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…OPINION From the Daily: Amending admissions Rick Jones uses 10 percent of his brain on plan to guarantee admission to top 10 percent of high school graduates See Page 4 ARTS Harold & Kumar return for more Despite its raunchy nature, the new sequel to the 2004 film is a surprising success. See Page 8 SPORTS M pulls out win to scavenge a split The Michigan softball team tied in a tightly contested series with Northwestern. The Wolverines and Wil...…

…2 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom COLEMAN AT THE CAPITAL STUDENT LOANS From Page 1 the school's website. Margaret Rodriguez, the senior associate director in the Office of Financial Aid at the University, said the FDLP will be able to absorb the cost of loaning to students who would have otherwise used the FFELP. She said the FDLP can handle an immediate 20-percent increase in loan volume and that further resou...…

… Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 3 PROTEST FOR PEACE GRADUATION From Page 1 it comes to designing your life." The Class of 1987 law graduate told the audience that a few years after he graduated, he left a six-fig- ure salary as a lawyer to pursue a career in journalism that paid him just $12,000. The Michigan native was even- tually named co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" in Jan. 2006. Just a month late...…

…4 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com anwal Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu EMMARIE HUETTEMAN EDITOR IN CHIEF GARY GRACA MANAGING EDITOR KATE TRUESDELL EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solel...…

…Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com i5 Donating a new solution Finding the perfect match At this moment, more than 98,000 Americans are waiting for life-saving organs.Eighteen of these indi- viduals die each day, still wait- ing. What can be done about the gap between those waiting for transplants TOM and the number MICHNIACKI of organs cur- rently available? The government could continue to air expensive public ...…

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…81 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com More high times Harold and Kumar still endearing By SHERI JANKELOVITZ DailyArts Writer There is no way that "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" should've been a hit. It was about two guys who just wanted to. smoke pot and eat some burgers but managed to find trouble and hi-jinks galore along the way. But a hit it was, and so now we have "Harold and Kumar Escape from How's t...…

…Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 9 PREVIEW From Page 8 unplugged, with Tunstall on acous- tic guitar. Her jazzy sound should work particularly well here, and the concert has all the ingredients to be a hit. ANN ARBOR ART FAIRS JULY 16-19 WWW.ARTFAIR.ORG It doesn't really matter that the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair (one of the four fairs, held simultaneously) was ranked first among art fairs in the country in 2004, ...…

…Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Findlay 's single salvages split By RUTH LINCOLN Daily Sports Writer The afternoon had been as dead- locked as Friday traffic on State Street. Entering Sunday's double-head- er tied for first place in the Big Ten, the No. 6 Michigan softball team and visiting No. 12 Northwestern gave the sellout crowd at Alumni Field two tight battles. Both games were pitch-for- pitch, throw-for-t...…

…Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 11 DRAFT From Page 10 following Tom Harmon in 1941. Other Wolverines selected in this year's draft include quarterback Chad Henne (2nd round, Miami), wide receivers Mario Manningham (3rd round, New York Giants) and Adrian Arrington (7th round, New, Orleans), outside linebacker Shawn Crable (3rd round, New England) and running back Mike Hart (6th round, Indianapolis). For Long's m...…

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…Iie Midigan Oai& 'NE-HtNDRED-EI( "ITEEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, April 15,2008 michigandaily.com PREPARING THE DIAG HEALTH CARE IN MICHIGAN Group wants health care mandate on Nov. ballot UHS director says a constitutional amendment, Mich- igan residents would be required plan would reduce to have access to both preventative cost of coverage and primary care. Currently, Mas- sachusetts is the only other sta...…

…4 2A - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 WEDNESDAY: The Extremist THURSDAY: Explained FRIDAY: Before You Were Here BIKE CULTURE Lost in a library labyrinth I felt my brain, body and soul fall apart at the Grad yesterday as I punched incorrect buttons on a bor- rowed calculator, wondering what the probability was I'd even pass my upcoming stats exam. I decided to take a break and try to find a summer job at the library's human resources department....…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS ATLANTA Delta, Northwest announce merger, but face opposition If Delta and Northwest are going to create the world's largest airline, they'll first have unions to cajole, politicians to placate, and antitrust regulators to convince. Two of Northwest's largest unions immediately declared their opposition. Most importantly, the airlines will need antitrust approval...…

…0 (). a 0 pinior 4A - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4Jb t*Iiiian Ea Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com ANDREW GROSSMAN EDITOR IN CHIEF GARY GRACA EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR GABE NELSON MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position oftthe Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illu...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, A pril 15, 2008 - 5A How did ceiling cat get outside? A vacation to die fo- New horror film finds success through its adaption of Smith's powerful novel By JEFFREY BLOOMER Daily Arts Writer For a movie about the children of white yuppies who venture into the big, bad Mexi- can jungle only to be trapped by violent Mayans, "The Ruins" is a surprisingly polished and effective movie, if not a ver...…

