2 - Friday, March 23, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 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 Newsroom 734-48-415 opt.3 Corrections corrrections@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.conix Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Door damage WHERE: Baits I Residence Hall WHEN: Tuesday at about 7:30 a.m WHAT: An door suffered mechanical damage some time between 4 p.m. on Monday and 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday and is now unable to shut, University police reported. Laptop deleted WHERE: Taubman Health Care Center WHEN: Tuesday at about 3 p.m. WHAT: Two laptops were stolen from an unlocked room, University Police reported. There are no suspects but the incident is being investigated by police. No reception Kids Fair WHERE: 2800 Plymouth Road WHEN: Tuesday at about 11:45 a.m WHAT: A cell phone was stolen from a hallway bench on Monday between 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Univer- sity Police reported. There are no supects. Fraud escaped WHERE: Edward Henry Kraus Building WHEN: Tuesday at 6:40 p.m WHAT: An unattended wallet was stolen from a lab some time between 3:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, University Police reported. The victim's credit cards were cancelled before the perpetrator was able to use them. WHAT: K-grams, a a com- munity service club on campus, will host Kids Fair. Elementary school students will meet their penpals, who are University students, and participate in various activi- ties set up by more than 80 other student organizations. WHO: K-grams WHEN: Toady at 9 a.m WHERE: Clifford P. Keen Arena Opera performance WHAT: The University Opera Theatre will perform "The Rake's Progress," an opera about a man who leaves home in search of adventure, only to become dissatisfied with his new life. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m WHERE: Mendelssohn Theatre eTextbook demonstration WHAT: An eTextbook demonstration will be hosted by the University's eTextbook initiative.Four different eTextbook vendors will present, and one vendor will become the offical plat- form in the fall. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today at 9 a.m WHERE: Hatcher Gradu- ate Library Career seminar WHAT: Students who want to be high school teachers will get help to find jobs. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Tonight at 5 p.m WHERE: School of Educa- tion CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. Using technology intend- ed for NASA rockets, engineers have devloped a fire pumping system capa- ble of extinguishing a fire in a living room one minute and 27 seconds faster than a traditional system, Discover Magazine reported. Dow Chemical's $10- million donation for sustainability fellow- ships should be questioned, says columnist Joel Batter- man. The company has a less than sustainable history. >> FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4' Poor Brazilians are increasingly benefiting from free beauty treat- ments as part of a growing philanthropic trend to beau- tify the country's lower class, The Associated Press report- ed. Women can receive free Botox and other treatments. EDITORIAL STAFF Josh Healy Managing Editor jahealy@michigandaily.cor Bethany Biron Managing News Editor biron@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Haley Glatthorn, Haley Goldberg, Rayza Goldsmith, Paige Pearcy, Adam Rubenfire ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS: Giacomo Bologna, Anna Rozenberg, Andrew Schulman, Peter Shahin, K.C. Wassman Ashley Griesshammer and opinioneditors@michigandaily.com Andrew Weiner Editorial PageEditors SENIOR EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS: Harsha Nahata, Timothy Rabb, Vanessa Rychlinski ASSISTANT EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS: Jesse Klein, Patrick Maillet Stephen Nesbitt Managing Sports Editor nesbitt@michigandaly.con SENIOR SPORTS EDITORS: Everett Cook, Ben Estes, Zach Helfand, Luke Pasch, Neal Rothschild, Matt Slovin ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS: Steven Braid, Michael Laurila, Matt Spelich, Leah Burgin Managing Arts Editor burgin@michigandaily.com SENIOR ARToSEDTRo:no.EiotAle,r, cbAelrd,Daid Ta,Kayla Upadhyay ASS rEAT REA To:0000:LarensCa eraMa t: eas,, a Ke , A ,AnSad kaya, Chloe Stachowiak Erin Kirkland and photo@michigandaily.com Alden Reiss Managing Photo Editors SENIOR 'PHOO OS: 0erraMolenga,o dd Needl ASSIS ANATHOOEDITORS:AdamGanzGanAusen ufford, AisonKruske Marene Lacasse, AdamSchnitzer Arjun Mahanti Managing Design Editor mahanti@michigandaily.com SENIOR DESIGN EDITORS:Krisit Begona, Anna Lein-Zielinski Dylan Cinti and statement@michigandaily.com Jennifer Xu Magazine Editor DEPUTY MAGAZINE EDITOR: Kaitlin Williams Christineyhsn and copydesk@michigandaily.com Hannah PoindexternCcpyrchies SENIoR COPY EDIToRS: Josephine Adams, Beth Coplowitz Zach Bergson online Editor bergson@michigandaily.com Imran Syed Public Editor publiceditor@michigandaily.com BUSINESS STAFF Julianna Crim Associate Business Manager Rachel Grenetz sales Manager Sophie Greenbaum Production Manager Sean Jackson special Projects Manager Connor Byrd Finance Manager Ashley Karadsheh client Relationships Manager Meryl Hulteng National Account Manager The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110 Winter term January through April) is $115. yearlong (September through Apri) is $195.University affiliates are subject toareduced subscription rate .On-ampus subscriptions forfalltermare$35. Subscriptonsmust beprepaid. 0 0 French stand-off ends with suspect shot in head Gunman identified with al-Qaida, radical Islamists TOULOUSE, France (AP) - Inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan, the gunman methodically killed French schoolchildren, a rabbi and paratroopers and faced down hundreds of police for 32 hours. Then he leapt out a win- dow as he rained down gunfire and was fatally shot in the head. France will not be the same after Mohamed Merah, whose deeds and death yesterday could change how authorities track terrorists, determine whether French Muslims face new stig- mas and even influence who becomes the next French presi- dent. The top priority for inves- tigators now is determining whether Merah, who claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, was the kind of lone-wolf terrorist that intelligence agencies find par- ticularly hard to trace, or part of a network of homegrown militants operating quietly in French housing projects, unbe- knownst to police. Either way, French authori- ties are facing difficult ques- tions after acknowledging that Merah, a 23-year-old French- man of Algerian descent, had been under surveillance for years and that his travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan were known to French