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RELAY
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especially for a cause so easy to
rally around.
"It's something where when
you're dealing with hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars
... you know the difference
that you're making," she said.
"Putting on a 24-hour event is
like nothing else, it's one-of-a-
kind."
In addition to Knysh, there
are about 70 other students on
the planning committee, includ-
ing 20 directors who have been
planning the event for more
than a year. Knysh said plans
for next year's event are already
under way.
MRelay partnered with
Kaplan Test Prep to fund the
event. Local businesses, includ-
ing Domino's, Pizza Hut and
Chipotle, also donated lunch to
the participants.
LSA sophomore Michael
Miller, Relay for Life chair
for the University's chapter
of the Sigma Chi Fraternity,
wrote in an e-mail that he
had never realized the impor-
tance of the cause before this
year, previously believing it
was only a way to raise money
and awareness about cancer.
He said his favorite part of
the event was the Luminaria
Ceremony.
"I literally was able to see the
community of the University
come together and remember
the reason we were all there,"
Miller said. "It was definitely
a moment I will remember for-
ever."
LSA sophomores Kristin
Soreide and Erin Farley, mem-
bers of University Students Act-
ing Against Cancer, said they far
exceeded their personal fun-
draising goal of $2,500 for the
event.
"My dad passed away when I
was in second grade ... so I like
to fight and be here for Relay
for Life to help other people
not lose their parents," Sore-
ide said. "It's a fun way to raise
money."
"Everybody in some way or
form is affected by cancer,"
Farley added. "It's a great
cause."
NAACP
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said the Image Awards provide
the opportunity to dress up and
celebrate other students as a cap-
stone to the academic year.
"This event is really impor-
tant because it celebrates our
achievements , through com-
munity service, academics and
involvement in the black com-
munity," Hemby said.
Nominated for the Ida B.
Wells sophomore award, Hemby
attended the event for the sec-
ond time Sunday. Like the other
nominated students, Hemby is
active in many organizations
including Kappa Omega Alpha
pre-law fraternity and the Big
Ten Network and serving as
secretary of the Black Student
Union.
"The other nominees are just
as involved as I am," Hemby
said. "Even if I don't win it, I'm
still proud of them."
Between award presentations
bearing the names of historic
figures such as civil rights lead-
ers Martin Luther King Jr. and
Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas, musical performances
punctuated the evening. The
Black National Anthem, "Lift
Every Voice and Sing," brought
the crowd to its feet.
Interpretive dancer Devon
Jones, paused between melo-
dies - including a song by pop
artist Bruno Mars - to offer
life lessons to the audience.
Reflecting on the award night,
Jones reminded nominees that
the plaques did not represent a
culmination, but rather a begin-
ning.
"Success is not a destination,"
Jones said.
The ceremony also included
a tribute to University political
science Prof. Walton Hanes, Jr.,
who passed away earlier this
year. Elizabeth James and Ron-
ald Woods, both Afroamerican
and African Studies professors,
lauded Hanes' work in advanc-
ing the study of Civil-Rights-era
politics.
James also noted that the
University produced more
black political scientists than
any other institution in the
nation due to Hanes' mentoring
efforts.
"He was authentic, as only a
superhero can be."
UNION
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Susan Pile, director of the
Michigan Union, said in a state-
ment that Ahmo's will bring
more variety and healthy options
to MUG.
"As we looked back on our
partnership with Ahmo's at
Pierpont Commons this past
year, we have been impressed
with their dedication to cus-
tomer service and healthy offer-
ings," Pile said. "We know this
long-standing Ann Arbor opera-
tor has been a popular destina-
tion and we're excited to bring
a new location to this part of
campus."
Wendy's and Subway are
returning after their leases end,
but with expanded options.
Subway will be adding a break-
fast menu, Freshens' smooth-
ies and a second line for more
THANKS
From Page 1A
Organizers of the event includ-
ed Parikh; LSA freshman Tanner
Waterstreet, the co-chair of the
CSG External Relations Commis-
sion; LSA junior Jill Clancy, the
CSG chief programming officer;
and LSA freshman Nick Swider, a
CSG intern.
Waterstreet said he would like
to see this event, as well as other
community service events, resur-
face in the future.
