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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

