i 2A - Thursday, December 2, 2010 MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Michigan Myths WEDNESDAY: Professor Profiles FRIDAY: Photos of the Week Fantasy football for charity Kinesiology senior Michael Simpson says he loves to play fantasy football. Simpson said as a freshman, he knew that his peers at the University also loved to crunch stats and make last minute trades so they'd be number one come Monday night. So he decided to create a club where sports lovers could engage in friendly competition. But it wasn't enough. "I wanted to make it better for every- body," Simpson said, motivating him to add a philanthropy aspect to the club and create the perfect balance of char- ity and contest. Since the club's inception in 2007, members have raised funds for chari- ties like the American Red Cross, the United Way, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, the University's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Once a club member drafts a fantasy team on a website such as Yahoo!, he or she is required to donate a minimum of $30 to the club's collective money "pot." In more traditional fantasy football leagues, the winner of a league would generally receive this pot at the end of the season. But at the end of the fantasy season, funds are distributed to each participating member's charity and extra funds go toward the member of the winning league's charity. LSA junior Jordan Gluck, the club's finance chair, said he's been donating through the club since his freshman year. "When I was a freshman, I collected money from my parents and grandpar- ents," he said. "(In the past) they've sent money to St. Jude's Children's Hospital ... so I decided that would be my charity." Simpson said he'd like to expand the charity aspect of the club, citing a silent auction for sports memorabilia as a possible project to benefit a local or national organization. Simpsons added that he strives to maintain the simplicity of the club and praised its minimal time commitment. "People just want to play fantasy football, and do it for a good cause," he said. Gluck echoed Simpson's sentiments, adding that the club gives students the unique opportunity to do charitable work on their own time. "It's more of an entertainment kind of thing...but it also allows you to con- tribute to charities and do charitable work," he said. Banking on the popularity of fantasy football, club leaders hope to organize fantasy basketball and baseball compe- titions during future semesters. Simpson added that the possibilities for fantasy sports are endless. "Any sport can have a fantasy (aspect) to it," he said. "We try to find the people that are passionate about donating to charity first and playing second." - CLAIRE GOSCICKI ANNA SCH ULTE /Dai Ann Arbor resident tob Goldey plays the saxo- phone on the sidewalk near the Diag. 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WHO: Michigan Ballroom Dance Team WHEN: Today at 7 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Ballroom MORE ONLINE Love CrimeNotes? Getmore online atmichigandaily.com/blogs/The Wire 'is 0 WALLY SANTANA/AP Fisherman Kwak Yong-sun, 50, left, rests with his family members at a makeshift shelter on Wednesday. Sout Korean refugees struggle after shelling U.S., South Korea put halt on recent military exercises INCHEON, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean fisherman whose neighborhood was swallowed by flames in last week's North Kore- an shelling saw a TV image of the North's leader, Kim Jong Il, and cringed. "I want to kill him," said Kwak Yong-sun, who now lives on the floor of a public bath house on the mainland. "I almost died because of that man." Kwak, 50, sleeps shoulder to shoulder with other evacuees from YeonpyeongIsland on a mattress in a huge room in the spa, which has been converted into a refugee cen- ter. He complained of noise, stale air and a lack of sleep. "It's not a place where human beings can live," he said. The Nov. 23 artillery barrage killed four people - two South Korean marines and two civilians - and sharply raised tensions on the divided peninsula. The United States and South Korea yesterday ended military exercises that included the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. The drills were meant asa warning to the North following last week's exchange of artillery fire. At the heavily armed Panmun- jom village inside the Demilita- rized Zone north of Seoul, a North Korean soldier said in a rare inter- view that he hoped for peace. Lt. Choe Song Il told Associ- ated Press Television News that he hoped tensions between the two countries would be eased "as soon as possible, ina peaceful way." "I know that there were casual- ties on the South side," Choe told an APTN crew from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang that he had been assigned to escort to the Demilitarized Zone. "I hope that such military con- flict between North and South should never happen again," he said. It was unclear whether his con- ciliatory comments were sponta- neous or not, and whether they merely reflected one soldier's opin- ion or were meant to reflect the military's stance as a whole. North Korean citizens usually are very careful about expressing opinions. They were striking words at a time of heightened tensions between the Koreas and a depar- ture from the bellicose rhetoric of North Korea's state-run news agen- cy, whichhas threatened "full-scale war" this week if the country's ter- ritory is violated by any military maneuvers. South Korean intelligence chief Won Sei-boon told lawmakers that North Korea is likely to strike again, Yonhap news agency reported. Won said in a briefing that North Korea likely carried out last week's attack in part because it needed a "breakthrough" amid internal dis- satisfaction over a plan to trans- fer power from Kim Jong I1 to his youngest son, according to Yonhap. His comments could not immedi- ately be confirmed. To ease tensions, China pressed for an emergency meeting in com- ing days among the six nations who previously negotiated over North Korea's nuclear program - the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States. "The parties concerned should keep calm and exercise restraint, and work to bring the situation back onto the track of dialogue and negotiation," Chinese Foreign Min- ister Yang Jiechi said in Beijing, according to the Chinese official Xinhua News Agency. 0 0 I