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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The Michigan women’s
basketball
team
fell

to No. 5 Maryland on

Thursday night, 91-65. And on
the men’s side, senior forward
Max Bielfeldt has adapted
well to his newfound respon-
sibilites as a team leader.
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS PAGE 8

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Dartmouth
College

President Phil Hanlon
announced a university-

wide ban on hard alcohol, a
mandatory four-year sexual
violence prevention program
and a code of conduct that will
take effect the spring term,
The Dartmouth reported.

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RIGHT Rackham student Rohan Moraikar and University alum Gary Ciarkowski train in the ancient Japanese martial art form of Bujinkan
Budo as part of the Michigan Ninjutsu Club at the IM Building on Wednesday. (Andrew Cohen/Daily)

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A natural gas explosion
occurred
near
a

maternity
hospital

in Mexico City Thursday,
injuring more than 60 people
and killing at least two. An
unknwon number of people
are also still trapped in the
debris, CNN reported.

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Dean and Charlie strug-

gle with their dark sides in
“No place like home.” The
week’s episode begins in
media res. A man, who has
been beaten and tied up,
runs from his attacker in a
suburban neighborhood.

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The series, which expe-

rienced an unprecedented
growth in ratings in its first
three weeks on the air, got
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11.3 million viewers and 4.3
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Science &
symphony

WHAT: Alum José
Francisco Salgado will speak
about his collaboration with
orchestras, composers, and
chamber musicians for his
visuals about the universe.
WHO: Department of
Astronomy
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Alumni Center

Life writing

WHAT: This conference
will explore the ways in
which writing about the self
(“life writing”) has evolved
in the digital age, with a
focus on gender and race.
WHO: Institute for
Research on Women
and Gender
WHEN: Today from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Lane Hall

Tobacco in
India

WHAT: Dr. Ritesh Mistry
will speak about adolescent
tobacco use in India.
WHO: Center for South
Asian Studies
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to 6 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
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‘Absent Matter’

WHAT: This workshop
will explore the challenge
historians facewhen dealing
with questions of absence
and erasure, and will feature
a number of professors
participating in a panel
discussion. This event will
be open to the general public,
as well.
WHO: Eisenberg Institute
for Historical Studies
WHEN: Today from 12
p.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Tisch Hall

Ecology lecture

WHAT: Prof. Peter Levi of
the University of Wisconsin
will present the results of
his efforts to evaluate the
effectiveness of stream
restoration and ecological
state in urban watersheds
near Milwaukee, WI.
WHO: Cooperative
Institure for Limnology and
Ecosystems Research
WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dana Natural
Resources Building

‘Fury’ screening

WHAT: M-Flicks will
present a free screening
of the new movie ‘Fury,’
starring Brad Pitt. The event
will be open to the general
public.
WHO: M-Flicks/
Undergraduate Activities
Center
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Natural Science
Auditorium

Foreclosure hearings draw
many Detroit homeowners

University leads effort to digitize
thousands of Old English texts

Project aims to add
40,000 more works
to online archive by

the year 2020

BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT

Daily Staff Reporter

After a 16-year University-

led effort, the earliest printed
texts of modern era writers
will now be available online
and for free.

The University Library, the

University of Oxford’s Bodle-
ian Libraries and the company
ProQuest have collaborated to
make more than 25,000 texts
printed between 1473 to 1700
available through the Univer-
sity of Michigan library’s web-
site.

According to a press release,

this effort is only the first
phase of the Early English
Books Online Text Creation

Partnership, which began in
1999.

In an interview Thursday,

Aaron McCollough, editorial
director for Michigan Publish-
ing, said the texts that will be
available include Shakespeare,
Chaucer and Homer.

“The
selection
process

focused on books that were
already believed to be very
important, for which high
demand would exist,” McCol-
lough said. “The works of
famous
17th
century
play-

wrights, prominent philoso-
phers,
sermon
literature

—there are around 25,000 of
the ‘Greatest Hits,’ in a way, of
the 17th century.”

ProQuest, an Ann Arbor-

based
company,
created

scanned images of these texts
in 1999 and published them as
a database called Early English
Books Online, but was unable
to reproduce them into search-
able digital texts.

