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…Frat house destroyed in blaze NEWS 'U invests in new cancer treatment The University Health System is partnering with sther Michigan hospitals to offer an alternative to traditional radiation therapy. See Page 5 OPINION Kate Truesdell: Feeding a bad habit Laying off the burgers is a small price to pay to help fight environmental degradation. See Page 5 SPORTS Andy Reid: Pitching a problem for Blue The Wolverines saw incredible performances fr...…

…College Dems unite for nominee NEWS A2 residents allowed to keep chickens Councilmember Steve Kun- selman's proposal, meant to encourage sustainable living, passed 7-4 last week. See Page 3 OPINION From the Daily: Fulbright fauxpas The U.S. State Department earned poor marks in its deal- ings with scholarship recipi- ents living in a land of chaos. See Page 4 SPORTS Four years of work has come to this Michigan swimming coach Bob Bowman setup ...…

…Legislature to boost funding OPINION From the Daily: Tallying the damage Sorting out the facts and figures for this year's incoming class, it's obvious that the University needs to up its game against the affirmative action ban. See Page 4 ARTS Lil Wayne returns with smash album Tha Carter ltl brings rapper to the forefront of modern hip hop thanks to ingenious singles and audacious lyrics. See Page 9 SPORTS Brown recharged Junior free safety...…

…Higher education budget passed OPINION The problem with public funding Robert Soave explains how the public tunding program exclu- sively benefits majority parties, vwhiie hanging the underdogs out to dry. See Page 4 ARTS 'WALL--E' blasts into theaters The new family film shows Pixar at the top of its game with an exciting, unique and intelligent scifi adventure. See Page 9 SPORTS Beijing-bound Club Wolverine swimmer Michael Phelps secured a ...…

…2 Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily- michigandailycom 4IVERS LTH 5 52 'U' to pioneer cancer treatment Equipment to cost. $160 million By CHARLES GREGG-GEIST Daily News Editor The University of Michigan Health System and an alliance of other healthcare providers from across the state are teaming op to bring what they call the world's most expensive piece of medical technology to Michigan. A proton therapy facility with a $160-millio...…

…2 Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom UNIVERSITY DONATIONS Alum leaves $5.2 million to LSA Gift to be used for graduate fellowships By CHARLES GREGG-GEIST Daily News Editor When LSA alum Mildred Sum- mer died at age too last year, she left a few clues of her dedication to the University. On a bedside table in her nursing home she kept her Uni- versity diploma and the invitation to her graduation. And in her will, she...…

…1 NEWS IMonday, June 16, 2008 2 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom FUNDING From Page 1 higher education, but she said the bigger setback has to do with a$200 million shortfall in Michigan's general fund. When the Senate passed the 3-percent increase three months ago, the state's budget was projected to be about $9.8 billion, but Fritz said funding has proved to be less than anticipated. Though the $200 million cut probably won't come solel...…

…N E S IMonday, June 30, 2008 2 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom BUDGET From Page 1 represents the state's 15 public universities. "We started at three, the state fell on some tough bud- get times and we're a victim of the whole structural deficit that con- tinues to deflate the whole state of Michigan." Boulos said he was graceful high- er education was one of the few bud- gets to see an increase. Granholm also recommended the hill inclu...…

…Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 3 Weak econom' U' studen jol leaves bless all unemployment rate is 6.9 per- cent, while the national average is 5 percent. With Michigan's economy one of the worst in the nation, Ann Arbor employers are noticing the demand for jobs, too. Tony Lavigne, the general man- ager of Good Time Charley's, said he has seen a significant increase in the number of students fervently look- ing ...…

…Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 1 CITY COUNCIL Backyard chickens approved for Ann Arbor Residents can have up to four hens, if neighbors approve By SARA LYNNE THELEN Daily News Editor Ann Arbor resident Susan Blake stepped up to the podium at Tuesday's City Council meeting and made her presence known. "I'm a chicken," she said. Blake began clucking like an agitated hen to demonstrate the potential noise level of ba...…

…Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 3 Deli expansion voted down the decision. Saginaw said he saw the report prepared for the commissioners before last week's meeting and knew that the odds weren't in Zing- erman's favor. "We knew that the staff was recommending against demoli- tion, but we had hoped to present a compelling case for why they should allow us to do what we wanted to do," Saginaw said. "But apparently ...…

…Monday, June 30, 2008 s j ' The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com :.4 . 3 MINIMUM WagE Wage hike won a ec nn rbo Pay minimum raised to $7.40 per hour By LINDY STEVENS Daily News Editor Recent LSA graduate Polina Arsentyeva will see an extra $10 in her usual paycheck from Stucchi's after a state-wide minimum wage hike takes effect tomorrow, but Arsentyeva said the few additional dollars won't matter much to her. "I don't think it's going to m...…

