2 - Friday, January 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, January 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom C7, e Michigan MOMl 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN ZACH YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt. 3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES Credit chaos No structural CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES WHERE: 1051 Canton Center WHEN: Wednesday at 4:40 p.m. WHAT: A staff person's credit card reportedly was taken between 8 a.m. and noon, University Police reported. There is a possible suspect. Door damaged WHERE: 1600 East Medi- cal Center WHEN: Tuesday at about 9:35 a.m. WHAT: An elevator lobby door was found damaged for the second time in one week, University Police reported. Estimated repairs cost between $500 and $1,000. There are no sus- nects damage WHERE: M-22 Carport WHEN: Tuesday at about 3:55 p.m. WHAT: A two car accident occured int he parking structure, University Police reported. There were no injuries, and the amount of damage to the vehicles is unknown. Art attacked WHERE: 500 block of South State Street WHEN: Tuesday at about 11:40 a.m. WHAT: Graffiti in yel- low paint was found on an outdoor art sculpture, University Police reported. The vandalism reportedly occurred between 7 a.m. Dec. 21 and 11:30 a.m. Jan. 3. Rap concert- WHAT: The rapper Wale, whose second album will be released later this year, will perform with Casey Veg- gies, Black Cobain and the Dean's List. Tickets start at $26 WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium Folk concert WHAT: Black Jack and the Carnies, who recorded their debut album "Where the Heather Don't Grow" in Ann Arbor will perform. General admission tickets start at $15. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m WHERE: The Ark UMMA show WHAT: An exhibition dis- playing the museum's newly acquired pieces from artists such as Annie Leibovitz and Rebrandt van Rijn. WHO: University of Michigan Museum of Art WHEN: Today at 10 a.m. WHERE: University of Michigan Museum of Art MTango bootcamp WHAT: Student group MTango is offering an Argentinian tango class for beginners. WHO: MTango WHEN: Tonight at 8:15 p.m. WHERE: Mason Hall CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. 1A man driving in the carpool lane of a Seattle highway was pulled over by police last month for put- ting a plastic skeleton in the passenger seat in order to use the reserved lane, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reproted. The driver was ticketed. The Michigan basket- ball team took No. 12 Indiana to the wire in Bloomington, but Zack Novak's half-court heave at the buzzer went wide. The Hoosiers won, 73-71. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE8 A 22-year-old Navy SEAL shot himself in the head yesterday as he tried to convince a woman that his pistol was unloaded, the North County Times reported. According to police, the man is on life support. 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One copy is available free of charge to ai readers,. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S.mal are $110. Winter term l(anuary through April) is $15, yearIong (September through Aprilis$195.University affiliates are subject to areduced subscriptionrate. On-campusssbscriptionsfor falterm are$35.tsubscriptionsmust be prepaid. Pentagon chief says a smaller military creates extra risksTj 0 Obama's new defense strategy designed to contend with budget cuts WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- dent Barack Qbama vowed yester- daythe United States willmaintain the best-equipped military in his- tory despite deep and looming defense budget cuts, but Pentagon leaders acknowledged the changes present additional risk. "Our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to main- tain our military superiority," Obama said in a rare appearance in the Pentagon briefing room. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and several top mili- tary brass lined up on the stage behind him, underscoring Penta- gon support for cuts that Panetta and others said they know will be criticized as too drastic. Obama said the emerging strat- egy overhaul is designed to con- tend with hundreds of billions of dollars in budget cuts and refocus the United States' national securi- ty priorities after a decade domi- nated by the post.-Sept. 11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The strategy, devised through a comprehensive review by civil- ian and militaryleaders, centered on the military the country needs after the "long wars of the last decade are over," Obama said. Panetta said that smaller mili- tary budgets will mean some tradeoffs and that the U.S. will take on "some level of additional but acceptable risk." But Panetta said that at this point in history, in a changing world, the Penta- gon would have been forced to make a strategy shift anyway. He says the money crisis merely forced the government's hand. The president announced that the military will be reshaped over time with an emphasis on countering terrorism, maintain- ing a nuclear deterrent, pro- tecting the U.S. homeland, and "deterring and defeating aggres- sion by any potential adversary." Those are not new military missions, and Obama announced no new capabilities or defense initiatives. He described a U.S. force that will retain much of its recent focus, with the excep- tion of fighting a large-scale, prolonged conflict like the newly ended Iraq mission or the ongo- ing war in Afghanistan. ArrOO''/'nrisSnerman The parents of Jaime Gonzalez, stepmother Noralva Gonzalez, left, and Jaime Gonzalez Sr., speak in front ofttheir home in Brownsville, Texas yesterday. They are demanding to know why police officers fatally shot their 15-year-old son. Texas school shooting leaves * many questions unanswered 7 Eledlilign~aig 7 NIK VOW: Parents wonder why police shot their son who had pellet gun at school BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - On a doorstep outside a fam- ily home, a father wondered why police had to shoot his son in the hall of the boy's middle school. In an office across town, a police chief insisted that his officers had no choice. And scores of others in this Texas border city wondered: Could the death of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez have been pre- vented? A day after police fatally shot an eighth-grader who was bran- dishing a realistic-looking pel- let gun, his anguished parents pleaded for answers, demanding to know why police didn't try a Taser or beanbag gun before resorting to deadly force. In front of the family home, the father lamented his loss and called on authorities to explain their actions. "Why three shots? Why one in the back of the head?" asked Jaime Gonzalez Sr. Some standoffs with police last three or four hours, he said. This one "took not even half an hour." But Brownsville interim Police Chief Orlando Rodriquez said the preliminary autopsy report showed the boy was not shot in the back of the head. There was broad agreement among law enforcement experts: If a suspect raises a weapon and refuses to put it down, officers are justified in taking his life. The shooting also raised questions about whether pelletguns should be marked in a way that would easily distinguish them from real handguns. Rodriguez defended his offi- cers, saying the younger Gon- zalez pointed the pellet gun at police and repeatedly defied their commands to put it on the floor. He said the boy was shot twice in the torso. Asked about the par- ents' suggestion that there had been a shot to the back of the head, Rodriguez said, "It's a lac- eration as a result of the fall." The Brownsville Herald, which reviewed the report, con- firmed the preliminary finding that the boy died of two gunshot * wounds, one to the chest and one to the abdomen. The report, signed by pathologist Elizabeth J. Miller, noted Gonzalez had a laceration to the right side of the head consistent with a fall. Officers spoke with the boy's parents yesterday and exchanged information with them, Rodri- guez said. Authorities also released a 911 recording from Cummings Middle School. The assistant principal on the phone first says a student in the hall has a gun, then reports that he is drawing the weapon and finally that he is running down the hall. On the recording, police can be heard yelling: "Put the gun down! Put it on the floor!" In the background, someone else yells, "He's saying that he is willing to die." Before police arrived, school administrators had urged Jaime to give up the gun. When officers got to the school, the boy was waitingfor them, Rodriguezsaid. 0- - Remember Michigan's victory forever with two glossy posters. Go to www.store.michigandaily.com/sugar-bowl-posters It 6