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…The Michigan Daily - michigandail TV IN BRIEF CBS's Monday nights with a 'Bang' "The Big Bang Theory Mondays at 8:30 p.m. CBS If the future success of a show could be measured by the laughs- per-minute of its pilot, "The Big Bang Theory" would be looking at a solid decade atop the Neilson charts. Unfortunately, things don't usually work out that way. CBS's latest addition to its suddenly for- midable Monday night comedy block is a clich6 turne...…

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…The Michigan Da BUDGET From page 1A aily - michigandaily.com shutdown, Boyd said. "There is a path to resolution, and the Legisla- ture needs to get the job done. We need a comprehensive solution of cuts, reforms and revenue before the governor can support a continu- ation budget." University students interviewed yesterday were appalled at the prospect of a shutdown. They said it would make them less likely to stay in Michigan after graduati...…

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…BELL: ENJOYIG F The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com October 1, 2007 ~7 'D'-TERMINED Late charge e ough for'M By KEVIN WRIGHT Daily Sports Editor EVANSTON - Michigan coach Lloyd Carr walked into the pressroom and, in a hoarse voice, put it simply. "That was not the same Northwestern team that I watched (last) Saturday," Carr said. True, the Wildcats brought more inten- sity than the team that took a 58-7 beating at Ohio State. But maybe mor...…

… . ---) DAILY SPORTS BREAKS DOWN THE WEEKEND THAT WAS 2B - Monday, October 1, 2007 0 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com SAID AND HEARD "It was like, when there wasn't really a crowd here, we were saying, 'Aw man, this is a high school game.-' - Michigan end Brandon Graham taking in the overwhelming crowd at Northwestern. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK LUCIA BELASSI The senior forward notched two game winning goals this week- end. Belassi led the...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com HOOSIERS From page lB the-charges. However, when Indiana's Billy Weav- er corralled a rebound in front of the Michigan goal, there was nothing Sperry could do. Weaver was just feet away, with plenty of time to calculate how far he needed to boot the ball to keep it out of the goalie's reach. Fifteen minutes later, junior forward Jake Stacy took a free kick and sent the ball arcing softly into a crowd in f...…

…4B - October 1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com GAME STATISTICS Chambers ineligible for season TeamStats First Downs Rush/Yds Passing Yards Offensive Plays Total offensey Rturn Yardsg Comp/Att/Int Punts/Avg Fumbles/Lost Penalties/Yards Time of Poss PASSING Player Henne Malett Totals RUSHING Player HartN Manningham TENM Henne Totals RECEMVNG Manningham Arrington Mathews Butler Hart PUNTING Player Mesko Totals KICKOFF RETURNS Play...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com tnhar1 9 -0>7 _ rR tvuer i, zvvf - :,D i MAIZE GAUGE The Michigan Daily football writers break down the weekend's stats that don't show up in the box- score. The defense-o-meter measures the intensity of the defense, the Carr-o-meter judges Lloyd Carr's demeanor following the game and the hypemeter measures the fans' game performance. DEFENSE-O-METER 3/4We're docking points for the start to the game,...…

… 6B - Monday, October 1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 6B - Monday, October 1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom f It's t rue We employ more published authors than MBAs. They didn't think of themselves as "financial types," and neither did we. We thought of them as people with extraordinary talent. The D. E. Shaw group is a highly successful investment and technology development firm with a practice of hiring unusu...…

…Northwester 1sn jk Uni against Appalachian State, Wolverines won't be caught on their heels Sports, page 8 Ar 1Bi4iganBnaI (NE HUNDEII SEVEF ENiYEA S E DptmIT)ILE,20EIM Friday, September 28, 2007 ts, page 8 Ann Arbor, Michigan michigandaily.con STATE BUDGET CRIS Talks go on,. but no deal yet Shutldown could begin on Monday By ALESE BAGDOL Daily StaffReporter Michigan lawmakers are work- ing at the wire to reach a budget compromise that wou...…

