46F 46F c an z e rj 1 !* 'r z t 1 m g' ' ? } t i r Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, September 14,2011 michigandaily.com ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE PREP FIFTH SEXUAL ASSAULT REPORTED IN TWO MONTHS A 20-year-old female was assaulted by an unknown man on the 400 block of South First Street near William Street shortly after midnight Tuesday, according to a crime alert issued early this morning. The woman broke free, and the man fled on foot. This is a developing story, read more on www.MichiganDaily.com. FINANCING YOUR EDUCATION U.S.loan defaults rise as' rate falls, ALDEN REISS/Daily Kinesiology sophomore Paul Kitti walks through Mason Hall with fellow members of the Michigan Zombie Club during the group's "Mass Eating" yesterday. Members of the club are preparing for a "Zombie Apocalypse." UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES a'U' faces copyright lawsui or HathiTru dg9*st book d iiization Courant: Project not providing full texts online By RAYZA GOLDSMITH Daily StaffReporter The University and HathiTrust Digital Library, of which the University is a found- ing partner, are facing a lawsuit over alleged copyright infringe- ment. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the Authors Guild, Austra- lian Society of Authors, Quebec Writers Union and eight indi- vidual authors. The organiza- tions and individuals claim the University was not authorized to obtain scans of more than 7 million copyrighted books, some of which the University planned to make available to the public to download. The law- suit also names the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Indiana Univer- sity and Cornell University as. defendants. According to Paul Courant, the University's dean of librar- ies, the digitization project does not actually allow students to access the full text of books online. "We are using those copies for purposes other than dis- playing them to the readers," Courant said. "The ones that are copyright are generally not available to read." He added that people with' disabilities prevent them from accessing physical libraries will be able to use the full versions of the online books. But for the general public, the books are only partly available online. Students and faculty can search any book online to find perti- nent content, but must physi- cally check out the book at the See LAWSUIT, Page 6A National rate at 8.8 percent, 'U' rate 0.9 percent ByANDREW SCHULMAN Daily StaffReporter A large number of University students and alumni paid back their loans on time in the 2009 fiscal year compared to many of their peers at other institutions. More than 320,000 college students and graduates nation- wide defaulted on their federal student loans in the 2009 fiscal year, which drove the national default rate to 8.8 percent - the highest since 1997. But only 49 of these students attend or graduated from the University of Michigan, according to U.S. Department of Educationdata. Stephen DesJardins, direc- tor of the University's Center for Higher and Postsecondary Edu- cation, said the number equates to a default rate at the Univer- sity of 0.9 percent. Thelow rate is evidence of the success of the University's graduatess na . the breadth of the University's financialaid offerings, even as tuition rises and the state's econ- omy struggles, DesJardins said. "That (number) doesn't sur- prise me because this is a high- quality education that people get at the University, and I think our students have lots of success in the labor market," DesJardins said. "Those two things go hand in hand - success in the labor market and people paying back their loans." See LOAN, Page 6A UNIVERSITY RANKINGS U.S. News and World ranks 'U' 28th best school RINGING IN A NEW SEMESTER 'U' climbs The University has climbed one spot since last year - up one spot in to number 28 - on U.S. News and World Report's list of best ranking report national colleges of 2012. The University's new ranking ends By SABIRA KHAN a downward trend over the Daily StaffReporter past five years. University spokesman Rick While the U.S. News and Fitzgerald explained the trend World Report doesn't consider by noting the. schools that have the University to be the Lead- outranked the University in er or the Best, the publication recent years are mostly pri- does think the institution is vate institutions. However, the improving. University has held its place at number four among the nation's public schools for the fourth consecutive year. "Our ranking among public universities has been very sta- ble," Fitzgerald said. "I suspect that among (U.S. News and World Report's) calculations there's something there that favors private universities." Fitzgerald added that the University's improvement on the 2012 report is not necessari- ly an indicator of what the insti- See RANKS, Page 6A UNIVERSITY RESEARCH Parents underestimate teenage drinking and drug use, study finds Study polled underestimate their teenagers' the parents believed their teens use of drugs and alcohol had consumed alcohol over the ERIN KIRKLAND/Daily University alum Steven Ball, an assistant professor of music, plays the 55-bell carillon at the Lurie Tower on North Campus during an open house yesterday. STANDARDIZED TESTING tu ents ace wit oner test, different content on GRE 600 parents of 13 to 17-year-olds By CLAIRE GOSCICKI Daily StaffReporter A new study by researchers at the University Health Sys- tem shows that parents tend to University physicians Ber- nard Biermann, an assistant professor of psychiatry, and Matthew Davis, an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics and communi- cable diseases, surveyed more than 600 parents of teens aged 13-17 in a national poll and found that about 10 percent of past year. In comparison, about five percent believed their teens had used marijuana over the past year. Biermann and Davis con- ducted the poll in May to bet- ter understand substance abuse among young people. The researchers asked parents about See RESEARCH, Page 6A Sc sci GRl ome business unknown in the form of the new GRE. hools now using The new GRE - or the Grad- uate Record Examinations - CE in admissions which took effect Aug. 1, is now longer - at nearly four hours By CECE ZHOU instead of three - has a new Daily StaffReporter scoring scale and includes mul- tiple changes to several subsec- dents facing the uncer- tions. Despite student concerns of applying to graduate about the new format, some Uni- t are encountering another versity students think the new exam will more accurately test their knowledge. Antonym and analogy ques- tions in the verbal reasoning section have been eliminated. Instead, there are now contex- tual and reasoning-based inqui- ries. For the quantitative reasoning section, there is now "numeric entry," which means multiple choice options aren't See GRE, Page 6A Stu tainty school WEATHER HI: 55 TOMORROW . L 41 GOT A NEWS TIP? 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