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Survive and dvance
‘U’ confirms safety of
14 students, faculty
and staff in France
By LARA MOEHLMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
With Paris still reeling after
a series of terrorist attacks hit
the city Friday night, about 80
students gathered on the Diag
Saturday evening to light candles
in a show of solidarity with the
people of France.
According
to
French
authorities, at least 129 people
were killed in shootings at a
Paris concert hall and on city
streets, as well as explosions
near the entryways of the Stade
de France soccer stadium. The
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,
better known as ISIS, claimed
responsibility for the attacks.
Saturday’s vigil was organized
by several students from France
currently studying abroad at
the University. They reached
out to community members
through social media to support
those grieving civilian lives lost
in their country. Students lit
memorial candles and stood for a
moment of silence before singing
the French national anthem.
In a speech to attendees,
LSA senior Bertrand de La
Ronciere, a French international
exchange student, highlighted
his fear that the recent attacks
would exacerbate racist and
Islamophobic tensions he said
are already present in Europe.
Shortly after the attacks, French
President
Francois
Hollande
Rudock throws
six touchdowns
in win at Indiana
KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily
Students and community members gather for a candlelight vigil on the Diag on Saturday for those affected by the recent attacks in Paris.
See PARIS, Page 3A
2015 freshman class
reflects efforts to
defer, waitlist more
applicants
By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
Daily Staff Reporter
At a Board of Regents meeting
last
fall,
University
Provost
Martha
Pollack
expressed
frustration with the University’s
trend of enrolling too many
students.
“We have been over-enrolling
every year for the past five years
and we have to stop this,” Pollack
said at the time. “I’m not happy
about it.”
Pollack called for a plan to curb
over-enrollment, and according
to enrollment figures released
last month for the 2015 freshman
class, those plans worked.
The
report
revealed
the
University
enrolled
6,071
students in this year’s freshman
class, down considerably from the
6,505 freshmen enrolled in fall
2014. Here’s how the University
did it.
A growing problem
Last
year
the
University
enrolled 6,532 freshman, an
increase of 307 students from
the previous year, and more
than 500 students more than
the institution was planning to
enroll.
To accommodate the larger
class size, LSA added 41 new class
sections for the fall semester
and 45 additional class sections
for the winter semester, and the
College of Engineering hired new
instructors to teach additional
discussion sections for first-year
courses.
Administrators also had to
manage
a
housing
shortage,
which was a result of both over-
enrollment and the closure of
West Quadrangle for renovation.
To ensure incoming freshman
could live in on-campus residence
halls, the University provided
See ENROLLMENT, Page 3A
FOOTBALL
Wolverines
survive double-
overtime scare in
Bloomington
By MAX COHEN
Managing Sports Editor
BLOOMINGTON — When the
last of the 80 passes attempted
in the Michigan football team’s
game at Indiana hit the ground,
the entire travel roster sprinted
into the end zone where Delano
Hill made the game-clinching
play. Jim Harbaugh pumped his
fists and ran to greet Indiana
coach Kevin Wilson, and the rest
of the Wolverines jumped on top
of one another, whooping and
hollering.
Three of Michigan’s last four
games have ended in similar
fashion.
First there was the heartbreak
of Oct. 17 in Michigan Stadium,
when
Jalen
Watts-Jackson
returned Blake O’Neill’s fumble
into the end zone and the rest of
his Michigan State teammates
piled on top of him. Then, two
weeks later, there was the goal-
line stand at Minnesota, when
the Wolverines throttled the
Golden Gophers in the game’s
final second. Then, it was their
turn to sprint onto the field and
celebrate. They claimed the Little
Brown Jug trophy as their own.
Saturday night’s game was
another exercise in dramatic
finishes.
Michigan’s
48-41
double-overtime conquest was
the result of timely plays and a
whole lot of spunk from fifth-year
senior quarterback Jake Rudock.
Rudock, often maligned at
the beginning of the season
for turnovers, threw for six
touchdowns and 440 yards. He
scampered for 64 yards, too, and
took hard hit after hard hit. He
even threw an interception in the
third quarter. It seemed costly at
the time, when the Wolverines
trailed by two. By the end of the
game, it was irrelevant. No other
quarterback in program history
has thrown six touchdowns in a
single game.
“He is unflappable,” Harbaugh
said. “He just does not flinch.”
See RUDOCK, Page 4B
KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily
Flowdom, a student dance organization, performs at Celebrasia in the East Hall Math Atrium on Saturday.
Celebrasia was hosted by the Chinese Students Association to celebrate the diversity of Asian culture on campus.
Annual festival
celebrates broad
array of Asian
cultures
By RACHEL COHEN
For the Daily
As the name suggests, the
Chinese Students Association’s
Celebrasia event is designed
to celebrate Asian culture,
particularly through traditional
food and performance art.
However,
Celebrasia
is
no
melting pot. Saturday’s event
aimed to honor the unique
attributes
of
individual
cultures, as well as recognize
the connections between them.
“Celebrasia is the coming
together of many different
organizations to celebrate their
different cultures and show that
we’re not just a mass of Asians,”
said Business senior Drew Siew,
the CSA president. “There’s
intricacies
and
differences
between each Asian Culture.”
Held in East Hall’s Math
Atrium, this year’s Celebrasia
showcased 10 performances
and featured 18 tables from
various student organizations.
The event’s theme, “The
Four Nations Festival,” played
on the four elemental nations
represented in “Avatar: The
Last Airbender,” a cartoon that
drew much of its inspiration
from Asian culture. The Math
Atrium was decorated with
symbols of the four nations
— which are earth, water, fire
See CELEBRASIA, Page 3A
300 run to honor
alum, support
Josh E. Levine
Foundation
By MEGAN DOYLE
Daily Staff Reporter
On
Sunday,
300
people
gathered
in
the
Nichols
Arboretum for a 5K in support of
the Josh E. Levine Foundation,
an organization now working
to raise awareness about the
dangers of co-ingestion and
alter
the
drinking
culture
among college and high school
students.
Josh Levine, who graduated
from the University in 2014,
passed
away
the
summer
after
his
graduation
after
he co-ingested alcohol and
Adderall.
Organized and sponsored
by the Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority, the Delta Gamma
sorority and the Theta Chi
fraternity, the event raised
more than $1,800 for the
See 5K, Page 3A
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WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 57
LO: 50
After attacks, Diag vigil
honors lives lost in Paris
Student groups ‘Celebrasia’
with food, performances
5K draws
attention to
dangers of
co-ingestion
‘U’ deems
plan to curb
enrollment
successful
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