2 - Friday, September 28, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, September 28, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom .. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com rmgrein@michigandaily.com Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt. 3 Corrections corrections@michigandaly.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com 0i 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. EDITORIAL STAFF Andrew Weiner Managing Editor anweiner@michigandaily.com Bethany Biron Managing News Editor biron@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Haley Glatthorn, Haley Goldberg, Rayza Goldsmith, Paige Pearcy, Adam Rubenfire ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS: Giacomo Bologna, Anna Rozenberg, Andrew Schulman, Peter Shahin, K.C. 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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." 0 * 5PIRFIIIPI ?I a