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SUSTAINABILITY
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alternative transportation, pesti-
cide and herbicide control, storm
water runoff reduction and an
increase in sustainable foods pur-
chased by the University.
Berki said it's important the
University strives to be a leader in
sustainability.
"As a worldwide institution
of higher education, we should
set an example for other schools
around the country and globally,"
Berki said.
Berkiadded that the University
is focusing more on its efforts in
research and education.
"The work that we're doing in
education and research ... is of
TUTOR
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service founded by Alison John-
ston, Dan Johnston and Joey
Shurtleff, has a similar mission
of helping both high school and
college students find a tutor.
While studying at Stanford
University, the brother-sister
duo got involved in the tutor-
ing business by founding an in-
home tutoring company. They
soon realized, however, that
although high-school students
learned well from college stu-
dents, in-home tutoring was not
always an economically feasible
option and not all students need-
ed weekly-scheduled tutoring
sessions.
Shurtleff, who was working
at a similar company of his own
at the time, started talking with
the Johnstons about creating
an online, on-demand platform
most importance because we're
responsible for teaching and
educating our future leaders," he
said. "... (They) are really going to
be creators of change."
While the annual report tra-
ditionally focuses on the Uni-
versity's internal sustainability
efforts, Berki said external orga-
nizations - such as the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency and
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention - have played an
important role in collaborating on
research.
"We work together and learn
from each other so that we're
not re-creating the wheel all the
time," Berki said.
Berki said that it is important
to involve more University stu-
dents in sustainability research,
education and outreach. There are
currently 600 courses on sustain-
ability offered at the University.
"I would really like to see stu-
dents get really involved in (Cen-
tral Student Government and,
the Student Sustainability Initia-
tive)," Berki said. "Theyboth have
strong environmental interests
(and) they advocate for environ-
mental sustainability in an orga-
nized fashion."
Berki said he's pleased with the
effort the University has made
toward sustainability.
"The one thing that I'm most
proud of is the holistic approach
we take here," Berki said. "More
focus is being put on sustainabil-
ity on all levels."
Don Scavia, director of the
Graham Environmental Sustain-
ability Institute, said two focuses
of research are energytechnology
and consumer choice.
"I think there's some really
important research going on in
energy technologies," Scavia said.
But Scavia said research is
practical only if students are edu-
cated in sustainability practices
that they canbringback into their
personal lives.
"Everyone - in our personal
lives - needs to think carefully
about how we use energy, how we
use water, how much waste we
generate," Scavia said. "We need
to find ways to use less and be
more efficient in what we use."
-Daily Staff Reporter
Aaron Guggenheim
contributed to thisreport.
HOPWOOD
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English Prof. Nicholas Delbanco.
"Those who receive (awards)
today join a distinguished com-
pany," Delbanco said.
After the presentation of the
awards, David Grann, a staff
writer for The New Yorker, read
excerpts from his works of non-
fiction. Gran said he admired
the Hopwood program because
of its ability to inspire up-and-
coming authors.
"In a time where, as a writer,
I'm keenly aware of the diffi-
culty and dwindling resources
to create an environment where
cultural young writers can
thrive, I want to pay a particular
attribute to the recipients today,
and also to this program, which
is really a value in this day and
age," Grann said.
LSA sophomore Tessa Wiles
won $800 in the Hopwood fic-
tion category for three satire
pieces entitled "How to Domi-
nate an Industry," written from
the perspective of John Mayer,
"The Danger in Associating
with a Blameless Nailfile," writ-
ten from the perspective of a
nail file and "The Tale of Joan
Alexandra Molinksky," written
from the perspective of Joan
Rivers.
She said she entered the piec-
es on a whim, and was excited
and shocked upon learning.she
had won.
"I never expected works
about John Mayer and Joan Riv-
ers to win a distinguished writ-
ing prize," Wiles said.
LSA sophomore Yoav Gaffney
also won in the fiction category.
His piece, "Stories about Jeru-
salem," was inspired by the year
he spent in Jerusalem. lie won
$1,000.
"I didn't think I was going
to win," Gaffney said. "I didn't
think I was going to submit it
honestly, but my English teacher
told meI should."
For the fiction, nonfiction and
poetry Hopwood awards, two
judges in each division read the
entries and made recommenda-
tions. Prizes were awarded to
each judge's first and second-
place choices, and the combinel
score for each contestant deter-
mined the amount of the prizes
the contestants received. Entries
are submitted under pseud-
onyms to avoid bias.
where students and tutors could
work together from across the
country instantly.
InstaEDU was launched last
May, and continues to look for
more tutors, including tutors
from the University.
"We have Michigan tutors
that we really, really love," Ali-
son said.
InstaEDU. users create a
profile and then are'able to see
through Facebook or Gchat
plugins whether tutors are
online and available. Once a stu-
dent puts in a request, he or she
is matched with whichever tutor
responds first in InstaEDU's
online classroom. At the core of
InstaEDU is an ability to get stu-
dents help the second they need
it, Alison said.
"That whole setup is designed
to give students and tutors either
a ten-minute lesson, or the abil-
ity to really dive in (to the mate-
rial)."
