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Contrary to its name,
the campus organization
Slinky has little to do with
the children's toy.
Inspired by the toy's
ability to spring back,
Business junior David
Kolodny co-created the
organization with Busi-
ness junior Stephan
Sakhai to support nations
or communities that are
struggling to "spring
back" after tragedies.
Kolodny formed Slinky
after the Haiti earth-
quake in 2010. Anxious
to help those affected by
the disaster, Kolodny and
some friends from the

Alpha Epsilon Pi frater-
nity began raising money
to donate to the struggling
nation.
The organization sold
items, like plastic brace-
lets with the phrase "long
live Haiti" in Creole, and
hosted events like a fund-
raiser at Dream Nightclub
on South Fourth Avenue.
Through these efforts,
the group raised about
$10,000, according to
Kolodny.
One year and multiple
fundraisers later, Slinky
has 20 dedicated mem-
bers.
"We try to instill in

our members an avenue
for them to become lead-
ers," Kolodny said. "We
encourage them to be able
to give in their own way."
Other efforts of the
organization include fun-
draising for Japan after
a 9.0 magnitude earth-
quake caused a destruc-
tive tsunami this past
spring. Kolodny said he
also encourages members
to aid other local organi-
zations.
"It's easy on a college
campus to lose touch," he
said.
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Rackham student Brittany Shupe aid LSA senior Joshua Fireman |:
mache a unicorn in honor of National Coming Out Day yesterday.

CRIME NOTES

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Passenger side Deer dive ends Balkan beats Author talks
gets pummeled in tragedy presentation about Freud
WHERE: Hayward Street WHERE: Hubbard Street WHAT: Svjetlana WHAT: Howard Marke
parking lot WHEN: Sunday at about Bukvich-Nichols, profes- director of the Center fo
WHEN: Monday at about 2:30 a.m. sor of music technology at the History of Medicine
11:45 a.m. WHAT: A man not affili- New York University, will will talk about his lat-
WHAT: A University staff ated with the University give a lecture about Goran est book, "An Anatomy o

el,
r
of

member's vehicle was
struck by a vehicle while
parked in the lot between
11 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., Uni-
versity Police reported.
Damage was done to the
passenger side near the tire.
Grand slam
WHERE: State Street
WHEN: Monday at about
5:30 p.m.
WHAT: A windshield on
a vehicle parked near Ray,
Fisher Stadium was
shattered by a baseball,
University Police reported.

struck a deer with his
vehicle, University Police
reported. The driver was
not injured and the vehicle
sustained minor damage,
but the deer was killed. No
citation was given.
TWo car tango
WHERE: Wall Street
WHEN: Monday at about
10:10 a.m.
WHAT: A two-vehicle
accident with no injuries
left significant damage to
one vehicle and the other in
drivable condition,
University Police reported.

Bregovic, an important
figure in Balkan music.
WHO: Center for Russian,
East European and
Eurasian Studies
WHEN: Today at noon
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building
Memorial
lecture
WHAT: MaryFran Sowers,
the John G. Searle profes-
sor of Public Health, will be
honored in the Gudakunst
Memorial Lecture.
WHO: School of Public
Health
WHEN: Today at 1:30
WHERE: School of Public
Health II Auditorium

Addiction: Sigmund Freud,
William Halsted and the'
Miracle Drug Cocaine."
WHO: Author's Forum
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher
Graduate Library
CORRECTIONS
* An article in Mon-
day's edition of the Daily
("Tea Party candidates
announce plans to run
for Board ofRegents")
incorrectly identified
Doug Smith as a can-
didate for regent.
" Please report any
error in the Daily to
corrections@michi-
gandaily.com.

Researchers at North-
western University
solved how to stop a life-
threatening allergic response
to peanuts, the Northwest-
ern University news service
reported. Researchers devel-
oped a way to make the body
tolerate nut proteins.
The University started
offering fair trade cof-
fee in residence halls
in 2006. Fair trade coffee
eliminates the middle man
between coffee growers and
roasters.
>> FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT,
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3Three senior citizens
in Huntington Beach,
Calif. were hospitalized
Saturday for nausea,
diziness and trouble standing
after accidentally consuming
pot brownies, KTLA News
reported. The brownies were
served at a memorial service.

