2A - Monday, March 26, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, March 26, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom TUESDAY: This Week in History WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: Campus Clubs Professor Profiles FRIDAY: Photos of the Week 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@michigandailycom PAINT ON PAINT ON PAINT MSU Police investigate freshman's death Michigan State University Police are investigating the death of Olivia Pryor, an MSU freshman who was found unre- sponsive in her dorm room last Monday the State News reported last Tuesday. Quishanna Coleman, Pryor's roommate, who is also a fresh- man, discovered Pryor's body last Monday morning. MSU Police told The State News that autopsy results have not yet been released, but alcohol poisoning may have played a factor in the 18-year-old's death. Stratton Lee, an undergradu- ate adviser for the College of Communication Arts and Sci- ences, told The State News that Pryor was a hard-working, pas- sionate student, who planned on pursuing journalism studies. Princeton bans freshmen from going Greek Starting this fall, freshmen at Princeton University will be banned from rushing or other- wise affiliating themselves with fraternities or sororities. The Daily Princetonian reported yes- terday. A report from the Univer- sity's Greek Life Implementa- tion Committee recommended to University President Shirley Tilghman that freshmen be banned from attending formal and semiformal events held by Princeton's fraternities or soror- ities. The report also suggested punishment against upperclass- men that organize Greek events, and recommends that any stu- dent who violates the ban be sus- pended from the university, the Princetonian reported. According to the Princeton- ian, the University disapproves of Greek life on campus and does not recognize fraterni- ties or sororities as valid stu- dent groups. The university has threatened a complete ban on Greek life if students don't com- ply with the new rules. -ADAMRUBENFIRE Newsroon 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@omichigandaily.com SportsSection sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@,eichigandaily.r,,n News Tips news@michigandaily.com letterstothe Editor tonhedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Fired up, and No key dokie Mr. Greek ready to go WHERE: Intersection of South University Avenue and South State Streets. WHEN: Friday at about 3:35 a.m. WHAT: A vehicle crashed into a fire hydrant, Univer- sity Police reported. The driver fled the scene. Pry try WHERE: Center for the Education of Women WHEN: Thursday at about 4:20 p.m. WHAT: A staff member said a locked door inside the building had marks suggest- ing someone tried to pry it open sometime between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 3:45 p.m Thursday, University Police reported. WHERE: University Health Services WHEN: Thursday at about 8:15 p.m. WHAT: A hospital employ- ee said her keys, including University buildingkeys, were stolen from a locked key box on March 16, Uni- versity Police reported. There are no suspects. Arm fracture WHERE: Thompson Car- port WHEN: Thursday at about 5:10 p.m. WHAT: The structure's gate arm came down on an exiting car and the gate arm was broken into pieces, Uni- versity Police reported. The car involved in the incident was not seen and the case is closed. Week contest WHAT: Men in fraternities across campus will compete for the title of Mr. Greek Week in the annual pageant event. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m. WHERE: Power Center for the Performing Arts War crimes law workshop WHAT: Andrea Gattini, professor of international law at the University of Padua, will speak about international law and how it regards the redression of war crimes. There will be a question and answer session. WHO: Center for Interna- tional and Comparative Law WHEN: Today at 4p.m. WHERE: Hutchins Hall, CORRECTIONS SA feature photo in the March 21 edition of The Michigan Daily ("Flash activism')misidentified the name and purpose of the group performing a flash mob on the Diag. The flash mob was orga- nized by Arab Organiza- tions, a coaliton of Arab student organizations on campus, to promote the ArabXpressions show last Friday night. * Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. 1Former U.S. Vice Presi- dent Dick Cheney had heart transplant surgery on Saturday after spending more than 20 months on the transplant list, The Wash- ington Post reported. Since his late 30s, he has had five heart attacks. The Michigan hockey team lost its third-con- secutive NCAA Tour- nament game - each has been by a 3-2 score, each in overtime. o> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS MONDAY, INSIDE Dutch man Jarno Smeets received more than 3 million views on his YouTube video where he allegedly flew by flapping bird-like, kite fabric wings, MSNBC.com reported. He admitted Friday that the video was doctored. 