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Gift benefits Big day for big money high-profile departments Stephen Ross gets the maize-carpet treatment for $200-million gift
Reaction mixed among students on donation recipients By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Staff Reporter
The Ross School of Business and the University Athletic Department are not first-time beneficiaries of real-estate mogul Stephen Ross. Though many students
expressed appreciation for Ross’s $200-million donation at a glitzy celebration Wednesday crowded with top University officials and students, others took to social media to question the choice of recipients — units of the University that some argue affect a small percentage of the school’s overall population or are already well-funded. Justin Pope, a former Associated Press national education reporter who was once a KnightSee GIFT, Page 6A
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A maize carpet lined the entrance to the Ross School of Business Wednesday morning. Just hours after the University announced the largest single donation in the school’s history, a celebratory event — including a performance by the Michigan Marching Band — welcomed Business students and adminis-
trators. The event was held to thank philanthropist and real estate mogul Stephen Ross’s recordbreaking$200-million donation, which will be split between his namesake school and the Athletic Department. Nearly 10 years after a $100-million donation to the business school that bears his name, Ross said the newest donation will “finish the job and do it right.” Students packed the event, donning maize shirts that read “Welcome Home” with a quotation from Ross on the back: “You get by giving.” The crowd, which included many high-level University administrators, collected in the Business School atrium and heard speeches from Ross, University President
Mary Sue Coleman, Business School Dean Alison Davis-Blake and Business graduate student Damian Chatman, president of the school’s student government association. Ross, who is founder and chairman of the Related Companies and has a Forbes-estimated net worth of $4.4 billion, said while his first donation helped advance the Business School, the new gift will take it to new heights. “It’s really exciting also to know that we can see this facility knowing that we can finish the rest of the campus and really make it the best business school in the country,” Ross said. Coleman spoke to the audience before Ross, first joking about the timeliness of the
announcement: “I think the first day of classes every year should start this way.” Coleman said she was with Ross in 2004 when he announced his first $100-million donation, adding that she was thrilled the most recent donation happened during her term as president. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Ross said he was actively recruited by the Business School for the latest gift. Besides the extensive renovations to the “business campus,” the donation will also help provide financial aid and an expansion of career services. Separately, the $100-million gift to the Athletic Department will help fund a variety of programs See MONEY, Page 6A
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Mixed Use Party loses candidate for council
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University alum drops out of City Council race for personal reasons By TAYLOR WIZNER Daily News Editor
University alum Jaclyn Vresics, who was running for the first ward seat on the Ann Arbor City Council this November as an independent, has withdrawn her campaign for personal reasons, according to her co-chair in the Mixed
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Use Party, Will Leaf. The Mixed Use Party is a group of students and Ann Arbor residents that want to simplify Ann Arbor’s zoning plan. The party is running on a platform of “non-discriminatory zoning” which deals with assigning districts based on the potential harms of individual buildings rather than on the type of neighborhoods. Mixed Use Party candidate Conrad Brown, a University alum is still running against incumbent city council member Jane Lumm (I–Ward 2). The party’s other candidate, Sam DeVarti, a student at Eastern
Michigan University, is also still running against Councilmember Stephen Kunselman (D– Ward 3). In a statement, Vresics said she will continue to support the party, though she can no longer continue campaigning for personal reasons. “Although personal reasons require that I withdraw from the election, the Mixed Use Party has my unwavering support,” Vresics said in a statement. “I have full confidence in Conrad and Sam as candidates, and I maintain my belief that the party’s platform will bring See COUNCIL, Page 7A
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In an effort to streamline production and content delivery, the MLive Media Group announced Wednesday that AnnArbor.com would cease to exist as a standalone website, instead integrated into the larger MLive.com. This move puts the news outlet in line with several other city papers around the state, including The Grand Rapids Press and
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The publication’s twiceweekly print editions will also be rebranded as The Ann Arbor News, and will contain AnnArbor-focused content from MLive. AnnArbor.com is the latest incarnation of the 174-year-old Ann Arbor News, a daily print publication that covered and the University’s campus, which ceased printing amid general financial difficulties in the industry in 2009. At the time of the paper’s closing, Ann Arbor became the largest city in America without a professional daily newspaper, and The Michigan Daily became the only daily print See MLIVE, Page 7A
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BROADENING HORIZONS
How did Michigan contribute to your success, personally and professionally? The diversity of the school, the student body and my experiences among them all contributed to developing me in a myriad of ways. Though I grew up in a big city, my perception of the world was colored by relatively narrow experiences. Michigan introduced me to a
world, to people, to thoughts, to activities, to interests that I didn’t know before, in ways that could not be more widespread, from silly to serious; from local to global; from personal to professional. In Ann Arbor, I met my first close black associate with whom I worked at the campus radio station, and Mr. Upper-Middle-Class Jewish got his first exposure to kids from the kind of working-class culture that Bruce Springsteen grew up on. To this day, one of my best Ann Arbor friends is someone who grew up in a small shoebox of a house in a neighborhood where every house is the same and every father worked for the auto
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WHERE: 1600 East Medical Center WHEN: 6:50 p.m. Tuesday evening WHAT: The door of a car in a structure was dented by an unknown vehicle. The accident happened between 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
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industry. Then, who knew such a place existed? What values, ethics, ideals and key takeaways would you say the Michigan community instilled in you, as a person, overall? Specifically in the athletic arena, I love the commitment to doing things the “right way” that I genuinely believe the Michigan community has always demanded. There is no doubt in my mind, for all his onfield success, Jim Tressel would never have coached a Michigan team. — BRANDON SHAW
WHERE: Medical Inn, 1495 Simpson WHEN: About 6 p.m. Tuesday WHAT: A wallet was stolen from a lab coat hanging inside a local dental clinic. The incidence occurred between 9 a.m. and 2:45 p.m.
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WHAT: Pearl and the Beard is performing in Ann Arbor. Admission is free for students, as long as they show a valid Mcard. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark, 316 S. Main St.
WHAT: For all of those interested in singing and acting on stage, auditions are being held for Musket’s Fall musical. This year’s musical is Jason Robert Brown’s hit RENT. WHO: University Activities Center- Musket WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. WHERE: The Michigan Union UAC Office, 4th floor
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Bill Nye has agreed to join the cast of Dancing with the Stars, reported The Los Angeles Times. After the announcement, the Science Guy turned dancer announced, “It’s all physics!” One of his competitors will be the Jersey Shore’s Snooki.
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Jack Nicholson announced that he will be retiring from he film business, reported Radar Online. The Academy Award Winner, according to the source, is unofortunately retiring on the basis of increasing memory loss.
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Syrian rebels linked to Al-Qaida hit Christian village in new clash Rebel attacks continue as world awaits possible U.S. military action
a Senate panel voted to give regime change. President Barack Obama authorObama has been lobbying for ity to use military force against international and domestic supSyria — the first time lawmak- port for punishing President ers have voted to allow military Bashar Assad’s regime, which action since the October 2002 the U.S. says fired rockets loaded votes authorizing the invasion with the nerve agent sarin on of Iraq. rebel-held areas near Damascus The measure, which cleared before dawn on Aug. 21, killing BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaidalinked rebels launched an assault the Senate Foreign Relations hundreds of civilians. Wednesday on a regime-held Committee on a 10-7 vote, was So far, however, he has won Christian village in the densely altered at the last minute to little international backing for populated west of Syria and new support “decisive changes to action. Among major allies, only clashes erupted near the capital, the present military balance France has offered publicly to Sebastian Scheiner/AP Damascus — part of a brutal bat- of power” in Syria’s civil war, join the U.S. in a strike. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray ahead of the Jewish New Year at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can tle of attrition each side believes though it ruled out U.S. combat In a parliament debate, pray in Jerusalem’s old city, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Israelis happily welcomed the Jewish New Year late Wednesday it can win despite more than two operations on the ground. It was France’s Prime Minister Jeandespite uncertainty and turmoil brewing on both its northern and southern borders. expected to reach the full Senate Marc Ayrault made a passionyears of deadlock. As the world focused on pos- floor next week. ate appeal for intervention in sible U.S. military action against The Syria conf lict, which Syria, placing the blame for Syria, rebels commandeered a began with a popular upris- the alleged chemical attack on mountaintop hotel in the vil- ing in March 2011, has been Assad and warning that inaclage of Maaloula and shelled the stalemated, and it’s not clear tion could let him carry out community below, said a nun, if U.S. military strikes over more atrocities. speaking by phone from a con- the regime’s alleged chemiThe debate ended without a vent in the village. She spoke on cal weapons use would change vote since President Francois Sudoku Syndication condition of anonymity for fear that. Obama has said he seeks http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ Hollande can order a military at sundown, ushers in 10 days reportedly headed to Hezbollah. of reprisals. limited pinpoint action to deter operation without one. “The world around us has of Jewish soul-searching — The attack came hours before future chemical attacks, not Obama has called chemical known as the “Days of Awe” turned upside down,” columweapons use a “red line,” and top — capped by Yom Kippur, the nist Eitan Haber wrote in the administration officials argued Day of Atonement. The two- Yediot Ahronot daily. “The before the Senate on Tuesday day holiday commemorates the picture is still not clear, but in that Assad would take inaction JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis creation of the world — which any case it is not an easy one by Washington as a license for happily welcomed the Jewish this year reached the age of for ... Israel, which is trying to MEDIUM further brutality against his New Year on Wednesday despite 5774, according to the Jewish live a normal life in destrucpeople. The fighting has killed tive and turbulent surrounduncertainty and turmoil brew- calendar. more than 100,000 Syrians and ing on both its northern and But all around Israel, the ings.” uprooted nearly 7 million from region is in upheaval. Egypt has His colleague, Sever Plocksouthern borders. their homes. Rosh Hashana, which begins experienced weeks of unrest er, said the year could prove since the military overthrew to be one of the most fateful in its Islamist president in July, Israeli history. and al-Qaida-linked fighters are “Israel and its government roaming the lawless Sinai Pen- will be called upon to cope — insula on Israel’s doorstep. In first on a conceptual level and Syria, a bloody civil war that has then in diplomatic and milikilled more than 100,000 rages tary terms — with a different on as the U.S. weighs a military Syria, a different Egypt, a difstrike in reaction to the regime’s ferent Iran, and different Palalleged use of chemical weapons. estinians,” he wrote. “The year Israel fears violence could 5774 is expected to be a year spill into its territory. Syria’s that can be called challenging, Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, pos- or more simply put: difficult.” A small glimmer of hope sesses thousands of rockets and missiles that could be used exists in the newly restarted against Israel if a U.S. strike peace talks with Palestinians. sparks a wider conflagration. Though both sides remain The Jewish state has been skeptical a final peace accord careful not to take sides in the can be reached, the talks offer puzzle by sudokusyndication.com GIVE IT A TRY. © sudokusolver.com. 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E. coli detected in Western Mich. water system Tests have revealed E. coli in the water system that serves Rockford, a city north of Grand Rapids. Health officials advised residents to use bottled water Wednesday or boil tap water before using it for drinking, brushing teeth or preparing food. Officials say public drinking fountains should be turned off. The Kent County Health Department says there were equipment problems at the Rockford water plant over the long holiday weekend. Rockford has approximately 5,800 residents and draws its water from wells..
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Minneapolis mayor invites Illinois gay couples to marry With all of Illinois’ financial woes, residents have grown accustomed to politicians from other states trying to raid its companies, jobs and best workers. Now one of them is making a similar pitch to the state’s gay couples: Come north to get married, and spend lots of money. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who recently married 46 same-sex couples following his state’s passage of a law legalizing gay weddings, will appear in a predominantly gay Chicago neighborhood Thursday to launch a campaign called “Marry Me in Minneapolis.” He plans to follow with campaigns in Colorado and Wisconsin, two other states that haven’t approved same-sex marriage..
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Putin accuses John Kerry of lying about Syria Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a liar, claiming he had denied that al-Qaida was fighting with the Syrian opposition in that country’s civil war. Speaking to his human rights council, Putin recalled watching a congressional debate where Kerry was asked about al-Qaida. Putin said he had denied that it was operating in Syria, even though he was aware of the alQaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group. Putin said: “This was very unpleasant and surprising for me. We talk to them (the Americans) and we assume they are decent people, but he is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad.” It was unclear exactly what Putin was referencing, but Kerry was asked Tuesday while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if the Syrian opposition had become more infiltrated by al-Qaida.