The entire effort across the

libraries involved a process
called double-keying, in which
two different people type in,
character by character, the let-
ters from the print documents.
A program called optical char-
acter recognition can tran-
scribe modern printed works,
but older texts contain dif-
ferent fonts that the program
can’t recognize.

The Council on Library and

Information Resources, Jisc, a
digital solutions charity, and
more than 160 other libraries
also partnered in the project.
McCollough said the interna-
tional collaboration is one of
the first of its kind.

“It also is a kind of revolu-

tionary funding model for a big
knowledge project in humani-
ties — this idea of (sic) consor-
tial collaboration, of multiple
libraries contributing a feasi-
ble amount of money to a proj-
ect so that something is made
possible that wouldn’t be pos-
sible for any single library to
fund,” McCollough said. “That
kind of model is being replicat-
ed in other contexts, but this
is one of the first big projects
like that.”

Overall, McCollough said

the project will be vitally
important for English culture
as a whole.

“This was a very important

thing in terms of free culture
and preserving what is a fun-
damental set of texts in the
history of English-language
culture,”
McCollough
said.

“It’s also a very large set of
humanities data that can be
mined and repurposed for dig-
ital humanities projects, and
this is one of the great promis-
es of the material at this point:
to see what scholars will do
with these texts in the digital
realm.”

The project hopes to release

an additional 40,000 texts for
public consumption by 2020.

Empire gains
higher ratings

BY ALEX INTNER

Cobo Center

conference room
fills with hopeful

citizens

DETROIT (AP) — Hundreds

of Detroit homeowners in dan-
ger of losing their properties
flocked Thursday to hearings
that offered a last-ditch chance
to avoid foreclosure and to
keep the houses from adding to
the city’s already huge glut of
vacant dwellings.

The
homeowners
nearly

filled a long conference room
in Detroit’s Cobo Center while
waiting for their cases to be
heard. Many hoped to work out
payment plans to ease their tax
debts under new laws signed
this month by Republican Gov.
Rick Snyder.

“Everybody does have a

story. Most of them are prob-
ably true, because you couldn’t
make them up if you try,” said
Eric Sabree, Wayne County’s
deputy treasurer of land man-
agement. Officials expect more
than 14,000 property owners
to seek help over seven days of
hearings that run through Feb.

6.

“We have to collect taxes

by law ... but we definitely do
not want to take the property,”
Sabree said. “We want to show
options that people have to
save their properties.”

More than 60,000 of the

county’s
76,000
foreclosed

properties
are
in
Detroit,

threatening
neighborhoods

that have yet to recover from
the national mortgage crisis.

About $326 million in taxes,

interest and fees are owed on
the foreclosed homes, lots and
other buildings in Detroit.
Mapping data shows that about
37,000 of those properties are
occupied.

“One of the reasons why we

want people to stay in their
homes is because when they
become abandoned, they get
stripped. They become a crime
scene. They become a drug
house,” Sabree said. “It’s bet-
ter to let the person stay in the
house and collect taxes even
if it takes longer to collect the
money.”

Mourice Neal was looking

for just a little help. His tax bill
is $4,900 on a home he bought
in 2013 on Detroit’s North End.
Paying that amount would

dangerously stretch what he
receives in Social Security pay-
ments.

“It’s a good process. They

are looking at my income,” said
Neal, who is 46.

But Thomas Jackson left

his hearing without know-
ing if anything could be done
with the $27,000 tax bill on his
home in northwest Detroit. He
said he was told special con-
sideration was needed to get a
payment plan. He has another
hearing next month.

“They told me they can’t

help me here,” said Jackson,
40, who has not paid taxes on
his home since 2012, when he
lost his automotive job.

He has since found a new job

and wants to keep the house he
bought in 2009, but said losing
it would not be the end of the
world.

“I’m working now. I can find

somewhere else,” he said.

Regina Lee, 50, went to the

hearing ready to pay the $1,200
owed on two lots that sandwich
the home she grew up in. She
said she was unaware her now-
deceased grandmother listed
her as owner of the lots until
a relative received a foreclo-
sure notice from the county.

PAUL SANCYA/AP

Homeowners sit in a conference room in Detroit’s Cobo Center while waiting for their cases to be heard to avoid
foreclosure from tax debts in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 29.