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SPEAKERS ON CAMPUS
Students
to protest
Rep. Eric
Cantor
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Sophomore cornerback Courtney Avery celebrates after coming up with his first-career interception Saturday against Purdue. After a touchdown on the first drive of
the game, Purdue didn't score until the final seconds of the fourth quarter. Michigan dominated the Boilermakers, 36-14.
No more wondering,
Hoke now has his defense
House majority
leader to speak
at League today
By CLAIRE GOSCICKI
and JENNIFER LEE
Daily StaffReporter
With U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor
(R-Va.) traveling to campus
today, one party's line will be
the picket line.
Students and members
of local organizations who
oppose the House majority
leader's political and economic
stances are expected to protest
Cantor's presence on campus.
His visit is sponsored by the
Ford School of Public Policy.
Cantor has been a member
of the House of Representa-
tives since 2001 and was elect-
ed House majority leader in
January. Cantor was originally
scheduled to give a talk in Feb-
ruary but didn't make it due to
inclement weather.
Organizations formally
involved in the protests of
today's event include the
Washtenaw Community
Action Team, a local labor
rights group, and the Uni-
versity of Michigan Planners
Network, a campus group of
Read viewpoints from the College
Republicans and.Democrats.
>>see Opinion, Page 4A
progressive-minded students
from the Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Plan-
ning. Par-
ticipants
from the
Occupy
Ann Arbor
movement
are also
expected
to be pres- ERIC CANTOR
ent.
Accord-
ing to the Washtenaw Com-
munity Action Team's website,
the protest will be Halloween-
themed and will feature a the-
atrical "funeral for the middle
class." The group is encourag-
ing protesters to come dressed
in costume.
Architecture and Urban
Planning student Elias Schew-
el helped organize the protest,
which will take place in the
Michigan League, where Can-
tor is scheduled to speak.
Schewel, a member of the
Planners Network, said he and
others are united bytheir "dis-
trust and dislike" of Cantor's
policies, one of the most nota-
See CANTOR, Page 2A
verybody do it together.
One. Two. Three. Exhale.
The Michigan football
team is done with two-thirds
of its season. Its sample size is
big enough. The team on the
field is the team that's going to
show up for the remaining four
games. And after holding Purdue
to 14 points, we know what the
defense is.
Well, kind of good.
f Other than against Notre
Dame. (Stop for a second and
reminisce on the end of that
game one more time, I'll see you
on the other side of the sentence)
the defense hasn't allowed more
than 24 _
points ina
game. Michi-
gan ranks
eighth in
the country
in scoring
defense.
Whenever MICHAEL
the Wolver- FLOREK
ines need a
turnover or a
stop, the defense has the uncanny
ability to deliver - like defensive
end Craig Roh stuffing Purdue
on 3rd and 2 ina tie game early
in the first quarter, or sophomore
cornerback Courtney Avery
intercepting the Boilermakers on
Michigan's 16-yard line to hold
onto a five-point lead.
So stop holding your breath.
The point Michigan fans have
been waiting for all season, when
the defense reverts back into its
historic ineptitude, won't hap-
pen. Saturday proved it.
The past two years indicated
that this game, the one after
the Michigan State game, was
when everything was supposed
to go wrong. The Wolverines
were supposed to lose a game
they shouldn't have. Instead, the
defense gave up just 192 yards
through three quarters and less
than 100 rushing for the third
time this season.
Michigan's defense has had
plenty of chances to regress. If
it hasn't happened by now, it's
not happening. Michigan coach
Brady Hoke's caveman-like,
"DEFENSE BE PHYSICAL,"
mentality has worked.
See FLOREK, Page 5A
UNIVERSITY FINANCES
CFO Slottow:'U'
financial health
. is 'quite strong'
Record high
endowment at
$7.8 billion
By KAITLIN WILLIAMS
Daily StaffReporter
University administrators say
they're cautiously optimistic about
the University's current financial
status.
The University's endowment
grew from $6.5 billion last year to
$7.8 billion this year - the highest
in its history. Investment returns
are at 24.3 percent, according to
the the University's 2011 financial
report released earlier this month,
Timothy Slottow, the Univer-
sity's executive vice president and
chief financial officer, said in an
interview last week that the suc-
cess of this year's endowment is the
result of years of planning. How-
ever, he added that a bit of luck is
at play since investment returns
vary from year to year, and state
funds fluctuate depending on the
economy.
"We expect there to be volatil-
ity," Slottow said.
Slottow and his team at the Uni-
versity's Office of Investments have
seen a decade of year-over-year
investment performances. High
performance this year is partially
due to 49 percent returns on ven-
ture capital and private equity
investments, Slottow said.
Last year, the University had the
seventh-highest endowment of all
postsecondary institutions. Data
comparing multiple universities'
endowments is not yet available for
this year.
University President Mary Sue
Coleman said in an interview with
The Michigan Daily that she is
pleased to enter her second decade
leading the-University with the
institution in a strong financial
position.
"My whole-experience here has
been making tough choices, mak-
ing sure that we continue to invest
See FINANCIAL, Page SA
A Zombie Walk participant quenches his thirst after the walk from Pinball Pete's to the Michigan Theater on Friday.
LEGAL DISPUTE
Former Assistant AG Shirvell files
lawsuit against Armstrong's lawyer
UNIVERSITY FACULTY
Ralph
Williams
to teach at
'U' again
English professor
coming out of
retirement next
semester
By RAYZA GOLDSMITH
Daily StaffReporter
Students who never had the
opportunity to take a class with the
popular English Prof. Ralph Wil-
liams will get the chance to do so
next semester.
Williams, who taught his first
class at the University in 1970, will
return to the classroom next semes-
ter after retiringin April2009. Wil-
liams will teach two courses next
semester: Apocalypse Now? - Arts
of the Apocalypse and a course
on author Primo Levi, who wrote
about his experiences in Auschwitz
during the Holocaust.
Williams taught two courses dur-
See WILLIAMS, Page 3A
Shirvell suing
Deborah Gordon for
defamation
By BETHANY BIRON
Daily News Editor
Andrew Shirvell, a former
Michigan assistant attorney
general, has filed a federal law-
suit against Deborah Gordon,
the attorney representing for-
mer Michigan Student Assembly
President Chris Armstrong.
Shirvell wrote in a press
release issued early this morn-
ing that he is suing Gordon for
"tortuous interference with a
business relationship, defama-
tion and invasion of privacy."
Additionally, he claims - in the
lawsuit filed Friday - that Gor-
Read Shirvell'scomplaint
0o MichiganDaily.com
don aided in the termination
from his position on Nov. 8,2010
by falsely influencing the inves-
tigation against him within the
Department of the Attorney
General.
"As my complaint makes clear,
I have uncovered a significant
See SHIRVELL, Page SA
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