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To most students, a
string of fiveA's showshigh
academic achievement on a
transcript. But to the mem-
bers of A5, it represents a
club making a difference
for students with disabili-
ties on campus.
The Abilities Alliance at
Ann Arbor, or A5, is a stu-
dent-run club that strives
to promote equality within
the student body by creat-
ing a social group for stu-
dents with disabilities.
LSA junior Andy Clark,
co-founder and current
president of A5, said by
participating in the group,
he aspires to foster rela-
tionships between students
with and without disabili-
ties to create a feeling of
acceptance.
"On campus, especially
undergraduate students,
those with a disability
have a hard time creating
a social network even with
the simple things like eat-
ing in the dining hall,"
Clark said. "AS rectifies
that by getting people in
touch that want to hang out
and chill. We are lookingto
createthatsocial network."
Business School sopho-
more Rohit Kapur, another
AS co-founder, spearhead-
ed the creation of the club
after an unfortunate first-
hand experience dealing
with the challenges of a
disability.
"I was having trouble
getting through to the dis-
ability office about shovel-
ing snow," Kapur said. "I
missed classes for two days
straight, and no one did
anything."
Frustrated by the lack
of response he was get-
ting from the Services for
Students With Disabilities
office, Kapur decided to
take matters into his own
hands. His friends shov-
eled a path from East Quad
Residence Hall to the Diag
to make his trip to class
wheelchair accessible, and
the idea for a student orga-
nization arose.
The club hosts a month-
ly event that provides AS
members with the oppor-
tunity to meet and partici-
pate in social activities like
playingboard games.
A5 has 37 members, but
the club is still in its infan-
cy, and Clark believes the
numbers will continue to
increase. To increase pub-
licity and attractnew mem-
bers, Kapur plans to have
A5 participate in Festifall
and Investing in Ability
Week next year.
"Even if we change a few
lives, it would be a huge
benefit," Kapur said.
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CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Pleasurable Skater haters Medical
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studies
WHERE: Shapiro
Undergraduate Library
WHEN: Monday at about
11:45 p.m.
WHAT: A student was
reported masturbating
while watching
pornography, University
Police reported. The
student was charged with
disorderly conduct.
Pirate radio
WHERE: University
Hosptial
WHEN: Monday at about
4:30 p.m.
WHAT: A staff member
reported that a portable
radio was stolen from
a maintenance room,
University Police reported.
WHERE: Church Street
carport
WHEN: Tuesday at about
1 a.m.
WHAT: A staff member
sighted skaters, University
Police Reported. The
skaters were gone when the
officers arrived.
Caught inside
the Big House
WHERE: Michigan
Stadium
WHEN: Monday at about
11:05 p.m.
WHAT: Nine students were
found inside the Big House
after two people reportedly
jumped the fence,
University Police reported.
They were given a warning
for tresspassing.
I
ethics lecture
WHAT: Dr. Laura Roberts,
chair of the Department of
Psychiatry and Behaviorial
Sciences at Stanford
University, will discuss the
stresses of being a physician
and ethical issues in the
medical profession.
WHO: Depression Center
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Ford Auditorium
Zydeco music
performance
WHAT: Accordionist
Jeffery Broussard, a leading
member in Zydeco Force,
will perform a new style
of Creole music inspired
by Louisiana's culture and
tradition. Tickets cost $15.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
Physics lecture
WHAT: Prof. David
Hertzog from the University
of Washington will give a
lecture entitled "Precision
Muon Physics: Capturing a
Moment in a Lifetime."
WHO: Department of
Physics
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 340 West Hall
Survivor
speak out
WHAT: A forum for
survivors of sexual violence
to share their stories.
WHO: Sexual Assault
Awareness and Prevention
Center
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Ballroom of
Michigan League
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UPS will hire 55,000
seasonal workers this
holiday season due to
increased shopping activity,
which is considered an
indicator of economic health,
CNBC reported. Last year,
UPS hired 50,000 workers
during the same time period.
From 1837 to 1852,
the all-male student
body at the University
attended mandatory chapel
services every morning at
5:30 a.m.
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The 28-member crew
of a Taiwanese fishing
vessel overpowered a
group of Somali pirates who
hijacked their boat last week,
the BBC reported. The crew
was taken hostage by the
pirates and then gained con-
trol of their attackers.
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United Nations report: Iran is
developing a nuclear arsenal
Report confirms U.S.
suspicion of Iran's
nuclear activities
VIENNA (AP) - The U.N.
nuclear -atomic energy agency
said yesterday for the first time
that Iran is suspected of conduct-
ing secret experiments whose
sole purpose is the development
of nuclear arms. The report is the
strongest sign yet that Iran seeks
to build a nuclear arsenal, despite
claims to the contrary. With Israel
threatening a military response,
the report opens the way for a new
confrontation between the West
and Iran.
In Washington, officials said
the report confirms U.S. suspi-
cions about the military nature
of Iran's program and that the
Obama administration is con-
sidering pressuring Iran with
additiopal sanctions, if it fails to
answer questions posed by the
new information.
