RAPPING FOR CHANGE: Mos Def's MLK Day performance Arts, Page 5 W7ie Lfid jigan Da iI1j Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, January 18, 2008 michigandaily.com Police seek 'U' student in shooting death Killing took place less than a mile from North Campus By LISA HAIDOSTIAN Daily Staff Reporter A 29-year-old Ypsilanti man was fatally shot at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in a gunfight that occurred less than a mile from North Campus, police said. The main suspect in the case, University Engineer- ing student Andrew Robert Myrick, remained at-large as of last night. No arrests have been made. Residents from the 1500 block of Jones Drive, near MYRICK the corner of Plymouth Road, called police Wednesday night to report hearing several gunshots. Police entered the residence, located at 1598 Jones Dr, and found the victim deceased. About 12-15 shots were fired at the scene and a weapon similar to an AK-47 was found inside the duplex, police said. Bullet holes were also found on the outside of the red brick house. Police said they found signs of forced entry at the residence and believe the shooting could be the result of an attempted robbery. Sgt. Rich Kinsey, of the Ann Arbor Police Department, said police think the suspect and the victim knew one another but don't know how they knew each other. "We're trying to figure out what the connec- tion was," he said. An arrest warrant is being sought for Myrick, the last known resident of the home where the See KILLING, Page 3 THE SCENE OF THE CRIME N Universit Michigan North pus d Cedar Bend Park eos Fuller Park GRAPHIC BY ALLISON GHAMAN TOP: Police taped off the crime scene on Jones Drive Wednesday night following the shooting death of a 29-year-old Ypsilanti man. Police have said that Engineering student Andrew Robert Myrick is the lead suspect in the case. Myrick isnstill at large. BOTTOM: LSA sophomores Dawn Suiter and Kristin Zakoor look at Myrick's mugshot near the Fishbowl yesterday night. Some were clueless about near-campus. killing By LISA HAIDOSTIAN Daily StaffReporter A day after a fatal shooting near campus left a University student at-large as a suspect, some students questioned the University's ability to inform students and employees of potential safety threats. At about 9:30 p.m. on Wednes- day, a 29-year-old Ypsilanti man was killed after entering the home of 28-year-old Engineering senior Andrew Robert Myrick. Myrick, who police have called the primary suspect, remains at large. Because of the crime scene's close proximity to North Campus and Myrick's ties to the University, the Department of Public Safety is teamingwith the Ann Arbor Police Department in the investigation and has increased patrols around campus, DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown said. DPS was also tasked with noti- fying students and employees about the incident. At 1:27 a.m. Thursday morning, about four hours after the homi- cide occurred, DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown sent an e-mail crime alert to department heads, mem- bers of the media and anyone who had signed up to receive alerts from the DPS website. Flyers detailing the incident were posted, many in University buildings. Early Thursday morning, all residents of Baits Houses, Burs- ley Hall and Northwood Hous- ing were sent e-mail notifications because of their close proxim- ity to the location of the incident. Another crime alert, with more details about the homicide, was sent around 10:00 a.m. on Thurs- day. Brown sent a mass e-mail mes- sage at noon yesterday to 72,000 University affiliates, including all students, faculty and staff. Because the database is so large, though, mass e-mail can take up to 10 hours to get to all recipients, meaning some recipients didn't get the message until well into yesterday evening. If a mass e-mail had been sent out at the same time as the initial crime alert, all students would See REACTION, Page 3 At meeting, talk of graduation, budgets CAMPUS CRIME PROTECTING AN INVESTMENT 'U' officials report record donations in December By ANDY KROLL DailyStaffReporter At yesterday's meeting of the University Board of Regents, University President Mary Sue Coleman vowed to find a spring commencement location that would satisfy both students and administrators. Coleman admitted that Univer- sity officials had underestimated the desire by students to hold com- mencement on campus, saying the University aimed to maximize the number of tickets available to stu- dents when selecting a location. Above all, Coleman said stu- dent input will have an impact on the University's final decision. "Their disappointment is understandable, and I want our graduating students to know that their voices are being heard," Coleman said. At the conclusion of the meet- ing, three different students deliv- ered public comments, urging University officials to find an on- campus location for spring com- mencement. LSA senior Juhi Aggarwal, creator of the blog "Michigan Graduation 2008 ... Not at the Big See REGENTS, Page 3 Students could use recovery software to find stolen computers - for a price By LAYLA ASLANI Daily StafflReporter In September 2006, a laptop disappeared from the Francois- Xavier Bagnoud Building on North Campus. In most instances, that laptop would have been gone forever. According to FBI figures, 97 per- cent of all stolen computers are never recovered. But in this case, the owner of the computer had purchased recovery software. With the help of the new user's Internet Service Provider, police tracked the thief all the way to Grand Rapids Community Col- lege. Police found the thief and charged them with possession of stolen property, unauthorized computer access and larceny in a building, Department of Pub- lic Safety spokeswoman Diane Brown said. The computer was returned to its owner. Most computer recovery soft- ware programs report the sto- len computer's location to the company's monitoring system via Internet connection, unbe- knownst to the thief. Brown said the recovery soft- ware couldbeuseful forstudents, often the victims of computer theft. She estimated that DPS See LAPTOPS, Page 3 MIK SYMPOSIUM Little Rock Nine member opens series Roberts says 1950s segregation still exists today By CHARLES GREGG-GEIST Daily StaffReporter Terrence Roberts, one of the first students to integrate the Little Rock public school system in 1957, urged a crowd of about 60 students yesterday to fight the segregation and animosity that he said still exists in the educational system today. "Little Rock did not happen in a vacuum," he said. "It was not an accident. It was by design." Roberts opened the 2008 Rev- erend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium by telling the audi- ence about attending a segregated school system and integrating Lit- tle Rock Central High School dur- ing one of the most hostile periods in American history. Shortly before Roberts enrolled at Little Rock High School in 1957, Kingvisited Roberts -then just15 years old - and the other students known as the Little Rock Nine. King told the students to use non-violent resistance and warned them about the racism they would face. Roberts described the recep- tion on his first day at the newly integrated high school. "I got there and found this howlingmobwhocouldtwisttheir faces in a way I could not replicate before you," Roberts said. See ROBERTS, Page 3 LSA senior Juhi Aggarwal, creator of the blog "Michigan Graduation 2008 ... Not at the Big House???' spoke at yesterday's monthly Board of Regents meeting. 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