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…P The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com November S, 2007 - 3B Second-half 'D' keys win for 'M' By ANTHONY OLIVEIRA Daily Sports Writer For more than a dozen minutes, the Michigan women's basketball team went on lockdown. After halftime, the Wolverines didn't allow a point for more than 12 minutes in the 80-51 exhibition rout over Lake Superior State at Crisler Arena. "That was really the difference," Michigan coach KevinBorseth said. "That...…

… 4B - November 5, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 Despite injury, Hart returns to boost 'M' 4 By KEVIN WRIGHT Daily Sports Editor EAST LANSING - After a six- yard run late in the second quar- ter, Mike Hart got up from the pile and immediately N limped to the NOTEBOOK Michigan side- line. But that wasn't the end to the senior captain's influence on the game. The Heisman hopeful had already given the Wolverines a boost in the ...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom November 5, 2007 - 5B DEFENSE From page 'lB came out with the intensity." Said Michigan linebackers coach Steve Szabo: "The first half was what I would have expected us to do, and then the second half we didn't do it. That's disappoint- ing. I'm glad it happened, because it sends our players a message. We haven't played a good running foot- ball team in while, we had a chance to play one today and found ...…

… 6B - November 5, 20b7 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com I First conference victory eludes 'M' By COLT ROSENSWEIG Daily Sports Writer At halftime of yesterday's game, the Michigan MICHIGAN 1 men's PENN STATE 2 soccer team seemed well on its way to recording its first Big Ten win of the year in its final regular season match. The Wolverines had seized a 1-0 lead against Penn State in the 35th minute on a goal by sopho- more forward Peri...…

…State Street's Work Gallery gees green Arts, Page 8 li ii a ai(:;4 H ,1TOI Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 2, 2007 michigandaily.com ADMISSIONS AFTER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Minority enrollment dips slightly 'U' says numbers don't reflect full effects of Prop 2 By EMILY BARTON Daily StaffReporter The number of underrepre- sented minorities dropped in this year's freshman class, according to final enrollment data released yesterday. The ...…

… I 2 - Friday, November 2, 2007 Classical good looks Classical Civilization Prof. Derek Collins claims he isn't trying. He says he's just trying to look professional. He says it's "cute" that ratemypro- fessors.com has a category in which students can rate their professors' hotness. But Collins's students say he's the one who's cute. Classical Civilization Prof. Derek Collins has been ranked the hottest male professor at the University by u...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, November 2, 2007 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS LANSING Granholm vetoes parts of budget, but signs most bills Gov. Jennifer Granholm has signed most of the new state bud- get bills, but she also has rejected portions through several line-item vetoes announced yesterday. Granholm vetoed more 'than $800,000 set aside for various projects in the state's Department of Human Services budget, saying they "cannot be s...…

… 4 - Friday,.November 2, 2007 6 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 I don't approve of Congress." - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explaining that she too is frustrated at the lack of progress Congress has made on Iraq and that she understands why Congress has such low approval ratings. A Hail Mary for the...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, November 2, 2007 - 5 A fushion of different cultures IASA, one of the University's largest student groups, will perform tonight at Hill By PRIYA BALI Daily Arts Writer The root of the Sanskrit word miz- rana means "mixture." For the Uni- versity's Indian American Student Association, which chose the word for the title of this year's cultural show, mizrana means to combine vari- ous elements of ...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com PLANETARIUM From page 1 he has to be careful not to fly through the stars too quickly or the audience will get dizzy. The operator controls the show using a wireless PlayStation controller. The new software creates accu- rate three-dimensional models of the planets. It is now possible to see the details of the Valles Marineris can- yon on Mars and fly through Jupi- ter's rings. The planetarium is also th...…

… 8 - Friday, November 2, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com AGREENER e o _ State Street's gallery By MAUREEN SULLIVAN Daily Arts Writer Going green. Green-eyed monster. Greenbacks. Green thumb. Green around the gills. It's not easy being green. The color green T has infinite enten- The Green dres and meanings. Show More than a color, green is positive Work Gallery and negative - it's Throagh a feeling, a lifestyle Free r and a pop-...…