… 2- Friday, September 28, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 2 - Friday, September 28, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: Explained THURSDAY: Before You Were Here Biological size Part of getting used to college is learning how to deal with huge classes. While some students love the anonymity - and the freedom to do the crossword and sudoku - others di...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, September 28, 2007 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS YANGON, Myanmar Soldiers gun down anti-gov't protesters Soldiers with automatic rifles fired into crowds of anti-govern- ment demonstrators yesterday, killing at least nine people in the bloodiest dayin more thanamonth of protests demanding an end to military rule. Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting "Give us freedom, give u...…

… 4 - Friday, September 28, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 24eliChigan,4a1*'1 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu KARL STAMPFL IMRAN SYED JEFFREY BLOOMER EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations repre...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.corrr Friday, September Mildly terrifying, yes. But the music? Quite goo Riding off into a great album Opera visualized Genius Grant-winning Shen Wei kicks off China Now theme year $y MERYL SCHWARTZ his first staging of a Chinese opera. In a state- Daily Arts Writer mert on the artist's website, Shen Wei credits the "rich music and singing rather than the Renowned Chinese choreographer, dancer, story line...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, September 28, 2007 - 7 More students referred to OSCR DUDERSTADT DANCE CRIME From page 1 DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown said she was intrigued by the trend but didn't know what has caused the increase in the number of cases reported to OSCR. "I don't know if it's because there's been a change in leader- ship at the Office of Student Con- flict Resolution or if they are now tracking their data dif...…

… 0 8 - Friday, September 28, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com First road test should end well for Michigan By SCOTT BELL and JACK HERMAN Daily Sports Editors Ryan Field hasn't been kind in the past to the Michigan football team. Anyone remember 2000, when running back Anthony Thomas fumbled late in the fourth quarter and Northwestern came back, won the game and ruined Michigan's season? Yeah, the Wolverines would like to forget ...…

…eA~cI anaij .r .k I 1x~7 ll 00 The B-side Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, September 27,j2007 michigandaily.com "What is left when payment is delayed while tuition skyrockets? I can tell you what is left: nothing." - Mohammad Dar, vice president of the Michigan Student Assembly, speaking at a rally for more higher education funding in Lansing yesterday. Dar was referring to payments to state universities withheld by the state of Michigan thi...…

… 0 2A - Thursday, September 27, 2007 FRIDAY: The Extremist Flash photography Flipping through a stack of black and white postcards near the regis- ter at Shaman Drum Bookshop, you come across vintage portraits of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf - and then sud- denly - a faded shot of two naked men leaning over the passenger side win- dow of an Ann Arbor cop car. But it's not a pornographic gag tossed in to shock the stuffy literary postcard co...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS UNITED NATIONS Iraqi PM says terrorism could fuel civil war Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the U.N. General Assembly yesterday that terrorism is threatening to erase any gains made in reducing sectarian kill- ings and establishing democratic principles in his country. He also warned that Iraq's neighbors must stop the continued flow into his count...…

… 0 4A - Thursday, September 27,2007 P 1/N The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com E CJtIzdigan BaIj Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu KARL STAMPFL IMRAN SYED JEFFREY BLOOMER EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrati...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom * In a shutdown, schools would be on thin ice Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5A BUDGET From page 1A ing in recent years. Some districts told the Michi- gan School Business Officials they may have to shut their doors if a protracted state shutdown causes a missed payment. But most districts said they would tap their reserves or borrow more money to stay afloat. Several districts might start to trim back n...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom COURT From page 1 they were at parties raided by the police. Had they not taken the tests, each would have faced a $100 fine and a trip to jail. Doug Lewis, director of the University's Student Legal Services, said he expects law enforcement procedure to stay the same despite the ruling. "It maynothave all that much of animpact," Lewis said. "Officers can still base the MIP on someone's demeanor, appearanc...…

… 0 8A - Thursday, September 27, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Holding his own Mesko embraces new role By KEVIN WRIGHT Daily Sports Editor It doesn't really matter how far Michigan's Zoltan Mesko can punt the ball. He's more worried about impressing his friends with his golf swing anyway. This summer, the redshirt sophomore worked on his best imitation of Happy Gilmore's running swing from the tee box and said he got pretty go...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 9A * Blue bounces back, blanks Grizzlies By ANDY REID Daily Sports Writer It took just seven minutes for the Michigan men's soccer team to for- get last weekend's heartbreaking tie to Wisconsin. At the - seven- MICHIGAN 2 minute OAKLAND 0 markoflast night's contest at Oakland, fresh- man Tex McCullough fielded a pass from sophomore Mauro Fuzetti and scorched the net by sn...…

