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Student leads moment of silence for Philip Seymour Hoffman during school-wide announcements
A Pioneer High School student has been reprimanded after calling for an unauthorized moment of silence Monday for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead Sunday morning of an apparent drug overdose.
Monday, during morning announcements — which are scripted and read by students — a student at the Ann Arbor high school asked for a moment of silence for the renowned actor.
Hoffman, 46, was found with a needle in his arm in the bathroom of a Manhattan apartment he had been renting as an office about 11:35 a.m. Sunday, according to media reports. The actor had struggled with drug abuse in the past.
The morning announcement scripts are approved by building administrators—but in this instance, the student decided to add the moment of silence for Hoffman without permission, said Liz Margolis, district spokeswoman.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/02/moment_of_silence_for_philip_s.html