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Audiophile turned academic
What were your dreams as a ingschedule?
kid? As a doctoral student I worked
I loved, and still do, both very hard, sometimes short-
music and electronics. I ing sleep, yes, but I also played
dreamt of combiningthose two hard. I hiked in the Sierras, and
interests by doing some type I played alot of jazz gigs all over
of audio electronics or signal the Bay Area. I even got to play
processing. My research ended a couple times with Stan Getz,
up not being about audio, but who was an artist in residence
getting to teach music signal at Stanford then. Having some-
processing in Engineering thing besides work to recharge
100 brings me back to my first your batteries, to use an EE
interests. metaphor, is really important.
Some say electrical engi- As a tenured professor, why
neering students don't get do you choose to teach an
any sleep due to their heavy introductory engineering
workload. When you were a class for freshmen?
Ph. D. student at Stanford, In EECS, most of us think
how erratic was your sleep- that teaching the introduc-
COURTESY OF JEFFREY FESSLER
Prof. Jeffrey Fessler is a faculty member in the department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Pass the gas Lost and found Book talk
WHERE: East Medical
Center
WHEN: Tuesday at about
8:30 a.m.
WHAT: A vehicle parked
in a parking structure had
$60 worth of gasoline stolen
from it, University Police
reported. No suspects of the
larceny have been identi-
fied.
Rage against
the machine
WHERE: Mason Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 12:20 a.m.
WHAT: Unidentified
suspects caused several
hundreds dollars of damage
to a vending machine, Uni-
versity Police reported. No
items were stolen.
WHERE: Northwood IV
WHEN: Tuesday at 12:20
p.m.
WHAT: A student reported
four personal packages to be
delivered to her apartment
stolen, University Police
reported. The U.S. Post
Office has locatedthe pack-
ages since the report.
Rough housing
WHERE: Washington
Heights parkinglot
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 2:40 a.m.
WHAT: A vehicle was
damaged after a group of
males reportedly stole a
bench from the Ronald
McDonald House and put it
on a parked car, University
Police reported. There are
no suspects.
and signing
WHAT: A book signing
hosted by Noam Scheiber,
author of "The Escape Art-
ists: How Obama's Team
Fumbled the Recovery."
WHO: Ford School of Pub-
lic Policy
WHEN: Today at 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Weill Hall Betty
Ford Classroom
SA PAC film
screening
WHAT: "The Undetected
Rapist," a film about the
large number of rapists who
have not been indicted for
their crimes, wil be shown.
WHO: Sexual Assault
Prevention and Awareness
Center
WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Palmer Com-
mons, Forum Hall.
War literature
WHAT: A symposium
reflecting on the ancient
writings of war, including
performances by theater
groups
WHO: Department of Com-
parative Literature
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, room
32223
tory courses is the most chal-
lenging and also the most
important because the funda-
mentals are so important for
all the courses that follow. So
we try to put experienced fac-
ulty who take teaching seri-
ously in those courses. I love
music and signal processing,
so that section of Engineer-
ing 100 is one of my favorites
to teach now. The difference
between what students know
leaving a course, compared to
what they know coming into
it, is especially dramatic in an
introductory class, and that is
particularly rewarding for an
instructor.
-JOSH QIAN
A drug runner caught
by police after a series
of busts was found to
have the vehicle license plate
"SMUGLER" before being
arrested, MSNBC reported.
The smuggler attempted to
transport nearly 24 lbs. of
cocaine.
Pinball Pete's, which
houses the usual mod-
ern arcade games, also
boasts an impressive collec-
tion of themed pinballgames,
including those inspired by
Tron and Star Trek.
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students in a parking lot
after the car they were
in burst into flames upon hit-
ting a speed bump, the Daily
Mail reported. Witnesses
used fire extinguishers to put
out the flames before anyone
was hurt.
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Because of Syria's close alli-
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nese militant group Hezbollah,
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General Ban Ki-moon said yes- day, the United States, Britain,
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and an al-Qaida-inspired group smuggling weapons to Syria to
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year ago has transformed into speech in the Indonesian capi-
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because they are very strategic
and good at what they do," Lei-
bach wrote. "Not many people are
aware of this anti-Israel situation
... but now you are."
Hashwi said the claims are
untrue and added that he is sup-
portive of students of all religions
and sexual orientations.
"I am a Muslim American.
However, I respect all religions,"
Hashwi said. "Manish doesn't
have a religion ... we respect all
religions equally and we do not
discriminate against any religion
or any sexual orientation."
Hashwi added that on Friday,
he attended Juma'a Shabbat, acol-
laborative event for Jewish and
Muslim students. He added that
while he was unable to attend
the Muslim Juma'a prayers, he
still went to the University of
Michigan Hillel for Shabbat ser-
vices.
"These claims are really
absurd," Hashwi said. "(Anyone)
who knows me as a person would
easily demolish these claims that
I'm homophobic or anti-Semit-
ic."
In a statement to The Michi-
gan Daily, Leibach wrote that
she did not intend to "offend or
insult anyone" by sending the
e-mail.
"I am deeply sorry if my
(email) resulted in anyone's hurt "I have nothing but love for
feelings or caused any personal every member of theJewish
harm," she wrote, community, for the people of
In an e-mail interview last Israel, and for every Wolverine
night, LSA junior David Rosen- on campus," Parikh said. "As
wein, the president of the Uni- long as you have an Mcard in
versity Hillel's governing board, your pocket and you do not sup-
wrote that the opinions Leibach port Michigan State, I love you."
expressed in the e-mail did not He also addressed the issue of
reflect Hillel's position. the University investing in com-
"Hillel's position on CSG elec- panies with ties to Israel, a topic
tions, as in all student govern- that came up in the vice presi-
ment elections, is to encourage dential debate.
student participation," Rosen- "Me and myvice presidenthave
wein wrote. "The e-mail sent out nothing to do and would never
was one individual's personal have anything to do with divest-
opinion and was written and sent ment from Israel," Parikh said.
without knowledge or consent One aim of Parikh and Hash-
from Hillel's Governing Board." wi's platform, as stated on their
While three other CSG presi- Facebook page, is to encourage
dential candidates discussed the University to invest respon-
their campaign platforms at the sibly. The platform says the Uni-
Interfraternity Council meeting versity "should invest in socially
last night, Parikh spoke to the responsible companies," such as
IFC to reaffirm his and his run- businesses that promote science,
ning mate's commitment to the technology and the entrepre-
University's Jewish community neurial endeavors of students.
and all communities on campus. Public Policy junior Kevin
"I stand here before you today, Mersol-Barg, the presidential *
sadly, not to talk to about my candidate for OurMichigan, said
platform," Parikh said. "But I that rather than making a deci-
am forced to come here today to sion based on Leibach's e-mail,
speak about my view on secular- students should focus on the
ism and on religion in light of a candidates' platforms.
letter and e-mail that is being "This is making a personal
circulated amongst various attack against a particular can-
institutions and organizations didate," Mersol-Barg said. "Ulti-
on campus." mately, e-mails like this are not
Parikh emphasized his devo- healthy nor conducive to the
tion to Jewish students and to all type of campaign atmosphere we
students on campus. want to see."
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