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Union alters guest policy
20 years ago this week (Febru-
ary 3,1992): At a party sponsored
by Omega Psi Phi fraternity in
the Michigan Union Ballroom, a
small fight escalated into a brawl
involving about 30 people, the
Daily reported. Most of the stu-
dents involved attended Eastern
Michigan University.
Once the fight broke out, it
took University Department of
Public Safety officers 25 minutes
to break up the melee and restore
order.
"There were three security
guys at each door, but when the
fight started, they stood around
and didn't do shit," one party
attendee told the Daily.
In response to the incident,
a policy was established that
banned guests from other univer-
sities.
35 years ago this week (Janu-
ary 30, 1987): With plans in mind
to expand the University's medi-
cal campus, officials approved
plans to demolish three buildings
of The Terrace, then University
Housing for single and married
graduate students. The complex
was cited as an expansion zone
for the hospital in the Board of
Regents' 1980 Medical Campus
Master Plan.
Officials told the Daily that the
residential buildings were being
torn down because of a lack of
sufficient parking on the Medical
Campus. Terrace resident Betsy
Smith criticized the move, not-
ing that, "If (the hospital) wants
something, theyget it."
40 years ago this week (Febru-
ary 2, 1972): The Big Ten athletic
directors approved a recommen-
dation by college football coach-
es for "redshirting," the Daily
reported. This would allow Big
Ten football and basketball play-
ers to sit for one year in order to
compete a fifth year of school.
In ,addition, a mandatory
retirement age of 55 for football
officials was approved, as well as
a six-man football officiating crew
to be effective during the 1972
season, according to the Daily.
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A student sings at the Voice DepartmentBecital at Brt-
ton Recital Hall on North Campus yesterday.
CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Gate break Theater theft Brass recital MLK meditate
WHERE: Thompson Car-
port
WHEN: Friday at about
10:15 a.m.
WHAT: A patrolling officer
responded to a loud noise
and discovered a broken
gatearm, University Police
reported. The officer saw a
subject fleeing the site. The
subject was released pend-
ing warrant authorization.
Flame on
WHERE: Engineering
Research Supply Building
WHEN: Friday at about
12:05 p.m.
WHAT: University Staff
reported that a compressor
motor caught fire, Univer-
sity Police Reported. The
staff stopped the flow of
electricity to the motor and
extinguished the fire.
WHERE: Mendelssohn WHAT: The horn
Theater performed by Stac
WHEN: Friday at 8:50 p.m. ens will include "S
WHAT: Four subjects for Horn in E Majt
reported that their belong- Falls the Rain" ant
ings, which had been left in pieces. The event i
a hallway for about 20 min- open to the public.
utes, had been stolen Uni- WHO: School of M.
versity Police reported. The Theatre & Dance
items included three wallets WHEN: Tonight a
and a backpack. WHERE: E.V. Mo
Flummoxed on ing, Britton Recit
the fourth floor Free HIV
WHERE: Hatcher Gradu- Testing
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recital
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Music,
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l Hall
WHAT: An event for people
with all levels of meditation
expereince to honor Martin
Luther King Jr.
WHO: Counseling and Psy-
chological Services
WHEN: Today at 4:15 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
A group of current and
fromer scientists from
the Food and Drug
Administration are suing the
agency for monitoring their
personal e-mail accounts,
The Washington Post report-
ed. The staffers filed several
complaints against the FDA.
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WHEN: Sunday at about
1:40 p.m.
WHAT: An unattended
laptop was taken from the
library, University Police
reported. The theft occured
on the fourth floor between
1:00 and 1:05 p.m. There are
currently no suspects.
WHAT: Free anonymous
screening for HIV available
on a first-come, first-serve
basis. Along with HIV test-
ing, screenings for Sexually
Transmitted Infections will
be available with recom-
mended donation.
WHO: University Health
Services
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
room 2202
Depression Senior guard Car-
men Reynolds set the
women's basketball
program record for three-
WHAT: The session will pointers in a career in Michi-
focus on how to identify gan's 66-60 to Wisconsin in
depression, and will give Madison last night.
students tips for how to >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7
handle difficult situations.
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EU nations pleadgeto stop
overspending in new treaty
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Britain and Czech
Republic refuse to
sign fiscal compact
BRUSSELS - All European
Union countries except Britain
and the Czech Republic agreed
yesterday to sign a new treaty
designed to stop overspend-
ing in the eurozone and put an
end to the bloc's crippling debt
crisis, while EU leaders also
pledged to stimulate growth
and employment.
The new treaty, known as the
fiscal compact, was agreed at a
summit of European leaders in
Brussels yesterday. It includes
strict debt brakes and makes
it more difficult for deficit sin-
ners to escape sanctions. The 17
countries in the eurozone hope
the tighter rules will restore
confidence in their joint cur-
rency and convince investors
that all of them will get their
debts under control.
"We have a majority of 25
that will now sign up to the fis-
cal compact," Swedish Prime
Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said
last night after the summit of
European heads of government
in Brussels.
Although the new rules only
apply to the 17 euro states, the
currency union wants to get
broad support from the other
EU states, in hopes the accord
will eventually be integrated
into the main EU treaty.
Britain had said in Decem-
ber it wouldn't sign the new
treaty. Reinfeldt said the Czech
Republic didn't sign because
of parliamentary procedural
problems.
