2 — Friday, January 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 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 2 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. 1 TUESDAY: Campus Voices THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Photos of the Week WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers MONDAY: This Week in History LEFT LSA junior Randal Smith models at the ninth annual EnspiRED fashion show at the Biomedical Science and Research Building on Saturday. 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Supernatural episode recap BY KIM BATCHELOR THE FILTER 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 WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building l Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. ‘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.