The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, November 4, 2049 - 7 CARLOS OSORIO/AP Detroit Mayor Dave Bing addresses supporters after winning the mayoral election in Detroit yesterday. B0. ing wins full aern as Detroit mayor y substantial margin Before Congress, Germany's Merkel pushes strong deal on climate change Address the first by remained seated. After their White House meet- German chancellor to ing, Obamasaid, "The United States, Germany and countries around the Congress since 1957 world, I think, are all beginning to recognize why it is so important WASHINGTON (AP) - German that we work in common in order to Chancellor Angela Merkel marked stem the potential catastrophe that the 20th anniversary of the fall of can result if we continue to see glob- the Berlin Wall by exhorting the al warming continue unabated." world in a speech to Congress yes- He also said he appreciated "the terday to "tear down the walls of sacrifices of German soldiers in today" and reach a deal to combat Afghanistan." global warming. Merkel used the oval Office ses- Frequently interrupted by robust sion and her speech to Congress to applause, Merkel reiterated her express gratitude for American sup- country's commitment to foster- port throughout the process leading ing security in Afghanistan and up to German reunification. also said that a nuclear bomb in the She praised both the U.S. pilots hands of Iran "is not acceptable." who ran dangerous missions shortly In the first address by a German after World War II to airlift food and chancellor to Congress since Konrad supplies to West Berlin and to the mil- Adenauer in 1957, Merkel put special lions of American troops and diplo- emphasis on the need for a global mats stationed in Germany between agreement on climate change - one ' the end of the war and today. she said she hoped could be forged Without their help, she said, "over- at an international conference next coming thedivision of Europe would month in Copenhagen. simply not haveheen possihle." "We have no time to lose," she On Iran's nuclear program, declared. Merkel said she recog- Merkel said that allowing Iran to nized that no deal could be success- have nuclear weapons, especially ful without the support of China with a leader that denies the Holo- and India - but that if a deal were caust, is "nonnegotiable." struck, she said she was sure those "A nuclear bomb in the hands of two fast-growing economies could an Iranian president who denies be persuaded to sign on. the Holocaust, threatens Israel and "Today's generation needs to denies Israel the right to exist is not prove that it is able to meet the acceptable," she said. challenges of the 21st century, and The Obama administration has that, in a sense, we are able to tear called on Germany to agree to stiff- down walls of today," she said. er economic sanctions against Iran Merkel cited as clear proof of if Tehran does not permit interna- global warming icebergs that are tional' restrictions on its nuclear melting in the Arctic, African peo- activities. ple forced to flee their homelands Merkel said Germany agreed that because of drought and the rise in it was important "to meettthis threat global sea levels. head on... ifnecessary,throughtough The chancellor met at the White economic sanctions." House with President Barack on the subject of Afghanistan, Obama before her speech to the Merkel said Germany will "travel joint session of Congress; Obama this road together, every step of the shares her support for a strong way" with the United States. While international agreement on global Washingtrn ha5 tndicaed it would warming, although considerable like to see Germany and other part- skepticism lingersinCbrgress.- ners in Afghanistan increase their And, whereas at other times in forces, the war is highly unpopular her speech she received full stand- i[Germany. ing ovations, when she mentioned She acknowledged that the U.S. the climate change deal only part and Germany don't see eye to eye of her audience rose to applaud. on all issues. But she cited a "com- Many Republican lawmakers monbasis of shared values." Former Piston bested opponent 58 0 percent to 42 percent DETROIT (AP) - The Dave Bing era as Detroit mayor will con- tinue for at least four years, giving the former steel supplier and NBA great more time to pull the city a from financial hardship. Bing, 65, defeated accountant Tom Barrow in Tuesday's non- partisan general election, a race in which the incumbent refused to even debate the challenger. "Tom Barrow, from my vantage point, was not worthy of a debate," Bing said last week. "I don't have time for that. I don't want to play politics." Instead, he's been playing hard- ball and restructuring how Detroit operates. Bing, a Democrat, has said the city is broke and could run out of money later this year. With a $300 million budget deficit hounding Detroit, Bing took on city labor W unions, giving them an ultimatum CITY COUNCIL From Page 1 * understanding of our government and our community." Higgins was first elected to Ann Arbor City Council in 1999 as a Republican and re-elected in 2005 and 2007 as a Democrat. When asked what she thought of Elhady's campaign, Higgins refused to comment. Elhady held a watch party at Casa Dominick's last night, where about a dozen people gathered MILLAGE From Page 1 According to Roberts, the dis- trict expects a deficit between $15 W million and $17 million for the 2010-2011 school year. Without the millage money, Roberts said, the district will be forced to make deep cuts, begin- ning with school employees. "Staff is where