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I -- Alumni Profile: Peter Orner
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Peter Orner is afiction author and thing we call anovel.
a faculty member at the graduate
writing program at San Francisco What did you study at the
State University. University?
What piqued your interest
in writing novels?
I've always loved stories - to
read and to try to write them. I
think I may have first become
interested in writingnovels when
I read Tim O'Brien's "The Things
They Carried" in a class with
NickDelbanco at Michigan.Ilove
novels that expand the definition
of what a novel is. We also read
the great Jamaica Kincaid in that
class as well. The book was Annie
John. Kincaid too gave me a new
angle on how to structure this
At Michigan, I have to admit
I was a less than stellar student.
I was an English major with a
concentration in creative writ-
ing, which means I took a few
literature courses and about 500
creative writing courses.
In hindsight, I wish I'd stud-
ied more literature, but at the
time I loved it. I went to col-
lege and made up stories. What
could have been better? Two
Michigan professors I can
never thank enough are Tish
O'Dowd, who encouraged me
very early - I'm very grateful
for her kindness and her sense
of humor - and Charles Baxter,
who took me on as independent
study, and once wrote me a gen-
erous note, saying my sentence,
"The closet smelled like potato
chips" wasn't a bad line. I still
have the note. He wrote it on a
typewriter.
If you had to describe your
writing style in one word,
what would it be?
I try to keep things short and
essential. If I can pare some-
thing down, I will - i.e. I don't
need the second sentence here
or this one either.
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Deep in the stacks of Hatcher Graduate Library, LSA
freshman Elden Maynard puts away books.
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Sick nick
WHERE: University Hos-
pital
WHEN: Tuesday at about
8:20 a.m.
WHAT: About $100 in
cash was stolen from a
patient's wallet in a room
on the eighth-floor, Univer-
sity Police reported. The
incident occured Mondav
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Shady study
WHERE: Hatcher Gradu-
ate Library
WHEN: Tuesday at about
1:30 p.m.
WHAT: A phone and laptop
were taken from a fifth-
floor study area, University
Police reported. The items
were believed to have been
taken between 1:20 and 1:25
Symposium
WHAT: The Leadership for
Truth and Reconciliation in
Metropolitan Detroit sym-
posium will be held. Topics
of social justice will be cov-
ered in relation to the South
African apartheid.
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Record
WH EN: Todav at 6 nm-
Jazz act
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rold and guitar-percussion
duo Red Shoes will perform
jazz pieces that explore new,
old, and latin-influenced
jazz. Harold studied at the
Wisconsin Conservatory of
Music.
WHO: Gifts of Art
WHEN: Todav at 12:10 n.m.
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ture Building tals, Main Lobby de Tecalitlin will come
Bench theft Are you goinga.cto Ann Arbor to repeat
Racism talk Book lecture their popular 2010 perfor-
WHERE: Central Campus to etch that? mance. The group is credited
Recreation Center WHAT: The Jim Crow WHAT: Ann Arbor his- with orginating the popular
WHEN: Tuesday at about WHERE: Markley Resi- Museum of Racist Memora- torian and journalist Don music genre.
10 p.m. dence Hall bilia will give a presentation Faber will give a lecture on >> FOR MORE, SEE INSIDE
WHAT: A backpack holding
a cell phone and credit card
was reportedly stolen from
underneath a bench in the
basketball court between
8 and 9:30 p.m., University
Police reported. There are
currently no suspects.
WHEN: Tuesday at about
4:25 p.m.
WHAT: Graffiti had been
discovered "etched" into
a tabletop at the Markley
Hideaway, University Police
reported. There are cur-
rently no suspects.
on how racism is created
through interaction with
everyday objects, and how
to use these objects to pro-
mote tolerance and incrase
social justice.
WHO: Museum Studies
Program
WHEN: Today at 6:30 p. m.
WHERE: Rackham Gradu-
ate School amphitheater
his new book, The Boy Gov-
ernor. This book is about
Stevens T. Mason, Michi-
gan's first and youngest
governor, and his historical
accomplishments and con-
tributions.
WHO: Gerald R. Ford Presi-
dential Library
WHIIN: Today at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Gerald Ford
Library
The U.S. Air Force
has released a report
uncoverning hundreds
of pornographic materials on
its bases, according to NBC
News. Among the items that
were confiscated was a 'Ken'
doll wearing red swimming
trunks.
Entrepreneurship gift to
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University researchers discuss different approaches to studying sexuality and romantic relationships at Sexpertise.
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plain straight folks stereotyping
th expert panel gay folks, even within the black
gay community, there's a lot of ste-
discussion reotyping that goes on," Harper
said.
