2 - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 T iai cn o u The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Before You Were Here The Extremist A run-in with the locals MIDEAST TALK In the graffiti-laden alley behind See something that embodies the The Michigan Theater, I had a run-in Ann Arbor or University of Michi- with an Ann Arbor element that Uni- ganexperience? E-mail submissions versity students often forget - local togrossman@michigandaily.com. high school kids. I was standing alone, writing down covered fifth inside, and the trio took snippits of graffiti for an item in The off in anticipation of a drunken high Michigan Daily, when six or seven school sleepover. black-clad teens streamed into the JESSICA VOSGERCHIAN depths of the alley. After a few minutes, three of them walked back toward me, the voice of Taiwanese tensions one rising over those of the others. "No, Jeremy," a girl with black- There's nothing that livens up a shit- rimmed glasses said. "Come with me ty first snow than slow jams and hot rightnow. Seriously, I am justnotin the pot. mood for this today." Enabling my friend Peter in his pur- A boy, presumably Jeremy, protested suit of the steamy traditional Chinese weakly in a high voice, while the last of and Taiwanese dish (usually thinly the three kept quiet. sliced meat, vegetables, various sea- "I'm not kidding!" the girl said. "I food and noodles cooked communally have to go home now to clean my room in a giant pot), I followed a Taiwanese- so we can spend the night and get American Student Association e-mail drunk tonight! Now put the vodka in to an annual hot pot event at someone's my backpack." house. The girl leaned over so Jeremy could Dinner was delicious, the soundtrack unzip her bag and place a paper-bag- seemed to be solely Ne-Yo and the soft- er side of Chris Brown (or something along those lines), but the conversation (though I knew several people there) was, at times, awkward. "Are you Taiwanese?" one of the girls in attendance asked. Both of my parents were born in Tai- wan. Girl, I wanted to say, my family moved from China to the island decades before Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek shipped over all those Ming Dynasty artifacts. But Peter cut in first, joking, "Ugh, she's totally from the mainland." "No, really, I'm Taiwanese," I said. She looked at me. "You're kidding." She looked at Peter, then back at me. "Wait, you're not Taiwanese - you don't look Taiwanese at all." Peter gave me an apologetic look. I reassertedmyethnicityandwarned that getting into a fight about this prob- ably wouldn't be the best idea. I tried to suggest to Peter that we leave, but he wanted to eat more hot pot. KIMBERLY CHOU CRIME NOTES Calculator, book Vandalism at stolen from Schembechler Angell Hall Hall CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES WHERE: Angell Hall WHEN: Sunday at about noon WHAT: A bookbag contain- ing a calculator and textbook was stolen from a third-floor classroom between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m., the Department of Public Safety reported. The bag and its contents were valued at $190. Police have no suspects. Morphine stolen from hospital WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Sunday at about 4:30 p.m. WHAT: A hospital employee reported a bottle containing an unknown amount of Morphine was stolen from a nurse's room, DPS reported. The bottle was last seen on Nov. 17. Police have no suspects. WHERE: Schembechler Hall WHEN: Sunday at about 11 a.m. WHAT: An unknown person broke a window and illegally entered the building between 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and 10:50 a.m. on Sunday, DPS reported. Police have no sus- pects. Video game stolen from hospital room WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Monday at about 2 a.m. WHAT: A patient's video game was stolen from his hospital room sometime between Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, DPS reported. The video game was valued at $59.99. Police have no suspects. Lecture on blues musician WHAT: Bruce Conforth, an American Culture lecturer, will discuss the life and music of legendary blues musician Robert Johnson WHO: University Unions Arts and Programs WHEN: Today from 6 to 7 p.m. WHERE: U-Club, Michigan Union Chinese women's rights lecture WHAT: Dongxiao Liu, a pro- fessor at Texas A&M Univer- sity, will give a presentation on women's movements in China and India WHO: Center for Chinese Studies WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Room 1636, School of Social Work Choir concert WHAT: A performance I the University Choir. 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