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Monday, July 7, 2008
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TAI CHI AT THE CUBE
RETAILER
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license agreements."
Ablauf said 4004 Inc. had con-
sistently been one of the Universi-
ty's top three licensees, generating
between about $500,000 and $1.3
million a year in royalties. For the
last three years, when the Univer-
sity earned between $4 million
and $5 million a year from royal-
ties, 4004 Inc. was the University's
largest licensee.
Without University apparel and
TRAFFIC
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standing No. 1 location for traffic
accidents in Ann Arbor. He said the
spot's reputation largely has to do
with the fact that those two streets
are some of the mosttraveled in the
entire city.
According to Sipowski, more
than 40,000 vehicles travel
through that specific location every
day-more than any other intersec-
tion in Ann Arbor.
Of the 2,898 crashes that took
place in the city last year, just two
resulted in fatalities and nearly 40
percent were classified as rear-end
accidents. Sipowski said the most
challenging aspect of these statis-
souvenirs to sell, the store on State
Street may suffer the same fate as
the Steve & Barry's near Purdue
University, which closed in 2005.
Purdue administrators told the
Purdue Exponent, the school's stu-
dent paper, thatthey decided not to
renew 4004 Inc.'s license because
it "persistently violated the terms
of its contract."
Though Steve & Barry's finan-
cial situation has caused trouble for
many businesses, a few may ben-
efit. Robert Duerkersen, manager of
Great Lakes TeamApparelnext door
to Steve & Barry's, said he will look
tics is uncovering accident patterns
at specific intersections.
"We usually look to see ifa new
intersection rose to the top and if
that's the case, then we do a more
detailed study to understand what
kind of crashes are prevalent," Sip-
owski said. "And if we do see a pat-
tern of crashes, then we try to see
what we can do to fix it."
Some of the most common
solutions, according to Sipow-
ski, include installing new traffic
lights, posting larger street signs
and increasing the duration of yel-
low lights at existing locations.
Though Rich Magner isn't a traf-
fic engineer, the Blimpie Burger
owner said the biggest problem
he has noticed at his location near
the corner of Packard Street and
forward to an increase in sales if the
Ann Arbor store closes its doors.
"They create a lot of traffic," he
said, noting that Steve & Barry's
has about six times the square foot-
age Team Apparel does. "I think
we're going to get sonie of it, but
not all of it."
- Steve and Barry's LLC currently
owes The Michigan Daily $20,326 for
advertisements. The Daily's editorial
decisions are not affiliated with its
business decisions, and business
staff members played no role in the
writing or editing of this story.
South Division Street has less to
do with signs and lights and more
to do with people driving too fast
and endingup goingthe wrongway
down one-way streets.
"Usually it's just fender bend-
ers when people come out into the
intersection because they don't
know that they're going against the
light," Magner said.
Last year that particular loca-
tion saw just five car accidents-the
fewest since 2003.
Despite the decline, South Divi-
sion Street and Packard Street still
ranked 80'h on the high-crash inter-
section list for the entire city.
And just last week, Magner
said one of his own delivery driv-
ers got in an accident at that exact
location.
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More than 30 Ann Arbor residents and University students, faculty and staff mem-
bers did Tai Chi exercises in Regents' Plaza Sunday.
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SWIMMING
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als. Phelps was pleased with his
overall performance in the trials
and often expressed his excite-
ment about competing with Team
USA. "I'm ready for the challenge
that lies ahead of me," he said.
"And this is probably going to be
the strongest men's and women's
team that we've ever seen."
A shockingmoment came Thurs-
day night when former Michigan
swimmer Scott Spann, who trans-
ferred to Texas after last season,
won the men's 200-meter breast-
stroke. American record holder
Brendan Hansen failed to even
qualify for the Olympic team, fin-
ishing fourth. Hansen had cruised
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to victory in the 100-meter breast-
stroke and was favored to win the
200-meter after winningthe semi-
finals by 0.64 seconds and leading
the field in the finals through the
first 150 meters. Hansen added
nearly three seconds to his best
time and Spann dropped 0.39 sec-
onds to swim a career best. "I'm in
shock," Spann said. "I can't even
process that I made the team. This
is unbelievable."
Club Wolverine will be well-
represented in Beijing. Along
with Phelps, Peter Vanderkaay,
Erik Vendt and Allison Schmitt
also made the U.S. Olympic
team. Rising Michigan senior
Matt Patton and senior Alex
Vanderkaay came close to qual-
ifying in the 200-meter but-
terfly but finished fourth and
sixth, respectively. Despite the
disappointment of missing the
Olympics, Bowman again put
their effort and performances
into perspective. "I just think
when you get to this level,
that's a huge achievement," he
said. "Less than 1 percent of the
people even come to this meet.
To be in the top eight in your
event, you're in the best in the
world."
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