5A - Monday, September 9, 2413 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 5A - Monday, September 9, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom LEADER From Page 1A tion-and-answer format. Univer- sity President Mary Sue Coleman announced in April that she will retire in July 2014. Regent Lau- rence Deitch (D-Bloomfield Hills) said in a statement that he hopes to hear from students, fac- ulty, staff, alumni, community members and others willing to attend. Regents and other members of the Search Advisory Committee will attend every session, along with Alison Ranney, a search consultant from Russell Reyn- olds Associates, the executive recruiting firm appointed to lead the search, who will answer ques- tions about the search process itself. Regent Katherine White (D- Ann Arbor), who served on the 2002 presidential committee with Deitch and Regent Andrea Fischer Newman (R-Ann Arbor), coordinated the public meetings on behalf of the board. She said in the press release that the various locations and times of the meet- ings should "allow for the broad- est input possible." Since the 2002 search com- mittee included two students, University alum Matt Nolan, then-Michigan Student Assembly (the former name of the Central Student Government) president, and University alum Lisa Jackson, then a doctoral student of psy- chology, some students expected similar representation this time around. Business senior Michael Proppe, Central Student Gov- ernment president, just advocat- ed for student representation on the committee before the deci- sion was made not to include it. Since then, Proppe said he has worked with White, Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones and E. Royster Harper, vice presi- dent of student affairs, to ensure that students will contribute to the process. In an e-mail interview, Proppe wrote that a lot of Central Student Government members plan to attend the public forum on Sept. 26. The group will encourage other student organization lead- ers to attend and participate in the discussion as well. While Proppe could only spec- ulate as to why there's no student ACA From Page 1A premiums - the amount a per- son is charged with up-front for coverage. While some plans are allowed to charge younger people less, the lower cost still overvalues the real cost of cov- erage for the younger - and generally healthier - popula- tion. "You're essentially going to be paying a premium that's sub- sidizing the 63-year-olds on the plan," Hirth said. In contrast, the student plan groups its members into an independent risk pool, mean- ing student premiums only need to support other students, not elderly populations. However, students can only maintain insurance through the University while enrolled, meaning many must obtain their own insurance upon graduation. The exchanges will likely be a main resource for students to maintain health insurance coverage if they do not already have coverage through their family. "At that point I think it is useful for people to know about their exchanges and the types of plans that are available," Hirth said. "Because once they leave the student plan, that's probably where they're going to go." The new law eliminates the annual coverage cap previously seen in many insurance plans. In the past, very few students have exceeded the $1 million cap pro- vided under the University plan. Other universities with lower caps - some between $100,000 and $200,000 - will be more affected by this change, Hirth said. Individuals who fail to obtain health insurance after Jan. 1 will face new penalties. For 2014, the penalty is set at the greater of $95 per adult or 1 percent of taxable income, according to the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services. However, representation on the committee, he wrote that he believes there may have been concerns that stu- dents would breach confidential- ity by publicizing the identity of a presidential candidate. "I believe the regents are mak- ing a mistake," Proppe wrote. "So we the students are going to have to take it upon ourselves to make sure the regents have significant input from students. It will lead to a more rewardingsearch." Proppe wrote that he hopes the next president will continue to show an interest in student life and focus on lowering tuition costs for students. Regent White will speak to CSG's University Council Mon- day to give a more detailed expla- nation as to why students will not hold concrete positions on the committee as well as pos- sible solutions to increase student input. The 16-person search com- mittee is made up of the eight regents and eight faculty mem- bers, including Professors Alec Gallimore, Timothy Johnson, Tiya Miles, Rebecca Scott and David Ginsburg; Jeffrey MacK- ie-Mason, dean of the School of Information; and Associate Prof. Lynn Perry Wooten. While some meetings will be directed at specific groups - such as faculty, staff and specific cam- pus communities - all meetings will be open to the public: -Sept. 17, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Michigan Rooms C-D, Univer- sity Center, UM-Flint campus, primarily for UM-Flint campus community. -Sept. 17, 6:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m.: Auditorium, Biomedical Sci- ence Research Building, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, primarily for Ann Arbor faculty and staff, including Health System faculty. -Sept. 26, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.: 100 Hutchins Hall, Law School, pri- marily for Ann Arbor faculty and staff. -Sept.26,6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Auditorium 