The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, November 28, 2011 - 5A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, November 28, 2011 - 5A DPS official: Fan behavior tame at game American Red Cross nurse Esther Carp draws blood from Engineering senior Billy Mayer for the Blood Battle at the School of Dentistry on Friday. beats U in Blood Battle With 2,628 pints of blood, the 'U' collected 200 more than Ohio State By CLAIRE GOSCICKI Daily StaffReporter The University's weekend victory over The Ohio State University goes beyond the football field. For the fourth consecutive year, the University beat OSU in the annual Blood Battle compe- tition. The University collected 2,628 pints of blood - about 200 more pints than OSU - during the two-week contest, which ended Saturday. The University also beat OSU in this semester's Wolverine-Buckeye Challenge for Life, a donor registration drive competition sponsored by Gift of Life Michigan, by registering about 49,000 more donors than OSU. The University chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed com- munity service fraternity and the sponsor of Blood Battle, sought to encourage as many people on campus to donate blood to surpass its initial goal of 2,550 pints, said LSA senior Jes- sie Baker, the Blood Battle chair. "We wanted to beat OSU, but our main goal was to collect blood to save lives," she said. Blood donation stations - which were sponsored by the American Red Cross - were scattered around campus in locations including the Michi- gan Union, Michigan Stadium and several residence halls. Baker said promotion of the event around the Diag and through local fundraisers led to a strong turnout at the drives. She added that she and other organizers are excited about the progress that was made by both schools in the Blood Bat- tle, especially because there is a greater need for blood - about 100 more pints than OSU - dur- ing the holiday season. "People don't donate during the holidays, because they're not around, and (therefore) the demand is so great," Baker said. Anne Murphy, an adminis- trator at the University Hospi- tal Transplant Center, said that like the need for blood, there is also a high demand in the state for organ, tissue and bone mar- row donors. According to University of Michigan Health System sta- tistics, each day 19 people die while waiting for an organ transplant. "We always have a shortage of donors," Murphy said. "Right now they're about 3,000 people in the state of Michigan waiting for organ transplants." The Wolverine-Buckeye Challenge placed the University and Ohio State in competition to see which school could gen- erate the greater number of new organ, tissue and bone marrow donors during the 2011 college football season. The Univer- sity helped to generate about 109,000 new donor list regis- trants through the Michigan Donor Registry, beating Ohio State's approximately 60,000 new registrants for the second year in a row, according to Mur- phy. "Lives will literally be saved as a result of those people mak- Rushing the field is technically against Big House policy By RAYZA GOLDSMITH Daily Staff Reporter Apart from rushing the field after the Wolverines' 40-34 win against the Buckeyes on Satur- day, Michigan fans at the Big House remained relatively tame as they watched the Wolverines beat Ohio State for the first time in seven seasons. Diane Brown, spokeswoman for the University's Department of Public Safety, said that consid- ering the animosity between the Wolverines and the Buckeyes, fans were fairly calm on Saturday. "Indeed this was a high rival- ry game, and as a result it was a very large crowd, and it also does tend to draw out unsportsman- like behavior that sometimes will cross lines into criminal activity, such as assault and battery and disorderly conduct," Brown said. "However, for all of those people that were there and as intense as the game was, it was a fairly, rea- sonably well-behaved crowd." Out of a crowd of 114,132 peo- ple, five were arrested, seven were issued citations and 38 were ejected from the stadium during the game, according to Brown. Two of the arrests were for minor in possession of alcohol, one for disorderly conduct, one for resisting a police officer and one for possessing what was sus- pected to be marijuana, accord- ing to Brown. Five people were issued citations for possessing alcohol, one for using someone else's identification and another for urinating in public. Of the 38 people ejected from the stadium, 17 were asked to leave for using another person's ID, 16 for alco- hol possession, four for disorderly conduct and one for violating sta- dium rules. In addition to the disorderly conduct, 87 people were treated by emergency medical personnel, 15 of whom were taken to the hos- pital, according to Brown. Many of the crime incidents on Saturday involved students, but the number of students who were actually arrested, cited or ejected has not been made public, Brown said. She added that crime inci- dents at the Big House are always higher at Ohio State games than at games against other oppo- nents. "It's a very potent rivalry," Brown said. However, rivalry games including the Sept. 10 night game against Notre Dame saw a similar number of crimes. At the Sept.10 game there were 14 arrests, seven citations and 20 ejections from the Big House. In lapse of adherence to pub- lie safety, thousands of people took to the field en masse after the Wolverines' victory on Sat- urday, violating a stadium rule that states "unauthorized entry onto the playing field before, during or after the game is pro- hibited," according to mgoblue. com. However, there were no arrests of fans who hopped over the railings. Officials were no more con- cerned about fans rushing the- field for the Ohio State game than for any other, Brown said. For that reason, public safety officials always have a strategy should fans choose to rush the field. The strategy allows fans to rush the field, but does not allow fans near the goalposts. Officials could be seen guarding the goalposts after Saturday's game. "We always have to have a variety of emergency plans in place for a variety of emergencies ... includingsuch things as people enteringthe field," Brown said. The last time fans rushed the field at the Big House was in 2003 after the Wolverines' last victory over the Buckeyes. MSA to host student government conference