…T D r es The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, November 2, 2007 - 9 Spartans pose no 'Red' threat By DANIEL BROMWICH Daily Sports Editor Political football 101: offenses, with Michigan linebackers coach Steve Szabo. When you see spread, think red. "I call that Communist football," Szabo said. "I'm so tired of it. Good, red-blooded Americans snap the ball, hand it to the guy and have a normal run game or pass game." Szabo and the r...…

… 10 - Friday, November 2, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MEN'S BASKETBALL Seniority rules for Blue in exhibition By DAN FELDMAN get them out. So there was no plan Daily Sports Writer there." NEW DEFENSE: Michigan held Seniority rules worked last the Bulldogs to just 40 points. night. Will it work again next Fri- In the second half, the Wolver- day? ines even mixed in the 1-3-1 zone, After practice Wednesday, which they only lear...…

…Our guy against an MSU writer The B-side Sports, Page 5A ONEUN EIG[1(TLIsEE, NoverS (F IIAL FLEE Thursday, November 1, 2007 michigandaily.com ANN ARBOR PHILANTROPHY F11ng Pfizer's void With pharmaceutical giant leaving city, non-profits look for new benefactor By ANDY KROLL Daily Staff Reporter When pharmaceutical giant Pfizer closes its 2 mil- lion-square-foot Plymouth Road facility next year, the city of Ann Arbor will lose its single la...…

… 6 2A - Thursday, November 1, 2007 A HALLOWEEN TREAT? A feminist education In the midst of the social re lion at the height of the women's eration movement at the Univer in the early 1970s, a group of stud decided they were missing a key of their education. They wanted a discourse on female experience. A small group of female volunt led an experimental women's s ies course in the fall of 1972. But University canceled the course a a semeste...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, Noverfber 1, 2007 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS Hearing delayed for pair charged in MSA scandal The pair charged with shutting dowr a rival party's website during the 2006 MSA election had their preliminary hearings rescheduled yesterday. MSA Rep. Anton Vul- jaj and Engineering senior Joel Alan Schweitzer are each charged with one count use of a computer to commit a crime - a felony with maximum penalties o...…

… 4A - Thursday, November 1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 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 reflectthe officialrpssition of the Daily's editorialhoard. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the v...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, November 1, 2007 - SA BAD BLOOD Rival columnists duke it out Hello, my Michigan State friends. I'm back. You may remember me from having the same assign- ment last season - a dueling col- umn with a Spartan writer, talking up my school while pointing out your flaws. I know at least 147 of you remember me, because, well, that's how many hate e- mails I got. SCOTT Most of the BELL messages were ...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom PFIZER From page 1A The Ann Arbor Summer Festi- val, a series of performances at the Power Center, also benefited from Pfizer's presence in the city. Pfizer made large annual donations to the show and purchased substantial amounts of tickets for employees. Robb Woulfe, executive direc- tor of the festival, called Pfizer one of the festival's "major" spon- sors and said his organization is already feeling ...…

… 6 8A - Thursday, November], 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com A COSTUME PARTY ON ELM STREET 3 convicted in Madrid attacks Court hands down life sentences for train bombings perpetrators MADRID(AP) -Spain'sNation- al Court convicted the three main suspects in-the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder yesterday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in pris- on for Europe's worst Islamic ter- ror attack. But the...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, November 1, 2007 - 9A More goalies than nets as Hogan returns to ice By NATE SANDALS Daily Sports Editor For the first time in more than a month, the Michigan hockey goalies had to make the exciting, albeit harrowing, skate down the ice during practice. The Wolverine netminders restarted their regular practice rotation when freshman goalie Bryan Hogan returned to practice Monday. With three goa...…

… 0 10A - Thursday, November 1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Ohio State faces another conference test By MARK GIANNOTTO Daily Sports Writer Two recent developments have changed the very core of Hallow- een. First, it has transformed from a one-day trick-or-treating fest into a week-long event because the actual holiday falls on Wednesday. Can anyone say five-night weekend? Second, cdstumes have gotten truly ridiculous. Last n...…

