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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan football
team garnered a No. 22
ranking in the Associ-
ated Press poll Sunday after a
31-0 win over Brigham Young
on Saturday. It was the Wolver-
ines’ first national ranking since
Nov. 2, 2013.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Author lecture
WHAT: Author Leah
Hager Cohen will
speak about the art of
storytelling.
WHO: University Library,
Department of English
WHEN: Today from 4:10
p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher
Graduate Library, Room
100
Voice recital
WHAT: A fast-paced recital
introducing freshman voice
students. The free event is
open to all members of the
University community.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 6:45 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore
Building, Britton Recital Hall
Leadership talk
WHAT: Rich Sheridan,
CEO and chief storyteller
at Menlo Innovations,
will discuss his success.
WHO: Tauber Institute
for Global Operations
WHEN: Today from
5 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: 0770 Wyly Hall
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Pope
Francis
spoke
unscripted
in
Philadelphia about the
child sex abuse scandals in
the Catholic Church, USA
Today reported Sunday. He
spoke to survivors of abuse
and promised to hold clergy
responsible for their crimes.
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Japanese tea
WHAT: Tea masters will
demonstrate the art of
serving and being served tea
in the Japanese culture.
WHO: University Library
and Department of Women’s
Studies
WHEN: Today from 1:15
p.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Graduate
Library, Room 100
Peace Corps
WHAT: University Prof.
Brian Arbic will talk about
his experiences with the
Peace Corps in Liberia
and Ghana as a volunteer
teacher.
WHO: International Studies
WHEN: Today from 7:00
p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Graduate
Library, The Gallery
France fired its first
airstrikes
in
Syria
Sunday,
the
AP
reported.
French
president
Hollande
was
quoted
saying
civilian
protection needs to be a
priority, not only from ISIS,
but
from
Bashar
Assad
and other terrorist groups.
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Heidelberg
dialogue
BY SAMIHA MATIN
Tyree Guyton, the artist
who started Detroit’s
Heidelberg Project, spoke on
his 30 years with the project
at the Stern Auditorium in
the University’s Museum of
Art on Friday night.
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Law school
info session
WHAT: Wayne State
University Dean will talk about
opportunities in the legal field
amd at the WSU Law School.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m.
to 1 p.m.
WHERE: The Career Center
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Longtime Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, a former University
student, greets a fan on the sidelines during Saturday’s football
game against BYU.
Star Trek
screening
WHAT: An episode
of Star Trek will be
screened, followed by
a discussion about the
limits of translation.
WHO: Linguistics Club
WHEN: Today from
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: 471 Lorch Hall
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Michigan Daily celebrates 125 yrs
WE LCOME BACK , JETE R
125 years ago this week
The news landscape in Ann
Arbor changed forever on Sep-
tember 29, 1890, when a group
of University students pub-
lished the first-ever edition of
The Michigan Daily.
One hundred twenty-five
years later, the Daily is the lone
survivor in Ann Arbor’s daily
news landscape, and it contin-
ues to serve a vital role in cov-
ering campus, the Ann Arbor
community and beyond.
The Daily has a rich his-
tory of making and breaking
news. In April 1955, the news-
paper was the first to report
that Jonas Salk had success-
fully created an effective polio
vaccine; a 1924 exclusive with
Mahatma Ghandi shed light
on the leader’s ongoing peace
efforts in India and elsewhere;
a football player’s permanent
separation from the University
for violating the Student Sexu-
al Misconduct Policy was first
reported by the Daily in Janu-
ary 2013; the paper even acci-
dentally perpetuated the myth
of Paul McCartney’s death in
1969.
36 years ago this week
The
University’s
work-
study program received fed-
eral funds to increase the
program’s annual budget from
$1.74 to $2.5 million.
The budget increase result-
ed from the federal Middle
Income Assistance Act, passed
in November 1978. With its
passage, the allocation of fed-
eral resources for work-study
programs increased across the
nation.
The University’s Board of
Regents hoped a larger work-
study budget would help stu-
dents with the increasing costs
of school, such as rising tuition
and housing rates.
Though the work-study pro-
gram was never meant to com-
pletely cover student tuition
costs, the increased budget
aimed to help students on the
border of being financially
unable to attend the University.
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‘Internet Cat Festival’ draws
200 students to North Quad
Fourth annual
festival draws over
500 students to
student-run farm
BY ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
Sustainable food enthusi-
asts gathered at the Matthaei
Botanical Gardens on Sunday
for the fourth annual Harvest
Festival. Organized to pro-
mote environmentally sus-
tainable food, Sunday’s event
drew an estimated 500 people
to the garden’s student-run
farm.