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…, . ,; ; s lip y u.ax;%' -. _., k'Y>. J is l. The Michigan Daily ( michigandaily com I Thursday, September 27, The Daily Arts guide to the best upcoming events - it's everywhere you should be this weekend and why. , I .. , _ '"' :, ; . , , . . . :, x, _ , ' ' _ cs . ,-.. , _ . : 3 = lYZ ' AT THE PODIUM In brown-bag lecture style, Jo Reger's presenta- tion "High Heels and Vin- tage Funk" will focus on the relationship between second- and t...…

… I 2B - Thursday, September 27, 2007 SUPER MARIO RPG: THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN STARS (1996) The one Mario to rule them all By MARK SCHULTZ Daily Arts Writer Many of today's self-professed "Mario" addicts would have trouble naming the first Mario game where the best playable charac- ters were Bowser, a giant marshmallow who could control the weather and a doll that came to life and shot cannon-balls out of his arm. To most gamers, Mario getti...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 3E Googled into submission few years ago, Face- book and Wikipedia joined Google to form the triumvirate of Internet sites as verbs. Google is certainly the father - it's enjoyed this status the longest. Its creative output is massive and exponentially growing, andasitstrutsforward, conspiracy theories and legitimate disconcer- tion spread like fungus. If Google takes ove...…

… I 4B - Thursday, September 27, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com DETROIT From page 1B ed to present "individual suffering due to occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine." Closer inspection reveals the masks are made from e-mail corre- spondence with people directly affected by those various conflicts. Ramsey's "genus loci" in this sense is not simply Michigan but the Middle East as well. Michigan has one of the largest Arab...…

…The Statement lie ffiid gan Balg Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, September 26, 2007 michigandaily.com AFTER PROPOSAL 2 Officials outline diversity plans Administrators say future minority enrollment uncertain By CATHE SHUBERT Daily StaffReporter LANSING - Administrators sought to reaffirm the University's commitment to racial and ethnic diversity by outlining the steps it is taking to keep minority enroll- ment from plummeting in a pre- sen...…

… a 2A - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 FRIDAY: lere The Extremist Ben & Jerry's and Stucehi's make it work When Ben & Jerry's owner 1V1 Arthur took over the State Sti shop from " its previous owners May 2006, he often paid attentioi the flow of customers at the shop, placement, next door to Stucchi's cream, always seemed a bit stra: to him. Stucchi's had been an Ann Ar favorite since the late 1980s. So ol ously when Ben & Jerry's decidec mo...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom NEWS BRIEFS ST. GEORGE, Utah Polygamist leader faces life in prison U after conviction Theleaderofapolygamous Mor- Leg mon splinter group was convicted t yesterday of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and a LA 14-year-old girl. the Warren Jeffs, 51, could get life Gov. in prison after a trial that threw a day spotlight on a renegade commu- appra nity along the A...…

… 4A - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu KARL STAMPFL EDITOR IN CHIEF IMRAN SYED EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR JEFFREY BLOOMER MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com "Clueless" meets "Sex and the City" meets "The O.C. By PAUL TASSI Daily Film Editor When you're introduced to a char- acter named Serena van der Woodsen, the first thought you have is, "Yeah, this show is going to piss me off." * This feeling persists through much of the first 10 minutes **' of "Gossip Girl" as the camera wades "Gossip through a sea of Girl" socialites sipping Patron and remi- Wednesday...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 7A INPUT From page 1A Sullivan said the sentence was "far too generic" and said she did not want to tie the administration to a policy that might not work in every instance. In response, SACUA Chair Charles Smith, a professor in the pharmacology department, asked Sullivan if she could come up with language that would work in every instance. She said she doubted it. Some SA...…