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Obama compares Wallenberg’s war efforts to Syria President Barack Obama is drawing parallels between the actions of a Swedish diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust and the action he wants the world to take to help Syria’s people. On his first presidential visit to Sweden, Obama said Raoul Wallenberg’s actions are a reminder “of our power not simply to bear witness, but also to act.” Obama is trying to rally the world to retaliate against Syrian President Bashar Assad (bahSHAR’ AH’-sahd) for his alleged use of deadly gases against his people in the country’s civil war. Obama spoke Wednesday after visiting the Great Synagogue of Stockholm and examining artifacts related to Wallenberg. —Compiled from Daily wire reports.
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Senate voted 102-22 to approve the new system Danny Johnston/AP Former President Bill Clinton speaks about health care at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. Wednesday. Clinton’s speech comes with the Affordable Healthcare Act in final countdown mode, just a few weeks before the scheduled Oct. 1 launch of online health insurance markets in the states.
Clinton shows support for federal health care law Clinton challenges opponents to change law, not repeal LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bill Clinton urged opponents of the federal health care law Wednesday to stop trying to repeal it and instead work to improve it, as the White House enlisted the former president to make the case for its signature domestic accomplishment. Speaking at his presidential library in downtown Little Rock, Clinton offered a detailed defense and explanation of the law as a key part of its implementation nears. His nearly hourlong speech was the first in a series of addresses expected by administration officials and allies defending the law this fall. “It seems to me that the benefits of the reform can’t be fully realized and the problem certainly can’t be solved unless both the supporters and the opponents of the original legislation work together to implement it and address the issues that arise whenever you change a system this complex,” Clinton told more than 300 people. “There are always drafting errors, unintend-
ed consequences, unanticipated issues. We’re going to do better working together and learning together than we will trying over and over again to repeal the law or rooting for the reform to fail.” Clinton’s speech comes with the Affordable Care Act in final countdown mode, just a few weeks before the scheduled Oct. 1 launch of online health insurance markets in the states. The markets — also called exchanges— are supposed to be a onestop portal to the benefits of the law. Middle-class people with no access to health care on the job will be eligible for subsidized private coverage, while the poor and near-poor will be steered to Medicaid in states agreeing to expand the program. Markets will open in all the states, even those refusing to expand Medicaid. Even though Clinton’s speech was overshadowed by the Syria debate, the White House hopes to get a much-needed boost from the former president. Obama, who has dubbed the 42nd president the “secretary of explaining stuff,” tapped Clinton’s persuasive powers during the congressional debate over the health care law, sending him to Capitol Hill to cajole worried Democrats. Clinton, who unsuccessfully
pushed for health care reform as president, praised the 2010 law for addressing the cost and availability of health care. “This does give us the best chance we have to achieve nearly universal coverage, provide higher quality health care and lower the rate of cost increases, which we have got to do in a competitive global economy,” he said. Clinton offered suggestions to improve the law, including expanding the availability of tax credits for small businesses. He also called on Congress to address a glitch in the law that prevents some workers who can’t afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the job from getting financial assistance from the government to buy private health insurance on their own. Clinton’s home state has turned into a major battleground over the health care law, and an example of how even Republicantrending states are still willing to embrace some elements of the federal overhaul. The GOP-led Legislature approved an alternative to expanding Medicaid under the law earlier this year, backing a plan to use federal funds to purchase private insurance for thousands of low-income residents.
Obama defends NSA spying program while in Stockholm President’s remarks aimed at assuaging European allies’ misgivings STOCKHOLM (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended anew the United States’ controversial surveillance programs, trying to reassure Europeans that the National Security Agency’s spying apparatus acts in limited fashion to root out threats — even though recently revealed programs show a more widespread information-gathering effort. “I can give assurances to the publics in Europe and around the world that we’re not going around snooping at people’s emails or listening to their phone calls,” Obama said in response to a Swedish reporter’s question during a news conference with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as he began a whirlwind, 24-hour trip to Sweden. “What we try to do is to target very specifically areas of concern.” Still, the president acknowledged that questions about privacy were likely to trail him in Europe — a continent that is protective of privacy rights — for some time. The issue also bubbled up during his trip to Germany in June, shortly after newspapers published reports based on documents leaked by former government contractor Edward Snowden. Despite Obama’s assertions of a more narrow-scope effort, the Snowden-leaked documents show the NSA collects and stores all kinds of data traveling through the Internet, including emails, video chats and instant messages. Under one such classified program, known
as Prism, the government can obtain secret court orders and gather mass amounts of data from major Internet companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The documents also revealed how other NSA programs can tap into trans-Atlantic fiber optic lines so the agency can collect and store raw Internet traffic, including email messages sent overseas. Those programs incensed Europeans. Germany’s Social Democratic leader Peer Steinbrueck, the main election challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel, said last month he would suspend negotiations with the U.S. over a free-trade agreement until Washington clarified details about the NSA’s surveillance programs. Merkel also raised the issue with Obama when he visited Berlin earlier this year. The controversy surrounding the NSA surveillance programs is sure to follow the president when he attends the Group of 20 economic summit in Russia, the second stop on his three-day overseas trip. Russia’s government granted Snowden temporary asylum, defying Obama’s demands that the 30-year-old American be returned to the U.S. to face espionage charges. Snowden is accused of leaking highly secretive documents to The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. Russia’s decision to allow Snowden into the country worsened the already tense ties between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. president called off plans to hold one-on-one talks with Putin in Moscow before the G-20, choosing instead to add a last minute stop in Sweden to his travel itinerary. While the Swedish govern-
ment bills itself as a champion of Internet freedom, officials said ahead of Obama’s visit that they wouldn’t raise the sensitive issue with the U.S. president. However, Internet freedom advocates protesting U.S. surveillance programs were among thousands of demonstrators who gathered in Stockholm for a peaceful protest against Obama’s visit. Swedes reacted with outrage in 2008 over a law that gave a Swedish intelligence service the green light to snoop on email traffic crossing the country’s borders. Sweden’s small Pirate Party, which advocates freedom on the Internet and is highly critical of government surveillance, has inspired the creation of similar parties across Europe and beyond. Air Force One touched down in Stockholm Wednesday morning after an overnight flight from Washington. Obama was greeted on the mild, sunny morning by crowds that lined the streets in central Stockholm to watch his motorcade speed by. Obama’s trip marked the first bilateral visit by a sitting U.S. president to the northern European nation. Thousands of armed police were deployed on city streets, many roads and parks were closed in the downtown area, and concrete barriers and steel fences have sprung up in many locations near where the president was staying. Following his meeting with the prime minister, Obama paid tribute to the late Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with saving at least 20,000 Jews during World War II. Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet forces in 1945 and mysteriously disappeared.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping reform of the notoriously dysfunctional public school system early Wednesday, handing President Enrique Pena Nieto an important victory in his push to remake some of his country’s worst-run institutions. The Senate voted 102-22 in favor of a standardized system of test-based hiring and promotion that would give the government the tools to break teachers unions’ near-total control of school staffing. That control includes the corrupt sale and inheritance of teaching jobs, and it has been widely blamed for much of the poor performance of Mexican schools, which have higher relative costs and worse results than any other in the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. “The inheritance and sale of jobs has ended,” Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet said on Twitter. “Merit is the ideal means of access to, and progress in, a teaching career.” The late-night vote clears a path for Pena Nieto to move forward with a series of even more controversial reforms, including a measure that would violate one of modern Mexico’s longeststanding taboos by allowing private investment in the state-run oil company. But there is potential trouble ahead. Education advocates say a series of concessions to the smaller of the two main teachers unions undermined the reform’s ability to create true change in the national education system. And despite those concessions, the smaller teachers union continued days of debilitating demonstrations in Mexico City, sending tens of thousands of supporters to shut down the capital’s main boulevard and protest outside key government building Wednesday. Thousands attended smaller protests in cities around the country. The union also pledged to throw its support behind a weekend protest against the oil reform by leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. “When Congress is rendered void, the only thing that remains is the streets,” leftist Sen. Mario Delgado said as a series of his Democratic Revolution Party’s objections to specific measures of the reform were rejected in relatively narrow votes. The education reform initially pitted Pena Nieto against the country’s main teachers union — Latin America’s largest union and once one of the most important allies of his Institutional Revolutionary Party. The union, known by the Spanish acronym SNTE, fell into line after its head, Elba Esther Gordillo, was arrested on corruption charges in February. She remains jailed pending trial. A smaller, dissident union known as the National Education Workers’ Coordinating Committee, or CNTE, continued protesting and eventually rallied thousands of teachers from poor southern states, paralyzing large sections of the capital for more than a week. In the end, the CNTE won a series of concessions that help protect its members. Reform advocates called the law an important first step but said much more remained to be done in order to change the system. “It’s not everything we would have hoped for but it’s an historic change,” said David Calderon, director of the education reform advocacy group Mexicans First. “Of course it’s just a change in the rules that still has to be turned into reality.” Much of Mexico’s educational dysfunction is attributed to the relationship formed more than a half-century ago between the
Institutional Revolutionary Party and the teachers unions, which gained increasing control of the education system in exchange for throwing their strength behind the government in the voting box and on the streets. Over the years the unions developed a virtual lock on teacher hiring and promotion. Almost every new teacher must go through a union to gain a school assignment, a practice that has spawned notorious levels of corruption, including the sale and inheritance of teaching positions. Particularly in states with schools controlled by the CNTE, critics say, union influence has transformed schools from educational institutions into mechanisms for extracting funds from the state. The CNTE has become notorious for threatening elected officials with debilitating strikes and marches in order to maintain and increase benefits that make teaching one of the primary sources of legal income in much of rural Mexico. Mexico today spends a greater share of its budget on education than any other member of the OECD except New Zealand. Out of that budget, the country spends more than 90 percent on staff compensation, again higher than any other member of the OECD. That spending doesn’t translate into better results or smaller class sizes, however. Only 47 percent of Mexican children graduate from the equivalent of high school and Mexico also has the OECD’s highest student-to-teacher ratio — 25 pupils to every teacher, on average. Among the benefits ended by the educational reform are payments of more than $100 million a year by some estimates to thousands of teachers who work full-time as union organizers and rarely, if ever, set foot inside a classroom. Education reform groups have found some union representatives earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per semester. The rest of the reform focuses on reasserting government control by awarding teaching jobs to the highest scorers on a standardized test instead of funneling them through a teachers union, a measure weakened by a series of back-room compromises with the CNTE. The law maintains union control over the current crop of teaching students by delaying purely test-based hiring for two years. Serving teachers will have three chances to pass an annual performance test. If they fail all three, they will be moved to an administrative job or given the chance to retire instead of being fired. In another compromise, failing teachers can appeal transfers to local labor law magistrates, a measure that reduces federal control in favor of local officials more easily influenced
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Thank you, Mr. Ross
Moving forward, development focus must be financial aid
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oing even beyond the generous recent donations from Charles Munger, Penny Stamps and Helen Zell, Stephen Ross donated $200 million to the University this Wednesday. Ross is now the largest individual donor in school history with a total of $313 million gifted, and the funds will be split between the business school that bears his name and the Athletic Department. The donation will be used to renovate and build facilities for the business school, including study spaces for students and a career service office, and to expand scholarships for Business students. The Athletic Department will be developing spaces for its 31 teams, building new athletic stadiums and creating academic resources for athletes to succeed in the classroom. Most importantly, the University community owes a serious debt of gratitude to Ross. As a private citizen, he has done more to advance higher education in recent years than the Michigan state legislature, whose job it is to support Michigan’s public universities. Undoubtedly, this donation will be a huge benefit for business students and athletes. But Ross’s program-specific donation is part of a growing trend among donors of supporting already well-funded programs or initiatives that help a select few of a vast student body. Last year, the Athletic Department had a massive $124.5-million budget that went underutilized, as the department left $1.3 million on the table. The Business School budgets for about $26,000 for each of its students, compared to approximately $18,000 per LSA student. These programs’ wealth should not be held against them, but there needs to be focus on how donors can impact the greatest number and most vulnerable populations on campus. Late last May, the University announced plans for the next major capital campaign. The development drive, to be chaired by Ross and launching this November, pinpointed the priority for all incoming funds as expanding financial aid for students. But considering the yearly tuition increases that create unimpressive socio-economic diversity by pricing out students from lower-income families, the expansion of financial aid is more than a priority — it’s a need. During his successful campaign to the Uni-
versity’s Board of Regents, Regent Mark Bernstein proposed that a single-digit percentage of each donation the University receives should be set aside automatically for financial aid. That proposal should be policy. The University has a robust development office that meets the needs of each donor by designing individualized donation plans. But that office’s efforts must shift from nudging donors toward financial-aid donations to clearly articulating that financial aid is the number-one item the University needs in order to live up to its reputation as a leader in diversity. Asking donors to broaden the impact of their funds isn’t unheard of: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has gifted more than $1.1 billion to Johns Hopkins University, with donations supporting a wide variety of campus needs. According to The New York Times, Bloomberg’s contributions include not only a school of public health, a stem-cell research initiative and library expansions, but also “20 percent of need-based financial aid grants.” The University’s donors need to be encouraged to follow Bloomberg’s model and look at the core missions of the school. The University should rightly be proud of the Business School and the University athletic program — the students and staff involved are our friends and peers — and of the fact that the school inspires passion like Ross routinely displays. But moving forward, building the best Michigan means supporting diversity, and that means supporting financial aid for the widest array of students.
