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BOARD OF REGENTS
Coleman
questions
new model
for funding
AUSTEN HUPFORD/Daily
LEFT: A crowd applauds Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkul Karman who spoke in Rackham Auditorium yesterday.
Nobel Prize winnerhighlights
womens rolei Arab Spin
Regents to review
president's letter
to state budget
director
By KAITLIN WILLIAMS
Daily StaffReporter
University administrators are
sending a clear message to state
officials: the University of Michi-
gan is important, and it needs to
be properly funded.
The University's fiscal year
2013 budget development letter
was released to the University's
Board of Regents in a communi-
cation yesterday._At the regents'
monthly meeting on Thursday,
they will vote on whether to send
the letter to John Nixon, director
of the State Budget Office. In the
letter, University President Mary
Sue Coleman questioned the new
funding model proposed by the
state - known as formula fund-
ing - and claimed that the model
poses "a new array of challenges"
for the University.
In the letter, Coleman sug-
gested that the state should focus
on measuring the University's
performance when employing
formula funding - a system
in which state appropriations
would be determined based on
universities' fulfillment of cer-
tain criteria, including gradu-
ation and freshman retention
rates.
"The objective of formula
funding should be to allocate
funding based on the value that
each university brings to the
state, so that the formula pro-
vides financial incentive for each
university to maximize that
value," Coleman wrote.
Coleman argued that the new
model ignores the unique mis-
sion of the University and may
cause the state to cut more fund-
ing. She cited the University's
educational programs and stu-
dent body of more than 27,000
undergraduates and 15,000 grad-
uate students as well as the Uni-
versity's $1.24 billion research
expenditures in fiscal year 2011
as reasons to reconsider compar-
ing itsvalue to other state univer-
sities.
See COLEMAN, Page 3
2011 laureate
Tawakkul Karman
talks importance of
democracy
By CHARLENE LERNER
For the Daily
Sounds of the Arab Spring
reverberated off the walls of
lrn c full Rarkhva i
winner Tawakkul Karman led
the audience through chants
promoting women and peace.
Karman, a journalist and
senior member of Al-Islah
political party in Yemen, is the
first Arab woman, the second
Muslim and the first Yemeni
person to win a Nobel Prize for
her work with women's rights.
Karman discussed the sweep-
ing changes in the Arab Spring,
particularly women's roles in
nnrcino hi-mvmn Thi
man to speak on campus as part
of the program's curriculum.
Karman began her talk by
making it clear that she is a
revolutionary figure for not just
her country, but for humanity.
"To begin, I am a citizen of
the world," she said. "The Earth
is my country, and humanity is
my nation. This is my motto:
What everyone has longed for
and will be achieved when all of
the people shall also celebrate
thiic nr7it tv Y m~i
has also won beside me..."
Karman discussed how
democracy and freedom are
necessary to create a nation
where justice prevails. She
emphasized the new role of
Arab women in leading protest-
ers in the revolutions for demo-
cratic principles.
"Women have become at the
forefront of these demonstra-
tions and lines in protests - in
the medical camps, in the secu-
rity services, in the strategic
planning for the revolution and
See NOBEL, Page 2
an almost run ac nam au - progressing the movement. 1 e tns prize tat every semeni,
torium yesterday, as 2011 co- University's Arabic Language and every Arab, and every
recipient Nobel Peace Prize Flagship Program invited Kar- human being and every woman
CAMPUS CRIME
Man arrested, charged
for assault in East Quad
24-year-old Canton
man arraigned on
nine total charges
By HALEY GLATTHORN
Daily StaffReporter
On Saturday, University
Police arrested the man believed
to be responsible for the sexual
assault in East Quad Residence
Hall on Oct. 30.
Adam Hester, a 24-year-old
Canton resi-
dent who is
unaffiliated
with the
University,
was charged
today with
fourth- ADAM HESTER
degree crim-
inal sexual conduct and eight
other charges for crimes that
occurred on campus in the past
13 months.
Hester is being charged with
three felonies, three high court
misdemeanors and four misde-
meanors. The police allege that
Hester committed a litany of
crimes, such as photographing
an individual in a campus bath-
room stall, indecently expos-
ing himself on three occasions,
stealing a laptop in October 2010
and stealing an iPod in March
2011.
Hester faces serious penal-
ties resulting from sentencing
enhancements. Under Michi-
gan law, "sexually delinquent
See ASSAULT, Page 2
e
CANADA'
244 students SOUTH KOREA
687students
TAIWAN
287students
INDIA
752 students
CHINA
1,747 students
GRAPHIC BY H ELEN LIUEBLICH
The countries with the most number of students who studied at the University in 2010-2011.
'U' ranks eighth in number
MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY
MSA seeks to fill rep. vacancies in election of international students
Only one Rackham
student running
with 10 open seats
By GIACOMO BOLOGNA
Daily StaffReporter
With the polls for Michi-
gan Student Assembly elec-
tions open tonight at midnight,
assembly members say they
hope to fill current vacancies in
the student government.
The vacant seats this semes-
ter have resulted from repre-
sentatives from several schools
and colleges not being elected,
resigning or being dismissed
because of multiple absences
from MSA meetings. However,
of the three schools that did
not elect MSA representatives
in March - the School of Nat-
ural Resources and the Envi-
ronment, Medical School and
School of Social Work - only
the School of Social Work has a
candidate running in the elec-
tion.
Additionally, until three
weeks ago, Rackham Gradu-
ate School had not been repre-
sented at an assembly meeting
this semester. Since then, two
Rackham representatives have
attended the two most recent
meetings.
MSA President DeAndree
Watson said the assembly is
reaching out to organizations
like the Graduate Employees'
Organization to foster a bet-
See MSA, Page 3
5,595 international nation with the most num-
ber of international students,
students studied according to a report released
yesterday.
on campus in last According to data released
yesterday as part of the Insti-
school year tute of International Edu-
cation's Open Doors survey
By ANNA ROZENBERG the, number of international
Daily StaffReporter students studying in the U.S.
increased 5 percent in the past
With 5,595 foreign students year to a total of 723,277 stu-
studying on campus last year, dents nationally. For the 10th
the University was ranked as consecutive year, the Univer-
the eighth institution in the sity of Southern California
topped the list, as 8,615 inter-
national students studied at
the school in 2010-2011.
In the 2009-2010 aca-
demic year, the University
of Michigan ranked sixth in
the Open Doors survey with
6,095 international students.
Despite the decrease in inter-
national enrollment during
the 2010-2011 academic year,
John Greisberger, director of
the University's International
Center, said he is pleased with
See INTERNATIONAL, Page 2
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