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Ann Arbor, Michigan
CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION
" Residents to
move out for
Northwood
renovations

Thursday, March 17, 2011

michigandaily.com

After April 2012,
Northwood I, II, III
to be reserved for
freshman class
By JEREMY ARMAND
Daily Staff Reporter
A handful of Northwood
Community Apartments resi-
dents unexpectedly found out
they will have to find a new place
to live come next April.
Some residents in Northwood
I, II and III received an e-mail
this week notifying them that
they will be need to vacate their
apartments by the end of April
2012 due to construction to the
buildings.After movingout, they
will have to find a new residence
in another Northwood building,
if they choose, since the other
apartments will be reserved for
freshmen.
A day after receiving the
e-mail, the residents met to
express their concerns and dis-
appointment at a public forum
organized by University Hous-
ing at the Northwood Commu-
nity Center on Tuesday.
Construction on the North-

wood buildings are expected to
occur between May and August
2012.
The updates to the North-
wood apartments are separate
from University Housing's Ser-
vices' Residence Life Initia-
tives, which includes the recent
renovations of Mosher-Jordan
Residence Hall and Stockwell
Residence Hall and the con-
struction of North Quad Resi-
dential and Academic Complex,
as well the current renovations
to Couzens Residence Hall and
next year's revamp of Alice
Lloyd Residence Hall.
University Housing spokes-
man Peter Logan said in an
interview after the meeting that
the updates to the apartments
will include boiler replacements
and the installation of new fire
safety systems. The renovations
are necessary since the apart-
ments were constructed more
thans 50 years ago, he said.
"The boilers for Northwood
I, II and III are near their life's
end," Logan said. "So in looking
at the timing of this, we thought
that we really shouldn't put off
the replacement of the boilers
any longer than we need to."
Logan said it was decided it
See NORTHWOOD, Page 3A

ALDEN REISS/Daily
Students congregate on the Diag yesterday to protest the University's choice to invite Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to deliver the Spring Commencement address
on April 30.
In president's office, Diag
students protest Snyd er

Some participants
to address Board
of Regents at its
meeting today
By JOSEPH LICHTERMAN
Daily News Editor
Chants of "Rick is wrong"
reverberated throughout the
Fleming Administration Build-
ing yesterday afternoon as about

30 people filed into University
President Mary Sue Coleman's
office.
The student protestors were
expressing their dissent with
the University's decision to have
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder
deliver the Spring Commence-
ment address next month.
Organized by LSA senior
Zach Goldsmith, the rally start-
ed on the Diag, growing to a
crowd of about 100, with some
protestors subsequently mov-
ing to Fleming. Goldsmith said

he hoped the protest would send
a message to the University's
Board of Regents and University
administrators that students
do not support the University's
choice to have the governor
deliver the graduation address:
The regents are expected
to approve Snyder as the com-
mencement speaker at their
meeting in Detroit today.
"We showed today what
democracy is," Goldsmith said
in an interview outside Fleming.
"We walked into our adminis-

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rally onMichiganoaily.tm
trative building, walked into see
our president, Mary Sue Cole-
man. Nobody asked us to leave.
It was perfectly fine, perfectly
legal. We assembled on the Diag
to tell everyone we don't want
Rick Snyder."
Coleman, however, was
nowhere to be found.
Before arriving at Fleming,
demonstrators held signs that
See PROTEST, Page 3A

CAMPUS CRIME
DPS offers monetary rewards
for information about two cases

$500 to be given for
knowledge about
sexual assault
By BRIENNE PRUSAK
Daily StaffReporter
The Department of Pub-
lic Safety is offering $500
rewards for anyone with infor-
mation regarding a recent
sexual assault near campus
and an aggravated assault that
occurred last month.
In a crime alert update sent

to students, faculty and staff
yesterday afternoon, DPS wrote
that it will provide $500 to any-
one who has "information that
leads to an arrest" in the sexual
assault incident that occurred
early Saturday morning.
A female student was assault-
ed at about 12:45 a.m. on Sat-
urday, March 12 by four males
between the ages of 18 and 24.
The original crime alert from
March 12 states that the student
was walking by herself north of
the South Forest Parking Struc-
ture located at 616 South Forest
Ave. The assault occurred in the

corridor between the structure
and the South University Gal-
leria Shopping Center, which is
located at 1214 South University
Ave., according to a March 15
update on the DPS website.
The assailants pushed the
victim to the ground before
one of them proceeded to sexu-
ally assault her, accordingto the
crime alert issued on Sunday.
Video footage from surrounding
businesses' surveillance cam-
eras are being reviewed, accord-
ing to the DPS website. The
Michigan State Police Crime
See DPS, Page 3A

SALAM RIDA/Daly
Michigan men's basketball coach John Beilein and his staff have begun to use Twitter and other social media. Assistant
coach Bacari Alexander has become a Twitter aficionado, tweeting about 25 times a day
Men's basketball takes
on the Twittersphere

MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY
MSA to evaluate students' opinions
on NY Times-college program at 'U'

By BEN ESTES unofficial public relations king
Daily Sports Writer of the program, became a con-
vert after the team's former
it's hard to believe - and video coordinator Matt Duprey
humorous, in a way - that extolled the virtues of the
Bacari Alexander didn't realize exploding social media applica-
the powers of Twitter until last tion.
summer. "He said, 'What a great way to
Alexander, an assistant coach kind of reach out to fans, follow-
for the Michigan men's basket- ers (and) students, (with) Twit-
ball team and, it appears, the ter,' " Alexander said. "I said,

'What's Twitter?' because at
that time I wasn't a Twitter nor
a Facebook guy."
Alexander's first tweet ("Big
shout out to our enthusiastic
media that stopped by our con-
ference room today for lunch
and a conversation with Coach
Beilein. Go Blue!") was pub-
lished Sept. 2, 2010. Six months
See TWITTER, Page 6A

Assembly ballot
question to assess
student interest
By RACHEL BRUSSTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
For the price of $4 per stu-
dent each semester, University
students may soon be able to
pick up a copy of The New York

Times on their way to class in
Angell Hall everyday.
The newspaper has been
available for free in Angell
Hall and the Michigan Union
this week as part of a trial run
for The New York Times Col-
lege Readership Program. To
gauge student opinions about
the paper's presence on campus,
the Michigan Student Assem-
bly will ask students what they
think about the University

adopting the program through
a question that will be posted
on the MSA ballots during elec-
tions next week.
MSA Rep. Kyle Summers,
who sponsored the resolu-
tion for the ballot question,
has been communicating with
The New York Times about
the project. He said the pilot
program that began Monday
provides 600 free copies of the
See NYTIMES, Page 3A

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