2 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Professor Profiles Photos of the Week C64t dcIian Dailu 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN ZACHARY YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com Happy birthday to 'U' 60 years ago this week (March 6, 1952): University alumni clubs around the world announced plans to host birthday celebrations commemorating the University's 115th anniversary, The Michigan Daily reported. Celebrations were slated for regions stretching from Korea to Iraq, with then-University Presi- dent Harlan Hatcher reportedly planning to partake in two sepa- rate ceremonies in Ann Arbor and Fort Wayne, Ind. The Daily reported that some alumni had previously sug- gested that the "birth" of the University is actually 20 years earlier, on August 26, 1817. How- ever, instruction under Univer- sity jurisdiction during this time CRIME NOTES period was limited to a primary County." school and a classical academy, Owen said he believed bringing the Daily reported, lending wide- high-tech industries to Michigan spread support to the 1837 date would ease the state's economic as the official date of the Univer- troubles. sity's founding. 15 years ago this week 30 years ago this week (March 10, 1997): Thousands of (March 5,1982): State Rep. Gary students, including many from Owen (D-Ypsilanti) announced the University, were left strand- that the University planned to aid ed in Mexican airports after a in the development of high-tech- popular travel agency's charter nology research parks around planes were grounded, the Daily Washtenaw County, the Daily reported. reported. Students who chose to travel "The University's position is south of the border during the that they can work with all parts University's spring break risked of the high-technology push," getting back to school late after Owen told the Daily. "We're all flight delays by the Federal Avia- in agreement that we wanted tion Administration. to bring robotics to Washtenaw - CLAIRE GOSCICKI Newsroan 734-410-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@m~ichigandaily.com Ness Tips news@miciaigadaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classifed@michigandaily.com Finance finance@msichigandaily.com, The ceiling of the atrium of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Game over Smoking in the Medical school Music alliances The city of Chicago WHERE: West Quad Resi- boy's room application help WHAT: San Francisco turned 175 on Sunday. dence Hall DJs DJ Emancipacion and Chicago Mayor, Rahm WHEN: Sunday at about WHERE: Michigan League WHAT: A free presentation DJ Rumorosa will discuss Emanuel, spoke in honor of 7:15 p.m. WHEN: Sunday at about on how, when and where to queer lifestyle and multi- the city's birthday, but was WHAT: A Playstation 3, 9:25 p.m. apply to medical school to cultural influences. They'll interrupted by protesters several controllers and WHAT: A person not aid pre-med students. talk about the importance arging against his budget video games were taken affiliated with the Univer- WHO: The Career Center of music in the queer com- an ag nTis vie ae eet n aflae ihteUie- H:TeCre etr o ui nteqercm plan, the Chicago Sun-Times sometime from a resident's sity was escorted from the WHEN: Today at noon munity.r room over spring break, building after he had locked WHERE: Student Activities WHO: Multi-Ethnic Stu- reported. 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WHAT: A person not affili- WHAT: A wallet belonging years, is coming to Ann WHO: School of Music, ated with the University to a staff member was stolen Arbor. The acoustic group Theatre & Dance. was found skateboarding in from an unlocked office, recently released their latest WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. the parking lot, University University Police reported. album titled "Steady as She WHERE: Walgreen Drama Police reported. A citation Charges were made to Goes." Tickets are $35 for Center, Stamps Auditorium was issued for violation of a a credit card before the general admission and $45 Regents' Ordinance. owner canceled the card. for reserved seating. CORRECTIONS WHO: Michigan Union 0 Please report any MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Share them with your Ticket Office error in the Daily to followers on Twitter @CrimeNotes or find them on their new blog. WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. corrections@michi- WHERE: The Ark gandaily.com. I From the Daily: Twen- ty-two new casinos shouldn't be built in the state of Michigan. The new casinos would saturate Michigan's already crowded gambling market. FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 Convicted murder- er Anthony Garcia recieved more than $30,000 in unemployment checks while in prison, The Los Angeles Times reported. Family and friends deposited the money for him between 2008 and 2010. Future of Indiana town up in the air after tornado W Russian police officers detain protester aftera rally in Moscow yesterday. Riot police broke up an opposition protest con- testing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election, arresting dozens of participants. Ro police break u protests after controversial elections About 250 people detained after a rally in Moscow MOSCOW (AP) - An attempt by Vladimir Putin's foes toprotest his presidential election victory by occupying a Moscow square ended yesterday with riot police quickly dispersing and detaining hundreds of demonstrators - a stark reminder of the challenges faced by Russia's opposition. The harsh crackdown could fuel opposition anger and bring even bigger protests of Putin's 12 years in power and election to another six, but it also underlined the authorities' readiness to use force to crush such demonstra- tions. The rally marked a change of tactics for the opposition, which has been looking for ways to main- tain the momentum of its demon- strations that flared in December. Alexei Navalny, a popular blogger and one of the most charismatic protest leaders, was the first to suggest that supporters remain on Moscow's streets and squares to turn up the heat on Putin. For Putin, the opposition move raised the specter of the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, where demonstrators camped on Kiev's main square in massive protests that forced officials to throw out a fraud-tainted election victory by the Kremlin-backed candidate. The government's response last night was fast and brutal. Lines of officers in full riot gear marched into tree-lined Pushkin Square and forced protesters into waiting