News 3 Meet the candidates for City Council Democratic Primary Opinion 4 Lipson, Kang for City Council Monday, August 1, 2005 Summer Weekly One-hundred-fou teen years (fedit'orialfreedom www.michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Vol CXV, No. 136 02005 The Michigan Daily COOLING OFFCoe a n mi ts interim provost for fal By Jeremy Davidson and Ruth Neuman Daily Staff Reporters Federal Reserve governor Z Edward Gramlich will act as 4 interim provost and execu- tive vice president of academic affairs for the next four months . afterUniversity Provost Paul Courant leaves on Aug. 31. '. President Mary Sue Coleman's appointment will take effect Sept. lif the Board of Regents accepts the nomination. Gramlich As interiinprovost and executive vice president for academic affairs, Grainlich will he responsible for the University's academic and budgetary affairs. Along with Coleman, he will set academic standards and goals for the University and allocate funds to ensure the University's academic health. Gramlich has served as a memher of the Federal Reserve Board since 1997. Gramlich also has nearly 30 years of experience with the University, arriving at the University in 1976 as a professor of economics and puh- lie policy. His administrative positions include serving as the first dean of the School of Puhlic Policy from 1995-97 and chair of the Economics Department in from 1983-86 and again in 1989-90. His experience with economics, hoth at the University and nationally, makes him a qualified candidate to over- see the University's hudget, Courant said. Courant said that Gramlich's experience in Washing- ton, D.C. makes him well versed for the position. Coleman echoed Courant's sentiments ahout Gram- lich's qualifications. "I am delighted that when Ned Gramlich returns to the University, it will he as interim provost," Cole- man said in a press release. "Ned will bring a wealth of academic leadership and public policy experience to the position, and I know that we will make progress in advancing the academic mission of the University under his guidance. I look for ward to working with him in the months ahead." In May, Gramlich announced his resignation from the Federal Reserve Board as one of its governors, to return to the University as the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Gramlich said he is delighted to he working with Cole- man, who he said he has heard good things about. He also said he hopes to maintain the funding that Courant and Coleman have set for the University. Gramlich has written various hooks and articles on macroeconomics, budget policy, social security, and the economics of professional sports. Gramlich said that Courant will meet with him throughout August and orient him with the provost position. Concertgoers walk through the downpour from a hose atop a Pontiac Fire Department fire truck at the Pontiac Silverdonie during The Vans Warped Tour on Sunday. Solar car team takes first in national race By Amber Colvin Daily Staff Reporter fuThe naionchamponshi ast edwnsy futh MaionchapSolar i Ca t Teamwnsy heating the University of Minnesota's team hy just twelve minutes. The tI-day race was kicked off in Austin, Texas and finished in Calgary, Canada., The 2,5011-mile North Atmerican Solar Chal- lenge - which is the longest solar car race its the world - was futll of ups and downs for Michi- gan's Team Momentum, including had weather, car problems, race penalties, and a neck-and- neck race against Minnesota. Engineering senior and team member Brent Schwartz, said that the team's reward was crossing the finish line. "Coming to the end there in Calgary.. just as the car crossed the line, we knew that we won," Schwartz .said. "Everyone was so thrilled. That was probably the biggest high- light of the race." Michael Brackney, a Business junior and project manager for Momentum, said the team lp had every intention of winning the national championship from the day it began to design the car two years ago. "It was a very good conclusion to two very tong years of work," Brackney said. "It was everything we had wanted." The night beftre Wednesday's victory, the team's lead was in jeopardy when it was given 40 penalty minutes for speeditng violations. An emergency 55-page appeal comprised of data, charts, graphs and maps from team members -was quickly written to dispute the penalties, which were subsequently retracted from 40 tminutes to four. "If those penalties would have stood we wtould have been half an hour behind Min- nesota. Instead we were 12 tminuttes ahead," Schwartz said. Schwartz added that he thought the race was one of the closest in solar car racing history. For Brackney, the most intenase moment in the race was the last day, with Mitnnesota's team close behind. "The University of Minnesota was literally only a few hundred feet behind us. Any little mistake that we would have made wousld have cost us the race, but luckily we ran pretty much flawlessly," Brackney said. Prep~aration for the race began two years ags when the team beganto t design the car for the first time. The students on the team worked from the design stage, through con- struction, until race day. "We started out from scratch," Brackney said. "Everything an auto matnufacturer would have to go through, we went through." Next on the agenda for Mometntum is the World Solar Challenge in Australia thais Septetmber. Schwartz, who designed the electric and Team Momentum memhers raise the first-place trophy toward the sun in Calgary, Aberta after winning the 2,500-mile North American Solar Challenge last Wednesday. The team made the trip in 53 hours, 59 minutes, 43 seconds and set a record by averaging a speed of 46.2 mph. power distribution systems in the car, said he it's a lot flatter," Schwartz said. "I expect us to had high expectations for Momentum at the do very well." world championship. In the past two years, Michigan has placed "It's going to be a very different race ... third at the world race behind two profes- there's no speed lituits, there's a lot mssre sun, sional teams.