Melanie Kruvelis RY TĀ±NONEhates the E3W x but gives props to s dits Karlos Marks to work with this the cr atstocampaign. PG5 uua'nMdy 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 4 ()1II\)LI'V-NIY). 1 )~ 'I L i ~ Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, April 5, 2011 michigandailycom REMEMBERING THE 6 MILLION y I l \. .. , '\ ' ?_- .. - ...e ; : - E - 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 WEATHER HI:55 TOMORROW LO: 40 GOT A NEWS TIP? NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM INDEX Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail Watson, Campbell assume MSA positions Vol. CXXI, No.124 news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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