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Hearing scheduled
for SAT cheating . C

Representatives of
SAT to testify about
testing security
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -
Representatives of the Education-
al Testing Service and the College
Board, which administer the SAT
college entrance exams, have been
invited to testify at a state Senate
committee hearing examiningthe
recent SAT cheating scandal on
Long Island, a spokesman for the
Senate committee chairman said
yesterday.
Meanwhile, prosecutors said
additional arrests are likely as the
investigation into cheating has
widened to include at least one
private school.
Seven current or former stu-
dents at Great Neck North High
School were arrested last month
after authorities said six of the
students paid a seventh - now
attending college - up to $2,500
to take their SAT exams for them.
All have pleaded not guilty. Pros-
ecutors and others questioned the

effectiveness of security at testing
sites after it was revealed that the
college student allegedly imper-
sonated a female student during
one of the tests.
Sam Eshaghoff, a student at
Emory University in Atlanta who
previously attended the Universi-
ty of Michigan, is accused of using
phony identification documents
to represent the students during
the SAT exams. Eshaghoff, who
has pleaded not guilty, was due in
court yesterday, but the proceed-
ing was adjourned.
Sen. Kenneth LaValle, chair-
man of the state Senate's Higher
Education Committee, who pre-
viously has expressed concerns
about security surrounding the
tests, scheduled a hearing on the
SAT cheatingscandal on Oct. 25 at
Farmingdale State College.
His spokesman said Kurt M.
Landgraf, president and CEO of
Princeton, N.J.-based Education-
al Testing Service, and Gaston
Caperton, president of The Col-
lege Board, are among those who
have been invited to testify at
the committee hearing.

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CPL JOE BLOGS/Ministry of Defence
A Royal Naval boarding team carried out a compliant boarding of the Italian vessel MV Montecristo east of Suez yesterday to save 23 hostages. All of the1l pirates
were captured and taken into custody.
Message in bottle helps free capives
on shi p hijacked b1Somali pirates

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23 crew members
on Italian ship
locked in armored
area since Monday
ROME (AP) - British and U.S.
forces freed an Italian cargo ship
hijacked by Somali pirates in a
dramatic rescue yesterday after
retrieving a message in a bottle
tossed by hostages from a port-
hole alerting ships nearby the
crew was safely sealed inside an
armored area.
All 23 crew members of the
Montecristo cargo ship were
brought to safety, the Italian For-
eign Ministry said. The 11 pirates
were taken into custody.
The' crew - seven Italians,
six Ukrainians and 10 Indians
- locked themselves inside an
armored area of the vessel when
the pirates boarded the ship Mon-
day, Italian Defense Minister
Ignazio La Russa said. Safe from
the pirates threats, the crew con-
tinued to navigate the ship.
"The criminals managed to cut
off all means of communication,
but the 'prisoners' tossed a bottle

with a message through a port-
hole explaining the situation," La
Russa told a news conference.
At that point, other ships in
the area were aware that the Ital-
ian vessel had been boarded by
pirates. But the message in the
bottle gave an important sig-
nal that the 'crew of the Italian
ship was out of harm's way and
that a rescue operation could be
launched without risking injury.
"Rubber boats circled the
Montecristo, while a helicopter
hovered above. The pirates sur-
rendered right away, some throw-
ing their weapons in the sea, and
were arrested," he said.
One crew member sustained a
light hand injury, La Russa said.
The pirates attacked the ship
Monday 620 miles (1,000 kilome-
ters) off Somalia as the crew was
hauling scrap iron to Vietnam on
a journey that had begun Sept. 20
in Liverpool, England.
The father of one of the crew
members, Pietro Raimondo, said
Italian officials had told him that
his son was in good shape.
"We are happy. We are cele-
brating the liberation," said Anto-
nio Raimondo from Sardinia,
the Italian news agency ANSA

reported.
The operation was carried out
by two navy ships - one British
and one American - and coordi-
nated by Italian Adm. Gualtiero
Mattesi as part of NATO's Ocean
Shield anti-piracy force, accord-
ing to the Italian Foreign Minis-
try.
Britain's Defense Ministry said
the RFA Fort Victoria "responded
to calls to assist a pirated Italian
merchant ship, the MV Monte-
cristo, along with an American
Navy frigate." Because of the
presence of warships, the pirates
on board surrendered without
force, it said.
Pirates flourish off largely law-
less Somalia by attacking pass-
ing ships, taking hostages and
demanding ransoms to free them
and the vessels.
Earlier yesterday, La Russa
said security forces - groups of
six armed marines - can be used
as security guards on Italian ships
sailing in perilous waters, noting
that "the danger of piracy has
increased."
International militaries are
increasingly tasking assault teams
with boarding ships and battling
pirates in order to win the release

of hostages.
In April this year, a Danish
assault team freed 18 hostages
after boarding a vessel off Soma-
lia's coast. Three pirates were
wounded.
Only 10 days later South
Korean commandos stormed a
container ships and freed the
21 crew on board. In May Indo-
nesian forces killed four Somali
pirates after the hostage-takers
were paid a ransom and freed
hostages.
But for every successful attack
against hostage-taking pirates,
far more pirates make it back to
Somalia with their hostages in
hand. A Danish yachting family of
five was taken by pirates in Febru-
ary from their 43-foot (13-meter)
yacht. The family was released
last month.
And one attempted rescue of
four hijacked Americans abroad
their private yacht went horri-
bly wrong in February when the
pirates killed the four as U.S.
naval ships shadowed the yacht.
Pirates hold at least 10 ships
and 251 hostages, according to
Cmdr. Harrie Harrison of the
anti-piracy military coalition
European Union Naval Force.

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