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OPERATING, RESEARCH BUDGET TOTAS $22,6M
'U' requests funds for expansion
Sixty years ago this week Forty years ago this week Twentyyears agothisweek
(Dec.10, 1953): (Dec. 9,1973): (Dec.10, 1993):

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The University sought about
$22.6 million from the Michi-
gan state legislature to cover
operation costs and research
efforts. This additional rev-
enue represented a $2.8 mil-
lion increase from the previous
year.
The money was also intend-
ed to support the University's
growing student body, which
was expected to rise from
17,500 in 1953 to about 18,500 in
1954. This included a $150,000
increase to cover the cost of the
50 medical students enrolled in
the medical school.

Members of the Universi-
ty's Gay Awareness Women's
Kollective appeared before
the Ann Arbor human rights
department to file complaints
against a local restaurant
owner, Greg Fenerli, who had
"clashed" with the women in
the prior weeks when they
attempted to visit his bar,
Rubaiyat.
Fenerli, who criticized
the women's "openly sexual
behavior," said he applied the
same standards to gay couples
that he applied to heterosexual
ones.

A study conducted by The
Michigan Daily concluded new
professors at the University were
paid more than those with more
experience.
Professors working at the Uni-
versity for fewer than three years
earned approximately $101,000
per year on average, while those
working for 30 years or longer
averaged about $78,000. Overall,
the Daily reported the "median
salary for every category of pro-
fessors rigidly follows the trend
of decreased pay with longer
employment."
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Engineering sophomore Gaby Belok samples foodw
at the food carts on South University Avenue during
Crowd 313 Detroit Sound Fest Friday.

CRIME NOTES

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Precious snacks Invisible odor, Used book sale Orchestra

WHERE: Mason Hall
WHEN: Thursday at about
11:55 p.m.
WHAT: A vending machine
on the first floor was dam-
aged, University Police
reported. It did not appear
that the subject secured
product from the machine
and there are currently no
suspects.

who dealt it
WHERE: North Campus
Diag
WHEN: Thursday at about
10:50 p.m.
WHAT: Outside the Beyster
Building report of natural
gas odor, officer unable to
locate odor or any issue,
University Police reported.

WHAT: Gently used books concert
from the University Library
for sale along with miscella- WHAT: Unive
neous items such as DVDs, monia Orchest
CDs, and maps, all for low Schubert's Sym
prices. 8 "Unfinished,'
WHO: University Library "Concerto da E
WHEN: Today from 10:00 and others.
a.m. to 10:00 p.m. WHO: School:
WHERE: Hatcher Gradu- Theatre & Dan

T HRE THINSYOU
After Michigan State's
victory in the football Big
Ten Championship, stu-
dents and fans had to be sub-
dued by police for causing a
"large civil disturbance" with
a bonfire, the Lansing State
Journal reported.The number
of arrestswas not released.

rsity Philhar-
ra performs
nphony No.
" Rossini's
sperimento,"
of Music,
ice

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No fun for the From Big House
fender to big house
WHERE: Medical Center WHERE: Michigan Sta-
Lot dium, Gate 8
WHEN: Friday at about WHEN: Friday at about
12:00 a.m. 3:30 a.m.
WHAT: A parked car was WHAT: Fifteen students
struck by an unknown were arrested for unlawful
vehice and caused damage entry after climbing into the
to the fender, University stadium, University Police
Police reported. There are reported.
no suspects.

ate Library WHEN: Today at 8:00 p.m. The Michigan football
WHERE: Hill Auditorium team, which recieved
._an invitation to the
Engineering Ricky Skaggs Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl,
will play its postseason in
project update performance Arizona for the first time
since 1986.
WHAT: Mechanical engi- WHAT: Ricky Scaggs and >FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4

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neering students present
their work, the Linear Book
scanner, a new type of auto-
matic page-turning scanner,
an advancement in afford-
able book scanning.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 3:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher
Graduate Library

Kentucky Thunder perform.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
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Following a water main
break Friday in Castro
County, California, a
sinkhole formed in the street
and a fire truck fell in, the
Huffington Post reported.
The sinkhole was 10 feet by
15 feet in size and the acci-
dent caused no injuries.

Prosecutors decline to press
charges against bus driver

Donor pledges $5 million to
protect Detroit art, retirees

Student originally
charged with
abandoning bus
will not face trial
By SAM GRINGLAS
DailyStaffReporter
The Washtenaw County pros-
ecutor will not press charges
against the 22-year-old student
bus driver who left a Blue Bus
unattended during his shift last
month.
Steven Hiller, Washtenaw
County chief deputy assistant
prosecutor, said charges were
denied on Nov. 20.
Though University Police
initially arrested the student
on charges of unlawfully driv-
ing away of an automobile,
Hiller said if the prosecutor
had pressed charges, the more
appropriate charge would have

been akin to joyriding - motor
vehicle use without authority
and without intent to steal. That
charge would carry the weight
of a misdemeanor.
If charged, a conviction could
lead to imprisonment for no
more than two years or a fine of
up to $1,500. For a first offense,
the court may reduce the pun-
ishment to imprisonment for no
more than three months or a fine
of no more than $500.00.
However, the statute does
not apply in situations where
the vehicle's owner employs the
driver, as was the case here. As a
result, there was no statute upon
which the prosecutor could
press charges.
"There wasn't an appropriate
statute that fit these facts," Hill-
er said. "That happens."
This situation isn't uncom-
mon. When making an arrest,
officers base their decision on
their best understanding of the
law and known facts at the time

of the arrest. Later, prosecutors
may find that charges aren't
warranted.
"So it is not uncommon for an
officer to arrest, quite properly,
for offense A, based on what the
officer knows at that time, and
later have the prosecutor charge
offense B, return the case for
further investigation or deny
prosecution altogether," Hiller
said.
Though the prosecutor did
not press charges, University
spokesman Rick Fitzgerald
said the University no longer
employs the student. He said he
is unaware of any further conse-
quences for the student.
Fitzgerald also pointed out
that the University has no
stake in the prosecutor's deci-
sion on whether or not to press
charges.
"It's up to the prosecutor to
determine whether it's appro-
priate to press charges or not,"
Fitzgerald said.

