4 2 - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com GROOVING ght Mich-loan DAMh 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG ZACH YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com i 3 l 1 t 1 t 1 c t Receptionist was University expert 30 years ago this week (Dec. 60 years ago this week (Nov. 100 years ago this week (Dec. 1, 1, 1981): Colleen Conquergood, the 29, 1951): WEQN, the radio station 1911): According to G.A. May, direc- receptionist at the LSA Building based in East Quad Residence Hall, tor of the University's Waterman information desk at the time, was a and WQRS, West Quad Residence Gymnasium, the 1911 freshman class resource for students and provided Hall's radio station, reunited after a had a "more perfectly developed information on all topics pertain- rift arose between the two organiza- anatomy" than the previous year's ing to the University - from what tions. freshman class, The Michigan Daily classes to take to where to eat in Ann The East Quad and West Quad reported. Arbor. stations, along with a third station May examined 780 incoming Conquergood, who had worked at housed in the South Quad Residence freshmen and found that the aver- the University since 1969, told The Hall, formed a radio co-operative. age age of the incoming students Michigan Daily in an interview at The stations split after the East was 18.9 years old, the average the time that she filled a notebook Quad station announced a plan to height was 67.8 inches tall and the with facts about campus to assist form one station for all three resi- average weightwas 140.1 pounds. students. The only downsides of the dence halls. Mayalso reported that 204 fresh- job, she said, were the "miserable" Bill Gerson, WEQN's station men wore glasses, compared to 185 summers and dealing with "stupid manager, apologized to the West students in the previous freshman questions" from students. Quad radio station and said the split class. Additionally, 269 of the stu- "You'd never guess some of these between the stations was based on dents consumed tobacco and 555 students go to a university," Con- "erroneous reports" from a repre- knew how to swim. quergood said. sentative from West Quad. - JOSEPHLICHTERMAN Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 corrections@nichigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips ntews@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor tothedaity@michigandaity.com Editorial Page opinion@nmichigandaily.com Photography Section photohmichigandaily.com Classified Sales classifiedn@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com LSA freshman Vinny Sheu sits on the shoul- ders of tngineering freshman Dan Hiemstra while drumming yesterday with Groove. The student group will have a concert Dec. 2. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Pooped, passed Pretty crime Film screening Blues concert A 20-year-old student out, ilfered WHERE: Michigan League WHAT: A screeningof"City WHAT: A concert with at Lawrence University WHEN: Sunday at about of Sadness" by director Hou John Primer, a Chicago in Appleton, Wis. was WHERE: Michigan Sta- 10 p.m. Hsiao-Hsien. The Chinese- blues musician known for arrested for allegedly steal- dium WHAT: A white male, language film was the first his slide-guitar playing, ing a rabbit from a daycare WHEN: Sunday at about between 5-foot-8 and to show the "228 Incident" Primer was a former mem- center in a local church, 1:30 p.m. 5-foot-9, with brown hair, of 1947 and has won several ber of bands like Willie WLUK reported. Twinkle WHAT: A spectator at the wearing blue eyeshadow awards. Dixon's Chicago All-Stars. the rabbit had been missing football game reported and red lipstick and wear- WHO: Center for Chinese WHO: Michigan Union that she was missing $160 ing a puffy red coat stole Studies Ticket Office since Nov. 13. in cash, University Police several food items from WHEN: Tonight at 6 p.m. WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. reported. The woman Ugo's, University Police WHERE: Michigan Theater WHERE: The Ark passed out in a stadium reported. 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WHAT: A poker event where poker chips are replaced with condoms and group leaders talk about safe sexual practices. Beginners are welcome and will be taught how to play poker. The Safe Sex store will hand out prizes to the winners. WHO: Phi Beta Sigma Fra- ternity WHEN: Tonight at 6 p.m. WHERE: Trotter Multicul- tural Center WHAT: A discussion about topics impacting student health like depression. WHO: Depression Center WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m. WHERE: East Hall Psychological Clinic CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. Museum J of Art fea- tures a display of tiny tables by abstract-expressionist Mark di Suvero. FOR MORE, SEE ARTS, PAGE 8 A woman at Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore gave birth to a baby boy minutes after step- ping off her flight, The Daily Mail reported. The woman gave birth on the floor of a bathroom in Concourse D of the airport. Kosovo protest wounds NATO peacekeepers I Bullets from crowd of protesters hit officer and solider ZUBIN POTOK, Kosovo (AP) - A German NATO officer and a soldier were shot and wounded in a clash with Serb protesters in northern Kosovo yesterday after the military alliance's troops used heavy machinery to remove trucks and buses blocking a main road in the tense region, an offi- cial said. The shooting near the town of Zubin Potok, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of Pristina come after months of tensions, following a decision by Koso- vo's authorities to extend their authority in the areas under de- facto Serb rule. For months Serbs have used soil, rock and concrete barriers to block any such moves. NATO has threatened to remove them because it cut off land supply to a military base in the north. NATO has ultimate authority over secu- rity in Kosovo. German and Austrian peace- keepers involved in yesterday's operation fired rubber bullets and tear gas and used water can- ons and pepper spray to disperse the crowd of Serb protesters trying to stop the soldiers from removing the roadblock. "The commander of the battal- ion was shot and another soldier was also wounded," said NATO spokesman, Lt. Col. Uwe Nowit- zky. In Berlin, a German military spokesman Lt. Col. Manfred Baumgartner told The Associ- ated Press that the wounded offi- cer and the soldier serve in the Bundeswehr. He said they were shot from the crowd of Serb pro- testers. The two were sent at the U.S. military base in eastern Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel, for treatment, NATO said. At NATO's headquarters in Brussels, the alliance said it was concerned about the violence and that it would carefully moni- tor developments in the northern country's north. "The use of violence against (NATO) troops is unacceptable," spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said. "We urge all parties to exercise restraint and cooper- ate fully with all international actors on the ground to ensure freedom of movement without delay." 