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The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom
MONDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
TUESDAY:
Arbor Anecdotes
WEDNESDAY:
The Extremist
THURSDAY:
Explained
PURIM AT HILLEL
Skat ing through life
Before the days of dimly lit
roller rinks with disco music and
rented wheels, University stu-
dents took their skating skills to
the streets.
In 1933, spring weather and
newly-resurfaced roads propelled
a roller-skating fad on campus.
What began with a few bored stu-
dents soon ballooned to hundreds
within a week.
Students bought, rented or
crafted their own roller skates
to join in on the fun. Students
cleaned out the local hardware
stores looking for supplies like
liniment and tape to fashion
homemade skates.
Campus stores constantly
restocked their shelves, unable to
keep up with the demand. Local
restaurants also began to sell
skates, hoping to cash in on the
craze.
Some restaurants encouraged
patrons to, "skate right in," while
other shop owners were less
receptive and complained about
students skating through their
stores.
Drivers also had to adjust to the
skaters, who created a new road
hazard. Campus Health Services
reported an influx of scrapes
bruises and sprains, which may
explain why the trend didn't last
long. As final exams approached
later that spring, the fad died out.
Many saw the roller-skating
epidemic of 33' as an answer to
the transportation headaches in
Ann Arbor. Articles from the time
mention the reemergence' of bicy-
cles among both professors and
students as a cost effective alter-
native to cars.
Several years earlier, a similar
craze made its way into campus
life when the University imposed
a ban on automobiles in 1927.
Then-president Clarence Cook
Little believed that cars distract-
ed students from their studies. He
proposed the ban to the Universi-
ty's Board of Regents, and it soon
went into effect. Only a limited
number of permits were issued.
Students and professors donned
roller skates as a form of protest.
At the time, a vast roller skat-
ing trend had already emerged on
college campuses across the U.S.
When news of the ban hit Ann
Arbor, it accelerated the city's
roller culture. While many glided
their way to class, it was more of a
recreational movement. Students
came out in the afternoons and
evenings to skate around campus,
and organized roller meets on the
weekends.
CAITLIN SCHNEIDER
LSA junior Danny Devries, right and LSA junior David Chud-
now, left, pray during the Purim service yesterday at Hillel.
Purim is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Jewish people's
escape from Haman's plot to kill them.
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CRIME NOTES
Monitor, chair,
laptops stolen
WHERE: C.C. Little
WHEN: Wednesday at about 2
p.m.
WHAT: Two Dell laptops, a
19-inch LCD flatscreen moni-
tor and an office chair were
stolen from a room on the fifth
floor sometime between Friday
night and Monday morning,
the Department of Public Safe-
ty reported. It appears that
the thief or thieves used force
to enter the room. The equip-
ment is valued at about $1,700.
People have no suspects.
GPS, textbooks
taken from
parked car
WHERE: Thompson Street
Carport
WHEN: Wednesday at about
11:45 a.m.
WHAT: A GPS system, back-
pack and several textbooks
were stolen from a Chevy
Prism, DPS reported. The car's
owner returned to her car to
find the frontpassenger side
window was broken. Police
have no suspects.
Vending machine
glass smashed
WHERE: Couzens Hall
WHEN: Thursday at about 2
a.m.
WHAT: An unknown person
broke the glass window of the
building's vending machine,
DPS reported. The damage
occured sometime between
10 p.m. on Wednesday and 2
a.m. on Thursday. No snacks
appeared to be stolen. The
machine's contents will be kept
in storage for safekeeping until
the glass can be repaired. The
window will cost about $30
to fix.
CAMPUS EVENTS& NOTES
Psychological Services, third
Performance floor of the Michigan Union
of "The Full Talk on T-shirt
Monty99 pnvIan
WHAT: A performance of the
play "The Full Monty." Tickets
are $7 for students and $13 for
non-students at the Michigan
League Ticket Office.
WHO: Michigan Union
Shows, and Ko-Eds Too
WHEN: Today from 8 to
10:30 p.m.
WHERE: Power Center
Relaxation
training session
WHAT: A free workshop to
teach relaxation and stress
relieving techniques like
deep breathing.
WHO: Counseling and Psy-
chological Services
WHEN: Today from 12:15 to
1 P.M.
WHERE: Counseling and
Ilduluy iuuy
WHAT: Two Dominican
garment workers will speak
about their experiences
working in a T-shirt factory.
WHO: Students Organiz-
ing for Labor and Economic
Equality
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Kuenzel Room,
Michigan Union
CORRECTIONS
* A viewpoint in yesterday's
edition of the Daily (Saying
no to Order ofAngell) incor-
rectly identified the author,
Aria Everts, as the president
of Students Organizing for
Labor and Economic Equal-
ity. She is a member of SOLE.
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in the Daily to correc-
tions@michigandaily.com.
Police have apprehended
the alleged gunman in the
robbery of the Jamaican
Jerk Pit last month. Two men
robbed the Thayer Street res-
taurant at gunpoint on Feb.
22. The Department of Public
Safety has canceled its campus
crime alert.
Michigan hockey center
and senior captain Kevin
Porter was named the
CCHA player of the year.
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A Michigan woman on
vacation in the Florida
Keys died yesterday after
a large stingray jumped out of
the water and struck her, The
Associated Press reported. The
spotted eagle stingray weighed
about 75 pounds.
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