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FRIDAY: Photos of the Week UPPER LEFT Sophomore guard Spike Albrecht attemps to score a basket during Michigan’s 75 to 67 win over Iowa Wednesday. (Paul Sherman/ Daily) BOTTOM LEFT LSA freshman Iman Aslani plays a game of pool in the Michigan Union Thursday. (James Coller/Daily) RIGHT Engineering junior Robert Greenfield IV speaks at a protest organized by the Black Student Union in front of Hill Auditorium Monday. (Allison Farrand/Daily)
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CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Do you see the Retro robbery Friday night WHERE: University HospiOlympics CD player? tal WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Tuesday at about 1:15 p.m. WHAT: A CD player was reportedly stolen from a cart on the sixth floor, University Police reported. There are no suspects.
WHEN: Tuesday at about 1:20 p.m. WHAT: A CD player was taken from a cart on the sixth floor between Jan. 11 and Jan 13. There are no suspects, University Police reported.
Armed injury
Truck strike WHERE: 1400 Block Hubbard Street WHEN: Tuesday at about 9:30 a.m. WHAT: Truck equipment struck a bus mirror as vehicles passed each other. There were no injuries or damage, University Police reported.
WHERE: Church Carport WHEN: Tuesday at about 6 p.m. WHAT: A gate arm was damaged when a vehicle stuck it, University Police reported.
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THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY
Baritone recital
WHAT: Come with your family to enjoy the Olympics, face painting, crafts, photo booth and food. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: Today from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Pierpont Commons
WHAT: Isaac Droscha performs Handel, Brahms and Vaughan Williams for his second dissertation recital. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Moore Building
Mandela photography
India mapmaking
WHAT: Pultizer prize winning photographer David Turnley will present and discuss his time photographing Nelson Mandela. WHO: International Institute WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building, Room 1636
WHAT: The exhibit covers the history and evolution of maps in India. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library CORRECTIONS l Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com.
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19-year-old Justin Bieber got a DUI for drunk drag-racing in his yellow Lamborghini, CNN reported. Bieber resisted arrest, and later admitted to being drunk, high, and on prescription medication. The pop star could face jail time.
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The Opinion Section takes a stand on what the University should do to increase racial diversity and inclusivity in response to the Black Student Union’s seven demands. >> FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4
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Being a multi-million dollar NFL superstar does not, in fact, gaurantee retirement at 30. According to a 2009 study, 78 percent of former players file for bankruptcy within two years of retirement, the Daily Beast reported.
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University won’t privatize After years of preparation, on-campus parking spaces Religion minor created Administrators say current facilities are efficient
private company. Last April, the University hired consulting firm Greenhill & Co. to analyze the benefits of a partnership with a private company for the Ann Arbor campus and University Health System. According to a press release, the University has cut nearly $265 million in recurring expenses from its general fund in the last nine years, and the closer look at a private partnership for University parking was part of a larger goal to cut $120 million more by 2017.
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To privatize, or not to privatize: that was the question. After extensive consideration, the University has decided not to lease out its on-campus parking facilities in partnership with a
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Concentration to offer broad look at multiple faiths and systems of belief
Timothy Slottow, the University’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, said in the release the University is capable of running parking without the use of a private firm. Slottow said the University met with both external and internal advisers to make the decision By AMIA DAVIS before officially declining to move Daily Staff Reporter forward. Steve Dolen, the University’s After a year of collaboration executive director of Parking and with LSA Student GovernTransportation Services, said the ment, the History Department goal of the assessment was to keep has created a new minor in costs down, specifically for students. religion. Students were able to “The big picture is trying to declare the minor starting the keep down costs, which helps to first week of winter semester. reduce impact without escalating The religion minor aims to tuition rates,” Dolen said. “The big provide a historical perspecpicture is doing whatever we can tive on world religions and do and thinking creatively about encourage awareness on camopportunities that we might have pus. While there are religion to mitigate cost increases to stucourses offered throughout dents, so that’s really what it was various departments, there is about.” no religious studies http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/currently print/ Dolen added that the decision department at the University. to not seek a partnership with a Matthew Lassiter, associate private organization was made professor of history and direcwith the University’s long-term tor of undergraduate studies in interests in mind, as well as with the History Department, said an understanding that the parking the minor will help centralsystem was already running at a ize the various religion classes high level of efficiency. currently offered. “We went through the exer“There are a number of cise to see if it made sense in the different departments that long-term with the best intentions program and do a lot with relifor students and reducing costs gion, which is why we wanted for the organization,” Dolen said. to make it multidisciplinary,” “When they benchmarked us, it Lassiter said. showed that we operated very No major or minor in reliefficiently and incurred very little gious studies has been offered maintenance.” at the University since its susHowever, the assessment propension in 1999. Founded in vided the University with a fair 1966 by Biblical Studies proamount of new knowledge regardfessor David Noel Freedman, ing ways to further improve the the program was discontinued processes involved in parking. due to a lack of graduate proDolen said one of the ways the grams and other commitments process can be made more effiof faculty who were shared cient is through the increased use with other departments. of technology. The interest in a religion “There are probably opporminor originally came from tunities to help improve service LSA junior Natasha Dabrowsand find more efficiency through ki, academic relations officer automation, mainly in our parkfor LSA Student Government, ing services operations in areas who wanted to shift the focus where there are employees at of the courses offered from an the Health System at a pay lane,” ethnic approach to a historical Dolen said. one.
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Dabrowski said the University needed a religion minor that was more comprehensive and overarching. The LSA Student Government supported her vision for the minor, proposing the religion minor to the History Department to move away from the philosophical or psychological perspectives. “Religion is a course that is an extremely important and inf luential part of American history, our society, politics, wars and everything else,” Lassiter said. The religion minor will also complement other fields of study such as pre-law, premedicine and business. “It gives you a better understanding of a patient you will be treating in a hospital and their religious beliefs,” Dabrowski said. Lassiter said he doubts there will be a religion major in the near term, but said there is intense interest in a religion minor and said it could be strong evidence for supporting the idea in the future. All University students — other than current history majors or minors — are eligible for declaring a religion minor. Dabrowski was the first University student to declare the minor. Although there is no prerequisite course, all students must take History 105 in order to complete the program. Along with the co-requisite course, religion minors are required to take five additional courses at the 200 level or higher, two of which must be at the 300 level or higher. The five additional classes must cover at least two religions out of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism or another tradition approved by an adviser. Two of these courses also have to be outside of the History Department. History Prof. Paul Johnson, who teaches History 105, said
the course will introduce key terms, such as rites of passage, which will be crucial for future exploration of the discipline.
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