1 '3 , 2A - Wednesday, September 24, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com (rhic cian al 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN DOUGLAS SOLOMON Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4111 ext. 12 1 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 pjshahin~michigandaiy.com dongsoto@michigandaity.com F FARM FRESH-- MO' MONEY UCLA alumnus makes near-historic donation Los Angeles attorney Harry Sigman funds under- graduate Israeli studies The University of Califor- nia, Los Angeles will receive a $900,000 donation from Harry Sigman, an alum and Los Angeles attorney,foritsYounes and Soraya NazarianCenterforIsraelStudies, The Daily Bruin reported Friday. Sigman donated the money for undergraduate scholarships to study in Israel, a graduate fel- lowship as well as lecture series and panels on Israel that are open to students and the public all under his name. This donation was the sec- ond-largest the Nazarian Center has received. Duke University endow- ment sets new record At the end of the 2013 fis- cal year, Duke University's endowment totals reached $7 billion dollars, which set a new record for the university, The Chronicle reported Mon- day. The growth was a result of a 20.1 percent return from invest- ments and was a $1 billion dol- lar increase from the 2012 fiscal year. The previous endowment's peak was valued at $6.1 billion in 2008 before the economic downturn. Tom Zilke of Zilke Farms sells produce at the Law School's Fall Health and Wellness Fair at South Hall Tuesday. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Dinner and trivia night WHAT: Food and competition come together at Pizza House tonight at the Michigan Aviators' first social event of the year. WHO: Michigan Aviators WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Pizza House, 618 Church Street Foreign Service Improv comedy Thief lecture career event auditions WHAT: Investigative University of Maryland donors open new resource room Donors John and Stella Graves officially opened the John and Stella Graves Mak- erSpace resource room at the University of Maryland, The Diamondback reported Tues- day. This MakerSpace resource room allows students to sup- port and use new technologies, including 3-D printers, Google Glass and a vinyl cutter. Students, faculty and staff can use this room by making an online appointment. -JACK TURMAN T H REE T HINGS YOU SH OULD KNOW TODAY 1 TOn Tuesday, the CDC said that the West Afri- can Ebola outbreak could total 1.4 million cases by January if there is not prop- er intervention, ABC News reported. The outbreak start- ed six months and there have been 5, 357 reported cases. The number of this year's student season ticket holders have declined by 40 percent from last year. What does this mean for Big House culture and tradition? FOR MORE, SEE STATEMENT, PAGE 1B Cuddlr is a new app that allows people to cuddle with strangers, the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday. Cuddlr is similar to Tinder, except with the dating aspect involved. Cud- dlr includes photos, names and upvotes and downvotes. Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.corn Display Sales dailydisplay@gmail.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letterstothe Editor rothedaily@michigandaily.coa Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandailycom Finance finance@michigandaily.com WHAT: Students who want to work for the U.S. Department of State can hear from a diplomat in residence. 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S Life sentence for Chinese CLIM E scholar globally condemned S tI MMIT 2014 0 Professor is ethnic minority in increasingly intolerant China BEIJING (AP) - A life sen- tence given to a moderate Chinese scholar on Tuesday showsthe rul- ing Communist Party is cutting off dialogue on ethnic tensions and could backfire by radicalizing minorities, scholars and analysts said. A court found economics pro- fessor Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uighur Muslim, guilty of separat- ism and sentenced him to life in prison.It wasthe most severe pen- alty in a decade for illegal political speech in China and eclipsed the 11-year jail sentence given Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on subversion charges. "Ilham Tohti's situation gives scholars lik the issue gr safety and a scholar sentencing, ity because from autho: Ilham To ate voice w Uighurs an majority.I member an Minzu Un website Uig lighted issu group. The sent ment "is a sage, as th closed beca moted dia Uighurs an tuals," said analyst at t Hong Kong that they d with the Ui 50US :e me who ... work on China says it faces grave terror -eat concern about our threats, particularly in Xinjiang, academic freedom," the ancestral home of Uighurs. said after Tuesday's Riots in 2009 in the regional capi- requesting anonym- tal of Urumqi killed nearly 200 of fear of punishment people, according to the govern- rities. ment, and violence over the past thti is seen asa moder- year and a half has left more than ith ties to both ethnic 300 people dead, nearly half shot nd the Han Chinese by police in a strike-hard cam- A Communist Party paign by the government to fight d professor at Beijing's what it calls terrorist cells. iversity, he