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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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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 
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