2A - Monday, February 3, 2014 r FLK( T Dylan performs amid convtroversy Forty years ago this week (February3, 1974) Bob Dylan performed in Crisler Arena two days after an investigation by The Michigan Daily revealed an Ann Arbor scalping ring was connected to the concert. Dylan's tour promoter made a public appeal at the event for fans to help break up the scalping ring. He announced that he would be conducting an investigation of the scalping accusations. The Daily had previously reported that in a survey of ticket holders in Crisler Arena Section B, not one person had reported buying the tickets through legiti- mate means. CRIME NOTES All shook up DE WHERE: East Ann Arbor m Medical Center WHEN: Thursday at WH around 12:10 p.m. Me WHAT: Two individuals WH were involved in argument aro: that escaleted to one person WH shaking the other, Univer- pho sity Police reported. The roo two were seperated without Jan further incident. Uni Pole, meet M mirror m WHERE: Lot SC-10 WH WHEN: Thursday around WH 5:20 p.m. aror WHAT: A University vehi- WH cle accidentally hita pole seve in a parking lot, University men police reported. The vehi- repc cle's side mirror suffered den several scrapes as a result of rehc the incident. repo Twenty-five years ago this week (February 7,1989) Philosophy Prof. Peter Railton proposed that LSA graduation requirements should include a class on race, ethnicity and rac- ism at a monthly LSA faculty meeting. The class, tentatively called University Course 299, would go into effect for all under- graduates entering the University after the fall of 1990. The course was created by a drafting committee of 20 fac- ulty members from various disci- plines. The meeting also created an oversight committee for the course, with membership includ- ing seven faculty members and two students. Ten years ago this week (February 3, 2004) The newly formed student coalition Our Voices Count had their first meeting in response to changes in University sexual assault prevention services. Those changes included mov- ing the Sexual Assault Preven- tion and Awareness Center's two designated counselors to full time roles at Counseling and Psychological services and transferring the center's crisis line to SAFE House, a county provider for sexual assault ser- vices.M - SHOHAM GEVA Folk-pop songwriter Ingrid Michaelson performs at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival at Hill Auditorium Saturday. 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Sbcrtio us be,,prJaid. Th e cignDiy s, mmro f The Asocia.ted ress adrTe o ciate o llekgiate ress CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES on't stop the usic IERE: East Ann Arbor dical Center HEN: Thursday at und 9:50 a.m. FAT: A pair of head- nes were taken from a rm sometime between . 29th and Jan. 30th, versity Police reported. ore pipes, ore problems [ERE: Northwood 1 [EN: Thursday at und 7:15 p.m. FAT: A burst pipe caused ere flooding in the apart- nt, University police sorted. Apartment resi- ts will be temporarily oused elsewhere while airs occur. Campaign finance lecture WHAT: Yale Prof. Heather Gerken will dicsuss the Citi- zens United Supreme Court ruling. WHO: Ford School of Public Policy WHEN: Today from 4:30- 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall Religion and law symposium WHAT: The interactions between religious values and the secular court sys- tem, especially as it pertains to shifting ideas of gender and sexuality, will be dis- cused. WHO: Institute for Resarch on Women and Gender WHEN: Today from 9:00 a.m to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Assembly Hall, Rackham Graduate School Dance festival A sudden volcanic erup- showing tion on Saturday in Indo- nesia has caused the WHAT: The 42nd Dance on death of at least 15 people, Camera Festival, the oldest the New York Times report- dance film festival in the ed. Over 30,000 people have world, will be screened live been evacuated from the area from New York. since the start of volcanic WHO: School of Music, asiieythertnov me Theater, and Dance actovity there n November. WHEN: Today at 6 p.m. WHERE: Helmut Stern The Michigan men's Auditorium, Musuem of Art basketball team suffered its first loss of Big Ten play at Indiana on CLARIFICATION: Sunday, 63-52, moving into a Athletic Department spokes- tie with Michigan State for man DaveAblauf clarified his comments in a Jan. 31 first place in the conference. article "Gibbonsfax sent >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY Dec.19 camefrom 'U'foot- ball," saying he could not confirm a Dec.19 meeting Philip Seymour Hoff- between Gibbons andAth- man, a famous actor letic Department officials. and 2005 Academ His clarification was sent y by e-mail on Jan. 31. Award winner, was found dead in his apartment Sun- 0 Please report any day morning, the Wall Street error in the Daily to Journal reported. The exact corrections@michi- cause of death has not yet gandaily.com. been determined. Presidential hopefuls begin campaigning in Afghanistan a a a m p n - - ----A .1- - rnn --11- As NAiT forces rigging marred the 2009 polls. venues. The eventual winner will face The specter of violence hangs withdraw, elections the tough task of continuing to over the election season, with fight the bloody Taliban insur- the Talibanvowingtodisruptthe will test Afghan gency, overseeing the end of the polls and two political workers inmternationalcoalition's combat killed in western Afghanistan on political stability mission and possibly deciding if the eve of the campaign launch. any residual foreign forces will The government provides each remain next year. candidate three armored vehi- KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Karzai - who has more or less cles and three pickup trucks, Campaigning officially opened