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INIVAL IN CRISLER
Michigan State University police
have identified an infamous panty-
thief on MSU's campus, according
to an April 14 article in The State
News.
The suspect, a 19-year-old male
student, was caught in the act while
attemptingto steal underwear from
an MSU residence hall laundry
room on April 7, according to the
article.
A witness said he saw the suspect
placing women's thong underwear
into his laundry basket, according
to the article. Upon investigation,
the suspect was reportedly found
with 79 pairs of women's thong
underwear valued at more than
$200.
"I think (the theft) is really
weird, because you don't know
what that person is capable of or
what they're thinking," Advertis-
ing junior Sunni Schoenberg told
The State News.
LSU PROFESSOR DISMISSED
FOR TOUGH GRADING POLICY
A biology professor at Louisiana
State University was removed by
school officials for being too hard on
students, accordingto an April 15 arti-
cle published on insidehighered.com.
The professor, who teaches an
entry-level biology course, does not
use curves for her tests and, among
other methods, gives students 10
possible answers on multiple choice
questions, as opposed to the expect-
ed four, accordingto the article.
According to a statement released
by Kevin Carmen, dean of the Col-
lege of Basic Sciences at LSU, more
than 90 percent of students in the
class were either failing the class or
had dropped it by the midterm.
"The extreme nature of the grad-
ing raised a concern," Carmen said
in the statement, which was pub-
lished in the article. "We felt it was
important to take some action to
ensure that our students receive a
rigorous but fair education."
TEXAS STUDENT SETS
MULTITASKING RECORD
A student at the University of
Texas at Austin has set a new multi-
taskingrecord, accordingto an April
12 article in The Daily Texan.
Lauren Moore, a liberal arts hon-
ors and philosophy freshman, was
able to recite successfully the first
100 digits of pi, while simultaneously
balancing 15 books on her head and
solving a Rubik's cube, according to
the article.
Moore can balance 21 books on her
head without doing the other tricks
and can also solve a Rubik's cube in
40 seconds, according to the article.
Moore performed the trick on "The
Ellen DeGeneres Show" lastFriday
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CRIME NOTES
Man watches
porn in Angell
WHERE: Angell Hall
WHEN: Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
WHAT: An older man unaffili-
ated with the University was
looking at pornographic web-
sites on a computer in Angell
Hall, University Police report-
ed. An officer issued the man a
warning for trespassing.
Officer assaulted
after giving MIP
WHERE: Vera Baits I Resi-
dence Hall
WHEN: Saturday at about 11
p.m.
WHAT: A male student
assaulted a DPS officer after
the officer issued him a MIP,
University Police reported.
The student was jailed and will
be arraigned today.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Two injured in 'U' Symphony Chess club
football game Orchestra practice session
WHERE: Palmer Field performance WHAT: Members and non-
WHEN:Friday atabout 5:40p.m.
WHAT: Two male students
were injured while play-
ing football on Palmer Field,
University Police reported.
The students were treated for
lacerations at the scene of the
incident.
WHAT: The University Sym-
phony Orchestra will play the
Copland Third Symphony
under the direction of Dean
Christopher Kendall. The
concert will be USO's last
performance of the season.
WHO: University
members alike are invited to
drop in and play chess for as
long, or short, as they want.
WHO: University of
Michigan Chess Club
WHEN: Tonight from 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union Tap Room
Symhn Ochestra
Gate crashers at WyEN: Tonight at8 p.in. Anonymous
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
the Big House HIV Testing
Documentary
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forced to cancel their con-
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because of a cloud of ash from
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Sophomore quarter-
back Denard Robinson
impressed the 35,000 fans
during the Michigan Spring
football game at the Big House
Saturday. Robinson threw a
97-yard touchdown pass.
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arrested on Saturday for
allegedly stabbing five
members of his family, killing
two, and setting their home on
fire, The Japan Times reported.
The man reportedly went on
the rampage because his father
cancelled his internet service.
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PRAHALAD
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done (with his class)," Dolan said.
"You were going to have higher
aspirations and more confidence
in yourself."
Prahalad was born in the Tamil
Nadu province in southern India.
His father was a well-known
scholar and judge in Chennai,
India. Prahalad earned a Bach-
elor of Science degree in physics
at Loyola College and the Uni-
versity of Madras and received
a postgraduate degree in busi-
ness administration at the Indian
Institute of Management. While
in school, Prahalad worked as a
manager of a Union Carbide Co.
battery plant.
During his time at the Indian
Institute of Management, Pra-
halad met his wife Gayatri, and the
couple later had two children.
In 1975 Prahalad graduated
from the Harvard Business School
with a Doctor of Business Manage-
ment and wrote his doctoral thesis
on multinational management.
According to Business Week,
Prahalad's thesis was one of the
first studies to claim corporations
needed to restructure so that they
could employ global strategies
while addressing local concerns.
After graduating from Har-
vard, Prahalad went back to India
to teach at the Indian Institute of
Management for two years before
joining the faculty at the Business
School here at the University of
Michigan in 1977.
In 1990, Prahalad and colleague
Gary Hamel published "The Core
Competence of Corporate Strat-
egy" in The Harvard Business
Review, which explained the idea
of "core competency," - a concept
businesses now identify as a cru-
cial factor in how they and their
employees work.
Among Prahalad's many pub-
lications, he had several interna-
tional bestselling books, including
"Competing for the Future," "The
Future of Competition" and "The
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyra-
mid: Eradicating Poverty through
Profits."
Dolan spoke highly of "Fortune
at the Bottom" and said the book
has had a profound impact in the
business world.
"('Fortune at the Bottom') ... is
one of the most influential man-
agement books ever written," he
said.
The book offered new models
for providing goods and services
to people in third world countries.
In the book, Prahalad claimed
people at the "bottom of the pyra-
mid," who were often dismissed
as outsiders of the international
economy, were actually the future
of the global market.
"If we stop thinking of the poor
as victims or as a burden and start
recognizing them as resilient and
creative entrepreneurs and value-
conscious consumers, a whole new
world of opportunity will open
up," he wrote.
According to Dolan, Prahalad
wanted to involve students in his
research for "Fortune at the Bot-
tom," so he conducted 10 field-
based projects through which
students could "document phe-
nomena throughout the world."
A 2006 article in Business Week
said the book "turned Prahalad
into a celebrity in the field of inter-
national development."
Throughout his career, Pra-
halad received a number of honors
and awards. In 2009, he received
the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman -
an award given by the president
of India to men and women who
make exceptional and praisewor-
thy contributions in their respec-
tive fields. In the same year, the
Indian government honored Pra-
halad with the Padma Bushan
the third highest civilian award
in India - for his distinguished
service to the nation. The Times
of the United Kindom also named
Prahalad the most influential busi-
ness thinker on its The Thinkers
50 List in October 2009.
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Andrea Beauchamp Prize Robert F. Haugh Prize
Frank and Gail Beaver Script Writing Prize Kasdan Scholarship in
Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing Dennis McIntyre Prize
Helen J. Daniels Prize Meader Family Award
Geoffrey James Gosling Prize Arthur Miller Award
Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award Leonard and Eileen Ne
t