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NEWS BRIEFS
DETROIT
Snyder discusses
Michigan job
growth at WSU
When Gov.-elect Rick Snyder
attended a recent seminar for new
governors, he received a personal-
ized folder for Michigan with esti-
mates showing his state will be
among the nation's worst for job
growth during the next five years.
The numbers are now on his desk
and in the hands of his staff mem-
bers - and providing his incoming
administration another rallying
cry for the economically struggling
state.
"This is a piece of fiction - this is
not what's going to happen," he said
yesterday to an audience of Detroit
college students, faculty and busi-
ness and community leaders. "We
are going to beat the living day-
lights of out it."
Wayne State University's School
of Business Administration- and
Department of Accounting invited
the Ann Arbor executive, entre-
preneur and first certified public
accountant to be elected governor
of Michigan to speak about rein-
venting the state's economy - with
an accounting twist.
ROYAL OAK, Mich.
Mich. congressmen
to lead House Ways
and Means Cmte.
Two Michigan congressmen are
officially switching roles on the
House Ways and Means Commit-
tee.
Chairman Sander Levin of Royal
Oak announced yesterday he's been
selected to serve as the committee's
ranking member in the next Con-
gress.
On Wednesday, Dave Camp of
Midland said his fellow Republi-
cans had chosen him to chair Ways
and Means.
Levin says he's "pleased to have
received a vote of confidence" from
the members of the Democratic
caucus.
The brother of Sen. Carl Levin
took over in March as chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee
after New York Rep. Charles Ran-
gel stepped aside amid questions
over his fundraising and finances.
LONDON
Students attack
Prince Charles in
tuition hike protest
Furious student protesters
attacked a car carrying Prince
Charles and his wife, Camilla,
vandalized buildings and battled
riot police yesterday as a con-
troversial hike in university fees ,
triggered Britain's worst political
violence in years.
In a major security breach,
demonstrators set upon the heir
to the throne's Rolls Royce as
it drove through London's busy
West End on its way to a theater.
A group of up to 20 struck it with
fists, sticks and bottles, break-
ing a window and splattering the
gleamingblackvehicle with paint.
In the frenzy, some chanted
"off with their heads!"
Adnan Nazir, a 23-year-old
podiatrist who was following
the protesters, said Charles, 62,
kept his calm, gently pushing his
63-year-old wife toward the floor
to get her out of the line of fire.
"Charles got her on the floor
and put his hands on her," Nazir
said. "Charles was still waving
and giving the thumb's up.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast
President faces
sanctions from U.S.
The United States warned Lau-
rent Gbagbo that he faces punitive
sanctions if he continues to refuse
to step down following a disputed
election that the United Nations
says were won by his opponent.
The African Union, meanwhile,
suspended Ivory Coast's member-
ship yesterday in the latest sign of
growing pressure against the coun-
try's former president.
Gbagbo has not spoken publicly
since his rushed inauguration over
the weekend, after he rejected
the results released by his coun-
try's electoral commission which
showed that the opposition leader
Alassane Ouattara had won by
a nearly 10-point margin. Those
results were certified by the United
Nations who declared that Ouat-
tara had won by "an irrefutable
margin."
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports.
ACLU
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rent policy denies transgender stu-
dents the same amount of access to
campus housing as the rest of the
student body."
LSA senior Rebecca Egler,
ACLU's representative on the
Open Housing Initiative, echoed
the sentiments expressed by Jones
and in the letter, adding that an
open housing policy would espe-
cially benefit transgender stu-
dents.
"Its implementation would pro-
vide a more equitable housing sys-
tem through an increase of options
that are more aware of the mul-
tiplicity of student needs on this
campus," she wrote in an e-mail
interview yesterday.
According to a press release
issued by the University's chapter
of the ACLU, similar housing poli-
cies have been enacted at 36 other
colleges and universities across
the country.
The press release also stated
"the University of Michigan has
the opportunity to lead the Big
Ten on this issue ... by making the
residence halls a comfortable com-
munity for all students."
Egler wrote that so far, adminis-
trators have responded positively
to the report. At this time, though,
the initiative is still under consid-
eration.
Social Work graduate student
Allison Horky, a member of the
Open Housing Initiative and a
member of the Spectrum Cen-
ter's Student Advisory Board, said
members involved in the initiative
will be meeting with administra-
tors on Monday.
"(We've) gotten a positive
response (from administrators),"
Horky said. "We're all working
together to try and figure out what
other information we need, and
what we can do as far as imple-
mentation."
Jones said she and fellow mem-
bers of the ACLU will continue
encouraging the policy if it isn't
enacted next year.
