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CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Hospital hitting Wheels down
WHERE: 1500 East
Medical Center
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 10:40 p.m.
WHAT: A male patient
punched his female nurse,
University Police reported.
Tshe nurse was not harmed
in the incident.
Oil leak
WHERE: Walter E Lay
Automotive Lab
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 1:20 p.m.
WHAT: About 5 ounces of
gasoline spilled in a cabinet
because of a broken seal in
a pump, University Police
reported. The Occupational
Safety and Health Admin-
istration responded to the
incident and there is no
permament damage to the
building.
WHERE: 600 Block of East
Madison Street
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 11:45 a.m.
WHAT: A female student's
bicycle sitting in a bike
rack outside South Quad
was rendered inoperable
by a broken tire, University
Police Reported. The dam-
age is repairable and there
are no suspects.
Drawing lesson
WHAT: A Drop-in and
Draw class provides stu-
dents with the opportunity
to hone their artistic skills.
Instructors will guide stu-
dents through different gal-
leries to develop personal
style and play with perspec-
tive.
WHO: University of Michi-
gan Museum of Art
WHEN: Today at 11:10 a.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art
Boa Electric band
Board bummer
Chinese Opera
WHAT: The Suzhou Kun
Opera Theater from the
Jiangsu Province performs
their rendition of the
kunqu form of opera.
WHO: University Muscial
Society
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theater
CORRECTIONS
" An article in the Sept.
27 edition of The Michi-
gan Daily ("Health and
Wellness Fair promotes
activelifestyles")incor-
rectly identified Fang
Tan as a Law School
professor. She is a Law
School staff member.
. Please report any
error in the Daily to
corrections@michi-
gandaily.com.
NASA scientists
announced Thursday
that the Mars rover
Curiousity found proof that
a "fast-moving" river once
flowed on the Red Planet's
surface, according to The
Washington Post. The river
could have been as deep as
waist high and may have sup-
ported life.
The Japanese art of
lecture-narration over
film is explored in a
series of films on campus for
several months. >FOR MORE,
SEE ARTS ON PAGE 5
Oregon brewmaker
Brett Joycce is using
yeast from his beard to
make beer at Rogue Ales, his
pub and brewery, ,The Huff-
ington Post reported. While
the beer began as a joke, the
yeast was successful in fer-
menting beer.
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WHERE: 900 Block South
University Avenue
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 5 p.m.
WHAT: Two skaterboard-
ers received a warning
about for skateboarding on
University property, Uni-
versity Police renorted.
concert
WHAT: The Kin, an elec-
tric band comprised of two
Australian brothers and a
hand drummer from New
York City, will take the
stage on their tour. The
group played in Ann Arbor
last summer.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 5p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
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J.K. Rowling's first novel since
'Harry Potter' hits bookstores
BEATRICE RICHARDSON/AP
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stand next to an artist rendering of a pro-
posed Ferris wheel during a news conference on the Staten Island boroughof New York on Thursday.
World's largest Ferris wheel
to be built on Staten Island
Developers hope
$230 million
attraction will
bring tourists
NEW YORK (AP) - The Big
Apple is getting another "big-
gest": the world's tallest Fer-
ris wheel, part of an ambitious
plan to draw New Yorkers and
tourists alike to the city's so-
called "forgotten borough."
The 625-foot-tall, $230 mil-
lion New York Wheel is to grace
a spot in Staten Island over-
looking the 305-foot-tall Statue
of Liberty and the downtown
Manhattan skyline, offering a
singular view as it sweeps high-
er than other big wheels like
the Singapore Flyer, the Lon-
don Eye and a "High Roller"
planned for Las Vegas.
Designed to carry 1,440 pas-
sengers at a time, it's expected
to draw 4.5 million people a
year to a setting that also would
include a 100-shop outlet mall
and a 200-room hotel.
It will be "an attraction
unlike any other in New York
City - in fact, it will be, we
think, unlike any other on the
planet," Mayor Michael Bloom-
berg said as he unveiled the
plans against the backdrop of
New York Harbor. While the
privately financed project faces
various reviews, officials hope
to have the wheel turning by
the end of 2015.
The wheel would put Staten
Island on the map of superla-
tives in a place where "biggest"
is almost an expectation - home
to the nation's biggest city popu-
lation, busiest mass-transit sys-
tem, even the biggest Applebee's
restaurant.