"I don't want to stand in the
way of what they think they
should do," British Prime Min-
ister David Cameron said of the
other countries. "But this is not
an EU treaty because I vetoed
that."
Leaders at the summit also
promised to stimulate growth
and create jobs across the
region, an acknowledgment
that their exclusive focus on
austerity has had painful side
effects.
"Yes we need discipline, but
we also need growth," said Jose
Manuel Barroso, the president
of the European Commission,
the EU's executive arm.
The leaders pledged to offer
more training for young people
to ease their transition into the
work force, to deploy unused
development funds to cre-
ate jobs, to reduce barriers to
doing business across the EU's
27 countries and ensure that
small businesses have access to
credit.
However there was no offer
of any new financial stimulus.
"We must do more to get
Europe out of the crisis," the
leaders said in a statement.
Autograph seekers hand phtoographs and buttons for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney, to sign as he campaigns at Lanco Paint Company in Orlando, Fla.,on Friday,
With lead in polls, Romney
confident about Florida win
Gingrich promises
not to back down,
calls former Mass.
Gov. an imposter
MIAMI - Cheered by new
polls, Mitt Romney is all but pre-
dicting victory in tomorrow's
Republican presidential primary.
Newt Gingrich is looking past
Florida to regroup, vowing he
won't stay buried long.
"With a turnout like this, I'm
beginning to feel we might win
tomorrow," an upbeat Romney
told'a crowd-of several hundred
at a stop in Dunedin on yester-
day as he and Gingrich zipped
across the state making their
final appeals.
Gingrich, in turn, acknowl-
edged that his momentum had
been checked but promised not
to back down. He characterized
Romney as an imposter, and his
team started to plot a strategy for
upcoming contests.
"He can bury me for a very
short amount of time with four or
five or six times as much money,"
Gingrich said in a television
interview. "In the long run, the
Republican Party is not going to
nominate ... a liberal Republican."
GOP officials in Florida were
anticipating a big turnout, more
than 2 million voters, up from
1.9 million in the Republican pri-
mary in 2008. Election officials
had already received more than
338,000 absentee ballots, 37,000
more than the total early ballots
cast in the GOP primary four
years ago.
In the span of a volatile week,
the tables have turned in this
potentially pivotal primary state.
Gingrich rode a triumphant
wave into Florida after a South
Carolina victory nine days ago.
But since then, Romney and his
allies have pummeled the former
House speaker on TV and on the
campaign trail. Romney turned
in two strong debate perfor-
mance's, while Gingrich faltered.
Now opinion polls show the for-
mer Massachusetts governor
with a comfortable lead here.
Romney and Gingrich have
been te only two candidates to
compete in Florida in earnest.
Neither former Pennsylvania
Sen. Rick Santorum nor Texas
Rep. Ron. Paul campaigned much
in the state, and they were else-
where yesterday.
Clearly in command, Romney
flew to stops in media markets in
northern Florida and the popu-
lous swing regions of central
Florida, determined to keep Gin-
grich from surging late.
Romney renewed attacks on
his rival as an untrustworthy,
Washington influence ped-
dler at the outset of two sepa-
rate appearances yesterday. He
claimed that Gingrich's ties to
federally backed mortgage giant
Freddie Mac have hurt the for-
mer speaker in astate wracked by
the foreclosure crisis.
"He made $1.6 million in
his company, the very institu-
tion that helped stand behind
the huge housing crisis here in
Florida," Romney said in Dune-
din. Gingrich's consulting firm
received more than $1.5 million
from the federally backed mort-
gage giant over a period after he
left Congress in 1999.
Report proposes dividing Great Lakes,
Mississippi River to fight Asian carp
0
$9.5 billion project
aims to protect
both watersheds
TRAVERSE CITY, 'Mich.
(AP) - Groups representing
states and cities in the Great
Lakes region yesterday pro-
posed spending up to $9.5 bil-
lion on a massive engineering
project to separate the lakes
from the Mississippi River
watershed in the Chicago area,
describing it as the only sure
way to protect both aquatic
systems from invasions by
destructive species such as
Asian carp.
The organizations issued a
report suggesting three alter-
natives for severing an artificial
link between the two drainage
basins that was constructed
more than a century ago. Sci-
entists say it has already pro-
vided a pathway for exotic
species and is the likeliest route
through which menacing carp
could reach the lakes, where
they could destabilize food
webs and threaten a valuable
fishing industry.
"We simply can't afford to
risk that," said Tim Eder, execu-
tive director of the Great Lakes
Commission, which sponsored
the study with the Great Lakes
and St. Lawrence Cities Initia-
tive. "The Great Lakes have
suffered immensely because of
invasive species. We have to put
a stop to this."
The report's release is sure
to ramp up pressure on the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
which is conducting its own
study of how to close off 18
potential pathways between
the two systems, including
the Chicago waterways. The
corps plans to release its find-
ings in late 2015, a timetable it
says is necessary because.of the
job's complexity and regula-
tory requirements. A pending
federal lawsuit by five states 0
- Michigan, Wisconsin, Min-
nesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania
- demands quicker action.
"This study shows that
hydrological separation is both
technically and economically
feasible," said Rep. Dave Camp,
a Michigan Republican.
A spokeswoman said the
corps would not comment until
it could review the report.
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