2A - Monday, September 8, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, September 8, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom S 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN DOUGLAS SOLOMON Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com dougsolo@michigandaily.com 'U'considers woman's advocate Forty years ago this week Twenty yearsago this week Fourteen years ago this week (September 11, 1974) (September 8,1994) (September 12,2000) The University re-opened the post of woman's advocate, a post previously closed because the last advocate left the position for "personal reasons." The re-opening followed much debate over whether the Univer- sity still needed an advocate for women, leading to a lengthy re- evaluation of the position. The Office of Special Ser- vices and Programs launched an 11-member search commit- tee appointed by OSSP director Libby Davenport. At the date of the article, the team was already sifting through more than 50 applications. Following an alleged sexual assault inside of the Michi- gan Union, building officials announced their plan to re-evalu- ate the entrance policy and over- all safety. Many students expressed fear over the standing policy, specifical- ly whenallowingnon-studentsinto the building, as both the survivor and alleged perpetrator were not affiliated with the University. In response, the University implemented more I.D. checks at night and checks on "people that look like they don't belong," James Smiley, Department of Public Safety captain, said. Howard King, a prominent attorney for many music icons, including Dr. Dre and Metallica, asked the University to restrict access to the notorious file-shar- ing site, napster.com. King also asked 10 other uni- versities to also restrict access to students to avoid potential copy- right law infringement. 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The $13.5 million facility gave the team aneededboostintheirmatch against William and Mary. The Wolverines scored the first two goals on the new turfontheirwaytoa2-Owin. GOL Taking the title BY DANNY VARGOVICK Kyle Mueller and the men's golf team captured both the individual and team titles, respectively, at the Wolverine Invitational, which finished play on Sun- day. Both Mueller individu- ally and the team collectively finished the event at seven under par. Out of luck BY NATHANIEL CLARK The Michigan men's soc- cer team struggled early against Columbia, falling two goals behind within the first 20 minutes of play. Despite a late surge in the last 30 minutes, during which the Wolverines out- shot the Lions 5-4, Michigan recorded a3-0 loss. pi Int'l relations BY GILLIAN JAKAB j As international diplo- macy becomes increas- ingly contentious, art and culture stands in a place to build bridges and mend old wounds between nations. However, cuts in funding could threaten the nature of such "cultural diplomacy." WHAT: Need to decorate your new living space? Check out the poster sale, featuring more than 2,000 different designs of all types and styles. WHO: Center for Campus Involvment WHEN: Today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Pierpont Commons Sport and the University WHAT: The first LSA Theme Semester event, "Game Plan: Achieving Success at Michigan and Beyond," will feature a panel of athletic coaches, administrators and professors. WHO: LSA Theme Semester WHEN: Today from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: RackhatinBldg. WHAT: Author Jesse Walker will discuss his book about the legacy of conspiracy theories in American culture, "The United States of Paranoia". WHO: University Libraries WHEN: Today from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library Open house WHAT: Newgraduate students and faculty alike are invited to tourthe Hatcher Graduate Library and learn about the resources it offers. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ nichigandaily.coih." President Barack Obama has announced meetings with Congressional lead- ers and a televised address this week to address military policy regarding Islamic State militants and future counter- terroism efforts, Detroit Free Press reported Sunday. The Michigan football team was shut out for the time since 1984 on Saturday at Notre Dame, 31-0. It was the last sched- uled game between the two teams. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY Apparently opting to protect his party's policital security in the upcoming November elections, President Barack Obama announced he would postpone executive action related to immigration policy, the New Ydrk Times reported Satuhday. 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"We're gonna have Oculus Rifts. We're gonna have a Tesla. Similar to before, we're giving people awesome new technol- ogy and a chance to play with the technology you haven't played with before and build something awesome with it." With this in mind, it's not sur- prising that there were a smat- tering of high school students in attendance. One of these was Cole Hudson, a ninth grader at Fremont High School. His moth- er drove him to the Hackathon from their small town in western Michigan. "I'm here to learn," Hudson said. "Experience, I guess, is what I'm looking to get out of this experience. I mean, I've never been around nearly this many people interested in com- puter programming. It's just awesome to be around this much creativity and just to be able to pick up a little bit of that would be cool." Sponsor representatives, rang- ing from Facebook to Chrysler, stand behind booths, offering free merchandise, encouraging engi- neers to use their programming interfaces and talkingto students interested in internships. Engineeringsophomore Daniel Kim won the first place accolade, which included a Dell tablet and $4,000. He led