…S The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com I Thursday, November 1, 2007 The Daily Arts guide to the best upcoming events - it's everywhere you should be this weekend and why. A photograph of a boy running on the beach in Benin, taken by Peter Schottenfels, part of today's Slideluck Potshow. AT THE ARK Neo-Scottish folk band Back of the Moon - named Best Folk Band at the 2005 Scottish Trad Music Awards - returns to The Ark Sunday. Tickets are $...…

… 2B - Thursday, November 1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com THE :'A';T'.THE BEACH BOYS:'TODAY!' (1965) The great album that preceded 'Pet ounds' REDUCTIVE REASONING Picking one and one apart. By DAVID WATNICK Daily Arts Writer By the end of 1964, things were moving fast for The Beach Boys. The past year had seen three (three!) albums and endless tour- ing, and the upcoming record demanded more. Despite outra- geous expectations...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, November 1, 2007 - 3B The IKEA in all o You're driving a good 45 miles-her-hour through commercial America in your obnoxious SUV, on a street lined with fast-food chains and gas stations, dotted with strip malls and the odd car wash, when the colorful flicker of bright blue and yellow flags waving in the distance catch your eye. You steer toward them, unable to dis- tract yourself from the col...…

… 0 4B - Thursday, November1, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6 6 S T ,? WAN0 FIGHTRT ..AFRICA WP O;:VE AST FIND OUT! IKEA From page 3B Target doesn't count). Not so in the land of IKEA. It's not just the customers who are treated better at IKEA; the company maintains an array of standards to pro- tect its employees and suppliers, both in the store and factory. An IKEA rep once flew to India to redesign a toy on an emergency as...…

…The Statement ie~i an Bat iy )NE-HIUNDIRED EIG AT )ITORIAI FREEDC Ann Arbor, Michigan ELECTION CATCH-22 Wednesday, October 31, 2007 michigandaily.com F * Feds: U ignored disabled fans 42-page letter cites University's continued failure to accommodate wheelchair-bound fans at Big House INACCESSIBLE STADIUM Some of the problems with Michigan Stadium cited by the Education Department PRESSBOX:Althoughthe pressboxis used as overflow seat...…

… 4 2A - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 POPCORN PROTEST Blame Canada Autumn is upon us. Trees burst with colors of red, yellow and orange before their leaves plunge to the earth. The winds gradually change from pleas- antly warm to uncomfort- ably cold, and a veil of clouds enshrouds the once-radiant glow of the sun. But is all that a good thing? According to weather.com, nine out of the next 10 days in Ann Arbor will be partly to mostly cloud...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON U.S. Navy helping pirated vessel A U.S. Navy destroyer helped sailors who retook control of their vessel yesterday in a deadly battle with pirates after the North Kore- an-flagged ship was hijacked off Somalia, the American military said. A helicopter flew from the USS James E. Williams to investigate a phoned-in tip of a hijacked vessel, and demanded by bridge-to-bridge radio that...…

… 4A - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 mJb 1ihdpigan ~&Ilyj Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. r k. 420 Msynsrd Sc. Ann Arbor, MO 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu The University is discriminating against individuals with mobility impairments on the basis of disability." - A U.S. Department of Education report dated Oct. 26 summarizing an investigation of Michigan Stadium's ...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 5A Letting go of music control Yeesh. Real? Uh huh Steve Carell can't save insincere movie By BLAKE GOBLE in Real Life" is a dishonest dram- DailyArts Writer edy that fails on this basic level. Set amid a family reunion in That title is a huge misnomer. Rhode Island, the film features Dan does not live in real life. the exploits of Dan Burns (the Maybe his resembles a re...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 7A a BUDGET From pagelA caseworkers would be hired - some at private agencies and some with the government. Sen. Bill Hardiman (R-Kent- wood) also said money saved by privatizing more juvenile justice services could be used to add state workers in local welfare offices, where he said staff-to-client ratios are as high as 500 to one. "That's way too high to do real social wo...…

… 4 8A - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Bold predictions motivate Ringer By KEVIN WRIGHT Daily Sports Editor Michigan State running back Javon Ringer sat just a table-length away from his new coach Mark Dantonio at Big Ten Media Day in August, and even in the noisy room, it wouldn't have been hard for Dantonio to hear Ringer's plea. Repeatedly, Ringer would tell reporters he never had the chance in his tw...…