3 (1200), Modern Languages Building, primarily for Ann Arbor students. -Sept. 27, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.: BorgWarner Auditorium, UM- Dearborn campus, primarily for UM-Dearborn campus commu- nity. -Sept. 27,5:30 p.m . to 6:30 p.m.: Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business, primarily for Ann Arbor community and public. the penalty grows to $325 or 2 percent of income in 2015 and $695 or 2.5 percent of income in 2016. Laurie Burchett, the Univer- sity's student insurance man- ager, said the new law is still unclear - especially regarding the exchanges - to many health- care providers and individuals around the nation. "There are a lot of unknowns, and you can't really go (to the exchange) right now to take a look at what is available," Bur- chett said. According to Burchett, stu- dents on the University's domes- tic health insurance plan will be covered nationwide, while those on a parent's plan may only be covered for emergency medical needs while away from their area of residence. For students with limited local coverage, University Health Ser- vices offers many medical ser- vices to students, such as clinic visits, most laboratory tests and nutrition counseling, the cost of which is covered by the student health service fee and is included in tuition. Asked about changes in healthcare coverage on cam- pus, many students declined to comment, citing little or no knowledge of the changes. LSA freshman Brady Reeves said health care is not an issue that he has ever heard about on campus, and that few stu- dents concern themselves with intricacies of the new laws. "I feel it's not really that talk- ed about," Reeves said. "I don't really worry about it because I know my parents have good health insurance." Receiving coverage through his parents, LSA sophomore Francis Buggia said he does not expect his health care to change in the coming months. "There's probably good infor- mation out there," Buggia said. "But there's a lot of hearsay too - alot of uninformed people tell- ing other people what isn't nec- essarily true." EVENTS From Page 1A Jones added that when the University was first consider- ing whether to have night games at all, the longer time available in the day for students to drink was a prime consideration. A 2008 report from the University of Colorado, Denver stated that incidents of disorderly conduct, assaults and vandalism increase on college game days at Divi- sion I schools, and Jones said that, nationally, incidence rates increase with later start times. However, in the 2011 Notre Dame-Michigan game, the inci- dent rate was on par with an aver- age game that started at noon. Events kicked off on Friday night with the "Maize Out. Lights On." pep rally in the Diag. Thou- sands of students attended the event over the course of the eve- ning to hear performances from campus groups and more than a few pep talks. Guests included University President Mary Sue Coleman, Football head coach Brady Hoke, Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard and even "Glee" star Darren Criss, a Michigan alum. "There is no place in the world like the University of Michigan - anywhere," Criss said to roaring applause. On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 of the most dedicated Wolverines rose before the sun to cheer for their team at ESPN's College GameDay. This is the second time in three years that ESPN broadcast- ed its College GameDay program from Ann Arbor, and the 23rd time Michigan has been featured overall. The show included appear- ances from the University's cheerleading and dance teams, as well as sporadic performances of "The Victors" from the Michigan Marching Band. Signs reading "Rudy was off- sides" and "My girlfriend is real" - in reference to former Notre Dame player Manti Te'o's infa- mous fake-girlfriend debacle - were prominently displayed throughout the event. A seem- ingly lost Ohio State fan, decked out in scarlet and gray, was booed continuously throughout the morning. Sean Hanrahan, senior vice president of marketing solutions for ESPN, said though College GameDay offers a different expe- rience at each campus, the Uni- versity offers a great location to host the show. "For excitement and pag- eantry and good television, this seems like a really good loca- tion," Hanrahan said. University students began lin- ing up for front-row seats to the show at about 9 p.m. Friday. By 7 a.m., the broadcasting area set-up by ESPN was full, well before the 9 a.m. live filmingofthe show. Engineering junior Corey Greenawalt, who began camp- ing out on the lawn at 10 p.m. Friday with three of his friends, was one of the first students in line. He said he was most excit- ed to see Howard and co-host Lee Corso. "It was a lot of fun camping out and getting pumped up ... we all couldn't wait," Greenwalt said. Although the vast majority of attendees to all of the weekend's events were clad in maize and blue, a few Fighting Irish turned out to support Notre Dame. "I love this game, it's my favor- ite game of the year," said Notre Dame senior Anna VanEgmond. "I'm sad they're taking it off the schedule." This year, University Police made 11 arrests for various vio- lations, 10 citations for alcohol in the stadium and 50 ejections from Michigan Stadium before, during and after the game. Emer- gency medical personnel treated 133 people, with 21 taken to the University Hospital for further care. A record 115,109 people attended the game. While 8,000 students attended the Central Student Government tailgate two years ago, verified from M-Card swipes upon entry, CSG President Michael Proppe