The future of community
service through CSG received
another boost as the incoming
CSG president and vice president,
Business junior Mike Proppe and
LSA sophomore Bobby Dishell
attended the event.
"I think service projects like
efficient service. Wendy's will
also update its food preparation
and add a Coca-Cola Freestyle
machine, a soda fountain that
allows customers to customize
their drink orders with more
than 100 soft drink flavor com-
binations.
Adam Kleven, chair of the
Michigan Union Board of rep-
resentatives, said in a statement
that Subway and Wendy's allow
students a variety of options
at reasonable prices. He added
that student feedback made it
clear that an American-style
restaurant needed to stay in the
Union.
In addition to the new res-
taurants, the release announced
renovations to MUG beginning
May 5. The renovations are
expected to update the operat-
ing spaces of the restaurants
and improve the seating area.
While the area is undergoing
renovations, guest operators
this are something that student
government should probably do a
little bit more of (and) hasn't done
a lot of in the past," Proppe said,
adding that he's already talked
with CSG's Peace and Justice
Commission about doing more
service projects.
Dishell said it's important to
be thankful for a city that does so
much for its student residents.
Parikh said several student
groups were partners in the
event, including the African Stu-
dents Association, Smile Bringer
Singers, Michigan Izzat, Michi-
gan Club Wrestling and buildOn.
All involved students were split
among the seven sites.
LSA sophomore Benjamin Far-
rell and LSA senior Chloe Prince
were two of the volunteers at Gal-
lup Park. Both said they heard of
the event through the campus-
will provide food service on the
first floor.
"I like Mediterranean food,
but it sucks that they're taking
out more than one restaurant,"
LSA freshman Saba Keramati
said.
"I like Mediterranean food,
but the pretzels are my favor-
ite," LSA freshman Ryan
McDonough said. "I'll be open
minded, but I'm not happy about
it."
LSA freshmen Nisha Gopal
has never been to Ahmo's, but
said she might try it since she
comes to the Union so often.
Gopal also said that she thinks
a lot of people would have been
upset if Panda Express was
replaced.
"I'll definitely miss Mrs.
Fields," Gopal said, "but thank
God they're keeping Subway."
-Daily Staff Reporter Ariana
Assaf contributed reporting.
wide e-mail that Parikh sent.
Prince said she likes to run
through Ann Arbor parks and
saw the opportunity as a way to
say thanks.
"For me, I'm a senior here. The
e-mail (invitation) was framed
as a way to give back to the Ann
Arbor I've enjoyed over the
last four years," Prime said. "I
thought the least I can do is help
clean up."
Farrell is an Ann Arbor native.
He used to come to Gallup Park
with his father while growing
up, but it had been years since
he'd been there last. He said he
was glad that student leaders
were supportive of keeping the
city clean.
"It's good to have people at the
school that are thinking about
things like this because someone
needs to."
BOSTON
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who ran in the April 15 Boston
Marathon. They logged a com-
bined 543 miles.
Schneidewind said the call for
the event was natural because
running has a feel of community
and camaraderie absent from
any other sport.
"When people run in races,
it's not a competition; typically,
you are trying to beat your own
time," Schneidewind said. "Run-
ners don't feel badly about helping
each other during a race or cheer-
ing for one another because they
just want to see everyone do well."
In Boston, runners were a part
of an inseparable community. The
community showed itself to be
tight-knit in Ann Arbor as well,
Schneidewind said.
"Part of the people that will
show up today will do so because
they saw runners in Boston going
through something difficult and
it resonated with them," he said.
"They wanted to stand up for
their running brethren."
Many University students par-
ticipated in-the run. LSA-fresh--
men Grace Carbeck - who has
family in Boston - and Mike
Lokey said they were running in
memory and support of everyone
in Boston who were victims or
witnesses of the violence.
Ann Arbor resident Lindy Alfa-
ro said as she ran, she was keep-
ing in mind friends who ran in
the Boston Marathon or lived on
the campus of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, which
was the location of a police offi-
cer's death Thursday night.
"After everything they've gone
through, we're showing that we
support them," Alfaro said with
tears in her eyes. "People who
run Boston usually work so hard
all year to train for it, and to
have such a tragic event happen
and- have people get hurt is just
unthinkable."
Schneidewind said Saturday's
event would show that, despite
the disaster in Boston, Americans
are resilient in face of terror.
