12 Monday, May 14, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com SHADOWS From Page 10 intertwining stories and dra- matic intensity, and yet it fails to dig deep into any of these character- istics, choosing to embrace super- ficial entertainment instead. It's funny, but there's only enough com- edy to make it bearable to watch. It's also far from dramatic. The dysfunctional family is exact- ly that - dysfunctional. And if you're expecting an "Edward Scissorhands"-esque romantic tale, think again. All of the family's problems are blamed, quite sim- ply, on Angelique and her curse. In terms of undertaking such a large responsibility for all the woes of the Collins family, Green's Angelique is stunningly evil. There's not a man on the planet who can steal Depp's thunder in a movie almost custom- made for him, but Green proves that there certainly is a woman. While Depp seems strangely detached to his character, Green is fully devoted to making Angelique the most evil witch since the Wicked Witch of the West. Sadly, the script fails to give the supporting characters much to work with. Pfeiffer, Moretz and Bonham Carter are left with a few humorous scenes with Depp that mainly derive from Barnabas's inability to adapt to the new cen- tury and its oddities like fast food, cars and female doctors. The film goes no deeper into the struggles of its characters. "Dark Shadows" is an honest effort. It's mildly funny, some- what entertaining and, like every Burton film, beautiful to watch. In the hands of any other director, it would score solidly. But with Burton and Depp at the helm, mediocrity of this kind is sim- ply unacceptable. If anything, it proves once again that Hollywood just can't seem to get its vampire formula right. PBS From Page 10 still. Is that our only excuse? Piti- ful. As for the BBC, it operates under an annual television license fee, which allows the station to acquire revenue from every citizen who owns a television, and thus pro- duce kick-ass programming. The very existence of PBS is thrown into question here in the U.S. with alarming frequency; the worry being that PBS has outlived its necessity for servicing the public good. Why don't we care about our public broadcasting? Maybe it's an oversimplification, but in every way you look at it, we are losing to Brit- ain. I'd hazard a guess that while I'm contentedly watching "Sher- lock," not a lot of British people are hunkering down with their Earl Grey, ready to catch the latest grip- ping hour of "American Masters." Yet what PBS offers, limited though it may be, can't be swept away so easily. The station airs a, large amount of educational pro- gramming for children and several news outlets, such as "Frontline." Why do these matter, you ask? PBS, not being controlled by advertisers or commercial interests, doesn't necessarily have to uphold said interests of commercial entities. Meaning when tuning into PBS, you can reasonably expect a higher level of impartiality than with a station operating under corporate owner- ship. Not to mention the fact that one of PBS's main goals is to offer con- tent that wouldn't be shown oth- erwise. Including programs that focus on the local community or fine arts, which have been sorely neglected on regular broadcast sta- tions as they don't pull big numbers, viewership-wise. Even though we've established that public broadcasting is a useful, and in fact necessary, public entity, the fact remains: nobody cares about PBS. It's something your grandparents watch while they're playing bridge. But it doesn't have to be that way. The U.S. should follow the excel- lent example set by Britain and the BBC and develop an adequate sys- tem of funding public broadcasting. Now, don't freak out. I'm not say- ing we have to develop an annual television license fee, though such a system obviously works pretty well, considering the level of quality coming out of the BBC. All I'm suggesting, is that we, as a country, should think more about our public broadcasting. A program that was developed in the interest of the pubic good shouldn't be an afterthought in our society. It's time for PBS to become the channel to watch. OK, that might be stretching it, but everybody's got to have a goal, right? CAMPUS 0 COMMUNITY' U S to eliminate walk-in practice DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN AN ARTS AND REPORTING HAT? THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD WRITE FOR COMMUNITY CULTURE to request an application, e-mail asado@michigandaily.com TERRA MOIt5GRAFF/Daiy Laila Ali, Title IX conference keynote speaker and former professional boxer speaks about the impact of Title IXN SPEAKERS ON CAhMPUSe University host TitlUe IX conference UHS to be appointment only, electronic records By JACOB AXELRAD Editor in Chief Starting today, University Health Services is implementing changes including the discontinu- ation of walk-in appointments. Students seeking medical care on campus will have to schedule an appointment prior to when they need to be seen. UHS Director Robert Win- field said in an interview with The Michigan Daily that UHS decided to eliminate walk-in appointments after assessing results of extensive surveys sent to patients over the past four years in order to make UHS more efficient. The removal of walk-in treat- ment is one of two major changes - the otherwillbe UHS's switch from paper to electronic health records, according to Winfield. While the entire University medical center will be making the switch to elec- tronic records in mid-August, UHS was selected as one of three pilot sites to go live on June 13. Winfield said patients will be able to use what's known as a "patient portal" in order to access their medical records online with a personal sign-in code. "The patient portal will be designed so that I could send you an e-mail and say, 'Your lab test results are available on the patient portal,"' Winfield said. "Then you, having a code which we've set up for you at the time that you were seen, would go to the patient por- tal, sign in using your sign-on and get your results and what I thought about them." Winfield addedthat thoughUHS has conducted patient satisfaction surveys since the 1980s, it wasn't until four years ago that surveys were expanded.to include catego- ries such as the waiting experience for patients, the cleanliness of the building and topics like diversity and privacy. Winfield said UHS has respond- ed to many complaints voiced by patients regarding the clinic's facil- ities, but added the issue they've been unable to address is the walk- in waiting experience. "We were frustrated because we were having trouble getting satis- faction with our walk-in service above 85 percent among the stu- dents," he said. See UHS, Page 2 0 la 40th anniversary of Title IX brings speakers like Laila Ali to 'U' By GIACOMO BOLOGNA Managing Editor Forty years ago, Title IX was enstated, forever changing the landscape of youth sports in America to be equally inclusive , Vol.CGXXT, No. 136 ( C 2012Thrie Michigan Daily NEWS.......................... 2 OPINION......................4 CLASSIFIEDS........... 6 SUDOKU....................,2,9 SPORTS .. .......... ...7 A R TS ....................................10 regardless of gender. Wednes- day began a three-day, national conference about Title IX hosted by the University's Sport, Health and Activity Research and Poli- cy Center for Women and Girls - a collaborative organization comprising the Women's Sports Foundation, the University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the School of Kinesiology. The conference featured pan- els, poster sessions and speeches comprised of athletes, academics and the leaders of several nation- al organizations. Wednesday, LailaAli, a former champion boxer and currently the president of WSF, started the conference by speaking to a crowd of about 200 people at Rackham about Title IX and gen- der in sports. "It's not really about men or about women, it's about every- body having an opportunity," Ali said. "That's what people seem to forget. If things were fair, we See CONFERENCE, Page 6 A2 town hall held at Marriage Equality Dark Shadows Women's Tennis Northside Grill A look at why Michigan Burton and Depp at it again Advanced to Sweet 16 for Restaurant acts as meeting should legalize same-sex with campy 70's soap opera the third year in a row after place to discuss issues. marriage. revival, defeating Texas A&M. SEEPAG E3 SEEPAGE4 SEE PAGE 10 SEE PAGE 9