2 - Friday, September 20, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: This Week in History Professor Profiles In Other Ivory Towers Alumni Profiles Photos of the W k LEFT Business sophomore Jess Vander blows bubbles during MHealthy Play Day on Ingalls Mall Tuesday. The4 event was run in partnership with MHealthy, Rec Sports, UHS and U-Move in order to promote healthy and wellness on campus. RIGHT Dopesiples, a campus break dancing group, perform on the Diag to raise money for Syrian refugees on Thursday. 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The subject left the area. Necklace, necklost WHERE: Stockwell Residence Hall WHEN: Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday WHAT: University Police report that an unattended necklace was taken from a second-floor restroom between 9:30 and 10 a.m. WHERE: Simpson St. WHEN: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday WHAT: Two automobiles collided, University Police reported. There were no injuries and the damage is unknown. Smokin' and rollin' WHERE: Thayer Carport WHEN: Around 5 p.m. Wednesday WHAT: Several subjects were skateboarding, University Police reported. The officer suspected marijuana use, but no evidence was found. eXhibit WHAT: To celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement, colleges on North Campus will launch a year of events. The first will be a ribbon- cutting for the "Imaging the Dream" Exhibit. WHO: University Library WHEN: Noon WHERE: Duderstadt Center Free food for freshmen WHAT: The Career Center hopes to meet new fresh- men at a meet-and-greet with staff and guests. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Building celebrated WHAT: The Bentley His- torical Library will focus on the life of former Michigan football star Tom Harmon with a new exhibit. WHO: Bentley Library WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Bentley Historical Library HEALTH conference WHAT: A day of panels and events on a variety of aspects of health and wellness. WHO: Taubman College WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: UMMA CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. T H REE T HINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY 1Pope Francis made waves by calling for less focus on gay marraige, abortion, and contraception in an extended series of inter- views that were released by 16 Jesuit journals worldwide, the New York Times report- ed Thursday. 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One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall termstarting in september,viau.S. mailare $110. Winterterm (January through Apriis $115 yeanlony ISepembethroghApril) The 1s$195.OUiveresit yheailiates are sebectosga redusse subscriptisn rse. O-capssubscriptions for fall terer are $351.eubscriptiossmust be prepaid. TheMichigantDailysis amemberof Te ssoiaed PesandheAesoiae Colleiae Prss. A Eight highlights from the Regents meeting Union Director 'hopeful' Starbucks will open Nov. - - Tn - -- 'n-!-- - By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Staff Reporter 1. University President Mary Sue Coleman opened the Sep- tember Board of Regents meet- ing by praising the generosity of Steven Ross' $200 million gift and highlighting the world record crowd at the University of Notre Dame game, as well as the first-ever quintuplets born at the University Hospital. "We've had a September unlike anythingI believe we've ever expe- rienced," Coleman said. 2. James Holloway, Univer- sity vice provost for global and engaged education, provided regents with recent high- lights of the University's study abroad programs, as well as data on the University's inter- national student population. "We need students to be saying to themselves not 'I wonder if I should go abroad.' We needour stu- dents to be saying'I wonder when I will study abroad,'"Holloway said. 3. Construction planning will begin for a renovation of the School of Education, which was built in 1923. Tim Slottow, the University's executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer, said the project is set for completion in fall of 2015. "This is long overdue," Slottow said. 4. Effective Oct. 1, the Divi- sion of Student Affairs will be renamed the Division of Student Life to better convey the office's core mission when communicating with organiza- tions outside the University, E. Royster Harper, Vice President of Student Affairs, said. "We think it will remain with us in ourfuture efforts in respect to the capital campaign,"Harper said. 5. The regents also approved the sale of 51 acres of property to NSF Interna- tional, a non-profit organiza- tion that verifies health and safety standards, for $3.52 million. 