estimated that only 1,500 stu- dents attended this year's event. He ascribed the low attendance to inclement weather during parts of the afternoon and the new general-admission policy. "With General Admission seating, many students would prefer to hold their spot in line, where there was also free pizza and a DJ, rather than hang out at a tailgate on Elbel," Proppe wrote in an e-mail interview. Though she thought the CSG tailgate was well-planned - complete with a mechanical bull and free food - LSA sophomore Rachael Lacey said the low turn- out surprised her: Elbel Field had more family tailgaters than students when she was there, she said. LIGHTS From Page 1A game in three years - people seemed to know what they were doing. Yes, there were people passed out before lunchtime and some people in the Big House who were struggling to handle their liquor, but for the most part, the vibe was different than it was two years ago. It wasn't the first time in 131 years that Michigan played a home game at night, but it could very well be the last one in the foreseeable future, and every- one knew that. There are times in the Big House when all the bells and whistles feel forced and out of place. Saturday was not one of those times. Just like the Athletic Depart- ment wanted, the student section was full, and it was full early. It was packed and roped off, to the point where students complained about not having enough room, but that was forgotten by kickoff. There was a flyover before the game, which was similar to a fly- over in the same way that a Honda Civic is similar to a Lamborghini. At halftime, Beyoncd apologized for not being able to make it - Queen Bey apologized for not being in the Big House - before finishingher video message with a "Go Blue." Then, complete with a lights show, the Michigan March- ing Band proceeded to perform a few of Beyonce's hits with the lights off. Not exactly atraditional show, but one that matched the situation note for note. Plain and simple, it was just cool. Saturday would have been spe- cial even if the game was awful, which of course it wasn't, because there's no situation in which Notre Dame and Michigan could play a boring game. Before Sat- urday, the past five games were decided by a touchdown or less, and three were determined in the final 30 seconds. Notre Dame got into the game with a touchdown that came off a deflection into the back of the end zone. Michigan ended the game with an interception that deflected off a defender's foot. In between, fifth-year senior wide receiver Jeremy Gallon and red- shirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner touched greatness, if only for one game. Wearing Legacy jerseys - Gardner wearing Tom Harmon's No. 98 and Gallon wearing Des- mond Howard's No. 21 - theetwo combined for almost 200 yards and three touchdowns. Harmon's son, Mark, was in attendance for the pregame ceremony. Howard was in attendance. Past and pres- ent, under the lights, one more time. This week or next, maybe even today, there will be a debilitating realization that the Wolverines are replacing the Fighting Irish on their schedule with UNLV and that there won't be an Under the Lights III for a long, longtime. In 2015, we get UNLV, along with BYU and Oregon State, all of them during the day, and none of them with any sort of historic sig- nificance. Michigan hasn't played BYU or Oregon State since the 1980s and has never played UNLV. Maybe the Wolverineswill play another night game in the future, and maybe they will convince Beyonce to show up in real life instead of just on the video board. It could be as amazing as Saturday was, who knows, butI doubt it. Before the game, the video boards showed highlights of for- mer greats, people like Harmon and Howard. Future generations will see Gallon's performance playing on those screens, but there will be no highlights of Ore- gon State or BYU. You can blame whoever you want for that, but the bottom line is that it's truly a shame we won't get an Under the Lights IIL On ESPN's Football GameDay on Saturday morning, analyst Lee Corso showed a clip of Michigan coach Brady Hoke saying over the summer that Notre Dame "chick- ened out" of the rivalry game before donning a green hat and producing four live chickens. It wasn't win one for the Gipper - it was win one for the chicken. "I don't think we took it per- sonally," Hoke said after the game. "We were playing Notre Dame. I'm going back to the Michigan teams I coached on as an assis- tant. There are just certain games you get very excited about, those rivalry games. I don't think there was any kind of anger ... we just wanted to win." That mattered on Saturday. All those people, 115,109 of them, knew it was the last time they would see things like Gardner to Gallon dominating one the best rivalries in college football, the shadows of Harmon, Howard and rivalries of old somewhere off in the distance. - Cook can be reached at evcook@ umich.edu and on Twitter @everettcook. RENOVATIONS From Page 1A cifically, the $110 million grad- uate dorm set to open in 2015 thanks to an historic donation by Charles Munger. The lack of upperclassmen - juniors occupied just 8 per- cent of dorm rooms in 2012 - does not, however, indi- cate a lack of graduate stu- dents interested in dorm life. In 2005, the last year before housing renovations eliminat- ed scores of University beds, 12 percent of housing resi- dents were graduates. Logan attributes these ratios to undergraduates' desire to live off-campus after their expe- rience in University dorms. Graduate students, on the other hand, are still adjusting to a new city and