In its latest report on Iran, the
International Atomic Energy
Agency outlines the sum of its
knowledge on the Islamic Repub-
lic's alleged secret nuclear weap-
ons work, including:
-Clandestine procurement of
equipment and design informa-
tion needed to make such arms;
-High explosives testing and
detonator development to set off a
nuclear charge;
-Computer modeling of a core
of a nuclear warhead;
-Preparatory work for a nucle-
ar weapons test, and
-Developing and mounting a
nuclear payload onto its Shahab
3 intermediate range missile -
a weapon that can reach Israel,
Iran's arch foe.
Israeli government spokesman
Mark Regev said there is a gov-
ernment directive not to comment
until Israel has studied the report
in depth.
But ahead of the report's
release, Israeli Defense Minis-
ter Ehud Barak warned of a pos-
sible Israeli military strike against
Iran's nuclear program.
He told Israel Radio that he did
not expect any new U.N. sanctions
on Tehran to persuade it to stop its
nuclear defiance, adding: We con-
tinue to recommend to our friends
in the world and to ourselves, not
to take any option off the table."
The "all options on the table"
phrase is often used by Israeli pol-
iticians to mean a military assault,
and Israeli government members
have engaged in increased saber
rattling recently suggesting that
an attack was likely a more effec-
tive way to stop Iran's nuclear pro-
gram than continued diplomacy.
Iran's official IRNA news agen-
cy dismissed the IAEA report,
saying it "repeats the past claims
by the U.S. and the Zionist regime,
what was rejected in the past
report of the agency."
The IRNA commentary said:
'Thehead ofthe agency has includ-
ed worthless comments and pic-
tures provided by the intelligence
services in the report." It said past
inspections by the agency proved
what was mentioned as a large
steel container, which the IAEA
believes is used for nuclear arms-
related high explosives tests, were
only "metal-constructed toilets."
In Moscow, Russia's Foreign
Ministry said it would not com-
ment on the report until it had
time to study it. "Time is needed
to study it carefully," the ministry
said in a statement issued short-
ly before the IAEA report was
released. .
"The analysis should be carried
out in a calm atmosphere because
it is importantto figure out wheth-
er there really are new, and indeed
trustworthy, facts that confirmthe
suspicions that there are military
components in the Iranian nuclear
program, or whether we're talking
about the intentional and counter-
productive exacerbation of emo-
tions," the ministry said.
While some of the suspected
secret nuclear work outlined in
the IAEA annex could also be used
for peaceful purposes, "others are
specific to nuclear weapons," said
the confidential report obtainedby
The Associated Press.
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP
Democratic Kentucy Gov. Steve Beshear, second from right, and his running mate Jerry Abramson celebrate their victory
with their wives Madeline Abramson, left, and Jane Beshear, right, in Frankfort, Ky. last night.
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Ohio overturns
law limiting
public employees'
bargaining rights
Kentucky and Mississippi
refused yesterday to turn their
governors' offices over to differ-
ent parties, despite the nation's
stubborn economic woes, and
Ohio restored full bargaining
rights to hundreds of thousands
of public employees in a major
victory for organized labor.
A Mississippi initiative that
would have defined life as begin-
ning at conception went down to
defeat, ending supporters' plans
to use it to challenge Roe v. Wade,
the Supreme Court decision that
established the right to abortion.
Across the nation, voters' last
major judgments of 2011 were
closely watched for any hints
about the public's political mood
just two months ahead of the
first presidential primary and
nearly four years into the worst
economic slowdown since the
Depression.
Kentucky's Democratic gov-
ernor easily won another term,
and Mississippi voters kept their
governor's office in GOP hands
- decisions that suggested many
Americans were not ready to
abandon incumbent parties.
In Ohio, a new law that severe-
ly limited the bargaining rights of
more than 350,000 teachers, fire-
fighters, police officers and other
public employees was repealed.
The overwhelming defeat was
a stiff blow to Gov. John Kasich
and cast doubt on other Repub-
lican governors who have sought
union-limiting measures as a way
to curb spending.
"Ohio sent a message to every
politician out there: Go in and
make war on your employees
rather than make jobs with your
employees, and you do so at your
own peril," AFL-CIO President
Richard Trumka said.
Kasich congratulated his
opponents and said he would
consider his next steps carefully.
"I've heard their voices. I
understand their decision, and
frankly, I respect what people
have to say in an effort like this.
And as a result of that, it requires
me to take a deep breath, you
know, and to spend some time
reflecting on what happened
here," he said.
The disputed law permitted
workers to negotiate wages but
not pensions or health care ben-
efits, and it banned public-worker
strikes, scrapped binding arbitra-
tion and eliminated annual raises
for teachers.
The outcome will no doubt
be studied by presidential can-
didates as a gauge of the Ohio
electorate, which is seen as a bell-
wether. No Republican has won
the White House without Ohio,
and only two Democrats have
done so in more than a century.
Elsewhere on the ballot, Ohio
voters approved a proposal
to prohibit people from being
required to buy health insurance
as part of the national health care
overhaul. The vote was mostly
symbolic, but Republicans hoped
to use it in a legal challenge.
The governors' races were of
keen interest to both parties. Ten
states will elect governors next
year, and governors can marshal
get-out-the-vote efforts crucial to
any White House candidate.
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