6. Jerry May, the Universi- ty's vice president of develop- ment, provided an update to the regents just two months before the next capital cam- paign is set to launch. May said in the fiscal year preced- ing the official launch, the University received gifts from 129,000 donors - a University record. A record number of those gifts came in amounts less than $25,000. Al op co B Whi munit' renova ground celebra floor r Michig and un The u ionF ain to occupied by Amer's and The University Club, are soon to en early 2014, open with Starbucks and Au o to Bon Pain as the new tenants. nstrTuction Susan Pile, director of the Michigan Union, said she's hopeful Starbucks will open in November and Au Bon Pain in y K.C. WASSMAN January. Daily News Editor Both spaces are undergo- ing renovations before the new le the University com- tenants open their doors to the y embraced the newly public, and Pile cited the size ted Michigan Under- and number of renovation of d food court during a the respective spaces as the ation Thursday, the first reason the restaurants won't estaurant spaces of the open at the same time. gan Union remain vacant The new tenants are in the finished. approval phase with the Uni- two spaces, formerly versity's architecture and con- struction office, but should start construction soon. According to documents acquired by The Michigan Daily via the Freedom of Infor- mation Act, both tenants' leases expire April 30, 2023. Au Bon Pain will pay $225,000 per year for their use of the space until April 30, 2018, when their lease price increas- es to $275,000 per year. Starbucks will pay $34,000 per year for their use of the space next to the Union court- yard to be paid in monthly installments of $2,872.58. Both vendors will also pay the University a percentage of sales. Al-Qaida militants seize town in northern Syria near Turkey "I want to emphasize how impor- tantitis toget thesmallgiftsand this was the best year ever,"May said 7. The Board of Regents 4 approved an $11.4-million renovation of the Ford Nucle- ar Reactor Building on North 6 $ 2Campus. Decommissioned in 2004, the project will repur- pose the former nuclear site into classrooms and laborato- ries for the Nuclear Engineer- ing and Radiological Sciences Department. S8. After asking the regents to consider the concerns of his constituents regarding the new Munger Residence Hall, CSG President Michael Proppe discussed the new 8 7student committee formed to advise the Presidential Search Committee. 1 2"The student body is taking the r search very seriously. I urge you to take our input just as serious- ly,"Proppe said. Militants expell after the Obama administration shelved those plans in favor of a Western-backed diplomatic solution. ibli opMany rebels blame jihadis in their ranks for the West's reluc- tance to intervene militarily in BEIRUT (AP) - Al-Qaida Syria or give them the advanced militants seized a town near the weapons they need. There is Turkish border Thursday after also growing concern that the expelling Western-backed reb- dominant role the extremists are els from the area, demonstrating playing is discrediting the rebel- the growing power of jihadis as lion. they seek to expand their influ- Yet the jihadis, including ence across opposition-held Syr- members of the Islamic State of ian territory. Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qai- The infighting - now engulf- da offshoot, have been some of ingmany parts of northern Syria the most effective forces on the - threatened to further split battlefield, fighting alongside opposition forces outgunned by the Western-backed Free Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops Army to capture military facili- and strengthen his hand as he ties, strategic installations and engages with world powers key neighborhoods in cities such on relinquishing his chemical as Aleppo and Homs. weapons. But the two sides have turned Opposition forces who had their guns on each other. Turf been hoping that U.S.-led mili- wars and retaliatory killings tary strikes would help tip the have evolved into ferocious balance in the civil war are battles in what has effectively growing increasingly desperate become a war within a war in northern and eastern Syria, leav- ing hundreds dead on both sides. "The moderates realized that they're losing a lot of territory to the Islamists and jihadi fighters, and so they're more desperate," said Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The battles for control of Azaz, a town only few kilometers from the Turkish border, repre- sents some of the worst infight- ing in recent months. Members of ISIL overran the town Wednesday evening, kill- ing several fighters from the Free Syrian Army rebel umbrel- la group, before forcing them to pull out. Amateur video showed doz- ens of gunmen with heavy machine guns on pickup trucks gathering at the border with Turkey with reinforcements. The Associated Press was able to verify the footage based on interviews and other reporting on the events depicted. 1 4 #