4 ic t an at i\ t 1" i. _ t i ii Y [T 1 t r 1. 1 1 Y 1, t iJ 1 d E i_ 1. " l_ ) i Y j !0 0 j 1 i 1 S .i k t 7 +J 1 i t .7 P i k i Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, January 30, 2013 michigandaily.com SUSTAINABIUT Y Report: 'U' moving forwardin green goals MARLENE LACASSE/Daily English Prof. Nicholas Delbanco speaks at the Hopwood Underclassman awards ceremony. Wr-ters aforwork Sustainability research funding. doubled, carbon emissions down By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily StaffReporter The University is on track to become a lot greener. According to a newly released report, the University has doubled its funding of sustain- ability research since 2003 and has made significant progress toward its 2025 long-term goals - known as "Planet Blue" - of advancing education, research and efforts to make the Univer- sity itself more sustainable. In a press release, University President Mary Sue Coleman said environmental sustainabili- ty is very important to the school. "We understand our legacy as a leader in reviving Michigan's Great Lakes and forests, integrat- ing environment and business in our curriculum and protecting vital systems throughout the world," Coleman said. Coleman laid out the Univer- sity's long-term sustainability goals ina major address in 2011. On an operations level, the report stated that the University has made strides in decreasing carbon emissions from its vehicle fleet, purchasing more sustain- able foods and participating in greener landscaping practices. Nonetheless, Andrew Berki, manager of the University's Office of Campus Sustainability, said keeping operations sustain- able will be difficult considering the fact that the University will continue grow at a rate of1 to 2 percent per year.. "With growth and an increase in growth of research activities, we'll see a higher demand on utilities and energy use," Berki said. "I think that will provide us a challenge going forward." Efforts to remain sustainable despite growth could include projects in energy conservation, See SUSTAINABILITY, Page 5A Hopwood Awards recognize talented students By DANIELLE WALLICK For the Daily Following the likes of Pulit- zer Prize winner and University and Daily alum Arthur Miller,23 students received Hopwood and other writing contest awards in the Rackham Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon. The Hopwood Under- classmen Awards Ceremony announced and honored the undergraduate winners of the writing contests administered by the LSA Hopwood Awards Program in the fall term.,Hop- wood categories include fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The awards are made possible each year by Avery Hopwood, an American dramatist who gradu- ated from the University in 1905. He left one-fifth of his estate to the University with the stipula- tion that it be used to encourage creative writing by students. This year, $11,900 was award- ed, with prizes ranging from $100 to $3,000. Another con- test administered by the Hop- wood Program in April awards $16,100 in prizes. Other awards included four poetry prizes, as well as the Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, given each year to undergraduate stu- dents based on financial need and writing talent. The first Hopwood awards were presented in 1931. Since then, more than 32,000 student writers have received a cumula- tive total of more than $3.4 mil- lion in prizes. The awards were presented by the director of the Hopwood Awards Program, See HOPWOOD, Page 5A BUSINESS . New sites help- students find * subject tutors ON DISPLAY Companies offer support to students, marketing to tutors By ARIANA ASSAF Daily StaffReporter Wouldn't it be nice to get a tricky homework question answered in the middle of the night or find a tutor who your friends have already used and recommend? Two new compa- nies targeting students - one started by a University student - are working to do just that. LSA sophomore Ryan Gott- fried is ;helping students find tutors with his new website, TutorScoop. TutorScoop is an academic social networking site that connects students at the University with tutors who are trained in a range of subjects. Gottfried launched the web- site in beta form on Jan. 17, but developed it for about a year prior to its release. TutorScoop aims to simplify the process for students to find tutors. There are currently more than 75 tutors and 300 students signed up, and these numbers continue to rise, Gottfried said. "Thousands of UM students seek out tutors each year, and TutorScoop is here to finally make that process easier," Gott- fried said. The site not only enables tutors to find students online, but it also gives them the ability to build up their businesses and brand themselves. Bookings and payments are both done online. TutorScoop empowers its stu- dent base by allowing customers to review their tutors and give recommendations to their peers. A student who finds a tutor with good reviews and a schedule that suits his or hers can book an appointment instantly. "We are quite literally a ser- vice for students, by students," Gottfried said.' Gottfried hopes to expand his program to other colleges in the fall and eventually add a video chat feature. A rewards program is also in the works. The hope is that students who are very active on TutorScoop can also earn benefits from local businesses. InstaEDU, another paid tutor See TUTOR, Page 5A ADMINISTRATION $1.25M donationto fund new librarian New position will aid in efforts to conserve and digitize By CHANNING ROBINSON Daily StaffReporter The University Library has received a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - a grant foundation that invests in higher education. It's one of the largest donations the library has ever received. The Mellon endowment will be used to create a conservation librarian position and cover the cost of the station for the first three years. The new librar- ian will join the conservation program's efforts to provide book and binding maintenance in addition to digitizing the library's large print collection, including more than eight mil- lion books. Shannon Zachary, head of the University's Department of Preservation and Conservation, See GRANT, Page SA STUDENT GOVERNMENT CSG aproves new budget Resolution get for the winter semester. Last Tuesday, CSG Trea- allocates over surer Chris Osborn proposed a resolution budgeting CSG $340K for winter expenses for the winter term. Though the total budgeted By AMRUTHA expense remained the same SIVAKUMAR from the previous week, spe- Daily StaffReporter cific allocations to organiza- tions were amended. These It took less than an hour on included budgets for CSG- Tuesday night for the Central sponsored and funded- events. Student Government to unan- Compared to a student imously pass a $340,704 bud- organization receiving funds from the Student organiza- tion Funding Commission to organize and plan their endeavors internally, a CSG- sponsored event requires the direct involvement of the CSG in the activity's execution. This semester, CSG-spon- sored events will include the annual St. Patrick's Day Tail- gate and a concert organized by MUSJC Matters, a student organization responsible for See BUDGET, Page 5A WEATHEjR HI: 24 TOMORROW [0'17 GOT A NEWS TIP? NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM INDEX Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail Police report tampered drinks at off-campus parties Vol. CXXIII, No. 60w news@michigandaily.com and let us know. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS @2013 The Michigan Daily michigondoilycom NEWS .................2A SPORTS .....................8A OPINION ..A...............4A SUDOKU................... 3A ARTS .......................6A 4 Sl vh7',. ' IMAM 'r