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STEPHEN YAROS | VIEWPOINT
My second freshman year All college students remember their freshman year. They remember the excitement, the nervousness — the feelings of total possibility and complete fear. It’s a unique experience. It’s as joyous as nerve-wracking and as exciting as terrifying. It’s great, but only if it happens once. I came to the University a year ago as a transfer student prepared to continue my education in full stride. I had been a college freshman once and even a sophomore. I had endured all of the wonderful and not-sowonderful experiences that went along with those years and learned from them. I had become a capable and successful student able to maneuver through the arduous maze that is college life. I was ready. When I came to this fine school, I expected to continue my glorious path to straight As and an excellent undergraduate degree without skipping a beat. I had already endured so many late nights studying that I knew it could get only easier. I knew what study routines worked; I had eliminated my mistakes and trained myself to think at a collegiate level. I was ready. I was going to be a junior in college, and I was going to act like it. I was wrong. I was a freshman all over again. At first, I wasn’t sure what was happening, and I wasn’t willing to consider anything worse than just first-day nervousness. But then it became first-week nervousness, after that first two-week nervousness. After walking around campus for several weeks camouflaging my many inquiries with an omnipotent façade, I finally gave in. I had been so successful at my previous institution that I had forgotten the troubles that new and exotic situations can cause. I wanted to have it all together on my own, but I didn’t. I didn’t know where things were on campus, wasn’t used to running on Michigan time and certainly didn’t understand what kind of workload was in store for me.
I was a freshman, and hadn’t figured it out until just then. Now, that isn’t to say I hadn’t received a fine education from my previous university, or that I didn’t have the mental capacity to handle classes at the University of Michigan — but I didn’t feel like a junior college student. I needed to ask questions, to make mistakes and to do things twice. And so I sought out help from others — even those students at the University that were younger than me — and decided to do what was necessary to be successful. The tipping point finally came when I realized that my success was more important than my pride. So ask questions. That goes for not only transfer students and freshmen, but also for sophomores, juniors, seniors, fifth-year seniors and anyone else enrolled in a class. College is hard, and although this University is one of enduring quality and tradition, it will not hesitate to vigorously challenge and discourage its students. From time to time, we all find ourselves feeling and acting like freshmen. It’s painful and inevitable. Students should not and must not combat these instances with begrudging disregard, but rather take them head-on. Students need to embrace the moments when they feel like freshmen and take a second to ask a question or look something up. Spend extra time double-checking and triple-checking things, because in the end, it’s worth it. Now that one year has passed, it’s much easier for me to see where I went wrong and what I should have done. I made it through my first year and came out the other side smarter, more qualified and with a simple message of hope. It does get easier. If you work hard, success is on the horizon, so keep at it. And to all of the transfer students out there: Welcome to your second freshman year, and good luck. Stephen Yaros is an LSA senior.
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Heartbreaking slowness
n Aug. 23, a physicist by the name of John Mainstone died. He was 78 years old. During his lifetime, he held an appointment as a lecturer in physics at Australia’s University of Queensland BARRY for more than BELMONT 50 years, he helped raise three daughters with his wife and he oversaw the world’s longest running laboratory experiment, the famous “Pitch Drop Experiment” — an experiment whose critical moments he never had a chance to witness. The experiment began in 1927, years before Mainstone was born, and sought to prove that some substances that appeared to be solids — in this case a petroleum derivative referred to as “pitch” — may, in fact, be highly viscous fluids. To prove this, some of this pitch was placed in a funnel and allowed to settle, and eventually, it dropped through the bottom — much like water through a faucet, albeit about a billion times slower. The first drop of pitch fell more than 10 years after the beginning of the experiment. The subsequent seven drops took 8.3, 7.2, 8.1, 8.3, 8.7, 9.3 and 12.3 years to fall, respectively. It has been more than 13 years since the last drop and physicists around the world wait with bated breath over a live-streaming webcam. Why? Well, in the 86 years since the beginning of the experiment, no one has seen a drip drop. Not even Mainstone, its caretaker of 52 years.
To have so fully devoted one’s life to one thing and never see it come to full fruition is nothing short of existentially devastating to many of us. As physicist Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, a colleague of Mainstone’s, noted, “John’s death is particularly sad as ... he did not see a single drop fall.” But perhaps the point of the experiment — to watch pitch drop — isn’t the point of the experiment at all. Perhaps it’s not just an experiment in watching stuff move slowly — though this does have important ramifications in fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics and tribology. Instead, maybe this experiment is a profound expression of the difference in scales between human beings and their surroundings. Simply put, we are middle-sized primates on a middle-sized world capable of observing middle-sized things. So much is beyond our scope — the size of an atom, the weight of a sun, the smell of dark matter, the taste of a black hole, the sound of the continents moving — that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say we perceive next to nothing at all. Just about every sound our species’ ears have heard has fallen between 20 and 20,000 Hz, a woefully small margin incapable of hearing the tides or appreciating a dog-whistle quartet. Every sight our species’ eyes has seen has come from electromagnetic waves approximately 390 to 700 nanometers in length, a sliver less than 0.00000000000000000001 percent the spectrum of waves we can currently measure. As nature made us, we are blind, deaf and dumb in a very real sense. That we have found out the
extent of our ignorance is perhaps the crowning achievement of science. Through careful observation, objective reporting and sharing what we learn, we’ve been able to develop a knowledge base and methodology powerful enough to predict the movement of stars trillions and trillions of miles away simply from the light they left billions of years ago. It’s powerful enough to make instantaneous communication across the planet nearly trivial and strip atoms of their electrons. We have come a long way since the savannah.
So much is beyond our scope — we perceive next to nothing at all. Mainstone’s missed drops are only but a few in the bucket of stuff we miss in our universe. If John Mainstone’s death is sad for missing these, we might weep every day for all that is seen and unseen. We might also well up in gratitude that such people exist, willing to face down nature and watch it work. Though we were not equipped to do so, we have equipped ourselves. With patience, perseverance and cunning we have equipped ourselves to study the invisible. We’ve split the atom, seen stars explode and seen rocks flow, and it was all because of people like John Mainstone. — Barry Belmont can be reached at belmont@umich.edu.
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Blood, semen and Craigslist A scanner authenticates my handprint as I’m ushered briskly into Booth C. A spring-loaded lancet jabs my fingertip and my arm is passed under an ultraviolet beam, revealing a watermark known only to staff members. I lie down on a contoured vinyl bed as a tourniquet is tightened against my bicep, wincing as the needle enters my arm. Blood fills the adjoining tube like mercury in a thermometer, terminating at a softly-whirring machine with a passing resemblance to a reel-to-reel deck. I’m told that under no circumstances am I to fall asleep. Allow me to pause. This isn’t the memoir of a CIA officer, nor is it an expose on a narcotics ring. This is a grubby clinic on the south side of Ypsilanti, and this is my first day as a for-profit medical donor. For the last month, I’ve traveled across southeast Michigan engaging in every legal donation service, study and trial available to me in an effort to shed light on an increasingly popular practice among college students faced with meteoric increases in tuition and living expenses. Nothing is off limits: Blood, sperm and even the electrical activity of your prefrontal cortex can been commoditized. The hunt begins every morning on Craigslist, home to dozens of cash offerings for body fluids, cooperation in pharmaceutical trials and in one standout case, the eggs of “extraordinary young Jewish women.” From here I place a handful of cold calls, pack my schedule to the limits of medical ethics and begin the lengthy process of peddling my flesh. The scene above takes place on Friday, my designated day for plasma donation, though calling it a donation is playing fast and loose with the definition of philanthropy. This is the sale of vital fluids for cash — plain and simple. While the company clearly makes a pitch in their pamphlets for “heroes,” the process is unceremonious and — like many programs angled toward low-income clients — professionally condescending. Knowing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn’t approve any “paid-donor” specimens for life-saving operations, the experience left me feeling slightly cheapened, and though the $50 provided by the receptionist did help put my mind at ease, I still didn’t feel like a hero. By comparison, my Wednesdays spent selling sperm
were positively dignified. I once attended a charity auction at the Meadow Brook Hall, a mansion built by the widow of automotive maven John Francis Dodge. This fertility clinic, nestled in an affluent Detroit suburb, featured neither the Dodge mansion’s valet, nor its platters of marvelous port-glazed duck canapés. With that in mind though, it’s still worth retelling as it was the second time in my life I have ever experienced such overwhelming deference and discretion in the same day. Fortunately, the confidentiality agreement signed in the clinic’s wainscot-paneled drawing room not only prevents me from disclosing anything more than the tasteful Ansel Adams prints on the wall and the complimentary beverages provided by the secretary, but also relieves me from the tired, euphemistic winking and nudging required to describe the experience in print. It’s exactly what you think it is. The compensation is highly competitive. The genetic criteria are highly restrictive, and the list of forbidden activities in your “off-hours” is equally so. Far from a frat-boy’s dream, it was the most professional medical appointment of my life. If you’ve read this far with arched brow and mouth agape, then you’re neither alone nor entirely unjustified. For the same reason that we recoil at museum exhibits describing the Middle Passage or at insurance tables describing the price of reattaching a dismembered finger, we humans intrinsically reject placing a price on a pound of flesh. My experiences have violated every cultural and religious norm on the books, and even the most “progressive” individuals manage at least one furtive grimace per minute when we talk about this. However, despite the unflattering responses, what I do, and what students all across the country are doing, is fully voluntary and non-coercive. So if you’re in good health, have a light wallet and can manage to suppress your basic urges (for volunteerism), then you too may sleep soundly with a petty collegiate fortune, knowing that elements of your body are stowed in anonymously-labeled refrigerators across the country. I may not continue donating, but for the record, I did pay this month’s rent with the dividends. William Toms is a senior at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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A pair of women react after a stabbing during a fight involving multiple students inside Spring High School in Spring, Texas on Wednesday. A 16-year-old boy has been airlifted from the high school in suburban Houston with stab wounds.
