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QUOTES OF THE WEEK
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ABOUT CAMPUS
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ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN OQUIST
We thought it was a drug
deal gone bad. We almost
dropped the casket."
- RONNIE SIMMONS, a man from Wilm
"This 'flush and forget'
attitude creates a problem
which we have to revisit."
- JACK SIMS, founder of the World Toilet Orga-
nization, explaining the need for people to realize
that flushing their toilets can waste thousands of
liters of potential drinking water. Speaking at the
World Toilet Summit in Macau, Sims said that this
was one of sanitation's biggest challenges, and that
using "dry" toilets is one way to conserve water
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The secret of
Lloyd Island
LHSP 101: How to stay off
North Campus
The Lloyd Hall Scholars Pro-
gram, a living-learning community
for art and writing in Lloyd Resi-
dence Hall, offers a lot of perks for
its freshmen.
Lloyd scholars getreduced prices
for University performances, access
to small creative writing classes
that fulfill the often-painful first-
year writing requirement and an
absolute guarantee they won't have
to live on North Campus.
For many participants, that last
benefit is the most appealing.
"You can live on the Hill and it
keeps you off North Campus and
that's the only reason why people
apply to the program," LSA fresh-
man Scott Schubiner said. "It's just
a good way to stay on Central Cam-
pus."
It's not exactly a coincidence that
Lloyd Hall has the nickname "Lloyd
Island." The program's participants
- many of whom hail from the
same few places like Long Island -
often get turned on to the program
by older high school friends or sib-
lings.
"There are five kids from L.A.
that are in my hall, everyone else
is from New York or New Jersey,"
said Schubiner, who comes from
Los Angeles himself. "They used
to call (Alice Lloyd) 'Lloyd Island'
cause there's a lot of kids from Long
Island."
There are other notable trends
about the Lloyd population. While
the amount of University students
who join the Greek system is about
30 percent - Greeks have been
between 30 and 50 percent of the
LHSP population in recent years,
LHSP faculty director Carol Tell
said.
She said Greeks made up some-
where between 70 and 80 percent
in 2001.
Schubiner applied to the pro-
gram after hearing about it from
his sister, who was part of a living-
learning community in Couzens
Hall three years ago.
He said his sister urged him to
apply to increase his chances of liv-
ing in one of the better residence
halls at the University, with large
rooms and a close proximity to
Central Campus.
And he's not alone. Many of the
students now participating in the
program said their intent in joining
was to steer clear of a lO-minute bus
rides to class and the risk of being
socially isolated on North.
Joanna Joels, an LSA freshman
from New Jersey, said she applied
to the program because it was the
only place at the University where
she could enroll in a nude draw-
ing class. But even then, her initial
intentions were to stay off of North
Campus.
"Lloyd is a good location," she
said. "That's actually why I first
looked into the program. Someone
told me you can get into Lloyd and
live on the Hill."
LSA freshman Nick Pourmoradi,
a resident of Los Angeles, cited the
standard reasoning for applying to
the program.
"A friend told me about it, she's
like, 'you don'twantto live onNorth
Campus,'"he said.
Kinesiology freshman Brad Mal-
ach, from West Bloomfield, said
he wouldn't have even considered
applying to LHSP if it was housed
on North Campus.
But even though almost every
person he knows in LHSP applied
because of the location, he said it
isn't the only reason people apply.
"I'm sure there are people who
did it for the' program more than
the location," Malach said. "But I
think, for the most part, it's for the
location."
There are those students who
would join LHSP whether it was
housed in Lloyd, South Quad or
even Baits II, but they seem to be
few and far between.
LSA freshman Cassandra Malis,
one of the few students who applied
regardless of location and room
size, said living on the Hill is more
of a perk, as opposed to the main
reason for applying.
"I still would have done (LHSP)
if it was on North," Malis said.
"There's no other place that I can
do the things that I'm doing here."
Malis said she applied to LHSP
for the opportunity to take creative
classes without being enrolled in
the School of Art and Design.
"People who are just good at
English or like to write, it's a great
place," she said. "I know people
that are definitely pre-med and
pre-business here but they are still
creative people."
Many students in the program
are interested in writing or the arts,
but because of their majors, they
won't have the opportunity to take
creative classes at the University,
Malis said.
But the more Lloyd Hall Scholars
you speak to, the more you start to
realize that Malis belongs to a small
minority of students.- They are the
ones attending the extracurricular
events, winning the writing and
arts awards, sticking with the pro-
gram for more than one year and,
ultimately, giving LHSP its literary
reputation.
Now that Schubiner is immersed
in the program, he appreciates what
LHSP has to offer -small, intensive
arts classes, one-on-one interac-
tions with professors and the ease
of attending classes located just a
few floors below his dorm room.
But despite.recognizingthe posi-
tive aspects of LHSP, Schubiner -
as well as many other students in
the program - doesn't participate
more than is required.
As part of the program, students
must attend at least one extracur-
ricular event each month, be it a
poetry reading, a gallery showing
or a concert.