BUDGET
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bringing a popular music artist
to perform in Hill Auditorium in
the spring. These events will be
sponsored through the CSG dis-
cretionary funds.
After the CSG assembly
meeting last Tuesday, Osborn
stressed the importance of
increasing the budgeted spend-
ing for SOFC.
Though Osborn said MUSIC
Matters was a "great student
organization" bringing a new
event to campus, he said he
wanted to ensure that CSG
would oversee its planning.
"What I wanted to explicate
-to everyone was that if we were
going to sponsor MUSIC Mat-
ters with such a large amount,
CSG should be involved with the
event," Osborne said.
The proposed funding toward
SOFC was increased by about
$8,000. Furthermore, the fund-
ing towards MUSIC Matters
was increased from $8,000
to $10,000, and the funding
towards the St. Patrick's Day
Tailgate was increased from
$8,000 to $15,000 dollars.
LSA representative Arielle
Zupmore, an organizer of MUSIC
Matters, suggested that represen-
tative involvement in the event
could include helping the group
with the organization of Spring-
Fest - a culmination of student
organizations on campus before
the concert. CSG members could
also be members of the "artist-
selection committee" for the
concert and help determine any
environmental implications of the
upcoming concert.
"Thankfully, we were able to
compromise," Osborne said. "We
will hopefully be able to allocate
more funds toward student orga-.
nizations on campus that need
it."
To be able to accommodate
for the increases in the budgeted
expenses for about $2,200 was
reallocated from the originally
budgeted funding for CSG Com-
missions. Additionally, $500 was
taken from each of the legislative
and discretionary accounts and.
the proposed $35,000 towards
graduate childcare subsidy was
cut in half.
As per an agreement last
spring between the GEO and
university administrators, the
CSG would provide a total of
$150,000 over the course of two
years to subsidize parts of the
childcare costs of graduate stu-
dent instructors and graduate
student staff assistants.
"Because the Office of Finan-
cial Aid has been very difficult
with getting back to us on seeing
whether this is a pilot program
we can actually implement, we
decided to only provide $17,500
this semester," Osborn said.
"Hopefully we will be able to
provide the other $17,500 during
the fall semester."
Though the budget was
approved as final during the
meeting, Osborn noted that
changes in student enrollment
before the drop/add deadline
could affect CSG revenue from
student fees by up to $5,000. Any
such changes will be addressed
in the next assembly meeting.
Mexico's new
regime remains
silent on violent
crime issue
GRANT
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said an addition to the program
is very much needed. Currently,
the conservation lab is manned
by six staff members who work
on both the general and special
collections. The amount of work
covered by the employees is
"overwhelming," Zachary wrote
in an e-mail interview Monday.
"The new conservation librar-
ian will expand our capacity to
treat rare books and manage
conservation projects as well as
provide outreach to help other
organizations in the region care
for their libraries," Zachary
wrote.
Many of the books and proj-
ects are detached from their
bindings or have damaged pages,
Zachary said. Some of these
projects include theater post-
ers from an early 20th-century
Shakespeare Company, a Turk-
ish manuscript by Ebu Bekir
Nusret dating back to 1765 and
a pamphlet from the Hubbard
Collection of Imaginary Voyages
circa 1867.
Bryan Skib, associate Uni-
versity librarian for collections,
wrote in an e-mail Tuesday that
the Graduate Library's addition-
al position will help provide for
the library's future
"The additional staff will
help us keep up with the local
demand for conservation ser-
vices, and will enhance our abil-
ity to train future generations of
conservators," Skib wrote.
Skib, the Graduate Library's
former development officer, is
exploring several options to
raise another $1 million to match
the Mellon grant and support
the addition of the new librarian.
"Donors have in recent years
shown strong interest in sup-
porting our conservation pro-
grams," Skib wrote. "The Mellon
grant will provide them with a
wonderful opportunity to make
a significant, long-term contri-
bution that will serve to extend
the useful life of the Library col-
lections."
Zachary said she is optimis-
tic that additional funds can be
raised.
"Our experience has been that
many people are enthusiastic
about the preservation of books
- especially of the extraordi-
nary collections in the U-M
Library," Zachary said.
Dean of Libraries Paul Cou-
rant said in a statement that
the grant will be an invalu-
able resource for the University
Library.
. "We're enormously grate-
ful to the Mellon Foundation
for their support, which will
enhance our ability to preserve
the cultural and scholarly record
and to share our holdings with
the world."
Pres. has yet
to hold press
conference on
drug cartel battle
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Two
months after President Enrique
Pena Nieto took office promis-
ing to reduce violent crime, the
killings linked to Mexico's drug
cartels continue unabated.
Only the government's talk
about them has dropped.
Eighteen members of a band
and its retinue were kidnapped
and apparently slain over the
weekend in the northern border
state of Nuevo Leon by gunmen
who asked them to name their
cartel affiliation before they
were shot and dumped in a well.
Fourteen prisoners and nine
guards died in an attempted
prison escape in Durango state.
Nine men were slain Christmas
eve in Sinaloa. In the state of
Mexico, which borders the capi-
tal, more than a dozen bodies
were found last week, some dis-
membered.
