Monday, May 7, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 3 PFIZER From page 1 Team, formed in late January to evaluate regional consequences of the Pfizer closing, reduce economic harm by bringing in businesses and keep people from moving away by providing new jobs. So far, Ann Arbor SPARK has reached out to several companies for open positions and has also organized career fairs, Ann Arbor SPARK CEO Mike Finney said. Amy Cell, an Ann Arbor SPARK director, said that a few University students seeking internships have contacted her. She said an internship tab was added to the career services por- tion of the organization's website on Friday. Ken Nisbet, director of the Uni- versity's Technology Transfer pro- gram and a co-chair of a SWAT team, said that in the last year, administra- tors have been talking about ways to expand the University's internship resource programs. He said the changes would pro- vide students with interview train- ing and new ways to search out internships. "People are reallyinterested,they think it's important," he said. During his undergraduate years, Laskowski took advantage of the HireME program provided through the ECRC to find internships. Laskowski, who is returning to the University in the fall for graduate school, said that before Pfizer closed, he was planning to stay in Michigan after graduation. Now he isn't sure. "Pfizer wouldhave beenthenum- ber one choiceto work in Michigan," Laskowski said. CORRECTIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. ROBMIGRIN/ Firefighters in Northville, Mich. douse flames that destroyed a Storage Unlimited building on Beck Road on May 3. Politics of stadium's no-fly zone By ARIKIA MILLIKAN Daily News Editor At spring commencement this year, all eyes - including those of former President Bill Clinton - turned to the American flag when "The Star Spangled Banner" rang out across the Big House. Those who attended the ceremo- ny were not prepared for the other banners that appeared - the ones attached to a small plane circulat- ing the stadium that read, "Choose life, not Hillary & abortion," and "Congratulations graduates. Defend the unborn." Media information sheets dis- tributed before the event alerted helicopters to the official no-fly zone around Michigan Stadium. The no-fly zone puts restrictions on planes that fly over the stadium and CLIMATE From page 2 She said the environment is changing at the fastest rate humankind has ever experienced. The IPCC released a study Fri- day showing that pollution from industries all over the world has caused greenhouse gas emissions to grow at least 70 percent since 1970. The study stresses that green- house gasses will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere if current environmental policies do not change. State Rep. Rebekah Warren is usually in place during sporting events. According to Diane Brown, spokeswoman for the University's Facilities and operations, no air- craft would be permitted within 3,000 feet of the stadium between 10 a.m. and one hour after the end of commencement. But the day before the ceremony, the Federal Aviation Administra- tion informed the University that flight restrictions would not be in affect duringthe event. FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Wayne Phillips said he has "never seen a temporary flight restriction imposed on the aviation commu- nity for a former president." FAAspokeswomanElizabethCory said that a request was never made for a temporary flight restriction dur- ing the graduation ceremony. (D-Ann Arbor) said Michigan is in the top 10 among states with ris- ing emissions. When asked what the State leg- islature is doing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, Warren strug- gled to find an answer. "That's a good question," she said. "Definitely not enough." Bierbaum, who headed the U.S. delegations to the IPCC in 1999 and 2001, said the summit will raise some of the same issues as the IPCC report on mitigating climate change. The report provides pol- icy-makers with information and courses of action that could lessen the damaging effects of climate change on the world's population. But Brown said the University did make a specific request. She said the FAA told members of her office that the flight restrictions in place for sporting events would apply to graduation, but that the FAA changed its decision at the last minute. "The whole thing was a surprise to us," she said. Larry Grisham, an Ann Arbor Control Tower operator, said that temporary flight restrictions are granted in the "upper echelons of Washington." "It's political," he said. "But it's usually done with safety in mind." The FAA is unable to regulate the content of a banner beingctowed behind a plane. "That first amendment thing gets under our skin sometimes," Phillips said. The IPCC's most recent report is more affirmative in its assess- ments of environmental change than in previous years, reporting a higher level of agreement among contributors about the validity of evidence. Warren said she wants to work during her term to improve the environment for the next genera- tion, but that making change ulti- mately lies in the hands of college students. "College campuses are the plac- es where the dialogue about social change happens first," she said. "If students show (they're) willing to fight for protecting the environ- ment, it will have a ripple effect."