t,_ # 2A - Monday, January 28, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, January 28, 2013 .L ( S The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Huron Riverfront made public BEADING BASICS (1ie Adiipan Bagmy 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 eat. 1252 734-4t8-4tt5 ext. 1241 anweiner@miectigandailycom rmgrein@michigandailycom 75 years ago this week (January 26th, 1938) Henry S. Curtis, executive secretary of the Huron-Clinton Parkway committee, announced public ownership of waterfronts in towns bordering the Huron River. "River front is natural park area," Curtis said in a radio statement. "Throughout the nation cities are takin& it over and using it for recreational purposes ... the land is much more beautiful when it is used as a recreation area." Curtis believed that all stakeholders - including federal and state governments, the six counties and thirteen cities affected, and industry, should cooperate in puttingthe plan into action. 50 years ago this week (February 1st, 1963) The Shapiro Undergraduate Library celebrated its fifth anniversary. Over the five-year period, 7,849,636 people used the library's facilities. The UGLi was designed by Albert Kahn Associates of Detroit, and offered access to about 90,000 volumes. "Use of the books has been spectacular," Chief Librarian Roberta Keniston said. "In the five-year period, book use rose from 414,756 the first year to 763,896 volumes this year." Reniston also noted that book use in other libraries throughout the University increased after construction of the UGLi. 25 years ago this week (January 29th, 1988) University staff astronomer Jim Louden died at age 44 in his home. Louden presented more than 175 events, free monthly astronomy lectures called Astro- Fests. 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The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. t Morsi declares state of emergency in Egypt I Brazil nightclub fire leaves over 230 dead a We lea 50 ekend attacks than 50 dead, using tactics of the ousted regime to get a grip on dis- ive more than content over his Islamist policies and the slow pace of change. dead in three Angry and almost screaming, Mohammed Morsi'vowed in a provinces televised address on Sundaynight that he would not hesitate to take tO (AP) - Egypt's presi- even more action to stem the lat- clared a state of emergen- est eruption of violence across urfew in three Suez Canal much of the country. But at the es hit hardest by a week- same time, he sought to reassure ve of unrest that left more Egyptians that his latest moves CAIR dent dec cy and c provinc end wav would not plunge the country back into authoritarianism. "There is no going back on freedom, democracy and the supremacy ofthe law," he said. The worst violence this week- end was in the Mediterranean coastal city of Port Said, where seven people were killed on Sunday, pushing the toll for two days of clashes to at least 44. The unrest was sparked on Sat- urday by a court conviction and death sentence for 21 defendants involved in a mass soccer riot in the city's main stadium on Feb. 1, 2012 that left 74 dead. Most of those sentenced to death were local soccer fans from Port Said, deepening a sense of persecution that Port Said's resi- dents have felt since the stadium disaster, the worst soccer vio- lence ever in Egypt. At least another 11 died on Friday elsewhere in the country during rallies marking the second anniversary of the anti-Mubarak uprising. Protesters used the occasion to renounce Morsi and his Islamic fundamentalist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, which emerged as the country's most dominant political force after Mubarak's ouster. The curfew and state of emer- gency, both in force for 30 days, affect the provinces of Port Said, Ismailiya and Suez. The curfew takes effect Monday from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day. Morsi, in office since June, also invited the nation's political forc- es to a dialogue starting Monday to resolve the country's latest cri- sis. A statement issued later by his office said thatamong those invit- ed were the country's top reform leader, Nobel peace Laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, former Arab League chief Amr Moussa and Hamdeen Sabahi, a leftist politician who finished third in last year's presidential race. The three are leaders of the National Salvation Front, an umbrella for the main opposition parties.aggression on innocent citizens." 230 people die in crowded nightclub with only one exit PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) - Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in south- ern Brazil early Sunday, kill- ing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. Witnesses said a flare or fire- work lit by band members start- ed the blaze in Santa Maria, a university city of about 225,000 people, though officials said the cause was still under investiga- tion. Television images showed smoke pouring out of the Kiss nightclub as shirtless young men who had attended a uni- versity party joined firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at windows and walls to free those trapped inside. Guido Pedroso Melo, com- mander of the city's fire department, told the O Globo newspaper that firefighters had a hard time getting inside the club because "there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance." Teenagers sprinted from the scene desperately seeking help. Others carried injured and burned friends away in their arms. "There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic, and it took a long time for peo- ple to get out, there were so many dead," survivor Luana Santos Silva told the Globo TV network. The fire spread so fast inside the packed club that firefighters and ambulances could do little to stop it, Silva said. Another survivor, Michele Pereira, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that she was near the stage when members of the band lit flares that started the conflagration. "The band that was onstage began to use flares and, sudden- ly, they stopped the show and pointed them upward," she said. "At that point, the ceiling caught fire. It was really weak, but in a matter of seconds it spread." Guitarist Rodrigo Martins told Radio Gaucha that the band, Gurizada Fandangueira, started playing at 2:15 a.m. "and we had played around five songs when I looked up and noticed the roof was burning" "It might have happened because of the Sputnik, the machine we use to create a luminous effect with sparks. It's harmless, we never had any trouble with it. "When the fire started, a guard passed us a fire extin- guisher, the singer tried to use it but it wasn't working" He confirmed that accordion player Danilo Jacques, 28, died, while the five other members made it out safely. Police Maj. Cleberson Braida Bastianello said by telephone that the toll had risen to 233 with the death of a hospitalized victim - he said earlier that the death toll was likely made worse because the nightclub appeared to have just one exit through which patrons could exit. Officials counted 232 bodies. that had been brought for iden- tification to a gymnasium in Santa Maria, which is located at the southern tip of Brazil, near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay. Federal Health Minister Alexandre Padhilha told a news conference that most of the 117 people treated in hospitals had been poisoned by gases they breathed during the fire. Only a few suffered serious burns, he said. Brazil President Dilma Rous- seff arrived to visit the injured after cutting short her trip to a Latin American-European sum- mit in Chile. "It is a tragedy for all of us," Rousseff said. Most of the dead apparently were asphyxiated, according to Dr. Paulo Afonso Beltrame, a professor at the medical school of the Federal University of Santa Maria who went to the city's Caridade Hospital to help victims. Beltrame said he was told the club had been filled far beyond its capacity during a party for students at the university's agronomy department. Survivors, police and fire- fighters gave the same account of a band member setting the ceiling's soundproofing ablaze, he said. "Large amounts of toxic smoke quickly filled the room, and I would say that at least 90 percent of the victims died of asphyxiation," Beltrame told The Associated Press by tele- phone. "The toxic smoke made peo- ple lose their sense of direc- tion so they were unable to find their way to the exit. At least SO bodies were found inside a bathroom. Apparently they confused the bathroom door with the exit door." In the hospital, the doctor "saw desperate friends and rela- tives walking and running down the corridors looking for infor- mation," he said, calling it "one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed." Rodrigo Moura, identi- fied by the newspaper Diario de Santa Maria as a security guard at the club, said it was at its maximum capacity of between 1,000 and 2,000, and partygoers were pushing and shoving to escape. Santa Maria Mayor Cezar Schirmer declared a 30-day mourning period, and Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, said officials were investi- gating the cause of the disaster. i 4