Sports 10 Opinion 4 Softball wins Big Ten championship Archdiocese of Detroit abandons city's students Ihe - oiuredji &r IftJs One-hundred-furteen years of edin7Fors reedom Monday, May 9, 2005 Summer Weekly I ''I I'll ''I 1,, 11 - - -- --- - 16 , 11 11 i 1 11 1 1 ''1 1 1 1 1 1 I'll 1 11 www.michigandaily.com Ann Arbor Michigan Vol. CXV No. 125 ©25 Thehi nDail Remembering a Michigan man Former athlete, recruited so any talented black ath- coach and athletic letes from paces in the Caribbean, director died May 3 such as Jamaica and Trinidad, that Michigan hadthe most black athletes By Jeremy Davidson enrolled during his tenure. t Managing News Editor Soon after arriving at a track meet z t t . z As the fans at Michigan Stadium scream "Hail to the Victors" this fall, there will be one irrep.laceable voice absent from the crowd. When Don 1 01 a Canham passed away on May 3, he left a legacy that will forever define Michigan athletics as some of the best in the country. "We have lost a giant at Michigan and we will miss him. Mr. Canham was a remarkable man and his legacy will endure," football coach Lloyd Carr said. Canham started his ca reer in 1938, when he enrolled as a student- 4! athlete at the University. Competing in the high jump with the track and field team eventually led him to an NCAA championship in 1940. After graduating from the University, Can- ham went on to become head track coach in 1948. Over the next 20 years he recruit- ed athletes from around the world to play for Michigan, including coun- tries in the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. FILE PHOTO Tom Goss, a former University Canham overlooks Michigan Stadium as the crowd pours In for a football game on Saturday, Oct. 3, 1987. athletic director, said that Canham at Georgia in 1951, Canham headed back to Michigan with his team, after discovering that black athletes and white athletes couldn't eat together. "I don't care what it was. I don't care how unpopular it was. You could count on Don doing the right thing," Goss said. Canham's integrated team broke American and world indoor records in the track distance medley relay. After 20 years as headtrackcoach, and nearly three decades of involve- ment with Michigan sports, Can- ham was appointed athletic director, where he championed publicity for college athletics and hired Bo Schembechler, who has won more games than any Michigan football coach in the program's history. "I worked for him for 21 years without a contract!" Schembechler said. "That's how much faith I had him in. I coached Michigan without ever a thought I'd get fired because he stood behind me. I was hired at Michigan by him and him alone. I had a lot of faith in him and he had a See CANHAM, Page 3 Economist Sachs says "clinical ecOnOmicS" catn enl world poverty if rich nations are committed to provide aid By Julia F. Heming Daily Staff Reporter Renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs out- lined his goal to help the one billion people living in "extreme poverty" in the next 20 years while speaking at the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills last Thursday. Sachs spoke about his first-hand encounters with poverty and presented a plan that he urged the world to participate in. Sachs has gained recognition as director of the United Nations Millennium Project, a program designed to cut poverty in half by 2015. His bestselling book "The End of Poverty" was recently released and contains his systematic method for the termination of world suffering. Sachs called his approach "clinical eco- nomics," where countries afflicted by extreme poverty are assessed individually and donor countries treat them by giving increased amounts of aid. takes on world poverty "Clinical economics means assigning the to poor weather conditions. logic of modern science-based medicine to "As every day passes, 20,000 people die the methodology of modern and 'should-be- of extreme poverty on our planet. They're science-based' development," Sachs said. dying of malaria, an entirely treatable dis- Providing greater aid for growing food, ease. They're dying of AIDS, a disease both fighting disease and creating an infrastructure preventable and, though not curable, wholly to allow countries to become part of the world treatable. They're dying of tuberculosis, economy would help many of the world's poor (also) wholly treatable," Sachs said. escape from poverty, Sachs said. He also spoke against the current relief In 2000, donor countries agreed to donate efforts of the United States, saying that 0.7 percent of their gross national income to while the annual budget for the military is accomplish the goals of the U.N. Millen- $500 billion, the budget for aid in Africa is nium Project - a promise that Sachs said only $2 billion. Sachs said politicians blame has not been backed with action. poverty on corrupt governments and do not "This is something that the United States look at the other factors. signed on to, not some invention by me or by "President Bush has said the word 'free- the U.N. The countries of the world agreed to dom' a thousand times without saying the this," he said. "Let's just live up to what we word 'poverty' once," Sachs said. said, and we'll reap a lot of benefits from it." But Andrew Coleman, professor of eco- Speaking primarily about Africa, Sachs nomics at the University, said giving more gave examples of some causes of poverty on aid could stifle the development of a coun- the continent, while also sharing anecdotes try with a corrupt government in power. He from his own travels. He showed photographs said countries will only develop with the of overcrowded hospitals in Kenya, where he right incentives. said the government has $8 per person each "Sometimes aid given to countries where year to spend on health care, compared to the the governments are really bad can worsen $6,000 allotted to each person in the United things," he said. "It depends on where it States per year. He also gave examples of goes and how it's used." people suffering from malaria, AIDS, con- Coleman stressed the importance of taminated water and a lack of irrigation due See SACHS, Page 2 Economist Jeffrey Sachs explains the vitality of the United Nations "Millenium Project" plan to take on poverty last Thursday.