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Joseph Trumpey is an associ- high school; I was a really avid
ate professor in theSchoolofArtr£t Boy Scout and eventually Eagle
Design and in the School of Natu- Scout. I went to a small, liberal
ral Resources and Environment. arts college and through close
He has undergraduate degrees mentorship they encouraged
from Wabash College in art and me to keep my options open and
biology and received his M.F.A in pursue a dual degree.
medical and biological illustration
from the University in 1992. What led you to start
Michigan Science Art and the
What led you to study both EcoExplorers programs?
art and biology at Wabash?
Michigan Science Art is a
As an undergrad, I was a group of science illustrators. I
pre-veterinary student plan- was originally hired by the Uni-
ning on going to vet school, but versity to start an undergradu-
I had always enjoyed art and ate concentration in science
drawing. My connections to the illustration so students could
environment were really strong combine their art and biology
through middle school and interests. We've done numer-
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ous projects, from book publi-
cation to exhibition design for
the Smithsonian National Zoo
and the Toledo Zoo.
I live in a straw bale house
that's off the grid on a farm,
which I designed and built
myself. I teach sustainable food
design, and we visit everything
from factory farms to family
farms to slaughterhouses, and
with the student farm here on
campus, students can think
about food systems and envi-
ronmental sustainability and
how they can use creativity and
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MPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Feud-and-run
WHERE: C.S. Mott
Children's Hospital
WHEN: Saturday at
about 8:15 p.m.
WHAT: A subject and his
acquaintance had an argu-
ment, but the acquaintance
had left the building. An
officer determined that no
assault occured, University
Police reported.
Down with the
blue lights
WHERE: 1300 Block
Catherine Street
WHEN: Monday at
5:15 a.m. .
WHAT: An emergency
blue-light phone in front
of Med Science Bldg. lhad
been knocked over, presum-
ably by a grounds vehicle.
Taking a stand
WHERE: 420 Maynard
WHEN: Saturday at
about 1:05 p.m.
WHAT: The glass in a
newspaper stand was found
broken, University Police
reported. The incident is
said to have occured some
time between 12:30 p.m. on
Friday and 12:45 p.m. on
Saturday. No suspects.
Sketchy
Used book sale Orchestra
WHAT: Daphne Koller,
co-founder and co-CEO of
Coursera, presents "The
Online Revolution: Learn-
ing without Limits" as part
of the James R. Mellor Lec-
ture Series.
WHO: Campus
Information Centers
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Arthur Miller
Theater
pertormance
WHAT: Prof. Donald Sin-
ta's students will perform
their recitals.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Moore Building
circumstances
circmstaces The PSU case: Latin'jazz
WHERE: Michigan Union T
WHEN: Saturday at about An analysis performance
6:55 p.m. I
On Saturday, an article
on CBS Denver discussed
a memo that was released
to all sworn members of the
Denver Police Department
the previous Thursday. The
memo states that wfficers
are prohibited from working
anywhere marijuana is sold.
On Tuesday, an eviction
notice was e-mailed to
students, simulating
the relocation of Palestin-
ians. The Students Allied for
Freedom and Equality asks
students to take a stand.
>> FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4
A sign outside a Sonic
restaurant in Kansas
City encouraged the
Kansas City Chiefs to "scalp
the Redskins" and send them
"2 the reservation," Fox
News reported on Monday.
Sonic has since apologized
for the message.
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WHAT: University
Police reported that staff
found graffiti in a men's
bathroom,. A possible
person of interest fled the
buildingbefore officers
made contact
WHAT: A lecture centering
around understanding the
mistreatment of minors who
are involved in activites
with college and University
personnel.
WHO: School of Social
Work, Office ofAlumni
WHEN: Today at 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building, Room 1804
WHAT: Incredible
musicians will perform the
original music of Latin jazz
composer Alberto Nacif.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8p.m.
WHERE: The Ark, 316 S.
Main St.
