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" Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. The FBI arrested four Georgia senior citizens for allegedly plotting to poison U.S. citizens and gov- ernment officials, talking- pointsmemo.com reported. The men were plotting to kill people they believed to be anti-American. The committment of superstar Mitch McGary puts Michi- gan basketball in the nation- al spotlight, but this story dates back to the bleachers of a small-town Indiana high school. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE7 A 64-year-old man was stabbed by a stranger who was hiding in the backseat of his car, WTAE reported. The man who was stabbed has since been released from the hospital. It is unknown why he was stabbed. 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Share them with your followers on Twitter @CrimeNotes or find them on their new blog. Occupy protesters disavow violent outburst in Oakland Occupy Oakh protesters sh down city's p OAKLAND, Calif. Occupy Wall Street pr had just half a day to c what they saw as their victory so far: a daylong ing in Oakland, Calif., th thousands of people anc the peaceful shutdown nation's fifth-busiest por after midnight, the va began. Hours after a small g what city leaders called cateurs" clashed with rio set fires and shattered v early yesterday, demon across the country con the violence and w< MANAGEDBY ZN MIKI JAPANESE RESTAURANT and whether it was a turn that would no organizational structure and destroy their cause. no high-profile leaders can - or lut "They don't speak for the should - do anything to stop majority of people who were here those they called troublemakers. ort yesterday," said Hadas Alterman, Yesterday afternoon, rep- a college student who was gather- resentatives from the Occupy (AP) - ingtrash at a tent camp near Oak- Oakland media committee read otesters land City Hall. "That was an hour a statement saying participants elebrate of action, and we were out here supported the goal of reclaiming biggest for 12 hours and it was peaceful." empty buildings to serve the pub- gather- The 3,000-person protest out- lic but regretted that their day- at drew side the port Wednesday night long downtown demonstration d led to represented an escalation in tac- was marred by an "autonomous" of the tics as demonstrators targeted a group. t. Then, major symbol of the nation's com- "It is unfortunate that the ndalism merce with peaceful rallies and unprecedented mobilization sit-ins, managing to effectively and engagement of tens of thou- roup of suspend maritime operations sands of our neighborhood in this "provo- there for the night. beautiful Oakland city should be t police, The street spasm that fol- marred by broken windows and windows lowed when about 200 people graffiti," Laura Long said, read- strators tried to take over a vacant build- ing the statement. "Occupy Oak- demned ing, however, raised questions land does not advocate violence ondered about whether a movement with and has no interest in supporting actions that endanger the com- munity and possibilities that it has worked to build." The group released a state- ment last night saying it doesn't support vandalism but would : * not take an official position until Friday's night "General Assem- bly" meeting. So far, few cities have reached the level of Oakland, a S D T IO T unique place with along history of tensions between residents and police. Bob Norkus at the Occupy Boston camp said the riots didn't -Crepresent the broader move- ment and likely wouldn't have a lasting effect on it, either. The movement is still evolving and mistakes are inevitable, he said. It "has to be nonviolent, or elseitwill just end. We won'tget the support," he said. "It doesn't mean you can't agitate people. But you can't also be breaking windows and burning." Police in riot gear arrested more than 80 protesters in downtown Oakland, where OFF ANY bands of masked protesters A E1 took over a vacant building, erected roadblocks and threw chunks of concrete and fire- CANNOT COMBINE WITH ANY OTHER OFFER . -1 bombs. Five people and several officers were injured. PETITION From Page 1 (R-Mich.) and Fred Upton (R- Mich.). Walser said he is concerned that further cuts to federal loan programs, coinciding with rises in tuition at the University and schools nationwide, would push college out of reach for many stu- dents. "We've seen an increasing gap between aid programs by the gov- ernment and the rising costs of tuition, and it's really becoming very, very difficult for students from lower-income families to have access to higher education," he said. "That's terrible for the future of our country, when not everyone has equal rights and equal access to education.", The fear that lower-income students could not afford to attend college in the wake of imperiled loan programs inspired MSA to get "fully on board with this ini- tiative," Walser said. MSA is also coordinating a campaign to give students postcards addressed to state politicians and deliver them to the politicians' offices. While he said he hopes the measures will draw the commit- tee's attention, Walser blamed neither Republicans nor Demo- crats for the decision to cut fed- eral loan programs. Instead, he said past cutbacks and the pros- pect of future slashes reflected a lack of concern for higher edu- cation funding throughout Con- gress. "It's just a lack of priority on education," Walser said. Past cuts to federal student aid programs include the elimi- nation of year-round Pell Grants and the termination of various state grants. As part of the federal deficit deal in August that averted the government's default on its debt, in-school interest subsidies - which suspend the payment of interest on student loans until six months after graduation - were eliminated for graduate and pro- fessional students. College officials and student advocacy groups nationwide are concerned that upcoming cuts by the supercommittee could lead to further rollbacks of the Pell Grant program, according to Tony Pals, director of communi- cations for the National Associa- tion of Independent Colleges and Universities - one of 75 groups and institutions that make up the Student Aid Alliance. Pals said the effect of further cuts to the Pell Grant program would be severe. I "What happened in August had a real impact on the ability of students to afford their higher education," he said. "And if addi- tional cuts are made to the Pell Grants, it could have a devastat- ing impact." He added that he was encour- aged by the popularity of the petition, which has about 45,000 electronic signatures as of last night. In response to the wide- spread support, Pals said the Alli- ance raised its target to 100,000 signees. "The response to the statement has already exceeded our expec- tations, and it speaks volumes about just how important our stu- dent aid programs are," he said. Despite the success of the petition, Pal said he still wor- ries about the supercommittee's upcoming decioion's: The amount of the cuts is not yet known, but one clue could be the House and Senate plans, according to Mark Eantrow- itz, foundertand publisher of the financial aid information website finaid.org. Kantrowitz said the Senate plan proposes the elimination of the in-school interest subsidy for undergraduate students, while the House bill would cut eligi- bility for the Pell Grant from 18 semesters to 12 and lower the maximum annual income to receive a Pell Grant from $31,000 to $15,000. Whether the supercommit- tee's resolutions will more closely resemble the House or the Sen- ate bill is hard to tell, Kantrowitz said. Either way, he said cutting student loan programs without severe repercussions would be nearly impossible. "It'll be very hard for them to cut without cutting significant needs," Kantrowitz said. "This isn't just getting rid of fraud and waste and then improving effi- ciency. This is cutting many areas where there is a definite need for the funding." The underlying issue, Kan- trowitz said, is that higher educa- tion funding is not as important as it should be to the federal gov- ernment. "Post-secondary education and student financial aid aren't even in the top 10 in terms of govern- ment priorities," he said. ""We are entering a decade of severe declines in college affordability, and increasingly more and more low-income students are going to be priced out of the cost of a col- lege education." 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