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SPANISH IMMERSION
Found in translation
Lorenzo Garcia-A maya is a lec- I love the introductory Spanish lish, and I realized how limited
turer in Department of Romance linguistics class; it's lots of fun to my abilities were to express my
Languages and Literatures. He teach and for most students it's thoughts and how challenged my
holds degrees from the University their first contact with linguis- thinking skills were by my lack of
of Seville and Indiana University. tics. But, of course, I love teach- communication abilities in this
Currently, Garcia-Amaya teaches ing second-language acquisition other language. Understanding
two upper-level Spanish courses. courses. The student body at UM as much as possible about how
is quite sharp, and students pick second-language learning devel-
Have you been following the up on the subtleties of language ops has become my true passion.
basketball tournament? If so, really quickly.
how far did you have the Uni- Can you tell me a little bit
versity going in yourbracket? How did you get interested about your research?
in linguistics and second-lan-
Who wouldn't? I just knew guage acquisition? My current research relates to
that in my first year here, Michi- the development of second-lan-
gan couldn't do anything else but When you stop and think about guage fluency and its cognitive
win. What a better way start at it closely, language is just the basis.
UM? Go blue. most powerful tool that human
beings posses. So, when I went to
What is your favorite class college I took most of my classes
to teach at the University? in my second language, Eng- -MOLLYBLOCK
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Art & Design sophomore Hillary Butterworth works
on her CFC III installation piece.
CRIME NOTES
Struck down Lost tech
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
WHERE: University
Hospital
WHEN: Sunday at about
8:40 a.m.
WHAT: A patient hit a
nurse at about 4:30 a.m.,
University Police reported.
The nurse, who was trying
to help the patient, did not
need a medical evaluation.
WHERE: Electrical Engi-
neering and Computer
Science building
WHEN: Sunday at about
10:05 a.m.
WHAT: A backpack was
reported stolen from a stu-
dent organization office,
University Police reported.
There was a laptop and a
tablet in the backpack.
Physics talk
WHAT: David Wineland
will lead a discussion about
Erwin Schrodinger and
quantum mechanics. The
talk will focus on superpo-
sition and entanglement.
WHO: Department of
Physics ,
WHEN: Today at 4:15 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of
Business, Blau Auditorium
Afghanistan
and journalism
WHAT: Vanessa Gezari
will give the Howard R.
Marsh Visiting Professor
of Journalism lecture. The
talk will center on
storytelling in Afghanistan.
WHO: Campus
Information Centers
WHEN: Today at 5p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Work the fire UGLi situation .nin m ii Environmnt
T H REE TH INGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
A bazaar in Argentina
is selling ferrets as toy
poodles, The Daily Mail
reported. The ferrets were
given steroids in order to
appear like dogs. A man who
purchased a ferret found out
about the discrepancy after
taking the animal to the vet.
The Michigan men's
basketball team lost to
Louisville in the NCAA
Championship Game, 82-76,
due to defensive mishaps in
the second half
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7
Over the weekend, an
unknown number of
thieves stole five tons
of Nutella from the German
town of Bad Hersfeld, the
AP reported. The thieves
also stole energy drinks. This
amount ofNutellais valued at
about $20,710.
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WHERE: Thayer Carport
WHEN: Sunday at about
2 p.m.
WHAT: Officers found two
subjects unaffiliated with
the University using fire-
works and skateboarding
in the parking garage, Uni-
versity Police reported. The
subjects were warned and
left the area immediately.
WHERE: Shapiro Under-
graduate Library
WHEN: Monday at about
5:20 a.m.
WHAT: An ambulance was
requested to take a subject
to the University Hospital
Emergency Room, Univer-
sity Police reported. The
subject was then broughtto
the University Hospital for
treatment.
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WHAT: Pandit Vishwa
Mohan Bhatt, a Grammy-
Award winning musician,
and Pt. Subhen Chatter-
jee will give a concert of
classical Indian instru-
mental music. Bhatt won
his Grammy for his 1994
album, "A Meeting by the
River." Admission is free.
WHO: SPIC MACAY
WHEN: Today at 6p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
Pendleton Room
and law lecture
WHAT: Rip Rapson, the
president and CEO of The
Kresge Foundation, will
lead a discussion on climate
change. Rapson is a
lawyer specializing in
urban policy.
