STUDENT GOVERNMENT Students rally on capitol steps THE END OF AN ERA OPINION Show us the money Emad Ansari on the scar- city of financial aid for international students. SEE PAGE 5 ARTS Pitchfork's happy hipsters 3-day Chicago music festival showcases indie rock's biggest names SEE PAGE 10 SPORTS Fielding Dreams Junior Tyler Burgoon gets a taste of Fenway Park as a Cape League All-Star SEE PAGE 11 INDEX Vol. CXIX, No.146 6 6200 othe Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEW S ........................... 2 OPINION ............................... 4 CLASSIFIED ........................... 6 ARTS ............................. 9 SPORTS ................................. 11 Students protest cuts to scholarships and financial aid By STEPHANIE STEINBERG Daily News Editor Students from the University and Michigan State University gathered on the steps of the Michi- gan State Capitol in Lansing July 23 to protest the state's move to cut the Michigan Promise Scholarship and need-based financial aid. The event was co-hosted by the Michigan Student Assembly and the Associated Students of Michigan State University, MSU's undergraduate student govern- ment. More than a dozen repre- sentatives from both universities attended the protest, along with government officials. Kyle Dysarz, ASMSU student assembly chairperson, opened with a remark that addressed how the present issues concerning higher education are so impor- tant that they brought two rival schools together. "It is not every day that you will find a Spartan and a Wolver- ine standing peacefully alongside each other," Dysarz said. Dysarz said he has heard numerous stories about the stu- dents and families who may not be able to afford college tuition if the state continues to slash higher- education funds. "The reason that we're here is to talk about a struggling battle for all students - no matter if you're a Wolverine or a Spartan - (that we) can't afford to lose," he said. MSU raised its tuition 5.2 per- cent for the 2009-2010 schoolyear, while the University increased tuition 5.6 percent. Meanwhile, in a move to decrease the state's estimated $1.7-billion deficit, the Michigan Senate passed a bill on June 23 that cuts the Michigan Prom- ise Scholarship, which provides See PROTEST, Page 2 The 46th stack oftthe Ann Arbor News' final edition rolls hot offthe press at the Print Distribution Facility in Ann Arbor. An extra 12,000 copies oftthe Ann Arbor News were printed in commemoration oftthe last issue on July 23. See Page 8 for more coverage. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Rare books for sale in'U' deal with Amazon 400,000 out-of-print books available By TORREYARMSTRONG Daily StaffReporter A partnership between the University and BookSurge - a Seattle-based subsidiary of Ama- zon.com, Inc. - will introduce thousands of rare and out-of-print books to a new era of readers. On Tuesday, University librar- ies revealed plans to make 400,000 out-of-copyright books in their collection available for reprint on demand through a partnership with BookSurge. The books, which the University expects to make available later this summer, will range from $10 to $45. The reprint program will expand the University's relation- ship with online seller Amazon. com, which has been offering a limited selection of books to the University for about five years. The agreement between the Uni- versity and Amazon states that the program will last two years. Dean of Libraries Paul Cou- rant said the project would focus mainly on works published prior to 1923 because they are no longer protected under copyright law. Courant added that the project would slowly add more recent out-of-print and out-of-copyright books. Courant said revenue sharing and book-pricing details are still See AMAZON, Page 3