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One copy is avalable 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 liii, yearlong (September through Aprilis $19s..niversity affiliates are subject to areduced subscription rate.On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Share them with your followers on Twitter @CrimeNotes or find them on their new blog. UEC From Page 1A containing a number of incoher- ent, ambiguous, contradictory and absurd provisions," Borock wrote in the opinion's first sentence. Thursday's hearing was con- vened to discuss an e-mail sent in support of Parikh to numerous e-mail listservs. Back-up election director Elson Liu said the e-mail reached several hundreds of stu- dents, a concerning number for a race that was only decided by 146 votes. "We're talking at least 800 stu- dents (who received the e-mail)," Liu said. Liu said the commission ulti- mately decided not to issue Parikh enough demerits to disqualify him from the election because the connection between Parikh and Social Work student Victor Andrews, the president of the School of Social Work and the stu- dent who sent the e-mail, was dif- ficult to determine. "We weren't able to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Manish knew that Victor was goingto e-mail lists otherthan the ones of the School of Social Work," Liu said. Liu, who wrote a dissenting opinion in the 3-2 decision, said he considered the decision to be an egregious error. "Even on that alone, that's a pretty serious breach of the elec- tion rules when you reach an audi- ence of hundreds of students and you break the election rules to do so," Liu said. "That's most of the basis of my dissent." Borock said the commission received a total of 17 complaints, which he added might be the most it has ever received. "This is my first time sitting on the University Elections Commis- sion, but I would imagine that's the most they've ever heard or quite close to it," Borock said. Borock said the lengthy pro- cess was more indicative of faults in the election code, rather than immoral campaigning tactics. "I think this was a really clean election actually," Borock said. "I think it speaks to the fact that the election code is really poorly writ- ten." He added that most demer- its were issued for minor affairs, like poor attendance at mandated meetings. "The vast majority of demer- its issued were because people missed their meetings," Borock said. "It's incredibly clean ... stu- dents at the University of Michi- gan have a lot to look forward to in greatleadership next year." Borock said he did not antici- pate the hours that being election director would entail, noting that in the past month he said he has worked 115 hours on the elections, after being told it would only be about 20 hours. Borock provided examples of some of the less practical rules the election code contains, including strict regulations on party names. "One of the absurdities of the election code is ... the first letter of each word has to be capitalized," Borock said. Under those circumstances, youMICH, OurMichigan and MForward are breaking election code, Borock noted. However, Students for Puppies did not break this rule. "So technically, if a case was brought up, we would have to give violations and demerits for that which would just be absurd. It would just be absurd," Borock said. Still, the seemingly never-end- ing case that spanned Thursday night until Friday might not be over yet. LSA senior Katy Tylus, the you- MICH campaign manager, said youMICH will be appealing the case to the Central Student Judi- ciary, the judicial branch of CSG. Law student Betsy Fisher acted as counsel for Parikh, and said she and Parikh also plan to appeal the decision, as a reaction to the you- MICH appeal. "We're only appealing because we anticipate that the other side will appeal," Fisher said. "If they're going to argue that (Parikh) should get more demer- its we need to make a counterar- gument." Law student Ryan Gersovitz, the CSG chief justice, said he has not received any formal appeals yet. According to Gersovitz, the average time - which is subject to change - for CSG to hear an appeal is a week and a half, add- ing that CSG could remand the case back to the UEC, which was supposed to have held its last meeting yesterday. In response to the problems in the election code, Business senior Matt Eral, a member of the UEC and the speaker of the assembly, said he plans to intro- duce a resolution to ensure last week's incidents never happens again. "The title is 'a resolution amending the compiled code to strike the election code in its entirety,"' Eral said. "It's going to be sponsored by every mem- ber of the University Elections Commission." 3 v'' _ J. ni !, . e9 3 s _, .. ..r, n ry',,, , z i ,_ r !. r,:i S y : l k'. 1.. I WANT TO WORK IN THIS OLD BUILDING? 0 3-r tleY atwn a Uni 1018 ULI Warm wnd go gue rreao y E-MAIL RAYZA GOLDSMITH AT0 RAYZAG@MICHIGANDAILY.COM 0