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CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Purse pilfer
WHERE: Kellogg Eye
Center
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 4:20 p.m.
WHAT: A purse was
reported stolen sometime
between 1:30 and 1:45 p.m.,
University Police reported.
The purse was found in a
restroom and was missing
cash.
Laptop larceny
WHERE: Hatcher Gradu-
ate Library
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 1:30 p.m.
WHAT: A laptop was
reported stolen from
the fifth floor sometime
between 3:15 and 3:25 p.m.,
University Police reported.
There are currently no sus-
pects.
Term paper Childhood
workshop identity
WHAT: The Sweetland
Writing Center will be lead-
ing a workshop to help stu-
dents devise plans to tackle
their term papers.
WHO: Sweetland Writing
Center
WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: North Quad,
Room 2435
WHAT: Award-winning
author Andrew Solomon
will discuss complex rela-
tionships between parents
and their children. The cost
is $5 for students
WHO: Depression Center
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
League, Ballroom
That's my bike, Fender bender
man!
WHERE: Near Markley
Residence Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 10:40 a.m.
WHAT: A bike was report-
ed stolen from a rack some-
time Tuesday, University
Police reported. There are
currently no suspects in the
theft.
WHERE: Palmer Drive
parking structure
WHEN: Tuesday at about
6:50 p.m.
WHAT: A two-vehicle
accident occurred in the
carport, University Police
reported. The accident
resulted in damage to one
car's hood, but there were
no injuries reported.
Diabetes talk Baseball team
WHAT: C. Ronald Kahn, tailgate
M.D. from Harvard Medical
School will give the WHAT: The Michigan
annual lecture in diabetes, Baseball team will appear
focusing on his research at a tailgate honoring them
on the disease. A reception before their game against
will follow the lecture. Penn State later today. The
WHO: University Compre- event will have free food
hensive Diabetes Center and is open to all.
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m. WHO: Center for Campus
WHERE: Kellogg Eye Involvement
Center, Oliphant-Marshall WHEN: Today at 12 p.m.
Auditorium WHERE: Michigan Union
Police in Dubai added
a $550,000 Lambo-
rghini to their arsenal
Thursday, MyFox New York
reported. Khamis Matter al-
Muzaina, the deputy police
director, said it will show
tourists "how classy Dubai
is" as a city.
Sick of political pun-
dits postulating about
an election that's years
away? So is Paul Sherman,
but he believes that some
early polling is not entirely
pointless.
>o FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4
The historic Mas-
ters golf tournament
started today with
a surprising contstant.
14-year-old Guan Tianlang
teed off at Augusta National
Golf Club as the tourna-
ments youngest-ever contes-
tant CBS reported.
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Syrian gov. counterattack kills
45 in response to rebel forces
Women, children
among those killed
by regime
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian gov-
ernment forces launched a
counteroffensive in the south,
capturing a town and killing at
least 45 people including women
and children, opposition activ-
ists said Thursday.
The attack onthe town of Sana-
mein followed a rebel advance in
the area in recent weeks. They
opposition fighters captured
army bases and a major town in
the strategic province of Daraa
along the border with Jordan.
"They slaughtered any person
they found," an activist in the
nearby town of Busra al-Harir
who goes by the fake name of
Hamza al-Hariri told The Asso-
ciated Press via Skype. He would
not give his real name for fear of
government reprisals.
"This is the ugliest massa-
cre since the one in Houla," he
added,referringto aregionin the
central province of Homs where
more than 100 civilians were
killed by government forces in
Maylast year.
Rebels advancing in the south
in recent weeks have been aiming
to secure a corridor from the Jor-
danian border to Damascus about
60 miles away in preparation for
an eventual assault on the capital.
Regional officials and military
experts note a sharp increase in
weapons shipments to opposition
fighters by Arab governments,
in coordination with the U.S., in
the hopes of readying a push into
Damascus - the ultimate prize in
the civil war that has killed more
than 70,000 in two years.
Rebels already control vast
portions of northern Syria bor-
dering Turkey.
