Daily film columnist Aystudent n out there who's enrolled at the University . nu ohn nw Ankur Sohoni on why and is in od academic sni and good guyd hegave up on movie can kick field goals and can kick the ballno the end trailers and the hype zone, we'll av tryout for you." that comes with them PAGE 3B') PAGE 7A 1:bt £ki t~ti0an 0.aIVj Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, September 20,2010 michigandaily com MICHIGAN FOOTBALL Even a stellar offense isn't enough to save Michigan'sD AWAPOD TOP ROW AND BOTTOM LEFT AND CENTER: FILE PHOTO/Daily; BOTTOM RIGHT: TOREHAN SHARMAN/Daily Many faces of The Rock from the past several years. City officials say that they have spent hundreds Were collectingthe many faces of The Rock for a slideshow. ot doiiars a year to cean the area surrounding it - and in 2007, they spent $26h2 cleaving it. E-mail us yours af h t o v For city offi 1 als, residen s, e Rock is fiscal and visua sore here were no smiles on the sideline late in the fourth quarter. After all, the Michigan players were witnessing a train wreck right before their eyes. All sophomore quarterback Denard Robinson could do was put his hands on his hips and shake his head as he watched Massachusetts score its 37th point and pick up its 439th , yard with less than two min- utes. TIM Michigan ROHAN did win the __HA __ game, but it didn't feel like a win - more like an accident that everyone walked away from alive, but scarred and perhaps with a new perspective. The Wolverines put up 525 total yards of offense on the day - that's expected. Beating a Football Championship Subdivision school by just five points - that's not. Robinson's Heisman-hyped start to the season clouded fans' perception of this Michigan team. But the Minutemen cut through the fog and revealed Michigan's true identity: a potentially historic offense that has to make up for the defense's mistakes. The fog was gone right from the start as a Massachusetts team built a 17-7 lead over Michigan which it held it until late in the second quarter. The visitors led the game for more than 20 min- utes in the first half. Remember, this team plays StonyBrook next week. After the Minutemen scored their last touchdown and kicked an onside kick out of bounds, Rohinson walked hack onto the field and hailed out the defense handing the ball off to junior run- ning back Mike Shaw three times for one final first down to end the game. Earlier on, it was junior wide receiver Darryl Stonum and Robinson who connected for two touchdowns in 45 seconds to take a 21-17 lead at the half. And Shaw had a career day runningthe ball, scoring three touchdowns. They did their job. The outcome of Saturday's game could have been like Toledo. It could have been another Appa- lachian State episode. Thanks See ROHAN, Page 6A Campus landmark area costs city hundreds, at times thousands, to clean By ROBIN VEECK Daily StaffReporter Painting "The Rock" on the corner of Hill Street and Washt- enaw Avenue is a beloved campus tradition for many students and alumni. However, the antics asso- ciated with the University land- mark are less popular among Ann Arbor city officials and residents of the neighborhoods surround- ing George Washington Park, home of The Rock. While the city never attempts to remove paint from The Rock itself, paint intended to decorate the boulder frequently ends up on city property, including side- walks, trash cans and signs. In previous years, the city has spent hundreds, and at times thousands, of dollars to clean the area that will likely never remain pristine. Ann Arbor park maintenance employees are responsible for periodically cleaning the area and responding to complaints from residents. In a January 2009 e-mail to Ann Arbor City Council members, Karla Henderson, former Ann Arbor field operations supervisor, reported that the city spent more than $2,500 in 2007 on remov- ing graffiti at George Washington Park, according to a2docs.org - a website, which posts documents regarding the city of Ann Arbor obtained by residents and organi- zations. "We spent $2,662 for 2 visits (painting) and 24 visits to check to make sure that there was no vandalism," Henderson wrote in the e-mail. But, Matt Warba, the city's cur- rent field operations supervisor, wrote in an e-mail interview that the 2007 cleaning expenses were larger than what the city usually spends to clean up the area. "The city expended less than $100 in time and material last cal- endar year addressing graffiti at See ROCK, Page SA EN MEMO RIAM PERFORMING FOR PEACE At Michigan Stadium, fans honor UMass band director : George N. Parks passed away en route to Ann Arbor By A. BRAD SCHWARTZ Daily StaffReporter A somber mood swept through Michigan Stadium on Saturday as the loud speakers called atten- tion to the recent death of Univer- sity of Massachusetts Amherst marching band director George N. Parks. The halftime show at the game was in honor of Parks' memory. Parks, the director of the UMass's Minuteman Marching Band for 33 years, passed away Thursday night while with the UMass band in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the Boston Globe reported. He was 57 years old. Massachusetts Chancel- lor Robert C. Holub sent a mass e-mail to the UMass community Friday morning expressing his grief, saying that Parks "repre- sented thebest of UMass." "George's devotion to excel- lence, his creativity and his pas- sion for teaching inspired us all and shaped the lives of thousands of students during the three decades that he directed The Power and Class of New England," Holub wrote in the statement. UMass Student Band Manager Caity Bogdan has spent five years playing the mellophone in the Minuteman Marching Band. In an interview, Bogdan described Parks as "a father to the family" - referring to the band - and some- one who has taught her how to be a student leader. "He's just been a fantastic See PARKS, Page 6A PUBLIC DISCOURSE To spark dialogue on public spaces, A2 transforms parking spots into parks TOREHAN SHARMAN/Daily Souldub - a reggae band from suburban Detroit - performs during the PEACE Day Celebration in the Diag yesterday. PEACE stands for "Promoting Ethnic And Cultural Equality." The event featured hip-hop music, poetry and break dancing. At event, Ford CEO talks innovation City participated in (PARK)ing Day for first time on Friday By ANT MITCHELL For the Daily To pedestrians walking down Main Street on Friday, the streetscape might have looked a bit odd. Instead of cars parked paral- lel to one another in the metered parking spaces in front of 118 S. Main St., there were potted plants and sculptures laid out amid couches, chairs and rugs. Dogs lulled about; Ann Arbor locals read the newspaper, checked their e-mails and even played on a large wooden teeter- totter set up along two street parking spaces. This was the first year Ann Arbor participated in (PARK) ing day - an annual worldwide event. Created in 2005 by Rebar, an art and design studio in San Francisco, Calif., (PARK)ing day is held to brainstorm new ways to use public space in urban areas. The grassroots movement has spread to cities across the world, said Joel Panozzo, a freelance graphic designer who sponsored Ann Arbor's (PARK)ing day pre- miere. Panozzo decided to set up a temporary park outside Wor- kantile Exchange - a cowork- ing space on Main Street that encourages group events such See PARKING, Page 5A Alan Mulally says to scramble last minute to find a second building with more seats he's not concerned for the overflow audience. Mulally geared his lecture, held about Ford's ability at the Stamps Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center on North to compete Campus, to appeal to the engineers in the audience. In his speech, By ALEXA BREEDVELD Mulally stressed the importance Daily StaffReporter of innovation and creativity in engineering design. He also fielded Alan Mulally, the CEO and questions from the audience, most- president of Ford Motor Company, ly comprised of College of Engi- spoke to a packed house on Friday neering students and engineering afternoon, drawing such a large professionals. crowd that organizers were forced Mulally discussed how auto- maker Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company on the prin- ciples of innovation and efficien- cy. He also talked about plans to maintain the company's history of building creative and innovative car designs. "When Henry Ford asked peo- ple what they wanted, they said they wanted a faster horse," Mulal- ly said. "But he was already think- ing ahead of that." 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