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2 — Tuesday, February 24, 2015
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The Children of Yost, 
the student section for 
the Michigan hockey 

team, gives the Wolverines 
an advantage at home and 
an immense impact on each 
Michigan home game.
>>FOR SPORTS, SEE PG. 8
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Ten Wesleyan University 
students 
 
and 
two 

campus 
visitors 

were 
hospitalized 
after 

complications from drug 
use 
on 
Sunday, 
CNN 

reported 
Monday. 
Eleven 

hospitilizations were due to 
Molly and one due to alcohol.

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The Academy Awards 
scored its lowest ratings 
since 2009 based on 

preliminary estimates, USA 
Today 
reported 
Monday. 

There was a 16 percent drop 
in ratings, with 36.6 million 
viewers this year compared 
to last year’s 43.7 million.

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NPH flops 

BY KARL WILLIAMS

This blog talks about how 

Neil Patrick Harris did not 
succeed as an Oscar host. 
Williams 
discusses 
how 

most of the show attempted 
to ironize the racial dispari-
ties of the ceremony, but 
often the jokes were too 
celebratory and did not gain 
the laughs he aimed for. 

Dance 
performance

WHAT: Chinese 
choreographers will 
perform as part of the 
Chinese Dance and Music 
Residency.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre and Dance
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
WHERE:Residential 
College, Keene Theater

Vampire times

WHAT: University of 
Wisconsin-Madison 
professor will discuss 
the Gothic imagery’s 
relationship to the rise of the 
Balkans, as well as its use in 
literature, music and film.
WHO: Comparative 
Literature
WHEN: Today from 
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall

Decline of 
democracy

WHAT: Larry Diamond 
of Stanford will discuss 
the question of whether 
democracy is in decline.
WHO: Weiser Center 
WHEN: Today from 
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of 
Social Work Building
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error in the Daily 
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Discussion on 
racial injustice

WHAT: University 
professors will discuss 
the pursuit of justice and 
the challenges of this 
pursuit in the real world 
from a pragmatist, social 
democratic and critical race 
theory perspective.
WHO: Department of 
Philosophy
WHEN: Today from 11:30 
a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall-3222

Black History 
Month 
Jeopardy

WHAT: The Trotter 
Multicultural Center will 
host its final Black History 
Month event. Students will 
play Jeopardy and enter 
raffles throughout the 
evening.
WHO: Trotter 
Multicultural Center
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m. 
to 8 p.m.

China and 
Taiwan conflict
WHAT: Brown University 
prof. will discuss the civil 
conflict beteen China and 
Taiwan in 1930s and 1950s 
and its effects.
WHO: Lieberthal- Rogel 
Center for Chinese Studies
WHEN: Today from 12 
p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social 
Work Building

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

THURSDAY:
Alumni Profiles

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

THURSDAY:
Campus Clubs

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

WEDNESDAY:

Before You Were Here

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

AKHIL MUNAGALA

Sophomore pursues music dream

RITA MORRIS/Daily

Dentistry student Tabita Filimon makes paper 
cut-outs for a stop motion video in her sculpting 
class in the basement of East Quad on Monday.

CUT IT OUT

LSA sophomore Akhil Muna-

gala is a rising hip-hop musician 
from Northville, Mich. He has 
been rapping for five years and just 
released his first mixtape under the 
name Mocha. The five-track set is 
titled “95 til Infinity,” and the fea-
tured single “VIP” has more than 
6,000 listens in its first month 
online. Akhil is on a pre-medical 
academic path and plans to major 
in neuroscience.

Who are your musical inspi-

rations?

The reason I started rapping 

was because of Nas. I heard his 
song “One Mic” when I was in 
fourth grade. I remember think-
ing, “Wow this is crazy, he’s spit-
tin’ a lot of real talk.” His music 

really appealed to me. As a kid 
I was a pretty shy person, and 
I realized it helped for me to 
let everything out by writing it 
down. Eventually that translated 
into music.

You just released a mixtape. 

Could you tell me about that?

It’s called “95 til Infinity.” It’s 

a five-song set. It’s pretty much 
all of the songs I thought that I 
needed to put out right now. It’s 
my first mixtape, and I’m excited 
to finally be able to put my work 
into one cohesive project.

What is the best song you’ve 

released so far?

Based on overall production I’d 

say “VIP.” and the numbers show 

it — it’s definitely become much 
more popular than I expected 
it to. Especially since there was 
basically no marketing, I just put 
it up on social media. Me per-
sonally, though, I like my song 
“Til Infinity.” I feel like it’s more 
of a personal song, and the flow 
is cool. It’s more hip-hoppy and 
doesn’t sound mainstream.

Why have you chosen to 

study medicine?

I’ve always wanted to be a doc-

tor. I was really into science as a 
kid. What really made me want to 
follow this path, though, is having 
seen so many people, especially in 
Detroit, that are suffering and get 
very little medical attention. 

-HANK SHIPMAN

Officals plan for 
rescue loans amid 
collapsing economy

ATHENS, 
Greece 
(AP) 

— Caught between its own 
defiant 
campaign 
pledges 

and 
pressure 
from 
credi-

tors, Greece’s left-wing gov-
ernment will deliver a list 
of reforms Tuesday to debt 
inspectors for final approval 
of extended rescue loans, offi-

cials said.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsip-

ras was already facing dissent 
within his left-wing Syriza 
party over claims it is back-
tracking on its recent elec-
tion-winning promises to ease 
budget cuts for the recession-
battered Greeks.

