2-The Michan Dil Summer Weeky -Wednesday, June 16, 1993
Solar car team to in
pursue nat'l itle I, r e
'U' fundraising plea
goes on the road
By PETER MATTHEWS solar-powered car, placed first in the
DAILYSTAFFREPORTER 1990 national competition. The team
This Sunday, a team of 21 Univer- went on totakelthird placein the World
sity students and their solar-powered Solar Challenge.
car, the Maize & Blue, will begin the The 650-pound Maize & Blue is a
seven-day trek of Sunrayce '93. more compact and aerodynamic ye-
Thirty-six teams are converging hicle, weighing 100 pounds less than
on Arlington, Texas, to compete in this its predecessor.
l,000-mile race that ends on June 26 in The 7,615 solar cells that coat the
Minneapolis, Minn. The winning team hull of the car produce wattage equiva-
will represent the United Slates in the lent to that of ahair dryer. The Maize &
1993 World Solar Challenge-al1,900 Blue is expected to average 45 mph. Its
mile race across Australia. top speed is 70 mph.
Sunrunner, the University's inst This week the team has been test
ook forrtuinith the Maize & Blue each day
1addition, they have spent evenings fine
Classifituning the vehicle.
Donations from several corporate
sponsors covered alarge portion of the
J~ la: '"X .. ostfor Maize & Blue's research and
develpmen. Itsmart. valuet i
$353,000
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DAILY STAFF REPORTER
Alums across the country may
soon feel the long arm of the Univer-
sity reaching for their wallets.
Campaign for Michigan, the fivc-
';a,$1 billion fund rasing effor
being underlaken by the University,
will lake anational turnuthis summer
in an effort to seeure contributions
from out-of-state grads.
The in-house campaign began in
1992 in response no dwindling slate
and federal allocations to the Uni-
yersity.
.Joe Robertson, chair for the cam-
paign, sad that the purpose ofltaking
the program on the road is to larget
potential donors who have not been
hack to Ann Arbor for quite some
time.
"We want to go to some of the
major cities like New York, Chi-
cago, Los Angeles and Detroit and
show them alittle of what's going on
at Michigan," Robertson said.
Robertson said the money being
generatedby the campaign is needed
to off set state and federal cuts and to
keep the reputation and quality of
programs high at the University.
"We can't keep making (the lost
money) up with 10-or 15-percent
jtuition increases," Robertson said.
The committee split the cam-
paign into two different focus areas,
one seeking $850 milion in pledges
and gifts and the other $150 million
in bequests.
Robertso said that to date the
campaign has realized 45 percent of
its pledges and gifts goal and 48
percent of its bequest goal total and
is currently ahead of the projeeted
sehedule.
The campaign hopes to meet its
$1 billion goal by July 1, 1997, the
campaign's official ending date.
Robertson noted that with state
budgets being slashed across the
country, self-reliant fund raising ef-
forts like Campaign for Michigan
could become the wave of the future
for some universities.
"Ahnost all publicly-funded uni-
versities are subjeetnto the same kind
ofproblems we are, and maybe more
intensely," Robertson said. "Cer-
tainly that's true in Califormia and
maybe Illinois."
Public universities will be fol-
lowing a precedent set by private
universities such as Dartmouth.
Ellie Smith, administrative as-
sistant for alumni affairs at
Dartmouth, said that that university
is currently engaged in a five-year,
$425 million fund raising effort of
its own.
"We have a campaign every 10
years or so to be able to create a
number of professorships," Smith
added.
Once the traveling version of
Campaign for Michigan rolls into
New York, the quest for funds should
get a little easier, thanks to Univer-
sity alum Mike Wallace.
Robertson said in addition to
contributing $750,000 of his own
money to the campaign, Wallace
also spends his time generating funds
for the University in the New York
area
"Mike's played a very strong
leadership role in the campaign,"
Robertson said. "I don't know how
you could put adollar value onthat."
Robertson said he hopes thatltak-
lag the campaign on the roadS will
inspire alums who have been outnof
touch with the University for awhile
to look back on their experience at
Michigan when they are askced to
contribute.
"After all, they are the biggest
beneficiaries of the people who gave
before," he said.
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