2A - Monday, December 2, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, December 2, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 94it .id4%gan Dailm 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chiefy esiness Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 anweiner@michigandailycom rmraein@michigandaily.com 15-MAN TEAM E Tse n TtH DEGENEpRaniE DnISEtAEt 'U' Hospital completes second heart transplant in state history Forty- five years ago this week (Dec. 3,1968): Doctors at the University Hospital completed the sec- ond heart transplant in the history of the state of Michi- gan. A 15-man team operated on patient Donald Kamin- ski, a 38-year-old at the time dying of cardiomyopathy, a degenerative disease that would have eventually led to his death. The operation began just three minutes after the death of donor Robert Pushman, a senior at Central Michigan University who died of inju- ries from a car accident. CRIME NOTES Thirty-five years ago tent, and Higgins requested this week (Dec. 2,1978): a grade of D so he would still be eligible for graduation. Former University stu- "The professors use dent Bob Higgins sued grades as a club," Higgins the University's Board of said "Since they (the facul- Regents for $885,000 after ty members in the German he received a D in his Ger- department) couldn't believe man class instead of the A he that I, a black student, was felt he deserved. doing superior work in the Higgins said he was not course, they resented it and able to attend the class until gave me a poor grade." the final two weeks of the This was the third suit semester due to "personal initiated by Higgins against emergency" reasons but still the University. completed and turned in all Higgins claimed he grad- the necessary course work. uated and received his diplo- Higgins said then-Assistant ma in 1976, but the Office of Prof. Irma Sklenar refused the Registrar had no record to grade his work because of it. At the time of the she didn't agree with its con- suit, he ran his own foreign investment consulting firm. "I irked them (the Uni- versity officials) because I wasn't going to kiss their ass," Higgins said. Twenty-five years ago this week (Dec. 2,1988): A vote from the LSA cur- riculum committee passed a proposal to require students to take a course related to combating racism starting in the fall of 1989. The original push from the United Coalition Against Racism was to institute one specific class on racism, but the passed proposal allowed students to choose from sev- CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Desperate nee for a calculator WHERE: Bursley Residence Hall Hall WHEN: Friday at about 11 a.m. WHAT: A resident's room was robbed between 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and noon on Thursday, University Police reported. Who needs two? WHERE: Crisler Center, 333 Stadium WHEN: Friday at about 3 p.m. WHAT: A subject was warned verbally for trying to scalp tickets outside of the Crisler Center, Univer- sity Police reported. No report was filed. I Crime stats Sustainability Internship from Saturday's in Detroit information football game WHAT: Laurie Kaye Nijaki WHAT: The Ford Sch( illh i i n rll i fn ira eral classes that would meet the requirement. Then-Assistant Prof. Eliz- abeth Anderson, who is now a senior faculty member in the Philosophy Depart- ment, said the new class requirement could also help increase the diversity of the faculty. "We want to use this graduation requirement to make the University aggres- sively recruit faculty to teach these courses, most of which will be minority fac- ulty," Anderson said. - WILL GREENBERG T HR EE T HINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Elwood, voted the world's ugliest dog in 2007, died on Thanksgiv- ing at the age of 8, the Huff- ington Postreported. Elwood was a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix, owned by Karen Quigley of New Jersey, and called "Yoda" by fans. The Michigan women's soccer team's season ended after it fell to top-seeded Virginia in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Women's Soccer Toruna- ment on Friday. FOR MORE, SEE INSIDE A Metro-North Rail- road train derailed in the Bronx New York on Sunday killing four people, the New York Times report- ed. 67 people in total were injured, 11 critically, accord- ing to New York Fire Depart- ment spokesman Jim Long. 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A wave of bad pub- licity over the site's early failures cast a shadow overthe president's chief domestic achievement. Even with the repairs in place, the site still won't be able to do everything the administra- tion wants, and companion sites for small businesses and Span- ish speakers have been delayed. Questions remain about the sta- bility of the site and the quality of the data it delivers to insurers. Obama promised a few weeks ago that HealthCare.gov "will work much better on Nov. 30, Dec. 1, than it worked certainly on Oct. L" But, in trying to lower expecta- tions, he said he could not guaran- tee that "100 percentof the people 100 percent of the time going on this website will have a perfectly seamless, smooth experience." Obama rightly predicted errors would remain. The department reported the website is up and running 95 percent of the time - meaning a 1-in-20 chance of finding a broken website remains. The government also estimated that pages crashed a rate less than once every 100 clicks. & Police remove Morsi supporters from Tahrir Square CAIRO (AP) - Police fired tear gas to drive hundreds of supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president from Cairo's famed Tahrir Square on Sunday, as a panel tasked with amending the constitution adopted dur- ing his time in office agreed on changes to the text. The 50-member panel revis- ing the Islamist-tilted charter adopted under former President Mohammed Morsi managed to resolve its differences after two days of clause-by-clause voting on the final draft. The text gives women and Christians "suitable representa- tion" but says a future law must decide the details. It also calls for elections, either parliamen- tary or presidential, within 90 days after the draft constitution is adopted. The other election should be held up to six months later. The new charter would require future presidents to declare their financial assets annually, and allows lawmakers to vote out an elected president and call for early elections if they have a two-thirds majority. Members agreed that a contentious proposed article allowing military tribunals for civilians would be scaled back, allowing them only in case of direct attack on military person- nel or assets. Rights activists had previous- ly objected to the military's trial of some 10,000 civilians when it ran the country during the 17 months after Egypt's 2011 revolt that ousted longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The document is now to be handed over to interim President Adly Mansour, who has a month to call for a nationwide referen- dum on it. If adopted by the public, a giant step in the roadmap announced by the military when it removed Morsi last summer will have been completed. Morsi supporters have been staging near daily protests to demand his reinstatement, in Cairo and across much of the country. But for hundreds of them to enter and take over Tah- rir, even briefly as they did Sun- day, constituted a major, albeit symbolic, propaganda coup for them. They would have attracted many more like-minded protest- ers had they been able to gain a solid foothold in the square. It was the first time in more than a yearthat Islamists entered the central square in significant numbers. The location has been the near exclusive domain of lib- eral and secular protesters since shortly after Morsi took office in June 2012 as Egypt's first freely elected president. Also in the background to Sunday's events was scathing criticism of the military-backed government by a top rights group that called on authorities to immediately release five Morsi aides who have been kept at an undisclosed destination since their arrest on July 3, the day Morsi was ousted. Police in Tahrir acted quickly and appeared to surprise pro- testers, firing heavy tear gas to clear them from the central plaza barely minutes after they took it over and sending them to take refuge in side streets. After an initial salvo of some two dozen canisters, armored police vans rushed to the square with sirens wailing. Later, six army armored per- sonnel carriers arrived. After nightfall, the protesters and police fought pitched battles on side streets off Tahrir and in the downtown area, with police fir- ing tear gas and the protesters pelting them with rocks. The square was the birth- place of the revolt that toppled Mubarak almost three years ago. That uprising was led by liberal and secular youth groups, whose differences with the Islamists began to surface later in 2011 over claims that Morsi's Broth- erhood and its allies were more interested in promoting their own political interests than pur- suing the uprising's goals. Sunday's Islamist protest- ers came from Cairo University, where they have been protest- ing the death on Thursday of an engineering student at the hands of police. Non-Islamist students were also protesting the death of the student on Sunday, but they restricted their demonstration to the areaoutside the Cairo Univer- sity campus in the Giza district. It was not immediately clear why police did not stop the pro- testers from reaching Tahrir, a 30-minute journey on foot from the university campus on the west bank of the River Nile. There was no police presence outside the campus either. Jubilant Islamist students knelt down and offered a prayer of thanks as their march drew closer to Tahrir. Once there, they chanted slogans againstthe mili- tary and police and flashed the four-finger sign that commemo- rates the death of hundreds of Morsi supporters by security forces since a military coup oust- ed the Islamist president on July 3. Morsi's supporters immedi- ately relayed the news on social networks, calling on others to join them quickly and suggesting that camping out indefinitely in the iconic square would eventu- ally topple the military-backed government. Also on Sunday, Egyptian authorities ordered the release from police custody of promi- nent activist Ahmed Maher, founder of the revolution- ary April 6 Movement, a main player in the 2011 revolt against Mubarak. Prosecutors, however, extended by 15 days the deten- tion of another iconic figure from the 2011 uprising - Alaa Abdel-Fattah. 4 a