State-run Syrian TV said the
armed forces "wiped out terror-
ist groups" in Sanamein and the
.5.-,l
nearby town of Ghabagheb. It
added that troops were target-
ing rebel hideouts in different
parts of Daraa. They included
the villages and towns of Tafas,
Jasssim, Dael and Tseel and the
report said they had inflicted
casualties in those areas.
The city of Daraa, the provin-
cial capital, was the birthplace
of the uprising against President
Bashar Assad in March 2011
The Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights
activist group reported clashes
on Thursday in the city of Daraa
and said there were casualties
among regime troops.
State-run Syrian TV said
government forces killed or
wounded dozens of gunmen in
the city of Daraa, including for-
eign fighters.
The Observatory said at least
45 people, including five chil-
dren and seven women, were
killed in the attack on Sana-
mein. It said they were killed
by "shooting, shelling and field
execution," a reference to peo-
ple reported to have been shot
at close range.
The Syrian National Coali-
tion, the main opposition group,
said more than 60 people were
"brutally" killed in the town.
After troops stormed Sanamein,
the group said they used some
civilians as human shields and
took others as hostages before
looting some homes.
The differing death tolls
could not be reconciled.
The SNC said the regime car-
ried out the attack in Sanamein
after it failed "to stop the opera-
tion to liberate the province of
Daraa, the southern entrance to
Damascus."
In addition to the stronghold
in the north, rebels have also
captured parts of the east along
the border with Iraq recent-
ly. But the strategic region
between the southern outskirts
of Damascus and Jordan -
known as the Houran plains -
is seen as a crucial gateway to
the capital.
Dozens of rebel units have
PATRICK BARRON/Daily
Craig Calhoun, director of the London School of Economics, spoke at the Tanner Lecture on Human Values symposium in
Rackham Thursday.
Director of London School
talks publicinstitutions
Calhoun believes
"public" orgs are
excluding majority
of public
By KAITLIN ZURDOSKY
Daily StaffReporter
Public is usually defined as
"open to all," but Craig Calhoun,
director of the London School
of Economics and Political Sci-
ence, believes that many "pub-
lic" organizations are becoming
more and more exclusive.
Calhoun discussed this shift
in his speech "Publicness (and
its problems)," which he deliv-
ered to an audience of about 100
people at Rackham Auditorium
on Thursday. He focused on the
notion of "public" in relation
to the rise of society and sys-
tem integration. Calhoun said
that, over time, the demarcation
between what is public and what
is private is becoming more com-
plicated.
Calhoun discussed how sev-
eral public institutions have
been reorganized, adjusting
what public really means within
such organizations. He suggest-
ed that some firms are retain-
ing the term "public" but have
become exclusive by selectively
allowing only certain members
of the public in, such as univer-
sities.
Calhoun cited the expansion
of the public sphere as the reason
behind its growing exclusivity
and suggested that communica-
tion will help solve this problem.
He added that improved debates
and discussions would shape the
future of the public.
"Large-scale socialization
and mediated communication is
either the devil or the angel that
we want on our side," he said.
Calhoun said movements,
cultural change and connec-
tions are also critical in solving
the issues of the public sphere.
These will depend on the consti-
tution of an inclusive, intercon-
nected field of public action with
multiple, but overlapping and
interactivepublics, he said.
While Calhoun said the evo-
lution of society threatens both
the public and private, public-
ness has the capacity for great
action. Calhoun argued that the
expansion of economy, statistics
and administration affects the
"partial publieness" of ordinary
life.
Calhoun said real privacy has
been "squeezed," eliminating
people's solitude, while public-
ness has also been pushed aside,
since people are unable to fully
discuss and take action on their
ideas within the society.
Thursday's lecture was the
opening event for the Tanner
Lecture on Human Values.
The two-day symposium con-
tinues Friday at the Rackham
Amphitheater from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. featuring Prof. Geoff Eley,
chair of the history depart-
ment, and Sociology and Ger-
manic Languages Prof. George
Steinmetz.
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