The attraction stands to
change the profile of the least
populous and most remote of the
city's five boroughs, a sometime
municipal underdog that has
taken insults from New Jersey
and was once known for having
the world'slargest ... landfill.
"It's going to be a real icon.
The Ferris wheel will be Stat-
en Island's Eiffel Tower," Sen
Charles Schumer enthused.
As a visible addition to the
skyline around the harbor, the
wheel "gives Staten Island an
identity beyond its role as a
suburban community," while
letting it tap into the stream of
tourist money in a city that drew
50.9 million visitors last year,
said Mitchell Moss, a New York
University urban policy profes-
sor.
The project is expected to
bring $500 million in private
investment and 1,100 permanent
jobs to the borough's St. George
waterfront, and the developers
will pay the city $2.5 million a
year in rent for the land.
Staten Island isn't entirely off
the tourist map. Its free ferry
is the city's third-largest tour-
ist attraction, carrying an esti-
mated 2 million visitors a year
alongside millions of residents,
officials say.
But the city has long strug-
gled to entice tourists off the
boat and into Staten Island.
Much-touted Staten Island
sightseeing bus tours fizzled
within a year in 2009 for lack of
ridership.
'The Casual
Vacancy' delves
into adult world of
dirty politics, death
LONDON (AP) - After
months of hype and anticipa-
tion, J.K. Rowling's first novel
for adults has appeared, swept
into the arms of'hopeful book-
sellers and an army of grown-up
Harry Potter fans eager to find
out what his creator has done
next.
A gritty and darkly humorous
tale of ugly realities in a pretty
English village, "The Casual
Vacancy" seems a long way
from the Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry, and
reviewers gave it a mixed recep-
tion. But Rowling said Thursday
she wasn't worried about the
response.
"I've had my books burnt,"
said the author, whose magi-
cal stories were condemned
as Satanist by some Christian
groups. "I've got quite a way to
go to upset people that much
with 'A Casual Vacancy."'
A story of ambition, envy and
rivalry, the novel recounts the
civic warfare sparked in the fic-
tional Pagford when the unex-
pected death of a town official
leaves a vacancy on the govern-
ing body. Characters set on a
collision course range from the
affluent lawyer Miles Mollison
to the Weedons, a ramshackle
clan living in The Fields, the
run-down housing project on
the edge of town.
Rowling told a 1,000-strong
audience at London's Southbank
Centre that the idea for the book
- "Local election sabotaged by
teenagers, basically" - came to
her on a plane several years ago.
Writing for a more adult read-
ership, she said, had been "free-
ing" - though "in other senses
it's a challenging book," told
from multiple viewpoints.
Rowling said the book's focus
on teenagers, the heart of Pag-
ford and of the novel, was not a
million miles from her previous
work - although these troubled
and profane youngsters are "not
Harry, Ron and Hermione."
"They are very different teen-
agers," Rowling said. "They are
contemporary teenagers."
The book's sex and swearing
have drawn the most comment
so far - some audience mem-
bers were startled to hear the
F-word pass Rowling's lips dur-
ing Thursday's reading. But the
presence of death is perhaps the
book's most adult element, and
one that loomed over Harry Pot-
tei s world, too.
Death obsesses me," Rowling
said. "I can't understand why it
doesn't obsess everyone. Think
it does. I'm just a little more
'out."'
Five years after the last Pot-
ter book appeared, Rowling
remains the world's most suc-
cessful living writer.' The lines
were shorter and the wizard
costumes missing, but "The
Casual Vacancy" appeared to
some of the same fanfare that
greeted each Potter tome, with
stores wheeling out crates of
the books precisely at 8 a.m. as
part of a finely honed marketing
strategy.
And Rowling retains the
intense loyalty of Potter fans.
In contrast to the tight security
that preceded the book's release,
the atmosphere at Thursday'
reading was warm; it felt like a
reunion. Several audience mem-
bers asked Potter-related ques-
tions, which Rowling answered
at length. One young man, wear-
ing a "Rowling is our Queen"
I shirt, asked if her could give
her a present. Rowling accepted
it graciously.
Many in the crowd were
young adults who had grown up
on Harry Potter and we keen to
follow her wherever she wanted
to go.
"She's been such an inspira-
tion to everyone," said 18-year-
old university student Milly
Anderson. "She's not just influ-
enced people's childhoods -
she's molded them."
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