2 - Tuesday, October 29, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, October 29, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom * 420 Maynard St. 0 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 eat. 1252 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 anweiner@michigandaily.comkvoigtman@michigandaily.com Music Man Alex Bielajew is a professor of How has Ann Arbor and the nuclear engineering and radio- University changed since logical sciences. He holds degrees you've been here? in theoretical physics from Stan- ford University and physics from I am a big city person, but Ann McGill University in Montreal, Arbor is a way cool town for only Canada. Bielajew also performs 100,000 people or so. It is way as the keyboardist in his band, bigger than that number sug- Midnight Special. gests. Everyone in Ann Arbor is How has working at the University impacted your career? I transitioned from a 100-per- cent research job in a govern- ment lab, to the U, where one has to balance teaching, research and administration. I really love teaching. The students here are wonderful, and so very bright. an interesting person to talk to. The same can be said for the Uni- versity. Aside from growth, both the town and the University have not changed all that much, from my perspective. Then again, I have only been here about 16 years. The biggest change has been the students. They are much more informed, globally con- nected, thanks to the Internet. They are also a lot more expres- sive in class. I love how the stu- dents nowadays are much more active in class, ask so many ques- tions and challenge their profes- sors. What do you dofor fun outside of the classroom? I'm a classically trained musi- cian, but my heart thumps out rock and roll. When I'm not attending to my family, or teach- ing, or doing research, I'm living and breathing music. I really like performing in public: The bigger the crowd, the better. - ROBERTARNELLA Newsroom 734-418-45 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Sectionn artsa@michieadaity.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales dailydisplay@gmaiLcom OnlineSales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Lettersnto the Editor tothedaity@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandailycom Classified Sales classified@michigandaiy.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com KATHERINE PEKALA/Daily A hawk feasts on a rabbit outside Lorch Hall on Monday. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Naptime WHERE: Michigan League WHEN: Saturday at about 2:20 p.m. WHAT: Four subjects were discovered asleep in the lobby, University Police reported. Three of them were told to leave, but one was arrested on a warrant from another agency. Hide and seek WHERE: Central Campus Recreation Building WHEN: Saturday at about 10 p.m. , WHAT: Two subjects who had already been removed from the building snuck back in but could not be relocated by staff, University Police Reported. Bus mishap WHERE: East University WHEN: Saturday at about 7:20 p.m. WHAT: University Police reported that a University bus was scraped by another vehicle while attempting to turn onto South University Avenue from East University Avenue. The vehicle left the scene without stopping, but no injuries were reported. In the Arb after hours WHERE: Nichols Arboretum WHEN: Sunday at 1:25 a.m. WHAT: Two subjects were discovered in Nichols Arboretum after normal operating hours, University Police reported. They were both issued citations. Zombie nightmare WHAT: The Health Services building will be comverted into a zombie open house filled with candy, prizes, and free flu shots for the first 20 people to arrive. WHO: University Health Services WHEN: Today from 6 p.m o8:00 p.m. WHERE: University Health Services Book talk WHAT: Author Tom Peek will read from and discuss his novel "Daughters of Fire". The program will also include nature photography and volcano-inspired art. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today from 10 a.m to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, room 100 Economics discussion WHAT: University of Illi- nois, Chicago Prof. Deirdre McCloskey will explore topics discussed in her book "Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World" WHO: Department of Eco- nomics WHEN: Today at 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Ross School of Business, room 2240 Archaeology lecture WHAT: Western Michigan University Prof. Michael S. Nassaney will discuss his findings from site at Fort Joseph. WHO: William L. Clements Library WHEN: Today at4 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, room 100 T H REE T HINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Ellis Island Immi- gration Musum reopened on Monday after its clo- sure due to Hurrican Sandy, the Associated Press report- ed. Flooding did not directly harm any exhibits, but arti- facts had to be moved to a cli- mate controlled area. The Michigan Depart- ment of Environmen- tal Quality released proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing - also known as fracking - for Michigan. FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 Banksy, the increas- ingly popular graffiti artist, wrote an essay criticizing the design of the new World Trade Center, Fox News reported.' The essay was intended as a New York Times op-ed piece, but the paper did not publish it. EDITORIAL STAFF Matthew lovin Managing Editor mjslovin@michigandaily.com AdamnRUbenfire Managing News Editor arube@michiandaily.com SENs REWS EDITORS: Alicia Adamczyk, Katie Burke, Peter Shahin, K.C. 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Winter term (anuary through April is $115,yearlong(SeptemberthroughApr)is$195.University affiliatesaresubjecttoareduced subscriptionrate. On-campus subscriptions for falltermare$35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. 0 Great Lakes watershed sees Coastal storm leaves 13 first spawning of Asian Carp dead in U.K. and Europe Invasive species reproduces, threatens native fish TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Scientists said Monday they have documented for the first time that an Asian carp species has suc- cessfully reproduced within the Great Lakes watershed, an omi- nous development in the struggle to slam the door on the hungry invaders that could threaten native fish. An analysis of four grass carp captured last year in Ohio's San- dusky River, a tributary of Lake Erie, found they had spent their entire lives there and were not introduced through means such as stocking, according to researchers withtheU.S.GeologicalSurveyand DRnlin&( raan CtntP T Tnivxrci+tr Grass carp are among four spe- cies imported from Asia decades ago to control algae and unwanted plants in controlled settings such as sewage treatmentlagoons. They escaped into the wild and have spread into the Mississippi and other rivers and lakes across the nation's heartland. Of greatest concernin the Great Lakes region are bighead and sil- ver carp, prolific breeders that gobble huge