intelligence - yet he wasn't stopped before he started his killing spree on March 11. Merah had been on a U.S. no-fly list since 2010. "One can ask the question whether there was a failure or not," French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Europe 1 radio. "We need to bring some clarity to this." Three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers died in France's worst Islamist terrorist violence since a wave of attacks in the 1990s by Algerian extremists. Merah filmed all three attacks, Prosecutor Francois Molins said yesterday, and claimed to have posted them online. "You killed my brother; I kill you," he said in the video of the first attack, in which one French paratrooper died, Molins said. "Allah Akbar," (God is Great), he declared during the second, when two more soldiers were killed. Authorities are trying to determine whether Merah's 29-year-old brother, Abdelkad- er, was involved, and are search- ing for accomplices who might have encouraged Merah to kill or furnished the means to do so, Molins said. Merah espoused a radical form of Islam and had been to Afghanistan and the Paki- stani militant stronghold of Waziristan, where he claimed to have received training from al-Qaida. He also had a long record of petty crimes in France for which he served time in prison, and prosecutors said he started to radicalize behind bars. Police detained his mother and brother and surrounded Merah's building soon after 3 a.m. Wednesday. They tried to detain Merah but were rebuffed by a volley of gunfire from his second-floor apartmentinacalm residential area of Toulouse. For the next day and a half, the police, the neighborhood and the nation waited. Barricaded inside with no water, electricity or gas, Merah at first promised to surrender, but kept postponing the move. Finally, he declared he would not go without a fight, the pros- ecutor said. Police were deter- mined to take him alive, and tried to wait him out. Near midnight Wednesday, the detonations began, as police set off blasts to pressure him to emerge and blew the shutters off a window. Through the night they continued. Merah stopped talking to negotiators, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said, and suspi- cions surfaced that the gunman could have committed suicide. Then around 11:30 a.m., police commandoes moved in, enter- ing through the door and win- dows, Gueant said. Merah was in the last room they checked: the bathroom. He burst through the door fir- ing a Colt .45, then jumped out a window "with a weapon in his hand, continuing to shoot," Gueant said. In the gunfight, he was shot in thethead, Molins said. Me said the police acted in self-defense after some 30 bullets had been fired. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Internet mes- sages, reported yesterday that a little-known jihadist group had claimed responsibility for the attacks in France. Jund al- Khilafah issued a statement saying "Yusuf of France" led an attack Monday, the day of the Jewish school shootings, it said. There was no independent con- firmation of the claim. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking in Paris, announced tough new mea- sures to combat terrorism. He said anyone who regularly visits websites that "support terror- ism or call for hate or violence will be punished by the law." He also promised a crackdown on anyone who goes abroad "for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology." Sarkozy appealed to citizens not to equate the violent acts of extremists with France's esti- mated 5 million Muslims. Mus- lim leaders urged against any backlash against believers. "Our Muslim compatriots had nothing to do with the crazy motive of a terrorist," Sar- kozy said, noting that Muslim paratroopers were among those killed. 0 HAROUNATRCAORE/AP Civilians walk past burning tires lit in support of mutinying soldiers, in Bamako, Mali Wednesday. Mutinous soldiers declare coup, kidnap Mali Pres. President Toure's whereabouts still unknown, soldiers refuse to disclose BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Drunk soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on yester- day, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa. The whereabouts of the country's 63-year-old president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was just one month away from stepping down after a decade in office, could not be confirmed. The soldier heading the group of putschists said on state tele- vision late yesterday that Toure is "doing well and is safe." Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo refused to say where the ousted leader is being kept, and did not make clear if they are holding him. The mutineers said they were overthrowing the government because of its mishandling of an ethnic Tuareg insurgency in the country's north that began in January. Soldiers sent to fight the separatists have been killed in large numbers, often after being sent to the battlefield with inadequate arms and food sup- plies, prompting fierce criticism of the government. The coup began Wednesday, after young recruits mutinied at a military camp near the capital. The rioting spread to a garrison thousands of miles (kilometers) away in the strategic northern town of Gao. At dawn yesterday, some 20 soldiers huddled behind a table, facing the camera on state television. They introduced themselves as the National Committee for the Reestablish- ment of Democracy and the Res- toration of the State, known by its French acronym, CNRDR. The soldiers said they intend- ed to hand over power to an elected government, though they made no mention of the fact that elections were supposed to be held on April 29. Toure was not in the race, as he has already served the maximum two terms. Criticism of the coup was swift. France is suspending all government cooperation with Mali, except for aid. In Washing- ton, State Department spokes- woman Victoria Nuland said officials were meeting to discuss whether to cut off the $137 mil- lion in annual U.S. assistance. The United Nations Secu- rity Council issued a statement denouncing the coup, calling for the safety and security of the president, for the troops to return to their barracks, and for the restoration of democracy. "The situation is grave for our democracy and our republican institutions," said Ali Nouhoum Diallo, the former president of Mali's National Assembly. "We cannot approve the seizing of power through force." The mutinous soldiers imposed a nationwide curfew. A flight headed to Bamako was forced to make a u-turn in the air after the borders were closed. At noon, soldiers were still riding on scooters and in pickup trucks shooting in the air, and local media was reporting casualties from stray bullets. In recent years, the U.S. mili- tary has been helping train Mali- 0 A p 0 r