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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Two hundred people 
were 
evacuated 
and 

one 
firefighter 
died 

when smoke filled a metro 
station in Washington, D.C. 
The source of the smoke is 
still unknown and the station 
was temporarily closed, CNN 
reported.

3

The University of Vir-
ginia chapter of the Phi 
Kappa Psi fraternity has 

been cleared by the Charlot-
tesvile Police, The Cavalier 
Daily reported Monday. A 
November Rolling Stone arti-
cle cited the fraternity as the 
location of a gang rape.

1

Riding a 3-1 start to Big 
Ten play, the Michigan 
men’s basketball team 

plays No. 20 Ohio State on 
the road Tuesday at 7 p.m. 
The Wolverines have won 
three straight in the series. 
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PG. 8
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Stooges 
Brass Band

WHAT: The New-Orleans- 
based band will perform 
a blend of traditional New 
Orleans brass sounds with 
contemporary jazz and hip-
hop beats.
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHO: Michigan Union 
Ticket Office
WHERE: The Ark

Percussion 
recital

WHAT: Daniel Piccolo will 
perform pieces by Harri-
son, Bartók and Farr-Kem-
bang Suling as part of his 
second dissertation recital.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium

“My Brothers”

WHAT: The My Brothers 
Dialogue Series will provide 
a space to address the expe-
riences of men of color on 
campus. 
WHO: Office of Academic 
Multicultural Initiatives, 
Comprehensive Stud-
ies Program, Counseling 
and Psychological Ser-
vices, Multi-Ethnic Student 
Affairs
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. 
to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union

Career Center 
workshop

WHAT: LSA students with 
humanities majors will 
learn resume writing and 
interview skills.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today at 5 p.m.
WHERE: Modern Lan-
guages Building- Room 2011

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String 
showcase

WHAT: Student solo-
ists and chamber music 
groups will perform in 
a new monthly perfor-
mance series.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building

Bio-chemistry 
seminar

WHAT: Dr. Michael 
Rust, will present his 
seminar titled “Input 
Processing by a Three-
Protein Circadian 
Clock.”
WHO: Biological Chem-
istry
WHEN: Today from 12 
p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Medical 
Science Unit II- North 
Lecture Hall

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

THURSDAY:
Alumni Profiles

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

PROF. TARFIA FAIZULLAH

Poet chronicles year abroad

RITA MORRIS/Daily

LSA Freshman Cryserica Jeter practices her 
choreography for The Movements Dance Team in 
Angel Hall Monday evening. 

ON STAGE

Tarfia Faizullah is the Delbanco 
Visiting Professor of Creative 
Writing. In addition to being pub-
lished in the American Poetry 
Review, Oxford American and the 
New England Review, she won 
the Pushcart Prize and the Crab 
Orchard Series in Poetry First 
Book Award for “Seam,” her book 
on living in Bangladesh for a year 
on a Fulbright Scholarship. 

How did you start writing?

I was a really shy, awkward child 
and I felt like both reading and 
writing opened up a world of 
wonder for me. It also sort of gave 
me something that I could con-
trol, which I thought was really 
powerful at the time. When 

you’re a kid, you think the world 
tends to happen to you or hap-
pen all around you. Being able to 
close and open a book or being 
able to write something that was 
free of any judgment was really 
profound for me. So I was pretty 
young when I started writing 
and I never really stopped.

What is your book “Seam” 

about?

It’s a book of poetry. In 2010 I 
went to Bangladesh for a year 
on a Fulbright Scholarship and 
I researched the 1971 liberation 
war in which Bangladesh won 
its independence from Pakistan 
and I was in Bangladesh to spe-
cifically research and interview 

Bangladeshi women who were 
raped or taken as sex slaves dur-
ing that same war. The book 
chronicles that year abroad and 
the experience I had there as 
well as the interviews. There 
are also a number of poems that 
are written from the perspective 
from one of these women, who 
were raped during the war.

What is the last piece you 

wrote?

I wrote a poem recently that’s 
called “While it’s Still Safe.” I 
just wrote that a couple of weeks 
ago. I’m not entirely sure what 
it’s about.

 
–LINSDEY SCULLEN

THURSDAY:
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FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

WEDNESDAY:

Before You Were Here

THURSDAY:
Alumni Profiles

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

WEDNESDAY:

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Ohio State wins 
championship 

By DAILY STAFF

The Ohio State football team 
won the College Football 
Playoff Monday night. 
Michigan fans expressed 
their feelings on Twitter 
about the University’s 
biggest rival claiming the 
championship. 

Staff shortages 
discussed

By NEALA BERKOWSKI

This week in history, 69 
years ago, the Association of 
American Colleges gathered 
in Cleveland to discuss issues 
relating to finding suitable 
staff members to teach. 

SPORTS

THE WIRE

ON THE WEB... 

JOHN LOCHER/AP

The Aspen Mountain ski area by Aspen, Colorado exemplifies growing wage gaps. 
Economists say wealthy 
get richer, others plateau

Police report 

violence committed 
against ex-girlfriend 

(AP) — George Zimmerman 

became angry and threw a wine 
bottle at his ex-girlfriend when 
she tried to break up with him, 
according to a police report 
released Monday.

