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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan foot-
ball team won its Big Ten
opener at Maryland on
Saturday, 28-0. The Wolverines
have now shut out their past
two opponents. They face No.
13 Northwestern at Michigan
Stadium on Saturday.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Talk on
radicalization
WHAT: London-based
writer Kenan Malik will
talk about radicalization
and European Jihadis.
WHO: Islamic Studies
Program
WHEN: Today from 4
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work, Room 1636
Career crawl
WHAT: An informal
preparation for the Career
Expo with alumni and
employers. The event
will include question and
answer and networking
opportunities.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union, Anderson Room
Free movie
screening
WHAT: Tickets for a free
screening of the new “Steve
Jobs” movie will be available
at the Michigan Union. One
ticket admits two people.
WHO: Michigan
Union Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: The State Theater
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Congressman
Jason
Chaffetz
(R–Utah)
announced plans to run
for Speaker of the House,
Politico reported. Chaffetz
has been in the news due to
a scandal in which Secret
Service leaked his personal
information.
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Writing
lecture
WHAT: Faculty and authors
will lead discussions and
panels for aspiring authors.
They will discuss emerging
issues and experiences.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 3:00
p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Library,
Gallery Room 100
Consulting
Info Session
WHAT: Analysis Group,
Inc. will talk about
opportunities in the field
as well as answer questions
students have about the
company. Speakers will
discuss what Analysis
Group does and how to get
involved.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League,
Henderson Room
The gunman who shot
and killed students at
Umpqua
Community
College in Oregon may
have spared a student’s life
to have the subject deliver a
message to the police, The
Associated Press reported.
The police have not released
what
the
message
said.
3
Chocolate
demonstration
WHAT: A two-session
demonstration class that
teaches how to make easy,
inexpensive homemade
chocolate bars.
WHO: Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
WHEN: Today from 10
a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Turner Senior
Resource Center
Flower day
fundraiser
WHAT: Buy locally grown,
hand-picked bouquets from
students for $5.
WHO: American Society of
Landscape Architects
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m.
to 3 p.m.
WHERE: The Diag
ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Jessica Bratus, the first-place female winner of the North
Campus Criterium Pro-Am race, completes a lap on Bonisteel
Boulevard on Sunday.
Chinese music
concert
WHAT: An instrumental
concert performed
by 15 musicians from
Bejing, China.
WHO: Confucius Institute
at the University
WHEN: Today from
7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School,
Auditorium
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
TELEVISED TRIAL
Campus reacts to O.J. verdict
BIKING ON BONISTE E L
Twenty years ago
this week
On Oct. 3, 1995, O.J. Simp-
son was acquitted of the
murders of Nicole Brown
Simpson and Ronald Gold-
man,
bringing
Simpson’s
eight-month trial to a close.
University students gath-
ered in both public and pri-
vate to watch the verdict
be handed down. So many
students were watching the
verdict that some classes
were
canceled.
Students
who watched the verdict
were incredulous, but some
thought the prosecution did
not make a strong enough
case against Simpson.
“Our justice system says
‘beyond a reasonable doubt,’
and I think there’s a lot of
reasonable doubt,” Business
student Lisa Monroe said on
that day.
Communications
Instructor Trevor Thrall
worried at the time that the
Simpson trial would set a
new precedent for dramatic
media coverage of national
trials.
“The media has realized
that the public has a sort
of appetite for this sort of
thing,” Thrall told the Daily.
“If the news organizations
… can dramatize a case like
this again, they will…”
Thirty years ago
this week
On Oct. 4, 1985, the jour-
nal Science claimed Soviet
spies were obtaining “mili-
tarily sensitive” information
from American universities,
including the University.
The report claimed Soviet
bloc nations had been procur-
ing this sensitive information
through research projects,
trade shows, reports and
even the U.S. Patent Office.
Alan Price, then the Univer-
sity’s assistant vice president
of research, said classified
military research was diffi-
cult to carry out at the Uni-
versity.
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Council to discuss pedestrain
safety at meeting on Monday
New plot aims
to bring fresh,
organic produce
to campus
BY BRANDON
SUMMERS-MILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
Tomatoes and cucumbers
are ripening in gardens across
Michigan, including a new plot
on East Quad’s grounds.
Residential College faculty
and students gathered out-
side the residence hall Friday
afternoon to celebrate the
official opening of the RC Gar-
den, an endeavor jointly led by
students and faculty to bring
fresh, organic produce to cam-
pus.
The Eco Club and Food
Forum, two RC groups created
to maintain the garden, have
more than 30 members each
and say interest is growing.
