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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan foot-
ball team won coach Jim
Harbaugh’s home debut
against Oregon State on Satur-
day, 35-7. De’Veon Smith ran
for 123 yards and three touch-
downs in front of 109,651 fans at
Michigan Stadium.
2
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Go global
WHAT: Learn about
study abroad programs,
scholarships, the CGIS
application process and
credit transfer.
WHO: Center for Global
and Intercultural Study
WHEN: Today from 5
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall,
CGIS Office, G155
Belly dancing
WHAT: For those with
little to no belly dancing
experience, beginner classes
will be offered, with the first
two classes free of charge.
WHO: Arabian
Dance Ensemble
WHEN: Today from
8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Pheonix
Center, S. Main Street
M Farmers
Market
WHAT: Learn about
and purchase fresh, local
products fresh from farms.
WHO: University Unions,
Michigan Dining
WHEN: Today from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
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Along
with
Austria,
Germany will require
valid
passports
for
entrance,
The
Guardian
reported. The country can
no longer handle the number
of refugees entering. Trains
are being stopped at the
southern border.
1
Armenian
studies lecture
WHAT: Author Aline
Ohanesian will give a lecture
about the role of fiction in
history.
WHO: Armenian Studies
Program
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art,
Multipurpose Room
DTE Energy
information
session
WHAT: Learn about energy
industry jobs from DTE
Energy representatives.
WHO: Society of Asian
Scientists and Engineers
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: 1500 EECS
Building
Platte River Networks,
the firm that managed
Hillary
Clinton’s
e-mail
server,
said
the server had not been
wiped as Clinton claimed
it had, the AP reported.
This
could
potentially
lead to the discovery of
30,000
deleted
e-mails.
3
Harper
talks diversity
Part of executing
University President Mark
Schlissel’s diversity strategy
will include following up on
previous plans to move the
Trotter Multicultural Center.
E. Royster Harper, vice
president of student life, said
the University has identified
four potential sites.
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AcaRush
WHAT: Watch 16 a cappella
groups perform, then sign
up to audition. Talk with
members about which group
to join.
WHO: Michigan A Cappella
Council
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
RITA MORRIS /Daily
Thomas Miller, the current president and CEO of International Executive Service Corps, discusses his past political humanitarian experience in
balancing diplomacy and development in international government as a former ambassador work at the School of Public Policy on Friday.
RITA MORRIS/Daily
Brooklyn Siracusano, a Florida State University freshman, stacks
cups during the MHacks cup stacking competition at North
Campus on Saturday.
“Meet the
Firms”
WHAT: Students can
network with accounting
and finance firms. Dress
is business casual and
students should bring
copies of their resumes.
WHO: The Accounting Club
WHEN: Today from
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Colloquium,
Ross School of Business
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
20 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (SEPTEMBER 14, 1995)
‘U’ reinstates ombudsman
STACK THAT
On this day in 1995,
the University reinstated
the
ombudsman
posi-
tion, whose role was to
act as a liaison or media-
tor between students and
the University if problems
arise between the two
parties.
Richard Carter, an asso-
ciate dean of students,
was appointed as the sec-
ond interim ombudsman.
E. Royster Harper, then
dean of students and the
current vice president for
student life, said Cart-
er would be “terrific in
terms of advocacy to and
for students.” Harper said
the office would also give
exit interviews to stu-
dents who are thinking
of leaving the University.
The goal was to help them
leave the University in
good standing and be able
to transfer to other uni-
versities with ease.
Maureen
Hartford,
vice president for student
affairs at the time, said
the changes in the office
were mainly to help with
student
outreach
and
create a place to go for
students having disagree-
ments with the University.
She said most students did
not know about the office,
and it provides a way for
them to seek assistance.
At the time, Harper said
there would eventually be
a permanent position for
ombudsman, but it would
first go through a transi-
tion period reaching out
to students as a neutral
party.
The
Office
of
the
Ombuds still exists on
campus and according to
their website, is a “place
where student questions,
complaints and concerns
about the functioning of
the University can be dis-
cussed confidentially in a
safe environment.”
—KATIE PENROD
Sixth annnual
hackathon
includes three
new initiatives
BY TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
Now in its sixth itera-
tion, MHacks welcomed
roughly 1,500 participants
and community members
to its North Campus hack-
athon, where participants
from around the country
toiled for 36 hours to learn
from
industry
profes-
sionals and design both
hardware and software
products.