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….M 8A - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Southern road trip inspires show By MAUREEN SULLIVAN Daily Arts Writer School of Art and Design Junior Cassie McQuater and artist Sam Strand use colorful language to describe their colorfully-named exhibit. "Shit Y'all (Somewhere There's a River)" is showing at the Canterbury House until AprilS 20th. "The title (Somewhere of our exhibit There's a is basically us acknowl...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, A pril 15, 2008 - 9A 'yam' "IRON MAN" RELEASE DATE: MAY 2ND Based on the popular Marvel comic series, "Iron Man" tells the story of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., "Zodiac") and his transformation from rich indus- trialist to iron-suited superhero. Since it's directed by Jon Favreau, who previously helmed the box office smash "Elf" starring Will Ferrell, it's not surprising that the trailer pl...…

…I 10A - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com I I II II W E E ZE R '' - WEEZER RELEASE DATE: JUNE 17 Unless you're be celebrating your middle school graduation later this spring, you're probably among the massive majority that thought that Weezer's 2005 album, Make Believe, was absolute trash. But unless you have a heart of stone, then you probably still hang on tightly to the fading glimmer of hope that Weezer mi...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com PETS From Page 1A Area Humane Society in Lansing, which takes in any abandoned ani- mals from Michigan State Univer- sity students, has also noticed the trend, calling it one that "happens all over the country." "I noticed it when I worked in Pennsylvania and Florida," said Steven Heaven, the group's presi- dent. "We tend not to adopt to stu- dentsbecause of that problem." Ann Williams, a representative ...…

…I 12A - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom CATFCHINA.-G (ON Nearly deaf walk-on goes from team manager to team player By Dan Feldman -Daily Sports Editor The day was taking too long to end. The Michigan softball team opened play at Alumni Field last year with a doubleheader against Western Michigan. The first game was an on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller. Lori- lyn Wilson came within one out of throwing a no-hitt...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Tuesday, April 15, 2008 -13A After being cut twice, Herrmann made squad as bullpen catcher HERRMANN From Page 12A said. He had the week off to go hunting, so he took Rachael to the doctor the next morning. The doctor diagnosed Rachael with bacterial meningitis. She was immediately rushed to the chil- dren's hospital for treatment. Rachael had a 107-degree tem- perature. For the first couple days, the do...…

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…0 16A - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 N ew s The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com HIRING From Page 1A The report presented to the Sen- ate Assembly, a group comprised of University faculty members, used data provided each year by Univer- sity Human Resources to examine trends in faculty hiring across racial and ethnic categories - white, black, Asian and Hispanic. The percentage of minority fac- ulty has seen steady increases in all professori...…

… C1le 4Hd7igan al Tuesday, April 15, 2008 enioryear is ayear of"last times." With graduation in sight, students mark the everyday events that will soon recede from the everyday. The last time we register for classes. The last time we watch the Mich- igan-Ohio State game from the student sec- tion. The last time we get a day off while the Graduate Employees' Organization strikes. In honor of the last day of classes for this year's graduating s...…

…2B - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaiycom University of Michigan MichiganEngineering Cleec niern mi~z;;;',~ Dean's Ho o1Ls The Dean and faculty of the College of Scott Hyder James LiJinXagNBrn uoThdrsTaopls D lacoullo Jinng Li Jing Shen Ng Nipuna Rupasnghe Raj Thapar Prince Idichandy Kang Li Kwok Wai Wilson Ng Neal Ruche Geoffrey Thes Sarah lkhaniPour Christopher Lilly Thai-Son Nguyen Briana Russo Paul Theron Darryl Isa...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 3B Many students were anxious about the passage of Proposal 2, a ballot initiative which banned race- and gender-based affirmative action in Michigan on Nov. 2, 2006. - wI Ross gives $100 mil. Sept.9 - After University alum Stephen Ross gave $100 million to the Business School - the largest donation in the University's history- officials announced it would be renamed the Ross ...…

…I 4B - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 I-C The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com E-MAIL OQUIST AT JOQUIST@UMICH.EDU I e Wc 1 1n at'*1 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors. The Daily's Edi...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 7B 'M' spirit survives disappointment My fellow graduating seniors: It's been a rough, not-so-successful four years for Michigan sports. No football wins against Ohio State. No BCS bowl victories. No NCAA tourney bids in hoops. No national championship game appear- SCOTT ances in hockey. BELL No national - - titles for any ofthe school's26 teams over the past three seasons. It...…

…8B - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Carr exits with epic victory over Gators Wolverines fall to Bucks again Jan. 3, 2008 - ORLANDO, Fla. - He fought hard against the indi- vidual attention leading up to his final game, but in the end, Michi- gan coach Lloyd Carr CARR lost that bat- tle. And in x. doing so, he 4 passed his so-called impassable final test: WINS. 122 ending his LOSSES: 40 coaching BIG TEN care...…

