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ACADEMICS
New theme
semester to
study India's
global impact
FILE PHOTO/Daily
Former offensive coordinator Al Borges was let go on Wednesday after spending three seasons as Michigan football's play caller.
AD set to name new
offensive coordinator
After Coleman's trip to
the country, classes and
events aim to change
popular perceptions
By AMIA DAVIS
Daily StaffReporter
University President Mary Sue Cole-
man brought students back a souvenir
from her recent trip to India: a new
theme semester.
Mirroring the University's involve-
ment in the subcontinent, the LSA
Winter 2014 Theme Semester explores
India's changing role in the world
through courses, lectures, museum
exhibits and other opportunities.
Students from India make up the
fourth largest group of international
students at the University. Additionally,
the University of Michigan India Alum-
ni Association has over 1400 members,
according to the organization's Face-
book page.
Called "India in the World," the
theme semester will focus on changes
in the world's second-most-populous
country. Associate Prof. Farina Mir,
director of South Asian Studies and the
Winter 2014 Theme Semester, said the
theme aims to change some popular
perceptions of India.
"Conceptions of India have been
changing from this sort of limited spec-
trum that focuses on mysticism and
poverty to this sort of complex under-
standing of this dynamic society and
impact on the world," Mir said.
She added that - despite the fact
India is the world's largest democracy
and has the largestmiddle class - many
reduce it to a backward, poverty-strick-
en nation.
LSA has offered theme semesters
since 1980, according to its website. The
college fuses the University's classroom
and research opportunities to provide a
comprehensive discussion of a particu-
lar topic.
See INDIA, Page SA
Alabama offensive
coordinator to replace
Borges, reports say
By ZACH HELFAND
and LIZ VUKELICH
Daily Sports Writers
The Michigan football team has
hired Alabama offensive coordinator
DougNussmeier, accordingto multiple
reports, to replace former offensive
coordinator Al Borges after the Michi-
gan Athletic Department announced
Wednesday afternoon that he would
not be returning for the 2014 season.
The news, which appears to have
been broken by Football Scoop, came
just five hours after the Wolverines
announced that Borges had been fired.
ESPN's Joe Schad also tweeted confir-
mation.
CBS Sports's Bruce Feldman report-
ed that Nussmeier, 43, will become
one of the top-five paid coordinators
in college football. That would put his
salary at no less than $850,000. Nuss-
meier made about $680,000 at Ala-
bama. Michigan defensive coordinator
Greg Mattison is the fourth-highest
paid assistant in the nation, earning
more than $851,000, while Borges was
No. 9, at about $709,000.
The Nussmeier hiring likely signals
a continuation of the offensive phi-
losophy favored under Michigan coach
See OFFENSIVE, Page 5A
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protect against with public Ann Arbor buildings
and First Presbyterian Church
the elements are some of the other locations
where people were able to find
By EMMA KERR temporary shelter.
Daily Staff Reporter Many shelters generally do not
provide housing for temporary
e past few days have marked circumstances, but took special
of the lowest temperatures measures because of the danger-
niversity and surrounding ous conditions. Housing Access
Arbor area have ever expe- for Washtenaw County connects
d. While many students homeless people to resources
to stay home, many of depending on their needs.
Arbor's homeless individu- While rotating shelters exist
ere forced to find refuge in to provide a warm place for the
ency housing. homeless to sleep during the
ry Jo Callan, director of winter months, the First Presby-
'ashtenaw County Office of terian Church provided addition-
uunity & Economic Devel- al warming shelters during the
nt, said on Jan. 6 - the day worst days of the storm, which
Arbor experienced its low- were open to anyone.
mperatures this week - "People came to our build-
.00 calls were placed to its ing, had coffee, snacks and
;ency housing line by those lunch," Reverend Rende Roede-
ag shelter. rer, director of campus ministry
this point, the Delonis at First Presbyterian Church,
r has not turned anyone out said. "Church members have the
he weather," Callan said. opportunity to volunteer and
rtunately, I don't know stay the night as well. It's a great
they did at night. It's terri- opportunity to meet these men,
hen our community is con- show hospitality and learn from
d with these situations." them."
Huron High School students Molly Shapiro and Naomi Cutler take advantage of the weather to go skiing in Nichols
Arboretum on Wednesday.
PHILANTHROPY
Grant estab e
study abroad trips to E.U.
GREEK LIFE
University
will add new
sorority in
fall 2014
Gamma Phi Beta
the first of three
new chapters to
be introduced
By AMIA DAVIS
Daily Staff Reporter
Gamma Phi Beta sorority will
be reestablishing a chapter on
campus in the fall after receiving
approval from the University's
Office of Greek Life.
Mary Beth Seiler, director of
Greek Life, wrote in an e-mail
that on-campus sororities are
becoming too large. Seiler said
adding more chapters rather
than turning pledges away is the
best way to accommodate inter-
est.
To ensure students are not
turned away by the increasingly
crowded sororities, Seiler wrote
that the Panhellenic Association
voted to install two more chap-
ters on campus, as long as the
community is strong enough to
support both old and new chap-
ters at the University. The Pan-
hellenic Association plans to add
Alpha Omicron Pi in Fall 2016
and Kappa Delta in Fall 2018 as
See SORORITY, Page SA
New program will
focus on Eastern
European nations
By SHOHAM GEVA
Daily StaffReporter
Students looking to study
abroad in Europe will now
have more options, as a new
program on campus will
provide funding for classes,
research and internships in
several countries admitted to
the European Union in the past
decade.
ThenewlycreatedKabcenell
New Europe Initiative Fund,
established in late December
through a gift from University
alum Nicholas Kabcenell, will
fund summer experiences in
what the fund is labeling as
'New Europe:' Bulgaria, Croa-
tia, Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia and
other countries that were for-
merly part of Yugoslavia.
Any full-time University
undergraduate not graduating
in the winter term can apply
for funds. The grant amounts
will range from $1,000 to
$5,000.
New Europe primarily
See GRANTS. Page SA
e Delonis Center can accom-
See HOMELESS, Page SA
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