most of our costs * are," Roberts told the Daily Monday. Roberts added that conversa- INNOCENCE CLINIC From Page 1 According to those police progress notes, Hunter was killed by a group of brothers' from Detroit referred to as the Mosleys. "The Mosleys are a crime fam- ily," second-year law student and Innocence Clinic member Nick Cheolas said. "These guys had a trailer full of weed, and they kept it in front of their house." Cheolas said that someone had * stolen the trailer of weed from the Moselys' yard and that a man from Detroit named Maurice "Bangy" Sutherland told the Mosleys that Hunter had stolen their "trailer full of weed." Cheolas said the Innocence Clinic's theory suggests the Mos- leys had Hunter killed because of this. The theory also suggests that Sutherland was later killed when the Mosleys found out that he was the one who had actually stolen the trailer. of widespread layoffs if 10 percent wage cuts and other concessions were not met. Some bargaining units sided with the mayor, others chose to fight and supported Barrow in the election. But union clout wasn't enough as Bing cruised to victory. With100 percent ofDetroit's 629 precincts reporting Tuesday night, Bing had 58 percent, or 70,060 votes. Barrow, who also failed in two previous mayoral runs, had 42 percent, or 50,757 votes. "I believe this is a defining moment in Detroit's history," Bing told cheering supporters Tuesday night. "Now, now, is the time for all Detroiters to commit to creating a better future for our city. "I believe that we can once again come together, rise to the challenge and make Detroit the city we all want it to be." Detroit voters have favored the former Detroit Pistons guard and professional bsketbalI H allof Famer in each of his first four elec- tions. Bing received the most votes ina special mayoral primary in Febru- ary and defeated incumbent Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. in a May runoff to complete Kwame Kilpatrick's sec- ond term in office. Cockrel moved up from his seat as City Council president to mayor in September 2008 after Kilpat- rick resigned as part of pleas in two criminal cases. The once-popular Kilpatrick found himself caught up early in 2008 in a text-messaging sex scandal involving his ex-chief of staff. That led to perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice charges stemming from Kilpatrick's testi- mony in a police whistle-blowers' trial. Cockrel - and now Bing - were left to clean up the fiscal mess left by the Kilpatrick administration. Tuesday's election brings some stability to the mayor's office and promises a new direction for the City Council, which has been the subject of a federal corruption probe that led to the conviction of Councilwoman Monica Conyers for taking bribes. Conyers, wife of Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers, is awaiting a Dec. 1 sentencing after admitting to accepting money for her vote on a controversial sludge-hauling con- tract. Five incumbents and 13 challeng- ers competed for nine City Council seats. Four incumbents won re- election and one was ousted. Former TV anchor Charles Pugh received the most votes and will replace Cockrel as council presi- dent. The top vote-getter automati- cally wins the council presidency. Pugh also received the most votes in an August primary. "Detroit, we have a lot of work to do and a lot of tough decisions. to make. And I understand that we need ,some committed peo- ple," Pugh said during his victory speech. "But you can be confident about our future, Detroit, and the newcity.council thatwe have elect, ed tonight. And I want to assure you, I am ready to lead today.". Pugh will become the city's first openly gay city council member. With 100 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Pugh had 88,704 votes. to support him. The supporters included family, close friends and some local politicians who sup- ported his campaign. In an interview last night at the watch party, Elhady told the Daily that he spent the day of the election driving people to the polls and making sure his signs were visible around town. He also said that he had supporters stationed nearby all of the polling stations. Despite the loss, Elhady did not want the supporters gathered at the bar last night to be disappoint- ed by the results. "This isn't a funeral," he said. "We did our best, we worked hard, and that's what matters." Multiple calls placed to Briere's home phone and cell phone were not returned late last night. The Daily called Rapunda- lo's house phone and his wife answered, saying her husband was out of town at that time and could not be reached. This year's general city elections had a 21.58 percent voter turnout, with only 59,993 ballots casted out of the 277,348 registered voters in Washtenaw County. At the Michigan Union precinct only .99 percent of the registered voters cast a ballot - which is only 45 out the 4,537 registered voters there. The Bursley Residence Hall precinct had a 1.51 percent voter turnout. The Mary Markley, East Quad and South Quad Residence Hall precincts had a .80 percent, 3.06 percent and 2.64 percentvoter turnout, respectively. - Daily News Editor Trevor Calero and Daily Staff Reporter Dylan Cinti contributed to this report. MSA From Page 1 are particularly interested in. "We just want students to have the ability to take courses that interest them the most and giv- ing them the extra information from faculty will help them find those that they really grasp on to," Levine said. Wakefield said a syllabus out- line or a syllabus from a previous semester would be more feasible