0 2A - Thursday, April 1, 2010 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Professor Profiles WEDNESDAY: Before You Were Here FRIDAY: Photos of the Week Lend ing a hand for fun It was during finals week The University's chapter of his freshman year that LSA of the club is divided up into sophomore Hans Dalton first separate teams that hold saw the University of Michi- weekly meetings. Each team gan's chapter of Do Random has a designated captain, who Acts of Kindness at work. decides the random act of "They were handing out kindness the group will per- treats and lovely notes to peo- form for the week. ple studying there," Dalton Kinesiology senior Katie said. "I just thought that was Barz, a director of DoRAK, so cool that during the most said after joining the club she stressful time of year, people was amazed at the uplifting were willing to give up their attitudes of the other chub own time in order to make members. others happy." "I love that everyone in the DoRAK, which was found- club has the same mission to ed by then-University student spread kindness," Barz said. Anne Kellogg Reed in 2001, "It's hard not to get along has sought to spread kindness with people like that." on campus through acts like DoRAK collaborates with distributing cocoa and carna- other student organizations tions to students in the Diag like Circle K and K-Grams. on Valentine's Day and pre- The campus club also adopted paring pancakes for passersby an iPhone application recent- in Mason Hall. ly called DoGood, which was developed by the company Mobil33t. LSA junior and club direc- tor Chris Dietzel said the Phone application has taken off and spread the message of DoRAK. "We have had thousands of people download the app worldwide and have about 2,000 people check off that they have done the deed each day," Dietzel said. "DoRAK is responsible for creating and supplying the daily deeds for the app and also interacts with the users, takingsugges- tions, and working them into deeds." "I enjoythe reactions, from a simple smile, to people who genuinely come up and thank you for something you've done," Dalton said. - JENNA SIMARD The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-336 734-764-558 smilovitz@michigandailycomCmdbnsiness@anait.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom office hours: sun.-Thurs. 11a. -2a.. 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