School stabbing fight leaves one dead and three injured Police remain mum on what precipitated the confrontation SPRING, Texas (AP) — A fight inside a Houston-area high school escalated into a series of stabbings Wednesday that left a 17-year-old student dead and three others wounded, sheriff’s officials said. The stabbings happened during a fight between several students in a school corridor. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said 17-year-old student Luis Alonzo Alfaro pulled a knife during the fight and fatally stabbed one student and wounded three others. Alfaro admitted to the stabbing under questioning by sheriff’s homicide detectives and was charged with murder, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released Wednesday evening. Sheriff’s spokesman Alan Bernstein referred queries about whether Alfaro had an attorney to the district clerk’s website, which had not been updated as of Wednesday night. Alfaro also was not yet listed in the jail’s booking system. Authorities provided few details on what may have led to the fight, and no other infor-
mation was available on the teenager who was killed. “We believe a confrontation of some sort occurred ... that ultimately led into a physical confrontation that produced weapons,” Sheriff Adrian Garcia said. “There has been some information that this may have been gang related.” School district officials canceled classes at the high school for the rest of the week. Some parents said the fight was the continuation of a disturbance that broke out Tuesday. Officials at the school, which has about 3,500 students, would not confirm their comments. “Every parent sends their child to school believing school should be one of those safe haven places,” Spring Independent School District Superintendent Ralph Draper said. “This is what we spend our nights and days working toward and what I lose sleep over. “In my nearly 30-year career, this is the one thing you pray never to experience.” Parent Tara Campbell said she received text messages from her daughter about the fight and that her daughter said students who witnessed the episode snapped cellphone photos of the victims as they lay on the ground. Campbell said she intended to have her daughter home-
schooled, saying she’s grown tired of fights at the school. “Last year there were gang fights consistently,” she said. “This is ridiculous. This is an ongoing situation.” Lakesia Brent said her son, a sophomore at the school, sent her multiple text messages asking her to come pick him up. “He’s just afraid,” she said, adding that fights at the school were a problem in the last academic year. The school was placed on lockdown following the stabbings, which occurred about 7 a.m., and students were released to the care of their parents later Wednesday. Many parents were upset that the school district did not provide them information in a timely manner. Draper defended the district’s actions, saying they focused on two goals — securing the school and making sure no action was taken to compromise the investigation — before communicating information to parents about what had happened. He said students were not immediately released because some of them were potential witnesses who needed to be interviewed by investigators. “When street violence pours into the school, it compromises the safety of all our students,” Draper said.
Afghan woman sought in inside $1.1 million bank theft Police suspect mafia involvement after woman flees to India KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The young woman worked for three years at the Afghan bank, officials say. Then one day she vanished. As did $1.1 million. Afghan authorities have been scrambling to track down the suspected thief and several alleged accomplices, and an international arrest warrant has been issued. Still, the revelations are another embarrassment for the banking sector in this country, which has seen corruption already unravel one major institution amid ongoing security threats from militants and criminals. Shokofa Salehi, 22, worked in the money transfer division at the headquarters of Azizi Bank, a major Afghan lender in Kabul, officials said. She disappeared around two months ago, according to Azizi chief executive Inayatullah Fazli. Investigators say she is suspected of transferring some $1.1 million out of the bank’s coffers to accounts of relatives. Besides Salehi, at least nine people are believed involved in the case. “They are a mafia group,” Fazli alleged. An Interpol red notice — the equivalent of an international
arrest warrant — describes authorities as seeking Salehi on charges of fraud and misusing her authority. Afghan officials believe Salehi used fake documents under the name Samira to reach India after transferring the money; her current whereabouts are unknown. Two suspects in the case have been detained in Dubai, senior Afghan police official Gen. Aminullah Amarkhail said, adding that he’s in touch with counterparts in Dubai and India for help tracking down Salehi and other suspects. He said one suspect is alleged to have spent some $850,000 of the money to invest in a tire business and possibly other ventures in Dubai. Amarkhail said Salehi’s parents were among the suspects, and are believed to have returned to Kabul after going with her to India. Another top police official, Mohammad Zahir, said investigators were still seeking the parents. Azizi Bank’s website says it began operating in 2006, and that it now has “a 1,500plus strong team of employees and with a 20 percent female workforce is playing a quiet but effective role in women(‘s) emancipation and empowerment.” It also calls itself “the bank you can trust.” As striking as it is, Salehi’s alleged pilfering pales in comparison to some other examples of corruption in Afghanistan’s banking sector.
In 2010, regulators seized Kabul Bank, Afghanistan’s largest lender, amid allegations of severe levels of graft. Its near-collapse and subsequent bailout represented more than 5 percent of Afghanistan’s gross domestic product, making it one of the largest banking failures in the world in relative terms. An independent report described Kabul Bank as being run like a Ponzi scheme. Investigators said some $861 million in fraudulent loans had disappeared into the pockets of associates of the men behind the bank. Earlier this year, an Afghan tribunal sentenced two top Kabul Bank executives to five years in prison for misappropriating funds. Critics said the punishments were far too light and raised questions about President Hamid Karzai’s commitment to rooting out corruption. On Tuesday, Afghanistan announced it was trying once again to privatize what it had salvaged of the bank, which is now called New Kabul Bank. Banks in Afghanistan have also been targeted by Taliban militants and criminal gangs. Not only are they prime targets for people seeking to steal money, they also are gathering places for many government employees seeking to make deposits or cash their paychecks, thus making them attractive to suicide bombers.
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DETROIT (AP) — Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is donating $200 million to the University of Michigan, his alma mater announced Wednesday, making it the biggest single gift in the school’s history but raising questions about Ross’ insistence on taxpayer funding to make improvements to his NFL team’s stadium. Ross’ donation is among the largest ever given to a U.S. college or university. It will be split evenly between the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the university’s athletics department, which will rename its campus the Stephen M. Ross Athletic Campus, the school said in a statement. It brings the total amount Ross has given the school to more than $313 million. Although the donation is a huge boon to his alma mater, it will make it more difficult for Ross to seek taxpayer help for the $350 million improvements he wants to make to the Dolphins’ stadium, said Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. “It strikes me as peculiar timing that Mr. Ross decided to have this made known as this time,” Zimbalist said. “If I were in Miami, then I would have additional questions about why he needed public funding for his stadium.” House Speaker Will Weatherford, who killed Ross’ plan by not putting it up for a vote, declined to comment on the Michigan donation. But Miami
documentary filmmaker Billy Corben, a critic of Ross’ stadium plan, tweeted: “Props on @ MiamiDolphins owner’s generous donation. He can do whatever he wants with his money. He can’t do whatever he wants with ours.” Ross has said an upgrade of the 26-year-old stadium is needed if Miami is to host future Super Bowls and college championship games. He says the Dolphins are already heavily in debt and one of the NFL’s most leveraged teams, making upgrades impossible without taxpayer help. Last spring, Ross sought up to $289 million from an increase in the Miami-Dade County hotel tax and up to $90 million in state sales tax rebates, but the Florida Legislature turned down his plan. In a statement, Ross said the donation and stadium issue are different subjects. “I think it is important to be committed to both,” Ross said. “As I’ve often said, I’ve promised to pay a large portion of the stadium upgrade costs, but the community who would substantially benefit also needs to be involved. I also think it’s extremely important to be a good citizen from a philanthropic standpoint, and to set an example for others to do the same. Both commitments are important to me and both have the potential to leave a lasting legacy that will benefit so many people.” A New York real estate developer, Ross has a net worth estimated at more than $4 billion. He graduated from Michigan in 1962, and completed his purchase of the Dolphins and their stadium in early 2009. The athletics campus in Ann Arbor is expected to be named the Stephen M. Ross Athletic
Campus. “Stephen Ross’ vision has always been about the ability of facilities to transform the human experience,” Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman said in the statement. “He understands the power of wellconceived spaces, and his generosity will benefit generations of Michigan students, faculty and coaches.” According to lists from The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Ross’ gift is the third biggest to a higher education facility in 2013. Earlier this year, it was announced that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would donate $350 million to Johns Hopkins University, and in July the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust gave a $250 million donation to Centre College in Kentucky. Ross’ $200 million donation is among the 30 single largest donations to a U.S. college or university, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. In Michigan, specific projects will be announced in the coming months, the school said. In addition, scholarships will be available to Ross students. The Ross School of Business proposes to create new spaces for students to study, collaborate and connect with each other, faculty and potential employers. Classrooms will include advanced technology to support in-person and virtual collaboration. With the additional funding, University of Michigan Athletics plans to improve its campus to help athletes succeed on the playing field and in the classroom, improve its facilities and build sites to be a destination for local, state, national and international competitions.
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MONEY From Page 1A for student-athletes and new construction projects. “Athletics — just knowing the spirit and importance of athletics — led me to give my gifts to the Athletic Department, knowing how it helps the whole University,” Ross said. When asked about his role as chair of the University’s soon-tolaunch capital campaign, Ross said he hopes to help raise money for various realms of campus life. “I hope we raise the funding that we need for scholarships, additional facilities, endowment of professorships and meet the future needs of the University,” Ross said. The public event was followed by a more intimate one in the Colloquium Room of the Business School, which overlooks campus and much of Ann Arbor. Members of the media, a select group of students and the University’s top administrators gathered to hear additional remarks from Regent Katherine White, Coleman, Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon, Davis-Blake and Ross. “We are delighted and grateful for alumni and donors like Stephen Ross, who understand so well that public universities increasingly rely on donor sup-
COUNCIL From Page 1A much needed and beneficial change to Ann Arbor.” Vresics was facing Ann Arbor councilmember Sabra Briere (D– Ward 1) for her seat in the upcoming general election in November. Briere has maintained a high
MLIVE From Page 1A publication in Washtenaw County. AnnArbor.com continued with a much-reduced staff and printed on Thursdays and Sundays. At the time, it was marketed as an “innovative community news and information service.” The Ann Arbor News closing was widely regarded as
port to maintain and strengthen our excellence,” White said on behalf of the University’s Board of Regents. “We also know when the University of Michigan thrives, the state of Michigan thrives.” In an e-mail interview after the event, White added that she was hopeful that Ross’s donation would spur other large donors to consider what they might be able to contribute to the upcoming campaign. “I am very hopeful we can raise a lot of money for student scholarships,” White said. “It is so important the University of Michigan remain accessible to those whose talents gain them admission. The more we can do to ease their burden, the more they will be able to thrive while they are here and after they graduate.” While there are no formal construction plans yet, Brandon emphasized the importance of the gift in building new, stateof-the-art facilities for Michigan athletes. The donation will also help provide student-athletes with better academic resources for success off the field as well. “There are hundreds and hundreds of athletic directors waking up all over America today, and I can assure you I’m the happiest one,” Brandon said. “This important investment will also provide them with the tools they
will need to be successful in their lives after athletics.” A pre-recorded video message from Republican Gov. Rick Snyder was also played for attendees in which he thanked Ross for his generous donation and support for the state of Michigan. He also quipped that Michigan graduates like himself and Ross go on to achieve some “moderate success.” In an interview after the event, Coleman said there were many discussions among herself, Ross, Davis-Blake, Brandon and Jerry May, vice president for development, to ensure that the donation fulfilled Ross’s vision. Part of that vision, Coleman added, was to ensure that Business undergraduate students in would have the same experience and resources available to them as the graduate students. “He wanted to have this whole dynamic of career services, making sure that we provide the best opportunities for our students,” Coleman said. “These discussions take a while, but at the end of the day we feel fabulous about the outcome.” Davis-Blake told the audience that the donation will further innovate the Business School’s campus. “This historic gift is a testament to that and will further transform the Ross School into a true business campus,” Davis-
Blake said. Tim Slottow, the University’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said Ross’s donation set the bar for the upcoming capital campaign, which will focus on endowing scholarships and financial aid for both in-state and out-of-state students with demonstrated need. He added that philanthropy is key to the University’s sustainablity. “Having the chair of the campaign set a $200-million starting point for the campaign is huge,” Slottow said. After the event, Business School spokeswoman Tamra Talmadge-Anderson saidthe donation will keep the Business School among the top in the country. “We will be truly the business school of the future, not only because we will have these facilities, but they will match our best-in-class programs,” Talmadge-Anderson said. In an interview after his speech, Chatman said Ross’s philanthropic efforts inspire him to give back. “Being part of this University, part of this school, this gift is something that us as students shouldn’t take lightly and shouldn’t take for granted and should appreciate and support Mr. Ross,” Chatman said.
attendance record for city meetings, as she was the only member of the City Council to participate in a Beyond the Diag effort, welcoming students living off campus. Still working to develop the party’s infrastructure, Leaf said members have worked with professors and city planners to develop their zoning plan and party
platforms. Leaf said the party is also working on reaching out to residents who might share concerns about the city-zoning plan but are not students. “This month we are going to approach environmental groups that want to stop urban sprawl and air pollution.” While some are skeptical that
students registered to vote in Ann Arbor may not cast their vote during a non-presidential election, Leaf said he believes a concerted group of students will show up at the polls for this election. The party is holding a mass meeting Sunday for students interested in assisting the campaign. Leaf said details will be released on their website.
one of the first large-scale experiments in finding alternative revenue models for local newspapers. Critics have said AnnArbor.com’s much-reduced staff has severely diminished its investigative reporting powers while others contend its cheaper costs allow it to survive in the long run. In an August 2012 interview with The American Journalism Review, Charles Eisendrath, director of the University’s
Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship, said the demise of The Ann Arbor News had a negative effect on the city and AnnArbor. com was incapable of filling the void it left. “If you pay people a third of what they were paid before, and you have a third as many of them, the results aren’t exactly rocket science,” Eisendrath told the Review. MLive has five senior-level “content” employees listed on
its website and 16 senior-level “sales and marketing” employees. Communications Prof. Derek Vaillant said the loss of a daily city paper has left a hole in the Ann Arbor community. “It’s an embarrassment to this community and this state,” Vallant said. “The people in Ann Arbor are the least wellinformed in the state. You have to really work hard to get your news.”