The University of Michigan
Sustainable Food Program,
an umbrella organization for
food-related student groups
on campus, sponsored the
festival. During the academic
year, the program works to
facilitate relations between
the
groups
by
providing
resources, helping with out-
reach and fostering collabora-
tions.
“This is our one big event
we have each year and we just
try to raise awareness about
sustainable food and where
people can access it around
campus,” said LSA senior
Claire Roos, the program’s
communications coordinator.
Entering the farm, visi-
tors were handed a ticket
for the complimentary food
tents from Ann Arbor eater-
ies, including The Brinery,
Salads Up and Lucky’s Mar-
ket. Tables from several of
the program’s member groups
promoted options for getting
involved with sustainability
efforts on campus.
Recently doubled in size,
the sustainable farm now
includes a food forest, or a
more forest-like farming site,
just outside the farm’s fence.
LSA senior Maddy Baroli, a
representative from the orga-
nization Permaculture, was
the driving force behind the
food forest.
“The basic idea is to move
away from the industrial agri-
culture framework of mono-
cultures and tons of pesticides
and fossil fuels by imitating
forest ecosystems,” she said.
The
festival
featured
a
variety of activities. The first
ever pie-eating contest drew
a large crowd, and Andrew
Jones, assistant professor of
environmental health scienc-
es, claimed first prize.
“It was a little disgusting,”
Jones said. “The first few
bites were tasty but after that
it was all about concentration
and pure determination.”
The event also featured a
scarecrow contest with origi-
nal submissions from various
student organizations.
University
alum
Angey
Wilson, Permaculture’s pro-
gram coordinator, said the
event’s organizers and par-
ticipants are a critical part of
the event’s success.
“It’s a great way to enjoy the
presence of all these fantastic
people in one space because
you’re all working together
for the same cause — having
sustainable food available and
accessible for all students.”
Community celebrates fall
harvest and sustainable food
ANDREW COHEN/Daily
University alum J.J. Lundy and LSA senior Jess Greenspan purchase organic peppers at the fourth annual Harvest
Festival hosted by the Sustainable Food Program on the campus farm at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens on Sunday.
Students, staff dress
in whiskers, cat ears
for programming
board’s kickoff event
BY TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
Students and staff dressed in
cat ears and whiskers, consum-
ing cat-themed cake and snacks
filled the courtyard of North
Quad Residence Hall on Friday
evening. They were waiting for
the Internet Cat Video Festival
to begin.
North Quad Programming
hosted the event for an audi-
ence of about 200 students,
staff and Ann Arbor residents.
Emilia White, programming
coordinator of North Quad, said
she got the idea from the Walk-
er Arts Center in Minneapolis.
“When I saw it and saw sort
of what a festive event it is, I
thought it would be a good event
to have at the beginning of the
semester to kick off the semes-
ter with a sense of community
and bring people together,” she
said.
The
Walker
Art
Center
curates a video compilation of
various viral cat videos into
genres like “drama” and “com-
edy” every year and had more
than 10,000 attendees at its
most recent premier.
“It is sort of a mutual under-
standing — something that peo-
ple share across cultures and
differences is that people love
cat videos,” Smith said. “The
festival is about watching cat
videos as a community, versus
what most people do in their
home or in their private room
or office watching cat videos.”
LSA juniors Christine Liu
and Jenny Gong found the fes-
tival through Facebook. Gong
said though she is more of a
dog person, she was interest-
ed in the event because she’s
never been to a cat film festival
before.
“It sounded like something, I
don’t know, I’ve never heard of
anything like it before, so I just
wanted to have the new experi-
ence,” Gong said. “I think cats
do really weird things some-
times, like sometimes they
don’t make any sense. I guess it
makes sense to them, it doesn’t
make sense to us, and I guess
that’s what makes it so funny.
How they’re so fascinated with
laser pointers and things like
that.”
Liu said she was looking for-
ward to the festival because it
would be a way for her to relax
from homework and school-
related activities.
“I just think they’re like a
good relaxation tactic, because
you can get lost really eas-
ily watching cat videos, or
maybe that’s just me,” she said.
“They’re just light-hearted; you
can’t really go wrong with cat
videos.”
This year’s festival was dedi-
cated to Cecil the Lion, a pro-
tected African lion shot and
killed by an American dentist
earlier this year.
Gong said her favorite video
featured a cat attempting to
jump through a window and
flailing its arms and legs.
For Liu, her favorite video
was self-explanatory.
“The title is literally ‘Cat gets
caught barking by human and
resumes meowing’ and that’s
exactly what happens in the
video,” Liu said. “If you haven’t
seen it, it’s honestly hilarious.”
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