a project called Power Glove, which expanded the capabilities of a preexisting simulation video game called Surgeon Simulator 2013. As its name might suggest, the game allows users to simulate surgery by controlling the doc- tor's hand with keyboard func- tions. Kim's twist: there's no need for an external keyboard. He used a so-called "inven- tion kit" called MaKey MaKey, a device that allows household objects to be converted into touchpads. Power Glove uses a digital hand to follow his own movements exactly, including even the flexing of individual fin- gers. "I never expected this," Kim said of winning the competition. "During the expo, I was just hav- ing a good time. When I got a call to (be in the top 14), I was like, 'Damn, did I break a rule or some- thing?". The other creations in the top three included Android for iPhone, an app to run Android operations on iPhones, and Smash Connect, which detects a user's movements and translates them into attacks in the classic Nintendo 64 game, Super Smash Bros. Another finalist included an app called Spudy, "your speedy reading buddy," which allows users to take pictures of text from books, eliminate extrane- ous images or figures and quickly convert the passages into word- by-word plaintext for easy, more efficient reading. There were, of course, hun- dreds of projects that did not make the top 14. One, created by a group of sophomores from Carnegie Mel- lon University, involved the use of floppy disks to make an instru- ment. The disks emit a noise when activated; the team aimed to control both the timing and the pitch of the disks to form what would be a21st century piano. Another project, pioneered by Engineering junior Jennings Jin, was originally called Crapp (the crap app). Users take inventory of items they no longer use, measur- ing the number of items and their collective weight and cost. At the time of his interview, Jin said he was "in the farting stage of Crapp," which he had come up with at 2 a.m. that morning. He decided to rename the project Heapp. As to how he and friends had generated the idea: "It's just like an, 'Eh, why not?'." Engineering juniors Connor Grieb and Jake Glass designed an app based on their passion for skiing and called it "Rusty the Local." The project assumed the role of a local mountain man on the slopes, and allowed users to denote particularly good or bad parts of a given ski trail and broadcast them to fellow skiers, among other functions. Grieb and Glass each slept around six hours during the 36-hour event, remedied in part by the consumption of caffein- ated brownies. A lack of rest was common among the weekend's hackers. The Hackathon also featured guest speakers ranging from Red- dit Co-founder Alexis Ohbnian to Grace Choi, founder of Mink, a 3D makeup printing company. The keynote speaker at the event's ending in Rackham Audi- torium was John Maeda, the for- mer president of the Rhode Island School of Design. Maeda told students to remember the importance of their work rather than worry- ing about more trivial matters, namely money. "Try not to forget that you are part of a grand mission where technologists, designers, people like yourselves are shaping cul- ture in a way that can be hugely positive or hugely negative, depending on the choices you make," he said. CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE! WWW.MICHIGANDAILY.COM US am STORM From Page 1A across the state. A severe stormwarning for the Ann Arbor area, cautioning of 70-plus hour wind, was issued Friday eve- ning. Wind speeds reached 50 miles per hour in Ann Arbor, and up to 70 miles per hour in other areas of Southeast Michigan, according to a CBS report. Dixon said on Sunday after- noon that most affected areas should have power by Monday evening. "The vast majority of outages we expect to be taken care of by the end of tomorrow evening," Dixon said. "However, there will be small clusters of customers with individual service prob- lems until Tuesday or Wednes- day." LSA sophomore Sagar Sada- sivan, a Sybil resident who lost power, said the loss has been inconvenient, though the mild weather dampens the effect. "The only thing is it forces us to go out of the house because we have to charge our phones, charge our laptops, you need Wi-Fi for homework," he said. "It could be worse, if the weather was extremely hot or extremely cold." The water supply for LSA junior Radhi Gohil, a South For- est resident who also lost power, was turned off as precautionary measure. She said dealing with the outage has been a confus- ing and frustrating experience, especially as a first-time renter. "With school just starting, classes getting time-consuming, it's been a headache," she said. "For people who it's their first time living off campus, for some- thing like this to happen you're kind of at a loss for resources and there's not really anyone you can talk to." Both Sadasivan and Gohil were initially told they wouldn't have power returned until Thursday, but were told Sunday that power might be returned as soon as tonight. Dixon said several priori- ties influence when power is restored. It depends on the con- sumers' power circuit and their power needs. For instance, hos- pitals and police and fire stations are likely to receive power first. "We look to repair the circuit that has the most customers affected. If we can get several thousand customers back up in one repair, that's where we want to focus our efforts." Another Sybil Street resident who lost power, Engineering graduate student Garrett Cul- len, said he was disappointed by the delay. "Understandably, (DTE) has a lot on their plate right now," Cullen added. "I expected a lot quicker service." STOP BY ONE OF OUR OPEN HOUSES! Sunday, September 14 Tuesday, September 16 6:00 PM @ 420 MAYNARD BY THE CUBE! 4 4 A A A 0