MHacks
6
marked
the first year of MHacks
as its own entity. It was
previously a branch of
MPowered Entrepreneur-
ship, a club on campus
that
promotes
student
involvement in technol-
ogy, entrepreneurship and
startups in the Ann Arbor
area.
Existing as a solitary
organization was one of
the challenges in organiz-
ing this year’s MHacks,
according to LSA sopho-
more Connor Johnston,
one of the event’s co-
directors.
This
year’s
conference also marked a
return to what the web-
site calls its core focus:
providing an environment
where every hacker has
the opportunity to grow,
“no matter the skill level.”
LSA
junior
Pavithra
Vetriselvan, the other co-
director, said three new
initiatives were created
to foster an environment
conducive to growth: an
introductory
workshop
about the world of hack-
athons, a mini-conference
targeting female partici-
pants
called
Women@
MHacks
and
a
social
impact project.
“There’s
so
much
potential when you bring
so many talented coders to
the University, and having
them use their abilities to
actually make an impact
is something that I want
to try to do this semes-
ter,” Vetriselvan said. “So
we have mentors com-
ing in from the School of
Public Health, School of
Education
and
Detroit
just to make sure people
have a good idea of what
the space and the prob-
lems are in order to see
how they can better serve
those problems through
technology.’’
LSA
sophomore
and
MHacks volunteer Shayna
Mehta worked with Vetri-
selvan and LSA junior
Preeti Mohan to develop
the
Women@
MHacks
event,
which
Mehta
said was meant
to address the
overwhelming
lack of female
representation in
STEM fields.
“Hackathons
in general — and
it’s sort of exten-
sion to the tech
community
in
general – have
a
really
seri-
ous gender gap,”
Mehta said. “You
know there’s a
problem
when
schools and com-
panies are happy
with an 18-per-
cent
female
representation
in
technology
industries.”
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more
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University alum
Thomas Miller says
politics influence
efficacy of diplomats
BY ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
Former ambassador Thomas Miller,
a University alum, discussed challeng-
es with navigating the line between
diplomacy and development at a talk
hosted by the School of Public Policy
on Thursday.
Miller is the president and CEO
of International Executive Service
Corps, an international nonprofit that
helps developing nations build busi-
nesses. He said it is crucial for profes-
sionals to understand the difference
between diplomacy and development.
According to Miller, diplomats
focus on working with leaders of the
country to negotiate relations with
the United States. On the other hand,
development
professionals
serve
those in need, such as people in war-
torn countries.
“Without understanding the differ-
ences through which diplomats and
development professionals approach
their job, it’s just too easy to launch
into criticism of either without genu-
inely appreciating their fundamental-
ly different perspectives,” Miller said.
Prior to his tenure at IECS, Miller
was a seasoned diplomat in numer-
ous European and Asian countries,
working on issues such as terrorism
and recovery from war. He served as
ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovi-
na from 1999 to 2001 and ambassador
to Greece from 2001 to 2004.
University alum Ron Weiser, a
former U.S. ambassador to Slovakia
who ran for the University’s Board of
Regents last year, introduced Miller
by pointing to his focus on strength-
ening national security following the
9/11 attacks.
Weiser noted Miller’s efforts while
he was ambassador to Greece to tight-
en security for the 2004 Greek Olym-
pics.
“Those Olympics were pulled off
… with incredible security and the
American government supplied a
great deal of that security,” Weiser
said. “Tom did an incredible job.”
Miller said politics often influence
the efficacy of diplomats. For example,
many diplomats or foreign agents of a
new political party’s administration
feel pressured to make changes to
existing practices, no matter how ben-
eficial they were, simply because they
were from the opposing party.
“I have seen too many cases where
good ideas or practices were desert-
ed by a new administration simply
because they came from their prede-
cessor,” he said.
Discussing his current work, Miller
said private nonprofits can make sig-
nificant changes in developing coun-
tries. He noted the work IESC does
with Afghans to help build small busi-
ness for their economy. He said what
makes IESC successful is their sen-
sitivity to Afghani norms, as well as
employing a vast amount of Afghani
nationals in their offices.
However, he said a problem he runs
into is attempting to prove or demon-
strate the progress he is making in a
short time span, when bringing sig-
nificant change to a country can take
years.
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MHacks 6 draws 1,500 to
event on North Campus
420 Maynard St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327
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