"This is not going to be some-
thing that is divisive or makes
people turn on each other, but
it'll be something that brings us
together."
Presidential candidate Horacio Cartes greets supporters after election results were made official in Asuncion, Paraguay,
April 21. Cartes won a five-year term with 46 percent of the vote.
Tobacco tycoon elected as
president of Paraguay
Colorado Party
retakes power
executive office
ASUNCION, Paraguay
(AP) - Paraguayans elected a
tobacco magnate as their new
leader Sunday, returning the
conservative Colorado Party to
the presidency that it held for
61 years before former Roman
Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo
won the office in 2008.
Horacio Cartes won a five-
year term with 46 percent of
the vote over 37 percent for
Efrain Alegre of the Radical
Liberal party, the Electoral
Court announced after most
votes were counted. Five other
candidates trailed far behind.
"I'll need help from all the
Paraguayans to govern in the
next five years. Poverty, the
lack of jobs for young people
and international issues await
us," Cartes said Sunday night.
Poverty is widespread in
Paraguay, which is an agrarian
nation that is South America's
No. 3 producer of soy, corn and
sunflowers. About 1 percent
of the population controls 77
percent of the arable land. The
U.N. estimates more than half
of Paraguayans live in pover-
ty, while the country's census
bureau puts the number at 39
percent.
Alegre recognized his defeat
despite saying earlier that he
might challenge the outcome.
"The Paraguayan people have
spoken. There's nothing more
to say," he said in a brief conces-
sion speech.
Cartes, 58, is part of the tiny
elite that controls just about
everything in Paraguay. His
father represented the Cessna
airplane company in Paraguay,
which enabled Cartes to get
schooling in the U.S. state of
Oklahoma.
The president-elect owns
controlling shares in banks,
investment funds, agricultur-
al estates, a soda mtaker and
tobacco plantations. Most pre-
election polls predicted his vic-
tory, despite this being his first
run for public office. Cartes has
been well-known in Paraguay
as president of Libertad, the
club that won last year's nation-
al soccer championship.
Many Paraguayans hope
this election will encour-
age other countries to restore
full relations that were sus-
pended after last year's
impeachment of Lugo, which
neighboring nations saw as
a threat to democracy in the
region.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Oscar Arias led an observer
mission from the Organization
of American States, and said
Sunday that he had complete
confidence in the Electoral
Court because it had spent
months observing and support-
ing the process. There were 515
observers from the OAS, Euro-
pean Union, the Union of South
American Nations regional bloc
known as UNASUR and the
Union of Latin American Elec-
toral Organizations.
International election
observer Martin Sequeira
said voting proceeded calmly
with a high turnout. He said
there were some unconfirmed
reports of election fraud com-
plaining that some ballots had
been pre-marked.
But Arias said those were
only "some small incidents,
which you see even in the most
consolidated democracies."
The Colorados held the pres-
idency during and after Alfredo
Stroessner's 35-year-dictator-
ship, until Lugo, a leftist, san-
dal-wearing former bishop,
joined up with the Radical Lib-
erals and was swept into office
on promises of land reform. But
Lugo lacked even a handful of
supporters in congress, made
political missteps within his
own coalition and was stymied
at every turn.
The Radical Liberals finally
joined with the Colorados to
vote Lugo out of office for "poor
performance" last year. The
impeachment process is well
defined under the constitution,
but Paraguay's neighbors criti-
cized the ouster of a popularly
elected president as anti-demo-
cratic and suspended the coun-
try's membership in UNASUR,
the Mercosur trade bloc and
CELAC, which brings together
Caribbean, Latin American and
European Union countries.
Lugo's vice president, Fed-
erico Franco, a Radical Lib-
eral politician who took over
as caretaker president, said he
expects Paraguay's status to
be swiftly normalized after the
new head of state takes office
Aug.15.
Turnout was more than 68
percent among the estimated
3.5 million of Paraguay's 6.2
million citizens who are regis-
tered to vote. They elected 45
senators, 80 deputies, 17 gov-
ernors and 18 delegates to the
Mercosur parliament based in
Uruguay.
Millions more eligible voters
live outside Paraguay, but after
a poorly funded registration
process, fewer than 22,000
people were registered, most
in Argentina, Spain and the
United States.
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