Zimmerman denied throw-

ing the bottle and disputed her 
claim that he destroyed her cell 
phone last week, according to 
the report, which chronicles his 
latest run-in with police since 
he was acquitted of murdering 
Trayvon Martin in 2013. The 
killing of the unarmed black teen 
touched off protests across the 
country.

Instead, Zimmerman said, he 

was only trying to prevent her 
from entering his home.

The 
former 
neighborhood 

watch volunteer was arrested 

Friday in Lake Mary and charged 
with aggravated assault. He was 
released Saturday on $5,000 bond.

Zimmerman didn’t respond 

to a message left on his cell 
phone Monday by The Associ-
ated Press.

Officers patrolling the neigh-

borhood 
where 
Zimmerman 

lives last week heard the sound 
of glass shattering, and then 
saw the former girlfriend drive 
out of the driveway. They pulled 
her over for a traffic stop a few 
streets over because she didn’t 
have her lights on.

She explained that Zimmer-

man became angry after she told 
him she didn’t want to take the 
relationship further, and they 
also argued over a painting she 
had that he wanted returned. 
Zimmerman made threats and 
threw the wine bottle, which 
didn’t hit her, she said.

Detectives 
described 
her 

as “extremely emotional, cry-
ing, mad and upset” and said 

she became reluctant to coop-
erate when she realized that 
officers might be conducting 
an investigation. She called her 
former boyfriend “that psycho, 
George Zimmerman” and said 
several times that she should 
have known better than to get 
involved with him.

The ex-girlfriend, whose name 

is redacted, told investigators 
that she had had an “intimate 
relationship” with Zimmerman 
since the end of last year.

“She indicated that this began 

at a time when she was emotion-
ally vulnerable,” the report said.

Zimmerman was arrested at 

his house on Friday, four days 
after the confrontation. Detec-
tives said in the police report 
that he refused to come to the 
door for more than two hours 
despite their repeated knocking. 
They said they could hear the 
television on and a dog barking.

Zimmerman eventually came 

outside after police officers 
agreed to allow him to keep his 
attorney on his cell phone with 
him while he was interviewed, 
the report said.

Zimmerman was acquitted in 

2013 of a second-degree murder 
charge for shooting Martin in 
a gated community in Sanford, 
Florida. 

Zimmerman charged 
with aggravated assault

In resort towns, 
working class 

squeezed out amid 
growing wealth gap

(AP) — At first, Loly Garcia 

didn’t have to travel far to her 
jobs in the chic hotels of this 
fabled tourist town. She shared 
a tiny studio apartment with 
her father, brother and a cousin 
after arriving from El Salvador 

more than 20 years ago. 

But after she married and 

wanted a home of her own, she 
had to drive 23 miles west, past 
tracts of empty land and vacant 
mansions whose owners visit 
only a couple of weeks a year, to 
the mobile home park where she 
now lives.

The drive eventually wore 

her down, and she decided to 
take lower-paying work closer 
to home. “That commute — it 
becomes 10 hours a week. It’s 
like working an extra day,” said 
Garcia, 49. “It’s hard to live 
here.”

Resort towns like Aspen 

dramatically demonstrate an 
unnerving trend: Across the 
country, the rich are getting 
richer while the rest of the 
country is essentially treading 
water. 

From 
2009 
to 
2012, 

inflation-adjusted 
income 

for the wealthiest 1 percent 
of 
U.S. 
households 
surged 

31 
percent, 
according 
to 

economist Emmanuel Saez of 
the University of California, 
Berkeley. For everyone else, 
income inched up just 0.4 
percent.

In Aspen, the division is 

especially stark because it 
goes beyond mere money. The 
wealth gap is also a geographic 
divide.

The people who clean the 

vacation homes, maintain the 
mansions’ gardens and work 
in the hotels must find housing 
in 
mobile 
home 
parks 
or 

subdivisions squeezed into the 
few acres of developable space 
dozens of miles to the west. 
A lucky few — about half of 
Aspen’s year-round population 
of 6,700 — are able to score 
units in the town’s unusual 
affordable housing program 
that, on the open market, would 
sell for millions of dollars.

Meanwhile, residents who 

struggle to find affordable real 
estate 
watch 
an 
increasing 

number of houses in town 
become 
rarely 
inhabited 

vacation properties.

“It’s a mirror image of Detroit, 

where wealth, not poverty, is 
driving population down,” said 
Mick Ireland, a former three-
term Aspen mayor.

Aspen’s dilemma is similar to 

that of other resort towns, from 
Nantucket, Massachusetts, to 
Park City, Utah, especially those 
nestled in the jagged terrain of 
the western United States. 

In the West, vast tracts 

of 
public 
land 
and 
sheer 

mountain faces prevent the 
easy development of suburbs to 
house workers, pushing clusters 
of more affordable housing 
many miles away. 