The difference under this
administration is that there have
been no major press conferences
announcing more troops or federal
police for drug-plagued hotspots.
Gone are the regular parades of
newly arrested drug suspects
before the media with their weap-
ons, cashor contraband.
Pena Nieto has been mum,
instead touting education, fis-
cal and energy reforms. On
Monday, he told a summit of
Latin American and Caribbean
leaders in Chile that he wants
Mexico to focus on being a play-
er in solving world and regional
problems.
Some political observers
praise him for trying to change
the conversation and presenting
an alternative face of Mexico.
Critics suggest the country's
new leaders believe that the
best way to solve a security cri-
sis is to create distractions.
"What Pena Nieto is doing is
... sweeping violence under the
rug in hopes that no one notic-
es," said security expert Jorge
Chabat. "It can be effective in
the short term, until the vio-
lence becomes so obvious that
you can't change the subject."
The Pena Nieto government
declined to respond publicly to
the critics. But in an interview
last month with The Associated
Press, he said he would not put
any goals or deadlines on his
campaign against organized
crime and would focus on pre-
vention.
"That way we avoid generat-
ing fertile ground where vio-
lence and insecurity can keep
growing," Pena Nieto said.
Secretary of Interior Jose
Osorio Chong had a closed-door
meeting with the governors of
Mexico's central states about
security on Monday. In a press
conference afterward, he prom-
ised to increase patrols along a
highway system already bris-
tling with military and police
roadblocks and checkpoints.
The apparent weekend kill-
ing of 18 members of Kombo
Kolombia, which had played
at a private performance late
Thursday, was the largest mass
kidnapping and killing since
20 tourists disappeared and
were later found dead in 2011
near the resort city of Acapulco.
Searchers this week were pull-
ing bodies from a well in north-
ern Mexico that they said likely
belonged to the band.
An area known as the
Laguna, where Coahuila and
Durango states meet, has been
the scene of numerous battles
between factions of the Sinaloa
and the Zetas cartels.
The State of Mexico has had
70 slayings so far this year,
according to Gov. Eruviel Avila.
La Familia has moved in from
the neighboring state of Micho-
acan and is fighting for territory
with a smaller gang known as
the United Warriors. Mean-
while, masked vigilantes patrol
towns in the southern state of
Guerrero on the Pacific coast,
where citizens have grown tired
of organized crime usurping
local authority.
Communications expert
Ruben Aguilar said the Pena
Nieto government is right to
change the focus from security,
which had been the main topic
throughout the six-year admin-
istration of President Felipe
Calderon, who left office on
Dec. 1.
Head of Egyptian
military says
country unstable
Amid political
violence, military
leader expresses
concern
PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) -
Residents of this Mediterranean
coastal city burying their dead
from Egypt's wave of political vio-
lence vented their fury at Egypt's
Islamist president and the Mus-
lim Brotherhood on Tuesday,
demanding his ouster and virtu-
ally declaring a revolt against his
rule, as the head of the military
warned Egypt may collapse under
the weight of its turmoil.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi'
strongly worded comments,
his first since the crisis began,
appeared aimed at pushing both
sides in Egypt's political divide
to reconcile and find a solution
to the rapidly spreading protests
and riots across much of the
country the past six days.
But his breaking of his
silence falls heaviest on Presi-
dent Mohammed Morsi, who
has been unable to contain the
unrestby trying a tough hand, as
protesters defied his declaration
of a month-long state of emer-
gency and curfew in Port Said
and two neighboring cities.
At least 60 people have been
killed and hundreds injured since
Thursday in clashes between
police and protesters angry over
what they call Islamists' moves
to monopolize power and failure
to address the country's multiple
woes. In his comments, el-Sissi
signaled the military would not
move to put down protesters, say-
ingtroops are ina"grave predica-
ment," forced to balance between
"avoiding confrontation" with
citizens and protectingstate insti-
tutions.
In Cairo on Tuesday, rock-
,throwing protesters clashed
with police firing tear gas for
another day in battles that esca-
lated after nightfall near Tahrir
Square. The mayhem forced the
nearby U.S. Embassy to suspend
public services Tuesday, and the
night before masked men tried
to rob the neighboring five-star
Semiramis Hotel, a Cairo land-
mark, trashing the lobby before
being forced out.
Protesters in many cities
around the country have battled
police, cut off roads and rail-
way lines and besieged govern-
ment offices and police stations.
But the most dramatic fray-
ing of state control has been in
the three cities along the Suez
Canal, particularly Port Said, at
the canal's Mediterranean end.
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dead in a Malaysian for- grow to about eight feet (245
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ermined whether it was said Sen Nathan, the wildlife
onal, said Sabah environ- department's senior veterinari-
minister Masidi M'an- an. Seven were female and three
hough some elephants were male, he said.
een killed for their tusks Post-mortems showed they
ah in past years, there suffered severe hemorrhages
sign that these animals and ulcers in their gastrointes-
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of these majestic and might be some form of acute
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Masidi said in a state- still waiting for the laboratory
"If indeed these poor results," Nathan said.
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