…0 ...wV qw w a v w w ! I 12B The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 A farewell to Anberay n a move that sounds more like a scene from science fiction than reality, the Chi- cago real-estate company Zaragon Inc. bought and has recently demolished Melrose Place, the apartment complex near EastQuad on East University Avenue, to make way for a 10-story high-rise. I lived in Melrose Place - also known as the Castle at Anberay -...…

…V V V V _ - a v 0 0 w Th -McignDal -Wensdy0Otbe 007 new ul es rule 57: You're iot fooling anyone when you order a diet coke with your triple bacon burger. rule 58: Wearing a mini- skirt in sub-zero temperatures will not make you look hot. Only cold. rule 59: Picking an occupation and putting the word "sexy" in front of it is rarely a good costume idea. E-mail rule submissions to TheStatement@umich.edu THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK with GARY...…

…0 0 a AOL a 0 w w ThM -Wednesday,c 300 A TIP FOR DEVELOPING YOUR John Maxwell Coetzee: A South African Nobel Prize-winning author so publicity-averse he didn't COCKTAIL PARTY VERNACULAR show up to collect his two Booker Prizes in person BOOK From page 8B were presumed' guilty unless they distanced themselves from Islamic militancy. Muslims could theoretically be accepted as indi- viduals if they proved by words and expressions of patri...…

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…d s i A The Michigan Dail - WednesdIay, October 31, 2007 A TIP FOR DEVELOPING YOUR Slow Food movement: A global effort to preserve local plants, animals and traditional techniques of food COCKTAIL PARTY VERNACULAR preparation. It has 70,000 adherents in SD countries. a 0 WenedyOcoer31 006 - heMihianDaly S Escaping the shadow of, the Twin Towers: Arab Americans post-9/11 In an excerpt from his soon-to-be-released book about Arab America...…

…S S U . AM AMML AM S S 0 0 6 hen a - GOsODtuber h1,s2AD7 Even a GOOD university has its BAD5 pots A LOOK AT THE DARKEST MOMENTS IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY BY BRIAN TENGEL I Daily Staff Reporter any of us like to imagine the University asa beacon of progress. We see it as a place where ideas are expounded and values debated. We envision an institution devoted to the education and-advancement of its students, a forum where diversity and academ...…

…The best of 'Treehouse of Horror' Arts, Page CI e Ahtc gflfl Brlj Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, October 30, 2007 michigandaily.com Ed. Dep't threatens'U' 'with funding cuts Letter says Big House must comply with disabilities act By ARIKIA MILLIKAN Daily StaffReporter The U.S. Department of Educa- tion has given the University an ultimatum: Make the Michigan Stadium seating bowl compliant with the Americans With Disabili- ties Act or face c...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS Solai WASHINGTON Blackwater guards win ( promised immunity After The State Department prom- momer ised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its race, th investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The team fini Associated Press has learned. The immunity deal has delayed By RYAN a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 Daily...…

… 4 - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com J1ffidia I~ A, Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu IMRAN SYED JEFFREY BLOOMER EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR I've disappointed you. I'm so sorry" - Oprah Winfrey, responding to reports of an abuse scandal at her South African girls' school, as reported yesterday by the N...…

…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 5 "Where are you going!?" Penn's vision doesn't fit story By NOAH DEAN STAHL Daily Arts Writer By now, the story of Christopher McCandless - the Emory University graduate *** from an upper- Into the middle- Wild class family who At the State donated Theater his life's Paramount savings to a charityand set out on a personal expedi- tion into the Alaskan wil- derness - is wid...…

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…The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 7 HAZING From page 1A incident by the Interfraternity Council, the governing council of many of the University's fraterni- ties. "Are these the values that the IFC stands for? Not only is an IFC organization potentially degrad- ing their pledges, but they are also forcing them to do racist public acts," he wrote. Garcia said the man's response upset him further because Garcia ...…

… 8 - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Progress on budget slows THE CANDYWOMAN 4 Nearing deadline, lawmakers divided over privatizing adoption, juvenile detention LANSING (AP) - With little time left, lawmakers and Gov. Jennifer Granholm were still divided yesterday over wheth- er more private providers should handle adoption, foster care and juvenile justice services - the big sticking point in resolv- ing ...…