Florida congressman loses Filner, ex-mayor of San
in large investment scheme Diego, given sentence
Rep. Alan Grayson
lost $18 million to
Virginia-based
fake investor
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - U.S. Rep.
Alan Grayson of Florida lost $18
million in a scheme that cheated
him and about 120 other inves-
tors out of more than $35 million,
accordingto court papers.
The Virginia man who ran the
scheme, William Dean Chapman,
was sentenced Friday in federal
court to 12 years in prison. Pros-
ecutors say Chapman used the
money to fund a lavish lifestyle
including a Lamborghini, a Fer-
rari and a $3 million home.
In most of the court papers,
Grayson's identity is protected
- prosecutors say only that an
elected official with the initials
A.G. was the primary victim -
but documents twice mention
Grayson by name. The Demo-
cratic congressman on Monday
confirmed he is the A.G. men-
tioned in the documents.
Nothing in the court papers
suggests Grayson was anything
but a victim of the scheme. Gray-
son, a former trial attorney, said
he has had a long record for
picking winning stocks, which
formed the basis for his personal
fortune.
The scheme worked like this:
clients would turn over their
stocks to Chapman as collateral
for a loan, and Chapman would
let customers borrow about 90
percent of the stocks' value.
If the stocks did badly, bor-
rowers could walk away and keep
the money they were loaned. But
if the borrowers' stocks did well,
they would repay the loan with
interest, and Chapman was sup-
posed to return the stocks to the
investor at their increased value.
But, according to court papers,
Chapman sold the stocks and had
-an,,
no way to fulfill his obligations if
a client's stock portfolio did well.
"That's why (Chapman) is
going to prison for a long, long
time," Grayson said. "At least in
the end, some kind of justice was
served."
In Grayson's case, his stocks
performed astronomically well
while they were entrusted to
Chapman and his company,
Alexander Capital Markets.
Lawyers for Chapman said it
was the strength of Grayson's
stocks that caused Chapman's
scheme to crumble. Chapman
and Grayson negotiated a pay-
ment plan, according to court
records, but it was not enough to
keep Chapman's positions from
collapsing.
"Because the return on A.G.'s
commodities investments were
so astronomical, ACM could not
meet its obligations under the
loan agreements," defense law-
yer Whitney Minter wrote.
In 2007, Grayson had $9.35
million in a stock portfolio that
Chapman was supposed to be
holding as collateral. In that
year alone, the portfolio's value
increased by 147 percent, to $23
million, according to a ch:' -in
thl court documents.
Chapman's lawyer did not
immediately return a call. Chap-
man, of Sterling, Va., pleaded
guilty in May buttried at Friday's
sentencing hearing to withdraw
the plea, saying he felt pressured
to plead and that he never intend-
ed to defraud.
It is not the first time
Grayson, who represents parts
of the Orlando area, has lost tens
of millions of dollars in a fraud
scheme. In 2009, he won a $34
million judgment after filing
a lawsuit in South Carolina
under federal racketeering
laws against a company called
Derivium Capital. Derivium's
business plan for hedging an
investor's stock profile was
nearly identical to the plan
outline by Chapman.
Grayson said he first entered
into deals with Chapman in
2003, well before the deal with
Disgraced official
bound to home for
probationary period
SAN DIEGO (AP) - When
he was mayor of San Diego, Bob
Filner waited to be alone with
women to kiss, grope and man-
handle them without any wit-
nesses, accordingto a probation
officer's report released after
he was sentenced Monday to
home confinement.
Filner, 71, apologized and told
the judge he would try to earn
the trust of those he betrayed
and recover his integrity - a
sharp contrast to his defiant
resignation speech nearly four
months ago in which he said he
was the victim of "a lynch mob."
His attorney Jerry Coughlan
said Filner dropped mood-alter-
ing medications when he became
mayor. That, combined with the
stress of leading the nation's
eighth-largest city, substantially
contributed to Filner's behavior,
Coughlan wrote to the judge.
