4& 40W 46F tc4ioan 4,:)at IV Ann Arbor, Michigan IN MEMORY - Sweetland and LHSP lecturer passes away Tuesday, February 8, 2011 michigandaily.com Matthew Kelley won LSA Excellence in Education Award By DEVON THORSBY Daily StaffReporter Kendrick Kelley, a Sweet- land Writing Center and Lloyd Hall Scholars Program lecturer, passed away yesterday afternoon in Rackham Hall. Depart- ment of Pub- lip Safety spokeswom- an Diane Brown said Kelley, who KELLEY went by Mat- thew, col- lapsed shortly after dismissing a class of graduate students at about 2:35 p.m. yesterday. Medical officials attempted to resuscitate Kelley, age 41, for 30 to 45 minutes, according to Brown. Kelley was pronounced dead at 3:15 p.m. Brown said the cause of death is currently unknown. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said he did not know anymore information asof 8 p.m. last night. A Business School sophomore who wished to remain annony- mous said he had Kelley as an instructor in the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program. "Matt Kelly was a great pro- fessor. He was always under- standing, and if circumstances came up, he'd never get mad at anyone," the student said. "And he really had a passion for the stuff that he taught. I had him for photo book class in LHSP, and he would (spend) his own money; he'd get from grants and stuff in order to make the class more interesting." The student continued, "He was truly someone that was incredible, and definitely some- one valuable to this University and probably one of my favorite teachers." LSA junior Sarah Friedman who was taught by Kelley her freshman year said Kelley great- ly influenced the way she writes and feels he was able to help many people in the academic community. "Everyone I knew spoke very highly of him ... he's going to be greatly missed," Friedman said. Friedman recounted when Kelley helped her in prepara- See LECTURER, Page 3 Ann Arbor City Council members discuss a proposed medical marijuana ordinance at last night's meeting. The ordinance was not voted on last night but willIb up for a vote at City Council's Feb. 21 meeting. City Council 1bate marijisuana ordinance Council votes on amendments to pot legislation By SUZANNE JACOBS Daily Staff Reporter The Ann Arbor City Council continued its long and complex process of attempting to estab- lish local medical marijuana leg- islation at its meeting last night. The latest version of the city's proposed medical marijuana ordinance went before City Council for a second first read- ing yesterday. If passed, the ordinance would abolish the city's temporary moratorium on medical marijuana dispen- saries that was put in place last August. The ordinance originally underwent a first reading at a City Council meeting on Jan. 3. At its next meeting, which will be Feb. 21, the council should do a second reading on the ordi- nance and vote on it. With little or no guidance from state law on how to regu- late medical marijuana dispen- saries, cultivation facilities and home occupations, municipali- ties in various Michigan cities have struggled to create legis- lation dealing with the topic, especially since the legislation involves federally illegal activ- ity. During the public commen- tary at the beginning of the City Council meeting, medical mari- juana advocate Rhory Gould talked about his frustration with the city's current moratori- um since it has now lasted more than 180 days but was supposed to last 120 days. Gould said City Councilhas spent too much time working on the ordinance. Ann Arbor Mayor John Hief- tje said it is necessary to outline See CITY COUNCIL, Page 3 OFF THE CHAIN MAIL MIDDLE EAST UNREST Egypt, Tunisia uprisings discussed in round table Dir dra ector: 'The most to analyze the struggle against authoritarian rule in the Middle matic events are East and the underlying tensions that have led to widespread tur- ahead of us moil and political instability. A crowd of about 70 people ENNIFER DOMINGUE gathered in the School of Social Daily StaffReporter Work's Educational Conference Center to take part in the event, University of Michigan which was co-sponsored by the. ational Institute held a African Studies Center, Center table discussion yesterday for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democra- cies. The discussion featured University experts and profes- sors who talked about how pro- tests in Tunisia and Egypt have led to an overthrow of the coun- tries' governments. - Ken Kollman, a political sci- ence professor and the director of the University's International See MIDDLE EAST, Page 3 By J The Intern round MARISSA MCCLAIN/Daily Ypsilanti, Mich. resident Andrew Hillebrand demonstrates how to weave chainmail at All Hands Active on East Liberty Street yesterday. All Hands Active is a non-profit known as "Ann Arbor's Makerspace." MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY MForward announces nominations UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY University gateway website gets a new look, more changes to come DeAndree Watson running for MSA president By HALEY GLATTHORN Daily StaffReporter The Michigan Student Assembly MForward party unanimously nominated can- didates DeAndree Watson for president and Brendan Camp- bell for vice president, both LSA juniors, for the upcoming MSA elections in March. Watson is the current MSA speaker and chair of MSA's Diversity Affairs Select Com- mittee. Campbell is the current chair of the University's chap- ter of College Democrats and hasn't held a position in MSA. LSA sophomore Devin Par- sons, who's working on the MForward campaign, said about 20 students attended the party's Feb. 4 convention where Watson and Campbell were nominated. All party members could vote for the nominees, Parsons aid. "It was an open nomination process," Parsons said. "The See MFORWARD, Page 3 Redesign to be finished by January 2012 By KAITLIN WILLIAMS Daily StaffReporter University students and fac- ulty may have been surprised when they didn't see the typical University gateway website on their computer screens last Fri- day night. The website, umich.edu, underwent an aesthetic lift last week, something that the Univer- sity's Marketing and Design team had been working on since last fall, according to David Lampe, the University's vice president for communications. A thorough redesign of the website - which had remained unchanged since 2006 - is pro- jected to be completed by January 2012, Lampe said. "This is not a redesign, but a quick refresh," he said. "If you notice, the content and the struc- ture is largely the same." See WEBSITE, Page 3 WEATHER HI:17 GOT A NEWS TIP? TOMORROW LO: 4 Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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