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GIFT From Page 1A Wallace journalism fellow at the University, voiced disdain for Ross’s choice over Twitter, noting that the University should be embarrassed for accepting the gift when there are other programs with higher financial need. In an interview Wednesday evening, Pope said universities have engaged in a “facilitiesbuilding arms race,” in which institutions constantly try to outbuild one another. Ross’s donation exclusively funds facility-building, and half of it goes to a part of the University that actually generates revenue, he added. This is in contrast to other large donations, such as Helen Zell’s $50 million donation to improve the LSA Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program earlier this year. “I think the reaction on campus is going to be a little bit more complicated in some corners,” Pope said. The responses to Ross’s donation beg the question: How do donors decide where and how to give? In an interview with The Michigan Daily last March, Jerry May, University vice president for development, said fundraising involves matching the University’s needs with the interests of potential donors. Judy Malcolm, the Office of Development’s senior director of executive communications, added that the development process is not about convincing people to give in a certain area. “We can’t go make someone be excited about scholarships when what they want to do is cure cancer or support research,” Malcolm said. “What we’re trying to do is present our dreams in the best way possible and then find people who really want to support students.” Although the University has limited influence in changing a donor’s investment target, it has at times proven effective at encouraging potential donors to “up” their commitment. In 2004, Ross originally offered $50 million to the Business School in exchange for renaming it in his honor. Bob Dolan, then dean of the Business School, managed to negotiate an increase in the final donation to $100 million by articulating the school’s specific need for extensive physical renovations, which Ross independently verified with the school’s architect. Pope, the former education reporter, acknowledged that the University can’t realistically ask a donor to support a cause they’re not passionate about. But, he said Ross’ donation puts administrators in an awkward position with other schools, colleges and programs that must be assured of their significance despite being less high-profile. “U of M is right,” Pope said. “If this is what Stephen Ross is passionate about, then they have to work with him, but I think they might also have to communicate to the rest of the university community that they understand some of these other issues.” Though Ross’s $200-million donation will endow some financial scholarships, a priority Coleman and other administrators have repeatedly emphasized for
the next capital campaign, it will also fund upgrades at the Business School and athletic campus. May said student scholarships and fellowships resonate with donors more than any other form of philanthropy. “However, there are some donors that enjoy building beautiful learning environments and great facilities and, yes, we benefit from those donors who have that aspiration, who value learning spaces and important architectural spaces on a campus,” May said. Last spring, University alum Charles Munger donated $110 million — the single largest gift in University history until Wednesday — for the construction of a graduate residence hall. In an April interview with the Daily, Timothy Slottow, University executive vice president and chief financial officer, said these types of relationships leading up to a donation evolve over a number of years. Munger had previously funded and supervised the construction of a graduate residence hall at Stanford University, fascinated by the challenge of creating an on-campus living community for graduate students. His donation earlier this year joins Ross’s $200 million on the 2013 list of top contributors to universities and colleges, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Like Munger, many of Ross’s philanthropic counterparts have chosen specific academic units, schools or areas of the university governance when handing out the big bucks. In January, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $350 million to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, where his donations exceed $1 billion. The $350 million to be used for cross-disciplinary education and financial aid. It will also endow 50 faculty appointments in the fields of global health and water resource sustainability, Forbes reported. It will also fund an estimated 2,600 need-based scholarships over the next decade. Another real estate mogul, Mortimer Zuckerman, pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, according to Forbes. In 2012, Phil Knight, the chairman of Nike, pledged $125 million to the Oregon Health Sciences University Cancer Institute at Oregon University. In 2011, Raymond and Ruth Perelman donated $225 million to endow the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine as part of that school’s capital campaign. Much of that money went to endowing professorships and providing financial aid, the University of Pennsylvania’s website stated. Mr. Perelman’s wealth comes from the finance, manufacturing and mining industries. The Knight and Perelman donations were also the largest in the history of their respective universities. None of the above donors placed restrictions on how their funds would be used. Ross has maintained his foothold at the forefront of higher education philanthropy, in the company of donors like Bloomberg, Zuckerman, Knight and Perelman. Although not unanimous in their applause, most at the University are grateful.
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Beilein riding high into new school year By NEIL ROTHSCHILD Daily Sports Editor
The year 2013 has treated John Beilein well. He’s working his dream job. He made the national championship last season. He has a Big Ten ring. He’s continuing to reel in the country’s premier recruits to support the two potential NBA first-round picks that elected to stay at Michigan. He spent part of his summer in Russia coaching the US University Games team. He went to New York to see his former star point guard become an NBA lottery pick. And to top it off, University alum Stephen M. Ross has just endowed the Athletic Department with $100 million. And after all of that, the best part of his job? “Favorite part of the job is going to the individual workouts early in the year and seeing the progress people have made,” Beilein said. Sounds like an upset selection, but considering how much Beilein relishes the minutiae — the process involved in his job rather than the results — it makes some sense. The least favorite part of his job? “There’s very few things that I dislike about, you know, living your dream right now. How can you not just love every bit of this?” Yeah, that sounds more like it. Coming off the summer following the most successful season of his career, Beilein has much to be happy about. He strolled into the Crisler Center media room Wednesday afternoon, still seemingly in summer mode, with a pearly white polo, a
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Michigan coach John Beilein is in the 38th year of doing what he dreamed of doing his whole life.
heavy tan and an ear-to-ear grin. And lucky for him, it just so happens to be the time of the year for his stated favorite part of his job. With the players coming back for the school year, he’s busy conducting individual workouts — with no more than four players allowed per session two hours a week — before official team practices start up Sept. 15. The individual sessions, Beilein said, would be used to emphasize individual defense before team defense becomes the focus when full-team practices begin. Aside from that, the offseason has been about assessing the freshmen, developing the sophomores and fine-tuning the two other players on the roster — fifth-year senior Jordan Morgan and redshirt junior Jon Horford. “It continues to amaze me. We have Jon and Jordan and
then we have the sophomores,” Beilein said of the returning players. “I look at them and the one thing that differentiates these sophomores is they’re prepschool guys. Spike (Albrecht) has already turned 21 years old. He’s the only 21-year old alter boy still out there. Mitch McGary is 21 years old, so they’re a little bit older and I feel that from them, that they have maturity about them that we trust.” As for when the new Wolverines’ place in the rotation might become more clear to Beilein, that might take a few weeks. “We had that opportunity this summer to just look a little bit at (the freshmen). We call (those looks) the blinks, ‘what if’ this and that. But I think in time it will tell. But having those young men out there, I think we have some real versatility again. I
think there’s some great possibilities out there given the makeup of this team in regards to how we play and who plays.” There was some light shed on certain players’ development. McGary looks to be “in really good shape.” Indications are that freshman point guard Derrick Walton can pick concepts up quickly. Sophomore guards Nik Stauskas and Caris LeVert both look stronger, though LeVert had some minor injuries over the summer. But there are no glaring causes for concern for Beilein at the moment. In fact, he’s doing pretty well for himself. “Thirty-eighth year of doing what I have dreamed of doing my whole life — teach and coach. Thirty-eight straight. … I do love, love this environment that the Beilein family is in right now.”
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McCallister plays for Team USA at U-21 worlds By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Writer
After watching the 2012 Michigan field hockey season from the sidelines, redshirt junior midfielder Ainsley McCallister was itching to get back on the field. The two-year captain didn’t have to wait long, as she was selected to represent the United States in July’s Junior World Cup in Monchengladbach, Germany. McCallister — the first Wolverine to participate in the event since 2005 — appeared in all six of the United States’ games, making one start. The team went 3-3 en route to a program-best seventh-place finish. As a longtime participant in various national team developmental programs, playing for the junior World Cup squad brought several new opportunities. One in particular — an opportunity only the top athletes in the sport get to experience — stood out the most to McCallister: the feeling of putting on the red, white and blue and playing for her home country. “It was one of the coolest feelings of my life,” McCallister said. “When we did the national anthem for the first time and we were all lined up, I got chills through my spine. It’s such a great nation and very great to play for them.” Following her Michigan teammates’ first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament during her absence — she missed all but two games of last season with an injury — McCallister was forced to set her eyes on tryouts for the national team. Competing among the nation’s best gave her little time to shake off any rust caused by her months off. “I came in with no expectations,” McCallister said. “I have faith in my ability to play, and I love the game. But every time I
went out on the field I just tried to control the controllables and do what I could to put myself in the best situation possible.” Upon making the team, McCallister and her new teammates travelled to the Netherlands for a week of practice before the event in Germany. Learning in a summer practice setting proved to be a rewarding experience. “Surrounding myself with the United States team and getting to practice with them allowed me to learn so much,” McCallister said. “I was able to see strategies, tactics and other cool things I had never seen before.” The competition itself proved to be even more educational. In their six games, McCallister and the U.S. squad were exposed to other countries’ completely different styles of play. McCallister found herself particularly in awe of perennial powerhouses Argentina and the Netherlands. “Playing them was very eyeopening,” McCallister said. “They just play at another level that is so fast and so skilled. It was very cool to see a completely different style and try to adjust to their level.” McCallister carried a smile during the opening week of practice in Ann Arbor, just happy to be back on the field once again. She joins a Wolverine team whose expectations are already very high, since they graduated just one senior in the offseason. McCallister’s return will undoubtedly contribute to fulfilling those expectations, and the experience of competing internationally only adds to what she brings to the field. “My eyes have been opened even more to how much I have to learn and how much I can improve,” McCallister said. McCallister will carry memories of the experience with her for a lifetime.
Green cements spot as No. 2 running back of the day and a film session. Let them rest, let them watch football. Once you get past 1 o’clock, it moves pretty quick.” NOTES: Senior safety Courtney Avery has recovered from his knee surgery last week and worked out with trainers this week. Hoke said he expects him to be available to play Saturday, and that he’ll probably split time with sophomore Jarrod Wilson. … Hoke said the fact that the Wolverines have never lost a home game under his tenure has never been a point of discussion. … Hoke confirmed that senior wide receiver Joe Reynolds will play against Notre Dame. Reynolds was injured last Saturday against Central Michigan. … Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison said that he doesn’t anticipate the increased noise in Michigan Stadium on Saturday night will cause communication problems for the Wolverines.
