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Picture 15 stocky athletes in ing.
short shorts and minimal pad- "A lot of guys come out
ding sprinting down the field because they think it's sweet
toward a small oblong ball. That, and want to give it a try," he said.
in brief, is the sport of rugby - a Etheart said there are no try-
competitive club sport played at outs for the team, which allows
the University since 1959. players to get as serious about
The University's club rugby the sport as they want. How-
team plays other college teams ever, he noted that the team has
around the Midwest, including recently gotten more competi-
Michigan State and Ohio State, tive, hiring Matt Trenary, a Uni-
in the collegiate division of USA versity alum and former player
Rugby. on the team, as its head coach.
LSA sophomore Ian Etheart, "I am most proud of the
club president, said the group is direction of the club ... we have
comprised of about 60 men who really stepped up a level of com-
belong to two different teams, mitment and competition, and
adding that many students who the boys really want the club to
join the team don't have much succeed," Trenary said. "It is a
rugby experience prior to join- great team effort and everyone
has been working hard to see
that happen."
Etheart said the team's com-
mitment translated into the club
making it to the second round of
the playoffs at collegiate nation-
als duringthe fall season.
He added that he hopes the
club eventually becomes a var-
sity sport at the University, but
since there are only eight var-
sity rugby teams in the country,
he acknowledged that this is a
long-term goal.
"Everyone on the team would
love to see this team turn var-
sity, but that's long after I'm
gone."
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LSA sophomore Meghan O'Leary-Kelly uses a gyroscope
insa Physics lah at Raodall Lahoratory yesterday.
CRIME NOTES
Re-search
WHERE: North Campus
Research Complex #520
East Building
WHEN: Monday at about
2:20 p.m.
WHAT: A 42" kiosk with
an iPad were stolen over the
weekend, University Police
Reported. Though the kiosk
was later located, the iPad is
still missing.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Lost notes
WHERE: Shapiro Under-
graduate Library
WHEN: Monday at about
12:40 p.m.
WHAT: Between noon and
12:20 p.m. abackpack with
a hard drive and a Mac-
Book charger on the third
floor was stolen, University
Police reported. There are
no suspects.
Choral
performance
WHAT: Orpheus Singers
will perform a program fea-
turing pieces by Handel and
Bach. Tickets to the perfor-
mance are free.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Moore Building
Big spender .M
Schwndled
WH ERE: Campus Safety Mic check 1, 2
Services WH ERE: Intramulral
loly film
WHAT: The film version
of Andrew Lloyd Webber's
rock opera Jesus Christ
Superstar will be shown.
The film stars Golden Globe
nominees Ted Neeley and
Carl Anderson.
WHO: WCBN FM
WHEN: Today at 9 p.m.
WHERE: Arbor Brewing
Company
Step up
WHAT: Nine organizations
will compete in a step show
hosted by the National Pan-
Hellenic Council. Tickets
are $10 for adults.
WHO: Michigan Union-
Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
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After an impostor tried
to claim Maryland's large
Mega-Millions jackpot,
three public school teachers
have stepped forward as the
real winners, WJZ reported.
While the winners wish to
remain anonymous, each will
net $35 million.
What's it like to have
sex in the Big House?
How awkward is it
have your former professor
hit on you? Anonymous con-
fessions predominate The
Statement this week.
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After a bus driver in
Fife, Wash. suffered a
heart attack, a 7th grad-
er grabbed the wheel and
stopped the bus while one
of his peers gave the driver
CPR, KOMO reported. The
43-year-old driver was later
hospitalized.
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p.m.
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at Starbucks.
Sports Building
WHEN: Monday at about
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valued that was parked out-
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April 8, University Police
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WHAT: An open mic night
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Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai attends the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in
Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China.
Top Chinese politician ousted
as his wife is accused of murder
After gaining
a nationwide
following, Xilai
sees career end
BEIJING (AP) - A flamboyant
and telegenic politician who until
recently seemed destined for the
top ranks of China's leadership
was stripped of his most power-
ful posts yesterday and his wife
named in the murder of a British
businessman as Chinese leaders
moved to stem a scandal that has
exposed divisive infighting.
The announcement that Bo
Xilai was being suspended from
the Communist Party's Politburo
and Central Committee and that
his wife was a suspect in a homi-
cide investigation put an end to a
colorful political career. Media-
savvy with a populist flair, Bo
gained a nationwide following
for busting organized crime and
for reviving communist culture
while running the inland mega-
city of Chongqing..
His publicity-seeking ways
angered some in the top leader-
ship, however. In recent weeks,
allegations of Bo's and his family's
misdeeds leaked into public view,
threatening to complicate prepa-
rations by the leadership for a
delicate, once-a-decade transition
to younger leaders at a congress
later this year.
"This -means the political
career of Bo Xilai is over," said
Cheng Li, a Chinese politics
expert at the Brookings Institu-
tion in Washington. "The party
wants to really resolve the Bo
Xilai crisis in a relatively short
periodoftime. Theywantto make
sure that the attention for the 18th
party congress will not suffer too
much from the Bo Xilai episode."
Bo's patrons included retired
party elders who retain influence
over senior appointments, and
among his vocal supporters were
influential generals and party
members, scholars and ordinary
Chinese who identify themselves
as leftists. His removal raises
questions about whether Chi-
nese leaders will have to make
concessions to them to achieve
the political balance that has
restrained factional fighting in
recent decades.
"A political succession that
seemed completely predictable
has been upended," said June
Teufel Dreyer, a China politics
expert at University of Miami.
"We may be in for more surpris-
es."
An editorial to run today in
the party's People's Daily news-
paper appealed for unity and said
the investigation into Bo's viola-
tions would show the leadership's
"solid resolve in safeguarding
party discipline and the rule of
law."
Yesterday's announcement,
carried by state media, provided
details of what has been a lurid
and embarrassing scandal for the
leadership.
Bo's removal from top govern-
ment posts came on suspicion of
involvement in unspecified but
"serious discipline violations,"the
Central Committee said, and his
case was handed over to internal
party investigators.
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