A. Paul Schaap
seeks to prevent sale
of DIA holdings
DETROIT (AP) - A former
Detroit university professor is
pledging $5 million, hoping it
will spark a wildfire of private
financial support to protect
valuable art from being sold to
pay creditors in the city's bank-
ruptcy.
A. Paul Schaap said he wants
to help the Detroit Institute of
Arts as well as retirees whose
pensions could be cut as part
of the city's plan to eventually
exit Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Art
purchased over the years with
city money could be pursued
as assets that should be sold to
pay off a portion of $18 billion in
long-term debt.
Schaap and wife Carol want
to prevent that from happening.
"I believe there are more than

just a few people in the metro
Detroit area who would step up
and see this as something we
should all try to do to save the
pensions and stabilize the DIA,"
Schaap said in an interview Fri-
day.
Detroit emergency manager
Kevyn Orr hasn't said whether
he will sell art as part of any
bankruptcy reorganization
plan. New York auction house
Christie's said art purchased
with city money is worth $450
million to $870 million. It's 5
percent of all art at the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
"We have a passion for the
city," said Schaap, who lives
next door in Grosse Pointe Park
and was a Wayne State Univer-
sity chemistry professor before
starting his own technology
company. "We go to the DIA,
the symphony, ballgames. We're
Detroiters. Maybe this is a way
to help."
Schaap, 68, said he was meet-

ing Friday with U.S. District
Judge Gerald Rosen, who is serv-
ing as chief mediator between
the city and its creditors while
the bankruptcy case moves for-
ward. The Detroit News and
Detroit Free Press have reported
that Rosen has reached out to
foundations and wealthy people
to try to raise as much as $500
million to protect the museum
and assist pensioners.
Schaap said he read about
Rosen's effort and decided to
step forward, becoming one
of the first to publicly make a
pledge. The judge and others
in the philanthropic commu-
nity have declined to comment,
although Orr this week said he
"fully supports" Rosen's pitch to
potential donors.
"I've already heard from
people who can't give that much
but want to contribute," Schaap
said, referring to his $5 million.
"We will be looking for a mecha-
nism to make that possible."

* * * Q **U Ukraine protests continue in capital

Demonstrators
gather in largest
anti-govt. rally since
Orange Revolution
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Hun-
dreds of thousands of protest-
ers poured into the streets of
Ukraine's capital on Sunday, top-
pling a statue of former Soviet
leader Vladimir Lenin and block-
ading key government buildings
in an escalating standoff with
the president over the future of
the country.
The biggest demonstration
in the former Soviet republic
since Ukraine's pro-democracy
Orange Revolution in 2004 led
the government to fire back. It
announced an investigation of
opposition leaders for an alleged
attempt to seize power and
warned the demonstrators they

could face criminal charges.
The West pressed for a peace-
ful settlement.
Hundreds of thousands of
Ukrainians flooded the center
of Kiev, the capital, to demand
President Viktor Yanukovych's
ouster after he ditched ties with
the European Union in favor of
Russia and sent police to break
up an earlier protest inthe nearly
three-week standoff.
"Ukraine is tired of Yanu-
kovych. We need new rules. We
need to completely change those
in power," said protester Kosty-
antyn Meselyuk, 42. "Europe
can help us."
Packing Independence Square
as far as the eye could see, Ukrai-
nians waving EU flags sang the
national anthem and shouted
"Resignation!" and "Down with
the gang!" in a reference to Yan-
ukovych's regime.
"I am convinced that after
these events, dictatorship will

never survive in our country,"
world boxing champion and top
opposition leader Vitali Klitsch-
ko told reporters. "People will
not tolerate when they are beat-
en, when their mouths are shut,
when their principles and values
are ignored."
As darkness fell, the conflict
escalated further with protest-
ers blockading key government
buildings in Kiev with cars, bar-
ricades and tents.
The protests have had an anti-
Russian component because
Russia had worked aggres-
sively to derail the EU deal
with threats of trade retaliation
against Ukraine.
About half a mile (1 kilometer)
from the main square, one group
of anti-government protest-
ers toppled the city's landmark
statue of Lenin and decapitated
it Sunday evening.
Protesters then took turns
beating on the torso of the fall-

en statue, while others lined up
to collect a piece of the stone.
The crowd chanted "Glory to
Ukraine!"
"Goodbye, Communist leg-
acy," Andriy Shevchenko, an
opposition lawmaker, wrote on
Twitter.
The demonstrations erupted
last month after Yanukovych
shelved a long-planned treaty
with the 28-nation European
Union to focus on ties with Rus-
sia. They were also galvanized
by police violence and fears that
Yanukovych was on the verge
of bringing his country into a
Russian-led economic alliance,
which critics say could end
Ukraine's sovereignty.
"It's not just a simple revo-
lution," Oleh Tyahnybok, an
opposition leader with the
national Svoboda party, told the
crowd in a fiery speech from a
giant stage. "It's a revolution of
dignity."

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