The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Friday, March 26, 2011 2A - Friday, March 26, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom S pn S NK aY t UNICORN FOR UNITY 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michiganddily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG ZACH YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext, 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com 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. 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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, INSIDE 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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TheMichigan Daiyisaxexmber ofThe AssociatedhPexxxand TheAsociaredClitn e res. 4 -1 4 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. f MO 9491379 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 ***Thursday October 13th** 1pm-4pm 2012-13 Housing Fair Visit the best landlord in town..... Prime Student Housing See you at the Michigan Union. 734-761-8000 www.primesh.com 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. 4 &