Though the garden’s con-
cept originated within the RC,
all University students may
care for it and harvest produce.
The garden is currently
growing chives, sweet basil,
tomatoes,
cucumbers,
fruit
trees, kale, corn and miniature
watermelons,
among
other
vegetables and plants.
The garden was built and
developed by the East Quad
Garden Committee, comprised
of staff from LSA facilities
and housing, the University’s
Landscape Architecture unit,
East Quad staff and students
from the RC.
“There was so much inter-
est,” said Kenn Rapp, a Uni-
versity landscape architect and
committee member. “It was
such an enthusiastic project to
work on with a large commit-
tee of people that worked for
almost three years.”
Rapp
said
the
commit-
tee was tasked with creating
a vision outlined by the RC,
which included an emphasis on
sustainability and the physical
capability to add to the garden
in the future.
To incorporate sustainabil-
ity into the design, several spe-
cies of flowers were planted
within and surrounding the
garden to attract natural polli-
nators, including bees and but-
terflies.
Pollinators can lay eggs
in designated stations called
“pollinator habitats” which are
located within close proxim-
ity to the garden. The aim is to
encourage future plant growth
by creating a stable environ-
ment for pollinators.
“It’s its own little ecosys-
tem,” Rapp said.
RC Lecturer Virginia Mur-
phy, a Program in the Environ-
ment faculty member, helped
oversee the project’s comple-
tion and said the garden is
meant to show students that
healthy food isn’t hard to find.
“We can grow healthy food
in an urban setting,” she said.
“Even in the middle of a major
university campus.”
She said students were a
Students and faculty open
RC Garden at East Quad
Search for city
administrator, bird
safety also up for
consideration
BY ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
At their meeting Monday
evening, Ann Arbor City Coun-
cil is slated to a discuss a series
of issues, including pedestrian
safety, finding a new city admin-
istrator, and taking measures to
protect birds.
Pedestrian Safety and
Access Task Force
At a session earlier this month,
the council heard recommenda-
tions of the Pedestrian Safety
and Access Task Force, which
released an extensive study on
pedestrian safety in Ann Arbor.
Recommendations
included
education efforts on traffic laws,
improving physical conditions
of the roadway and initiatives to
reduce distracted driving.
The task force also recom-
mended increasing regulations
and ordinances regarding snow
and ice removal in the winter to
increase pedestrian safety.
Council will vote on the rec-
ommendations Monday.
City Administrator search
Council will also consider a
resolution to approve the Coun-
cil
Administration
Commit-
tee’s recommendations for the
search for a new city adminis-
trator.
The committee doesn’t have
final say on who will be selected
and approved — that ability rests
with the council members — but
they are charged with finding at
least three finalists who are suit-
able for the role.
Current
City
Administra-
tor Steve Powers announced he
was leaving the position in late
August to accept a position as
city manager in Salem, Oregon.
Powers,
after
slightly
more
than four years in the position,
will officially vacate the post in
November.
The council has appointed
Tom Crawford, the city’s chief
financial officer, to serve as
an interim city administrator,
effective Nov. 18.
Support for Safe Passage
Great Lakes Days
A resolution to support the
Safe Passage Great Lake Days is
also up for consideration.
In 2009, the Ann Arbor joined
other Michigan cities in passing
Safe Passage resolutions, which
makes
the
periods
between
March 15 and May 31 and
between Aug. 15 and Oct. 31 desig-
nated as Safe Passage Great Lakes
days. Since birds use light to
navigate, residents of Ann Arbor
are encouraged to turn off lights
above the fifth floor of buildings
on those days between 11 p.m. and
6 a.m. Birds can often be confused
by well-lit urban areas,
The council will vote on the
most recent addition to this reso-
lution, which says the city should
advise individuals to always turn
off lights when they leave a build-
ing.
The resolution also encourages
awareness of the problems light
poses for birds and asks citizens
to find ways to light their office
buildings and homes at night that
will conserve more of it.
Resolution to approve site
plan for First Street Housing
The council will review the
first site plan for a new hous-
ing development on First Street.
The development would be a
47,1400-square-foot residential
building with 25 dwelling units.
There is also a plan to build a
parking lot for approximately
35 vehicles underneath the
apartments.
SAN PHAM/Daily
LSA sophomore Darian Razdar, Residential College Director John Wells and RC Prof. Virginia Murphy cut the
celebratory ribbon at the opening of the Residential College Garden at East Quad on Friday.
See GARDEN, Page 3A