classmates. "Graduate students are open to campus housing that provides an affordable location and social connection with other grads," Logan said. Two of the five Northwood communities on North Campus are exclusively graduate dorms. Northwood IV and V offer one- to three-bedroom homes and on-site child care for gradu- ate students with families. The only existing graduate hous- ing option on Central Campus, however, is the newly renovated Lawyers Club, which accommo- dates about 260 law students. Diane Nafranowicz, director of the Lawyers Club, said more than half of the incoming class opts to live in one of the single rooms. New law students typically spend their summer prior to enrollment conducting research or studying abroad, making a housing search difficult, Naf- ranowicz said. Law students are also rela- tively new to the University. Not unlike undergraduate freshmen, first-year graduate students lack the social con- nections to find group homes and apartments, and they're not familiar with Ann Arbor's housing stock. "A grad student who comes for the first time has many shared experiences with any student who comes for the first time," Nafranowicz said. After living at the Lawyers Club for their first year, she said most law students move off- campus for their second and third years. Since 2005, however, gradu- ate students have lost some of their on-campus housing options to undergraduates, as facilities such as Couzens, Alice Lloyd, East Quad and, most recently, South Quad Res- idence Halls undergo renova- tions. The renovations delegated three out of the five Northwood communities, spaces tradition- ally for graduates, as under- graduate housing. Northwood III is reserved exclusively for freshmen. In fact, graduate participa- tion in housing dipped from 12 percent in 2005 to 9 percent last year, when East Quad and the Lawyers Club were closed for remodeling. Presently, Logan said, there's a shortage of housing for graduate stu- dents. Renovations have also slight- ed older undergraduates. Tra- ditionally, those who have lived in housing the longest, like Holland, had priority choice in housing. This advantage is now given to students who have lived in housing the shortest time, such as returning sophomores. As usual, freshmen are guar- anteed housing but cannot pick their dorm. Renovations have left junior and senior participation in housing largely unaffected. For example, the percentage of upperclassmen in housing is identical for 2005, the year before renovations began, and 2012, the most recent year with data during renovations. In the years between, numbers were largely similar. Residence hall closings proved led to higher participa- tion for sophomores: In 2005, when older students had more freedom in choosing their hous- ing, 24 percent of the housing community was made up of sec- ond-year undergraduates. It was 27 percent last year. Upperclassmen participa- tion in housing is low com- pared to other institutions. Ninety-seven percent of Har- vard University students live on campus for all four years. Harvard students typically remain in one house - dorms that house between 350 and 450 students - after freshmen year. Each house bears unique traditions; one storms campus once per year led by someone in a penguin suit. Closer to home, slightly fewer upperclassmen at Michi- gan State University return to housing than at Michigan. MSU communications manager Kat Cooper said about 43 percent of the housing population was made of sophomores through seniors compared to 49 percent of Michigan's housing popula- tion. Cooper said MSU encour- ages students to return, but recognizes East Lansing's capa- bility to house its upperclass- men. East Lansing bears similar- ity to Ann Arbor, which has enough housing for the 18,000 undergraduates who live off- campus. Logan, the Univer- sity Housing spokesperson, explained that other campus communities often lack afford- able and convenient off-campus housing. Additionally, students at cer- tain colleges are required to live on-campus for their first year, and sometimes their sec- ond. MSU requires students to live in residence halls fresh- man year, as does Harvard. The University does not have such a requirement. Students may also live in University housing all four years simply by cus- tom. Logan noted that students typically venture off-campus as upperclassmen. Logan said the University supports those upperclassmen who choose stay on campus while prioritizing freshmen, who generally require the most support. "The incoming freshman needs the residential support more than any other student in order to acclimate to univer- sity life," Logan said. "Lifelong friendships are created in that first freshmen experience on campus." Logan said housing is excited to offer that community support for graduates in the soon-to- come residence hall, similar to one Munger financed at Stan- ford University. Graduates will live in suites of up to seven other students from various disci- plines, providing collaborative living and the single rooms that graduates seek. And such community exists for upperclassmen like Hol- land, who keeps his door open and chats up his East Quad hall- mates. Along with the dining halls and proximity to classes, Holland enjoys the halls' quan- tity of people and his informal mentoring role as an older stu- dent. "It's less of what can the dorms do for me, but more about how can I reach out to people," Holland said in his hall's lounge, where Beyonce was blasting from a nearby room. "How can I meet them, befriend them, impact someone's life simply by knowing the ropes, knowing what people go through?"