WHO: Michigan Law
Environmental Law and
Policy Program
WHEN: Today at 4:10 p.m.
WHERE: Hutchins Hall,
room 250,
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CSJ calls for electoral reform in
student government campaigns
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Demerit system
questioned after
two years of cases
By GIACOMO BOLOGNA
Daily StaffReporter
For the second consecutive
year, the Central Student Gov-
ernment presidential elections
didn't end when polls closed.
Concluding more than a week
later after multiple hearings,
the Central Student Judiciary
gave its verbal, but unofficial,
opinion upholding the Univer-
sity Election Commission's deci-
sion to disqualify LSA juniors
Chris Osborn and Hayley Sakwa,
forUM's executive candidates,
on Saturday. Several justices
expressed displeasure about the
decision.
During the hearing, Engineer-
ing senior Chris Stevens, chief
justice of CSJ, said it "sickens"
him for another election to be
decided by court cases and that
assembly needs to be more pro-
active in avoiding these situa-
tions.
"Every year it seems like the
assembly just enacts something
that basically tries to address
only the previous year's prob-
lem," he said.
Stevens said he also felt there
are flaws in the demerit system
for rule violations.
In an interview wafter the
meeting, Stevens said while
he did not feel it was his place
to suggest changes to the elec-
tion code, changes must be
made.
"I just feel it's necessary - and
my duty - to express frustration
because we shouldn't be encoun-
tering a situation each year
where we have to rule on this,"
he said.
Law School student Zack
Stillings, a CSJ justice, said he
thought Osborn was the choice
of students even though he was
found guilty of influencing stu-
dents while voting.
"This man over here won by
500 votes," Stillings said, point-
ingto Osborn.
Stillings added that it's imper-
ative that students are not incen-
tivized to file complaints for
competitive reasons.
LSA junior Lukas Garske, the
CSG student general counsel,
defended the UEC.
"You have to make a decision
you don't want to make some-
times," he said. "That's what it
boils down (to)."
In response to Stevens's claim
that the assembly needs to enact
preventative legislation, Garske
said, there's "an ambiguity that a
party can find and exploit."
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Students set fire to branches and pieces of furniture on White Street in reaction to
Fires lit in A streets
At least seven fires
reported, two on
'U' property
By TAYLOR WIZNER
Daily NewsEditor
In tune with Saturday's post-
game activities, Ann Arbor fire-
fighters responded to several
fires after Michigan's loss to
Louisville Monday night.
There were at least seven
fires, according to Daily and
law enforcement reports. Two
of the fires occurred at Univer-
sity parking lots. Six of the fires
involved objects burning, and
five involved couches, while one
involved a mattress.
According to reports, there
were two fires located on White
Street, as well as one on Church
Street, one near Michigan
Street and East University Ave-
nue, one on Greenwood Avenue
and two on University property
- one at a parking lot on Hoover
and Brown Streets and one at a
School of Nursing parking lot.
At the first White Street fire,
off McKinley Street, a couch
was engulfed in flames as more
than twenty students looked on.
One person repeatedly tried to
throw a large trash can in the
fire, but it was removed twice by
onlookers. Police arrived first
on scene to manage the crowd.
Shortly after, two fire trucks
arrived at the scene and quickly
put out the fire. One student was
taken away from the scene in
handcuffs.
Later on in the evening, there
was a mattress fire at White
Street at a location near the
previous fire. Police officers on
scene said both fires happened
in front of the same house.
Michigan's loss Monday.
after loss
Police investigated the house
nearest the burning mattress
and found what they described
as a Molotov Cocktail - a beer
bottle filled with a liquid and
cloth, according to an officer on
scene. Firefighters and police
officers entered the house and
an inebriated man was taken
away by an ambulance. It is
unclear if the man was arrested.
UMPD spokesperson Diane
Brown said the small fire at the
School of Nursing parking lot
did not burn for long and was,
quickly extinguished by fire-
fighters.
The last fire observed by the
Daily - in the University park-
ing lot on Hoover and Brown
Streets - was a couch fire. Offi-
cers on scene could not confirm
when or how it started.
AAPD Lt. Renee Bush could
not be reached for sufficient
comment on any fires.
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