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REMEMBERING THE 6 MILLION
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CAMPUS CRIME
DPS delayed
e-mail alert
about alleged
armed man
Spokeswoman says According to the crime alert, a
University employee saw a man
circumstances made sitting on a ledge in the Chem-
istry Building atrium. The man
instant e-mail notice was "pointing a small, black
handgun" at the female employ-
unnecessary ee, who proceeded to walk away,
the crime alert stated. The man
By HALEY GLATTHORN was no longer in the area when
Daily StaffReporter the woman went back several
minutes later.
As the University's Depart- University President Mary Sue
ment of Public Safety continues Coleman said in an interview
to gather information about an with The Michigan Daily yester-
alleged man who pointed a gun day that she believes the e-mail
at a University employee early emergency alert system failed.
yesterday morning in the Chem- "Apparently the text system
istry Building, there is confusion worked. The e-mail didn't," Cole-
about why an emergency e-mail man said. "I was told there was
alert was not sent to the Uni- some glitch in that system."
versity community immediately DPS spokeswoman Diane
after DPS was informed of the Brown said in an interview yes-
situation. terday that the technical system
Those who did receive a noti- wasn't broken but that she decid-
fication early yesterday morning ed not to send out an emergency
at about 1 a.m. were students and alert e-mail since DPS was near-
staff members who had regis- ing an "all clear" of the area.
teredto receive emergencyalerts. "The e-mail portion (of the
These members of the University emergency alert) wasn't acti-
community received text mes- vated (Sunday) night because by
sages and phone voice alerts. But the time I got to that point in the
everyone affiliated with the Uni- evening, we were finding out that
versity wasn't informed of the it was close to being 'all clear'
situation until DPS sent a crime and (officers) hadn't found any-
alert via e-mail yesterday morn- body, so there wasn't much point
ing at about 10:30 a.m. See DPS, Page 8
DANIELLE TOLL/Daily
University alum Kerry Traub reads a list of names on the Diag yesterday in memory of the 6 million Jews who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The reading is part of a
24-hour event sponsored by the Conference on the Holocaust.
UNIVERSITY FACULTY
Faculty concerned aA o
Ao perse-mails
'U' general counsel
discusses changes
to trespass policy
By KAITLIN WILLIAMS
Daily StaffReporter
The University's lead faculty
governing body discussed at
their weekly meeting yesterday
how to handle a Freedom of
Information Act records request
filed with the University on
March 17 seeking the release of
personal work e-mails of faculty
in labor studies departments.
The FOIA request was filed
with the University by the
Mackinac Center for Public Pol-
icy - a nonpartisan, non-profit
policy organization in Midland,
Mich. - to obtain e-mails that
contain information regarding
the public union dispute in Wis-
consin. Similar requests have
also been filed with Michigan
State University and Wayne
State University.
Specifically, the request
sought e-mails containing the
words "Wisconsin," "Scott
Walker" or "Maddow" - return-
ing to the Republican Wisconsin
governor and MSNBC talk show
host rachel Maddow. This fol-
lows the Wisconsin Republican
Party's FOIA request for the
e-mails of University of Wiscon-
sin Prof. William Cronon, after
he publicly criticized Walker.
Suellyn Scarnecchia, vice
president and general counsel
at the University, attended the
Senate Advisory Committee
on University Affairs meeting
yesterday to explain the FOIA
request and garner the opinion
of the members for how to fur-
ther deal with the matter.
See FOIA, Page 3
* AROUND ANN ARBOR
'U' director of researchjoins
AnnArbor.com edit board
News outlet official
says position not a
conflict of interest
By KAITLIN WILLIAMS
Daily Staff Reporter
David Lampe, the University's
former vice president for com-
munications who stepped down
from his post on Friday, has
recently been appointed to two
positions - one as the Universi-
ty's executive director ofresearch
communications, a newly created
position he started yesterday, and
another asa member of the edito-
rial board for AnnArbor.com
Lampe was appointed to the
AnnArbor.com editorial board
and first participated in conversa-
tions about the online news out-
let's editorial content on March
13, according to a March 13
AnnArbor.com article.
Several people who com-
mented on the article wrote that
Lampe's appointment to the edi-
torial board is a conflict of inter-
est. Jim Carty, a former Ann
Arbor News columnist and a cur-
rent columnist for The New York
Times, posted two comments
arguing that Lampe hasn't been
in Ann Arbor long enough to have
a "depth of knowledge about the
See BOARD, Page 3
SPEAKERS ON CAMPUS
Grace Lee Boggs stresses importance of
activism at event remembering MLK Jr.
ONE, an advocacy student group that fights world poverty, received a proclamation from Ann Arbor Mayor John Hief-
tie at a city council meeting last night.
City Council honors ONE
for world poverty advocacy
Event marks
43rd anniversary
of King's
assassination
By RAYZA GOLDSMITH
Daily Staff Reporter
Activist and philosopher
Grace Lee Boggs, 95, continues to
implore people to get involved in
their communities.
With a panel of fellow activ-
ists and scholars, including actor
Danny Glover, Boggs spoke last
night at a forum called "Sustain-
able Activism for the 21st Cen-
tury." The forum was held to
celebrate Martin Luther KingJr.'s
legacy on the 43rd anniversary of
his assassination and to honor his
anti-war speech "A Time to Break
Silence," which he gave one year
before he was killed.
University affiliates and mem-
bers of the local community gath-
ered in an almost full auditorium
in the Modern Languages Build-
ing to attend the event, which
alsomarked the release of Boggs's
new book, "The Next American
Revolution: Sustainable Activism
for the Twenty-First Century."
In addition to a wide range of
activism efforts in a variety of
See BOGGS, Page 8
Panhel, MSA reps.
petition for more
streetlights
By ADAM RUBENFIRE
Daily StaffReporter
The University's chapter of
the ONE Campaign, an interna-
tional organization dedicated to
eliminating world poverty, was
recognized for its work on cam-
pus at the Ann Arbor City Coun-
cil meeting last night.
Democratic Mayor John
Hieftje invited ONE members
to the meeting to receive a proc-
lamation deeming Ann Arbor a
"city of ONE." At the meeting,
Hieftje commended the group,
founded in 2008 by Public Pol-
icy senior Stephanie Parrish, for
its efforts on campus.
In a speech to the council,
Parrish thanked the council and
noted that the University was
recently declared the "number
one poverty-fighting school in
the nation."
In an interview after the
meeting, Parrish said the proc-
lamation was "a culmination of
about three years of hard work
See ONE, Page 3
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