0 0 0 0 i _~5 6B Wednesday, Novemeber 2,2011 The Statement Wednesday, November 22011// The Statement 3B news in review Five of the most talked-about stories of the week, ranked in ascending order of actual importance 4 C' 9+ Ih iPJM~FUG HI Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries on Oct. 31 after 72 days of marriage. Humphries was unaware his wife filed for divorce until the morning of the announcement. After a 17-month investigation, U.S. authorities busted a Mexican drug cartel's drug-smuggling operation in Arizona on Monday. Authorities seized marijuana, cocaine and heroin from the $2 billion operation and arrested 76 suspects. Internet hackers cut the main Republican presidential candid telephone network for Gaza and Herman Cain denied claims tI the West Bank and Internet service he sexually harrassed two fem for most of Palestinian territory employees in the 1990s. Cain s. yesterday. Officials questioned charges were brought agai if the attack was related to him, but the allegations w Palestinians joining UNESCO. "baseless." ate hat ale aid inst ere An early-season snowstorm on the East Coast left millions without power over the weekend, and 2 million people are still without electricity. Snowstorm hazards like down power lines have led to 23 reported deaths. or / The University of Michigan Flyers have been giving Wolverines the opportunity to earn their wings over the past 100 years. Midway across a field in the northwest corner of Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, where the hangars of the University of Michigan Flyers butt up against the gated communities off Ellsworth Road, Kathryn Robine opened the window ofher 1977 Cessna152 and dropped three brown paper lunch bags packed with flour. The bags fell 200 feet to the ground, settling more than 100 feet from their tar- get - an aluminum trash can in the center of the field. "She's on the right line," said Will Lawler, a fellow flight instructor for the Flyers, as Robine's aircraft darted over- head. "But she's letting go too early." From the ground, where Lawler was standing 10 yards from the bin ("The closer you get, the safer you are," he joked), the observation was plain, enough - a straightfor- ward calculation, as he explained it, of the plane's speed, altitude and the wind. Yet on that placid Saturday afternoon Robine had been battling more than the winds. Her task, flour-bombing, was an all but retired practice, rarely in the four decades since the Flyers competed for national titles in the sport in the early 1970s. The genesis of the University's aerospace engineering pro- gramming - and, according to the Flyers' current officers, the club as well - was a letter from the Polish emigre Felix Pawlowski to 18 of the United States's most prominent col- leges. An electrical and mechanical engineer by training, Pawlowski left Poland for Paris shortly after the Russian- Japanese war and just as Orville and Wilbur Wright were beginning to experiment with flight. Enthralled by the fledgling pastime, he enrolled in flight training at the Uni- versity of Paris. Under the tutelage of Prof. Louis Marchis, he earned his Certificate d'Etude in 1910 and set out to build an airplane by the mold of the Wright brothers'. Eager as Pawlowski was to inscribe his legacy in aviation, his lack of funds, the shortcomings of aviation technology and of his own knowledge slowed his progress. After emi- grating to the U.S. later in 1910, he settled into a job as an automotive designer when the Wright brothers declined to hire him. But the fame and fortune he sought in comingto America began two years later, when he penned letters to the deans of 18 prestigious engineering colleges imploring them to offer courses in aeronautical engineering. Most replied to ask if the letter was a joke, with one stating, "Aviation will very likely never amountto anything!" But Mortimer Cooley, the dean of the College of Engineering at the time, offered Pawlowski a position as a teaching assistant in mechanical engineering with the promise of courses in aeronautical engineering in 1914. Pawlowski accepted, and in the fall of that year he began teaching courses that Cooley "hid" in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering because, as he wrote in his autobiography, "aeronautical engineering was not considered important enough to make it conspicuous." By 1915, Pawlowski had orchestrated a curriculum of 14 aeronautical engineering courses from the introductory Theory of Aviation to the more arcane Design of Aerodromes and Hangars. By 1916, this curriculum formed the basis of a four-year program for the new bachelor's in aeronautical engineering - the first of its kind in the nation. Without Prof. Pawlowski, who took a leave of absence in 1917 to accept the position of aeronautical engineer for the United States Army, the University may not have man- aged to start a successful program so early in the history of aviation. Pawlowski's courses and the lectures of Marchis, who he persuaded to come to Ann Arbor in 1913, proved to be indispensable in the eventual birth of the Department of Aeronautical Engineeringin 1930. As athird conduit for University students to express inter- est in flying, Cooley looked into forming a program: Uni- versity of Michigan Aero Club. After Prof. Herbert Sadler founded the club in 1911 for students to fly aircrafts - though they were as much kites as planes - Pawlowski assumed supervision of the club upon his arrival in 1913 and nursed it to maturity. Under Pawlowski, the club met weekly to discuss avia- tion and the principles of aerodynamics and to study such principles in the wind tunnel Sadler constructed in the West Engineering hall. It also built two planes and received one by means of a donation by two wealthy Detroit residents, which the club crashed into Barton Pond during one of its 0 1 2 3 4m 5 6 7 0 8 9 10 quotes of the week from the archives « Bikges break news Let me tell you that Herman Cain never sexually harrassed anybody, period. End of story." MARK BLOCK, CHIEF OF STAFF FOR HERMAN CAIN, in response to allegations that Cain sexually harrassed two female employees while working for the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. "Its different here. Ifind myselfgetting sleep. Interesting conversation. ButI haven'tfigured out how to do laundry." ROBERT GAFFNEY, A HOMELESS MAN who has joined protesters in the Occupy Los Angeles camp outside city hall. HANNAH DOW/Daily W hether they are abandoned on a lamp post or dodging between students on the Diag, bicycles of any size, shape or color are visible at all hours of the rules the day on campus. The bike racks outside University buildings display every kind of bicycle available, from homemade motorbike to cutting edge racing cycle. But in 1989, the emergence of a bicycle style now standard for any Uni- No. 353: No. 354: No. 355: versity bike rack was front-page news. Fall 1989 welcomed the mountain bike to As dictated by the It's OK to forfeit Holding hands in campus after becoming more widely popular among bikers throughout the 1980s ("Part dirt bike, part 1-speed, mountain bikes hit campus," 9/28/89). Starbucks coffee all your classwork a coffee shop on a The new presence of mountain bikes on campus brought about new options for cups, Nov. 1 marks to look at the new first date is weird. students looking to get a bit more exercise on two wheels by exploring the off- the start of the winter 2012 course Anywhere else and road trails around Ann Arbor. Still, for students looking for a simple way to get to and from class, they stressed convenience and cost as the deciding factor when it holiday season. guide. it's maybe OK. came to choosing a mountain bike over any other style at the time. by the numbers COURTESY OF THE BBc In millions, how many homes are without In inches, how much snow was on the The number of days snowfall has been power on the East Coast after a rare October ground by the time the snowstorm moved reported in Central Park in October during snowstorm this weekend. away from the East Coast on Oct. 30. the last 135 years. I