"We're waiting to hear what
administrators say about what's
practical and for a timeline," she
said. "If (the Open Housing Ini-
tiative and University Housing)
agree, logistics need to be worked
out."
Egler wrote thatnmembers of the
ACLU hope to facilitate education
and dialogue about the issue in
upcoming months and work along-
side University Housing if the pro-
posal is enacted.
"In order to ensure a smooth
transition if the policy is enacted,
the ACLU and the rest of the Open
Housing Initiative will work side-
by-side with housingto implement
these options in a way that contin-
ues to uphold the Living at Michi-
gan Credo," Egler wrote.
Other studentcgroups on campus
have also expressed support for
the initiative. In April, the Univer-
sity's Residence Halls Association
passed a resolution supporting the
addition of a gender-neutral hous-
ing option. In addition, the Michi-
gan Student Assembly passed a
resolution in December 2009 in
support of the proposal.
TAXIS
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vehicles, which Fowler describes
as "one of the two largest fleets
in the area." According to Fowl-
er, the company generates about
$1.5 million a year in profits.
Preston Woodward, a driver for
Ann Arbor Yellow Cab, expressed
similar positivity regarding the
city's market for taxis. Wood-
ward's business card denotes him
as "King o'the Cabbies."
"Clearly there's a market, a
big market for taxi cabs here,"
Woodward said, adding that
Ann Arbor's demand for taxis
allows for a variety of compa-
nies to co-exist in the area.
"There's a lot of businesses to
go around," Woodward said.
Woodward also noted that
Ann Arbor's taxi license process
allows for easy access into the
taxi business.
"It's very easy, and very inex-
pensive,"Woodward said.
With so much business to go
around, many taxi companies
and drivers develop personali-
ties of their own to distinguish
themselves. While waiting for
customers in front of Hill Audi-
torium, Woodward plays the
accordion. The Lady "M" Sedan
Transportation Services driver
known as "Mustang Sally" -
Mryna Ismail - has decorated
the exterior of her cab with
pictures of mustangs, and often
plays the song that inspired her
nickname.
LSA freshman Sami Hayek, a
frequent taxi rider, said she has
a specific driver she calls when
she needs a ride. Hayek said she
thinks students are comfort-
able taking taxis around the city
because Ann Arbor taxi drivers
are particularly aware of stu-
dents' transportation needs.
"I think they are very in tune
with (the fact that) kids that need
to get around and don't necessar-
ily have cars," Hayek said.
Hayek also noted that taxi
drivers are particularly conve-
nient for students that may have
consumed alcohol.
"Drivers are aware that kids
may be drinking and (do) a good
service by giving them a safe
ride home," Hayek said.
According to the website of
the Ann Arbor Area Convention
and Visitors Bureau, taxis may
not be hailed from a curb, but
are often available for hire at
popular landmarks throughout
Ann Arbor.
TICKETS
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general admission seating in the
student section. The Athletic
Department sent an e-mail to
all student ticket holders in July,
however, to tell students about a
change in the policy.
"We originally indicated that
student seating would be gen-
eral admission within the stu-
dent area," the e-mail read. "Due
to our experience with general
admission seating at graduation
in May, we have decided to use
reserved seating for this event.
This will ensure your seats for
this once in a lifetime special
event."
Now, students who bought
their Big Chill tickets in conjunc-
tion with their football season
tickets will be seated in the same
location as their football groups.
Students who bought their
tickets with their hockey season
tickets will be seated with their
hockey se'ating group in section
33 - located in the north end
zone.
Finally, those who purchased
additional tickets will be seated
in sections in the end zone bor-
dering the student section.
Kinesiology and LSA junior
Steve Davenport said he bought
extra tickets for his family and
was disappointed when he real-
ized he wouldn't be able to sit
with them at the game.
"I bought seven extra tickets
because in case they were sepa-
rate I knew (my family) would
be sitting together, but I'm also
sitting with my football seat-
ing group," Davenport said. "So,
I knew if I wasn't sitting with
them I'd have someone to sit
with. I was hoping they'd be sit-
ting with us."
LSA senior Jasmine Hentschel
said a friend bought her a ticket
because she was abroad when the
tickets went on sale last spring.
She said the fact that their tickets
weren't together would be a nui-
sapce, but wouldn't deter them
from sitting together at the game.
"That's going to be a pain,"
Hentschel said of the seats being
in different sections. "I'm sure
we'll figure it out though the
same way that people do with
football (games), unless that's
not possible for some reason, but
I can't imagine that that will be
the case."