police buses. About 250 people were detained around the city, police said. The crackdown followed a rally that drew about 20,000 peo- ple angry over an election cam- paign slanted in Putin's favor and reports of widespread violations in Sunday's voting. Putin commands the loyalty of police and the military, whose wages were recently doubled. Fol- lowing yesterday's massive show of force, the urban middle-class forming the core of the protests could be more reluctant to attend future demonstrations. Navalny - who sought to elec- trify the crowd with a passionate call of "We are the power!" - was among those detained, along with opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov. Both were released from police custody a few hours later. "We are calling for peace- ful action of civil disobedience, and we shall not leave," Navalny shouted to the crowd. "We know the truth about this government. This is the government of crooks and thieves." Upon his release from police custody, Navalny told 30-40 sup- porters who greeted him that another protest was planned for Saturday in Moscow and other cities. "We will keep on fighting until we win," he said. Putin, who was president from 2000-08 and is the current prime minister, won more than 63 per- cent of the vote, according to the nearly complete official returns, but the opposition alleged mas- sive ballot fraud. Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyu- ganov finished a distant second with 17 percent. "The campaign has been unfair, cowardly and treacherous," said opposition leader Grigory Yavlin- sky, who was denied registration for the race on a technicality. International election moni- tors pointed to the lack of real competition and said the vote count "was assessed negatively" in almost a third of polling sta- tions that observers visited. Nearly every home destroyed in last week's twister MARYSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - This tiny Indiana farm town has no mayor, no school and no shop- ping center. And after last week's deadly tornadoes, it has virtually nowhere left to live.. Nearly every home in Marys- ville was destroyed or so badly damaged it will probably have to be torn down - a realization that raised an emotional ques- tion for people still gathering belongings from the debris: Is it worth rebuilding a place that has so little? In some of the tiny commu- nities smashed by the violent weather, the idea hangs in the air, raising doubts even among fami- lies who have lived in the same place for generations. Before it was erased by the storm, Marysville had been a hub of farming activity in deep south- ern Indiana since the mid-1800s, with many sons working the same rows of corn and soybeans as their grandparents. But as they surveyed the dev- astation, some townspeople concluded it would be easier to abandon the village and look for work in Louisville, Ky., 30 miles to the south. "I think this community is pretty much gone. I don't think anyone will rebuild. A lot of people had no insurance," Scott Meadors said Sunday as he salvaged belongings from the storm's aftermath. When a bigger population cen- ter such as Joplin, Mo., is crip- pled by tornadoes, there is rarely any question about rebuilding. Larger cities typically have greater resources and defined downtowns to serve as focal points. But this flyspeck village may have suffered a mortal blow. Sean Gilbert says there's noth- ing to do but move away. He doubts little if anything will be rebuilt in Marysville, a town of a few hundred inhabitants that was struggling economically even before Friday's storms, which killed 40 people in five states. "It's a shock,"he said, standing beside his family's 150-year-old home, which had its siding torn away, great gashes in its roof, a caved-in front porch and metal shutters creaking eerily in the wind. The twister also destroyed the chicken house, tossed a com- bine on its side and tore two enormous grain silos to pieces. One house was ground into a mound of bricks, glass and wood. The winds also scattered farmequipment like bits of saw- dust across miles of surround- ing countryside. Cars were lifted and slammed back to the ground in clumps of colorful crushed metal. A semi-trailer was kicked into a tree as if it were a toy. Marysville's younger people started to drift away from the town some time ago, pushed by tough economic times to com- mute to jobs closer to Louis- ville. The devastation leftby the tornado now threatens to drive them off for good. Gilbert, who works at a res- taurant in the Louisville suburb of New Albany, is staying with a brother who already lives there. He's planning to move there permanently, though his par- ents are intent on staying. "The younger generation ... they don't have as long a footing here and are more apt to move," he said. "It's a sad thing to see them move away." Gilbert's grandfather arrived in the Marysville area from Kentucky in the mid-20th cen- tury, stepping from a boxcar along with his family and a small herd of livestock in search of a bigger farm and a better life. "It used to be a real pretty town," said Shannon Steele as he waded into the debris around his mother's flattened home and tenderly collected a handful of colorful broaches and other jew- elry. "I don't really see a lot of people rebuilding." Steele has lived in Marysville since he was 5, back when there was still a two-room school- house and a set of tracks on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line. As trains passed, a conduc- tor would hurl a bag of mail to Steele's grandmother, who was once the postmaster. Now the rail line is closed and the school is a community center, though the storm left it without a roof. The post office and a hardware store built in 1900 are still around, and the only other business is a tiny used car lot. Long gone is the saw mill - later a canning factory - and the general store. Longtime residents spoke of their childhoods in loving terms, remembering the basket- ball games, birthday parties and barbecues. "It was serene, like a Nor- mal Rockwell painting," Bruce Bridgewater said. The government of surround- ing Clark County planned to help with debris removal and the restoration of infrastructure and utilities. "Our hope is it doesn't just become a name on a map," said county Commissioner John Per- kins. "We would hope that what was destroyed - and that's most of it - can be rebuilt." Beyond that, the village's sur- vival could depend onhow much federal and state assistance trickles down to local communi- ties. Follow us on Twitter: @michigandaily A A 4 b