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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Monday, March 14, 2011

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Junior guard Zack Novak (left) embraces sophomore guard Darius Morris (right) at the selection announcement for the NCAA Tournament at Crisler Arena yester-
day. Michigan was chosen as the No. 8 seed in the West region.
PA TROLLI NG C \PU S D E
General counsel proposes
changes to trespass policy

SPRING COMMENCEMENT 2011
Gov. Snyder
to deliver
address at
graduation
Eugene Robinson, Sue Coleman said in an exclu-
sive interview with The Michi-
Spike Lee,.others gan Daily last week that Snyder
will deliver
to receive the com- Michigan Daily
honorary degrees mencement EXCLUSIVE
address an
April 30. However, she said the
By KYLE SWANSON University's Board of Regents
ManagingEditor must approve the plan first,
which they will likely do at
Republican Gov. Rick Sny- their monthly meeting on
der is expected to return to Thursday.
his alma mater next month to Snyder earned his bach-
address this year's graduating elor's degree, master's of busi-
class as the Spring Commence- ness administration and juris
meat speaker. doctorate from the University.
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More oversight,
new review process
1 for appeals among
suggestions
By KYLE SWANSON
ManagingEditor
1 University officials have
proposed changes to a high-

ly criticized general counsel at the Univer-
policy that sity, described six changes she
has prohibited is proposing to the Univer-
an estimated sity's current trespass warn-
2,000 people ing policy. The rule, which was
from stepping developed 10 years ago, allows
faat an the Ann KL WNO University Palice ta ban indi-
Arbor cam- viduals from campus.
pus in the last n Among the proposed chang-
decade. AmI esareanarrowingaofwhat tres-
At a press pass warnings may be issued
briefing Friday, Suellyn Scar- for, additional administrative
necchia, the vice president and review of issued trespass warn-

ings, a faster appeals review
process and the implementa-
tion of timelines under which
trespass orders would expire.
Scarnecchia also proposed
variations that would strength-
en the pawer af trespass warn-
ings. She said bans should be
enforced on all three of the
University's campuses, not just
the campus where the incident
occurs.
See POLICY, Page 6A


STUDYING OVERSEAS
Students, faculty in Japan
safe after natural disasters

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19 'U' students
studying in country
this semester
B By CLAIRE GOSCICKI
Daily StaffReporter
All University affiliates cur-,
rently in Japan are safe and
clear of the danger caused by a
8.9-magnitude earthquake and
tsunami that wreaked havoc on

the country's northeast coast on
Friday.
There were 19 University
undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents and two faculty members
in Japan when the earthquake
and tsunami hit, according to
University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald. All of them were out
of harm's way, and the Universi-
ty has been in contact with each
individual, Fitzgerald said.
"None of them are in the hard-
est hit area," he said.

The undergraduate students
are overseas for University-
sponsored study abroad pro-
grams, but the graduate students
are in Japan to conduct research,
according to Fitzgerald, who said
he didn't know why the faculty
members were in the country.
It's unclear whether the stu-
dents or faculty plan to evacuate
the country, Fitzgerald added.
"(The University's) first pri-
ority was to make contact and
See JAPAN, Page 3A

Repairs to deteriorating Stadium Bridges

TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daily
Members of the Graduate Employees' Organization walk to a bargaining session in Palmer Commons on Friday, March011.
Signed GEG proposal seeks
to accomodate disabled GSIs

set to begin in
Federal budget cuts
could limit TIGER
II funding
By SARA BOBOLTZ
Daily StaffReporter
Fans driving into Ann Arbor
on Football Saturdays can look
forward to less congestion and

October, later than expected
safer bridges - but they'll have ing last October through a fed-
to wait two more seasons. eral Transportation Investment
A multimillion-dollar plan to Generating Economic Recovery
rebuild two of Ann Arbor's dete- It grant. At an estimated cost
riorating bridges on East Sta- of $23 million, the project calls
dium Boulevard is on schedule for the complete demolition
to be completed by November and reconstruction of the two
2012. bridges, which pass over South
The East Stadium Boule- State Street and the Ann Arbor
vard Bridges Replacement Railroad.
and Improvement Project Construction on the project is
secured $13.9 million in fund- See BRIDGES, Page 3A

Change expected
to be included in
new union contract
By KAITLIN WILLIAMS
Daily StaffReporter
After four years of lobbying
the University to provide more
resources to graduate student

employees with disabilities,
Renee Echols's hard work mak
finally be payingoff.
Echols, the lead negotiator
of the University's Graduate
Employees' Organization and
a Department of English Lan-
guage and Literature graduate
student instructor who is also
blind, has been advocating for
disabled University employees
since she started teaching at the

Universityin2007. During abar-
gaining session on Friday, GEO
and the University administra-
tion's bargaining team signed a
tentative proposal that would
expand disabled GSI's access to
special accommodations.
Originally set to expire on
March 1, GEO's current contract
will now expire on March 18
since University officials post-
See GEO, Page SA


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