Meanwhile, LSA sophomore
Nicole McIntyre said she didn't
realize that a Big Chill ticket
came with her football season
tickets, so she bought an extra
ticket herself. Once she real-
ized that she had the ticket that
game with her football tickets,
McIntyre said she planned to
give the extra ticket to a friend
to sit with them, but due to the
change in policy she changed her
plans.
"It'd be better if it was in the
same section because then I
wouldn't have to sell it to a ran-
dom person," McIntyre said.
Still, Ablauf said the Athletic
Department has only received
a handful of formal complaints
from students.
"We got a few inquiries, but
I'd say fewer than 20-30 and they
understood once we explained
again the information in the
e-mail," Ablauf wrote. "Since
every student with a football
season ticket received their same
location for the Big Chill, we
obviously couldn't assign their
additional tickets next to their
football ticket."
The game is sold out and the
stands at the Big House are
expected to be filled to their
capacity of 109,901. According to
Ablauf, 26,000 of those tickets
are held by students.
An e-mail sent out to all stu-
dent ticket holders Wednesday
morning said there were approx-
imately 3,000 student tickets
that had yet to been picked up
from the Athletic Department's
Ticket Office at 1000 S. State St.
Tickets are available for pick-
up today at the ticket office from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will also
be available tomorrow at Crisler
Arena. The e-mail encouraged
students to pick up their tickets
at least 90 minutes prior to face-
off in order to avoid long lines
and arrive at the game on time.
DREAM
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with the result. She said those
who spoke both for and against
the legislation made solid argu-
ments.
As a supporter of the bill,
Pedraza highlighted the signifi-
cance of the Republican vote. She
said that while only eight House
Republicans voted for the bill -
five of whom were Hispanic -
20 Republicans abstained from
voting altogether, meaning they
weren't necessarily against the
legislation.
John Garcia, director of the
Resource Center for Minor-
ity Data and the community
outreach director for the Inter-
University Consortium for
Political and Social Research,
said that by abstaining from the
vote, Republicans who have high
Hispanic populations in their
districts could save face by not
offending their constituents out-
right.
"It would be interesting to look
at the Republicans who abstained
and look at what their districts
look like," Garcia said.
Garcia said he views the
DREAM Act as "a kind of a
potential shift away from immi-
gration as exclusively a security,
law enforcement issue" to a more
social and educational issue.
The Senate voted 59-40 yester-
day to table the bill for one week.
Since the legislation was filibus-
tered in the past, it will need a
60-vote majority to receive a vote
from the Senate.
Garcia speculated that the
postponement was a strategic
move by Democrats to buy more
time to rally support from Repub-
lican senators by highlighting the
economic benefits of the bill or
emphasizing the threat of losing
support from Hispanic constitu-
ents.
Pedraza said the DREAM Act's
success in the Senate may depend
on more than just the bill's own
merits. Compromises made
between President Barack Obama
and Congressional Republicans
on tax cuts may play a significant
role in persuading Republicans
to vote for the DREAM Act, she
said.
"That's not fair to the DREAM
Act ... the DREAM Act has been
discussed for ten years," she
said. "That's very dirty politics I
think."
Garcia said he also thinks bi-
partisan compromises will play
a role in the debate. Especially
after Obama made concessions
on the tax cuts, Garcia said, the
president might try to "keep that
give-and-take kind of sentiment
out there."
In a statement released by the
White House Office of the Press
Secretary, Obama voiced his two-
pronged support for the bill.
"This vote is not only the right
thing to do for a group of talented
young people who seek to serve a
country they know as their own
by continuing their education or
serving in the military," Obama
wrote, "but it is the right thing
for the United States of America."
He cited a report from the
Congressional Budget Office that
found the DREAM Act would cut
the nation's deficit by $2.2 billion
dollars over ten years.
Addressing Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
Wednesday, U.S. Congressmen
John Dingell (D-Mich.) said he
supports the bill because it would
help students who didn't decide
on their own to come to this
country illegally.
"The DREAM Act will provide
opportunity and hope to young
immigrants brought to this coun-
try by their parents who, through
no fault of their own, cannot be
a meaningful part of our soci-
ety without this Act," he said
in his address, according to a
press release issued by Dingell's
office. "Most of these individu-
als speak English as well or bet-
ter than their native tongue and
they consider the United States
their home, but they cannot real-
ize their dreams because of their
immigration status."
Dingell highlighted how the
bill will ultimately benefit the
country as a whole by allowing
a greater number of eager, young
individuals to boost the power of
the U.S. military and contribute
to the college-educated work-
force, according to the press
release. Additionally, he added
that the bill will also expand the
overall federal, state and local
tax base.