for faculty and that it would still provide that additional informa- tion students want. Many professors may not have their exact syllabuses finalized by class registration, Wakefield said. Some may not have made a week-by-week breakdown yet, or may tweak their syllabus once the semester starts, based on students' interests, he added. According to Wakefield, the most plausible way to see that this policy is enacted would be to keep the definition of syllabus broad. "We want to make the defini- tion of what would be provided, frankly, as flexible and as reflec- tive of the kind of education that goes on at the University as pos- sible," he said. Students in attendance at the meeting said the policy would be a welcome change. LSA senior Jessica Moore said that within a specific major, class material overlap is a concern. This policy could prevent that possibil- ity. "It gets kind of repetitive if you sign up for two classes and they sound like they're going to be different from the short descrip- tion and they end up being almost exactly the same," Moore said. Knowing exam dates is extra important for out-of-state stu- dents who have to book flights, LSA senior Nehal Patel said. "My roommate is out of state and I know she has to wait one or two weeks into the semester to figure out when she can go home," she said. - Tim Hall contributed to this report. tions would take place with mem- bers of the community regarding further cuts. The University's chapter of the College Democrats publicly backed the millage and reached out to student voters over the past couple days. Last weekend the Democrats distributed pro-millage literature around student neighborhoods, according to Sam Marvin, the group's chair. On election day, Marvin said, his group sent out about 400 text messages and made Irving's death was tied to the others, the theory suggests, because he supposedly knew that the Moselys, and not Provience, had killed Hunter. Irving was going to take that information to the police, but when the Moselys found out they had Detroit resident Eric Woods kill Irving. "The theory in Courtney Irving's murder was that he was murdered because he knew who killed Rene Hunter," second-year law student and Innocence Clinic member Brett DeGroff said. "He wasn't going to say that Dwayne Provience did it, he was going to say that these fellows named the Mosleys did it." All of this information was detailed in the police investigator's progress notes, but rather than investigating the Mosley family for Hunter's murder, the prosecution hid its findings from the defense and attempted to convict Provi- ence of the murder, despite the contrary evidence. The second break for the stu- many phone calls. Marvin expressed disappoint- ment at the vote's outcome, but said his group's outreach efforts were largely successful. The College Democrats targeted 10 precincts, concentrating on the studentvotingpopulation. According to Marvin, the Democrats increased voter turnout in those precincts by an average of 530 percent compared with 2007's local elections. "In the specific areas that we targeted, we saw an increase in turnout," Marvin said. dents working on the case was the discovery of the author of the progress notes, Detroit Police Officer William Ashford. Ashford patrolled theneighbor- hood at the time of the murders and knew its residents well. "He was able to confirm that there was no connection between the Provience brothers and the Mosleys," DeGroff said. "And it became clear, not only was Dwayne Provience not the per- petrator of this crime, but also that Dwayne Provience wasn't involved at all." When told that Provience had been convicted of Hunter's mur- der, the surprised Ashford told the current prosecutors the find- ings of his investigation, which pointed to the Mosley family and away from Provience. The new evidence discovered by clinic members led the law stu- dents involved in the case to file a motion for relief of judgment, a motion that would forgive Provi- ence's 2001 conviction. Second-year law student and One hundred and thirteen people voted in East Quad yester- day, but Marvin said only 26 voted there in 2007. Of those 113, Marvin said that 84 voted for the millage. The greatest voter increase, Mar- vin added, took place in South Quad, where four people voted in 2007. Thirty-seven people voted there this year, with 32 voting for the millage. While Marvin said that this year's number for South Quad doesn't seem like much, "consid- ering the benchmark set in [2007], it's a lot." Innocence Clinic member Robyn Goldberg said finding out that Provience would be forgiven of his 2001 conviction "was kind of unexpected in a good way." "We were supposed to have a hearing (yesterday) about the evi- dence, so the judge could decide whether Provience deserved relief of judgment, but on Friday the prosecution gave in and said we're not going to fight you, we agree, he deserves relief of judg- ment," she said. Provience isn't out of the woods yet. Rather than being forgiven of the murder charge, he is given the opportunity to face another trial, though at the discretion of the prosecutors. "It would be insane to go after him again," DeGroff said. "Now what's probably going to happen is that Dwayne is going to remain free on bond until the prosecu- tion formally decides that they're not going to prosecute a second time." "At that point, he gets his bond money back and goes free." WANT TO HEAR THE STORY BEHIND THE. STORI ES? Listen to Michigan Daily Radio on WCB N-FM-Ann Arbor 88.3 FM every Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to 6:30 p.m.