Two officials linked to the 

government said the list will 
be sent to Brussels early Tues-
day and be reviewed at a tele-
conference of the 19 eurozone 
finance ministers later in the 

day.

They spoke on condition 

of anonymity either because 
he wasn’t authorized to make 
comments or because of the 
sensitivity of the negotiations.

Greece and bailout credi-

tors have been in a standoff 
since Prime Minister Alex-
is Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza 
party won general elections 
last month on a pledge to tear 
up bailout agreements and 
seek a massive write off of 
bailout debts, totaling 240 bil-
lion euros ($271 billion).

But they reached a tentative 

agreement Friday to extend 
the country’s rescue loan pro-
gram by four months, avoiding 
the risk of a Greek default and 
exit from the euro currency.

The 
government 
official 

said reforms would focus on 
curbing tax evasion, corrup-
tion, smuggling and exces-
sive bureaucracy while also 
addressing poverty caused by 
a six-year recession.

A Syriza official in Brussels 

said that “immediate priority” 
would be given to the settling 
of overdue debts, the protec-
tion of people with mortgage 
arrears as well as the ending 
of foreclosures of first resi-
dencies.

“Creditors will be skepti-

cal. These are notoriously 
difficult reforms and, in the 
case of the latter, usually cost 
money,” said Megan Greene, 
chief economist at Manulife 
Asset Management.

“It will be difficult for the 

Greek government to provide 
concrete measures for achiev-
ing these goals, and they will 
almost certainly be unable 
to achieve much before the 
next round of negotiations in 
June.”

Tsipras is also facing pres-

sure within his party.

Several prominent Syriza 

members have publicly said 
the party should honor its 
campaign promises.

Tamas Gombosi on 
his personal journey 

through the 
solar system

By SAMIHA MATIN

For the Daily

Engineering Prof. Tamas Gom-

bosi lectured on what he called 
his “personal journey through the 
solar system.”

Gambosi lectured in Rack-

ham Amphitheatre Monday upon 
receiving a named professorship 
in the Department of Engineering 
— the Konstantin I. Gringauz dis-
tinguished University Professor of 
Space Science.

Gambosi directs of the Center 

for Space Environment Model-
ing and founded the University’s 
doctorate program in space and 
planetary physics and the master’s 
program in space engineering.

Throughout his career, he 

made scientific contributions to 
the fields of planetary exploration 
and the physics of space and the 
planets.

University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel 
opened 
the 
lecture 

by congratulating Gombosi for 
his dedication to teaching and 
research.

“As a space physicist, Profes-

sor Gombosi has contributed sig-
nificantly to space and planetary 
physics and in revolutionizing 
space weather research,” Schlis-
sel said. “His accomplishments 
include developing the first time 
dependent model of terrestrial 
polar winds flowing from the ion-
osphere to the magnetosphere.”

The son of Hungarian Holo-

caust survivors, Gombosi credited 
his sense of persistence to his fam-
ily background.

Gombosi 
earned 
his 
mas-

ter’s and doctorate degrees from 
Loránd Eötvös University in 
Budapest in 1970, where he met 
space pioneer Konstantin Grin-
gauz. Gringauz later became his 
mentor as Gombosi completed his 
postdoctoral research at the Space 
Research Institute in Moscow.

While in Russia they studied 

the impacts of solar winds on the 
charged spheres of Venus.

“I was just a kid from Hun-

gary back then,” Gombosi said. “I 
stepped out of my comfort zone. 
Coming from Hungary, where this 
was no space program, to the Rus-
sian Space Research Institute, it 

felt like heaven.”

Considered an international 

diplomat in the world of science, 
he is also renowned for working 
with a diverse group of scientists 
from around the world.

In 1980, he worked for the Sovi-

et Union’s first major international 
planetary mission, the VEGA 
mission. Since joining the Univer-
sity faculty in 1987, Gombosi has 
worked on sending the Rosetta 
satellite to comet Churyumov-
Gerasimenko and developing soft-
ware to monitor space weather.

Still, Gombosi said he is most 

enthusiastic about teaching.

“We have learned everything 

from our mentors,” Gombosi said. 
“The scientific community can 
only reach milestones if we too 
mentor our future generation stu-
dents. We don’t carry out research 
for money though. You should 
only do it if you enjoy.”

Dogacan Ozturk, a Ph.D. candi-

date in Atmospheric, Oceanic and 
Space Sciences, said as an interna-
tional student, he found Gombosi’s 
speech inspiring.

“Attending this lecture really 

showed that your background 
didn’t matter if you have pas-
sion for it,” Ozturk said. “He’s a 
remarkable professor.”

Greek government prepares 
new list of reforms for bailout

Distinguished prof. speaks on 
his contributions to science

DAVID SONG/Daily

AOSS Professor Tamas I. Gombosi gives a lecture detailing his life and research at Rackham Amphitheatre Monday.

Lecture series

WHAT: Arshad Desai, 
Cellular and Molecular 
Medicine prof. at the 
University of California 
San Diego will speak 
about centrioles. 
WHO: Biological Chemistry
WHEN: Today from 
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Medical Science 
Unit II - North Lecture Hall