…8A - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Big weekend for Big Ten matchups By MARK GIANNOTTO Daily Sports Writer Heading into the 2007 season, the top of the Big Ten looked like more of the same from last year. Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin made up the top four in 2006, and all of them were expected to compete for a conference crown this season. The Buckeyes and Badgers have held up their ends...…

…0 p p 1 126 The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The inner struggles of an RA our a.m. is a time for sleeping. It is not a time for MIPs or DPS. It is an hour when my duties as a resident adviser should have paused, and it is certainly not an hour for fire alarms. But there I was, the clock at 4, putting on street clothes and step- ping out into my hall to round up my fresh- men. A quick secret: All resident advisers hate fi...…

… .. . , sin, _ - . S S S S THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK with GARY GRACA RIiC t A look at the big news events this week and how important they really are. Conveniently rated from one to 10. 5B GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO JOIN THE SUBMARINE TEAM? A look at one of campus's most bizarre and most successful sports teams CATERING TO VETERANS Mike Ilitch, the owner of the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers and Little Caesar's, recently received the U.S. Depar...…

… .Al a a 9 0 U 10B Th MchianDaly - dnsdySptme .26 007 WedesdySepembr 6 07 heMchgn3aly 3 :ting your computer Living in the digital age means almost everything we do - enrolling in classes, paying for classes, applying for graduation - happens on a computer. Protecting all that data at the Uni- versity is an important job, one that falls in part to Matt Bing and Maria Sheler- Edwards, specialists at Information Technology Security Service...…

… -Adilk, Th ihga ~al -Wdnsdy Speme 20 t S Wednsda, Sptemer 6- 007 - h'MihianDaly 9 LIKE THEME PARTIES? E-mail your submissions for theme party of the week to thestatement@umich.edu. PLAYBOY IS LOOKING FOR UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COEDS TO APPEAR IN THE MAGAZINE'S MAY 2008 "GIRLS OF THE BIG 10" PICTORIAL. AUDITIONS: OCTOBER 8 & 9 How Michigan's budget crisis could ruin your weekend little more than a week down 21 shots. Michigan driver's ag...…

… 0 . _ 0 a 9 9 Wensay etmbr2,207 -Th ihga al - I. -. .. . SS Dissecting diversity znknowns- Science column >wn here was a simple game that I used to play around cam- pus when I first arrived here four years ago. It went like this: all day long - in class, walking on the diag, in the dorms and dining halls - I would conduct a search. I would scrutinize every person who passed within my field of view, looking for one particular charact...…

… Adlk i . p p p p p 9 S an Daily - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 WenedaSete be 6,207 heMihia Dil. said. "A plane just crashed into one of the Trade Centers." The news didn't alarm me. I was sleep- ing at the time, and knowing my room- mate as well I did, I remembered the last time I woke up with him in sight - there was a Playboy on my lap, a poorly drawn Sharpie mustache on my face and he had a camera in hand. Needless to say, I knew h...…

…FROM THE DAILY: JENA SN'T AN ANOMALY OPINION, PAGE 4 I e JMidjigan 41aily Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, September 25,2007 michigandailycom AHMADINEJAD AT COLUMBIA e Students split over speech Iranian leader's visit prompts debate over what's appropriate on campuses By KIMBERLY CHOU Daily Staff Reporter University of Michigan students and faculty are split over whether or not Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have been allowed to ...…

…The Michigan. Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4 4cMidiigan Gaily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 wwmichigantdttily torn KARL STAMPFL DAVID GOH Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-6 7 336 34-" 74-058 687677777(1)?ci7777771,713y 131 77777 hi ndityea A dollar worth leaving behind PROTEST IN MANDALAY One of many horrible aspects of Sunday is doing the laundry you've been meaning to do since Monday. That's th...…

…T he Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com N Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON Social Security could face $13.6 trillion deficit The Bush administration said in a new report yesterday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall and that delaying need- ed reforms is not fair to younger workers. A report issued by the Treasury Department said that some com- bination of benefit cuts and tax increases will need t...…

… 4 - Tuesday, September 25, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 q T "tothedaily@umich.edu We can only make minds, and to do this, we must have access to the full range of inquiry." - Columbia University President Lee Bollinger on the responsibility of institutions of higher learning in his opening statement at an event hosted...…