.w 2 - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Coe fidifgan DAMhj 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN ZACHARY YANCER Editor in Chief asiness Manager 734-418-4115 ext. t252 734-41e-415 ext. 1241 tichterman@michigandailycom zyancer@michigandaily.com 6 RI(ITND OFQ MIT. T(x 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. - ZENA DAVE AND ADAMRUBENFIRE Newsroom 7340-418-4 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaiuom SportsSection sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaiy.com Inline Sales ontineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com letterstothe Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales clasified@omichigandaiy.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com 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 ate Library recital ie Mick- onata or", "Still d other s free and Music, t 8 p.m. ore Build- 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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One copy is avaltable free of charge to allIeaders. Additionaicopies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2.Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S.mai are $o1.Wintte rmanuary through Aprill is $11s, yearlong (September through April is $195.University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate.On-campussubscriptionsfor faltermare$35.Subscriptionsmust be prepaid. 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. WHO: Counseling and Psy- chological Services Snowy owls are appear- WHEN: Today at 4:15 p.m. Sngwgr ar aper- WHERE: Michign Union ing great numbers in lower Michigan and CORRECTIONS other states, the Detroit Free Press reported. The birds, . Please report any which usually live in the arc- error in the Daily to tic, are pleasing bird watch- corrections@michi- ers, and are likely moving gandaily.com. south in search of food. I0 EU nations pleadgeto stop overspending in new treaty 6 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. A r