By LIZ VUKELICH Daily Sports Editor
In the span of about a week, freshman Derrick Green has gone from being a question mark to the No. 2 ball carrier behind fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald NOTEBOOK Toussaint. On Wednesday, Michigan coach Brady Hoke didn’t hesitate to name Green the No. 2 running back for Saturday’s game against Notre Dame in the wake of redshirt freshman Drake Johnson’s season-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury. “He’s a pretty intelligent kid, he picked it up really well,” Hoke said, praising not just Green’s running ability, but pass protection as well. There were some concerns with Green’s weight heading into the season opener, but it evidently didn’t pose a problem in the season opener against Central Michigan. Offensive coordinator Al Borges said that running backs coach Fred Jackson is directly monitoring Green’s weight for the remainder of the season. Five different running backs saw playing time against the Chippewas, but Green’s 58 yards and touchdown made him the strongest candidate to back up Toussaint. “He carried the ball and didn’t fumble it, number one, that’s huge,” Borges said. “Didn’t fumble it, didn’t make a lot of bad running decisions. Ran the ball pretty much where we wanted him to. He grew a little bit with those carries. “He’s a pounding-type back. He’s a big strong kid that, I’m sure they feel him when they tackle him.” Even with Johnson out, Michigan still has enough depth in the backfield — enough so that Borges is considering the idea of having the backs take on specialty positions as the season progresses. It would only be situational, though. “We’ll feature different backs in different situations based on what they do best (but) it could change week to week,” Borges
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Freshman running back Derrick Green ran for 58 yards and one touchdown last week and was named the No. 2 tailback by Michigan coach Brady Hoke yesterday.
said. “I like a feature back, a guy that’s going to carry the ball more than the rest of the guys. You’ll see, they’re interchangeable in certain situations.” THE CAMPUS THAT ROSS BUILT: Hoke met with Stephen M. Ross on Wednesday morning as part of an event honoring Ross for his $200-million donation to the University, half of which will go to the Athletic Department. The money for the Athletic Department will be geared toward student-athlete programs, resources for the athletic academic center and construction projects. Last fall, the Athletic
Department announced a renovation of South Campus that is now expected to reach $341 million. It will take seven to 10 years to complete. As a thank you to Ross, the Athletic Department will rename it the Stephen M. Ross Athletic Campus. “I think it means a whole lot to the University as a whole when you look at the $100 million for the academics and $100 million for athletics,” Hoke said. “It’s pretty significant.” But when the two met, there was little discussion about how the money would benefit the
football program. Hoke said the only thing that Ross wanted to talk about was former Michigan safety Jordan Kovacs, a practicesquad player for the Miami Dolphins — the NFL team Ross owns. A LATE DINNER: Despite the hype surrounding the night game, an 8 p.m. kickoff has never been Hoke’s preference — he’d rather get the game over with earlier in the day. But he sees more night games as an inevitable part of college football’s future due to television programming. “I don’t know if it’s the best thing for student-athletes because
they are students,” Hoke said. “Especially when you’re the away team and you get home at 3:30 or 4 in the morning, there’s a lot of stress on the guys who physically, and mentally, they’ve got to perform.” Another less-than-ideal side effect of playing in prime time? The players will spend most of their day playing the waiting game. Hokes tries to organize some structured activities to alleviate time spent just sitting around. “We’ll let them sleep in a little bit,” he said. “We’ll have two walk-throughs during the course
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Soccer Preview: New year, new legacy one-assist performance in a twogame stretch against LoyolaChicago and Bowling Green. Murphy, a second-year starter for the Wolverines, developed quite a resume last season, playing 21 of 22 games and finishing with four goals and two assists. Another player to keep an eye out for is transfer midfielder Marcos Ugarte. In his first season at Michigan following two years at Providence, Ugarte will be paired with Arnone. “I’m fairly versatile, so I can definitely play other spots,” Ugarte said. “I’m looking to establish myself as a starter and contributor to score goals and add assists, and above all, help us win games.”
By SHANNON LYNCH Daily Sports Writer
The 2012 season will be remembered as one of development for the Michigan men’s soccer team for both its young players and head coach, Chaka Daley. The season was by no means a disappointment – the Wolverines advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before falling to Akron, 2-1. But the expectations for this season are much higher. Now back for his second year, Daley is gearing his young team up for a season meant to instill a sense of pride in soccer at Michigan similar to that of hockey, football and men’s basketball. “There’s Michigan athletic culture, which is one of the best athletic cultures in the country bar none, but there’s really not a big Michigan soccer culture,” Daley said. “We want to continue to impress upon them that that’s the legacy they leave.” Daley is tasked once again with one of the toughest schedules in the country, including three games against ranked top10 teams outside of the strong Big Ten. Two weeks ago, the Wolverines were picked to finish fourth in the Big Ten preseason coaches’ poll, behind Indiana, Michigan State and Northwestern. With 10 freshmen on the roster, the team will need to adapt quickly and find the on-field chemistry it needs to earn victories. “Having a turnover of players always makes it a challenge, and having 11 new faces on the roster increases that challenge,” Daley
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Junior midfielder Tyler Arnone was named first team All-Big Ten last season after a stellar 2012 campaign. This summer, he was named a co-captain.
said. “How they complement the returning guys is going to be the first hurdle we face as a group and as a staff.” With that, the Daily breaks down this season.
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Senior goalkeeper Adam Grinwis returns for his third year as the Wolverines’ starter and his first year as a co-captain. The Ada, Mich., native led the Big Ten and
ranked eighth nationally with 92 saves last year and was placed on the 2013 Big Ten Preseason Watch List. Grinwis has a new pair of players to get used to on defense following the graduation of defenseman Brian Klemczak and the selection of Kofi Opare by Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy, but he seems confident in the young talent. “Lucky for me, these guys aren’t too hard-headed,” Grinwis said. “As a defensive unit, we can coach and mentor these new faces as we complete our transition into a new era of Michigan soccer.” The other co-captain, redshirt
Howard scheduled for autograph session By EVERETT COOK Daily Sports Editor
Michigan football fans were expecting to see Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard on ESPN’s College GameDay in Ann Arbor on Saturday before the Notre Dame game, but fans might not have anticipated being able to meet the legend. Thanks to a new ad campaign, they will. Teamed up with Nissan, Howard will appear at a variety of events for the company’s “Heisman House” campaign, which creates ad spots centered around the idea of every Heisman winner living in the same house. Because of his national TV presence, Howard is prominently featured in many of the commercials. On Saturday, the Wolverine legend will be at Michigan’s FanFest on the southwest corner of Main Street and Stadium Boulevard across from the Big House participating in a “Chalk Talk” session with ESPN anchor Neil Everett from 5-5:15 p.m., followed by an autograph session with fans from 5:15-6:15. Former Michigan and NFL player Dhani Jones will also be in attendance, doing a Chalk Talk from 3:00-3:30 followed by a 3:30-4:30 autograph session. “When we go to these tour stops, the lines are always out the door to get autographs,” said Josh Clifton, the public relations manager for Nissan, in a phone interview with the Daily. “Usually there’s a great response and the home team gets fired up during the Chalk Talk session. Desmond is more of a prominent player in the public eye because of GameDay and his on-air stuff, but as these other schools bring some of these players back, it might be one of the first times they are back in the public eye in a long time.” This is the third year of the advertising campaign, but the first time that Nissan is rolling out a physical “house” for fans to
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Former Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard will be signing autographs for fans before Saturday’s game as part of an ad campaign from Nissan.
interact in. The structure is built to resemble the house that the commercials were shot in, and the interior is filled with pictures of former Heisman winners, as well as the actual Heisman trophy. There will be challenges, prizes and giveaways in the house, but the main draw will be Howard, one of the program’s most famous alumni. The GameDay schedule fluctuates week to week, so it wasn’t certain that Howard would participate in the Heisman House activities until the GameDay stop was announced last weekend. But with a bit of foresight and planning from Nissan and its partner, ESPN, it worked out for Michigan fans who want to get an autograph and meet Howard. “GameDay changes on the fly, so we try to align ourselves with what we think are going to be big stops and where College Game-
Day will be,” Clifton said. “We knew this would be a big one.” Nissan will be bringing the house to 10 stops this year, including the Rose Bowl and National Championship both in Pasadena, Calif. The campaign spots mock the idea of all the Heisman legends living together, but ended up being a good way to get the players to actually spend time together. They had seen each other at Heisman ceremonies every year, but in a club that’s adding new players every year, many of the younger players hadn’t ever met the older players in the group. “This Heisman House has brought an elite fraternity of players together,” Clifton said. “They had never really met and didn’t really have a gateway to interact and share stories. That’s been kind of cool to see — Nissan facilitate bringing together some of these elite football players.”
junior midfielder Tyler Arnone, will also take on an important leadership role as he works to outdo his stellar 2012 season. He ranked second on the team in 2012 with 16 points – five goals and six assists – and tied for the team lead in shots with 46. He has racked up a number of awards in his time at Michigan, including being named to the first team All-Big Ten last season. PLAYERS TO WATCH Arnone and Grinwis aren’t the only players who made the Big Ten Preseason Watch List.
Senior midfielder Fabio Pereira was also recognized, and rightly so. Pereira led Michigan in scoring in its last two seasons and begins this season with 18 career assists, just 10 behind the program record of 28. A year ago, he ranked second in the Big Ten with eight assists, fourth in points with 20 and fifth in goals with six. And in his season debut Monday, he gave the Wolverines their only goal in a 1-1 tie with Bowling Green. Sophomore forward James Murphy proved himself in the first week of regulation games, earning Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his two-goal,
The freshman class is diverse and promising, featuring four midfielders, three defensemen, two forwards and a goalkeeper. The class boasts four players who ranked in the 2013 IMG Academy 150 – the most in the Big Ten – while Top Drawer Soccer ranked it the No. 6 recruiting class in the nation. Six of the signees are ranked among the top 150 players in College Soccer News’ Class of 2013, led by midfielder Matt Miazga, who comes in at No. 17. Defender Rylee Woods, who earned his first start in the home opener last week, holds down the No. 26 spot, while midfielder Brett Nason is ranked at No. 47 to round out the top 50. START OF THE SEASON After week one, Michigan is 1-0-1 and leads all Big Ten teams with six goals and 19 points, a major improvement from an inauspicious 2012 start. The next home game is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 4, at the U-M Soccer Stadium against South Florida.
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LITERATI story continues to UNFOLD By: Noah Cohen, Daily Arts Writer On the corner of Fourth Street and Washington Avenue, next door to Amadeus and two doors down from Arbor Brewing Company, a new bookstore came to life this past spring. This bookstore, Literati, is my new favorite protagonist in a story that’s been going on in Ann Arbor for a long time. A story that, with a bit of legwork from its readership, won’t be ending any time soon. The Ann Arbor native always used to meet at Borders, which was our home base. A2 kids were hard-wired to meet up at bookstores. Walking downtown without a destination in mind, you would end up inside one or another. You didn’t have to be a reader-type; book places were community places, and the physical presence of books has always been part and parcel to that sense of community. Even on dates, since I never had a car, I’d just say, “Meet me in Borders; I’ll be in the young adult section.” That was what downtown meant — Borders, Shaman Drum, Michigan Book & Supply, Dawn Treader, Vault of Midnight, David’s Bookshop and the Ann Arbor Public Library. Not a coffee shop nor a park; not a pub nor an arcade. We had those, but they couldn’t be home base. They didn’t have the magic gravity. If you’re like me, you’re tired of hearing about eReaders supplanting paperbacks. You walk through the Diag and see kids down on the grass in their hippie-casual, intent on thin digital screens, and it’s jarring. Not in a “get off my lawn, you damn kids” sort of way; it’s just weird to me, and it’s not as warm. Will the new class of literati have piles of books in their room like I did? Economics is a strong lifestyle bully, but I had always thought of physical book places as
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especially resilient somehow — forts against harsh realities. Book culture was a way out if you needed a way out and a way in if you needed a way in. But bookstores couldn’t protect themselves the way they protected me. Four of the seven aforementioned stores are now gone. A passion for books Against these odds, Hilary and Michael Gustafson made their way into the market. They were engaged in 2011, and that’s when their idea for a bookstore crystallized. “We just said, ‘we should go for this,’ ” Michael said, grinning. Michael was a freelance sports writer. Hilary, disillusioned with political consulting, took to publishing in Brooklyn as an independent sales representative for Simon & Schuster. “She’s always been passionate about books, and I’ve always been passionate about writing,” Michael said. “That’s how we found our commonality: through the love of written words — different aspects of the same entity.” “That’s how we began our courtship,” Michael said, “sending each other books and letters and journals.” “At first, we read very different things,” Hilary said, “which was fun in the beginning, because we would trade books. He read tons of Vonnegut ... lots of sports writing. His first recommendation to me was the Harry Potter books, so I read them and loved them. And then I had him read ‘Too Loud a Solitude.’ It’s a Czech book; I studied abroad in Prague, and it’s just really beautiful.”
