the auction in avideoonMichiganDaily.com Journalist Byron Pitts speaks at the Blau Auditorium in the Ross School of Business yesterday as part of the University's Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium. Pitts is a cor- respondent for CBS and a contributor to60 Minutes. At MLK YSyoim, Shrrod stresses unity Author Bertice Berry discusses the power of King's rhetoric By SARAH ALSADEN and SABIRA KHAN Daily StaffReporters As part of its 25th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Symposium, the University held a series of events featuring key- note speaker Shirley Sherrod and renowned professor and come- dian Bertice Berry. Each year the University hosts the largest Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration in the coun- try, according to the University's Associate Vice Provost John Matlock. In her keynote speech, Sher- rod, a civil rights activist and former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture, discussed her role in the civil rights movement among other topics. She also talked about her work as a stu- dent activist working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinat- ing Committee (SNCC) and her resignation from the USDA after being accused in July of alleged- ly discriminating against white farmers. Though the civil rights move- ment ended when African Amer- icans gained liberties like the right to vote, Sherrod said there is still a lot of progress to be made. "Back during the civil rights Listen to student and faculty reactions to Sherrod's speech on MichiganDaily.com movement, all black people were in the same boat," she said. "We all went through it, we all faced the discrimination and we could work together." While the issues currently plaguing the African American community are much different than they were in the past, Sher- rod said people should still take See MLK, Page 5A BOARD OF REGENTS 'Report: 'U'spends more than $1B on research in FY 2010 0w; TODD NEEDLE/aily Employees prepare burgers for customers at the opening of Five Guys Burgers and Fries on State Street yesterday. The restau- rant only uses fresh meat and vegetables as ingredients. Five Guys opens doors to lon ines positive reviews Regents to discuss upgrades to ISR Building, utility tunnels By JOSEPH LICHTERMAN Daily NewsEditor For the second consecutive year, the University's 2010 fiscal year research expenditures have topped $1 billion, according to the University's Annual Report on Research and Scholarship. Stephen Forrest, the Univer- sity's vice president for research is scheduled to present the report to the University's Board of Regents at its monthly meeting on Thursday. A summary of the report was released yesterday' along with the meeting's agenda.' According to the report sub- mitted to the regents, the Uni- versity's total research spending for the 2010 fiscal year, ending June 30, was more than $1.1 bil- lion - an increase of 12.1 percent from fiscal year 2009. The University ranks first in research spending among all public institutions in the coun- try, according to data from the National Science Foundation. And the University is second overall among all universities nationally, trailing Johns Hop- kins University. Spending nearly $500 million, the Medical School spends the most on research of any unit at the .University of Michigan and consumes about 44 percent of all expenditures. The College of Engineering, the Institute for Social Research, LSA and the School of Public Health rank sec- ond through fifth, respectively, in terms of spending. The University's largest source of research funding is the federal government, which con- tributes about two-thirds of all See REGENTS, Page SA AROUND ANN ARBOR A creates Panhandling Task Force Burger chain wins over customers on restaurant's first day By ANNA ROZENBERG Daily StaffReporter Five Guys Burger and Fries located on South State Street opened its doors yesterday to stu- dents and Ann Arbor locals who streamed in to get their burger fix. Originally set to open in November, the restaurant opened yesterday after construction delays and time taken to hire employees after winter break, Brian Adelman, co-owner of the Ann Arbor branch, said. Adelman said this location is the first of the Five Guys restau- rants he's opened with lower- level seating in addition to the main floor. Adelman has opened two other locations - one in East Lansing and the other in Livo- nia, Mich. - within the past four months. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. yester- day, the line to the cash register had been consistently to the door. "It might not stop," Adelman See FIVE GUYS, Page 6A Group to educate students, merchants about panhandlers By ANT MITCHELL Daily StaffReporter Many University students and Ann Arbor residents have not known what to do when approached by panhandlers, and now the city is looking to cut down on these experiences. Because of an escalation in the frequency of these events, the city has formed a panhandling task force to work on solutions to the problem. Formed in Septem- ber, the task force is the second attempt to decrease the number of panhandlers in Ann Arbor since a city group created in 2003 worked toward the same goal. The current task force was given a six-month time frame to address the issue of panhan- dling in the city. The first three months were spent on research, according to City Council mem- ber Sabra Briere (D-Ward 1), who is chair of the panhandling task force. The remaining months are to be spent turning the group's See PANHANDLING, Page 5A WEATHER HI: 19 GOT A NEWS TIP? -OM RRO Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail TOMORROW LO. 12 news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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