2 - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 2 - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom * .w MONDAY: This Week in History WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Alumni Profiles FRIDAY: Photos of the Week 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 wwwmichigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chiefy m siness Manager 734-41a-415eat. 1282 734-418-4118 eat. 1241 anweiner@michigandailycom rmgrein@michigandaily.com 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 INSTALLG RAM Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Spots Section sports@mihigandaily.com Display Sales dailydisplay@gmail.com Online Sales dailydisplay@gmai.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales dailydisplay@gmail.com NATASHA JANARDAN/Daily 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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Get moreonline at michigandaily.com/blogs/CrimeNotes CSJ calls for electoral reform in student government campaigns 4 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." 4 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. Brought to you by The Ultimate New Mobile Gaming Tournament where you compete against your rivals. Download the FREE PlayVs. Game Apps-e on your iOS mobile device and start competing. 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