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Speakers combat HIV stigma with monologues ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Engineering freshman Ben Gerton presents the blimp designed in his Engineering 100-700 class during ‘Aerospace Day’ at the FXB Atrium on Saturday.
‘U’ hosts middle schoolers for third ‘Aerospace Day’ Biennial celebration on North Campus includes hovercrafts, rocket-building
convening to build rockets and fly hovercrafts as part of the third biennial Aerospace Day. Throughout the day, the 140 middle school students in attendance rotated through a series of eight activities, and observed a blimp and hovercraft competition for University engineering students. Freshmen and sophomores in the College of Engineering constructed blimps and hovercrafts from scratch through their various
By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
Middle schoolers filled the Aerospace Engineering building on North Campus on Saturday,
classes, then brought them to the competition, where they timed how long they took to fly through a course The Aerospace Day culminated with the completion of a mega-blimp built by groups of students throughout the day. Each team built a different section of the blimp, and the final product was flown at the end of the day. Engineering senior Caue Borlina, who helped organize
Wolverines to finish season versus Florida in Citrus Bowl
By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor
For the first time since 2013, the No. 14 Michigan football team will be playing football on New Year’s Day. The Wolverines announced Sunday that they will play Florida in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1 in Orlando, Fla., marking Michigan’s 44th bowl game alltime. The Wolverines (6-2 Big Ten, 9-3 overall) and Gators last played in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, 2008, when the game was called the Capital One Bowl. Michigan won that contest,
which was Lloyd Carr’s final game coaching the Wolverines, 41-35. The 19th-ranked Gators are coming off a loss in the SEC Championship Game to Alabama and boast a 10-3 record. Michigan, meanwhile, is coming off a loss of its own to Ohio State. Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock left that game after being sacked by the Buckeyes’ Joey Bosa, and his status is unclear against the Gators. Florida was undefeated until mid-October, when quarterback Will Grier tested positive for a banned substance. The Gators dropped their next game to LSU, 35-28, but did not lose again until the final week of the regular season, when Florida State beat them 27-2. On paper, the Gators’ offense looks like a favorable matchup for Michigan, which is 7-5 all-time against SEC teams in during bowl season.
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University students have hosted performances of the popular stage play “The Vagina Monologues” for years. But on Friday, the University’s Black Student Union and the National Council of Negro Women teamed up to present “The HIV Monologues.” Presented in the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the production aimed to educate students about people who are HIV-positive and destigmatize common stereotypes affiliated with the disease. The monologues were affiliated with World AIDS Day — an international movement typically held on Dec. 1 that calls on the world community to sup-
port those diagnosed with HIV, remember those who have died from the disease and rally support behind efforts aimed at prevention and treatment. Friday’s event featured a mix of spoken-word monologues and personal accounts of those who have been affected by HIV in some way. This is the second time the BSU and NCNW have organized the HIV Monologues; the first occurred in winter 2014. LSA juniors Williamena Kwapo and Micah Griggs, members of the NCNW and organizers of the event, said they decided to bring the event back after realizing how important it was to discuss HIV issues with the campus community. Kwapo noted that college students rarely discuss the largescale effect of HIV, and Griggs said this silence often lends itself to the recycling of uninformed, negative stereotypes. “There’s definitely a negative connotation associated with HIV, and there’s definitely a stigma See HIV, Page 3A
MUSIC NOTEBOOK
In memory of fallen rock star Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots frontman passed away at age 48 By JAMIE BIRCOLL Senior Arts Editor KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily
University alum Dieter Burrell, an employee at the UM Institute for Social Research, browses for handmade holiday gifts at the annual Ann Arbor Potters Guild Winter Sale on Saturday.
Detroit Partnership raises funds for food, appliances Students volunteer at ‘One Stop Shop’ event for Redford, Brightmoor areas By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter
DETROIT — Seventy percent of the people who reside in Brightmoor, a neighborhood on
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Gators, Wolverines played in same game in 2008, when Michigan won, 41-35
the event, said the day’s activities sought to increase exposure of the aerospace field. “We want more people to study aerospace engineering,” he said. “The greatest thing is we have 90 volunteers from the department … The energy is great, and we hope to share that energy with the parents and students.” This year, the event filled up within 36 hours of the See AEROSPACE, Page 3A
Event intended to tie with World AIDS Day advocacy efforts
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Detroit’s far west side, live below the poverty line, according to Karen Plants, executive director of the Redford Brightmoor Initiative. Saturday marked the 13th annual One Stop Shop, a charity event in which appliances, winter clothing, food and toys are distributed to residents who reside in Brightmoor and neighboring Redford. This year, the Detroit Partnership, a University
student group, helped distribute donations to more than 300 families. The event was held at the Brightmoor campus of the Redford Aldersgate United Methodist Church. The drive was organized much like department store, though all of the items are free. All clients were paired with a personal shopper and are provided a full grocery bag of food. There was See DETROIT, Page 3A
When you look up Stone Temple Pilots on iTunes or Spotify, and you look at the suggested or similar artists, you’ll see Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones and Aerosmith — all bands that STP is not nor ever could be. They lack the crunch of Alice in Chains, the flair of Aerosmith, the prowess of Zeppelin, the influence of the Stones, the political charge of Pearl Jam and the range of Soundgarden. And because their sound is so derivative of all of these other bands, STP are incredibly easy to mock, write off and forget. STP hasn’t aged well, and its music lies perpetually stuck in the early ’90s. Their songs are the ones you’ll hear played on the few remaining adult alternative radio stations, whose listeners See WEILAND, Page 6A
Michigan won two high-scoring affairs, one in a shootout
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