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‘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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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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