2 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom ('the fidcipan Oail 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN KIRBYVOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com UPPER LEFT Michigan State fans cheer during Michigan's 80 to 75 win over the Spar- tans at the Breslin Center Saturday (Paul Sherman/ Daily) BOTTOM LEFT Master Wasentha Young leads a tai-chi workshop at the 2014 Asian American Health Fair Saturday. (Lily Angell/Daily) RIGHT Daily reporters and photographers looked in on sustainable cooking at cooperatives. To the right is a retrigerator at the Lester Cooperative. 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WHERE: Helen Newberry Residence Hall WHEN: Wednesday at about 11 p.m. WHAT: A student over- heated food ina microwave, causing the room's fire alarm to sound, University Police reported. tme 3 tn annua Ann Aroor Folk Festival. The night's lineup is headlined by Iron and Wine, Neko Case and Justin Townes Earle. Tick- ets start at $35. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Today at 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium Antifreeze spill Cold pipe probz ,e Students WHERE: Mott Children's Hospital WHERE: East Quad Resi- photos of India dseer dbss r lntr dat ll Andalusian guitar WHAT: Matthew Ardiz- zone will perform Andalu- sian compositions related to the legacy of Islamic pres- ence in Spain. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at8 p.m. WHERE: Museum of Art CORRECTIONS A pre"ious version ofche JTan. 29 article "SAPAC pilots chatfeature to offer resources" mis- spelled a company named Olark as Alark. The com- pany is an Ann Arbor based organization. " Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. A petition on the White House's website aiming to deport pop star Jus- tin Bieber has garnered over 100,000 signatories., according to Yahoo News. Its supporters hope to seperate Bieber from the U.S. after his various scan- dals over the pastyear. Despite being deter- mined responsible of an alleged sexual assault by the Office of Insti- tutional Equity, the Universi- ty allowed Brendan Gibbons to play in a football game. a> FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4 The New York State Department of Envi- ronmental Conserva- tion has dubbed mute swans a "prohibited invasive spe- cies," The New York Times reported. The geese appar- ently harm native ducks and people. 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WHO: Matthaei Botanical Garens & Nichols Arbore- tum WHEN: Today 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Matthaei Botani- cal Gardens MORE ONLINE LoveCrimeNotes? Get more online at michigandaily.com/blogs/The Wire . .,. CSG faces budget decrease for student organizations Polish Studies program recognized after 40 years Lower enrollment means less funding for SOFC and others By GIACOMO BOLOGNA Daily StaffReporter A drop in enrollment and a stagnant student fee has ham- strung Central Student Govern- ment's funding, which will likely award $36,000 less to student groups this semester than it did last semester. Business senior Eric Kibler, CSG's treasurer, said $120,000 of CSG's preliminary budget has been set aside for the Student Organization Funding Commis- sion, compared to $156,000 last semester. The $120,000 is only 41 percent of CSG's $293,451 total budget for this semester, which is generated from a $7.19 per-semester fee from each student and any roll- over funds. In a viewpoint published by WHAT IS YORfavorite? ICE CREAM LANDLORD BREAKFAST VOTE TODAY! BEST OF ANN ARBOR 2014 The Michigan Daily in March, Business senior Mike Proppe, CSG president, and Public Policy senior Bobby Dishell, CSG's vice president promised at least half of CSG's budget would go to SOFC. Kibler said the 50 per- cent benchmark wasn't pos- sible because CSG lost roughly $30,000 in student fee revenue this semester. According to pre- liminary figures given to CSG, members said about 4,000 fewer students enrolled for class this semester than in the fall - pend- ing any increase or decrease fol- lowingthe add/drop deadline. Kibler said when the budget was drafted, funding SOFC was a priority, but CSG's compiled code has specific rules against cutting money from some areas of stu- dent government. "We couldn't really cut any- where else in the budget," Kibler said. Still, as the semester progress- es, unused money from some seg- ments of CSG could be moved to SOFC's budget. Some CSG leaders hope raise the $7.19 student fee for CSG - which hasn't been raised since 2005 - to alleviate budgetary shortfalls. Even in the winter 2013 semes- ter, when SOFC had $185,000 to award, student organizations requested more than $700,000, Kibler said. While Kibler said not all requests of SOFC are necessary, he and Proppe have discussed raising the fee with administra- tors. "I would like to see CSG have a higher income," Kibler said. "Personally, I would like to dou- ble the fee." Raising the student fee has been an annual discussion among student government lead- ers. Business junior Skylar Pur- sell, the current SOFC chair, said in an e-mail interview even if the revenue were increased, it's not clear that SOFC would get sub- stantially more funds. After long being considered a fund, program now officially established By CARLY FROMM Daily StaffReporter It's about time. Forty years after its incep- tion, the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies received Uni- versity recognition earlier this month. Though the program has funded fellowships, guest lec- tures, summer grants and courses pertaining to Polish studies for years, it was previ- ously considered a fund rather than an official University pro- gram. Marysia Ostafin, executive director of the program, said formal recognition serves as a testament to everything the program has accomplished over the past four decades. "Until this formal recogni- tion by the College of LSA, we were just an informal endow- ment that funded projects," Ostafin said. "It is a recogni- tion of the work that we've done over these years and also a recognition of our fundrais- ing. We've really established ourselves." The program, which receives a large portion of its funds from the Nicolaus Copernicus Endowment, "is now widely regarded as the premier Pol- ish Studies program in North America," according to a Uni- versity press release. "Everybody is delighted," Ostafin said. "We've achieved something new and great." She added that this recog- nition will also aid in the pro- gram's fundraising efforts. "I think it'll help us in fun- draising along the way, too, because people will recognize that this is a real, established and recognized program in Pol- ish studies," Ostafin said. Alena Aniskiewicz, a gradu- ate student in the Department of Slavic Languages & Litera- tures, said the program sets the University apart from its com- petitors. "Thanks to the Copernicus Endowment, Michigan is one of the best places anywhere to study Polish topics," Aniskie- wicz said. "Its formal recogni- tion as a program underscores both its value to the Univer- sity and a commitment to the continued promotion of Polish studies in Ann Arbor." The Copernicus Program has also been a draw for pro- spective students. Jodi Greig, a graduate stu- dent in the Department of Slav- ic Languages & Literatures, decided to come to the Univer- sity in large part due to the pro- gram's offerings. "One of the reasons I chose my Ph.D. program at Michi- gan is precisely the widespread support for Polish studies," Greig said. "The Endowment basically allowed me to com- plete research every summer for the first three years of grad- uate school. It would have been impossible to do summer Polish language courses and research without it." Additionally, with the Coper- nicus Endowment Fellowship, students have had the opportu- nity to study abroad. Paulina Duda, another gradu- ate student in the Department of Slavic Languages & Lit- eratures, said the Copernicus Endowment provided her with the opportunity to study in Ukraine. Duda left her home in Poland to study at the University. Dur- ing summer term, she said she had planned to work in a coffee shop before she discovered the abroad opportunity. "It's has been enriching the student life immeasurably with opportunities to travel to that part of the world, to study the language." MUCH FOLLOW SUCH TREND VERY TWITTER So UPDATES WOW MORNING READING TOTAL NEWSPAPER such hashtag @MICHIGAN- DAILY J