led Afghanistan in the 12 years plus 35 armed policemen as pro- Sunday in Afghanistan's presi- after the intervention to oust tection. dential election, with 11 candi- the Taliban's extremist Islamic There is no clear front-runner, dates vying to succeed President regime for sheltering al-Qaida's though opposition leader Abdul- Hamid Karzai in polls seen as a leadership after the Sept. 11 ter- lah arguably has an early advan- crucial test of whether the coun- rorist attacks on the U.S. - is tage in name recognition and try can ensure a stable political constitutionally barred from campaign experience, having transition. running for a third term. gained 31 percent of the vote as The April 5 presidential vote On a cold and rainy Sunday runner-up to Karzai in the 2009 will be held in a climate of uncer- morning in Kabul, campaign elections. He is popular among tainty as NATO combat forces workers hastened to hang post- Afghanistan's Tajik ethnic ready their withdrawal at the ers on lampposts and plaster minority, but it is unclear if he end of 2014. If successful, the their candidates' faces on bill- can attract votes of enough Pash- election will usher in the first boards. Several political heavy- tuns, the largest ethnic group, to handover from one elected presi- weights including opposition win office. dent to another in Afghan his- leader Abdullah Abdullah and Abdullah voiced support tory. former finance minister Ashraf Sunday for Afghanistan enter- Security is a major concern Ghani held rallies in local wed- ing into a security agreement in the election, as is potential ding halls, while security forces with the U.S. that would allow fraud after allegations of vote- with machine guns guarded the a few thousand foreign forces to remain to train and equip Afghanistan's army and police, HUESUsaying the country still needs outside support. "God willing, with the sign- ing of this agreement, today or tomorrow, the concerns of our people would be over," Abdullah 3 8 told supporters. Karzai has refused to sign the agreement, and none of the other 8 3 7 candidates has addressed the issue. 41 1The lineup of other candidates illustrates that patronage and alliances among the elite still 8 1 2 form the bedrock of Afghani- stan's politics, where tribal elders and warlords can marshal , 5 votes. The contenders include Ghani, a Pashtun former finance minis- ter who oversaw the transition of security from foreign forces 6 2 to the Afghan army and police, and who ran and lost in the 2009 elections. He promised that if 2 3 7 elected, he would strengthen sta- bility across the country, where 5 1 8 6 insurgent attacks and bombings are a daily reality. "This campaign is for the people, and starting from here, I believe that there will not be any fraud this time," Ghani said. Punxsutawney Phil is held by Ron Ploucha after emerging from his burrow Sunday on Gobblers Knob in Punosatawney, Pa., to see his shadow and forecast six more weeks of winter weather. Pennsylvania groundhog foresees etne inter Thousands watch as groundhog gives gloomy 2014 prediction PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) - Emerging from his lair on Super Bowl Sunday, groundhog Punxsutawney Phil couldn't predict the winner of the big game but his handlers said he was sure of his weather forecast: There will be six more weeks of winter. Pennsylvania's famed groundhog was roused from slumber at 7:28 a.m. Sunday and, according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, directed handler Bill Deeley to a scroll that contained the prediction - along with a Super Bowl reference. As usual, thousands of fans turned out on Groundhog Day to see the furry rodent, the most famous of a small group of groundhogs said to forecast the weather. Legend has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last another month-and-a-half. If he doesn't see it, spring will come early. In reality, Phil's prediction is decided ahead of time by a group called the Inner Circle, whose members don top hats and tuxedos for the annual ceremony on Gobbler's Knob, the tiny hill in the town for which he's named about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The prediction fell on Super Bowl Sunday for the first time. The closest the game previously came to coinciding with Groundhog Day was in 2009, when the just-down-the-road Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 the night before Phil's forecast. Thisyear's NFL championship pitting the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., will be the Super Bowl's 48th installment, while Phil has been predicting the weather since 1886. In a nod to the game, Phil's forecast came in the form of a Super Bowl-themed poem: "A Super Bowl winner I will not predict, / But my weather forecast, you cannot contradict, / That's not a football lying beside me / It's my shadow you see / So, six more weeks of winter it shall be!" This year's Groundhog Day celebration marks a winter that has brought extreme cold to vast stretches of the country, including areas of the South wholly unaccustomed to severe winter weather. A snow and ice storm paralyzed Atlanta and other Southern cities last week. Phil has now seen his shadow 101 times while failing to see it 17 times, according to the Inner Circle. There are no records for the remaining years. The National Climatic Data Center has put Phil's forecasts to the test and found them sorely lacking, declaringthe groundhog has "no predictive skill." "It really isn't a 'bright' idea to take a measure such as a groundhog's shadow and use it as a predictive meteorological tool for the entire United States," the data center says on its website, helpfully if somewhat obviously. Other prognosticating groundhogs include Staten Island Chuck in New York and General Beauregard Lee in Atlanta.