Warrior-Scholar
academic bootcamp
helps veterans adjust
to University life
By ALAINA WYGNAT
Daily Staff Reporter
“It’s kind of a long story,”
Adam Pawlowski said, speak-
ing about how he came to be one
of 20 veterans at the Warrior-
Scholar Project at the University.
For the second year in a row,
the University hosted the pro-
gram, one-week academic boot
camp designed to help service-
men and women make the tran-
sition from the military to the
classroom.
The Warrior-Scholar Project
began at Yale University in 2012
and has expanded to 11 colleges
According to University alum
Ryan Pavel, the program direc-
tor for the University’s cam-
pus and a former marine, it will
expand to seven more campuses
this year.
“The veterans have a rigorous
schedule and are taught using a
humanities-based curriculum,”
a course packet on the program
reads. “There is Tocqueville on
American democracy, Shelley’s
poem
‘Ozymandias,’
Hannah
Arendt’s political philosophy on
freedom and quite a number of
style manuals, guides and essays
on writing.”
Pavel
said
the
academic
coursework
is
rigorous
and
because it is contained to one
weeks, students take it seriously.
“It’s long days,” Pavel said.
“Breakfast is at 8, and most days,
we push until 10 or 11 at night.
When students come here, they
know it’s only one week and that
they have a lot to do, so it’s very
focused.”
With the exception of trans-
portation costs, the program is
free for selected veterans thanks
to funding from private donors
such as the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
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Festival attracts
attendees from
across the state
By SAM COREY
For the Daily
The annual Ann Arbor Sum-
mer Festival kicked off June
12 on North University Avenue
with various activities and live
musical performances.
Established in 1984 by micro-
film pioneer Eugene Power, in
collaboration with the city of
Ann Arbor and the University,
the festival is known for its per-
formances by eclectic groups of
domestic and international art-
ists.
The festival is open six days
a week and reins in close to
80,000
attendees
each
year
for simultaneously occurring
indoor and outdoors programs.
Friday’s
activities
included
entertainment by dancers, musi-
cians, comedians and actors.
Festival activities are made
possible each year through the
work of volunteers and dona-
tions from regular attendees.
LSA junior Rob Smith said he
enjoys how the event engages
the Ann Arbor community.
“It has a vast range of musical
talent and is a place for people
to gather and just see people
that they wouldn’t be able to see
throughout the year. It’s a won-
derful community event,” said
Smith.
Outdoor programs, otherwise
known as Top of the Park, make
up 90 percent of the festival’s
activities and include outdoor
movies,
concerts,
workouts,
organized dancing, educational
programs and food vendors.
According to Amy Nesbitt,
the director of the festival,
there has been a steady fusion
between the indoor and outdoor
programs.
“It used to be segmented
between indoor and outdoor
programs. Over the years, we’ve
tried really hard to braid that
experience,” Nesbitt said.
Each year the nonprofit fes-
tival’s steering team sends a
See FESTIVAL, Page 3
See BOOTCAMP, Page 3
Program transitions veterans to classroom
ACADEMICS
LEFT & RIGHT: Mumford & Sons perform at DTE Energy Music Theatre on June 16th.
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