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At U-M club, squirrels get peanuts for pay

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Ann Arbor

Just when you thought University of Michigan students couldn't get any quirkier, meet the members of the Michigan Squirrel Club, a new student-run organization focusing on the rodents that rule the Diag. This kind of extracurricular may lead to higher GPAs, so the theory goes.

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What they do: The main purpose is to "spread a bit of squirrely cheer to everyone," says club president Peter Feng. To put it simply, members spend their Sunday afternoons feeding peanuts to the hundreds of fat squirrels that roam U of M's campus. "Salted peanuts are unhealthy, so we just give them roasted or raw," Feng says. "I don't think the squirrels mind what they get."

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