"The one thing I don't like about
the program, it's the one manda-
tory event each month," Schubiner
said. "I think there's a lot of people
that don't end up gettinginvolved. I
think it's a lot of people, even some
of my friends who are on the execu-
tive board for LHSP, abunch end up
quitting."
Malis said a lot of the guys in her
hall completely skip the events and
programs.
"When I go to the extracurricu-
lar things you're supposed to go to,
there's no boys in that club," she
said. "I guess thatthey don't do any-
thing that they don't have to do."
Both Malis and Schubiner agreed
that it seemed like an dispropor-
tional amount of Lloyd scholars
come from the same areas - New
York City, Long Island, certain
affluent suburbs in metro Detroit
and, increasingly in recent years,
Los Angeles.
Pourmoradi learned about LHSP
from a friend who went to the same
high school in Los Angeles and
was in the program the year before
him.
Malis learned about the pro-
gram from her best friend from
high school, who was a Lloyd Hall
Scholar a couple of years ago.
Schubiner even lives in the exact
same room as a friend of his from
high school who's four years older.
It's sure that LHSP is for stu-
dents who are genuinely interested
in the arts, but if the coordinators
were tobe completely honest about
it, they might describe the program,
as a living-learning community for
artists, writers and opportunists.
-TREVOR CALERO
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TALKING
POINTS
Three things you can talk about this week:
1. Mark BegiCh
2. Cyber warfare with China
3. Justice for Guantanamo detainees
And three things you can't:
1. The downfall of the Dingell
family
2. Pope Benedict's 'prophesy'
about the economic downturn
3. Al Qaeda on Obama
BY T HE NUMBERS
Number of times Lawrence Greene, University political science
lecturer, has been had his law license suspended, once in 1998
and again in 2003
Amount, in dollars, Greene owes Ford Motor Company from
cashing his deceased parents' retirement checks
Number of years Greene has been teaching at the University
Source: WXYZ Detroit
"I just remember hitting the water."
- LAURA DE LA CRUZ, a sophomore on the Morton Ranch High School cheerleading team in Katy,
Texas, describing the squad's hazing process, which entailed blindfolding the girls, tying their hands
together and then throwing them into a pool. Seven of the girls who conducted the hazing were
indicted last week on misdemeanor charges
VIDEO OF
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THE WEEK
The memorizing ,
appeal of vacu-cat
I'll admit it. I am personally
responsible for at least a couple
dozen of the more than 1.68 million
hits "Roomba Driver" has gotten
since it was posted a week ago.
The a45-second clip ofahousecat
riding a robotic vacuum in circles
has a soothing quality that's hard
to pinpoint. Something about the
video - perhaps the humming of
the Roomba or the puzzled yet apa-
thetic attitude of the cat - makes it
a memorizing stress reducer.
The black and white cat stays
almost perfectly still, its tail drag-
ging behind, as the vacuum moves
forward and backward.
I'm not the only one to be drawn
in by the video, Tuesday CNN
linked thevideounder the headline,
"Kitty zoombas about on robotic
Roomba."
The video represents a sub-genre
of "pet versus Roomba" or "pet
versus over-priced Sharper Image
products" clips circulating on
YouTube. There's "St. Bernard vs.
Roomba Pt. 1", "Puppy Vs. Robotl
Epic Battle For Territorial Domi-
nation" and "Quail mortals! It's the
hamster-controlled robot."
-KELLYFRASER
See this and other
YouTube videos of the week at
youtube.com/user/michigandaily
THEME PARTY SUGGESTION
High school reunion - Either the best or worst
part about going home for break is seeing your
high school friends. For some, it's a joyous reunion.
For others, it's an awkward reminder of how much
you've changed and how glad you are to have
moved on. If you're in the first camp, revisit the pas-
times of your adolescence. Play Scrabble at the old
cafe or smoke behind the football field. If you're in
the second group, turn off your phone and hang out
with your mom.
Throwing this party? Let us know. TheSttement@umich.edu
STUDY OF THE WEEK
Banning fast-food TV ads could curtail obesity
Prohibiting fast-food television advertisements could reduce child-
hood obesity inthe United States, according to a report thatwill be pub-
lished this month in the Journal of Law and Economics by researchers
from Lehigh University, Georgia State University and the City Univer-
sity of New York.
For the study, the researchers analyzed government survey data from
the late 1990s that consisted of personal interviews with thousands of
families in the U.S. In addition, the researchers examined local televi-
sion stations in the 75 biggest markets, looking at the size of viewing
audiences and specific fast-food commercials in each market.
Banning fast-food commercials would reduce the number of obese
children aged 3 to 11 by 18 percent and the number of those aged 12 to
18 by 14 percent, according to the study. The researchers also concluded
that eliminating a tax deduction for'fast-food restaurant advertising
would reduce the number of obese children by 5 to 7 percent.
- BRIAN TENGEL
ington, North Carolina, who was serving as a
pallbearer at a funeral when two undercover
sheriffs tasered one of his fellow pallbearers.
The victim had been charged with threatening
his ex-wife and had refused to turn himself in
ILLUSTRATION BY LAURA GARAVOGLIA