…4 Monday June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com EJbe MRidiigan Baiyj Edited and managed by students at ; the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu EMMARIE HUETTEMAN GARY GRACA KATE TRUESDELL EDITOR IN CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR EDITORIA L PAGE EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the officialpositionof the Daily's editorial board. Allother signed articles and illustrations represent...…

…4 Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Eye Mid igan BaUlj Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Acbor, MI 4809 tothedaily@umich.edu Voiceless votes Solution for state delegates still disaster 4 EMMARIE HUETTEMAN EDITOR IN CHIEF GARY GRACA MANAGING EDITOR KATE TRUESDELL EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's edit...…

…4 Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com EFte ffidigan &il Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. AnnArbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu EMMARIE HUETTEMAN EDITOR IN CHIEF GARY GRACA MANAGING EDITOR KATE TRUESDELL EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect theuofficial position of the Daily's editorial board. Allother signed articles and illustrations represen...…

…41 Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com the IWICbigan Dailu Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ? 420 Maynard St. eAnn Abor, MI 48109 an;,nrtothedaily@umich.edu Loaded words Supreme Court opens new debate on guns EMMARIE HUETTEMAN EDITOR IN CHIEF GARY GRACA MANAGING EDITOR KATE TRUESDELL EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily'sedit...…

…Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 5 Feeding a bad habit n April, the Pew Commission on Industrial Animal Produc- tion released a comprehensive report analyz- ing the impact of current animal farming practic- es in the United States. on public . health, the envi- ronment, ani- mal welfare and KATE rural communi- TRUESDELL ties. The report examined each area in depth and concluded, "While increasing the speed of prod...…

…Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 15 CHRIS KOSLOWSKI I OUT T PASTURE E-MAIL KOSLOWSKI AT CSKOSLOW@UMICH.EDU w sorneYou Th atsport No. no. It's different You professional hockey the iceand the thing .havea stick, and you try to this week Canadanslove it apparend get the thing and put it in the Y m n rYou mean ice fishing et thing " e . -- d d-U*.- The hidden candidate Fighting a silent war hether you agree with th...…

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…Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 15 The problem with public funding Band-Aid aid Just as my dissatisfaction with the two presidential candidates was at its peak, I read a news headline last Thursday that filled me with a little hope. Sen. Barack Obama has decided to opt out of the public funding ROBERT system for his SOAVE general elec- tion campaign, becoming the first major candidate in history to do so. In th...…

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…8 Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com BLOCK PARTY JOBS From Page 3 taken aback when he realized how difficult it would be to obtain a job near campus. Kaplan scoured the city with his friends to track down CHANEL VON HABSBURG-LOTHRINGEN/DAILY School of Music senior Carlos Garcia, studio manager of Neutral Zone, dances while Ann Arbor band My Dear Disco performs at the Neutral Zone's block party. TREATMENT From Page...…

…8 Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com HIGH-RISE From Page 1 including Mayor John Hieftje, pre- dict it will pass. "A lot of people think we have more power than we do," Hieftje said of the City Council. "When a building meets the zoning (require- ments), there's not much we can do to affect it." The $150 million complex will house 1,142 people, and completion is expected in 2011. City planner Ethel Potts, the only mem...…

…8' Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com ADMISSIONS From Page 1 admission paid enrollment depos- its, the same percentage of students who accepted admissions offers overall. Ted Spencer, associate vice provost and executive director of undergraduate admissions, said the number of minority applicants and enrolled students for this year was good, "relative to the fact that we were working under the con- straints of the p...…

…8. Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com BUDGET From Page 2 a 5.6-percent increase in under- graduate tuition on an estimated state appropriation increase of 2 percent, a figure double the actual increase. University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham said in an e-mail inter- view that administrators estimated a state appropriations increase between 1 and 2 percent, but chose to draft the University's budget based on the hig...…

…Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 9 Usher returns Satisfying "Sex" By DAVID WATNICK Daily Arts Writer On any list of the top vocal- ists in contemporary popular music, Usher must hover very close to the top. But in the face of his firmly established superstar- dom, the tremen- Here I Stand dous tal- LaFace ent that enabled him to become such a fixture of the pop landscape has unfortu- nately, but predictably, take...…

…Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com '9 ALBUM REVIEW Revenge of the nerds Red Album isn't great, but Weezer reclaims dignity By DAVID WATNICK DailyArts Writer Welcome back Weezer. No, you haven't returned to the unforgetta- ble, screaming cathartic geek bliss of your classic first two albums, but so what - you never will, and that's OK. We all peak sometime. With the Red Album, you've at least cut a record that I can ...…

…Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 9 Li Wayne hits big Nolaughing matter By BEN VANWAGONER ular appearances on NPR's "TI his Rapper proves his worth with latest' By CHRIS GAERIG Daily Arts Writer' There are very few things that can be said about Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IIIwith any sort of certainty. This record, in the short time it's been leaked and properly released, has been called everything from ** * a basic f...…

…. Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 9 Read the day away Out of this galaxy By ANDREW LAPIN DailyArts Writer Kudos, as well, for the outright anger that the filmmakers dis- play toward modern society in the movie's second half. WALL-E A literary creature in his natural habitat, the Diag. By Ben VanWagoner I Associate Arts Editor Long before there were summer blockbusters or huge concerts in Chicago, there was s...…

…10 Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com REALITY SHOWS From Page 9 while watching Dina dress up in clothing even a young woman shouldn't wear and flirting with a producer half her age, it is hard to tell if Mama Lohan is trying to help her daughter follow her dream or getting wrapped up in her own obsession with becoming famous. Both Richards and Lohan claim they want to stop the rumors once and for allby showing Americ...…

…10I Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com PANDA From Page 9 rior claims it. For some reason - it's unclear exactly what - the chubby, clumsy noodle-seller Po is thought to be the dragon warrior. Hilarity ensues. Through the course of Po's rig- orous training to become a kung fu master - in the couple of days before Tai Lung swings by and destroys the valley - the movie finds its mark. More than just jokes about Po being...…

…10 Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com LIL WAYNE From Page 9 revelatory and frankly, they aren't even the best we've heard from him in the past year and a half. But it's the way that he uses his associa- tive thought process in these scat- tershot beats that is so astonishing: form representing content. The real moment at which Tha Carter III becomes more than just another Lii Wayne release is "Phone Home." Wayne goe...…

…10 Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com BOOKS From Page 9 This Week on Ingalls Mall Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert: Relatively unknown even to irritatingly vocal intellectuals, Jack Gilbert is nonetheless one of the best poets of the age. Even for someone with no background in poetry or analysis at all, Gilbert is understandable and fascinating. His poems are staggeringly personal, somehow touching both author= and...…

…Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 11 What's Happening in Ann Arbor? "Zingerman's Creamery Cheeses" Zingerman's Delicatessan Thursday, June 5th $20 with reservation, $25 at door Endless visits of lusting after the Deli's almost comically huge array of cheeses must go unsatis- fied. Free samples can only go so far, and with that many chunks of mold, it's hard to know where to start. Finally, that desire to grab a hu...…

…Monday, June 9, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com avorites no more, core liely gone } By JASON KOHLER On Baseball Sometimes it hurts too much. It certainly did two Sundays ago when the Michigan baseball team ended its season with a crushing loss to Kentucky in the Ann Arbor Regional. It hurt for juniors Jason Chris- tian and Zach Putnam as they likely left Ray Fisher Stadium for the last time, tears in their eyes. The duo knew it ha...…

…Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com SETTLING IN Academy reveals aperfect match "Do you have to be a Michigan man to be a Michigan coach? Gosh, I hope not." -Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez at his Dec.17 introduc- tory press conference Although Rodriguez didn't understand what the term 'Michigan man' meant when he was hired, his message was clear - he wanted - to do things his way.' There's been a give- DAN a...…

…Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 'M' student stoked for ride of life By ANDY REID the trip, he decided to link it with an Daily SportsEditor organization. He settled with Alli- ance to Save Energy, a non-profit While waiting in line at White organization based in Washington, Market on East William Street, D.C. With donations pouring in Justin Leath could barely contain from family, friends, fellow School his excite...…

…12 Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com SEX AND THE CITY From Page 9 (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) have settled into their roles as wives and mothers and Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is in L.A. managing her boyfriend's acting career and single-hand- edly making the world safe for "cougars." All the men - Steve, Harry, Smith Jarrod and, espe- cially, Mr. Big (Chris Noth, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") - are ...…

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…12 Monday, June 16, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com NOTEBOOK From Page 11 the ball from defensive coordinator Scott Shafer. "Any coach is going to try to take the concepts and simplify them," Shafer said. "So we're doing the same thing here at the clinic - try- ing to simplify some things and actually teach them about football." Rodriguez roamed between sta- tions, but settled at the quarterback training for much of the day. Seve...…

…12 Monday, June 30, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 4 I VOTED BESTIiKLE KLETAURAN I BY ANN ARBOR NEWS AND CURRENT MAGAZINE 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Fine Greek Food Home-Cooked Gyros & Shish-Ka-Bob Sandwiches -Greek Salads Mousaka, Pastitsio, Dolmades -Baklava Spinach Pie, Lamb Chops -Rice Pudding Pasta, Chicken OVER 27 LOW CARB DISHES Cocktails - Beer -"Wine Outside Dining in the Summer Complete Carry-out Service Open: Mon-Thur...…

…Monday, June 2, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com HOME COOKED 13 After Putnam and Fetter,'M' was lost CLIF REEDER/Daily Junior Adam Abraham was visibly emotional after the Michigan baseball team was bounced from the NCAA Tournament yesterday. Blue stuck in Ann Arbor By JASON KOHLER Daily Sports Writer The Michigan baseball team thought it would be charging onto the field at Ray Fisher Stadium after a victory yesterday afternoon. ...…

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