ran the Beijing has blamed the unrest ghur Online that high- on foreign-influenced terror- es affectingthe ethnic lots seeking a separate state. But many Muslim Uighurs bristle :ence of life imprison- under Beijing's heavy-handed very disturbing mes- restrictions on their religious life e door to dialogue is and resent the influx of the Han ause this scholar pro- majority into their homeland. ilogue between the For years, Ilham Tohti has d the Chinese intellec- been speaking openly about the Willy Lam, a political problems in his home region. "At the City University of present in Xinjiang, the exclu- . "Beijing's message is sion of and discrimination against o not look to dialogue Uighurs is quite systematic, with ghurs but suppression." the government leading the way," he said in an interview with Voice of America last year, following a deadly attack involving Uighurs in the heart of Beijing. Prosecutors said Ilham Tohti was the ringleader of "a criminal gang seeking to split the coun- try" and "caused severe harm to national security and social sta- bility." His lawyers said the schol- ar's remarks - on the Internet, in his classrooms or with foreign media - did not advocate separat- ism and instead sought to resolve the region's ethnic tensions. 4 James Leibold, a scholar of ethnic policies at La Trobe Uni- 8 versity of Melbourne, said Ilham Tohti "made a positive, moderate, 5 7 and courageous contribution to the ongoing discussion on China's ethnic policy" and his life sen- 3 tence is a "real tragedy." "The sentencing will clearly 9 have a chilling effect on other minority scholars, especially those within the Uighur and 2 4 Tibetan communities, whose voices and opinions are clearly crucial to fixingsome of the prob- lems with China's ethnic policies and creating an environment United States, other Western powers pledge to halt deforestation by 2030 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In the first international test for his climate-change strat- egy, President Barack Obama pressed world leaders Tuesday to follow the United States' lead on the issue, even as a United Nations summit revealed the many obstacles that still stand in the way of wider agreements to reduce heat-trapping pollution. "The United States has made ambitious investments in clean energy and ambitious reductions in our carbon emissions," Obama said. "Today I call on all coun- tries to join us, not next year or the year after that, but right now. Because no nation can meet this global threat alone." But none of the pledges made at Tuesday's one-day meeting was binding. The largest-ever gathering of world leaders to discuss climate was designed to lay the groundwork for a new global climate-change treaty. It also revealed the sharp differ- ences that divide countries on matters such as deforestation, carbon pollution and methane leaks from oil and gas produc- tion: - Brazil, home to the Ama- zon rainforest, said it would not sign a pledge to halt deforesta- tion by 2030. - The United States decid- ed not to join 73 countries in supporting a price on carbon, which Congress has indicated it would reject. - And minutes after Obama said "nobody gets a pass," Chi- nese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli insisted the world treat develop- ing nations, including China, dif- ferently than developed nations, allowing them to release more heat-trapping pollution. China, the No. - 1 carbon-polluting nation, signed on in support of pricing carbon and vowedto stop the rise of carbon-dioxide emis- sions as soon as possible. "Today we must set the world on a new course," said United Nations Secretary-Gen- eral Ban Ki-Moon, who added that pricingcarbon was critical. "Climate change is the defining issue of our age. It is defining our present. Our response will define our future." In some ways, the sum- mit, which was part of the annual U.N. General Assembly, answered that call. The European Union said its member nations next month were set to approve a plan that would cut greenhouse gases back to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The EU also called for using renewable energy for 27 percent of the bloc's power needs and increas- ing energy efficiency by 30 per- cent. The United States will not release its new emissions tar- gets until early next year. "There were not that many surprises," said Connie Hede- gaard, the top climate official for the European Commission, referringto Obama's speech. Hedegaard said the first-ever limits on carbon from power plants, proposed by Obama back in June, were "a good signal to send, but after today we will still have to wait until first quarter of 2015 to see how ambitious the United States will be." By 2020, China will reduce its emissions per gross domes- tic product by 45 percent from 2005 levels, Zhang said. But because economic growth in China has more than tripled since 2005, that means Chinese carbon pollution can continue to soar. Still, outside environ- mentalists hailed the country's promises because they went beyond any of China's previous statements. I ICHARDDoEW/AP United States President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit, at United Nations headquarters Tuesday. Obama urges world to follow U.S. lead on climate strategy