4 Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters yesterday in Charleston, S.C. Gingrich criticizes Romrney as his campaign gains speed I Euro in danger as Europe attempts to solve debt crisis World markets rally in expectation of progress PARIS (AP) - European leaders rushed yesterday to stop a rampaging debt crisis that threatened to shatter their 12-year-old experiment in a com- mon euro currency and devastate the world economy as a result. One proposal gaining promi- nence would have countries cede some control over their budgets to a central European authority. In a measure of how rapidly the peril has grown, that idea would have been unthinkable even three months ago. World stock markets, glimps- ing hope that Europe might finally be shocked into stronger action, staged a big rally. The Dow Jones industrial average in New York rose almost 300 points. In France, stocks rose 5 percent, the most in a month. More relevant to the crisis, borrowing costs for European nations stabilized. They had risen alarmingly in recent weeks - in Greece, then in Italy and Spain, then across the continent, including in Germany, the stron- gest economy in Europe. The yields on benchmark bonds issued by Italy and Germa- ny rose, but only by hundredths of a percentage point. The yield fell 0.1 percentage point on bonds of France, 0.14 points for those of Spain and 0.22 points for Bel- gium. Allowing a central European authority to have some control over the budgets of sovereign nations would create a fiscal union in Europe in addition to the monetary union of the 17 countries that share the euro currency. Some analysts have said would be a leap toward creating a Unit- ed States of Europe. More deli- cately, it would force the nations of Europe to swallow their national pride, cede some sover- eignty and agree to strengthen ties with their neighbors rather than fleeing the euro union dur- ing the crisis. "The common currency has the problem that the monetary policy is joint, but the fiscal pol- icy is not," Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said in a meeting with foreign reporters in Berlin. The monetary union has existed since the euro was cre- ated in 1999, but the European Union, which includes the 17 euro nations and 10 others that use their own currencies, has no central authority over taxing and spending. Romney's historically fickle political stances called into question CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Presidential hopeful Newt Gin- grich acknowledged yesterday that he isn't the perfect candidate but contends he's "a lot more con- servative than Mitt Romney and a lot more electable than anybody else." Gingrich, a former House speaker whose presidential cam- paign is on the rise just weeks before the first nominating con- tests take place, offered sharp criticism of Romney. For months, the Georgia Republican has refused to criticize his rivals and instead has kept his focus on Pres- ident Barack Obama. That all seems to be over. Branding the former Massa- chusetts governor as a political opportunist, Gingrich said it is one thing to change positions if new facts become available and quite another to shift positions for political gain. "It's wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election, then people will have to ask themselves, 'What will you tell me next time?"' Gingrich told WSC-FM radio yesterday morn- ingahead ofathree-day campaign swingthrough South Carolina. Romney has changed his posi- tions on gay rights and abortion since his first political campaign in 1994. Since that unsuccess- ful effort, he has publicly shifted rightward. It isn't enough to convince, some, including Gingrich. "We think there has to be a solid conservative alternative to Mitt Romney," Gingrich said dur- ing a morning interview. By evening, he seemed to tem- per that. "I don't know of a single person who is running who would not be a very effective member of my administrative team," Gingrich said at the College of Charleston. At times Gingrich has blamed the media for stoking the divi- sions among the contenders in an attempt "to get Republicans fighting with each other," as he put it during an NBC debate. "You want to puff this up into some giant thing," Gingrich said then. Gingrich has seen his politi- cal standing rise as he has posted solid debate performances and laid the groundwork for a tradi- tional campaign. In South Caro- lina, for instance, he has five offices and his supporters are making thousands of phone calls every day. Gingrich packed a town hall- style event yesterday night at the College of Charleston. Support- ers who couldn't get in lined up around the block in the hopes that organizers would let more people inside and out of the pouring rain. While Gingrich's two divorces and admissions of infidelity are unlikely to endear him to Chris- tian conservatives who have a great sway here, he is pitching himself as the candidate who can best challenge Obama, who is deeply unpopular among Repub- licans. He questioned Obama's alle- giances, saying that the admin- istration had sided with other nations in challenging tough ille- gal immigration laws in South Carolina and other states. "No American president has the right to side with foreigners against the people and laws of the United States," he told the College of Charleston audience. But Gingrich knows his own shortcomings.