By ANGELA SON Sara McClelland, assistant pro-
Daily StaffReporter fessor of Psychology and Women's
Studies, said sexual education
perteam, a sexual health shapes young people's expecta-
ion organization, opened tions about their bodies and sex
ear's Sexpertise event with for their whole life. She added that
nel discussion, "What's Sex emphasizing chastity before mar-
Do with It?" Wednesday riage could cause negative effects
g at the Michigan League; for students.
talk was the first of the "It's actually quite (contro-
dayevent, which is a sympo- versial) that it's abstinence only
f free educational activities until marriage, because that of .
dents on campus hosted by course excludes many people
rteam, and sponsored by the who can't get married or for
sity Health Service. whom marriage is not the con-
-ut 75 members of the Ann text in which they want to be
community attended the sexually relating to other peo-
including Sexperteam vol- ple," McClelland said.
s. Sari van Anders, assistant
panel discussion was led professor of psychology and
ir professors who presented women's studies, said she is a self-
research on topics such as proclaimed feminist scientist who
ates among gay men, young brings different perspectives to
n's sexual development and the field.
ng. Their works, though All panelists emphasized the
d on sexual health, came importance of learningmore about
arious disciplines including different forms of sexuality and
logy, women's studies, pub- sexual health.
cy and neuroscience. "It is really important that we
y Harper, professor of learn more and more about (sexu-
behavior and health educa- ality), so we can actually critically
aid in his presentation that engage with it,"van Anders said.
ice can be based on both Rackham student Tazeen Ayub
and sexual identity. said she thought the event was
informative and comprehensive.
"One thing I learned from the
event is how racism and oppres-
sion can affect one's sexual health
and sexual behavior, and I thought
that's reallyinterestingbecause it's
not something I've learned about
or really talked about before,"
Ayub said.
LSA sophomore Billy Diaz, a
member of Sexperteam, said the
panelists' research would be the
foundation of future sexual infor-
mation.
"We have to have more events
like this so people can realize how
important it is to constantly talk
about sex in all kinds of different
ways, not even just, like, educa-
tional or experience-wise," Diaz
said.
Laura McAndrew, a health
educator at UHS and the head of
Sexperteam, said she hopes peo-
ple who attend Sexpertise will
become aware of broader perspec-
tives about sexual relationships.
"Sexpertise is an opportunity
to engage in many of the other
dimensions that impact or can be
impacted by sexuality, (such as)
mental health, social identities,
ability and the media, in addition
to birth control and safer sex,"
McAndrew said.
McAndrew added that Sexper-
tise strives to create judgment-free
environments where students can
openly talk about sex and its role
as part of the human experience.
Alumni start-
up Weather
Underground
donates $500,000
By ARIANA ASSAF
Daily Staff Reporter
Students with innovative
ideas may have the opportu-
nity to turn them into real-
ity thanks to a grant from an
alumni start-up.
Weather Underground a
Ann Arbor-based Weather
forecast website, has made
a $500,000 donation to the
University's Center for Entre-
preneurship to continue a
week-long educational trip for
students.
Beginning in 2008, the
Weather Underground Start-
up Trek educates students
about the technology industry
and connects them to alumni
and professionals in the Sili-
con Valley and San Francisco
Bay area.
Jeffrey Masters, director
of meteorology for Weather
Underground, graduated from
the University with a Bach-
elor of Science in 1982 and a
Masters of Science in meteo-
rology in 1983. He went on
to co-found Weather Under-
ground in 1995, and sold the
company to The Weather
Channel Companies in July
2012 for an undisclosed price.'
Andria Stark, the market-
ing assistant for Weather
Underground, said Masters
founded the website while at
the University and the compa-
ny donated the funds needed
for the trip in hopes that other
students will have similar
opportunities.
Students who have a pro-
posed idea can apply to take
part in the trek online by sub-
mitting a short video. Selected
students are given the oppor-
tunity to pitch their start-up
ideas to and receive feedback
from investors and entrepre-
neurs.
CFE Executive Director
Doug Neal said students not
only receive hands-on edu-
cational experience, but also
connect to alumni, including
major players in the technol-
ogy industry.
LSA junior Shiva Kilaru
was chosen to attend last
year's trip after winning
MPowered's Start-up Week-
end competition. He, along
with recent LSA graduate Erik
Torenberg, developed Rap
Roulette, a start-up company
that hosts cross-country rap
battles online.
Kilaru said the pair ulti-
mately won the competition
by performing instead of pre-
senting a more traditional rev-
enue model.
"Before start-up weekend,
I was pre-med, worried about
taking the MCAT. Now I'm
an informatics major," Kilaru
said.
LSA junior Dan Hoffmann,
Kinesiology junior Harri-
son Forman, and Engineer-
ing sophomore Zach Mandell
had similar experiences last
year in founding StudentKit,
an app that alerts students
to academic and professional
opportunities on their college
campus based on personal
interests.
Hoffmann said the oppor-
tunities the University offered
on the trip gave him a bet-
ter perspective of real-world
entrepreneurial ventures.
"I walked away from the
trip with an appreciation for
the vibrancy of the Michigan
entrepreneurial community
and the diversity of ventures
that are launched in dorm
rooms and labs here on cam-
pus," Hoffmann said.
The team left the trek with
a second place prize and anew
understanding of how to pres-
ent themselves to investors.
Hoffmann said practicing his
pitch to professionals was an
important part of the learning
process.
"Although it is easy to think
up seemingly novel ideas, the
pressure-testing that comes
with presenting that idea to
others is crucial."
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