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Shlepping For Bucks

dice the moving-in process, so "we
n a recent Monday, 7
thought there was a little more of a
a.m. didn't find Robbie
market to target," said Salter.
Salter of Farmington
The student entrepreneurs began to
- Hills rolling over in his
advertise
Schlepper's' services in the
-sleep. Instead, the University of
paper,
on
their Web site and through
Michigan junior was rolling down
e-mails
to
friends, fraternities and
the highway, driving a 15-foot
sororities.
They started keeping a jour-
blue and white
nal
with
deadlines
and created spread-
Budget rental
sheets
to
keep
track
of their account-
truck to Ann
ing.
Arbor.
"We were all looking to get a little
Salter, a 20-
extra
money to go back to school, and
year-old business
we
knew
there was a market out there
major, traded
for
a
decent
product and a decent
some extra hours
service.
We
just
wanted to be the ones
of dreaming for a
KAREN
to
get
in
on
it
and
utilize the resources
real-life business
we have," Salter said.
SCHWARTZ experience that he
"We're just a couple of guys trying
Special to the hopes will help
to pay for some of the food inside the
Jewish News him in the future.
Big House [Michigan Stadium]," he
The co-founder
said.
of Schlepper's, a business that
Thal, who is a junior and business
installs carpet in residence halls
U-M business majors Robbie Salter of
major
like his partner, said he feels the
and provides move-in assistance to
Farmington Hills and Daniel Thal of West
group
has become even more helpful
members of sororities and fraterni-
Bloomfield get ready to haul a load of
this
year,
offering rtudents more assis-
ties, Salter drove a truck on the
carpeting to campus.
tance
to
ease
the stress of moving.
highway-for the first time as he
"Welcome
Week
is a big hassle, so
brought thousands of square feet of carpet to U-M.
we
decided
to
get
some
strapping
young
gentlemen
to make
He and seven- of his friends spent Welcome Week on cam-
it
easier,"
Thal
said.
pus shlepping boxes, putting up shelves, cable networking .
_The price charged was $80 an hour for two movers.
computers and cutting and installing carpet for more than
Many of the business' customers were referred by word of
50 students.
mouth.
The group first provided services to students last year, put-
"It's really nice because every time someone calls us up,
ting carpet in the residence halls under the business name
they
got referred from a friend of theirs [who is] a friend of
"Carpet Diem." The carpeting came from a good connec-
ours
—
it's a more gratifying experience," Thal said.
tion — one partner's uncle who is in the carpeting business.
He
said
the many hours of preparation and work for the
Rather than going through the hassle of moving furniture,
business
is
definitely worthwhile.
and buying and cutting up carpeting themselves, students
.
"It's
fun
being
in charge of something and doing some-
could pay the group $200 for carpet and installation.
thing
that's
successful,"
he said. "It's nice seeing that we came
This year, Salter and Schlepper's_ co-founder Daniel Thal,
up
with
an
idea
and
we
followed through with it and it's giv-
20, of West Bloomfield, expanded their repertoire because of
ing
us
some
sort
of
return.
an increased demand for services.
'And," Thal added, "it's nice to have money." ❑
Last year, people were offering them money to help expe-

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Shabbat Candlelighting

"I feel that I could ask for anything I want. I also feel that suddenly, the house
is becoming calmer."

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ow is the fast of Yom
Kippur different from the
other five fasts in the
Jewish year?
— by Goldfein

•1sEj atp aJojaq aDIALI aswj smaj
atuOs pur isEj alp SuIuurSaci aiojaq
asEaj oa papuEunuoo air siAaf :13MSLIV

Quotables

"The idea is to have a place that would
defy the Holocaust and that would be a
statement of Am Yisrael Chai — the
Jewish people lives."
— Amos Avgar, a Ukrainian-based
spokesman for the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, referring to the
Jewish memorial and community center
planned by the Ukrainian government at
Babi Kr, site of a Nazi massacre,
as quoted by JTA.

"There has been serious damage to
some of Prague's Jewish treasures. But in
a sense, we are grateful because the
damage could have been much worse if
the river Vltava's banks had burst."
— Tomas Jelinek, chairman of the Prague
Jewish community after the worst floods
in 106 years caused an estimated $4
million in damage to Jewish holy sites,
as quoted by JTA.

"The time has come for-each
Conservative Jew to make a personal
commitment to Jewish growth by enter-
ing into a covenant with God. Without
such a covenant, our good intentions
will never govern our lives."
— Rabbi Jerome M Epstein, executive
vice president, writing in the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's fall
issue of "United Synagogue Review."

Yiddish Limericks

"This drilling's the toughest I've spent.
I've had it!" complained Private Kent.
"I march and I crawl,
And scale every wall.
Me kricht ahf di gleicheh vent.''*

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

* (idiomatic) "You're asking the impos-
sible."
(figurative) "You're climbing on the
straight wall."

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