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The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 3A
ON CAMPUS
Art display will
focus on genocide
in Darfur region
Art created by children who have
witnessed the genocide in the Darfur
region of Sudan will be on display start-
ing today from 7 to 9 p.m. The art will
be on display in the Art Lounge of the
Michigan Union.
Author to discuss
stories about life in
West Bank
Author Adania Shibli will read and
discuss portions of her short stories
today at noon in room 2239 of Lane
Hall. Shibli's short stories focus on
the everyday life of people living in
the West Bank. She was born as a
Palestinian in 1974 and has had her
work published in both Arab and
European literary magazines.
Faculty to highlight
work of Nobel
Laureates
Faculty members will make 30-min-
ute presentations on the work of the 2005
physics, chemistry, medicine, literature,
peace and economics Nobel laureates.
The presentations will take place in room
340 at the Randall Laboratory from 4 to
6 p.m. today.
Candlelight vigil to
be held for those
affected by HIV
A candlelight vigil will be held tonight
on the Diag from 8 to 8:30 p.m. as part
of the World AIDS week events to honor
those people who are affected by HIV.
CRIME
NOTES
Caller reports lock
was filled with
rubber cement
A caller reported yesterday that a
lock to a closet on the second floor
stairwell of the East Quad Residence
Hall has been filled with rubber
cement, according to the Depart-
ment of Public Safety.
Spruce tree top
cut off in Nichols
Arboretum
A caller reported yesterday to
DPS that the top of a spruce tree had
been cut off in Nichols Arboretum.
Woman on way
to hospital locks
keys in car
A woman on her way to Univer-
sity Hospital yesterday became sick
and pulled her car over. After get-
ting out of her vehicle, the caller said
she locked her keys in her car, DPS
reported.
THIS DAY
In Daily History
Man foregoes
nap, decides to
shoot squirrel
instead
Dec. 1, 1935 -Instead of napping after
Thanksgiving dinner, Frank Shinledecker
went squirrel hunting.
Shingledecker, groggy after his plentiful
turkey-day meal, decided that a walk and a
whiff of fresh air could do him some good.
To protect himself from any strangers or
furry woodland creatures, Shingledecker
took his gun along for his stroll through
Pittsfield township.
Reports are unclear whether the squirrel
was the instigator in the incident, but when
Charities benefit
from fraternities'
fun amng efforts
Charlie Ortiz cleans a panel yesterday that is part of an exhibit being put up by the Smithsonian Institution that
chronicles the Montgomery bus boycott.
Exhibit focuses on history of
the Montgomery bus boycott
Members of Pike
and Fiji presented the
proceeds to the charity
organizations before the
Michigan-Ohio State
football game.
By Conor Reynolds
For the Daily
A 187-mile relay and the destruc-
tion of a car have combined to raise
more than $65,000 for charity.
Separate fundraising campaigns
by the Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi
Gamma Delta fraternities raised
more than $65,000 for football
coach Lloyd Carr's Coach Carr
Cancer Fund and the American
Cancer Soci-
ety, respec-
tively.
Donations "I think Mi
came from pri-
vate citizens football fa
and corporate
sponsors. always lOc
Beginning at
6 a.m. the Fri- to contrib
day before the the rivar
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game, members
of both frater-
nities relayed
footballs from Interfraternity (
Columbus,
Ohio to Ann
Arbor.
They arrived at Michigan Stadi-
um about an hour before the game
began.
In the third annual "Charity Foot-
ball Run," Pike members carried
balls with the signatures and dedi-
cations of contributors personally
affected by cancer.
In Fiji's second annual "Rivalry
Run," fraternity members carried
the actual balls that would be used
in the game.
Founded in 1998, the Coach Carr
Cancer Fund is a charity organiza-
tion that raises money to support
cancer patient care programs at the
University health system's Compre-
hensive Cancer Center.
Members of Pike and Fiji pre-
sented the proceeds to the charities
in a ceremony in the north end zone
of Michigan Stadium 25 minutes
before kickoff.
