THE BOSS IS BACK' mBEHIND THE 'Wrecking Ball' returns The E Street The story of senior C4 Band to its blue-collar roots. stage rol onthe m PAGE 5 ( )\ T II \ I )I' WN TM'Y TW( )YE :A RS F )_I)EDITORIALTu IFa, EErc)(,)0I Tuesday March 13, 2012 mcgnalyo Ann Arbor, Michigan mmichigandaily.com CITY COUNCIL Plan unveiled to close three fire stations Fire chief says proposal would increase efficiency By AARON GUGGENHEIM Daily Staff Reporter At an Ann Arbor City Coun- cil work session yesterday, Ann . Arbor Fire Chief Chuck Hubbard presented a proposal for restruc- turing the AAFD from its current five-station model to a three-sta- tion model. The plan proposes closing Sta- tion 3, at 2130 Jackson Avenue, Station 4, at 2415 Huron Park- way and Station 6 near Briar- wood Mall. It would maintain Station 1, located on Fifth Street between Huron and Ann Streets and Station 5, located near the Northwood housing area and reopen the formerly closed Sta- tion 2, at Packard and Stadium Streets. In the proposed model, the AAFD would retain its staff of 82 firefighters and redistribute its trucks and personnel among the stations, establishing the battal- ion chief at Station1. Two trucks carrying four fire- fighters would respond to each fire, meeting the federal Occupa- tional Health and Safety Admin- istration requirement that four See FIRE STATIONS, Page 3 0, _ ACADEMIC COLLUABORATIONS 'U' creates fellowship with Dow Chemical MARLENE LACASSE/Daily Krystal Shelton, an Eastern Michigan University junior, purchases art supplies at Michigan Book & Supply yester- day. The store will close after 23 years of service. Local book store Closing $10 million gift will create program for 300 grad students By HALEY GOLDBERG Daily News Editor DETROIT - In front of the crowd of about 200 business, government and academic lead- ers at a Detroit Economic Club luncheon at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel and a live webcast audience, University President Mary Sue Coleman and Andrew Liveris, chairman and execu- tive officer of The Dow Chemical Company, announced a new part- nership between the University and Dow. The program, titled the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at U-M, strives to use academic collaboration to examine and solve sustainability issues and offers a unique fellowship for nearly 300 master's, doctoral and postdoctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines at the University. In her address, Coleman said the program will create 300 "new leaders" from business, engineer- ing, law, public policy and other fields. She explained that the multidisciplinary nature of the fellowship will allow the program to efficiently craftsustainable ini- tiatives. "The uniqueness of this pro- gram is that it is not rooted in one discipline," Coleman said. "It is as broad and comprehensive as sus- tainability is itself. And frankly, I believe it is the only one to solve the problems as pervasive as the ones that we are facing in protect- ing our natural world." The new fellowship will be funded with the help of a $10-mil- lion gift from Dow over a period of six years. The Midland, Mich.- based chemical company creates chemicals and plastics. Liveris explained that though Dow has already integrated sus- tainability ints business, the col- laboration with the University and other groups is necessary to develop efficient and sustainable strategies that can be implement- ed worldwide. "We recognize that no one industry - and certainly no one company - can solve these challenges alone," Liveris said. "They're too big, they're too glob- al, and they're too urgent ... Histo- ry tells us that if we have a chance at solving anything, then we need to pull our collective creativity See DOW, Page 3 Michigan Book & Supply owner in bankruptcy proceedings By TAYLOR WIZNER Daily Staff Reporter After 23 years, students accustomed to the conve- nience of campus bookstore Michigan Book & Supply will soon need to find a new venue to purchase their materials for school. The Nebraska Book Com- pany - which © owns more than 280 col- lege book stores across the country - announced that it would close 38 of its stores, including Michigan Book & Supply, located on the cor- ner of South State Street and North University Avenue, by March 31. Ulrich's Bookstore on South University Avenue, which the company also owns, will remain open. Barry Major, the president of Nebraska Book Company, said in a press release the company hopes that the store closings will alleviate its cur- rent financial woes. "The Chapter 11 process allows us to initiate store clos- See CLOSING, Page 3 REGENTS PREVIEW New $50 million School of Nursing building proposal to go before board VOTE FOR WONKA ACADEMIC PROGRAMS i O.-aHS !EARSI Engineering . . program Regents also to vote on Yost 0 renovations, Crisler renaming By PAIGE PEARCY Daily News Editor At last month's meeting, the University's Board of Regents decided to award contracts to commence the renovation of East Quad Residence Hall and improvements to the residential quarters of the Lawyer's Club. This week, the regents will vote on adding another construction project - a new building for the School of Nursing - to the list. In addition to discussing reconstruction of the School of Nursing, the board will also vote on honorary degrees for the 2012 Spring Commencement ceremony, including recently announced keynote speaker Sanjay Gupta - a University alum CNN's chief medical cor- respondent They will also vote on funding increases to renova- tions to Yost Ice Arena and the renaming of Crisler Arena. Timothy Slottow, the Uni- versity's executive vice presi- dent and chief financial officer, wrote in a communication to the regents that the new nurs- ing building will be constructed to offer space for new meth- ods of teaching that cannot be accommodated in the current building. "The School of Nursing is proposing to construct a new building of approximately 75,000 gross square feet to accommodate its instructional space needs, including a clini- cal learning center with simula- tion and skill labs and simulated patient suites in an environment that will foster collaboration and community," Slottow wrote. The University's School of Nursing was ranked sixth in the United States last year, according to U.S. News & World Reports. The new building will be located near the current School of Nursing building on North Ingalls Street and is estimated to cost $50 million, which will come from the University's investment proceeds. PROPOSED RENAMING OF CRISLER ARENA TO BE APPROVED In a communication to the regents, Slottow and Athletic Director David Brandon pro- posed that Crisler Arena be officially renamed Crisler Cen- ter. According to the communi- cation, Crisler Arena, which houses the University basket- ball teams' home courts, was built in 1967 and was renamed from the University Events Building to Crisler Arena in honor of former Athletic Direc- tor Herbert Crisler in 1970. Slottow and Brandon wrote that the new name would more accurately describe the build- ing because of recent improve- ments and additions to the space. The recently constructed Player Development Center cost the University $23.2 mil- lion and offers University basketball players amenities such as locker rooms, practice courts, an equipment room, and access to medical care. "Because Crisler Arena is being expanded and converted to a more multi-purpose facil- ity, and the arena portion is simply one facet of the build- ing, to refer to it as an arena is See NURSING, Page 3 fosters green technology Pending approval, new major to cultivate sustainability By JOSH QIAN Daily StaffReporter The University's continu- ing focus on environmental efforts has inspired the imple- mentation of a new program focused on sustainability and green technology by the Col- lege of Engineering. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering is expected to offer the newly developed Envi- ronmental Engineering major in the fall, pending approval by a committee of the Presi- dents Council State Universi- ties of Michigan and by the University's Board of Regents at their meeting on Thursday. If approved, the University See ENGINEERING, Page 3 AUSTEN HUFFORD/Daily University students look at Internet memes being used to advertise for candi- dates for the CSG elections. Elections are beind held on March 21 and 22. WEATHER HI: 69 TOMORROW L LO: 55 GOTANEWS TIP? NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY-COH INDEX NEWS .........................2 SUDOKU........................5 Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail My Ann Arbor: Best brunch countdown Vol. CXXII, No.107 O P I N I O N ......................4 CLASS IF IE DS................6 news@michigandaily.com and let us know. MICHIGAN DAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE PODIUM @2012 The Michigan Daily A RTS............... 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