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FOOD COLUMN
The freshman guide to good eats in Ann Arbor
2. Best Brunch: Café Zola Here, brunch is modern and sophisticated yet just a little “rusty.” It’s full of character and rough around the edges in a somehow-chic way. The crêpes are classic, the waffle creations inventive and the omelettes worth waking up early, though everything here’s a safe bet. My go-to is the salmon hash with horseradish cream sauce topped with over-easy eggs. 3. Best Grab-N-Go: Oasis Mediterranean Grill This joint is a fantastic place to get lunch to-go. The menu is full of options, most of which I find to be pretty healthy and fairly inexpensive. You can’t go
Everything here is greasy, carb-laden and cheap, exactly what you’ll want after a night painting the town red. Thanks to the advice of a wise senior who came before me, I always get the $4.25 grilled chicken quesadilla, but the burritos are obviously most popular (BTB does stand for Big Ten Burrito, after all). 5. Best Outdoor Seating: Palio This may seem frivolous, but there just really is something extra relaxing about eating outside. Here, not only can you eat outside, but you can also eat outside on the roof. There aren’t many places in Ann Arbor that give you this option unfortunately, so be sure to make a trip out to Main Street to experience it while the weather’s still nice.
From brunch to BTB, the most delicious treats A2 offers. 6. Best Sushi: Saica There are plenty of closer places at which you can feed your addiction to this Japanese treat, but I’m a firm believer in not wasting your time on mediocre sushi. The seaweed salad, anything tempura and specialty rolls here are all excellent. Bonus: free delivery on orders over $20! 7. Best Greasy Eat: Frita Batidos I’m kind of obsessed with this Cuban spot just off Main Street. The name comes from its classic offerings: fritas (Cuban burg-
8. Best Lunch Spot: babo At this pay-by-the-pound deli counter, you can rest assured that you’re in for an exceptional lunch. With a variety of fresh and creative salads, pressed sandwiches and funky-cool drinks, you’ll never run out of new things to try. Seating is limited, but classy and casual out on the patio. 9. Best Place to Use Blue Bucks: Ahmo’s Gyros & Deli The newest addition to the Michigan Union, Ahmo’s is a demanding presence in the competitive student-lunch market. The staff is speedy, and the chicken gyros plentiful. The battered fries are succulent any time of day and the wild berry smoothies just waiting to be made. And, I mean, you’ve gotta spend those Blue Bucks somewhere! 10. Best Everything Ever: Sava’s There aren’t enough positive adjectives in the English language for me to adequately describe Sava’s, so just trust me and go try it for yourself. Some of the best things I’ve had here include the asparagus-and-goat cheese omelette, spinach dip, chicken saltimbocca, pan-seared sea scallops and the ham, spin, brie, pear panini. The Sunday brunch buffet? To die for. With this list in tow, grab a couple of friends, #exploreA2 and get to eating! That freshman 15 isn’t going to put itself on, you know.
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Yo. SHIT WENT DOWN TONIGHT, MAN. I show up to S.C.’s place with Morgana, and we roll into this tight-ass basement in the ground. THERE ARE BOOKS EVERYWHERE. I’m absorbing the knowledge through my eyes. HOLD UP. We’re on a porch now and M.E. texts me. What does everyone want to drink? I WANT TO DRINK THE MOON, SON. BRING ME THE LIQUOR STORE, SON. Next thing I know, D.Panda rolls in with M.E. and I lose it. They didn’t bring the moon. WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT SKYLER WHITE? Friends Karaoke is HERE. I go up the stairs and I think I see the Devil, but at this point, I’m like fuck it, we #rideordie tonight, bitches, because I #cantstop. Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air. Rrraaaaaaadddiooooo Heeeeaaaaaaddd. I fist pump with Morgana and D.Panda to some Fitty, but then I realize that life is so meaningful that I have to sit down for a moment. I take a picture of this madness and send it to K.S.P. WHY AREN’T U HERE, BITCH?? He asks me to “rank Tits, Nuggets, Ass.” AND I’M LIKE, “1 Ass 2 Nuggets 3 Tits. DUH.” “What would you do if a naked Lena Dunham showed up at your door?” AND I’M LIKE, “JUZT SAY NO.” The videos at Friends Karaoke are so fucking random and have nothing to do with the song. THERE IS A DUDE FLYING IN CALIFORNIFICATION. That’s some existential-level shit, kids. But Friends Karaoke also got your back, you know? There is a dude outside CONSTANTLY watching the door to make sure the fuzz don’t take me. The room is so dark and the couch is like the warm, soft hand of God. I wanna live on that hand. I scream something about being wasted and pass out. — DAILY ARTS WRITER
The songs that make it glorious are never the good songs. No one sings Radiohead. No one wants to hear that tasteful Led Zeppelin lullaby. Sing karaoke like you’re a one-man opera, and if you’re not actively attempting to make fun of yourself, the booze will take care of that for you, no worries. Destroy your secret favorites, destroy your favorite secrets, bond over the mutual giggling shame. You like REO Speedwagon? So the fuck do I! Duet me, baby. I just want to add, as an addemdum, that in our Friends sesh, I absolutely smashed my rendition of Hilary Duff’s magnum opus. Friends is all about looking backward and also looking forward. Going back, back to the beginning, back to when the earth, the sun, the stars were all aligned, and reliving the past in new time. It’s about washing away your sanity. Stop trying to fit a square into a circle, that’s no life. You have to defy the compulsion to run screaming from the embarrassment. You have to find a pigment of truth beneath your skin. Because you want to feel the thunder, you want to scream. Karaoke is all about that, starting again, coming clean. Friends teaches you, in baby steps and huge handles of alcohol that, wait, dear lord how did we drink all of that how are we still alive what the jesus, that you really can trust your friends. They won’t attack you when you show them what you really are, and what you really like. They’ll be right there, singing their heads off with you and for you. Being fools together, that’s what Friends is, and it’s what friends are. —NOAH COHEN
I don’t know what I did to deserve this, but I’m crowded into the corner of a sticky leather couch, watching D.Panda attempt to spoon a puddle of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream into his mouth. And I’m at a karaoke lounge. Sober. Karma is real. Vengeful, I slip the carton from Panda’s hands, hand him a microphone and hope — in my own sober amusement — that maybe he’ll try to eat that, too. But he doesn’t notice, so I paw at what’s left of Liz Lemon (Daily Arts has good taste in TV and dairy treats), praying that no one’s found their way to Don Mclean’s eight-minute “American Pie.” To take advantage of my unaffected sense of good judgment, I pull my phone from my purse. Say cheese, bitches. Because this piece is only 200 words, and a picture is worth so much more, the rest of my sobery-soberiffic-sobertastic night can be described by a series of photos: past, current and future editors lined up like a shitfaced family of Russian nesting dolls; a blossoming bromance huddled around a microphone; fists and bottles raised to rock music as we stumble over verses in “Mr. Brightside”; that one writer going solo because, dude, nobody else knows that song, hurry up. And many more too incriminating for publication in a newspaper. Or on Facebook, for that matter. Until I’m 21 and can party like it’s, according to our musical selection, 2005, let’s stick to our day jobs. All right, guys? — BRIANNE JOHNSON
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Given the grotesquely public and corporate manner in which Jay-Z rolled out his most recent album Magna C Carta…Holy Grail, it’s no Holy Grail surprise that Jay-Z and the music Justin video for Timberlake “Holy Grail,” the project’s Roc Nation lead single featuring Justin Timberlake, is as underwhelming and obnoxiously contrived as most of the album itself. The video is set in a deteriorating and seemingly haunted mansion, complete with snakes, Greek statues, creepy pools of water and, of course, scores of Holy Grails. Director Anthony Mandler (Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake) does an exceptional job of lighting the clip: Timberlake’s face haunt-
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elcome to campus, freshmen. As you either already know or are about to find out, Ann Arbor is one of the greatest college towns known to man; there are great shops, great people, great events and festivals, great venues, NATHAN great talent WOOD and — most importantly — great food. Really. There’s so much more than Noodles & Company, Jimmy John’s and Five Guys Burgers and Fries. And to prove it, I’ve compiled the list below, which I encourage you to use as a guide as you sample some of your first restaurants in this vibrant city of ours.
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big-budget song by the two biggest artists in American music right now. But if Jay-Z is as much of a genius as he rightfully believes he is, he better have something a lot better up his sleeve for the video to his next single. —JACKSON HOWARD
Seth Rogen (“This Is The End”) should seriously just embrace the typecasting that’s made him a household A name. No matter how Neighbors hard he may Universal try to give off some semblance of respectability, if he’s in a movie, we’ll always see him as the fat man-child who enjoys smoking doobies while chilling out with his fat man-child friends. He’s the oaf we laugh at for our entertainment, and whenever he tries to break away from idiocy, as he does in the trailer for Nicholas Stoller’s (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) “Neighbors,” he comes off as tentative and unfunny. Rose Byrne’s (“The Place Beyond The Pines”) best line is, “take it sleazy” and, oh my
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god, does Stoller listen. In perhaps the most cringe-inducing sequence I’ve seen since “Scary Movie 5,” we’re shown a toddler accidentally putting a condom in her mouth. Why? Because a fraternity, headlined by Christopher Mintz Plasse (“Kick Ass 2”) and Zac Efron (that movie
in which Nicole Kidman pees on him), moves in next door and starts bro-ing shit up. This movie doesn’t come out till May 2014, so please, if this trailer is anything to go by, you have a year to find something else to do that weekend. —AKSHAY SETH
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LITERATI From Page 1B “Now that we’ve read each other’s favorites, we’re agreeing more about authors,” she said. But the manner with which she reads continues to boggle Michael’s mind. Hilary always reads the last page of a book before she gets to the end. I asked Michael whether he thought it might be better not to have any expectations at all. “Hilary’s answer might be much different than mine,” he said immediately. But for him, “All their hope, it fires me up. It gets me going.” He acknowledges differing opinions on the future of the bookstore. As Michael explained, the store is attracting support from other businesses in the community. Business from scratch Two months after making the hitherto bravest decision of their lives, and amid the chaos that accompanies opening a small business, the two married on the first of June, on the edge of Ann Arbor. “It’s funny,” Michael said. “We talked to the owners of Sweetwaters (Coffee and Tea),” the Ann Arbor café chain. “They’re a married couple, and they run Sweetwaters together. So we went to them a month ago, to ask advice about how they work together as a married couple who run a business.” From this, they came up with a system to compartmentalize work and play. “We have our work relationship and then we have our personal relationship,” Michael said. “When we were working at our apartment, we really had to make rules. Like, no talking about Literati after midnight, because we’d go crazy.” Starting a small business from scratch gets to both of them. When I
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Michael and Hilary Gustafson opened the Literati bookstore after getting engaged.
talk to each of them alone, they each worry about how the other is holding up. “Hilary had a 100-degree fever the day before we opened,” Michael said. “But we couldn’t change course. She had to be here, because she’s the book lady. She knows the computer; she knows everything. So that was long days for her.” “I think just putting everything in perspective,” Hilary said. “I have to remind myself that we’re so lucky to be here and to be embraced by the community; I had to remind myself of that in college a lot — that I’m lucky to be in college and have the
freedom to be studying and to do all of these wonderful things. When I think back on it now, I wish I had taken more time to appreciate how lucky that was.” “So just putting things in perspective as much as I can. It’s so easy to get wound up in the everyday and get freaked out by all the deadlines and papers and bills. You gotta take a moment to just say, ‘this is a really cool thing.’ ” Continuing to expand When I asked them what stresses them out the most, they seemed
fearlessly unfazed by the passing of Borders. “Borders number one was 41,000 square feet. We are 2,600, which is just a fraction. So we hope that downtown Ann Arbor can support that,” Michael said. Later, Hilary explains their philosophy more organically, “We can’t beat Borders, but at the same time, people talk to each other about what excites them, and I think the things that people get excited about will grow here, and we’ll expand, and things’ll grow.” They stress over what they have control over. Michael described one
technical difficulty: “We ran out of receipt paper, which is needed when you are running a business. Of all the details that were floating around in our heads, we didn’t think there would be a limited amount of receipt paper! So I sprinted to Office Depot.” The biggest technical thing, for any bookstore, is choosing what books to stock. With her experience as a sales rep, Hilary handles most of this load. “A lot of our inspiration and business model is Greenlight,” Michael said of an independent bookstore that Hilary worked at in Brooklyn. “When we first started playing around with opening a bookstore, Hilary hadn’t worked in a bookstore yet. We thought maybe we should work in a bookstore first to make sure it’s something we want to do.” When I asked Hilary how it’s done, she outlined the basics of bookstore management. “I have sales reps that rep all of the publishers, which is what I used to do. They have a list of a thousand titles, of which you take 100, and they tell you which ones they think might be worth taking, and you can pick them out yourself from there. They have author history; they have review attention — if they’re going to be on NPR; if they’re going to be on Rachel Maddow.” “We have 11,000 units. So that’s 7,700 titles. We have about 1,000 with multiples. There’s 3,172 units of 986 titles. So we have about 8,000 one-copy books,” Hilary said. Hilary also explained that the store shifts its inventory based on the interest of its staff. “They have the hugest impact on what the store is,” Hilary said. “One of our staff members is really into philosophy, so I said, ‘Just make a list and I’ll go through it!’ I don’t really read philosophy, but I’m really glad that’s becoming part of our store.” Realism and idealism
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Literati’s bookshelves originated from the now closed Ann Arbor Borders.