Dingell emphasized that his
support for the legislation came
only after months of careful
deliberation.
I am tired of throwing
patches at the immigration prob-
lem," he said that what this coun-
try truly needs is comprehensive
immigration reform. While
he said the DREAM Act is yet
another "small patch," the young
people targeted by the bill should
not be "held hostage" while the
government works toward large-
scale reform, according to the
press release.
Some of the young individu-
als impacted by the legislation
gathered Wednesday night to
watch the House vote on C-Span
with Sam Nawrocki, head of the
Migrant and Immigrant Rights
Advocacy group on campus.
"I watched the vote with a
group of undocumented stu-
dents," Nawrocki said. "We're all
very surprised and very excited
about the House's vote :.. but
very much know it's only the first
step."
Narwocki said she and other
members of the "youth-led move-
ment" advocating for the DREAM
Act called Dingell and other con-
gressmen to rally support for the
bill leading up to last night's vote.
Now that the legislation is before
the Senate, she said her and oth-
ers will reorganize and continue
to make calls over the next week.
advising, Fujita said she works
CORPS on building a "college-going cul-
From Page 1A ture" at Loy Norrix.
"That can be really big or it
of institutions or the range of can be really little," Fujita said.
institutions that those students "It can be hanging a poster about
go on to. The third is to build, to a college on the wall, which is
increase, the number of students really easy, or it can be planning
that finish college, and finally the a college night or meeting with
goal is to create a college-going parents."
culture in some of our under- College Corps advisers are
served schools." selected through an applica-
Rutherford said participat- tion and interview process that
ing University graduates work to allows high school administra-
create an atmosphere of excite- tors to interact directly with and
ment about college within their select an adviser, and vice versa,
assigned schools, as well as help to ensure that the adviser will fit
students to attend a university in the school community.
that will be a good fit. "It's kind of almost like a dat-
"One of the things we find is ing game-type format," Ruther-
that many of the students that ford said. "The school gets to pick
are eligible to go to college have who they think would be the best
misinformation as to how to get fit for their school, and the advis-
there, and often times don't even ers also get to pick what school
apply," he said. "And then there they think they want to go to."
are students who may apply to Rutherford said program offi-
say a community college but are cials reviewed relative matricu-
capable of attending, say, a four- lation rates and general outreach
year institution." efforts at interested schools
And, according to Stephenson, before inviting them to join the
helping students get the right program.
resources to apply to andatted-- "Primarly--tfre- prore-
college has been extremely involved just sending out a letter
rewarding. to a number of different schools,
"It's normal and expected for just based on the college-going
a student from an affluent fam- rates from those schools. Then
ily to go to college, but it really we looked at other things like
feels great to see someone off to demographics, Title I, those
college that came from a fam- types of things," Rutherford said.
ily where higher education was "Obviously there were more that
never considered an option," Ste- responded then we could serve,
phenson wrote. however what we did is that we
Rutherford said he believes went to those that responded first
that students who have just grad- and responded the fastest."
uated from the University are Rutherford added that the Col-
able to guide and help students in lege Advising Corps is growing,
a way thatctraditional high school and that he hopes seniors will
counselors cannot. consider participating in the pro-
"We believe in the 'near peer' gram.
model, that because our students "We were initially planning
are recent graduates of U of M to have up to 15 advisers within
they are closer in age and ideas to three years, and now we will
the students they'll be serving," have 24 advisers, 24 communi-
Rutherford said. "We've found ties around the state, in the next
that advisors develop a different three years," Rutherford said.
rapport with students than the "This year we are going to add
way students look at their teach- eight more advisers for the fall
ers, because they aren't looked at of 2011. So we're hoping that stu-
as part of an institution." dents will look for our notices to
Megan Sims-Fujita, College apply and will consider us as an
Corps adviser at Loy Norrix High option along with other options
School in Kalamazoo, said that such as Teach For America and
in addition to being in a unique Americorps."
position to talk to students, she The University's College
has time that normal counselors Advising Corps program is part
do not to focus exclusively on col- of the National College Advis-
lege applications. ing Corps, which is headquar-
"I'm here just as an additional tered at University of North
resource and my sole purpose is Carolina at Chapel Hill and
to help kids go to college," Sims- includes programs at 12 other
Fujita said. "So, it's nice, because universities. The University of
I don't have a lot of the other Michigan's program is funded
tedious responsibilities of sched- partly through the national offic-
uling and things. I'm really here es, partly through the University
to talk about college." and partly through the Jack Kent
In addition to one-on-one Cooke Foundation.