…Iie 1idigan Bail Ann Arbor, Michigan )NE-HUNDRED-EIHT1'EN S OF EDITORIA LFREEDOM Monday, April 14, 2008 michigandaily.com STEM CELREMSEARCH IN MICHIGAN Repeal of research ban seeks spot on ballot 'U' officials can't AN OVERTURNING POINT? support initiative, Whatcould be on this falls ballot but support change Theprnoposedamendmentwou'ldnot change the state ban on human cloning. to stem cell laws Michigan residents wouldhaveaccess to any ...…

…a 2A - Monday, April 14, 2008 AV Dalai Lama drama INDUSTRIAL ART The University of Washington required questions to be submitted online for the Dalai Lama's visit to the college this week to ensure that questions were unrelated to the rela- tionship between Tibet and China, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Officials said they weren't trying to censor students but wanted to be sure questions didn't stray from the Dalai Lama's ag...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, April 14, 2048 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, April 14, 2008 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS S JERUSALEM Israeli leaders ST snub Carter during Mideast trip th nig Former President Jimmy Cart- er brokered the first Israeli-Arab cia peace deal, but he's getting a cool of reception in Israel duringhis latest ovi visit to the Mideast. all Israeli leaders are shunning the ow globe-trottingpeace...…

…40 4A - Monday, April 14, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com fy iiigan Bat*1 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu He is not the Jackson Pollock of the ecclesiastical world:' -Cardinal John Foley, comparing Pope Benedict XVI, who arrives to America tomorrow for a visit, to expressist painter Jackson Pollack, as reported yesterday by The New...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, April 14, 2008 -5A Lil Wayne only takes mug shots. Big ego, Lii Wayne on new mixtape cOURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT "Whoa." Bigger and bloodier 'Street Kings' falls in line with typical shoot-'em-up action films, but brings bigger guns By IMRAN SYED DailyArts Writer There have been a lot of movies featur- ing the LAPD, police corruption, racial ten- sion and one rogue, heroic super-cop with th...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com PORTER From Page 1A him today than last week, but he would prefer if you didn't men- tion it. "It's nice going to class and not being noticed like some of the football players," Porter said. "They get a lot of attention, and that's just not for me." Porter somehow managed to put together a superhuman season on the ice and remain as normal as anyone else off it. Even in winning the award, Porter proved t...…

…A 8lA - Monday, April 14, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Order of Angell announces new members, names Carol Hutchins honorary member WELDING FOR SPEED 0 ORDER From Page 1A credited for establishing the group with a select group of seniors dur- ing his tenure as University Presi- dent in 1902. The Order of Angell's constitu- tion says the group's purpose is to unite leaders from various student groups and discuss ways to furth...…

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…4 10A - Monday, April 14, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 a 4 a 4 We're seeking innovative ideas and original, actionable solutions that can help improve the way the nation develops and uses energy. A joint initiative between ConocoPhillips and Penn State, the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize will award up to $300,000 in cash prizes annually to the best five concepts that focus on developing new energy sources, improving energ...…

…The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com I April 14, 2008 Porter honored as hockey's best Senior captain named Hobey Baker Award winner By COURTNEY RATKOWIAK Daily Sports Editor DENVER - Seniors Kevin Por- ter and Chad Kolarik, all smiles for the media, posed together with the trophy. It wasn't the trophy they wanted most - a 5-4 overtime loss to Notre Dame the day before had killed the Wolverines' National Champion- ship hopes. But after captai...…

…2B - Monday, April 14, 2008 DAISEPLAN DAILY SPORTS BREAKS DOWN THE WEEKEND THAT WAS The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com s SAID AND HEARD "I just told him he should shave, so he did that and he looked pretty good." - Michigan senior Chad Kolarik on how he prepped his best friend, senior captain Kevin Porter, for his Hobey Baker award ceremony. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK ADAM HARRIS At the Sea Ray Relays in Knox- ville, Tenn., the junior set t...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com h Monday, April 14, 2008-- 3B Wolverines earns second place in West Regional 'M' stages weekend hit parade Score high enough to qualify team for NCAA Championships By NICOLE AUERBACH Daily Sports Writer Chalk up the second-place finish to "West Coast" scoring. Or the 2,300 miles traveled, with a four-hour layover in Seattle. Orthe three-hour time difference. But even with all those obstacles, the Mich...…

…4B - Monday, April 14, 2008 0 Big bats allow Top of lineup sets tone, leads attack in weekend sweep By ANTHONY OLIVEIRA Daily Sports Writer Freshman pitcher Jordan Taylor had a 48.1 inning shutout streak entering the weekend. But in the opening inning of her first appearance against Wisconsin on Friday, it snapped, and it seemed that Taylor was going through freshman growing pains. She gave up the lead once, after Michigan held a 2-0 advant...…