for colleges across Mich. Governments to discuss ways to increase student voter registration By GIACOMO BOLOGNA Daily StaffReporter Though the Michigan Stu- dent Assembly's main focus is on University issues, it plans to extend its reach to the state of Michigan. MSA will host the Student Association of Michigan con- ference this weekend in the * Michigan Union, where col- lege student governments from across the state will meet to discuss how to increase student voter registration and SAM's future events. Started in 2007, SAM is com- prised of the student govern- ments of Michigan's 15 public universities and represents more than 300,000 students in the state. The conferences occur every month except in Decem- ber and once every three months in the summer. Each school sends a delegation from their student government. By bringing student repre- sentatives together, the group works to address problems on a broader scale and pass measures agreed on by all 15 schools. "We are representing the entire state of Michigan," MSA President DeAndree Watson said. "That's really when you get action from the state legis- lature." At last month's SAM con- ference, MSA sponsored and helped pass a resolution in sup- port of bill in the Michigan Senate, which requires school districts to make policies to dis- courage bullying. Watson said the assembly previously passed a similar reso- lution, but the resolution is not as effective as the one passed by SAM. To make the resolution known, copies of it will be sent to the media, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, Michigan legisla- tors and state university regents and presidents. Independently, MSA doesn't usually address state-level issues because it lacks the power and resources to have a large influence, Watson said. "As a student government, we kind of throw our hands up because we don't ... really make a lasting impact," he said. "But with an organization like SAM that represents all 15 public uni- versities, you have a body that really represents (the students of) Michigan." Watson said SAM also recent- ly discussed an initiative to reg- ister 30,000 Michigan college students to vote by February 2012. To reach this goal, SAM will start a friendly competition among universities to see which school can register the most stu- dents. At their weekend-longconfer- once this week, SAM members will also plan its Advocacy Event - a rally in Lansing in March. In addition to raising awareness about student issues during the rally, SAM hopes to meet with state legislators one-on-one to discuss funding reductions to higher education. One of SAM's most important goals is to correct "extraordi- nary cuts to education," accord- ing to Sean Wasler, LSA junior and chair of MSA's external relations commission. The state decreased higher education appropriations by 15 percent, or $225 million, for the current fis- cal year. While MSA was not actively involved in SAM in the last few years, Watson said the assembly is recommitted to SAM's suc- cess. "We've begun to realize that SAM is important and that in order to have a strong student voice in the state of Michigan, you need a strong SAM," he said. Walser added that SAM has recently gained stability and a better sense of direction. "SAM in the past has not done as much as it could," Walser said. "But it's really on the right path now, and it has solid leader- ship that's making it very worth- while to be a member." Nevertheless, not every stu- dent government is on the samex page, Walser said. The student governments of Eastern Michigan University, Central Michigan University and the University of Michigan- Dearborn were all absent at last month's conference, according to Sathi. "They saw the early stages of SAM," Sathi said. "They didn't see how it was going benefit their school." Sathi and Walser said they planned to call each of the stu- dent government presidents rep- resented by SAM to encourage participation at this weekend's conference. "If they were to have the opportunity to see this progress, I think they may change their mind and start attending SAM conferences once again," Sathi said. Wisconsin gov. campaigning early to remain in office What's better than ratemyprofessor.com? WWW.MAIZEANDBLUEREVIEW.COM VIEW HOW MANY A'S PROFESSORS GIVE AND RESULTS OF COURSE EVALUATIONS. r SPONSORED BY THE MICHIGAN DAILY Democrats, labor unions circulate petitions for recall MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may not face a recall vote until next summer, but he's already campaigning to keep his job in the face of a major chal- lenge by organized labor and the Democratic Party. With petitions for a recall elec- tion now circulating, Walker is running television advertising defending his record during his first 11 months in office. Soon, Republican volunteers will begin going door to door, making phone calls and writing letters to the editor arguing that his most controversial initiative, which stripped public employee unions of most of their bargaining rights, was justified by the state's fiscal problems. The Walker recall effort,which will be one of the most fierce- ly contested races in the 2012 national campaign, will serve as a gauge of the public's support for confrontational measures used by new Republican governors to bal- ance state budgets. In only two weeks, petitioners here are on pace to gather more than enough signatures to put Walker on the ballot against a yet-to-be-deter- mined opponent. Walker's backers are trying to take lessons from the only two successful gubernatorial recalls in U.S. history - against Califor- nia Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and North Dakota Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921. Those governors were too slow to fight back, said David Schecter, a political scientist at California State University, Fresno, who has studied recall campaigns. Their races were mostly lost before the signatures were submitted. "There's this momentum that builds and once it builds it's very difficult for things to reverse," Schecter said. "The signature stage is really the election before the election. In that stage, vot- ers are letting their choices be known." Walker will try to stop the recall election, or delay it for months, by challenging the valid- ity of signatures that must be turned in by Jan. 17. Recall sup- porters must gather 540,000 names of registered voters.