amounts of plankton - tiny plants and animals that are vital to aquatic food chains. Scien- tists say if they gain a foothold in the lakes, they could spread widely and destabilize a fishing industry valued at $7 billion. Grass carp are less worrisome because they eat larger plants instead of plankton and don't com- pete with native species, although they could harm valuable wetland vrertationxwheroe sonAfishsn.rn But because all Asian carp spe- cies require ' similar conditions to reproduce successfully, the Sandusky River discovery sug- gests it's likely that any of them could spawn there and in many other Great Lakes tributaries, said Duane Chapman, a USGS fisher- ies biologist and member of the research team. "It's bad news," Chapman said. "It would have been a lot easier to controlthese fishifthey'd beenlim- ited in the number of places where they could spawn. This makes our job harder. It doesn't make it impossible, but it makes it harder." The Obama administration has spent nearly $200 million to shield the lakes, focusing primarily on an electrified barrier and other measures in Chicago-area water- ways that offer a pathway from the carp-infested Mississippi River watershed to Lake Michigan. Crit- ics say more is needed and are pressing to physically separate the two systems. The U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers is scheduled to release a report in coming months on a long- term solution. JohnGoss, who heads the White House Council on Environmental Quality's Asian carp program, said sterile grass carp have been found in the Great Lakes for years. But the discovery that they can repro- duce within the watershed "rein- forces why we must continue to execute the aggressive strategy to keep silver and bighead carp out of the Great Lakes that we have been pursuing for the past three and a half years," he said. A commercial fisherman cap- tured four small grass carp from the Sandusky River in 2012. Chap- man and his colleagues determined they were at least a year old and could become spawning adults. The scientists also examined bones in the fishes' heads called "otoliths" that indicate the chem- istry of the waters they've inhab- ited, and they compared them with otoliths of farmed fish. The analysis confirmed the grass carp were hatched through natural reproduction in the river. Hurricane-force winds fell trees, tangle traffic LONDON (AP) - A savage coastal storm powered by hur- ricane-force gusts slashed its way through Britain and west- ern Europe on Monday, felling trees, flooding lowlands and snarling traffic in the air, at sea and on land. At least 13 people were reported killed. It was one of the worst storms to hit the region in years. The deadly tempest had no formal name - and wasn't officially classified as a hurri- cane due to a meteorological standard - but it was dubbed the St. Jude storm (after the patron saint of lost causes) and stormageddon on social net- works. Gusts of 99 miles per hour (160 kph) were reported on the Isle of Wight in southern Eng- land, while gusts up to 80 mph hit the British mainland. Later in the day, the Danish capital of Copenhagen saw record gusts up of to 120 mph (194 kph) and an autobahn in central Germa- ny was shut down by gusts up to 62 mph (100 kph). All across the region, people' were warned to stay indoors. Hundreds of trees were uprooted or split, blocking roads and crushing cars. The Dutch were told to leave their beloved bicycles at home for safety's sake. At least thirteen storm- related deaths were reported, most victims crushed by fall- ing trees. Germany had six deaths, Britain had five and the Netherlands and Denmark had one each. One woman was also missing after being swept into the surf in France. Two people were killed in London by a gas explosion and a British teen who played in the storm-driven surf was swept out to sea. A man in Denmark was killed when a brick flew off and hit him in the head. Despite the strength of its gusts, the storm was not con- sidered a hurricane because it didn't form over warm expans- es of open ocean like the hurri- canes that batter the Caribbean and the United States. Britain's national weather service, the Met Office, said Britain does not get hurricanes because those are "warm latitude" storms that draw their energy from seas far warmer than the North Atlantic. Monday's storm also did not have an "eye" at its center like most hurricanes. London's Heathrow Air- port, Europe's busiest, can- celled at least 130 flights and giant waves prompted the major English port of Dover to close, cutting off ferry services to France. Nearly 1,100 passengers had to ride out the storm on a heaving ferry from Newcastle in Britain to the Dutch port of Ijmuiden after strong winds and heavy seas blocked it from docking in the morning. The ship returned to the North Sea to wait for the wind to die down rather than risk being smashed against the harbor's walls, Teun-Wim Leene of DFDS Seaways told national broadcaster NOS. In central London, a huge building crane near the prime minister's office crumpled in the gusts. The city's overbur- dened transit system faced major delays and cancella- tions and did not recover even once the weather swept to the east. A nuclear power station in Kent, southern England, auto- matically shut its two reactors after storm debris reduced its incoming power supply. Officials at the Dungeness B plant said the reactors had shut down safely and would be brought back once power was restored. The storm left Britain in the early afternoon and roared across the English Channel, leaving up to 270,000 U.K. homes without power. Trains were canceled in southern Sweden and Den- mark. Winds blew off roofs, with debris reportedly break- ing the legs of one man. Near the Danish capital of Copen- hagen, the storm ripped down the scaffolding from a five-sto- ry apartment building. Copenhagen's Kastrup Air- port saw delays as strong gusts prevented passengers from using boarding bridges to dis- embark from planes to the ter- minals. In Germany, the death toll hit six, with four people killed in three separate acci- dents Monday involving trees falling on cars, the dpa news agency reported. A sailor near Cologne was killed Sunday when his boat capsized and a fisherman drowned northeast of the city. In addition to widespread rail disruptions, both Dues- seldorf and Hamburg airports saw many flights cancelled, stranding more than 1,000 passengers. Thousands of homes in northwestern France also lost electricity, while in the Netherlands several rail lines shut down and airports faced delays. Amsterdam's central railway station was closed due to storm damage. In France, maritime offi- cials were searching for a woman who was swept into the turbulent Atlantic by a big wave Monday as she walked on Belle Isle, a small island off the coast of Brittany. "We are focused on the search," Yann Bouvart, of the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture told BFM-TV. He said a heli- copter, a boat and an inflatable Zodiac were looking for the woman. t A