Interfraternity Council spokes-
man Jon Krasnov said both efforts
exceeded their fundraising goals,
with the Rivalry Run raising
more than $25,000 and the Char-
ity Football Run raising more than
$40,000.
These numbers surpassed those
of last year, when the Rivalry Run
garnered $15,000 and the Charity
Football Run raised $13,000.
Fiji member and LSA senior
Alex Garnepudi saidicontribu-
tions are still coming in, and the
fraternity will continue to donate
to the charities over the course of
the academic
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A
Smithsonian Institution exhibit fea-
turing a collage of photos, quotes
and historical text that chronicle the
Montgomery bus boycott will go on
view this week at the state Capitol as
part of the 50th anniversary celebra-
tion of the landmark protest.
The exhibit - "381 Days: The
Montgomery Bus Boycott Story" -
will be on view from Dec. 2 to Jan.
14 and at Alabama A&M University
in Huntsville from Feb. 4 to April 6.
It then starts a 14-city national tour
through 2009.
"It's an American story," said Mar-
quette Folley, project director for the
Smithsonian's traveling exhibitions,
yesterday. "This story allows us to
know that one individual standing
with commitment will be joined by
many, and together we can start a
revolution."
The boycott began four days after
Rosa Parks, a black woman, was
arrested Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing
to give up her seat to a white man.
Some 40,000 blacks took part in the
381-day protest, walking, carpool-
ing and taking cabs until a legal
challenge. ended the city's racially
segregated bus system.
Although Parks's arrest was the
catalyst for the boycott, the exhibit
also examines the contributions of
the many Montgomery blacks whose
refusal to ride the bus hit the city
hard financially and drew national
attention to the emerging civil rights
movement.
"The lynchpin of all of this is
that people did it nonviolently," said
Ruth Rambo, associate state director
of AARP, which is underwriting the
exhibit. "It was a question of looking
at the finances of the city and seeing
where they can make a difference,
and here we are with more opportu-
nities than we had 50 years ago."
The exhibit, with assistance from
the Alabama Historical Commission
and Troy University's Rosa Parks
Library and Museum, will be cele-
brated today with an opening recep-
tion at the Capitol.
Anniversary kickoff events Thurs-
day also include an eight-block chil-
dren's march to the Capitol from
the downtown site where Parks was
arrested.
While Parks's arrest inspired the
boycott, other black women were the
plaintiffs in the federal court lawsuit
- known as Browder v. Gayle -
that led to the U.S. Supreme Court
ruling that outlawed segregated pub-
lic transportation.
Principals of that case - attor-
ney Fred Gray and plaintiffs Aure-
lia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie
McDonald and Mary Louise Smith
- will be honored at the exhibit's
reception along with the found-
ing members of the Montgomery
Improvement Association, which
organized the citywide boycott.
Each of the Browder honorees
will receive an original quilt square
designed, constructed and signed by
Gee's Bend quilters - black women
in rural Wilcox County whose stun-
ning quilt designs have become a
traveling museum exhibit of their
own. The MIA will be honored with
a full-sized quilt, which will be dis-
played in its honor in the Rosa Parks
Museum.
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-John Krasnov
Council spokesman
year.
In another
event for
charity, prior
to kickoff,
Michigan
fans used
hammers,
baseball bats
and other
blunt objects
to destroy a
donated '80s
model Dodge
Aries painted
to resemble a
Buckeye hel-
met prior to
kickoff.
The "Car Bash," hosted by Alpha
Epsilon Pi, Psi Upsilon, Alpha Chi
Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta,
raised almost $2,000, which will be
donated to help victims of Hurricane
Katrina.
Alpha Epsilon Pi member and
Kinesiology junior Brian Mill-
man said the Michigan-Ohio State
rivalry provided "a good opportu-
nity to raise money for the Gulf
community."
Speaking on the success of these
fundraising efforts, Krasnov said:
"I think Michigan football fans are
always looking to contribute to the
rivalry in a positive way."
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