Michael summed up the staff as follows: seven starters, three former Borders employees, a former Shaman Drum employee, two MFA poetry graduates and the executive director of the Great Lakes Booksellers Association. “Everyone has brought their own knowledge,” Hilary said. “Jill has brought some real parenting knowledge. Poetry, obviously, we have our two poetry guys. John really knows philosophy and Deb’s really into social politics. Michael’s all about environmentalism; it’s really great.” The shelves in Literati were bought from what was left of Borders. They purchased them the day before the store went into demo. “It was like a Ghost Town,” Michael said. “We thought it would be really cool to repurpose these iconic pieces.” The typewriter in the display case at the register, a 1930s SmithCorona, belonged to Michael’s grandfather. The typewriter is where Literati got its black-andwhite checkerboard theme. Michael emphasized how they’ve tried to keep all the store
supplies local, or at least domestic. The bookmarks and bags posed a particular challenge. “Somehow we need to encourage people to use their own bags, because we don’t philosophically agree with the printing of all this, so we wanted a 100-percent recyclable paper bag without heavy use of dye, so we’re hand-stamping all the bags,” Michael explained. “See, five years ago, I created a stupid little Facebook group that said, you know, ‘ban plastic bags.’ I can’t go ahead and offer plastic bags. That would just drive me nuts.” Literati tries to compromise between realism and idealism, between providing sanctuary for the quiet relics of an evolving literary culture and acting as a tiny concert hall for young slam poets from The Neutral Zone (Ann Arbor’s teen center). “I think it will bring people from the community together,” Hilary said. “From a bunch of different backgrounds — I think it’ll be a melting point, so we expect to have people linger.” Beyond the books In the first two months of Literati’s existence, it had six events. Hilary lists what they’ve hosted so far: live music, authors, story time, a woman who had walked the shores of all of the great lakes. Literati aspires to be a community epicenter, as Borders was. “The communication that happens around books is … if bookstores go under, that communication is lost, and you will never get that whimsy again; you will never get that community feel,” Michael said. It’s part of the reason Michael and Hilary committed to a ship so many people said was sinking: They felt like there’s something about the ship itself that deserves saving. “Strangers coming together around books is exactly why we wanted to be here. To see it happen so immediately has been wonderful,” Hilary said. Michael described watching a pair of people in the store make a pact to start pickling because they were looking at a pickling book. “I don’t know if they bought the book or not, but it doesn’t really matter,” Michael said. “Those types of interactions are lost if you download your books by yourself in your room.” “In a perfect world, our prices would increase and we would buy this building. … In a perfect world we would live nearby and walk to the bookstore,” Michael said. “And we would be here all day, and we would have full time employees. Oh yeah, this is the dream.” The young couple talks about their dream like storybook protagonists. Whether the story goes well depends on whether Ann Arbor keeps reading. Literati will be providing the Daily with advance copies of books for future reviews.This article was assigned and written before the partnership began and is in no way affected by the professional arrangement.
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EPISODE REVIEW It’s been four days since “Rabid Dog.” Four days since Jesse Pinkman finally wises up. Four days since “I never A should have let my dojo Rabid Dog membership Breaking Bad run out.” And at long, AMC last, the supporting cast begins to stoop to Walt’s level. No one, not even Hank, can help but classify Jesse as another throw-away casualty, easily disposable if it means getting the skinny on Walt. In a sense, it’s sad. Characters who had, whether through ignorance or sheer resilience, steered clear of Heisenberg’s evil machinations finally show signs of succumbing to them. Viewers no longer face the same Walt who coordinated multiple prison murders in the span of a few minutes. More
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apparent than any time else this season, the scales are even. Here’s a more desperate breed of Heisenberg, feverishly dodging bullets from every side as creator Vince Gilligan masterfully blends tension into uncertainty. There’s never a moment in “Rabid Dog,” even in the brief
reprieve of Marie’s therapy session, where we can anticipate what will happen next. Is that more confirmation that this show will only be brought to its inevitably screeching halt by a fiery Hindenburg-esque explosion? I certainly hope so. —AKSHAY SETH
It’s sort of easy to predict what Irish group September Girls’ music is going to sound like by looking at a picture B+ of them. At least four out Ships of five have September bangs. There Girls are dark sunglasses, some Soft Power florals understated black clothing. They’re easily confusable with the members of lots of other feminine garage-y bands or just women you’d see walking around Kerrytown. Their latest single, “Ships,” fits the description. It’s unfussy, soft-but-crunchy, sweet even though it tries so hard not to be. The song’s strongest features include a don’t-fuck-with-me baseline and a guitar melody that dances and sways, while the lyrics are essentially incomprehensible beneath the instru-
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mentation. The barely-there vocals give the song a translucent, silky feeling — aloof and unruffled. It’s an entrancing track, and while it ends too quickly and sort of feels like you’re overhearing a (very nice!) rehearsal from the other room, September Girls are onto
something with “Ships”; they may just need an extra little something to differentiate themselves from the rest of the female (and male, for that matter) bands that attempt to assert their place in the garage-pop universe. —KATIE STEEN
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A NOVEL PURSUIT
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Michael Gustafson showcases the Smith & Corona Typewriter his grandfather used the in college.
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Though many typewriters are on display in the store, Literati’s logo is based off of the family heirloom.
New bookstore fosters growth for 2 A independent publishing scene Literati opens doors for readers and writers to connect By JOHN BOHN Daily Community Culture Editor
In the basement, philosophy, history and science books line the shelves. Generally, a few tables are available for people looking to sit down and peruse a title. But tonight, rows of chairs and a microphone turn the downstairs of Literati Bookstore into a cozy
performance space. On this occasion, the readings are organized around Hobart Press, a local, independent publisher. Ann Arbor residents Aaron Burch and Elizabeth Ellen edit for Hobart, which comprises an online journal and some printed titles. Burch walks to the front of the room to announce the first reader. To introduce a writer, he explains, he likes to play a song that reminds him of them. For the first reader, Mary Miller, he’s chosen “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” by Tom Petty. As he explains, Miller and Ellen
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The store attracts readers of all ages.
are both fans of Petty and listened to him a lot during their most recent summer reading tour. And of course, Mary Miller and Mary Jane share the same first name. Miller walks to the mic as Burch plays the Tom Petty song on his iPhone. She then begins to read a short piece of flash fiction. With the closing of Borders, the space for a general bookstore in Ann Arbor opened back up. On April 3, 2013, Literati opened its doors to fill that gap in the downtown community. But as an independent bookstore, Literati brings its own unique opportunities. Hilary Gustafson, co-owner of Literati, does the buying. She works with a variety of distributors and publishers, some of which, like Consortium and Small Press Distribution, provide Gustafson with an array of alternative and indie press titles with which to stock the shelves of the store. However, Gustafson isn’t the only person who makes the decisions on stock. In addition to Gustafson, there is a team of workers all with previous experience in writing, literature and bookselling. Some came from Borders, others from Shaman Drum (another recently closed local book dealer) and some come from the University’s MFA poetry program. “I allow them to be more involved in the buying process,” said Gustafson. “Having input from everybody on the team is something that Borders didn’t have, at least when it was corporate.” From this collaborative process emerges a small node in the dizzy-
ing network of independent publishing. A brief look at the fiction section of any bookstore can make one queasy with a sense of not knowing what’s out there. Chances are, however, that even within that stock, a multitude of titles and authors have been edited out. And that’s where a store like Literati comes in. It provides authors, like Mary Miller, a chance to share their work. “I started writing flash fiction probably when I was about 27 years old,” Miller said. “I joined a group called Zoetrope, which Francis Ford Coppola started. It’s just a free online writers workshop. I was living in a small town, and I didn’t really have access to other writers. So I just found people from all over the world through this writing workshop.” Miller originally comes from Mississippi but now lives in Austin, Texas. Her collection of short stories, “Big World,” is published by Hobart Press and is the second printed text that Hobart produced. It was through Zoetrope that Miller and Ellen came to know one another. “We’ve known each other for years just through the online community,” Miller said. “She started publishing her work online, and I started publishing online and we became fans of each other’s work.” Shortly after Ellen and Burch had started their small books division of Hobart, Ellen asked Miller if she had enough stories for a collection. “I said, ‘I don’t think so,’ ” Miller said. “And then I started putting things together because I never
thought about writing stories in terms of a collection.” That collection would become “Big World,” a final product that Miller and Hobart worked on and designed together. After publication, she and Ellen went on a bicoastal tour doing readings in bars and independent bookstores. “You know, I think I’ve pretty much only read at independent bookstores and bars,” Miller said. “Independent bookstores are much more supportive of independent presses and unknown writers. ... There’s a bookstore in Oxford, Mississippi called Square Books that’s been around forever. They’ve sold so many copies of my book, through word of mouth and recommending it to people.” While much of the sales of “Big World” come from online shops such as Amazon and Powell’s Books, occasionally “Big World” can be found on the shelf or at a counter, like it can at Literati. “When I went to Square Books at Oxford and saw a stack of them at the counter, even that was just really exciting,” Miller said. “And it’s exciting to go into a bookstore and sign their stock. If they have 15 books in there, to sit down with a pen and sign them. You feel like a real writer.” Mary Miller finishes her reading. Then Burch introduces the second writer, Juliet Escoria, with a song by Ministry. After Escoria, Burch introduces Scott McClanahan with “Sweet Child of Mine.” Apparently McClanahan made a short video called “Sweet Ass O’ Mine” where he’s dancing to the song. McClanahan’s reading
verges on the edge of performance art. The narrator of the story can’t help but break things. In frustration, he breaks a chair (“They don’t make them like they used to!”) and then accidentally kicks a hole in a wall, which he presumed was sturdier. All this time music is playing from various machines, one of which McClanahan stops by stomping on. “I’m friends with both Aaron and Elizabeth,” McClanahan said. “We’ve known one another for years.” While good friends with Hobart, McClanahan has also published with a few different groups such as Six Gallery in Pittsburgh, Lazy Fascist Press and Two Dollar Radio. “I’ve always got to know these people personally,” McClanahan said. After McClanahan finishes, Hobart brings out a cake to wish Escoria a happy birthday. The cake has a giant picture of Eminem on it. Earlier that day, Escoria, Ellen and her daughter went to Eight Mile Road to settle a bet on who was the biggest fan. “I’m thinking of Gregory Corso for some reason,” McClanahan said. “He said, ‘The Beat Generation … that wasn’t a generation. That was like seven or eight friends.’ ” Literati will be providing the Daily with advance copies of books for future reviews.This article was assigned and written before the partnership began and is in no way affected by the professional arrangement.
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