Superior Court Judge Rob-
ert Trentacosta sentenced Fil-
ner to three months of home
confinement and three years of
probation - the same punish-
ment that prosecutors had rec-
ommended in a plea agreement
reached in October.
"I want to apologize to my
family, who have stood by me
through this ordeal, to my loyal
staff and supporters, the citizens
of San Diego and most sincerely
to the women I have hurt and
offended," Filner told the judge
in a brief statement. "Certainly
the behaviors before this court
today will never be repeated."
Filner had faced a maximum
possible penalty of three years in
prison for a felony count of false
imprisonment and one year in
jail for each of two misdemeanor
counts of battery.
The former 10-term con-
gressman cannot seek or hold
elected office while on proba-
tion and will be monitored by
GPS during home confinement,
which begins Jan. 1.
The three victims in the com-
plaint, who were not named,
declined to attend the sentenc-
ing and didn't seek restitu-
tion, according to the probation
report. One said she wished Fil-
ner would be sentenced to three
months in jail and would leave
San Diego, while the others had
no opinion on an appropriate
punishment.
Nearly 20 women have public-
ly identified themselves as targets
of Filner's unwanted advances,
including kissing, groping and
requests for dates. His accus-
ers include a retired Navy rear
admiral, a San Diego State Uni-
versity dean and a great-grand-
mother who volunteers her time
to answer the questions of senior
citizens at City Hall.
Filner, who is twice divorced,
pleaded guilty to the - felony
for what the probation report
described as putting a woman in
a headlock after a dinner party
on March 6 and attempting to
kiss her on the lips. The woman,
identified as a longtime Filner
acquaintance, told authorities
that he kissed her eye and she
elbowed him to get free.
He pleaded guilty to a mis-
demeanor for kissing a woman
on the lips without permission
at a "Meet the Mayor" event on
April 6, according to the proba-
tion report. The woman, who
came to report alleged financial
improprieties, told authorities
the mayor had asked an aide to
leave the curtain-shielded cubi-
cle where they met.
The other misdemeanor
involved grabbing another wom-
an's buttocks at a May 25 rally to
clean up Fiesta Island in Mission
Bay. The probation report says
the woman was posing with the
mayor for a photograph taken by
her mother.
"Clearly, the defendant's
efforts to avoid detection by wit-
nesses suggest he was aware his
behaviors and intended actions
were wrong and most certainly
inappropriate," Charles Ledbet-
ter, a San Diego County senior
probation officer, wrote in his
report.
Filner disappeared from pub-
lic view after leaving office Aug.
30, less than nine months into a
four-year term. His attorney said
Filner has been jogging daily,
attending two counseling ses-
sions a week and relying on fam-
ily for moral support. He said
Filner hoped to write about his
experiences as a 1960s civil rights
activistand member of Congress.
Filner was undergoing psy-
chiatric counseling and tak-
ing medications prescribed by
congressional doctors "to help
stabilize his mood and safe-
guard his mental health," but
he dropped medications after
becoming mayor, Coughlan
wrote to the judge. The attor-
ney didn't elaborate on Filner's
mental health issues in his
memo and didn't immediately
respond to a phone message
seeking further comment.
The charges do not involve
Filner's former communications
director, Irene McCormack Jack-
son, who expedited the mayor's
downfall by becomingth..irstto
go public with sexual harassneit
allegations in July. She sued Fil-
ner and the city, claiming her boss
asked her to work without pant-
ies, demanded kisses and dragged
herin aheadlock.
Gloria Allred, McCormack
Jackson's attorney, told reporters
that Filner was "one lucky man"
for being spared jail time. She
and McCormack Jackson sat in
the front row during sentencing.
Filner was elected San Diego's
first Democratic mayor in 20
years, vowing to put neglect-
ed neighborhoods ahead of
entrenched downtown business
interests. Two city councilmen
seeking to replace him in a spe-
cial election runoff - Republican
Kevin Faulconer and Democrat
David Alvarez - have embraced
Filner's neighborhoods-first
mantra while scarcely mention-
ing the former mayor by name.
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